Money No Enough II August 11, 2008

Caught this with the boyfriend and my brother (yes, odd combination I know) at Vivocity. Super crowded coz its a school holiday cum many ppl eat snake and took the day off to enjoy look weekend I think. So had to settle for 4th row from the front, which resulted in some very stiff necks!

 

Besides the poor seats, the movie was (suprisingly) nice. It started off real lame, with the highly publicised Singaporeans-pushing-down-ERP-gantries scene, which looked kinda fake due to low budget visual effects. And what I found funny was that when Mark Lee and Jack Neo was complaining about ERP, they referred it as “ERP”, but the signboard on the gantries which the Singaporeans pushed down read “EPR”!!! Haha… Scared of getting sued by LTA perhaps? Well, so much for freedom of speech.

 

Well, beyond the rather lame jokes and stale ideas which have been reoccuring quite often in Jack Neo’s movies, what I really enjoyed was the performance of the woman who played the 3 men’s mother. She is truly an excellent performer who brought to life the agony and pain that a mother felt when she realises that she was a burden to the family. When she had to sit on the toilet bowl and have her meals coz she cannot control her bowels, when she had to move from house to house coz none of her sons wanted to look after her full-time, when she didn’t even know she was sent to an old folks home and turned around to cry for her son to bring her back home………. And especially the last scene where she pulled out the tube from her mouth so as to end her life, so as to rescue her grand-daughter. Oh, and the bitchy mother-daughter duo was quite convincing too. Really felt like slapping the both of them for making the ah ma sleep next to the toilet.

 

Oh, and if you are planning to watch the movie, remember to look out for a chance to win a car! Haha shall not reveal too much. Lesser ppl know about it means higher chance for me to win! LOL. Ok tmr got interview with Bloomberg (again). Shall sleep now.

Job search updates! August 7, 2008

3 interviews in 3 consecutive days! Damn shag! Anyway, a quick brief of the progress thus far.

 

1. Monetary Authority of Singapore

Position: Graduate trainee

Latest interview: Tuesday, 5 Aug, 1.45 pm

Status: Round 2 of 4

Next interview: Dunno. But high possibility that I might not get through coz the HR manager did not seem too convinced that I want to be a civil servant

 

2. Bloomberg

Position: Fundamentals and earnings representative

Latest interview: Wednesday, 6 Aug, 10.30 am

Status: Round 2 of ??? rounds

Next interview: Tuesday, 12 Aug, 11 am. Meeting the manager but I doubt this will be the last interview. According to HR, there’s “about 3 more rounds”, dunno if it includes this coming round.

 

3. Ministry of Finance

Position: Associate (Tax Policy)

Latest interview: Thursday, 7 Aug, 10.30 am

Status: Round 1 of 3

Next interview: Friday, 15 Aug, 11 am. Will be completing 2 rounds consecutively, namely an essay test followed by an interview with the Director. Stress!

 

Ok, so that’s about it. The problem now is, I’m not too sure what to do if I really get offered the MOF job, coz my heart is leaning towards Bloomberg (they had me at “Hello”). MOF is not that bad, and the staff I met up with today were uber nice and friendly, but job scope isn’t too relavant. Furthermore, I would probably have a higher chance of getting a banking job in the future if I take up the Bloomberg job as compared to the MOF job. BUT the problem is, my friend told me that Bloomberg has quite alot of rounds of interview, and HR has also confirmed that, so it might drag on for awhile. AND MOF is like super efficient; after the interview today they said they will lemme know within 10 working days whether I am short listed but in the end they called me at 2.30 pm. Argghhhhhhh dilemma dilemma dilemma!!!

 

Really hoping to get the Bloomberg job! *keeps fingers crossed. toes as well.*

I Wanna Be A Popstar! August 6, 2008

My lameass brother just showed me this. Damn funny!!! Pay close attention to the pictures and lyrics…

OMG you gotta try this!!! The Face Transformer… August 6, 2008

Stumbled upon this and it is soooooooooooo freaking hilarious!

