Wednesday, April 29, 2009

oh. my. god. really. check this out. before i head off for work i really have to post this up. i dont know how long this will last on youtube but i have to at least paste a link here anyway. (haha still dunno how to embed) do you know who john safran is? hes this highly intelligent guy whos very, very cynical about religion. ive watched short snippets of his john safran vs god thing on youtube and its been one of my longstanding favourites, same with dr who. hes tried out almost every religion thats possible. well im sure there are more, but sure does sound like a hell of a lot. hes so cynical he even has one done on atheists. which i thought was pretty rad. BUT LOOK WHAT I FOUND ON YOUTUBE TODAY. omg. you have to watch this. for anyone remotely interested in religion. not because it doesnt happen all the time, no. because its john safran. i didnt know this was all filmed in 2004, super long ago. but man. i just wanted to hug him. yes, the satirical smartass that he is. john safran being exorcised was nothing like the usual him. the closest ive seen him being affected by any of the religions that he came into contact with was when we confessed to wanking in a priest's/pastor's bed when he was younger. but this one was the sickest shit ever. although i guess it cant beat going all the way to the phillipines and getting crucified this month huh. some people never do learn. oh but i do admire him though. hell yeah, i do.

4:02 pm

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

whoo! and alex au is back blogging again!

1:50 am

hahaha omgz. this article was made for me. and for all females out there with feminist leanings and yet find it alluring that a guy offers to pay, goes out of the way, that kinda thing. *ahemahem* haha jessie does that mean you as well?

anyways. it really sucks when you have to fight a war and still you fall short of the target by a hundred, two hundred or sometimes god forbid, even three hundred dollars. a little bird told me that subways's running cost was $XX a month. omfg! thats the amount we earned in april last year! wth! but psst! lemme tell you sth k? although we're not hitting our target, we're still managing something like a 5% growth as compared to april last year! so.. huzzah? like the transport companies, i think well probably do quite okay currently, what with the cuts in company cpf and all. are there any other things that gov is doing huh? im not too sure.

anyways. the war. they call it da zhang when theres a long queue that really persists even though you're working at mazimum speed, with two people at the cashier. this can last anywhere between 15 minutes and over and hour. believe me, fifteen minutes may not sound like much, but 900s of not stop packing and/or collecting money is not something to be trifled with. especially not with an error margin to the tune of 0.057143%. how did i calculate that, you may ask. accepted excess/shortage divide by weekday target multiplied by 100%. that figure goes even slimmer on sundays. by 8 pm daily we average over 700 unique transactions, minimum.

so dont come calling us from jurong and asking: hey, wei she mo hit bu dao target huh? (area manager, thats you i was referring to) you know, i read an adam khoo book (for free during lunch hours at popular hehehe) and he says that only the top 10% of businesses in any given sector are thriving and making all the big bucks. the middle are struggling to be the money-making ones. and the rest are just plain losing money. anywaysies. same thingo. during our peak periods, the so-called da zhang times, are the ones where the till is ringing non-stop, and we do our damned best to clear the queue. hahaha can i be a bit buay pai seh and say that im getting pretty darned fast at this cashiering thingthing. woots. although im not very good at chu-ing mian bao heh. =/

so anyways. a really big portion of our earnings come during the da zhang period. and do you know the real reason why we are not hitting our targets, not just bukit panjang plaza but across the various outlets? its because your marketing people suck, jurong. yeah, the moolah comes in during the peak periods. we do our damned best to keep people from walking away by keeping the queue moving as quickly as possible. but what about the other times huh. whatever brisk business we do during those times are quickly eroded by the times where its super bo lang and we say: "wah, hen sian horh. jing tian hen man." what do you expect us to do. shout "lai, mian bao you offer, lai" just like mei zhen xiang next door and ruin our slightly upmarket-er image?

