the world through my new ixus

i just bought my first digital camera, the canon ixus 70 (where style meets substance). :)

Went to one u yesterday, nothing much just your average trip to one u but now i have photos to post :)

Well, quin er, jit han, jianping and I met at one u at noon yesterday. We decided to watch a movie, but couldn't decide on which one to watch cos everyone has watched a movie that another one of us wants to watch. So we walked back and forth from TGV and GSC and the majority of us decided we wanted to watch a korean horror movie, To Sir with Love. Jianping initially refused to watch any sort of horror movie but in the end succumbed to our continuous pleading/taunting.

a reluctant jianping

So we took some regular photos:

from left: jithan quiner and jianping

me n my quinee

it's a bird it's plane

the brand new gym-going jianping in full glory

Well the movie turned out to be... not as bad as expected.

It's a story about a teacher(Ms.Park) - now old and wheelchair bound who is visited by ex-students who have now all grown up. Mi-ja, her most faithful ex-student lives with her and takes care of her. There was a class reunion at her countryside cottage and everyone seems happy to see her.

But then nothing (i mean nothing) in this movie is what it seems to be.

We later learn that the students are deeply disturbed and have issues that can be traced back to their schooling days. It seems that their teacher had unknowingly wronged them in little ways that has caused permanent scarring to their souls. It affected them so deeply that they subtly sttempted to kill Ms.Park.

At this point the story seems kinda absurd 'cos those so called traumatizing moments they had back in their schooling days were reaaally petty. Just 'cos she showed the class a very mushy drawing one of her students made for her and laughed at it, the grown up student tried to drown her in the bathtub... like com' on la.

But then the story builds up and we find out that Ms.Park is also very disturbed. She once gave birth to a deformed baby boy whom she kept locked away and raised in her basement. One by one the students die violent deaths and we think it's him but then its not cos actually his father killed him when he was a boy and then hanged himself.

So....actually Mi-ja was the sick one who poisoned all her ex-classmates and butchered them. 'Cos Ms.Park was horrible to her during her schooling days and her classmates laughed at her once in class 'cos she had her first period then and it released some sort of a stench.

But well overall the movie did the job I was terrified a few of the scenes and this horror flick actually had a storyline.

And we laughed so hard at one point cos we realised how much our ex-form teacher Cik Lum looked like the mad Ms.Park in the show. :p

So we went on to get something to eat and quin er left and eventually jithan and jianping left too.

And then I was walking towards the new wing and i bumped into Joshua and Stephen... again! I bumped into the both of them at the ikano not too long ago. fate.

So we moved on to McDs and decided to take a few photos to remember this fateful occassion by.

joshua: what a surprise

say 'tak nak'

semi-emo

me n stephen

decent, half-decent, barely decent

anyway.... those are about all I can upload on blogger.

To joshua and stephen: will send you guys rest of the photos on msn if i get to.

toodle-loo :)

trip

went to sunway with colleagues from my campaign (OCBC-GE i.e. LoCP = Lord of Credit Protection) the day after I resigned...

my first and last outing with them.

pictures will tell em all :)

Well we started out with something light... only mildly scary....

that's me in the blue shirt and fahana on my right who, in the end, got out of the ride before it started

And off we went...

And then we moved on to scarier rides and realised this would already be the sacriest you could find in sunway lagoon.

after the ride...
some of us didn't take it too well though, diana (on the right) threw up while on the ride... but luckily only when she was sitting up right on the ride... the brave fahana on the left, escorting her to the toilet.

We really shouldn't have had that roti canai breakfast right before that :S
fahana the undefeated top-sell of LoCP :) and my selling skills mentor haha. very generous with her tips on selling even to noobs like me







The LoCP family

1st row from left: me, diana, fahana, rain

2nd row from left: terence, vihn, daniel our reserve team leader RTL, valentino (his real name as shown per I.C. I swear), anne, anis, yan.

The LoCP family with Oni the TeamLeader (2nd row far left)

from left: Fahana, me, Daniel the RTL surveying the situation, and vihn

Merdeka adverstistement 2007. Bersatu maju.

From left: Siti, Ah Ling, and Minachi :D

Merdeka girls again: Ah ling, minachi and siti.

LoCP girls

Oni(our TL the one in black)

Classic Oni behaviour no.1:"Sayang......"

