443: Our new furry friend!

We have a new friend! Auntie Alice found her yesterday at our shop's backyard. I assume it's a female because when I lifted it's tail I couldn't see any "thing" down there. She must have lost her mother during the heavy rain yesterday. She's a little baby squirrel and she's freaking adorable! I'm in love all over again. We fed her some food and gave her some water and left her in the rat's trap last night before we left. Because we didn't have any place else to keep her.

Someone let her go this morning. I understand we have to do that because squirrels are wild animals and shouldn't be kept as domestic pets. So they let her go. But in the evening, she came back! She must have been unable to find her mother or family and was starving from running about the whole day, and came back to us because we gave her food. The poor thing. Once again, we gave her some food and water. We absolutely HAD to take photos. And I put her inside the Merlion Light Up Pen box and put the box inside my stupid Venus Fly Trap Project (don't ask about that, everyone at work knows that it's a huge failure).

I hope that she'll be warm and snuggly and full of love when I arrive at work tomorrow. She's something new to look forward to. I've decided to name her 小毛. Nobody's keen on that name. I have no idea why.

PHOTOS! :)

☺

423: Update

Forgot to blog about something reeeally exciting yesterday. Omg I can't believe I forgot about that, that was the climax of the day.

Okay, so the most exciting event of the day was..... The BF and I went to POSB and opened a joint account! I know, we've been talking about it for a couple of months, but we finally did it. It made us feel like husband and wife! We feel married now. :)


OH MY GAWWWD! I'M SO EXCITED NOW I FEEL LIKE JUMPING OUT OF MY CHAIR AND RUN AROUND IN CIRCLES!!!!!

Calm down. Calm down.

On a more futuristic and realistic note, we'd sort of came to an agreement that we are going to get married next year.

OH MY GAWWWWD!!!! NOW I'M OUT OF MY CHAIR AND RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Calm down. Calm down.

Okay. Enough about that. Today I received my full timer name tag. I kept showing it off to everybody. But they only gave me the "Okay, that's enough" look. I've been wearing the old one for a year and a half now, I think I've got the most rotten-looking name tag of all the staff in the zoo.


Doesn't it look neat?

And while I'm showing off my brand new name tag, my ma is showing off the pot of 8 chrysanthemums that she got at the market for only $5.

414: I'm alright. Just feeling a little sore

Sore as in my body's feeling sore. Not sore from that thing that happened between me and her.

Fucking hell. After the jab yesterday I was thinking why my body was feeling so tired and aching. Actually it was the after effects of the flu jab. And then the doctor and the nurses didn't tell me that I'm not supposed to eat seafood after the jab, for a few days. I ate some prawns and a piece of sotong fillet this afternoon, and I ate 3 sotong balls from Old Chang Kee yesterday after the jab.

And Elaine said the flu jab makes your body heaty. Immediately after she said that, my throat started to hurt. And I was wondering this morning why my left ear hurts. It's the heatiness. And the gums at the back of my mouth are swollen.

The injection area is kind of swollen now. When I press on it it feels as if there's a blue black there. But there's nothing except for a little bit of swelling. And it freaking hurts. And it feels kind of warm.

I'm feeling better today, everyone. Thanks for your concern. Although however evil my mouth (or my fingers, or my mind) can be, I'm not one who bear grudges. I just need a good night's sleep and all the anger (and whatever emotions) will be swept from my mind. I'm an easy-going person. BUT DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY.

I talked to her today. Don't say I didn't try. But of course I have to talk to her, I work with her. So yes, we talked regarding work stuff. ONLY.

The BF is back. Tee hee. He's starting work on Monday. Whee heee. :)

You know, I never thought that I would bring work home, in this retail service line, but yes, I brought work home. It's that dumb stock-take, damn it. I swear that one of these days stock-takes will haunt me in my dreams. It's inescapable.

I'm having a headache now, from staring at the stock-take list too long.

And I'm still having no appetite.

OH WHERE, OH WHERE HAS MY HEARTY APPETITE GONE TO.........?

I am totally freaking myself out. I'm going to go do research on any diseases which symptoms include loss of appetite.

411: Went for medical check-up

Went for medical check-up this morning. It was one of the troublesome procedures you have to go through before being a full-timer. It was a piece of cake. The flu jab didn't hurt. And the X-Ray was alright, although it was my first time taking an X-Ray.

Something weird is happening to my body. I don't have much appetite lately. I noticed this drastic change in me 2 days ago, when I only ate a small bun for breakfast and it could last me all the way into the afternoon without me feeling hungry at all. These few days it's been like this. Today I didn't eat anything at all until 2.30pm. I wasn't hungry at all. I'm wondering what's causing this loss of appetite in me.

