BRACE YOURSELF FOR A LENGTHY POST, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Well, I've been waiting for rather long to write this 600th post of this humble blog of mine. Started on May 2006 as planetyi1992.blogspot.com, using my nickname for long, Planet Yi and it transformed to always-be-there-for-u.blogspot.com because of a girl. HAH! Those childish thinking and so on.

Well, time seems to pass so fast. Secondary School is over, Os was like a whole year back and now I am in Singapore Polytechnic Diploma in Integrated Event and Project Management striving to get a Diploma in Merit.

TO BE CONTINUED

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Haven't been blogging since last week?

Well, had DEPM 1A/06 chalet at Home Team NS Pasir Ris from Oct 12-14.
It was rather fun with this class, its true that we knew each other only for like 6 months or less?
Lots of movies and first night was drinking night. So many of them knocked out and did funny things. These would be classified as funny memories and will be cherished forever.

I learnt how to ride a bike in like 2 hours and cycled around Pasir Ris area only.




Went to work at Carrefour Warehouse Sales again for the double pay on Deepavali. Worked with Jian Khai for the first time. Not really a difficult job but was rather mundane.


Well, we started Semester 2 this week, the modules seems tougher then the previous semester. But I'll still try my best to maintain the grades. Roll of Honour 2011!




Someone told me that maybe I ain't brave enough to protect someone that I love, thats why I didn't manage to start a relationship. Wow, what a blow at my head.

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Credits: Erik Johansson

This photo is photoshopped.
What I interpret of this picture is that the inner self of the person is not facing the one facing the mirror, evading from true self.
I think that is what a lot of people is doing. Not daring enough to face their true self. But maybe, sub-consciously.


Going to chalet with DEPM 1A/06 at the Home Team NS chalet for 3D2N!

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Did a short assignment of dismantling F1 simulators at Singtel building near Raffles Place.
We simply dealt with bolts and nuts as this is how the "F1 Car" is secured to the simulator.
This assignment was really short.
The two technicians even flew in from Britain to dismantle these two for roughly about 6 hours?
Quite an interesting and quirky job I would say.


Can't express myself as thoughts run wild in my mind.

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Finally ended my 3 week stint working as a mooncake packer and promoter for Marriott.
Never felt so relieved when ending yesterday night's work finishing selling the stocks at Tampines Mall.

Did packing for the first week while doing promoting at Tampines Mall for 2 weeks. Gained lots of experience during this period of time.

Lots of Thank You to Hazel, my in-charge at the mall and all my partners like HuiMin, CheesSian and ChooYan.

TOP SALES!

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This is the pricelist for the offers available for the mooncakes!
Please direct any enquiries to me via phone or mail(:

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What does all this pictures have in common?
One word: Work.

The first one is IT Show. Sucky pay with lots of labour involved. Carry stocks and pack them for customers. I think more then 200 laptops went through my hands over that weekend.

The second one is Isetan Private Sales IT personnel for NEC Asia. Cock up when my agent told me that I will have to troubleshoot laptops blah blah blah. Then the onsite supervisor told me that it had nothing to do with laptops except the the CASH REGISTERS are computers. How great was my agent's description. Best of all. We have to carry those SOPHISTICATED CASH REGISTERS and wire them up. With a team of about 8, we had to carry and wire about 50 of them. From 9am to 8.30pm.
Then the next day, 9pm report for work for the DISMANTLING! Work all the way till 1am with reimbursing of cab fare.

The last picture is my current job right now. Selling mooncakes for Marriott Hotel at Tampines Mall. Today off day, so here I am blogging.
Promoting mooncakes is alright, packing was rather boring but this two days at TM was rather good albeit some not very good experiences.
Need more sales experience to cope with those more difficult customer.

Was surprised to be praised by the last customer yesterday, the conversation goes like this:

Pinyi: *Rambling on and on about promotions and gave samples to this particular customer*
Customer (Uncle and Auntie): But we don't have the cards mentioned but we did invest in RBS bank.
Pinyi: *Wanting to close the last sales of the day* Ok, I'll give you the discount *While I continue to talk about things I missed just now and asking them to come back.*

Guess what, the Uncle shook my hands and thought that I was an experienced salesperson when he said that he trained salesperson in the past and he said that I am good at promoting. Even if he bought only one box, I felt rather satisfied. As that was only my 2nd day doing off site sales.

Support me at the Marriott Hotel booth just in between Macdonalds and the Body shop of Tampines Mall from 10am to 9.30pm everyday till next Friday!


As for my GPA, rather satisfied with my results with room for improvement. Will be considering to take the Diploma Plus programme or not. Seems tough.

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Credits: To the same photographer that photoshopped as of the photo below.

Didn't get the mooncake job that Mr Chow told the class. Like sian-ed.
Need a job like really since doesn't have much activities over this few weeks. Anyone got lobang?

UPdate: Seems like I got the Mooncake promoter job liao. For only like 3 weeks. Then Daisy called ask me do Comex for 2 days.


Feeling out of place almost everywhere I go.

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Went back to Hai Sing on the day before Teacher's Day which happened to be also the last paper of the End of Module Exams.

Only reached Hai Sing at about 10? Despite I woke up at 9? So didn't manage to see the lower sec. Caught the concert. Quite a novelty to think that the concert was held outside the HOD. Thats a pretty good idea I supposed.

Lunched with Clive and some other juniors before recapping some of my notes for the exam at the library, saw Wingsum and a few others.