Classic Oni behaviour no.2:"COOOMEEELLLL..."

and then finally Oni treats us to KFC with some of the hard earned rm700 bonus last month that 7 of us helped her win haha...

foooooood....Classic Oni behavior no.3: "Mana sales akuu....O.T.sampai dapat!"

Oni the slave driverand they got me a going away gift!....how sweet.... Earrings!! bling bling EARRINGS...

me...sporting the new bling bling earringsand to wrap up the day... me n diana reanacting today's highlight event - throw up session.

back into unemployment

i quit my job!

i quit after 2 months ++ at teledirect and had 1 more month to go in my contract. i like my job and love my colleagues but i still quit. why? heh u might be asking the wrong question. anyway here's a flashback just for the record. my first job, definitely worth reminiscing.

my last day was 31st May 2007, a thursday.

i came to work early that day, as always, sat at the visitor's reception area, turned on my ipod and plopped open that thick max lucado book i read every morning. one last chapter left. Muttered a prayer under my breath. my last day but i still needed strength.

it was a very special day at work cos the big time clients were coming to look around and observe our calls yet again. Which is why we had to put on our best front...So at the briefing today instead of shouting 'Sales sales sales!' we went 'SHOWTIME SHOWTIME SHOWTIME!' which was kinda hillarious haha.

Well it went well and we were more *ahem* honest and careful with our words than usual during that day, not that we weren't honest and careful usually. Well, it was showtime afterall. We stood up for the entire time they were in the office (which i recall was quite long) and cheered and clapped when someone had closed a sale and even when there were no sales. The situation was in short, hillarious.

I found great joy in telling particularly difficult customers i'll be calling them back next week knowing that one of my colleagues would have to deal with them in my place next week. :)I definitely wasn't slacking though, i managed to get a decent 17 sales which is minimum required target for me, for my last day. In fact, I was so into my work that I forgot that I had an exit interview at the HR and I could've stopped work about nearly an hour ago!

So after the interview I came back for the last time to pick up my things, had one last look at the cruel white board that attached each of our names to the number of sales we had. On good days the white board boasted to the world about your day's achievements but on bad ones, the dreaded figures on the white board would drive Oni(our teamleader)crazy, and eventually she would drive us crazy with OT and a whole lot of pinching haha. I looked around the office and saw my beloved colleagues all abuzz busy trying to close last minute sales before 630pm hoping that it would be their lucky day - one without OT! The atmosphere was, still, out of this world... the only kind of office where the bosses are happy when it's noisy and worried when it's quiet.

And then I waved goodbye and left my teammates stopped a while to say goodbye to me and continued with their OT alas. :)

On the way out of the building it felt really different. Firstly because I'm actually walking out when the sky was still really bright haha and secondly because I was walking alone. I started to miss the times where my colleagues n I would walk to the LRT station together talking LOUDLY, exchanging stories and laughing incessantly about the interesting customers we each had during the day. There was our fair share of whining about OT and low sales and stuff and I must say those walks were very therapeutic. It's nice to have great ppl to talk to after a whole day of ppl trying to put down the phone and avoid us.

I waited at KLCC in the meantime, as my colleagues from another campaign were going to have sort of a farewell dinner with me. These colleagues are really special ones, they weren't even in my campaign but they were SUPER welcoming and helpful and friendly when I was just a loner/noob in teledirect. Westly, Tuan, Chloe, Farah showed up and we waited patiently outside of Chilis for nearly an hour before we got seats. :S But it was worth it I was so hungry I could eat a horse and the food was good (huge portions) we just stuffed ourselves. And we talked loudly again (esp Chloe the hyperactive) haha.

Later on they even surprised with me with a cake - and no ordinary cake it was Blueberry Cheesecake from secret recipe! :) The chilis waiter got it wrong tho cos he lit it up with candles and got the staff to sing the 'happy birthday' song to me.

IT'S NOT MY BIRTHDAY!

haha i blew the candles out and we tried to eat some cake but couldn't so I had nearly the whole cake to take home :) They were very kind also to keep asking how I was going to get home and kept telling me how to be careful through horrifying tales of their first hand experience with pervs and robbers on the streets of KL. We took some pictures to remember the occassion by and left at 10 plus!! and they still had work the next day!


I love my colleagues.


But we were gonna have an outing the day after so I had that to look forward to. :)

guy looove. sweet ;)

don't you just looove scrubs!

me in a flash

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