What? It's only Tuesday?

It feels like a week! Since last Thursday workplace seems like a war. Our General (boss) is threaten by another state general (client) that if we don't hand over the bag in time they will bomb us ( if we don't give them their stocks on time, they want a refund).

Boss was crazy stress over this 3200 woven bags, and he was putting so much stress on everyone. I couldn't concentrate on designing, I was kept busy going back and forth calling and liasing with the China manufacturer.

Deadline is today, the China side told us the production was not suspended because they have yet to receive the funds.

This kinda of situation happen too often in my office. I learn that in this situation, the first thing Is to resolve it immediately, call the direct person and not pin point anyone.

Yesterday was pretty incredible day to think about it! A transaction that took 3days and yet not processed was processed within a day with another bank we found. That took us about an hour? By right, the goods is to be delivered to our office via DHL, but because the production period was delayed, my General decide to appoint one of us and collect the good personally from Hangzhou!

This is not a fun flight. This flight is a back to back 24hrs flight. My colleague caught a 4.15am flight to Guangzhou this morning, transfer to Hangzhou to collect the goods. Within the hour of collection he'll be catching the next plan that depart to Hongkong at 2pm, transfer to another flight which will take him back in Sg at around 10pm tonight. Finally, my General will pick them up from the airport and deliver the goods to our client 12pm tonight.

Awesome right? By the way, my colleague is a designer like me. He is actually doing a courier job beside his given job entitlement.

I could be the one going if I hadn't had so much orders to rush by this.

I really Thank God for this job. Despite it's downs, this job have provided me a real eye opener.

Olivia Tan

WORK WORK BAYBEEEEEE

Last week work was mojo jojo madness. Once i set foot in the office the time pass like a bullet train all the way to 7pm. I have pass the phase feeling reluctant having to work on a Saturday. Now, there is a new addition to my Saturday blues. I am not sure if August is an auspicious month to get married or my company's wedding invites is getting more popular, there is A LOT of walk in/ appointment that fill the whole day to the extend i HAVE TO OT ON A SATURDAY.  (---______---)

In this job, especially  those customers that came to place Wedding invites orders, i think they are the most pressurizing ones. I am solely in-charge of Invitations cards design, from wedding invites to corporate to personal. Anything that in regard to cards, the Orders are directed to me.

One thing that puzzle me a lot is, i have so many customers that came to make their wedding invitation cards 1 month before their wedding date. Like what the? i really cannot figure out how they planned and prepare for their wedding. Wedding is such an important thing, and invitation cards need to be send out at least a month ahead right? i just feel that because they fail to plan in result they not just put stress on themselves, they also implement unnecessary pressure to the people that is a providing a service for them too. which is selfish, and most of this "last minute" customers are the most hostile, unfriendly and demanding and most importantly, unappreciative bunch.

This is the down side in Service line i guess, you will always meet unappreciative/ demanding clients. Customers that like to abuse "because i'm the customer/ tax payer/ buyer/ payer, i got the customer's right". Singaporean, especially falls into this categories who often abuse "customers right". Sound like a lot of negative huh? Of course, there is Appreciative customers. Whenever i received a email from a customer that show appreciation of our effort or a sincere "thank you for your effort", it simply brighten up my day by 1000 mega watts.

Dear all, is not hard to say Thank you, being nice makes you prettier and handsome too. So why not right?

Test

Olivia Tan

I've Got A Job!

Yes! just the previous post, (which i posted on Thursday) i was feeling all negative because i thought the interview i went would be just like any other interview i went that keeps my hopes high only to leave me in dismay.

i was wrong! Yesterday, Friday, the person called me back to start work on Monday! BOOYA~~! I am happy of course! Now i will be attached to this Korea company, INUBOSS which specializes in wedding cards. I'll be one of the designers to work on those cards. :) but there is just one thing that i am not very happy about is the destination. it is all the way to BUKIT BATOK my friend. very far you know.

Here is a breakdown of the amount time require everyday:
Morning, work at 10am
2 hrs prepare + 2 hrs travel = 4 hrs earlier i need to wake up everyday before work.
which mean i need to wake up at 6am to get ready.

After Work, knock off at 7pm.
2 hrs travel home + 2 hrs wash up = 4 hrs to bed time.
which mean i'll sleep at 11pm.

Each day a person need 8 hrs of sleep.
according to this time chart, 11pm ~ 6am = 7 hrs of sleep each day.
so each day i have a shortchange of an hour sleep.

and, i got to go. abrupt end of post. bye.

