Kim Gek... & Proud to be one :)

Last Thurs was a very nostalgic nite for me; a nite where it brought together some friends I spent most of my school years with and whom I havent seen in ages; a nite where I caught up with a LOT of my old teachers; a nite where memories of my school days were brought back so clearly in my mind; a nite where we all remembered that no matter where we are, we are still the "Kim Geks" that we have been moulded into; a nite where we gave our heartfelt thanks to the woman who helped so much in our formative years to make us who we are today...

After being the principal of SCGS for the past 28 years, Miss Heng will be retiring @ the end of this year and thus a dinner was held in her honour last Thurs. However... as usual... sleepy was late (no thanks to the rain & horrid jam @ orchard road) and thus missed her speech :( Was just in time for the dinner... but it seems that no one had the food in mind... and the food was actually not bad!!! Most of us were table hopping around and catching up with all the teachers; some of them still teaching in SC but some of whom have left but came back to pay tribute to Miss Heng. Due to work schedule, it is rather difficult to go back to visit the teachers, used to do that once in a while and I missed the times when I did relief teaching back in SC *wistful* and it is AMAZING how most of the teachers look exactly how they were when they were teaching us!!! Got hwee to comment that perhaps teaching was not such a s-t-r-e-s-s-f-u-l- job afterall heh!! actually I don't think so, just thnk that comparatively, we were easier to teach than the kids of nowadays (no offense!!) And teachers have really good memories as most of them can remember us, well maybe not the name, but if we tell them the year or class, they could very well tell us some of the things that we did!! Like how my former A-Maths teacher commented that we were a v naughty class and that she thought that we didn't like her!!! But dat's not true... like I was telling Dar... I feel that my class was the naughty but rather smart class, that's why all the teachers "bo bian" :P And it was very heartwarming when they asked us what we are doing now, and being so proud of us!

I almost didn't become a student of SC... mummy used to tell me that she actually wanted to enrol Jie in St. Joseph's Convent as it was nearer my house but 1 of her colleagues recommended SC and she decided to enroll Jie there... and being siblings she enrolled me there too!! Thanks mummy!!! My 10 years there are days where I look back fondly upon, the teachers were great; not only did they make the lessons interesting, they also instilled in us the values which we still hold today. Though so long ago, I can still vividly remember some of the things that happened in class!!! :) And it is also there that I know my closest gfs; Dora, Siping, Huiwen & Youping... whom have been w me thru my ups & dwns, listening to my complaints and giving me advice and just keeping me company... thanks babes!!!

I guess when pp think about SCGS, they will think about the school in Orchard Road and our "pinafore without the shirt inside". And though most other pp have a lot of comments about our school Uniform, we are v proud of our uniforms... it's very unique isnt it?? ;) And I was very lucky to have studied @ the premises in Orchard Road (now the Australian Int'l School or something). Though it was a small premise, it was v v cozy such that everyone knew everyone else!!! I miss the old school building and I remember on the last day of school there, we went around taking photos!! Had the chance to study in the new school for half a year, it was huge but I guess being that everything was new and all, wasn't really used to the new compound...

Really sad that Miss Heng will be retiring; future SC gals will be missing out on her dedication and leadership but I am sure the past and present SC gals will always remember what she has done for the school and for us gals. It is small wonder that when we have daughters ourselves, we are definitely goin to enrol them in SCGS!!

Glad that I live am I

That the sky is blue

Glad for the country lanes

And the fall of dew

After the sun the rain

After the rain the sun

This is the way of life

Till the work be done

All that we need to do

Be we low or high

Is to see that we grow

Nearer the sky

~school song~

Interesting Sat

Sat mornings are usually rather quiet; well crowds can suddenly come in but is nothing unmanageable. Last Sat was no exception; and sleepy was rather free as there were 3 (technically 4 but 1 went dwnstairs to help but she helped me cut cheques in the am heh heh) officers working so sleepy was kinda e "extra" officer :) But some "exceptional" incidents happened...

Firstly, the aircon suddenly dieded on us around 8.45 am. Still didnt realise until my teller asked me how come there's no aircon. Had to dig for the number to call for the aircon guy to come but the silly guy didnt switch on his handphone and no one picked up the office numbers listed. Oh dear!!! Thought that perhaps it was a tad bit early and that maybe there will be someone picking up the phone after 9 but NO!!! By this time, it was real stuffy out front; and the poor tellers were perspiring like mad as they had to wear jackets and had to resort to fanning themselves with brochures!! Luckily there weren't many customers or it would have had been worse!! Thankfully, finally managed to get the office gal and thankfully they were quite prompt in coming dwn... apparantly 1 of the units above us had a short-circuit or something, thereby affecting us.

