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I did nothing today.

Unless you consider sending two emails and making one call… and doing Sudoku puzzles and chatting with the other intern, twittering, reading old emails… doing work.

Ah yes, in that case, I did quite a lot today. (:

We’re also leaving an hour early simply because we have nothing to do, we’re idle and the person in charge of us isn’t here. Whee!

Ah crap, I got hooked on twitter. Stupid, stupid bandwagon to jump on. Yet the celebrities are on it. Stupid, stupid celebrities. Stupid me.

dilemma galore

should i transfer the 845 euros today or not?

should i still major in marketing or h.r.?

should i do a double spec?

should i still go for exchange?

[if i wanna do a double spec, i can't go for exchange.]

grrr.

truly asian

I can’t believe this.

Without trying,

I actually sound Korean when speaking Korean, and Japanese when speaking Japanese.

Back in those days, I looked Japanese to my uncles, I sounded Chinese to Taiwanese, and looked Japanese to Taiwanese.

Okay now that I mentioned that, sounds like the Taiwanese are confused. HAHA.

I am fated to be 100% asian.

see you next year

The one of many ’see you next year’ began.

As we sent Joyce off for her uk summer studies, it only hit me then that because she comes back in a later part of august, I will not see her till next year.

And it got sadder as I thought about how many people I’m gonna say ’see you next year’ to.

Normally it’s fine when I say that, because it’s usually new year’s eve when I say that. Unfortunately it’s only mid-year right now. Things are gonna change so much and so fast that when I’m back, I’m gonna walk around wide-eyed and wonder, ‘wow this is new’. And my current friends will have new friends. They will have new classes and new things that I’ll say, ‘wow nice ____’ and they’ll say they bought it months ago. Gosh this is silly cos it’s only gonna be half a year and I’m acting like I’m gonna leave for years!

Now, while I’m excited about the adventures I will experience but I kind of can wait for my turn. And I don’t want people at the airport sending me off except for family and boyfriend cos I think I’m gonna cry. But please meet me up more before I leave. ):

internship

Day 3 of interning.

Things have been pretty good so far, a lot of things to learn. What an eye-opening experience! I’m glad I took this up and I’m glad I signed up for it not knowing what it entails yet end up enjoying myself. I just signed up waiting for an internship experience but I got myself really interesting duties such as talking to people who paid for ad space in this magazine the company publishes as well as getting production companies to send in their videos to qualify for an award show.

Talking in circles because I don’t wanna reveal so much yet. When I’m out of here, maybe. And I’ve had a pretty restless day with not much to do. Guess this is just the beginning. OH and this place has awesome Korean food albeit a tad pricey (6 bucks lunches) Intern pay is a little shabby too. But well! It’s also great that they don’t ill-treat their interns like me and this other girl working together. Not only do I not need to serve them coffee or stand by the photocopier all day, we were showed on day one where their well-stocked pantry is. Awesome.

I’ve been doing a lot of calls on the other intern’s behalf and calling Thailand is quite interesting. Especially when it’s an automated response, the kind that tells you to press a number to get to a person. Armed with the person’s extension number, I’d furiously dial those numbers. Yet, it resulted in me realizing that it was not asking me to dial the extension number. Thus, it led me to another person. Sometimes I’d just guess that ‘0’ meant operator so I’d dial that just to test someone’s English. Just kidding. But I’d dial that to ask her to transfer me to the person I need to talk to.

There was one lady from Japan I had to call. Gosh. Her receptionist spoke a load of Japanese. Then when diverted to her, she begun with ‘moshi moshi..’ and when I spoke in English, she had an influx of strong American accent. Well-educated fine Japanese lady. so proud of her.

Gone are the WiMax days where I’ve to struggle to speak in mandarin to accommodate everybody. Now everyone speaks English to accommodate me. Love it.

Time to leave for home!
xoxo,
Marketing Intern

mum knows best

When I took my cream coloured pair of heels out of my bag, there were stains on it from wearing it to work the last time. I tried wiping it with damp cloth, lightly scratching it. Nothing worked.

Had to march to mum with the stained pair of heels in my hand, sulking. Mum took it from my hands, analysed it at all angles, poked at the specimen then prescribed the solution.

She told me to use nail polish remover. I then proceeded to get my nail polish remover and did what I had to do.

It worked like a charm.

who needs shelter

While Jason Mraz says,

Who needs shelter when the mornings coming?
Absolutely there’s no one
Who needs shelter from the sun?

Not me, no. not anyone.

I mightily disagree. I need me some shelter and sourcing for accommodation is making me tear out strands of hair from my head. I’m still considering if I should stay in halls and pay up the 595 euros a month. OUCHHHHHHHH.

