How often do we sit back on think on what we have and be thankful for them? I guess for most of us, more often than not, rather that be grateful for our possessions and our well-being, we lament on things that we can't or are not able to achieve.
Was at Serangoon MRT yesterday when I saw this gal w her friend, all dressed up for a party or dinner function of sorts. I was wondering why she was carrying her little black bag so high up when I realised that it was because she did not have a left hand!! Her vitality and vibrancy whilst she was talkin to her friend striked me even as I was thinking whether she lost her left hand due to an accident or whether it was a born defect. I wonder how it feels like to be so young and yet to be short of a limb; to have the whole world ahead of you but yet having to put up with the stares of everyone around you. But i guess it is up to the individual; you can either wallow urself in self-pity or put ur head high and take everything in ur stride like that gal I saw.
I recalled when I was in sec 4 and preparing for my O-Levels (actually it was like a day or 2 before my chem paper) when I woke up 1 day and could not stand having to face the sunlight. I had to shield my face and my draw the curtains in my room whilst I studied. Paranoid, my mum of course broughtme to the dr where I was told I had an ulcer in my eye and had they brought me in a couple of hrs later, I could very well have lost my sight!! Somehow when I heard that @ 16, u seem to think that the adults tend to exaggerate and that it was impossible for me to lose my sight. But thinking back, I realise how scary it was (especially for my parents) and how lucky I was that nothing happened to me. Likewise, v thankful that Dar's retina detachment was noticed in time or it would be highly probable that he have lost his sight. *whew*
And so I juz wana say that I am thankful of the big and small things bestowed on me:
My Dad, who has not only provided a warm shelter, food on the table for me my whole life but loves me in his own way and is ever so concerned abt me;
My sis, though I dare say we r v different, who always buys me stuff when she is back and sends me cards n lovely notes on my bday;
My Darling whom I have so much to thank for... ;
My friends, whom have always stood by me, supported me through my downs and joyed with me through my upsides of life... and whom I know will always be there for me;
My ex-colleagues turned friends - fate let us know each other and m very happy that friendshop has been forged;
My colleagues who help me in my work;
a Job so that I can live comfortably and spend on my whims and endless number of shoes (haha);
the Luxury of having both Dad's & Dar's car to drive when i m too lazy to take public transport;
and for all the other things that I have... the list is endless!! From this day forth, I shall be more thankful and hopefully complain less!!! (let' see how lg this lasts heh heh! :P)
And What are YOU thankful for?
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Shifting House
Renovations to Darling's new house were finally completed and they started shifting in for the past 2 weeks. The reno were q a headache coz the contractor cannot listen to instructions properly AND the workmanship wasn't that good; dar had to like ask the guy to change the floor tiles 3 times and countless other stuff that were ignored. It was real frustrating as there are 2 chinese 7th month this year and they wanted to shift in before that. Finally the house was ready!! :))
Good thing that they are only shifting across the road, so they can kinda take their time to shift their stuff over slowly... which is what Dar has been doing. The past 2 weeks have been spent goin to IKEA with him to get his stuff and to shift his stuff fr his old place to the new place. GOSH he has so MAAAANNNYYYYY stuff I was amazed!!!!! I helped him to carry the stuff over and boy were the boxes heavy!!! thnk all the durians and ice cream I have been working were worked off heh! Kept nagging him to throw away what ever that is not needed, as I told him, if he hasnt used them in the past 10 years, he is unlikely to use them in the next 10 years rite??? But he is e sort that likes to keep stuff and so, much to my disappointment, not much stuff was thrown away :( His new room is kinda cramped rite now with all his possessions collected over the years which I don't really like. Of course he claims that he juz wana shift everything over then slowly pack and throw stuff but somehow I don't see that happening hee hee!! Best thing I like about his rm is the super comfy sofa bed he bought; it opens up to a slightly smaller than Queen sized bed. I almost always promptly fall asleep on it when I am @ his place which is why he is q pissed coz I always say I wana help but end up sleeping instead *grinz*
The other thing I like about the house is that it has a TERRIFIC view!! It's like we can even see the audience at National Stadium, although they lk like ants lah! :PPP Hopefully they dun tear dwn the old bus interchange and build high rise buildings in it's place. Me can't wait to catch the NDP fireworks @ his place this year!!