so before you come calling our outlet and asking why we arent hitting our targets, make sure youre doing your job first. you can start by making sure you have a proper marketing department in place. not one which produces ameteur looking posters for us to hang up. ever wondered why breadtalk seems more popular? (other than the taste of the bread) the adam khoo book said that there are a few ways to increase what you rake in each month. 1) increase the % of customers who walk into your shop and make a purchase rather than walk away. 2) increase the amount each customer spends. 3) increase the number of people who walk into your shop. we're holding down the fort on nos one and two and make the customer experience the best we can manage. you just do your job on number three, marketing department. oh wait. do we even have a marketing department? gee, sometimes i just aint sure.

anywaysies. i was really wondering if i should go for that nusso trip to korea. i mean like. i havent touched a bass, felt a vibration, stepped into a concert hall, or even touched a key (okay not this one haha. just added it for effect). but yeah well, you get the drift. and it sucks i know. but that was what i was willing to pay for my freedom and so-called childhood dream and well we've all moved on i suppose.

last saturday i was kidnapped home by my mother who offered to "fetch me back to the hostel".
yeah well i suppose i didnt quite mind. the choirboys was showing on tv. it was like the first time in a damn long time that i felt goosebumps. yes, through a tv screen. yes, even though my mother was making a running commentary on every damn thing and trying to make it as educational an experience as possible for the little one. like: "how do know the movie is set long ago?" apparently because they used coal or wood for hot baths. how do you know? you look at their clothes, thats what! who on earth wears that nowadays? i suppose that maybe... maybe the whole goosebumps thing was.. *gasp* sign? hahaha. oh lookie now, ive gone all superstitious. but hell. just the other day i dreamt of my piano teacher saying he didnt wanna teach me no more because i didnt practice. damn.

anyways. i guess its a chance to get back in (slight?) touch with all this thingthings again. although ive no idea how the other nusso members would react to me like disappearing and just reappearing? especially the bass people. i mean there arent any other bassists going (hence the last ditch effort in getting me to go), but surely id still be rehearsing with them. damn. i wish i have more foresight than to abruptly end things that i begin. or at least end them in a decent manner. so i msged my parents. to see their reaction. and because 1) not subsidized 2) not for credit (i mean like, wth? for credit? if it were for credit id run even further away fm the trip), my dad said. nuh-uh. bad idea. haha i guess that did make up my mind though. i suppose im going. working out my off-days to coincide with rehearsals are going to be crazy and raising the cash is gonna even crazier still. im sorry sheares hall, your $1230+ is going to go unpaid for still some more months. i was going to pay it next month but.......

haha anyways. its been damn long since ive blogged properly. feels damn good la can. even though this one was kinda ranty hehe. =)

12:16 am

Friday, April 24, 2009

omgomgomg, this playlist is totally what im talking about. it is so.. i dunno. such a european thing? =S i dunno how to appreciate. whereas this, is totally what you could club to. haha although if the person who created it were a dj, i wouldnt go back to the place again haha. so mishymashy.

anyways, you know the whole aware thing going on? i cant really be bothered about the goings-on and all, like i dont really care about what they do and all even though its an organisation thats supposed to be looking out for my interests as well since im female and all. or at least, didnt care. but how can a person who claims to be the 'feminist mentor' of the organisation say things like "Are we going to have an entire generation of lesbians?" and then say that they are not anti-homosexual? i mean, come on. just look at the tone of that. okay fine. subjective. "Dr Thio said she went on to discover that in Aware’s comprehensive sexuality education programme, which is taken to schools, homosexuality is regarded as a neutral word, not a negative word." what about this. assuming accurate reporting, she clearly views homosexuality in a negative light. i mean, seriously. if youre no against homosexuality, then why in the world you you have a problem with viewing it in a neutral light?

source: theonlinecitizen

11:42 pm

Thursday, April 23, 2009

okays i suppose its time to get my act together. and hes right i guess. to keep on moving is better than to stop and continue wallowing in.. whatever you call it. darn. he is better than ann robers. maybe just marginally (am i just being prejudiced against the whole profession or what), but better i suppose. haha. maybe like self-help books, effectiveness is determined by how much you believe in it. i used to think that self-help books were for suckers though. so im not sure how that translates into anything.

