Eventful week at work. Several things happened which caused lots of confusion, mess & scoldings. Many fell sick again but still much laughter from the things some temps do and feelings of irritation to the point that we feel like vomiting blood. Well anyway, today was okay. The usual busy busy busy in the morning after which the calls slowed down. The last half an hr was super funny because maria was telling us abt how her maid caught a bird and kept it in the house.

Went down with wil to hand in time sheet while cal went for church. Had lunch then met cal agn and went to marina sq. Got caught up at mango. Both of us were trying clothes and more clothes. Guess wil got too bored so he went out. Developed some photos then went to play pool. Been playing pool super often! And good to have someone to tell me which ball and where to hit. But got distracted by the videos in wil's iphone again. lol.

Had to leave after that cuz i had church anniversary service! Reached there quite early. Will be going to sentosa tmr! My church has apparently booked the whole palawan beach. Aint that cool?~

NUS it is.

As it always was.

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This weekend was rather fulfilling. I had time to both stay at home as well as go out. Met ghis on sat and walked ard bugis street. It has officially become my favourite place to shop. Ghis & i bought a different blouse each. I'd have bought shoes if we had time! Went for yiling's church event which in the end, only me, ghis & anne marie attended when most promised her that they'll be going! Some came up with the lamest excuses. Ah well. No point getting angry. Yiling played the base guitar! =) Was quite a meaningful event. Spammed the whole packet of potato chips despite still recovering from my cold.

Met cal and wil in the even on sunday to play pool. Kinda miss playing at hougang plaza.

And of course, some things arent meant to be written on blogs.

Going to chiong this week. Because my pay for the month is practically peanuts. OT pay!!! ~

Dear GOH LEAN MAY,

You have been selected for the CN YANG SCHOLARS PROGRAMME to pursue an undergraduate programme at Nanyang Technological University.

You will be offered the Nanyang Scholarship to cover your tuition fee and other expenses. The value of the Scholarship is as follows:

· Tuition fee directly payable by students (after Tuition Grant)

· Annual Living allowance: $6,000

· Annual Book allowance: $500

· Computer allowance of $1,500 (one-off)

· Settling-in allowance: $250 (one-off)

You will be guaranteed a place to stay in one of the Halls of Residence for your 4 years of study at NTU.

_________________________________

WHY!! Why not NUS?! I already made up my mind to accept NUS.. and now this. Goodness, in a dilemma. The offers are pretty tempting. No. The offers are VERY tempting! No need to worry about finance, about the long trip to school for the next 4 yrs. ARGH!

Nevertheless, will pray about it. And see what God says.

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Lean May is sick.

RaRrRr!

Sore throat & Runny nose. I might have caught it from CS. And i think people in CS will be catching it from me.

Anyway, I've decided to stay on till end of june! Because finding a job for a month is seriously difficult. Well, that's only one of the reasons.

=)

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It was a PH yesterday! and you have no idea how glad we are. aNywaY, wil came to pick me right outside my house. shuang!! then drove down to suntec to meet cal. he called cal on the way with his iphone (omg he has an iphone!) and i think i used 20mins of his outgoing calls talking to cal. lol! reached suntec, met cal. the restaurant wasnt open yet, so we went to walk ard before lining up at the restaurant for lunch!

okay lunch. goodness.... the buffet was such a spread! started with the paper steamboat, then went on to attack all the other stuff. so by the time we started eating, we had at least 5 plates of food on the table. the sashimi was good, and so were the other stuff! most of the things that we didnt wanna eat we gave it to wil, whom i think got fed up and went to take his own food! haha. ate quite a lot and kept taking food. wil took one whole plate of sushi that cal and i didnt touch at all... so imagine how much he ate. lol.

then desert... we took 2 whole plates and a cup of ice cream and ended up eating less than half. took a whole lot of pictures too! anywaY, thanks ah pao for lunch! know it must have burned a hole in his pocket.

after that drove down to far east to meet suz. had a hard time finding a space to park. and it was super hot! walked ard far east for the longest time but cldnt find anything nice. kept taking the escalator up and down. think wil & suz faces were turning black. haha. finally gave up the idea of finding stuff at far east, so walked to marriott to buy the cake for eil & jac's b'day! decided on green tea tiramisu... something different from the normal black forest. then took the cake back to office to put in the fridge. yea. i know. we went back to office on a PH! no one was there anyway.

then drove down to marina to find presents. bought 2 shirts, a box & a necklace for each of them. met jeanette there! walked until our feet almost killed us, seriously. because we just cldnt decide on what to buy. and wil sprained his leg the day before so he must have been dying from all the walking. suz left, and i got so tired that went to the food court and sat down for a while before buying dinner!