Good thing that they are only shifting across the road, so they can kinda take their time to shift their stuff over slowly... which is what Dar has been doing. The past 2 weeks have been spent goin to IKEA with him to get his stuff and to shift his stuff fr his old place to the new place. GOSH he has so MAAAANNNYYYYY stuff I was amazed!!!!! I helped him to carry the stuff over and boy were the boxes heavy!!! thnk all the durians and ice cream I have been working were worked off heh! Kept nagging him to throw away what ever that is not needed, as I told him, if he hasnt used them in the past 10 years, he is unlikely to use them in the next 10 years rite??? But he is e sort that likes to keep stuff and so, much to my disappointment, not much stuff was thrown away :( His new room is kinda cramped rite now with all his possessions collected over the years which I don't really like. Of course he claims that he juz wana shift everything over then slowly pack and throw stuff but somehow I don't see that happening hee hee!! Best thing I like about his rm is the super comfy sofa bed he bought; it opens up to a slightly smaller than Queen sized bed. I almost always promptly fall asleep on it when I am @ his place which is why he is q pissed coz I always say I wana help but end up sleeping instead *grinz*
The other thing I like about the house is that it has a TERRIFIC view!! It's like we can even see the audience at National Stadium, although they lk like ants lah! :PPP Hopefully they dun tear dwn the old bus interchange and build high rise buildings in it's place. Me can't wait to catch the NDP fireworks @ his place this year!!
Monday, July 10, 2006
Mc Dessert Attack
Had this in M'sia the other day & thought they were not in Singapore yet...
I had such a HUGE craving for them when they were taken off the shelves back so many years ago (anyone knows why??)... thick & creamy... SLUUURP!! Tried their Banana milkshake (think this is really new... can't find it on their website) on Sat n it was YUMMMMMMILICIOUS!!!! A Definite Must Try!!!!! Rated 11 out of 10 hee!
They are known as Flavour Burst; it's like a normal cone but has this strip of flavouring to it. I had the Mocha one whilst Dar had the something Orange one and it was nice!!!! Not as boring as the good ole Vanilla cone but it costs 3 times as much!!! Only cost twice as much in Johore though :))))
And Mc's milkshakes are BACK!!!
I had such a HUGE craving for them when they were taken off the shelves back so many years ago (anyone knows why??)... thick & creamy... SLUUURP!! Tried their Banana milkshake (think this is really new... can't find it on their website) on Sat n it was YUMMMMMMILICIOUS!!!! A Definite Must Try!!!!! Rated 11 out of 10 hee!
Friday, July 07, 2006
Balancing Acts
Question 1) Too Much? Too Little?
As u all probably know, the front-line tellers would have to balance their cash positions before they can close for the day. And if there's a shortage/excess, we would look through the transactions and see if there are any errors or hopefully the teller can recall which are the possible customers that more/less cash was given to so officers can check with the customers. My branch has been pretty clean of cash shortages/excess for a while but recently it seems we have been "hit"; 3 times in 3 weeks!! The 2 by 小妹妹 was still ok but the other one by aunty teller simply blew up!!!
Ok, honestly, I am not very found of aunty teller (poor Darling has been hearing my endless complaints abt her :P); she is damn kan cheong & always damn eager to run off. She always wants to leave early & thus always chase officers to check her vouchers. Fair enough, I m q mean, when I was cash officer (& thus her direct officer) i q purposely choose not to check her vouchers haha!! but I dun care coz u all dunno how irritating she can be!! That aside, she always don't want to remember what we tell/teach her resulting in her asking the same qn over & over again. She also likes to choose the easy way out and I am really talking about shortcuts here & sometimes I think she don't have common sense & to think she used to be a remiser yet still so lax on banking rules. But the most classic thing is that she LOVES to argue w my boss!! Ok lah, my boss can sometimes be q unreasonable but when my boss tell her what she has done wrong, she can tell my boss, "ya ya, I am a bad girl, sorry, I am a bad girl..." PIANGZ!!! what was that for??? & she has a daughter almost as old as me leh!!! *faints*
So anyways back to my story... (sorry had to let it out & muz give a bit of background abt aunty...) the other day we had spot check for the tellers & aunty teller was short of $50; there were only 95 $10 pieces in the flap for 100 pieces!! My alternate is q good @ catching snake one, then plus my tellers, they all helped to look through the vouchers and also to search the surrounding area (even the dustbin which she apparantly spits in... gross rites???) to see if she has dropped it anywhere. But in the end we realised it is q a futile search as she didn't bundle the money on that day itself but a couple of days ago, which means that she was actually short of cash for the past few days. The thing was that, when my alternate spinned the money and realised that 5 pieces were missing, the 1st thing aunty teller said was "nvm lah I put back the money." and they are not supposed to do that!!!!! So anyways they were all helping to search, even my boss... when tada!! aunty teller comes in to tell her she has found the money!!!! It was like so DUH and obvious she took the money from her bag coz 1) they already searched the surrounding & 2) I was in the toilet when she went in to get the money and she was behaving suspiciously when I came out of the cubicle. Less than 3 minutes after I went back to sit dwn, she say she found the money liao. Some more, when my boss asked her where she found the money, she mumbled and couldn't give my boss a definite answer. Like my boss say lors, "want to be thief also be a clever thief mah!!"
