in the words of my housemate…

poopie!

went to manchester yesterday mainly to attend this tour agent job ‘open day’ thing…it turned out to be a bunch of (i wouldn’t go so far as to say crap)  RUBBISH! and to think i stayed up the night before just to get my resume rewritten and formatted…pui!

it was actually a weird pyramid selling thing~ major copy of what amway already does…that i don’t mind…but tardiness is a MAJORRRRRRRR pet peeve of mine…and THEY, the organisers, were LATE…not by 5 mins like the hotel staff told me the first time…so i went to get KK while they were still open…they were also not 15 mins late (like the staff told me again when i got back) but 50 minutes! 

THAT was crap…an entire hour of my life i will never get back…worse thing is…the weather outside was PERFECT! it was summer for hell’s sake…

and even with the additional hour, they could not set up their presentation right…ex-lawyer my poop! no powerpoint, everything was streamed from websites that because of their nature the computer kept going to sleep mode only every 5 mins…

instead, in that one hour we (a grand total of 4 people including myself in a room that could cater to 80 comfortably) waited, they had the balls to play out, tickling each other and chasing each other around the front of the room and entrance…

i couldn’t leave…not being one of a 4 people audience…so i waited to hear them out…you…come and show me a promotional video about the travel industry being big…ok, i know…i understand…but it was a bunch of poppycock! how is comparing the coffee industry to the travel industry representative of anything?! the former would of COURSE be smaller for fuck’s sake…now, if it were the F&B industry versus the travel industry, you’d have my attention, but WTH! the audience isn’t DUMB…

as if that wasn’t bad enough, they get their MOST EXPERIENCED EMPLOYEE to come and speak to us…HE had a grand total of 15 months with the company…i’m sorry? most-experienced? he made NO POINT….absolutely zilch…and he kept pointing to an imaginary presentation with slides and figures as he talked out “the figures” or “the numbers”…

alright…so WHERE in fuck’s sake are they?

you want me to BUY into your business, SHOW me the evidence…

it’s just a bunch of baseless crap…and even that doesn’t sufficiently describe it..

worse of all, they then wanted the four of us to SIGN UP and PAY UP FRONT to JOIN their pyramid selling scheme…some poor sods stayed behind but i bloody had enough and stormed out…

no…i’m paitient…i’m a complete newbie to the travel industry but…WTH was that?!

grrrrrrrr! getting me mad just thinking about it…

…

haix, still…it wasn’t a wasted day in manchester…got some donuts, went window shopping and had an amazing dinner before fend and charles returned to pick me up to go home…

the KK donuts…

Lai Wong Bao…fried custard buns you dip into condensed milk…DELICIOUS!

so the day wasn’t COMPLETELY wasted…got home, helped charles move with fend and jen…got home and hung out abit in the living room with everyone (kin, hany, simon, aik thong were there playing mahjong) lol…i love thai advertisements!

once again stayed up till 5 watching the magics beat the cavaliers (WOOHOO!) while jen dyed fend’s and kin’s hair…lol…supposed to be a light brown, but it was formulated for use on blonde/light coloured hair…so whatever highlights the boys had was darkened! ahahahaha!

so, kin’s now gone home~ hany and jeremy too~ mnnn, it’s that time of year again…

m(_ _)m

anyhoo, got some actual shopping done today at L1 with jen…(^_^)b we’ve been looking for straw hats…still haven’t settled on one that we like yet…(well, we have, but it’s £30! as opposed to the not to nice ones going for 6 quid) so, i think she’s going back to shop tomorrow before leaving for Greece…i’m just tired…mixed up the painting day~ (^-^); it’s thursday! not tomorrow xD 

ahya, better lar, i want to SHLEEP! it’s been too bright to nowadays so i’m just lethargic all day long now operating on less than 4-5 hours of sleep a day…

i.need.curtains!