 

Basically, you upload your photo, select your gender, age and race, and the system can generate your past and future portrait. Sounds like loads of fun already!

 

So I uploaded my passport photo..

Not exactly the most flattering photo, but I thought it would be more accurate.

 

 

 

So presenting……….. Baby Simin!

Wahahahahahaha……. I think my mum would freak out if she gave birth to something like this! She’ll probably shove me back up her vagina!!

 

 

Ok ok, Baby Simin now grows up to be Kiddo Simin!

Hmm…….. Skin has lost its glow and somehow turned….. Olive green? Yucks. I look so dirty.

 

 

Of course, Kiddo Simin then enters into the prime time of her life where she is most rebellious and deliquent. Introducing Teenager Simin!

Skin has cleared up and I’m cleaner now, probably coz I’m learning how to use facial cleansers.

 

 

So let’s fast forward a few years. Ok, maybe its more like skipping a few decades and see what Granny Simin looks like. 

Oh man……. I don’t want to grow old!!! Growing old is like so scary lah!!! No amount of cream or miracle serum can save my skin if it looks like this lor. And are those lao ren ban (translation: age spots)??? And why the corners of my eyes sag until like this?!?!?

 

I think I will need botox, facelift, brow lift,  fillers…. and possibly breast reconstruction as well. LOL. Ermm… Does Medisave cover all these?

 

 

Anyway, the website also has a few other options for you to play around with. That is, if you have not died from shock after seeing your future self.

 

You can be an Afro-Caribean…

 

 

 

A Caucasian…

 

 

A West-Asian…

 

 

A Masculinise (Definition: Masculinise – produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy; “the drugs masculinized the teenage girl”) …

Actually quite yandao hor? Hahahahaha…..

 

 

A…. Erm…. Manga Cartoon (?!?!)

 

 

And, of course, I saved the best for last!

 

 

 

Are you ready???

 

 

 

You very sure???

 

 

 

Last chance to turn back!

 

 

 

Ok, you asked for it……

 

 

 

Presenting…….. The Prehistoric Apeman!!!

 

I love Singapore and I want to serve my country! August 4, 2008

Tomorrow’s the interview with MAS. Wasn’t really too psyched up about it coz I’m still wondering if I wanna be a civil servant. But after accompanying dear dear to tan tock seng today, I realised being civil servant isn’t too bad.

 

Why?

 

Coz don’t need to pay to see doctor and got free medicine somemore! Wahhhhhhhhhhh………

 

Haha.. But still quite sian that after tomorrow’s interview I still got a psychometric test and a panel test with the management. That is, assuming I pass tomorrow’s interview. Sian lah… Why can’t recruitment processes be more direct?!?! And its so demoralising to make it all the way to the final round and then get rejected lor. Although I don’t really know what that feels like coz I have not made it past the first round of any interview thus far. Haha…. So laoji

 

So now, I’m kinda hoping to pass, just for the sake of passing so that I wouldn’t seem so pok to be failing all the interviews. Hoho…. *telling myself that I WANT to be a civil servant and that I love singapore very very muchs* Fingers crossed!

Did you miss me? August 4, 2008

Haha.. After a long hiatus, I’m back! Not that I’ve actually been anywhere really. I guess when you’re jobless and do absolutely nothing everyday, there’s really no need to bore anyone with these details. Yes yes, some of you might be envious that I have the freedom to do nothing. But trust me, there’s nothing to be envious about.

 

Anyway, (kinda) new start calls for new theme! Haha… Yah, I kinda figured that content is more important than appearance! LOL. Also because I still think wordpress’ theme is very hard to figure out, as opposed to blogspot.

 

Ok, maybe I should update on what exciting events happened during the past 1 month…

 

14th July – Exciting day coz…. It’s My Birthday!!!