We let the matter rest and my boss was discussing with us whether she should tell higher authority about the matter. Personally I think she should coz 1) aunty teller won't appreciate & 2) to protect herself lors. So on Fri, (incident happened last Wed n aunty was on leave on thurs) my boss spoke to her privately & asked her discreetly if she put in the money. and guess what??? Aunty insisted she did NOT put in the money and she was damn adamant about it lors!! Apparantly she kept looking down and repeating "No I did not, No I did not!" My boss spoke to her 4 a damn lg time ( @ least half an hour to 45 min) before she finally admitted that she put in the money. Her reasons being 1) she didn't want my boss to scold her & 2) coz the other tellers were waiting and she didn't wana hold them back! (I must say the tellers in this branch are v v helpful, whenever 1 of them havehis kinda prob, everyone will rope in to help to lk @ vouchers/txn & help the affected person to recall their tx.) My boss called back on Sat to ask aunty to write a report & then aunty panicked!! She asked for boss' number & apparantly called my boss to give her another chance but my boss was firm that she wrote a report & that her boss the ZM be informed. Aunty then asked what were the possibilities that she will be asked to leave and my boss replied that she really didnt know. Soon after, aunty called back again & told my boss that she has decided to resign, and that on Mon, she will find everything in her drawer & locker. & being the irresponsible person she is, she simply juz did not turn up for work on Mon... that means she is giving a 24-hr resignation!! We were all blur coz she did not mention anything to my alternate on Sat & so we were all clueless that she has resigned!! N she really caused a lot of trouble coz we had to "break open" her box & my poor 小妹妹 had to help her to return her stock & also to count and take over her cash (incidentally her cash was short of 2C haha!) holding everyone back!! I simply do not understand her, I mean if she is so scared of losing face, then why do it in the first place? Which in any case, the other tellers wont like lk down on her or what coz they all have shortages or excesses b4 mah. Also, when my boss ask the 1st time, she should have just admitted it lah... i mean it was damn obvious lors... like that, of course my boss will want to protect herself mah. Some more, if the other tellers know (n there was a new teller who apparantly saw her putting the money in) then next time, they can just happy happy take out or put in the shortage/excess liao mah. Sighz... thought only the younger generation would be capable of such things but she is like a middle-aged woman liao lors.... *shakes head*
Question 2) To go or not to go?
Q pissed w office this week... haiz actually it is my usual gripe of always being the one being called for overidding. I don't understand why, no matter which position I sit, this downstairs teller would always call me and I m not even her direct officer lors!!! It is worse when there are only 3 officers working; somehow tellers don't like to ask my boss to overide (actually she also wierd one, she tell the tellers not to call her unless officer bz... we keep overidding we dun hafta do our thngs liao lors!! n then she can happily tok on phone... mad!) n then my other officer may sometimes take v lg to go out so in the end who do they call... ME LORS!!! Dar tells me then in that case don't go out so fast lors, sometimes i also think that way but then i will thnk that they are the ones facing customers & they can't do anything whilst waiting for us then it will be v awkward for them also mah. but sighz... then WHO TRIES TO UNDERSTAND MY POSITION??? sometimes really doing things mah n got many thngs to do mah. And we have upstairs dwnstairs somemore, i can go dwnstairs n overide, come up, haven't even sit dwn then gota go n do overidding liao. And not that I thnk i m v great or what by always doing overidding for them, but sometimes I feel the tellers don't appreciate one lors; like when they can tell that I m bz already or when there are already many things in my pigeon hole, they can pile even more things on top one lors. Or if I m doing cash @ bz periods, they will ask me to check stock (or vouchers like silly aunty mentioned above) for them. Eh u all fin liao n wana end early, i also wana go off early mah :( don't quickly go n do overidding, cx gota wait, get impatient then complain or vent anger on teller then teller gets pissed or worse we get complaint letter, or boss will ask why we take so lg 2 go out; as her phrase goes "cx waiting u know, how can u make cx wait??" but if go then i v buay song, then sometimes i will show grouchy face to my teller... how now brown cow? anyone has a solution???