But the more exciting thing was... my teller spotted a counterfeit $100 note!!! And got the whole office rather excited coz most of us havn't seen a counterfeit note before. It was a rather bad counterfeit for a few reasons:
1) it was smaller than the real $100 note;
2) the texture was super super smooth;
3) u know when u hold up the note to light and u'll be able to see the head of Yusof Ishak in the lite? For the counterfeit, it could be clearly seen and it was a cartoon cariature form!!!
On further analysing, it was q clear that the culprits used colour photostapting machine to produce the note but yet somehow, they managed to make the hologram feature on the note. The uncle who banked in the note claimed that he received it from a foreigner who boarded his cab; and he was rather upset that he had been cheated. But what to do, we have to send the note to MAS/BOC and see where it goes from there.

So everyone... OPEN ur eyes big big ya? :)

Bidding Farewell

Last Friday marks the last day that I would be working with 2 of my nicer and closer colleagues; they will be starting work @ the new branch come tomorrow. And though the branch is only just a short distance away, it was v sad to have to see them go. Had the "official" farewell for them on Thursday as my manager was not around on Friday and it was such a tearful farewell!!! Most of us so scared of spilling tears that we quickly dispersed from the "scene of crime" choosing to hide inside the office instead.

Veron was the Cash Officer @ the branch and having to be the alternate Cash Officer, I learnt a lot of things from her. Added to that, she is extremely helpful, patient and doesnt throw her temper around. It was really a joy to work w her as she would go out of her way to help me especially when blur me never knew how to answer the questions posed by my tellers or find numbers to pp in other departments for me. She is also very appreciative even when small little things r done for her. like help her to check reports or something and it is these little things that shows the goodness in a person.

As for Julia, though just a teller in the branch, her wealth of knowlege is amazing!!! Even beta than me heh heh!!! And I really admire her dedication to her work whether it is to solve customers' problems to little things like ordering stationery n blah for the branch. She also knows when not to call respective officers for overidding and that is 1 of the things I am most appreciative of... workwise. Guess both of us being "horses" kinda brought us closer also. Find myself telling her about my problems w Dar or about my friends and her concern shows *touched* and though she can be rather frank & straightforward, know it is for the gd of us as only true friends will want u to be beta rites? Thanks my dear, and I will learn to be more careful w my work and find out the correct information before giving out and I will also try to act more like an officer :P :P :P

It is never easy bidding farewell; day to day affairs have now become memories albeit nice ones. M gona miss them a lot... not only are they wonderful wonderful colleagues, it is the easy camaderie we have and the dependability that I am going to miss most. Made a mental note to stay in touch, but sometimes it is not easy what with everyone's busy schedule. Nonetheless, I shall not say "bye bye" here but "see you again". Take care...

New Wheels

Darling collected his new car on Fri :) :) :) n I kinda insisted that he came to pick me up after work just so that I could sit in the new car hee :P

Almost couldnt recognise the car coz I couldn't really recognise the colour; it looks grey but it is called purplish grey or something... so strange haha!! Managed to recognise the car by the car number; actually could have gotten the car earlier but Dar didn't like the number "5" so requested to wait for number "7" which is his favourite number. But like murphy's law, when u don't want n it happens; the 2nd number of the car plate was "5"!!! Dar was q disappointed heh. Car had the nice car smell but other than that it was q simple, we were q shocked to realise that there weren't additional lights above the driver and front passenger seats. Intially when I was sitting @ the back seat, felt the space pretty cramp but then I concluded that it was coz Dar & his fren shifted the seats WAY back!! heh

So now Dar gota "drive-in" the car. My only qualms is dat it is a M-A-N-U-A-L car and I haven't driven a Manual car since I passed my driving test eons ago so I will definitely need many many lessons *groanz* N i m actually q apprehensive to drive the car now coz it is new & I m scared that I cant control the clutch so guess Dar will be driving the new car more often. But Dar's hasn't managed to sell his old car which means I can still drive only that being a continental car it is q heavy... added to that that Daddy is out of town this week, e 2 of us r really spoilt for choices what vehicle to drive :P:P:P anyone wana rent a car 4 a week? :P

梁静茹签唱会

Went with Mangojo to the 梁静茹签唱会 compliments of tickets given by Shanster. :) thanks gal!