Click Click, Send

the site i most frequent now a days are namely Jobstreet.com and Hotmail.com. hoping and wishfully waiting for a replied email.

i have been giving a lot of thoughts about my future lately, especially in the prospect of my career. I can't imagine doing something that is non- design related. i really can't tahan.

today, i went for another interview all the way to the West and again i was being fooled by the too polite interviewer to tell me "sorry, you are not hired" instead she gave me a smile and sound so promisingly that she will call me back to "confirmed" me. of course the call never come. she kept my hopes high, only to leave me in disappointment-again. i am getting used to this emotion lately. i can get over it.

i really need a head start. somewhere. an open door. an opportunity for me to proof myself i can do it.

i once came across this quote: 

 "Just do what you like and don't think too much about it, otherwise you'll 

   end up choosing another job!"

A Realist will probably tell me to wake up and live in the Now. the Now is, you can't go on searching for your desire job while your account continues to deplete without any source of income. The Now is i should find a temporary job to cover my expanses first while continue to search for my desire job.

while a Dreamer will tell me to stick to this quote because if you have a heart for it, you will succeed. with actions of course, not just dreams and words. "Never give up your dream." quoted from all the successor who make it there, because they press on to their dream.

i've came to a conclusion, i'll not give up my dream, i'll take the words from the Dreamer. however if in 1 month time i still don't get my desire post, i should listen to the words of the Realist. but never give up my dream.

Life's a bitch

i am glad that i've finally graduated. on the other hand i am not.

there is a period i struggle to further study or work.

now that i've decided to work,

i feel equally troubled.

people have been telling me, many grads

out there don't work in same line as what they studied.

life sucks right.

if all your life you have been studying something you dislike,

is valid that you end up in a job totally different from what you've studied.

what if you have studied something that of your interest and

you can't find a job of your interest?

Dissapointment.

i went for 2 interviews and i walked out knowingly that i won't get the job.

hate that feeling man.



What lay ahead lay ahead.

i am thinking to get odd jobs... like strolling some tai tai dogs or paid to clean some mansion with basic like $30 an hour. HA! just dreaming.

Same Issue.

Yesterday my mum told me this " i should get involve and helped out in the household chores and stop living in my own world." My mum got a point. i am living in my own world because i choose to abstain myself from my family matters.

Family matters- going round financial stuff AND taking care of nieces and their stuffs.

phew. i am not even their parents, but i have responsibility for them? that's is why i shut my door at home and thankfully i have my own rooms because i just want to soak up in my own world and do my own things. i will blast my music and drown all frustration and nonsense cries.

is frustrating to me because firstly i am not their parents and i have to take of them, secondly when they cry even i have my door closed i am not that hard hearted and let them go on crying without going out to check on them if they are alright. Thirdly, household chores. My house is like a obstacle course and when it comes to cleaning, i just want to retreat into my room!

my family now is about raising my Sister's kid, getting them feed, clean, school and get to bed on time. All these are the agendas for the everyday life. it take up the whole entire day and it will keep going on in circles This-Is-The-Life-For-Raising-Kids. No Life. Mundane life especially when they are not your kids and you don't have to pledge any commitments to them. You get what i mean?

LOVE

i am feeling good because i finish 1 typography out of 4, and i am happy with my end product. :) though it look nothing like how i sketch, but it does came out like the way i wanted.

sketching it out on paper....

scan it to my computer and do the magic....

How to kill BLUES

I read from somewhere, some time ago on

HOW TO KILL BLUES!

i can't remember the entire list but i do remember a few that i agree with,

tested and proven today and on past occasions.

#1 Sing~!

i sang till my vocal went hoarse. i was singing loud to vent my faustration. okay so i wasn't singing

but it helps to release whatever that i feel moody inside.

i wanted to practice on my guitar but my guitar is badly out of tune and it affected me

so SCREW IT.

#2 Dance dance

yea i just dance in my room, spin twist turn like a Bayblad in my room accordingly to the music

i love. hint* blast yall music!

#3 Look at things that bring back happy memories

i didn't do that today though.

but it believe it helps ;)

 #4 Paint your nails with happy colours!

i was feeling angst when i did my nails.

 i had a base of red, then i decide that

red is the not the colour. i layered another purple coat on top!

purple it is, i was kinda happy after.

if you notice the 3rd finger from the left is not purple is cos,

while i was waiting for the red coat to dry i was trying to lead my life like

usual. like fetching myself a glass of water WITH GREAT CAREFULNESS.

that nail is an evidence that my Carefulness is not enough. 

i didn't bother to  remove it so i moved on with the rest of my nails and coated the rest purple.