Weird.

Might be work-related stress.

410: Work

Today's stock-taking was alright. My tiredness eased a little after a can of Nescafe coffee. It's amazing what coffee can do. We finished at about 4.30pm, and I thought we were right on schedule, but I realized that we were quite slow actually.

And then I almost quarreled with her again, because of trivial matters, yet again. I came to work in the morning, then Janis called and said that that person will come in late, at 12pm. I was already a little pissed, because she didn't say anything about her claiming some hours. But she already knew that it was the apparel stock take today, so she should have printed another copy of the apparels stock take list for me. But not surprisingly, she didn't. So I had to squeeze in the figures into the stock take list for last week. After adding in the new figures, the stock take list is quite in a mess. As usual, she said she would come in at 12pm, but she came at 2pm. She came and check on us, and she told us she would print another list for us, and also ask Linda Tan to freeze the system.

So after we finished the stock take, I asked her whether she asked Linda to freeze the system and whether has she printed the new stock take list already, she told me to wait, while she finish up her things. But the things she do are not so important stuff. Stock-taking is very important right? And some more this stock take we have to submit to Linda. Then she bo chap me while I have my tea break, and she proceeded to do her "more important things". I asked her 2 more times when she finally printed out the list for me. To my annoyance, the list doesn't go according to IPN, so it would definitely give me hell if I were to record it with that list, and I only had about 1 hour 15 mins left. I was super pissed then, and asked her whether can the list be extracted out according to IPN, which I clearly knew it could be done. How would I know that she got angry then? I only wanted to let her know that she is making my work difficult that way. But I can bear with it, it would only take me a very long time to complete the list. And she's so bloody impatient, so what the fuck am I to do?

I'm still new. I just converted to full time. This is my first time doing stock take as a full timer. I need a little guidance, is it wrong to ask you questions once in a while? Maybe sometimes I screw things up accidentally, but I'm willing to learn. Stop giving me that irritated face when I ask you questions.

So I asked her whether can the list be extracted out according to IPN, she said something like, "Why not you try extracting it out?" I tried to explain but she went on and on so I was like almost going to explode so I didn't answer her and instead walked out the door. Previously I asked her again if she had asked Linda to freeze the system and she said yes. But couldn't have she told me the moment Linda freezed the system, so I could go out and ask the cashiers to stop cutting the tags of the tee shirts?

So I didn't answer her and went out the door, and went to collect the tags that they have cut, and to ask them to stop cutting the tags. When I came back into the office she looked pissed as hell, which made me even more fucking angry. I swear my blood was boiling in my veins. I mean, come on, it's only a few clicks away to making my job easier, would it cost your life? And when you said "Why not you try extracting it out?", I almost wanted to laugh and extract it out myself, it's so simple, damn it. Back when Auntie Su was still in charge of tee shirt, would you have treated Auntie Su this way? You would have extracted everything out nicely for her.

I understand that she is busy, she has important things to do. But she is selfish in a way that she thinks only she herself is busy, and everyone else is not as busy. But come on, I've been stuck on shop floor the past one week doing stock take. Am I very free? And that day I was complaining to myself that my body aches (which is still aching), she happened to hear it but mistook that I was having headache, she asked me, "You having headache, then what about me?"

WHO THE FUCK CARES!
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!

And please, your workload is only starting to get a little heavy, and you complain so much. After you came back from JBP all you did was slack. And I was so stupid as to slack with you also. I regretted it okay. I never want to be friendly with a person like you.

She has to know that the world doesn't revolve around her. She has to know that if she treats people better, people would treat her better. She doesn't respect people at all.

I just measured my blood pressure. Luckily it went down. I won't spoil my health because of her.

I remember I had a misunderstanding with Najib and we sort of didn't get along, but we gave in and we get along better now. But with her, I won't give in. One of these days I really will explode. I knew that with my temper, one day I would meet someone whom I won't get along with, I never thought it would be so soon.

People say forgive and forget. But I'm a person who forgives but never forgets.

409: Work

These days, going to work is like going into a battlefield everyday. The war we fight is the stock take war, and the injuries we get is the tiredness rooted deep in our bones. That's how I feel, for me. Luckily tomorrow is the main stock take, and after tomorrow there will be no more wars to fight, for the time being.

Sadly, I'll be assigned to be in charge of the glow cave from next month onwards. I've been at the apparels section for about 1 year now. But I'll treat this as a new learning experience and also a fresh start. But anyway, I've been working there long enough to know that nothing can beat me. :)

403: It's about work

Today was terrible.

I'm tired.

Of everything.

Of false promises.

Of irresponsibility.