Mangojo came to pick me up and we arrived @ Expo ard 3pm admist the pouring rain. As we towards the Hall, noticed a lot of ushers helping to control traffic and blah. Intially thot "Wah, so happening ah, they expecting so many pp dat's why need ushers" but then realised it is coz there's a church there... which also explains why, the ushers "disappeared" halfway along our journey hee. Was expecting a looooooooooooooong queue so q surprised that the queue was NOT that long, guess it was partly coz of the rain bah.

The time stated on the ticket read 4pm so we were anticipating that we would be able to go in by around 330 pm. Good company helps in times like this when time seems to c-r-e-e-p by... and of course the crowd around u. There was this lady standing behind us and I intially thought that she was a Malay coz she had this scarf which she used as a head scarf... and she was q dark. Anyways she kept complaining about how the organisers couldnt let us go in and sit down first... and apparantly she q playing w her scarf and it kept "flicking" on Mangojo haha!! And @ ard 330 thereabouts, seeing how we were still not allowed into the hall, she actually went in to ask the organisers when they r letting us in!!! gosh!!! Reminds me of last year when I went to Star Awards w my colleague; there was this guy who kept on complaining about waiting n scolding the gf 4 dragging him here n how he was not goin 2 come next year; goin 2 leave half-way n blah... but we saw him @ e end of the awards haha! :P

True to the organisers' words, trickles of the crowd were let in @ 350pm. As they wanted to let the pp in in batches, the crowd was stopped from entering the hall about 6 pp in front of us, which resulted in the aunty in front of us commenting why pp we were stopped fr goin in!! Alamak... ugly singaporeans ah!!! Then when we were inside, somehow 2 queues fr formed before the entrance of the main hall and lady w pink scarf kept asking the hubby/bf “为什么有两条？我们可以排那边吗？”and she asked this a few times within the short 3 min we were there and got frantic when she saw pp joining that queue!!! And when we finally got into the main hall, she was rushing in front whilst Mangojo and I were happily strolling to e less crowded area n finding seats. PIANGZ!!! Bet she wld haf rushed RITE to e front :P

So much of complaints... really did enjoy the showcase presented by Fish. (although was a little pissed intially coz we were forced to move due to the messy planning of the organisers which resulted in having 2 tall men sitting in front of Sleepy n blocking her precious view... luckily the guy in front finally decided to slouch a bit yipee!!) She sounds as good as the CD and she seems warm and sincere, and u cld tell that she really enjoys to sing :) Q like the songs in her new album as well... muz rem 2 borrow the CD fr Dar's fren as well as 2 pester pp to make the ring tone for me hee hee. She's gona haf a concert next year... feel like goin heh... Shao Ye helped to duplicate her previous convert VCD 4 me & I thot it was rather gd... but muz see if the hole in my pocket can be sewed up first :P or anyone wana sponsor???

And had a really gd time w Mangojo... hafnt seen her since Deepavali & so was exchanging gossip and telling her about my latest encounter w CB. & I know we r gona meet up soon... to go shoppin when the sales r here or 2 go HelloKittyland rites??? :P

Twitch Twitch

The skin juz below sleepy's left eye has been twitching for the past couple of days. Not that it is uncomfy... but it juz feels strange having it twitch on and off the whole day :( I tried to massage/press my fingers to the area to "calm" it down but it still comes back after a while. 1 of my colleagues say it is due to lack of sleep whilst another says that i am goin to strike lottery/toto!!! But then... I don't even buy them!!! I have heard before that if your eyebrows twitch, it means that something bad is goin to happen but not the area under the eye leh... anyone has any probable suggestions??

Was on course on Thurs & Fri; good break from work and the course ended v early on both days so it was double plus points. Unlike in PA where we could choose which courses we wanted to go to; now we don't have any choice. We only have certain dates that we can go for courses and that in itself is planned by the manager. Which sucks coz I don't like going for courses where I don't know anyone. But luckily this course comprised mostly of young officers who joined within the last 2 years and some of them I knew so all in all it was q fun. Got to know new people as well so now I have more kakis when goin for courses/briefings :) Realised also that everyone is v disiplined (not like me!!) arrive for course on time; don't take too long for breaks; don't chat whilst the coordinator is talking and don't give silly answers... unlike the PA courses... heh heh... issit the culture of the organisation or the influence of friends?? :P

Conversation Tool

It is funny how some things can become a conversation starter. Like a piece of clothing, having the latest gadget hairstyle... blah blah blah... how about a $50 note??