But on the bright side I got to see pictures of cute apartments (that may be rather far away) that are so cute and european. (:

So cute, I wanna stay in all of them!

It’s so tough making decisions that involve so much money. Well I’m paying and the decision’s on me. Tough, tough choice. To pay a lot and be ’safe’ and interact more or to pay less and travel a lot?

I’ve realised that this exchange had a lot of obstacles. A lot of obstacles indeed. I applied, I got rejected. I applied again, I got it. I met several tight deadlines by travelling to meet my brother in the middle of the week to get some documents I needed for applications. I travelled a great deal to get my birth cert translated. It wasn’t cheap either. Now I’ve come a long way. I still have bigger things like accommodation and flight to worry about.

But it’s okay. Randy Paush says the brick walls are there not to cause you to stumble but to show you how badly you want things.

I want this exchange bad.

randy paush

Reading The Last Lecture and a late night talk with Seige made me wonder, am I wasting my life away?

Randy Paush taught me that we need to look back at our childhood dreams and fulfil them. I had some childhood dreams, I remember.

I wanted to be a teacher, an undercover cop, to be a biker chick, to be a radio dj, to travel around the world.

Have I fulfilled any of that? Is anything I’m doing leading me to the above? Do I just pursue what I think has the “best interests” for myself right now and never look back at those dreams again?

Well as for teacher, I’ve compromised that to be a tutor. I don’t think I’ll ever be an undercover cop. That is indeed out of my radar. The other three are still achievable, I think.

If tomorrow never comes, I wonder if I would be content with how I spent my 20 years. I’d like to think I’ve lived my life to the best I can in these 20 years…

listening ear

I think it’s been a while since I was the listening ear. A long time ago, I was the person to turn to, to be there to listen to my friends’ troubles (that don’t involve being stressed with work) and attempt to give comforting responses or advice.

As I was thinking about this, I realised that I used to do it all the time. But university just made us superficial and stuck in the bubble where exams are EVERYTHING. It’s all we talk about, it’s all we think about, it’s all we worry. Not that their issues are super serious but you know, there’s more to life than school.

Someone once said that a friend isn’t one that meets you to talk about school and nothing else. That’s a schoolmate. A close friend? Maybe not. The irony is I think I read this in the school newspapers. Hmm!

Okay but anyway now that exams are over, I was worried that people would just ditch me and enjoy holidays with their true friends and I won’t see them till school starts again. Which, for me, meant that I would see them next year.

But I realised it isn’t true and I’m glad. (:

Got back in my game for being the listener that I once was, I hope!

PS: Roomie, I miss brushing teeth with you and singing in the shower with you and doing our in-bed-before-we-say-good-night talks. Or the getting each other to wake up moments. ):

since exams ended…

Life’s been awesome since exams ended. Haven’t had much rest yet, methinks. But I probably don’t want idle days sitting at home, watching my still unpacked bags full of things from hall. Bag count is down to 3 though. (:

A week has passed by, too much has happened. Photolog begins (:

omg can’t believe i watched this show. so funny though!

going all around town with the class after exams

Moving out of hall… sniff.

the amount of stuff I brought home.

sentosa with the girls

the aftermath. looks fine then. NOT GOOD. red for four days, finally peeling.

steamboat at shou’s place and the crazy hiphopping reenactment.

work with ida for two days at the wimax forum. gosh, so thankful I had her to hang out with. too much mandarin to handle on my own + absolutely boring for most part of it.

from this we gathered that when they say “sugar” they meant mentos sweets. when they say “screws” they meant straws. gosh. hahaha. we also named the people around us as the blinky guy, girl with cute shoes, teen vogue intern, apb woman that won’t give up (and sucks), etc. hahaha.

went back to hall to hang out with the hall og before we returned our keys. celebrated jasmine’s birthday as well as played some guitar heroes. OMG IM NOT TOO SHABBY

the guys tried to play twister. omg 5 guys on a twister mat is hi-lar-ious.

prawning with keith ;D BEST CATCH EVER. okay we’ve only been there twice. but we’re getting awesome, such that people began shifting to our spots. TSK. it ain’t the place, peeps, it’s the people!

along the way, we went to walk spunky, keith’s semi-adopted dog who is SIMPLY ADORABLE. i LOVE running with it.

Okay the end. Considering this a pretty eventful week, compared to the past weeks of mugging, eating, sleeping. GOSH it felt good to be back in civilisation, to read the papers, to watch television, to sleep in an air-conditioned room.

This is life.