End result, i got ugly nails.

whahahhahaa

#5 Cam whore!!!

this method i think is the most effective one to kill blues.

i made so many silly faces and had a good laugh at myself.

#6 Repeat "Live Love Laugh!" proclaiming it and beliving it.

Bittersweet.

Cleared my room and make space enough for me to do cartwheel in my room! booya~

Graduation till now i am idle practically daily except for weekends. My weekend deployment is not longer at Mustafa, boy. i feel happy and reluctant at the same time. Not that i have any good memories left there, rather the liberty i once had. i can go for 2 hours break and take multiple breaks yet still able to hit my daily target.

i wanna move on from my current PT job, i have been saying this since last year November? my basic pay is not bad, but the company is getting real stingy now. they have been cutting back our pay and change our commission scheme that seems so hard to reach. where can you get a basic $8/ hourly and still relatively slack job and most importantly near your house?

Living your dream

Living my dreams is too hard. i need a source of motivation to keep me alive.

i was filling up the application to NAFA and what they offer is really exciting because it includes a 7 week exchange study in UK. i never been too far away from Singapore before so this seems really exciting to me. first, the question is- can i make it through the interview? What If qns next- what if i didn't make it, what is my plan B?

recently i worked for a Property agent events for 2 days and i got to know a little more about how a property agent actually earn. all i can say is the commission they earn from 1 house sold is equivalent to about 4 times my basic pay a fresh Graduate like me would get. attractive? especially at the thought of financial freedom.

i am going to give it a shot and believe in this word FAITH. till then, pray for me. thank you.

2011

hello, it was a nice countdown into 2011 with mella and some of my poly mates at Marina The Floating Platform for countdown. the fireworks was awesome. Haven't been active in blogging because FYP and my Portfolio was getting the better of me, AND my nieces. yes, they are keeping me pretty occupied too.

Chevelle the oldest make the most noise! SHARP high noise that pierce your ears and make your head spin. now the 2nd child Verlize too, keep crying non stop. phew~

2011 i am turning 21 this year! 

"2011, i need to put myself together and get organised. i have been a scattered brain for toooooooo long."

now now, i am not going Thailand anytime now. what shall i do with the money i saved? Flea it all~? nah. Get a DSLR? i used to think i Need a DSLR. i realised now i am too lazy to the extend to take photo with my compact digital cam! talking about taking photo with DSLR..? my DSLR will probably sit on the shelve and collect dust. okay i know, DSLR is under my WANT list. ;)

items that fall under my NEED list:
1. More rings
2. MORE skirts
3. More dresses
4. Bras! (seriously need)
5. i need more colours in my wardrobe!
6. new heels! ( i feel guilty saying this, i don't know why either!)

one thing about flea is that it is hard to find colours! fact. i am talking about colours other then black, white, grey and dark blue. my last flea 80% of my buys is black. i look at the heap of my new wash laundry, black is all i see. i got too many black in my wardrobe! I NEED COLOURSSSSSS.

yesterday just celebrated my elder sister birthday, missed the seafood dinner because i was got to do the SMP (shot media production) shoots.  i didn't miss the whole celebration entirely,  i manage to catch the Cake cutting session. hee.

Game addict

I was reading the November Reader Digest issue - The Lost Boy. apparently China was trying to dealt with the increasing numbers of game addicts arising among the youngster and they establish a school by the name of Qihang Salvation Training Camp, which claimed to dealt with game addicts - of course.

This is a short summary of the story:

Deng senshan, lets call it DS in short was sent to this school by his parent who felt that he had become a game addict. DS was made to run around the basketball court in the night when everyone else is sleeping. after 30 laps of running he collapsed on the floor, instead of giving him a break, the counsellor dragged him to a nearby flagpole and hit him with a wooden chair leg which broke. DS continue to run but about halfway through the court he collapsed again. this time round the counsellor took a plastic stool and swung down on the boy. DS was bleeding from this mouth, ears, eyes, and nose. he was only send to the hospital after hourS of being left in his bunk. 14 hours after arriving at the camp, he was pronounced dead.