Darling picked me up from tuition today coz lazeee me cldnt b bothered to go home and get the car (and anyways the tank was close to empty... AGAIN!!!) and as I havn't had dinner and he only ate a bit, decided to grab a bite @ the Circuit Road food centre next to MacPherson CC. We didnt have very much choices as there were mostly vegetarian stalls down there and we didn't exactly wana eat vegetarian. Anyways in the midst of my meal, passed Darling the old $50 note he wanted and he conveniently put it on the table as he didn't bring his wallet down. We were chatting away when I noticed the drinks stall uncle eyeing something on our table and I thought he was looking @ Darling's phone or something. Then he picked up his spectacles and walked even closer to our table..
Uncle: "那个是旧的50块啊？”
Dar: “是啊。。。”
Uncle:“哇！现在很难看到这种50块了hor。。。”
Dar: “A nor... (pointing to me) 她在银行做工，人家进钱给的。。。”
Uncle: “Orrhh... 难怪啦。。。”
Me: “Uncle, 你要吗？”
Uncle: “我跟你换50对50就ok。。。”(laughs)
Afterwhich we didnt answer coz uncle went to sit down liao. We continued to chat and then this cleaner lady came up to us with the same exclaimation and roughly the same story goes. But this lady is v cute, when she heard that I work in a bank, she actually asked me to keep a lookout for the $50 bird and ship series for her and left her contact number with me so that I can call her if I have it!!! And she insisted that she would treat me to coffee when I come and pass her the money heh heh. Now I am worried that I don't have enought of these to circulate around as Dar and his best fren also ask me to keep a lookout for them... *frets*

Btw, have any of u seen the orchid series before?? It is a wonder that some pp still have these notes!!! They muz be when I was just born coz I can only remember the bird and ship series...

New Trend??

issit a new trend?? couple of friends have decided to change blog sites recently (incidentally we were all users of the friendster blog hee). Being a super nice gal n an even super friend, sleepy has dutifully updated the links. Check out the links on the rite :))

Has also added a super dear friend of mine to my links... Yoz HW... how's Amsterdam??

Burnt!!

U all wouldn't believe what happened just now... sleepy & friend was having dessert @ Seasons Reasons (located @ the new Marketplace of City Hall) when "disaster" stroke! We we eating their signature dessert, cup in a cake; which is actually chocolate brownie with vanilla gelato and mocha chips (or @ least we think they r mocha chips...) and commenting that although it is Halloween, there doesn't seem to be many decorations @ the restaurants we have walked passed. So anyways, sleepy's friend was pointing out that there were actually 2 small little pumpkins on the table @ the entrance and sleepy was trying to lean forward to see it (being blocked by a pillar), oblivious to the fact that there was an unconvered container with a tealight in front of her. Suddenly, a "Szzzzzssszzzzz" sound could be heard and to her horror... her lovely tresses have been fried!!! Luckily only a little portion of the hair was burnt, resulting in a part of the hair becoming curvy wurvy, but the worst thing was that, there was such a horrid smell!!! How come fried hair smells soooooo bad??? Just what is our hair made of anyways?? Of course, the bill was paid immediately so that ms frantic sleepy can go home to wash her hair to get rid of the bad smell... it is still wet now... hope it will be ok tomorrow *crosses fingers*

Think I always have had this "fascination" with fire... oh I don't like to play with matches, but rather with tealights. Used to love to burn those aromatherapy stuff when I was in hostel and also @ home or those candles that gives off some scent when burnt. As the holders/tealights are usually circular in shape, when the candle wax has burnt off in the middle, there is actually still some wax left @ the circumference of the base, and not wanting to waste, I would "dig" up the wax & put them in a new tealight and so on and so forth. Sometimes the wax pieces can be quite big causing the tealight to overflow haha... but actually that is still q ok; sometimes the wick burns finish but there is still a LOT of candle wax left over... mois would then use the burnt candle stick to try to burn dwn the wax or something (cant remember what I was doing then) and sometimes the fire can get q big... causing like a mini bonfire of sorts!! I remember once I was in hostel, I was using a burner that was not covered. Somehow my tissue paper holder was placed pretty near the burner and somehow coz the fan was turning @ dat time, the tissue paper caught fire and burnt the plastic holder!!! Gosh... luckily I happened to see in time or else sleepy would now be paying through her teeth for 1 block HAHAHA!!!