after finding all the presents, went to play pool! most of the time cal & i won because wil hit the black ball into the wrong hole. and we lost because we hit the black ball in. lol! but learnt a lot from him! because cal & i didnt know where to hit most of the time. i was super tired, so was stoning while cal was trying to figure out how to hit the ball. many funny moments. pao hit my forehead with the cue stick, cal was trying to find the white ball from the bottom when it was alr on the table, and at the very last game, cal wanted to show off her pro-ness so i partnered wil, and he was the one to hit in the last black ball but chose the wrong pocket so yea. we lost. haha. cal was so happy! haha.

went home aft that. cuz we were all half dead, actually i was. sent cal home 1st, before he drove me home. he took like the longest time to get me home, because he turned when he could have gone straight to srgn but took me all the way back to tp then bishan. haha. anyway, it's still nice to have someone drive you all the way home! yay! thanks again! =)

celebrated jac & eil's b'day today. took pictures and ate the cake! apparently wil hasnt tried his bluetooth on his phone... so we were trying to figure it out on the way back home. hasnt figured out till now... so will upload next time! =)

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Met up with 4a2 classmates on monday. Ry was there the earliest with serene, followed by me. We met sharon on the way to cafe cartel, where we waited long long for yq, xy & jasmine. Had a great time talking and chatting with them about all kinds of stuff. Realised different group of people love to talk about different stuff. With s15, conversation is mostly abt uni, scholarships, work & driving. With 4a2, we talk abt anything under the sun, esp with ry around. She was laughing at something... which i think most people could guess. Talked about the past and where the other classmates of ours are right now...

Because almost all of us had to work the next day (except ry) we decided to leave early. Ry & serene met one of their friends... so the rest of us were waiting for them... waited super long. Decided to 'ignore' them when they finally caught up with us. Then ry kept interrogating jasmine but her questions went totally out of point.

Anyway, thanks for the birthday present and the card! Love ya all!! =))

At work, cal's still on leave, and suz didnt come to work today! So i was all alone in the whole row which was quite depressing because by afternoon i totally had nothing much to do. And no one to talk to! Anyway, for lunch, we had free food! But we had to eat in the cs room because all the perms went for a cake cutting ceremony. The few of us decided to wear all the same colours for this week. And today happened to be pink. And it happened that not only did the 4 of us wear pink, so did boss and a few others! so almost everyone wore pink today! Ate too much potato chips and all kinds of junk food. People are sick and i think i am falling sick too. Argh! i hate every symptom of a cold! argh! ~

How come it's always a friday that everyone is not around? So many people took leave and half days that the low call volume became high. Anyway, been competing with cal & farah (who joined in our highest call competition). The only reason i got first was because cal was busy. Havent reached 90 before. But cal was short of 2 to a hundred again. Priya came back for half day ytd.. which made eil & jac really happy. Haha.

Went to meet s15 gals after work at clarke quay. Went to a ramen restaurant at central, actually there are thousands of jap restaurants at central.. so tiff, sam and i were queuing at one restaurant and lyn & anne marie were at another, waiting for the rest to come. Got a table at last for all the 10 of us! (full strength!) The topic was mostly about uni, scholarships & driving. Their experiences were really funny. Waited for ghis to finish her food as usual! Went to walk around clarke quay, to this cake shop to celebrate ghis' b'day. Supposed to celebrate anne marie's too but she left so early! Her cake was strawberry shortcake which was really pretty and good! We were discussing about a trip to hk this july... so excited! Walked around and looked for a pub/club to sit down and chat... ended up at '1nitestand'... free entry! the whole group of us sat there but only ordered 3 drinks! The people around must have been laughing at us. Tiff drank boddingtons, lyn drank san miguel and ghis, fel and i shared a lychee martini. I had to work the next day! couldnt drink much. Listened to the live band play before rushing home for work the next day!

Calls today were the normal nasty kinds on saturdays. Boss came in today. Lucky call volume wasnt high, so voicemails werent that bad either. Sat at eil's place. Chionged for the bus at 1pm. Boss thought a few of us were alighting at toa payoh but at the last min, jac & i decided to go to bugis, so we pulled wil along, leaving boss to be the only one alighting at tp! Anyway, think jac & i have gone crazy, couldnt stop laughing at wil for no reason. Kept suaning him also.

