A Belated Birthday Post :)

No, my arm is still on cast, but hey, I just felt like typing slowly anyway. I'm getting sick and bored of constantly reading up on meetups and gatherings that I can't attend (even with my cast off, I doubt if I'd join too so yes, I have a strong possibility of being a social inept in future. Ironic too, considering I'm partaking a Communications Degree)so I might as well get something done anyway.

Enough chatter on my gripes, I'm here today to talk more about my lovely day on my birthday, in which I got to spend some girl time with my sis, and with my colleagues too! (The latter was actually a surprise for me, but I'll explain later)

So, we started our outing by heading to Empire first (because I sorta promised both Lesley and Susan so, since me and Susan were pulling a trick on Lesley...somewhat lol) and after saying hi to Nick and Susan (notti people, hiding when they saw me coming!!!) me and sis headed to Colour Couture for a mani/pedi session (we tried Nail Parlour but it was expensive and didn't have what we wanted ;___;). I opted for a pedicure session since there isn't much point in getting my nails done...it'll just end up getting destroyed while I'm at work anyway! Sis took the manicure session instead. So we spent 45 minutes luxuriating while our fingers/toes got pampered ^_^

Since the both of us were planning to watch a movie in MidValley and we had left home rather late in the afternoon, sis didn't want to waste too much time in Empire...so I  called Lesley up and told her sorry, but I couldn't meetup with her. She went, "Whaaaaat~!! Noooo come here (Juice Works) now! You must comeee~!" or something like that. Fortunately my sis consented so we went back up (lol). I was quite amused at this point, cause I was wondering why Lesley wanted to meetup with me so badly. To my utter shock and surprise, they presented me with a birthday cake and chirped merrily, "Happy Birthday!". I was surprised...speechless so to speak. Never did I expect something like this at all! I felt really touched by my colleagues who chipped in to get this cake for me.  Just the day before Susan was asking me about cake flavours suggestions for her sister and well, me being dense started rattling out different flavours and told her each person has different tastes in them - which I told her later on my fave was durian (actually this happened cause I was craving for the durian cake up at Re:Lex lol). Sneaky Susan then told Lesley, who bought the cake the next day, with Jack and Syarif chipping in (when I get to see them in Pyramid, I definitely will want to thank them!)


My birthday cake; it's a durian cake from Secret Recipe! Many thanks to Jack, Syarif and Lesley for this!! I got amused over the whole Mel-Mel part, since it reads out Mei-Mei (or was that meant to be that way LOL). Look closely, you'll see an error on this cake! All of us howled with laughter cause of that xD 


Cake cutting ceremony! Hahahahaha...with my colleagues; Nick, Susan and Lesley. Sis snapped this photo for me ^_^ we ate part of the cake on the spot, in which I forced Susan and Lesley to eat them whether they like it or not! (Nyahahahahaha).

After several countless minutes later we took our leave and went to MidValley, in which the first thing we did was to get two tickets to watch The Sorcerer's Apprentice at night. We had a few hours to kill in between so we (window)shopped to kill some time. Typically, we headed to Jusco to try on some clothes xD I was in need of black pants for work anyway. Sadly I couldn't find anything to my interest =/ It's hard to find a pair that would suit me *sighs*
 


My simplistic makeup on that day ^_^v snapped this in *duh* a changing room hahahahahaha.


Tried on this dress, loved it too! But didn't feel like getting it in the end, even though it was 50% off! Dx

One hour before the movie, we headed off for dinner at Tony Romas. For the first time ever, I actually got to eat beef ribs!! *o*b it was really awesome, and I truly enjoyed my meal (it helped that I was starving by then too hahahahaha). Sis snapped a pic of me with the meal but it's in my handphone and I'm too lazy to transfer it to my lappie lol. So our final stop was the cinema for the movie before heading home. Not going to do a write-up on the movie itself cause I'm too lazy and tired to do so nyah ha ha. Just use your imagination, or go watch that movie for yourself to review it! :P

Hey, guess what? I got really nice gifts this year, and truly appreciate them! Sis gave me a bottle of Body Shop's White Musk that I wanted, a Charles and Keith bag that I liked (honestly, am I really THAT easy to be manipulated in telling people what I like? swts), a pedicure session (and the rest of the stuff we journeyed together that day), and a box of fairy figurines. Nao and Raz got for me the 1TB external harddisk that I really needed (THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! *HUGGLEGLOMPS*), and Cheryl gave me a really cute Sylvanian Family kitten figurine (in which Luna is hugging now hahaha) last week when she helped me with my garden. I may not get everything that I wanted but I was happy all the same :) I think the best part of the day was still getting that lovely surprise from my colleagues. It truly touched me cause well, I was there barely a month and they threw this for me! *sniffs*

So that's it from me for the day. Shoulder's already aching cause of my sling supporting my arm. Bleh. Time for me to roll off for now. Doctor's visit in a week's time! I'm really hoping I can take off my cast by then =/

My life as a crew

*say cheeeeeese*

Yes I haven't been updating my blog for almost two weeks now hahaha. Been rather busy with my new worklife honestly.