Morale of the story: restaurants should NOT use such dangerous tea light holders! :P :P :P

Sleepy explains...

Sleepytoon has again received complaints about the colour of the font that she uses on her website... resulting in readers having to hilight the passage before being able to read the delightful content :P

The thing is, there aren't very nice dark colour fonts that moi can use... and being a vibrant person (heh heh) I do prefer to use different colours for each entry. And the soft pastel colours are soooo v much nicer... funny thing is it doesnt really strike me as unreadable whilst writing the entry, so I can only once again that old people doesnt have good eyesight :P But I kinda like this shade of blue, and I thnk it is dark enuff to be seen on a white background so I thnk I shall be using this colour more often :) Hope this satisfies the older readers heh heh. In retrospect, is there anyway that I can change the colour of the background to a darker colour??

And though I prefer using the small font size as it is cuter (like me!! :P) I have written this entry using the bigger font so that the older folks can read it and stop berating me on using pastel colour fonts hee. Maybe I can use the pastel colour fonts when I am saying bad things abt them... heh heh... *idea*

sleepy rests her case :)

Short Short Week

A happee little Sleepytoon was looking forward to this week as she only had to work 3 days this week... how's that?? :) :) :) It couldn't even dampen her spirits of having to do Cash on Tues heh heh. Wanted to take the following Mon off instead of tomorrow but it being the day before and after holidays, permission was NOT granted... but oh well... 3 days of work, 4 days of rest, 1 day of work, 1 day of rest then 3 days of work... not bad lah :P

Luckily had a relief officer @ branch on Mon and Tues which helped a lot as vouchers were checked on time and the tellers were "smart" enuff to ask him to do the overidding; both days got to leave branch before 530!! Today wasn't so bad either although I made this terrible mistake with my cheques but managed to solve the problem on time *whew* think I am rather butter-fingers these couple of days, keep dropping things and couldn't open the combination for the vault doors!!! Luckily my boss never scold me heh heh!!

Lookin forward to spending 2 whole days w Dar... well 1.5 lah since he gota drive boat on Fri... still apprehensive about him driving boat... just pray & hope for the best for him... Went w him to Gelare last nite for half-priced waffles... intially I was the one that wanted to eat but we kept postponing and last nite he had a craving for it. Funny thing is we headed for Parkway which we went to the previous time we wanted to eat; and was suddenly reminded that the old Gelare is now Don's Pie... what a BOO BOO!! In the end we went to the one @ Marine Cove which is pretty spacious... not like the other outlets I have been to and we managed to snag the cosy seats *smiles* Dar was reminiscing the very 1st time I brought him to eat Gelare; he claims he was never a big fan of such "fancy food" as he so terms, preferring normal hawker/foodcourt fare in the past and that I have been a bad influence to him! hee hee... hey... I also don't really like to eat v v v ex food ok... (coz to me; eat liao short while laters come out?? haha) juz dat don't really like to eat @ hawker/foodcourt so often coz it is hot & sometimes dirty... yep yep pampered am i...

Distraught!!

An extremely distraught Sleepytoon just plucked like more than a dozen white hair from her beautiful mane of hair!! ARRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!! Getting freaking old!!!! And they were all on 1 side of the hair... HOW COME??? Hairdressed have been telling me that I have more white hair on the right side of my hair than the left side but when I tried "looking" for them to pluck them out, i couldn't find them and then VOOOM!! They all appeared today!! Issit coz of the stress of the past week??

And Dar has gone off to KL with his friend and will only be back on Tues afternoon... sobz sobz!! M definitely not used to not having him ard :( Tues come soon quick!!