& the Million Dollar Question... More Money or More Time for Self?
Also thinking whether I wana take up a new tuition kid... still trying to fig out the place... not v far but machiam q diff 2 go there. Wonder if I can cope what w work n all and also if i m willing to sacrifice the time which can be used 2 rest & relax ; meet up w frenz; & spending more time w Dar (hmm serious consideration :PP) As it is, 1 of my kids keep changing time one, don't have fixed timing then I don't like but apparantly her CCA teacher always add/cancels CCA one... dunno true or nots... n i still havent ask my other student if she wana continue... 2 lazeee 2 call n she also v lazee 2 call me haha! oh well... i have until 2nite 2 give an answer... shall take a nap n ponder over it... zzzzzzz
As u all probably know, the front-line tellers would have to balance their cash positions before they can close for the day. And if there's a shortage/excess, we would look through the transactions and see if there are any errors or hopefully the teller can recall which are the possible customers that more/less cash was given to so officers can check with the customers. My branch has been pretty clean of cash shortages/excess for a while but recently it seems we have been "hit"; 3 times in 3 weeks!! The 2 by 小妹妹 was still ok but the other one by aunty teller simply blew up!!!
Ok, honestly, I am not very found of aunty teller (poor Darling has been hearing my endless complaints abt her :P); she is damn kan cheong & always damn eager to run off. She always wants to leave early & thus always chase officers to check her vouchers. Fair enough, I m q mean, when I was cash officer (& thus her direct officer) i q purposely choose not to check her vouchers haha!! but I dun care coz u all dunno how irritating she can be!! That aside, she always don't want to remember what we tell/teach her resulting in her asking the same qn over & over again. She also likes to choose the easy way out and I am really talking about shortcuts here & sometimes I think she don't have common sense & to think she used to be a remiser yet still so lax on banking rules. But the most classic thing is that she LOVES to argue w my boss!! Ok lah, my boss can sometimes be q unreasonable but when my boss tell her what she has done wrong, she can tell my boss, "ya ya, I am a bad girl, sorry, I am a bad girl..." PIANGZ!!! what was that for??? & she has a daughter almost as old as me leh!!! *faints*
So anyways back to my story... (sorry had to let it out & muz give a bit of background abt aunty...) the other day we had spot check for the tellers & aunty teller was short of $50; there were only 95 $10 pieces in the flap for 100 pieces!! My alternate is q good @ catching snake one, then plus my tellers, they all helped to look through the vouchers and also to search the surrounding area (even the dustbin which she apparantly spits in... gross rites???) to see if she has dropped it anywhere. But in the end we realised it is q a futile search as she didn't bundle the money on that day itself but a couple of days ago, which means that she was actually short of cash for the past few days. The thing was that, when my alternate spinned the money and realised that 5 pieces were missing, the 1st thing aunty teller said was "nvm lah I put back the money." and they are not supposed to do that!!!!! So anyways they were all helping to search, even my boss... when tada!! aunty teller comes in to tell her she has found the money!!!! It was like so DUH and obvious she took the money from her bag coz 1) they already searched the surrounding & 2) I was in the toilet when she went in to get the money and she was behaving suspiciously when I came out of the cubicle. Less than 3 minutes after I went back to sit dwn, she say she found the money liao. Some more, when my boss asked her where she found the money, she mumbled and couldn't give my boss a definite answer. Like my boss say lors, "want to be thief also be a clever thief mah!!"