I'm steadily getting used to working as a part-time crew at JuiceWorks now. And learning how to make those drinks (curse my bad memory and those many drinks to remember! 35 drinks recipe lol). My colleagues are a friendly lot and I really do have a nice rapport with them, not to mention awesome teamwork. Sure, now and then one of us will show up with a terrible mood (that happened to me yesterday) but still, nobody's life is perfect :]

Sadly though, even if my work is awesome, I only have one gripe over my working life. And that gripe is...my manager. Oddly enough, I find myself being pretty much against him after several days working at my post. Mind you, I only saw him several times when I first started working, and never worked WITH him until the second week. And yet I find myself disliking him.

So what made me dislike him so bad? For starters, I don't find his aura of personality appealing...or helping to facilitate rapport and teamwork spirit at all. Unlike my supervisor, Jack, he (the manager) only knows how to criticize but never teach. And he expects me to know what the hell is he talking about...and to do it perfectly. Okay sure, most of you would probably say, "Hey, this is working life for you. Deal with it." and yes, I agree to that. Doesn't make my life easier though. After all, what's working life without any bumps along the way, eh?

Apparently, this manager might have the hots for Guki. Like, really. I noticed the special attention being paid towards her as well. It kinda freaked me out a little even if it wasn't directed to me. You can guess how Guki feels about this anyway. But yes, he's...scary.

Within one week working at JuiceWorks, I came to realize that most of my colleagues do not like our manager either. It took me awhile to understand more about it but yes, we all find him rather irresponsible and...dumb at times. Here's an example:

Our work schedule is drawn up weekly, and posted on the notice board in our workplace. In order to not confuse my work schedule, I'd jot it down on my organizer and snap a photo of my work schedule for my reference. So one day while having my break, we were griping over our work schedule when Guki suddenly told me that I'll be starting work at 12pm on Friday (last week). I didn't quite get her then but after awhile I realized....wasn't I supposed to start at 2pm? I had planned to run to college to submit my assignment then and I know if I start at 12pm, I'd be rushing around like a crazed kitten. So I checked the timetable again.

Lo and behold, yes, I start at 12pm. The smartass manager apparently had changed my work schedule WITHOUT INFORMING ME. Honestly, if Guki did not mention it, I wouldn't have noticed. This was on a Wednesday, two days before the actual day. So when he appears later on the day, I asked him about it. Guess what his reply was?

"Oh I cannot remember what I write already. Too many things to remember."

So...what kind of a manager would CHANGE an employee's schedule WITHOUT informing the employee? Sure, you can change it without consulting me, but dammit, NOT informing ME about it?! That's superbly unprofessional. So what happens if I were to NOT notice about my change of schedule and go ahead and enter work TWO HOURS LATE?! Geez.


Tomorrow, my work shifts are all at closing time. His lame excuse? I gotta learn how to close the shop. My reaction? =_______= lame excuse. Jack has already taught me how to close the shop WAAAY BEFORE YOU EVEN CARED TO TEACH US. Yes, that's right. He was efficient, and smart enough to know that one should not bombard EVERYTHING in one day to learn least we'll end up muddling everything. But nooooo.....last week you decided to leave EVERYTHING to me and then condenscendingly tell me not to take too long to close the finance report cause he will not pay me overtime. Like, what the eff? Jeez. I do not like his methods.

So now, each time I'm in the same shift as he him, I developed this bland facial expression and studiously ignore him unless necessary. It works well for me anyway.


And for those of you who wondered what happened to me yesterday about my injury...my thumb was caught jammed up at the cash register (stupid thing was too deep in) causing a really really deep cut on my thumb. That incident triggered my bad mood for several hours (not to mention I was rather hungry then) and I was pissed off cause I was stuck at the cashier job when I didn't want to be near the cash register for some time after my thumb injury. So I did the next best thing and ranted. Hahaha...Sorry for those who got irritated with my lame brattiness. Couldn't help it, my irrational anger.

Anyway about two hours before closing time, Susan started setting out large containers filled with soapy water to soak the equipments to be washed tomorrow. She placed one big transparent container right in between the ice box cooler and the trashbin, causing the lane to be rather clogged up. So when we were all joking and laughing about, I walked really fast and went SMACK over the container, causing the water to slosh rather heavily...and me cursing quite loudly cause the crash was really loud and painful. I ended up injuring my right leg, in which everyone winced when they saw my wound. It was partially my fault anyway, for not looking where I was going. Sad to say my leg still hurts like hell even today (it's my day off thankfully) and I can't walk properly yet. Poor me *tsk*

So that's the end of my rather long rant of my workplace...and I'm too lazy to type anymore hehehehe.

Friends, Work, and random rumbles

It was fun, though tiring. Ended up the three of us dawdling at the cafeteria chatting away :P

People often say we look like sisters, when we are not. LoL

I tried to give it a dark spooky feeling hahahaha. I think we should've just gotten her a portable handphone stuck to her ear for her birthday instead lol


And this is my workplace!!!!!

Cute shoes? Cute skirt?? THEY'RE EXPENSIVE!!!! :P Dang the prices hahahaha....I just wish Alex could wear those XDDDD