Hello to a new week

Boy am I glad the past week is finally over... it had been a rather bad week of sorts and I am juz real glad when it was Sat yesterday and Sunday today. :)

It was like nothing would go rite; on Monday, my colleague who is also the cash officer told me that her hubby might hafta go for an emergency eye op and thus might be taking the half day off... it turned out to be 2.5 days off which means I had to take over cash which I absolutely detest. Even my tellers were rather wary of me haha!! Then somehow, I managed to do everything wrongly... there was some case on Monday (which I can't remember) and then on Tuesday, I keyed in something wrongly which resulted in the main office calling and I had to call them back to and fro before the matter was finally was resolved!! And during that period, although it was my lunch time, the tellers still ask me to overide n help them solve their cases... like there's only 1 of me lors :P Then on Wed, after a big hoo ha about a Negative Balance case, I went to overide a transaction with Negative Balance as well!! *piangz* then it was a frantic rush of reversing the entry, trying to contact the person which took me like half an hour!! and @ the same time not letting my boss know about it!!! Gosh... luckily my alternate advised me and helped me to cover up. *whewz* On Thursday, my boss wanted to have a staff meeting and wanted me (coz I was assigned as "Service Champion" haha) to come up with something which would improve the service of staff and I was totally clueless!!! Thankfully, being a marketing student, I managed to smoke my way through haha. On top of that, had a quarrel with Dar (but we made up yipee!) so my mood was in the pits!! Was also very tired because of tuition as my kids were having their exams... thank god they have finished :)) And yesterday... the branch was to have a power shut-down so I had to stay back with my boss. The guy was late and though thankfully he didn't take very long, it took a while before the lines for the machines were brought up and so by the time I left the office, it was like 245!! I have never knocked off so late on Sat b4!!! so all in a all it was a pretty bad week for me...

But there were also little pieces of good news:
1) got a message fr a dear friend of mine... she somehow always seem to know when I am down and wld drop me a msg... thnx YP! And... i met up w 2 of my closest SC gfs littlebloom & huiwen. :)
2) my aircon's like FINALLY fixed!!! so bye bye to noisy nites :) :) :)
3) and yippee yayee... my boss has decided that we shd have alternate Sat off!!! although that would mean that we only have 1 wkday off a month, think it is so much beta!! *pleased*

Connected to the "Outside World

Yipee yayee!!! We have been recently been granted external email acess for out email accounts :)))) Still remembering feeling v "uneasy" when I first started working as my email had no external access and we can't access external websites either; oh well we still can't but at least I don't feel so "alienated" from the outside world, being able to only check mails when I am home and then waiting 1 whole day for the reply. Now I can answer in REAL time :)

Also had a yummylicious dinner @ Tao Restaurant w Stella & ZH juz now. The food was q unique and tasty... rather worth the price. As usual, we had a great time catching up, chit chatting and got me got pressies too! :) Thanks guys!!! And not to mention the karaoke session w the PA pp e other day, didn't really get to talk a lot, but yet in a way, having the company was somehow enough. If only wish we could all meet more often but more often than not, schedules don't meet and then we take it for granted that there's always another day to meet up. (yes, I am 1 of the guilty ones...) Or that there's always email, msn, and even now, blogging to keep ourselves updated on each other's life... but somehow feel that a face to face meet up is still the best coz it is difficult to anticipate's one's feelings over these channels... don't ya thnk?

Slow Morning

It's gota be 1 of the MOST boring Sat mornings in office for me today!! and almost every Sat, my boss would comment that our branch should be close which I totally agree!! Other than the fact that I can sleep in late and laze around in the house, there are hardly any people on Sat, safe the employees of the establishments in the building. Just wondering if the few transactions we did justify for our pay, the utility bill and all other expenses??
Actually it has been a really slow week... partly due to the IMF I guess; road closures making our branch somewhat inaccessible (yipee yayee) so almost everyday, we balance by 5 and can happily leave the office by 530... how's that??? (now u all can understand why I say I am sooo comfy in this job hee) This morning, when we came to work, we noticed that the surrounding side roads have all been closed off, and then sometime later, the portion of North Bridge Road just in front of my office was closed off too... No wonder there weren't many pp coming in!!! I was trying so hard to keep myself occupied the whole day and it was TOUGH!!! didnt wana spend the time reading process maps, yet didnt wana seem to free to my boss :P Tellers didnt have much transactions so there weren't many vouchers to check either... so went to pester them to close early and return money early so that can try to aim for record breaking time home haha!! And they were really sooo cooperative that I, as cash officer balanced before they did!!!! Only thing is 人算不如天算，1 of my tellers didn't balance so we could only leave @ 130. BAH!!!