Some other horror stories about the game addicts in China:

1. a boy butchered his father after a disagreement of internet usage
2. 2 kids passed on a railroad track after 2 days of online gaming
3. after a 36hr session of War Crafts a boy leaped off his 24th storey building, in hope to "join the heroes of the game"

The 3rd pointer is the most "digusting" one. i don't know what word to use actually to express how i feel. OMG? unbelivable? dumb? you know what? China is infamous for its IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE. still, stories like this make me feel disgusted on how inhuman  and brutal they can be.

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Came home today to find a envelope on my table from the Ministry of Health. Nope, the hospital couldn't have register my gender wrong and send me a letter for a check up for NS enlistment right? Nope they did not. is a letter they put it to Congratulate me turning 21 soon and ask me to pledge as a organ donors after death. however, i see it as a reminder that i am turning into a age of Responsibility, a age of taking charge, reminding me that i am graduating and out to work soon and i am only approximately 4 months away to the working world, to my ideal career, to......

Scary shit.

Thinking about the future is so scary. lets just take one step at a time, Portfolio first, FYP next and we will see what lays ahead after. lets not let the future "scare the shit outta me" yet.

It have been awhile

i am in my final phase of poly now, *SCREAM* "FINALLY!!!!"

school have gone more strict and iron out a new rule to punish the late bill payers, like *ahem* me. forever me, the most cruel punishment they can implement on us -student, is to block our freaking LEO which give us no access to our daily grades and CHECKING OF OUR NEW CLASS. this is the reason why i missed school on the first day of school and this year, another new rule implemented- we are only given 4 gracious precious days for non valid reason to skip school. once we skip more than that, Expel.

damn good, i just use up one of my precious 4 days skip- school- pass. involuntarily


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God bless us with many people around us so we won't feel lonely. i Thank God for all of the individual that have been bless in my life, friends that i have met and a friendship have forged. be it here, there, everywhere.

Mustafa to any normal Singaporean won't be a place that will cross your mind to find a 'friend'. interestingly, God choose to put me there and i made some friendship with our non native that came here to find their gold pot. adapting to their cultural habitual and a whole new working environment, i think i am doing fine so far. :)

i am thankful for the China girl that help me out a lot when i am not around, i communicate with her the most is most probably because we share the same race. i am thankful for all the other mustafa staff who helped me out a lot too. most of the senior staff there are pretty much a 'joker'. they always came round my counter and crank some jokes, sometimes i might i miss the joke but i will just laugh along. oh well, they make the time i had in mustafa pass more jovially.

friends that i made in school are the ones that make up the memories i had in RP. very important. friends are very important to me. isn't friends the greatest gift God have bless us?

Circumstances

can't help it but to feel a little poor thing for my niece as i watched her teared and keep calling " i want daddy mummy" in my mothers' arm when my sister and brother-in-law depart.

dinner time for my niece is always a torturous thing for her and the feeder (basically my mum, younger sis & i). she don't like to eat, she will whine and throw tantrum and usually she can take up to 3hours to finish her food. however when her father is around to feed her, she eat so willingly almost unbelievable.

i am not a mother yet, but i am one of the sub care taker of my niece. i can almost feel how it is like being in the motherhood, taking care and raising up a child. ptffffff. first thing, patient is really a NEED. at times their nonsense cry is so bad that make my head split. since i am only a Sub care taker i don't hold most of her responsibility. whenever she make a din and drive me headache i'll hid in my room, shut my door and blast music.

MUAHAHHAHAAHAH. can't blame me, i am selfish like that.


 i need my own 'escape'. in a generic way.



school is starting and yes, a new term. at this point i don't wish to continue onward, because school is basically....... yaaa

the end
bye.
abrupt end.

Butter Strawberry Honeydew

party at butter factory for the first time yesterday. i let loose and drink over the amount the i have limited myself because of DIET. oh well, i told myself since i'm already there and i need to get 'high' to enjoy so i tar cup after cup. so much of sustaining my diet plan, one night in the club i lose it all.

i had fun, butter factory is fun :)

oh the platforms that i order from Gelliz i have collected it today. i am quite disappointed with the pair Rayne that i ordered because the front is too tight that my feet is squashed inside and it hurts when i walk. :(

this is the one. i took size 39 but i think it will fit in just nice for size 38. my feet are too broad.. anybody interested in buying?????? you can drop me a msg or something.