 

TNT movers, Singsoc Style: The Big Move

well, it was for 3 other people though…not so much mine xD

anyhoo, most of the remaining singsoc members had met for lunch yesterday (the first)…it was my not-so-secret-yet-surprising birthday dim sum lunch at TaiPan…it was raining so much sia…so we called delta for cabs…

got there and for the first time, realised that there was a supermarket at the bottom of the restaurant…a chinese one that sells a slightly different variation of products…butttt similar at the same time…^-^;

went up to meet sonia who had been on time and was in a queue ^-^; (the rest of us were late)…omg, i almost died when i heard the current number was 210 and ours was 387…lol…thank the lords it wasn’t in sequence, because we were seated within 10~15mins?

picked up the dim sum from the waiters who were walking around with trolleys of it, and after dessert…they played the 3rd ‘happy birthday’ song that day and we smelled fire lar…O.o heart stop sia…and because it was the 3rd, i didn’t realise it was mine till ko zaw said, “and this time it’s yours”

wah laooooo…shock sia…lol…i think i mentally crawled under the table and hid there until the song finished playing…

belgium choco cheese cake!!!!! which they somehow sneaked from under my nose lar (someone was holding it rightttttttt in front of me the whole time when we had met up…) i swear i’m the most unobservant person in the world sia…

then, after lunch, we went down to the supermarket again in search of kaya…there’s kaya here! odd colouration (lol) but there is kaya!!! £2.20 a bottle, but still~ there’s kaya! lol, the aeroboy’s weekly pilgrimage when santo was still here…xD

then, uncle fendrick called! hahaha, we all miss him sia…called to check and remind us to move today…^-^;;; are we so forgetful?? hahaha…then, since jen was talking to him when the taxi came, my phone went with her, joanne and sonia…^-^; feels odd not to have my phone on me…T-T it’s been years and i still love it…

anyhoo, grabbed the cab back and began to help joanne with the back-breaking move…

oh.my.god

haha, recognise? (janice from friends lar)

back and forth and back and forth and back and forth…i swear i died…i came back, sat down for abit and barely had enough time to ask Manvela how her visit to thornby had been before both ko zaw and dunil suddenly came to move the “big shelf” xD it was hilarious to see their reactions when i showed them actual thing…a small, thin, can-be-carried-by-myself kinda shelf…xD jo has mistaken lar…lol, fendrick and gary had already dismantled and moved the humongous one…xD

so i threw in my violin and a couple of books to carry over…^-^; meanwhile, poor queems and arthur were struggled with joanne’s uber good quality shelf which was varnished to nicely to carry…lol..

ahyoz…

hahahaha…

anyhoo, got back, called vickie to wish her a MAJORRRRRRR HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (again sia, i missed another one =_= ) and got right back to work…

after joanne’s was done, we dug in to some of Gillian’s DELICIOUS Lemon Meringue Pie…*droolz* omg..heaven…

then, we left to help rekha move…after that was done, we waited around for jen to finish packing and headed over to move even more stuff!

fun sia…back breaking but fun…

when we were done, it was already 10ish…the sun was just about done setting, so we left for home to grab some cash and all before meeting up to grab a bite…felt a little bad since i was chatting to martin for abit and all of them waited at least 15minutes lar…T-T

sorryyyyyyyyyyyyy

quick chef was closed by that time, so we went to shiraz instead (just next door~~~) and the owner felt a little bad for turning us away, he gave us a bottle of Tango…damn nice lar!!! (he’s the owner of both quick chef and shiraz)

had dinner, then left to our future home to help joanne organise her room and free up boxes for queems to move this stuff…we were so braindead lar…jen and i had to do a “cupboard” enactment to help joanne visualise how her cupboards should be arranged ^.^;; lol…hilarious…

it was only 12.30ish when we were done, but we were sooooooo tired lar…i can’t find the words to describe how far gone we were…took the boxes, left to meet queems and rekha and helped him carry the empty boxes to his place…talked for awhile there again…

and when we left, lol…i managed to scare the hell out of both joanne and jen as we were leaving queem’s place…we all yelled so loud that he came running out of his room on the 2nd floor to check on us…thought i saw a shadow, but i most definitely heard a ‘tok!’ sound at the door when we were standing at the corridor…

bugger sia…

omg…it was such a long day, i just came back and slept like i never slept before…(until the sun was so bright i couldn’t get back to sleep)…till 8am…

muscle ache now…lol…and i feel like the events of yesterday took place over the course of 2 days…(THAT tired)

ahhhh…in comparison to yesterday, today was boring…lol, stayed home and read, watched a couple of movies and went out to get groceries…ahhhhh~~~~ (EDIT: ok, nvm…day ruined…=_=…nvm)

i’m gonna miss all of them over summer…but for now…i’ve gotta get ready for Finland…hee! (^-^)