Appraisal Time

*Gasp* gota pass up my appraisal by next Mon... has it been soooooooooo fast already??? Was just given the KPIs by my boss 2 days ago and gota hand it to her on Mon... thankfully, there weren't a lot of KPIs but i found it difficult to phrase my own appraisal. Truely miss the good old PA days where we just copied from each other or rather where 1 person did for the rest of us haha! :P Unlike in PA too, I don't think I will get an exceptionally good Evaluation coz there are already certain areas where we fall below the KPI and I am not a very conscientious worker either *sheepish look*

During this time, it always makes me wonder how effective are the yearly appraisals. To me, it is like a "for show" kinda thing, where you try to "promote" yourself; or rather don't make yourself to be a bad worker. Thing is that the KPIs are given to us at the same time of the appraisal (actually they are the same every year but still!!! I only just received mine!!) so how do we measure ourself and take note of the things we shd be looking out for??? To me, I also feel that upper management already has in mind who are the people they wish to promote, so why bother with this kinda self-promotion?? Although supervisors are supposed to meet with the staff after their appraisal, it has never been done in PA... but I heard UOB is different, they do talk to you about it. But then again I don't like these kinda stuff haha!! Heard that I would have to evaluate some of my counter staff too... definitely NOT looking forward to it...

Received the news after my block leave that the new branch @ Raffles City would be opening soon and my Cash Officer would be going over. SOBBIE SOBBIE!!! I really really like her... I thnk that she is THE nicest person in the branch; she doesn't raise her temper and is ever so helpful even if she is soooo v busy... which is what I can't say about some other pp heh heh. I have learnt a lot from her and chatting with her; like recently over SI haha. In the morning she never fails to greet with a cheerful Good Morning and end the day with a "See You..." Sometimes I feel guilty coz she has many things to do and when I try to help her (coz our duties overlap) to clear some, she will quickly wana take over and do herself instead. But I feel bad to just leave like that mah... I am sure gona miss her a lot... and hopefully the new cash officer that comes in will be just as nice. I always have this impression that all Cash Officers are motherly and nice coz the Cash Officer @ King George was also suuuuuper suuuuuper nice too!!! And I do hope there is a replacement coz if I am tasked to be the permanent Cash Officer... i will QUIT straight away!!

Almost...

Almost... Hit
Izzit me or other drivers... have been encountering some errant drivers on the road lately... first it was e silly lady in her beemer along Bukit Timah Road who simply cut lanes like she owns the road or something... AND she did it sooooooo slowly... the uncle in front of me buay tahan her n horned her. Then there was the uncle in his huge bus who wasn't looking where he was going and almost banged into me whilst doing a rite turn in a small little carpark. I horned so loudly @ him that it caught the attention of the residents who were going to do their marketing haha. So Mangojo, after u get ur license... pls don't follow their examples ok? :P

Almost... Fined
What a close shave... ystd Dar was giving his mum to Aljunied when we were stopped by a traffic police!! actually it was q funny coz we were @ this traffic junction when the traffic police pulled up next to us. I noticed that he was looking @ some papers and then @ the car plate of the car in front of us... but we were a bit worried as none of us had our seat belts on!!! Who would have known that the police then turned his head to face us and SAW that we had no seatbelts on... ALAMAK!!! so dao mei!!! He asked us to pull over the side and Dar was chided for the fact out of the 3 of us, no one had the seat belt on. His mum & I were like thnking... die liao... sure summon liao coz he look soooo stern wor... but after Dar told him to give him a chance... who would have expected that he said ok and waved us off!!! Thanks Mr Traffic Policeman!! Saved our money and demerit points! :)

Almost... Drenched
It has been so sunny and hot the past couple of days... & the sky chose to rain yesterday when I decided to run around town... GRRZ!!! It started to rain when I was having lunch w Kai Ye but as Kai Ye predicted, it was only a passing shower. However when I reached came out of the underpass @ Lucky Plaza, what a sight greeted me... it was raining cats & dogs!! Was q pissed coz i only needed to cross the road to get to Paragon but I didn't dare to run over in case the ever clumsy me fell dwn... what a sight that would have been!!! Luckily this indian lady agreed to shelter me over... heh heh... if not i will be cold, wet n pissed haha! :P

Almost... Over
Xians... my block leave is almost over... Guess it is like what DewDrop said... when u r happy.. time seem to fly past... 4 more days... but i am looking forward to the weekend *grinz*

Tech Savvy I am not... SOBZ!!!