K-POP 2NE1

i am hook on 2NE1 on youtube. their undeniable funky outfit and dance move on top of that i am more interested on how did the ones with monolid did their eye make up and make it so nice!

boy, i know i have painting my entire lid black for ages so did they! just that they do it in a better and nicer way and they wear it with so much confidence. in the past i condemn my monolid so much to the extent i cross my heart i'll get a plastic surgery in the future when i have the bucks. now thanks to them (they give me hope), i will try to learn the monolid make up and also learn to appreciate my monolid.

after so many years....i know right!

blame the industry that promote so much about double eye lid- big eye beauty can't blame me for falling into the advertising world. it had been a stereotype in the advertising world isn't it? now i guess the beauty world is searching for something new or maybe got inspired but the korean, because i see more advertisement with monolid models now a days. awesome sweet! :)

yea-yea yea-yea yea-yea 2-N-E-1~

Because

I feel like typing on the keyboard, i shall generate some nonsense here. 

i was link hopping on youtube, and found this artist

Jessie James.

her songs is nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-35GWbTjus&feature=channel

click on the link to listen to her songs

oh and i think Jolin tsai latest song sound really awful.

her voice just sound irritating to me.

listen to Jessie James on youtube.

VEHHHHHH NICEEEE.

My Sister keeper

yea i know everyone have watched or read the novel 10 millions years ahead, here i am just climbing out my cave trying to catch up with the movie world. sorry, i haven't even watch AVATAR the last most epic movie not-to-be-miss. sadly, i did. the lastest movie i caught was Resident Evil. amazingly i laugh when the zombies got shot. in my mind i pity the zombies, i imagine the zombies are the 'rejects' that failed to get the lead role during casting and got the zombies role instead. but they still gladly receive the role because they still get the 1 minute of fame on the big screen before being shot down. woohoo~

tears just keep welling up my eye. not now, i mean when i was watching the movie. sigh~~~ what a story.

i was reading the book and i thought i had the movie in my hard disk. bam, so i watched it. now what? complete reading the book of course.

ahhhhh~~~ story like this create an instant emotion, impact... not really, because tomorrow i'll probably forget everything until i read the pages again and get reminded of the scenes. ahhhh~~~~ damn good, i mean the movie.



my Saturday and Sunday is now fixed, Mustafa work work work and home. every weekend travelling there i'll always feel a little out of Singapore from the time i alighted from train all the way walking towards Mustafa. i will be surrounded by a large population of not my race, features that is so sharp big eye and dark skin. Little India seem like a tourist attraction place (have it been so all the while? i didn't know) because i'll always see Caucasian among the flock. come to think of it, Little India should be one of the tourist attraction place because it is part of Singapore multi racial identity. like Chinatown.

i think i just sounded dumb. i am a Singaporean alright. it just that i never view Little India as a place of attraction to me.



new words i learn today:
Oxymoron (oxy-mo-ron)
 - expression with contradictory words: a phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect, for example, “wise fool” or “legal murder”

Emancipation  (e-man-ci-pay-tion)

 1. act of freeing: the act or process of setting somebody free or of freeing somebody from restrictions
 2. being freed: the condition or fact of being set free or freed from some restriction






these words, i doubt i'll ever use it but it is good to know.

did i ever share that there this guy that i dislike from my work place? there is this Sumsung promoter whom i really get irritated when he talk. is the way he talk and the things he say, is REALLY IRRITATING. hmmm, i think this is a bias opinion of him from me. in the past his counter was so far from mine ( i really thank God for that) that he can't possibly keep walking over to talk crap to me cos then it will be obvious that he is not working. but now the bloody Mustafa made changes to the arrangement of the counters and move his station right beside mine. i sulk the whole day at work. i refuse to talk or look in his way and avoid all means to start a conversation with him.

is obvious that i don't like him. he ask me "eh why you so quiet today?" i just go "em." in my heart, is because your counter is right beside me now and i feel choke. shit. this will be the setting for the rest of my days in Mustafa. i hate it.

yesterday i already know that the Sumsung counter have move right beside mine cos the China phone promoter sms me. so today i went prepared with a book and another phone (for surfing net) to keep myself occupied. my plan went on well. when i get bored reading, i surf the net with the phone. when i get bored playing with the phone i bury myself in the novel and when i get bored with both, i serve the come-look-don't buy-ask alot of questions customers.

i am not motivated to push sales now because i don't get commission, so what's the point? there is rumor that our pay will change. it says next month onward there will be a certain target for everyone to hit daily. if we hit the daily target we get paid at $8.50 per hour if not, we are only getting paid at $6.50 per hour. ridiculous much, if this rumor is true- i'll quit. i'll jump to Sony erricssion or Motorola or HTC or Blackberry. Lg is so 'niao pok.'