anyways, i think theres a difference between hip hop inspired lyrical dance and lyrical hip hop. although the universal term seems to be lyrical hip hop. but theyre like so different la can. and both are like distilled versions of hip hop itself? stripped from much of the cultural context that it arose from. i remember reading some article in ST by some art person from either nafa or laselle last year or something saying how like now that graffiti has become more mainstream and these graffiti artists now have avenues to express themselves legally, this form of art isnt exactly the same as it was before. the whole element of subversion, of going against what is accepted in order to express yourself is gone. yeah sure, you may have the same stylistic features, the same influences, but the character of the pieces created will surely be different. you cannot take an art form out of its original social context and expect it to remain the same. i guess ditto with all those stylised dances and all? they sure werent the same after chopin and all. (hahaha, i hope im not like totally crapping all this up though) i mean, yeah well, theyre beautiful and all. but some of the original oomph has been lost. like the hip hop we see on mtv is most certainly different from how it orinigally came about in the streets?

you know its amazing how much we're (okay fine at least i am) influenced by american culture when we've never even set foot in the country. like how we club to hip hop/rnb and not trance. or club rather than go to some ktv pub thingthing. how the movies we watch are all hollywood-minted. (again, perhaps its just me but i dont watch chinese films) the rare occasional british movie illicits a "omg that is so english" kinda reaction in me. not to mention the sprinkling of foreign films. ie. others. although american and chinese should technically be called foreign films as well?

whoo. the supervisor is back. thank god for that. id never have imagined i would say that. goodbye days of being understaffed and overworked! =)

ps. jessie, the porno guy is in haha.

12:00 am

Thursday, April 16, 2009

i seriously need to do something meaningful with my life. correction: stick with something meaningful. arghies.

1:12 am

Monday, April 13, 2009

omg. this is where pleasure = pain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yJJpjgCH3Q

so beautiful. =((

12:06 am

Thursday, April 09, 2009

omg, if i imagine hard enough i can still smell the tequila.

12:43 am

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

im sorry. do i annoy you? fuck, if i had a choice i wouldnt be sitting back here either alright. okay yeah. everything is a choice. i just chose to not do anything about the essay and so here i am, rushing it out on your computer. or at least pretending to. i havent even started on the research yet. what a bum.

got shit drunk on monday. cant say im proud of it, but yeah well. now i know where my limit is. haha. never try to shoot a bottle of tequila with just one other person. i suppose its one of those things in life that just happens, either sooner or later. BUT IM REALLY REALLY GRATEFUL TO ONE AWESOME FRIEND. i know it must have been one hell of a night for you. that being said, lets just see how long this staying sober thing lasts. liver, liver, you do know i love you, dont you? anyways, i realised that i dont just need to drink. i need to club. maybe all that says is that i need to excercise. yeah maybe huh. pe seems so long ago.

im in the process of.. exploring existentialist issues. if anyone would care to help, or has any insight as to the meaning of life, please do let me know.

anywaysies. recently we have been superbly understaffed at work. like seriously. and we're looking set to get even worse. the other twenty year old working there quit. she cut her hand while slicing bread and was pissed when she heard they werent gonna pay her for her dunno. seven days of mc? i thought it was really such a waste. she has a kid to feed dammit. and her frigging husband-to-be's in jail. like wth are you thinking, woman? do you think that our dear supervisor is going out of her way to get compensation for you after you foist a staffing problem on her (and by extension all the other full-timers)?! do you frigging think people enjoy working full shift two days in a row, and then going back to do calculations of lost sales? damn. your company was the one that i enjoyed the most at work alright? the craziest person, the person who laughs while mopping the floor until the mop handle breaks, the person who started the whole digging the sausages out of the leftover buns to eat thing, and even bringing them home to cook, the person who called me sua gu, the one who asked: "left one more is it? no space? no space give me lorh." and proceeded to pop the bun into her mouth. and i dont even have your number. (not that id know what to say) or a picture with you. freakk.

all that being said, i went kboxing with all the rest recently (before this whole quitting thing took place) and im really really touched at how inclusive they are. like omg. we are so.. different. and yet you say im "zi ji ren"? haiz. i feel bad that im thinking of quitting after july. caixia some more say, work here until you graduate lah. liang nian hen kuai de. but im growing bored alreadyy..... =(

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