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got this comment from yings...so lets keep the ball rolling....-wrecking brains to think-
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Instructions:
This is what you are supposed to cut and paste if you decide to participate in the tagging game. Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog.
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1. i have (or used to have) a 'daughter' in the crazy(sigh), neurotic(sigh sigh) and short-circuit(sigh sigh sigh...you all should get the idea?) for of YAO SHUYING...it started off in hc...just our way of being close frens that can tan xin with each other?
2. for one...i enjoyed NS...(alot of people will go -gasp-)...not for its politics...not for its routineness...not for its regimentation...but for the process of going thru it...the suffering...the fun...the fulfilment...of getting to know other people outside of the jc environment...and being in a position to mould...influence and develop others...yup...something like that...
3. i can crack my 8 toes (other than my big toe) and thumb once...while i can crack my 8 fingers twice (at 2 joints)
4. i am an Aquarius...no, a Pisces...no, an Aquarius...no, a Pisces...argh...you can say i have a split horoscope...cos my birthday...19th Feb is right smack in the middle...sometimes here sometimes there...depending on which author...which book...sigh...so dun blame me for being schizophrenic! =P
5. i have alot of skin...as in i was fat/plump/chubby/whatever before...so got alot of extra skin that is still around and very stretchable...esp at the chin and arms...all my frens should have seen me pull my skin once or twice lar...
6. my chinese name, JIZHENG, is the name of a very well known taiwanese sprinter in the 80s...except that JI was the surname...and ZHENG was the name...and that JI ZHENG is a...LADY!
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finally...got the 6 things out...now to pass it on...the 6 lucky(or unlucky) people are...huifen...likoon...siaohui...benji...agnes...huiying...
crazy day at work...
today's work was C-R-A-Z-Y! started work after the CNY break and was really very lethargic from the long break...today only us 3 TCOs(temporary clerical officers) were arounds...cos Auntie Jumiati, the admin officer in-charge of us...took leave today...then came the news from my asst manager...a new TCO was coming in today...and auntie ju was not around...so since i was the more experienced(a little bit more than 3 weeks only!!!!) among us 3 TCOs...i had to teach the basics to this new TCO...gasps! also cos auntie ju was not around...siti and mahez was looking for me to clarify queries...then i had to coach naresh in the basics...add in my own stack of forms to process...the morning and after was totally crazy...din have much time to do my own work...so swarmed with the other stuff...just so glad that that day is over...i survived...and auntie ju is coming back to work tomolo! hahaz...
chinese new year chu san!
after receiving ang pows until my hands was tired on monday...(just j/king...=P)...i prepared to go bai nian with the oac people yesterday! =)
went for a swim at SAFRA in the morning...then went back home to change and get ready to leave...drove to Tiong Bahru Plaza to pick up pg, cons and shuyun to go to tze's house...met js at the void deck...just as i was walking to the lift...realised that i left my mandarin oranges at home! argh!...but managed to smoke thru in the end...hahaz...
at tze's house...played blackjack with me being the banker...won a little...then lost a lot...before winning back my captital plus some profit! hahaz...moo mom, shuyun and sophia that corner very lucky one lorz...think got 10 over blackjacks there...hahaz...but i also win on a couple of 'gor-leng' too! =)...left midway to send jw and pick up wanling from Tiong Bahru Plaza...while zm went to his teacher there to collect ang pow...hahaz...but he came back to pick the rest up cos only he and i got car...
left tze's house at around 5.15 like that...tze could not come cos she wanted to mug her essay...|||o...shuyun and wanling had to leave...so the rest of us went to sophia's house...i brought my tea set from china along...and it came to be of good use at sophia's house...where we all tried the tea that i brought and the tea that sophia's father had...
after some food and tea...zw and likoon came to join us...we all set about our 'activites'...me, sophia, sophia's mum and (likoon + pg + cons) started with mahjong...while the rest continued with black jack with sophia's dad, sophil and sophie...ended the games at around 2220...then they brought out the cake to celebrate my birthday...hahaz...received the nike t-shirt that has a shade of green that reminds me of a certain 2 years of my life...=P...then ate the cake...hahaz...thanks guys!
after everything...sent pei geok home and came back home to rest early cos gotta wake up early for work today! and like that...the nost significant parts of CNY '07 was over! sigh...another year...
happy birthday to me.....
writing this entry with about 20 minutes left before i cross over to begin my 22nd year on this planet...
this year...my brithday coincides with the 2nd day of the lunar new year...which makes it quite a special birthday if i might say so myself...but it is also quite a special birthday for so many other reasons...my first birthday after completing my ns liability...my first birthday after getting my driving license...my first brithday after......
just hoping that the year ahead will be better...much better...will be starting school this year too...so alot of things going to be happening...
the clock strikes twelve.........now!....happy 21st birthday to me!
...really wished you could be here to share this moment with me...but i guess it was not to be...
sending off...
finally had some time to update my blog after a busy period...so tired after work every day...
last sunday...went to send off siao hui @ changi airport...she was returning back to melbourne to continue with her studies there...dropped off my parents at clementi...before driving all the way to toa payoh to pick up benji...then driving all the way to changi airport...in the end...it was only ben, zhemin, li koon, jingwen and i who could go...cos the rest were all tied up with projects...quizzes and test the next day...and other stuff...
tuesday...0430...woke up to the 2 alarms that i set the night before...then changed and left...driving to changi airport (again) to send wen jin off this time. guess most of my blog-readers dunno who wen jin is...he is my buddy from armour...fellow tankee...instructor...very close to him...my nickname was chicken...his was cow...or ah gu...cos he everything also use gu-lat or brute strength to do things...so we were the brother gu and brother ji that our colleagues know! hahaz...this time he going to monash...so went to send him off in the early hours...after the sending off...drove all the way back home...rested a while then went to work again...was quite drained the whole day...
2 frens left singapore liaoz...
job updates
just completed my first full week working at IRAS...currently in the Enforcement Division, Payment Enforcement Branch, Withholding Tax Team...doing data entry...keying all the IR37 and IR37C forms that the tax-payers send in...quite tiring...waking up early in the morning at 0630 to get ready...leaving house at 0700 to go to work...i work from 0800 to 1830 on Mon-Thu and 0830 to 1800 on Fri...including the 1 hr of OT every day that i do (not at 1.5X but at normal rate)...reaching home at about 1930...dead tired from facing the computer for the whole day...did OT cos really got quite a lot of forms to key in that has been stucked because of various problems...if only tax payers can read the instructions before filling in the forms...that will make life so much easier for us...and all those atrocious handwriting that nobody can decipher...sighz...well...at least Jan is over...Feb onwards the pay is 6.50/hour...hahaz...wish me luck! =P