Went to pastamania to eat lunch at bugis. Thanks pao for the treat! We had chocolate banana pizza for desert... in which i pulled out all the banana. Walked ard bugis before going to bugis street! Wil left and promised to meet us 1.5hrs later. Jac & I bought a pair of shoes. The same ones, only different colours. She bought a blouse as well. After walking ard the whole bugis street, decided to go back to bugis junc, spent time at kino not reading books but to find her jin & i to find my wu zun/danson!

Then went to find a mother's day gift, bought earrings for my mom in the end! After like 2hrs, we were still waiting for wil, so we went to the arcade. Ended up playing that hitting game which made our hands so pain. Ha. And still waiting for wil to come, we asked him not to in the end, because if he did, he'd just end up driving both of us home! Took the mrt to raffles place, but realised it was crowded, so we took an mrt to marina bay and sat all the way back because our legs were dying.

After tmr, it'll be a monday again! WORK! So many people arent coming on monday again, it's always mia on mon or fri! ~

Work on Friday was a terrible mess. As mentioned, 3 people were off and the 2 new temps couldnt take that many calls. Couple with the fact that the previous day was a public holiday, which meant a higher volume of calls. So basically the only temps taking in calls were me, cal & suzanna. It was quite hectic in the morning, with queue calls reaching 10 people waiting over 10mins. There was also a higher volume of nasty ppl. And we were so busy consulting boss on those that we couldnt even take in calls in the afternoon. Cal went to check her number of calls and dragged me along. She was short of 2 to a hundred. I was quite far behind. But the 3 of us took the bulk of the calls that day, which was quite fulfilling.

Met up with s15 gals on saturday at 3pm to supposedly attend Nj's 39th college day. We somehow assumed that the 'food fair' was some sort of big thing, something like funtasia so we went early only to find out that the 'food fair' was part of the ceremony. We walked ard, saw teachers and saw the newly renovated LT5 now known as a different name. Wonder where all the students are going to have lectures? The only LT big enough for mass lecture is LT1. We sat in the hall, only to feel super extra because we were one of the very few that weren't receiving prizes. So we decided to leave. HA! Took a bus to PS, were discussing about uni and scholarships on the way. Went to meridien to have an early dinner. Korean food! Yiling left, the rest of us walked ard PS. Went to raffles city to meet mom, dad & sis. Bought a pair of jeans. Well anyway, will be meeting them next week at ikea! It's far from my office and far from home. Sobs.

Am on leave tomorrow, going for NTU scholarship interview! After hearing ghis & fel's encounters abt their medicine interview, I'm doubtful of whatever i am going to say tmr. I've received NUS' big package. Have been reading it the past few days. So much admin work to do! Will be quite busy in July, with registration and misc details about admission into uni. Apparently only anne marie & i are going to nus (yay! same faculty!). And apparently, only anne marie, me, py, lyn will be in singapore for our uni education. The rest may be going overseas... mostly to Australia. Well, all the best to those with overseas applications! ~

It's finally a PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!! Sad to say... it falls on a thursday. Anyway, I went to meet jaime, shafik, edwin, xt & raf for lunch at amk hub. We ate pepper lunch. This is the second time in the week that i've eaten it. Well anyway, my hair and clothes smelt of food after we left. Oh, thanks xt & jaime for the present! Raf had to go back to work (on a PH!!) and a few of us had our separate programmes, so we all went our separate ways after lunch. So today's meeting was rather short.

Took the train to Bugis to meet 4a2 classmates. Serene, Ry, Yq, & Xy were there. Shopped at bugis street for quite a long time. Ry & serene went to sit down because serene was sick. So xy, yq & i continued shopping. They made me buy something before we left, bought this long shirt, something like that yq was wearing and a belt to go along with it. Xy left, yq and i went to find ry & serene at mos. Serene's parents were there, as well as some of ry's friends. Serene went home to rest, so went home with ry and yq. We were wondering when we would all be able to meet as one clique and catch up with each other! So much to talk about, work, uni, and the past!

Well anyway, I still have to work tmr. Apparently, eil, wil & farah are off. Priya's taken 1 mth leave for exams. Hq & Geraldyne have left (we'll miss you!!), there's two new temps and boss has did a mass re-arrangement of seats. Going to sit beside cal now, at geraldyne's & hq's seat. I'll miss grace!!

NTU's interview is on monday. Gosh, the distance turns me off. And i'm being a bit kan-chiong and paranoid about nus uni applications that i went to check the status of my application. Have been offered Chem Eng from nus, just that i havent received the offer letter. I think my mom is equally anxious, because she went down to check letters straight away! (after working there for some time, i sometimes get paranoid that letters may get lost in the mail). Anyway, just hope i get the offer letter soon! ~