:(

399: First day of work at Rainforest & my first puff

Went to work at the Kidz World's new shop, Rainforest, yesterday. It's a colourful world! I was like, okay, this place is very nice, but I just realized the shop looks great in photos! It's so colourful I feel like I'm being bombarded by colours when I look at these photos!

So anyway, our retail manager came in the morning and told me and Han that our target that day is $500 each. I'm like, whatever. But of course I didn't give her a guai lan face. But surprisingly, we managed to hit our target. Then the manager called up and told me the boss is very happy with the sales and we can get to eat free ice cream! So when we closed the shopped I ran over to Ben & Jerry's and got me and Han a scoop each. :)

Then after work I waited at the main shop for Jeremy cos he wanted to have dinner. Called up Orlina and Ah Kiam too, but they would meet us only at 10pm. So Jeremy and I went to have dinner at McDonald's at Lot 1. This boy talks a lot, I swear. Then we went to 7-11 and he got some sweets, afterwards he told me he's craving for some cigarettes, so he went and bought a pack. Then Orlina and Ah Kiam arrived and we sat down to chat. And then I was curious about the feeling of smoking. Afterall, Najib has been "encouraging" me. Haha. So when Jeremy was having his 3rd or 4th stick, I asked him for a puff. I was nervous as hell. I took a tiny puff. Not too much, just a little bit. And to my surprise it tasted pretty good. Viceroy Menthol leaves a minty aftertaste in your mouth. Not bad. But of course I wouldn't pick up smoking, the BF would chuck me.

I LOVE THIS GROUP OF FRIENDS!

383: At the end of the day

Felt kind of important at work today. Linda Tan, our retail director, is calling us up practically everyday to ask us to transfer stock to the kiosk at T3. I only did a day of transfers for her on Friday and guess what she said when she called this afternoon, and I picked up the phone? She told me she wants me to be in charge of the T3 transfers, which means that I must pack everything up, change the price tags to prices without GST, fill in the internal transfer forms, and now my additional job is to consolidate all the transfers, day by day, into an Excel sheet. Which meant that I spent 2 hours in the office sitting in front of the computer, typing. While everyone else is on the shop floor working their asses off. Although I get to relax and sit down, but somehow I feel a little stressed, with the additional responsibility. Najib even gave me a clear folder to put in the transfers, for my own reference. He called me the acting supervisor/assistant supervisor.

But at the end of the day, I'm still a part timer earning $6 an hour.

382: Ethan Boy was here!

It's been about 2 months since I last saw him. His parents brought him over in the afternoon, stayed for about 45 minutes only, the family had a date with their friends.

It was weird, after not seeing Ethan for such a long time. He's grown taller, his hair's fuller, he runs faster, and can speak some words like "No more", "Please", "Daddy", "Mummy", "Barney", and "Bye bye".

He was shy at first, he didn't dare come into our house when they reached our doorstep. He only came in when his mother called to him. His father said he has to warm up first. After a while, after he warmed up, he played with us and danced when his father played the Barney song on his handphone. When it was time to go, he hugged each of us a few times and even kissed us on our cheeks. His "Byebye" was adorable.

We were all delighted when his father asked when they could bring him back. My ma said we thought they were going to keep him with his aunt for good. Ethan's father said that was only temporary. So right now we only have to wait until my ma doesn't need to go to the hospital or polyclinic for any appointment, and until then can Ethan come back to our house.

I managed to snap a few pictures of him, he even smiled for the camera. :)





The BF came over too. But too bad he missed Ethan by 10 minutes. He hasn't seen him for a very long time too. We did nothing much. He helped to burn a recovery disc for my laptop. Then we watched some Olympics and he read his book, I watched a movie on my laptop. He wanted to go to the library but it was raining and I didn't feel like going, because it was cold. Then I must have ate something wrong cos I had a little diarrhoea. The BF just left.

Have to work tomorrow. Nowadays have been dreading work because of the work load. New kiosk is opening at T3 so the crew there has been sending a list of things to be sent over. The whole week I've been doing transfers, but the tedious job is the paper work. Yesterday the shop was short handed. I was supposed to be the cashier for the Tees section but the moment I stepped into the office at 8.30 in the morning, the phone rang and I jotted down all the list of things to be sent to T3, that took me about half an hour, and I spent the rest of the day collecting all the things to be transferred, writing the things down on the internal transfer forms, and tagging the price tags. Luckily I had a little time to get ready the stocks that arrived that morning. And since I was the cashier, I was busy with all the transfers that I only opened my counter for about 2 hours. Which meant that I didn't have enough money to cover my float. Which meant that the moment I prepared my float money, I closed the counter. I closed counter 1 at 6pm. Total sales $200+. I did OT yesterday.

Please! Enough of transfers!