Went to watch Hellboy II (which I think should be renamed Hell-BORE), dinner at Kenny Rogers and then cake-cutting in the car at Fort Canning. Loved the gorgeous Chocz cake that Dear got me.. Super rich chocolate, super sinful. I like……

 

22nd July – A day my parents waited for a looooonnngggggggggg time. Convocation Day! A.k.a Last day as a student for the rest of my life!!! Wooohooooooooooooo………

Note the 2 lovely bouquets, which were handmade by my aunt, who used to be a florist but is still very very talented. Everyone thought my bf gave it to me though -_- Sighh… Sad to say, he didn’t make it and neither did he give me anything

 

26th July – A night not to be forgotten… La Vie de Vegas, NBS Convocation Ball 2008!

Possibly the best dinner I’ve ever been to! Food was great, programme was entertaining, company was lovely and we all looked damn good that night!! Haha… Ok, abit BHB. But compared to, like, Sec 4 and JC prom where everyone think they looked good but actually very orbiang, I think everyone was really quite chio/handsome lor.

 

27th July – Dear Dear’s Birthday!

Booked a chalet at Costa Sands Sentosa and dinner at Carnivore at Vivocity. Carnivore was nice but as usual the bf didn’t eat much, as with all buffets. Sometimes I think there’s something not right with him. When need to pay (i.e. ala carte), he eat so much and complain not full. When I bring him for buffets, he eat soooooooooooo little that he waste my money. Zzzzz…… No more buffets from now on!

 

Oh and we caught The Dark Knight too. Dear liked it so much that he wanted to watch it again. I thought it was so-so, not bad but not good enough to make me wanna watch it again. (For comparison’s sake, to me a I-wanna-watch-it-again movie would be Transformers. Which I did watch again, actually. And The Devil Wears Prada, which I watched, like, 3 times in a row on board a SQ flight.) But Heath Ledger was good though. Such a pity………

 

With so much activities in the month of July, its no wonder I’m still jobless! Hoho…. Finding excuses for myself. Ok la, August is a brand new start. Shall work hard to find a job before POSB closes my bank account due to inactivity and insufficient funds!

Flash back to 2004 July 10, 2008

As a result of my extreme boredness, I actually went to read my old blog! (Btw, I find it quite amazing that blogspot didn’t shut down my old site due to inactivity. But… Thanks?)

Anyway, after reading part of it, I found some things quite amusing.

 

1) I actually maintained the blog for nearly TWO YEARS. Like, OMG!!! Is that a personal record?!? It actually spanned from my JC days till uni days till I met my dear!!!

 

2) The language I used is absolutely hilarious. i guess i was writin in the… i dunno leh.. jc small gurl gurl kinda style~ =)

But with that said, what I wrote did sound more interesting then now. At least some part sounded pretty…… poetic to me. LOL.

 

3) I have ABSOLUTELY NO RECOLLECTION WHATSOEVER about alot of events that happened!!!

June 22nd 2004

” me finally msged him this morning coz i tot it was useless to keep waiting. realised that he has a fever. poor baby… he said that he din msg coz he was having a fever. i’m not sure if its strong enough an excuse, but i’ll buy it for now. honestly i have no idea wad is goin on. the signals he’s sending are so mixed that i dare not come to any conclusion in fear that i might misinterpret. he said he likes me. but if he likes me, den how come he never ever calls? how come i always have to be the one who has to take the initiative to msg or call him? budden when i start to think that maybe he doesn’t like me n he’s just fooling around with me, he always does the sweetest thing to make me feel so happy again. hai… this is so annoying. =( “

Ermmmm……….. I’m sorry if I sound heartless, but who is “he”? LOL.

 

4) I seem to sound lovesick all the time. And although I can’t quite remember who I’m talking about, I’m pretty sure I was referring to different guys every now and then.

 

But there’s alot to be learnt from old blogs. One thing for sure, I’m slowly starting to see some parts of me that were pretty immature, pompous, childish, vengeful, and overly-flirty and desperate. Perhaps its only with time that we can reflect on our past and realise how blinded we were to not have noticed who was staring right back at us when we looked in the mirror.