Irritated I am coz I am such an idiot when it comes to tech pdts. Got my new phone and installed the programme but the file manager thngy DOESN'T WORK!!!! Haiz... :( the same thng happened with my Palm programme the other time; cldnt get it 2 synchronise properly... but after installing and uninstalling a couple of times... the silly programme (or the silly computer I dunno which!!) finally decided to work :) But even though I have uninstalled and installed the hp programme... it still doesnt work... FED UP!!

Wierdest thng is that, only the file manager doesn't work, the rest of the stuff work so I did manage to transfer songs to my phone which means that now my ipod shuffle and my Creative MP3 players has been rendered pretty useless hee and i did manage to send some pics to my phone... i used to send it 2 my palm then infra it to my phone... how dumb is dat rites?? but like i said... i m a totally tech unsavvy person heh!

Anyways was @ Dar's place the other day and decided to try out the camera on my phone. As both of us were not trigger ready that day... the job of being the model fell on 小猪头. The camera is almost like a digi cam... got a lot of functions...

Look a pic of 小猪头 using the "frames" function... taken in 3 seperate shots... I like this v much :)

N these were taking using the "Burst" function... it is like it will take 4 shots consecutively so Darling was like shaking 小猪头 whilst i took e pic hee. Actually got some more functions but models being models... 小猪头 started throwing a tantrum so we gota stop the photoshoot... well until next time then :)

Me got a New Phone :)

This post is in black in "tribute" to my new Sony Ericsson w810i phone which is kinda in matt black in colour... I like :)
Unlike the previous times when I knew I wanted the 6100 or the 6230 v v v badly, I was pretty clueless what phone to get this time round. Wanted to get either a swivel or a flip/slide phone but nothing seemed 2 catch my mind; thot the 6111 was sleek n cutsey when it came out late last year, but it has been out for so lg liao... novelty has worn off. The SonyEricsson w550i is kewl but then bro bear & tibetan nun has that phone (n both own the orange one!!). And then all the new nokia, being 3G n blah were all 2 bulky n thick for me. Added to that, I wasnt particularly too keen to buy another Sony coz of my horrendous experience w the T630 in the past. Ha... m I a confused kid or wat?? :P
So anyways, they were having some promo on the w810i n the 6111 (which incidentally would have been free since Dar was gona change plan...) so decided on the SE coz @ least it is a newer model, so when I trade in next time will have more value... HAHA! :PP
Actually the promo was on since last week but coz of Dar's emergency eye op, couldnt go dwn 2 buy... then when I finally decided to get my butt moving yesterday, I couldn't buy the phone n effect the mobile plan change on his behalf coz we didnt write his mobile number/account number on the letter. Being me... I duly gave the pp @ Starhub Call Centre a scolding. I m just wondering if they are even following up the matter... hmm...
But what goes ard comes ard coz this am i was chided by this tuition lady coz I went to tell this mum who wanted tuition some wrg information... :P


PS: Me just did this personality test fr a friend and I am a "Fruity-Fragrance Type":
You radiate independence and happiness, always immersed in fun-seeking activities, like an innocent child. You always manage to bring life into the party, thus you are indispensible to parties. Although you are cheerful, well-liked by most, others think that it is difficult to be good friends with you, because the impression that you give is one of a comedian. Some thinks that you like to make a fool of others and are dependent on others, so they are reluctant to be close to you. But, you are actually mature and firm. There are few that truly understands you, leaving you with few bosom buddies.

Some parts not v true leh...

Coincidence or Plain Unlucky?

A shocking sight awaited me when I went home this am; walked past Daddy's car and was wondering why the rear windscreen looked "frosted". Intially thought it was due to the early light rain but on closer inspection, to my horrer, the windscreen has cracked/shattered!!! which explains the frosted look!! Daddy came down to take a look and it was the cause of a this little piece of porcelain like thingy... poor Daddy had to rush the car to e workshop and thankfully they were able to rush the repairs by tonite as he needed to use the car.

This is the 2nd time since the car has been bought that such a thing has happened. First, there was this HUGE dent on the top of the car, when Daddy brought to the workshop, they said it was prolly coz a tree branch or something fell on it. But i seriously doubt it coz how come we were e only car that kena and it wld b q amazing that such a big thick branch could drop to create such a dent rites? N now this shattering of windscreen... Dar was commenting that since Daddy bought the car, we already have 2 such cases (not to mention Dad reveresed the car into something...) which is really q unluckly. But on the other hand, I m wonderin... it is too coincidental liao... was it a deliberate act...??