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Sunday, October 24, 2004

YIPPEEE!~!~! Going to Kusu Island tmr. Need to get enuff rest. So shall rush thru' dis blog ASAP.

THIS morning, went to sch for some training workshop thingy. Da presenter was tokkin abt Social n' Dining Etiquette. It was an eYe-oPeNer for me as no. 1: I'm not a hospi student, no.2: I dun ever dine at fine western restaurants . Left Mr Tan's workshop, having learnt abt handshakes, mannerisms, introductions, how to use the various cutlery, n' last but not least, the wine ritual. A few keywords dere r " introduce small to BIG" "eat from outside-in". Other interesting jargons n' terms newly learnt included "somelier", "sorbet", "aperitifs", "neat", "on-the-rocks", etc.. I think dis workshop may be helpful to my future social life, but not-so applicable now.

WENT for a lunch break after da morning workshop. Was told to bring $5 for lunch, so thought that lunch would be catered, but turn up we had to go makan ourselves. Thus, lunch break was extended to 1330. Wanted to go opposite sch to eat, but walk halfway started to feel drizzle, derefore decided not to take da risk, so took bus to central. End up not eating anything for lunch, n' had to go back to continue da workshop with an empty stomache.

SECOND part of da training workshop was regarding Social Etiquette, Resume n' Interviewee Skills. Social Etq was quite a recap of wad Mr. Tan said in da morning. I was lyk ??? ??? in da resume section. Guess only da interview 101 portion managed to catch moi attention n' keep it.

BOARDED bus 23 to central again. Looked at moi watch. It's only 4 plus. Gosh!~ wAd a long way to 6pm. Hence, I drifted aimlessly in TM again. Went frm TM to CS, n' back to TM again. Hah, didn't take me long b4 I noticed that Susan was working in TM. She was helping out in a Ciba contact lense roadshow. I oso managed to meet a new guy in da roadshow, hu is none other than Kerson. Was formally introduced to him, after which he initiated small talks wif me. oMg!~ I felt so happy n' honoured, to actually be tokkin to da beau of TP. Found out tt he's ReAllY friendly n' approachable. Den, sometime ard 5 plus, SU president Alvin made his appearance at da roadshow n' said " Susan. I support u", in which he made new contact lenses on da spot. I thought that it would take only abt hald an hour at most. But, proved me wrong as dere's lots to be done when prescribing n' tryin on contacts. All in all, I was glad n' delighted that I went to TM, n' such marvellous things happened. I still think that knowing Kerson was da most incredible thing tt happened to me today.

WAS almost 6pm, after all da mingling wif sue, kerson n' alvin, so decided to goto BIG MAC to meet up wif cannonz n' peeps. Cannonz was da first to arrive at Mac. While waitin for cheryl, he ordered fries, den cheryl came. Had to wait for chee wee oso, so ordered fries again while waiting for chee wee. Da 4 of us took MRT to Aljunied, where we met up wif kai sheng n' took a short journey, to da tau huey house in geylang. We had you tiao, tau huey, dou jiang n' shao bing. We almost couldn't finish da you tiao sticks, cuz they came in such large servings.

WALKED to a place known as "wan dou sek (in cantonese)", which laterally means found food, to hav some dim sum. Benedict, n' eventually lingling joined us for a 7-p session. Funny though, as most of da dim sums contained prawns. Chee Wee kept askin us to order da King-sized siu mai n' ha gau, n' he finally got his wish when benedict arrived. ling ling joined us after she was done wif her church service. funny kai sheng, kept tellin us da ju cheong fun is kuey chap. da meal was filled wif fun, joy n' laughter, with corny jokes, n' sometimes I'll stun them wif moi own cold jokes.

JOURNEYED back to tau huey house again, cuz ling ling said she wanna ta pau tau huey n' you tiao. After which, da 7 of us divided ourselved into two separate cabs, destination Stadium Waterfront. Dere was a slight drizzle juz as we were sitting by da river admiring da sight, but little did it dampen our high spirits, as we tokked n' joked in da shelter. When da drizzle was not-so heavy, we went to da bridge n' looked at da xiao chuan n' dayung sampan. Dis was when an incident happened, whereby ben had one of his contact lenses drop into his eye socket. Da grp of us took some time b4 we finnaly convinced him tt he should take it out, lest it worsens n' he needs to go for surgery. I felt myself quite aloof when da rest were trying to help him take da lenses out, could be I was too tired bah. Furthermore, I knew nuts abt contacts, so I wasn't of much help either.

LEFT waterfront at ard 1040. Had to wait for a torturing 20 minutes b4 kai sheng, chee wee n' I got onto a cab. Finally, destination home n' end of story.

Once again, I learnt that we should EXPECT the UNEXPECTED.

truly deeply madly signin off

the ball bounced @ 10/24/2004 12:32:00 AM