And the past continues to haunt me July 6, 2008

I’ve always thought that I’ve put the past behind me, but the recent brief encounters with familiar faces of my past proved to me that perhaps I was not as strong as I thought I was.

 

As crazy as it sounds, I still feel a sense of…… shame. Whenever I walk past them, I uncontrollably bow my head down to avoid looking straight into their eyes. Even then…… I can hear them sniggering and gossiping…… I can feel them staring right at me…… I can sense them pointing their fingers at me, whispering, “Look, isn’t that her?”

 

Damn it, Simin! Damn it! When will you learn that you did nothing wrong??? When will you understand that this is just sick game that senseless-people-with-supposedly-high-IQ-but-apparently-very-low-EQ play???

 

I need to move on.

A life lesson learnt today June 27, 2008

Dear You,

Right from Day One, everything that I did, I did it all for you. Yes, you might not have said it openly, but I can see it in your eyes whenever you want something. And for every single thing that you ever wanted, I would put in 100% to make sure you got it, even if it meant lying to the people around me.

But never did I know that all that I did were redundant. For you, I lied, argued and hurt those who are close to me. For you, I defied them and stood up for you, yelling in their faces that they were wrong about you. Perhaps, part of me did not want to admit that the older people were always right. And yet, at this very moment, I find it hard to churn up any more excuses for you. I am inclined to believe that they were the ones who were right all along, and I had been stupid enough to trust in you.

I poured my heart out to you. I told you all my problems. I cried and bawled over how horrible it was for me to be stuck in the middle. I reached out to you, hoping that you would understand how tired I was. Afterall, aren’t all couples supposed to share their problems?

But you stunned me with your nonchalence. Worse of all, you stunned me with your selfishness. All you could think about was you, you, you. How you were affected in this situation. How I did you wrong by putting you in this kinda fix. How I made you look bad in front of my parents.

And what about me? Did you ever care about me, not just today, but in the 2 years and 7 months that we have been together?

You wanted to join the gym. For your sake, I not only stuck my neck out for you by signing up the instalment plan with my supplementary card, I also signed up myself. When you were busy and could not go to the gym with me, I quiety accepted the fact that it was money down the drain. When you did not offer to pay me back the money, be it coz you forgot or you were acting dumb, I kept quiet again coz I didn’t want to appear like a bloodsucking loanshark. When my mum pushed me for the money, I had to take the blame. And all this while, you never knew. Until today, that is.

When you said you wanted to renew your membership, I knew it was going to be difficult coz my mum had stated clearly “No”. And we all know it was coz of your poor track history. But I’m a stupid person. Which was why I chose to sign up for you before telling her. Coz I wanted you to be happy.

But are you happy? I dunno. I certainly know I’m not. Coz today I finally realised that I am really dumb. Your answer said it all – “If your mother didn’t agree, you should have told me. I could have gotten someone else to sign up for me.” Oh, so it was that simple? As your girlfriend, I could just have said…. No?

And when I tried to explain that it was coz of your late payments that caused her to feel frustrated, you turned the table on me and blamed me instead! You actually had the audacity to say that the big reason why she was mad coz I did not inform her first. Oh, so why couldn’t I have been frank with her in the first place huh?

However, nothing hurt more than what you said to me last. When I told you that all I expected from you was a promise that you will try to be punctual with your payments next time, you told me that it was my fault that money was tight. Why? Coz you spent all your money eating out with me and getting gifts for me. Oh, so was I the one who forced you to live beyond your own means?

I’m sorry I never knew I was such a burden. I’m sorry I never knew that every month, you were living such a tough life coz you had to support me. I’m sorry that I did so much for you when you never expected me to. I’m sorry for being so stupid, for doing things that I thought would make you happy when in fact you hate me for it.

 

Thanks for making me realise that in life, some people are just not worth helping.

Business Times picked us! June 2, 2008

Take a look at this! And please pay special notice to the names of the writers!

 

 

Our hard work finally paid off….. Woots!