We let the matter rest and my boss was discussing with us whether she should tell higher authority about the matter. Personally I think she should coz 1) aunty teller won't appreciate & 2) to protect herself lors. So on Fri, (incident happened last Wed n aunty was on leave on thurs) my boss spoke to her privately & asked her discreetly if she put in the money. and guess what??? Aunty insisted she did NOT put in the money and she was damn adamant about it lors!! Apparantly she kept looking down and repeating "No I did not, No I did not!" My boss spoke to her 4 a damn lg time ( @ least half an hour to 45 min) before she finally admitted that she put in the money. Her reasons being 1) she didn't want my boss to scold her & 2) coz the other tellers were waiting and she didn't wana hold them back! (I must say the tellers in this branch are v v helpful, whenever 1 of them havehis kinda prob, everyone will rope in to help to lk @ vouchers/txn & help the affected person to recall their tx.) My boss called back on Sat to ask aunty to write a report & then aunty panicked!! She asked for boss' number & apparantly called my boss to give her another chance but my boss was firm that she wrote a report & that her boss the ZM be informed. Aunty then asked what were the possibilities that she will be asked to leave and my boss replied that she really didnt know. Soon after, aunty called back again & told my boss that she has decided to resign, and that on Mon, she will find everything in her drawer & locker. & being the irresponsible person she is, she simply juz did not turn up for work on Mon... that means she is giving a 24-hr resignation!! We were all blur coz she did not mention anything to my alternate on Sat & so we were all clueless that she has resigned!! N she really caused a lot of trouble coz we had to "break open" her box & my poor 小妹妹 had to help her to return her stock & also to count and take over her cash (incidentally her cash was short of 2C haha!) holding everyone back!! I simply do not understand her, I mean if she is so scared of losing face, then why do it in the first place? Which in any case, the other tellers wont like lk down on her or what coz they all have shortages or excesses b4 mah. Also, when my boss ask the 1st time, she should have just admitted it lah... i mean it was damn obvious lors... like that, of course my boss will want to protect herself mah. Some more, if the other tellers know (n there was a new teller who apparantly saw her putting the money in) then next time, they can just happy happy take out or put in the shortage/excess liao mah. Sighz... thought only the younger generation would be capable of such things but she is like a middle-aged woman liao lors.... *shakes head*
Question 2) To go or not to go?
Q pissed w office this week... haiz actually it is my usual gripe of always being the one being called for overidding. I don't understand why, no matter which position I sit, this downstairs teller would always call me and I m not even her direct officer lors!!! It is worse when there are only 3 officers working; somehow tellers don't like to ask my boss to overide (actually she also wierd one, she tell the tellers not to call her unless officer bz... we keep overidding we dun hafta do our thngs liao lors!! n then she can happily tok on phone... mad!) n then my other officer may sometimes take v lg to go out so in the end who do they call... ME LORS!!! Dar tells me then in that case don't go out so fast lors, sometimes i also think that way but then i will thnk that they are the ones facing customers & they can't do anything whilst waiting for us then it will be v awkward for them also mah. but sighz... then WHO TRIES TO UNDERSTAND MY POSITION??? sometimes really doing things mah n got many thngs to do mah. And we have upstairs dwnstairs somemore, i can go dwnstairs n overide, come up, haven't even sit dwn then gota go n do overidding liao. And not that I thnk i m v great or what by always doing overidding for them, but sometimes I feel the tellers don't appreciate one lors; like when they can tell that I m bz already or when there are already many things in my pigeon hole, they can pile even more things on top one lors. Or if I m doing cash @ bz periods, they will ask me to check stock (or vouchers like silly aunty mentioned above) for them. Eh u all fin liao n wana end early, i also wana go off early mah :( don't quickly go n do overidding, cx gota wait, get impatient then complain or vent anger on teller then teller gets pissed or worse we get complaint letter, or boss will ask why we take so lg 2 go out; as her phrase goes "cx waiting u know, how can u make cx wait??" but if go then i v buay song, then sometimes i will show grouchy face to my teller... how now brown cow? anyone has a solution???
& the Million Dollar Question... More Money or More Time for Self?
Also thinking whether I wana take up a new tuition kid... still trying to fig out the place... not v far but machiam q diff 2 go there. Wonder if I can cope what w work n all and also if i m willing to sacrifice the time which can be used 2 rest & relax ; meet up w frenz; & spending more time w Dar (hmm serious consideration :PP) As it is, 1 of my kids keep changing time one, don't have fixed timing then I don't like but apparantly her CCA teacher always add/cancels CCA one... dunno true or nots... n i still havent ask my other student if she wana continue... 2 lazeee 2 call n she also v lazee 2 call me haha! oh well... i have until 2nite 2 give an answer... shall take a nap n ponder over it... zzzzzzz
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