Trained to school, and took the exam. It wasn't exceptionally tough, but hope can get my desired results. I'm not in Singapore Polytechnic to just get a Diploma in Integrated Events and Project Management with a less than satisfied GPA.

Followed by the exam, went to Tampines to meet up with 2e2 peeps, the usual few with Ethel, Nigel and John Chen. Had sort of a mix up before dinner, in the end settled down at 4th level Open Plaza pizza-ing. Chatted and took a lot of pictures for them with Wanling's friend's D40. Took 81 back, while waiting, we discovered John Chen's secret talent. Doing the Cadbury commercial. Check out FB if you are interested.

Fast forward to next day. Had a 1/3 class gathering. Thought its a class thing, in the end only me, Felicia, Shermaine, Cynthia, Sue, Elleyana and Kingsley. Watched "The Proposal" at Lido. Not a very awesome movie but just average. Whats with me watching all this love flicks. Had quite a great time with the peeps before training home yet again.
Was kinda surprised to see a girl sitting in front of me on my journey to Somerset and saw her again on my way back. SCARY.

Hope I can get my job soon.

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Almost 3/4 year have passed for a lot of Haisians since they set foot on the Haising Campus. I've been going back for quite a few times since the turn of the year.

Fond memories can be found almost everywhere of the campus due to the small size of it, silly things done in class, scoldings, fear for results, anxiety during Os. Even during the lower secondary years in the new block can be deemed as memorable. Friendships and connections built over this 4 years is immense.

Can't believe that in like 2 years, the juniors that I know now will be graduating.

Liangying mentioned that she is looking forward to going back to Haising for Teacher's Day the first time as a graduant/ alumni. Guess lots of people out there share her sentiments, including me.

God Bless Hai Sing.

Have to go back to SP for my last paper, Events Materials and Decorations at 4.

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The SKY's the Limit

The above photo was photoshopped by Erik Johannson to create mind boggling effects.
The sky's the limit: A labourer lays a reflection on the road

Came across the above photo, found it interesting so posted it here.

Exams are going to be finished, 4 down 1 more to go!
Decorations and Materials isn't my favourite subject nor my most hated subject, but the amount of things (hard facts) to cramp inside my head is enormous.

And I really pei fu those JC students who survive the ordeal and tell the tale. Seeing some of my friends struggling in JC isn't a great feeling I'll say. Come to think of it.

Poly is really slack in some areas, like the time for resting can be more then sufficient when compared to JC student if you do your work diligently and on time sparing yourself from the situation of burning midnight oil to chiong projects that can be done throughout the whole of 2 weeks or so.

Will end this post with a joke I came across on net, not mocking the JCs but its quite a true reflection for some of them. If you find then offensive, leave a tag.


Question: How many students does it take to change a light bulb?

Raffles Junior College: Four whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one to manufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it to the public.

Hwa Chong Junior College / Institution: The whole school. To compete with RJC.

Victoria Junior College: The whole school. One student to screw it in and the rest to cheer and wave flags and banners to give their support.

National Junior College: None. They can study without light.

Anderson Junior College: None. They’re too busy trying to be one of the top five JCs.

Anglo-Chinese Junior College: None. They’ll rather use all their money to employ Yishun Junior College to do it for them.

Catholic Junior College: None... They’ll prefer it to be dark... *raises eyebrows*

Tampines Junior College: None. They’re striving to get every one of their students into universities on the other side of Singapore, would they even care about light bulbs?

St Andrew’s Junior College: None. They’ll just pray for light.

Nanyang Junior College: None. They’re still using oil lamps.

Pioneer Junior College: Heck the light bulb lah, the principal will surely do something about it... Hey! Let’s do 300 jumping jacks for not wearing the proper school attire!

Meridian Junior College: None. They’re too busy trying to get promoted.

Innova Junior College: None. They’re Innovians. They’ll find ways out of the dark.

Jurong Junior College: None. They’re in an “edupreneurial” college. They’ll think of the most cost-efficient, economical alternatives.

Serangoon Junior College: None. They are too busy trying to attain more value-added grades in their A-Levels to bother about a light bulb.

Yishun Junior College: None. I thought they’re working for ACJC already? They need that money to renovate their school...

Temasek Junior College: None. They think they’re already very bright.

And finally...
Millennia Institute: None. They accidentally dropped the light bulb. And it will take a millennium for them to find another.

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All we are given is 2hours to complete 3 of such drawings... And mind you, the 2D to 3D drawing aka isometric drawing is much more difficult then the above one.

Lucky this test is only 35%. Better don't affect my GPA too much sia this module.

Back to business, 4 full days to study for LAW and CONSTRUCTION.
Doesn't sound too good.
Whereas Materials Decor can wait.

Wish me luck.

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Work at some Harris/ Popular bookfair at Great World City some weeks back.
IT Test wasn't that pleasant due to the short time that we have for the test.
Hope to get an A for IT at least. PLEASE!

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A "fruitful" week has pass.
Most of the modules, if not all of the modules are coming into the ending topics.
Can't find the motivation to study.

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Finally can blog here, although it still looks weird.

Just felt like blogging. Lots of undue assignment to be done. Just to name a few, perspective drawing, construction tutorial and model making. While end of module test/exam is coming in a month or so.

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First Day:

Wouldn't name it Choir Camp due to the fact that it didn't feel like a camp. Will post up the pictures once I get it from Kenneth.

Went to the clubhouse after school to get all the camp stuff with Xuanxin and Qimin.
Went back to start the BBQ, first time using a electric BBQ pit, it can be called instant but its not easy to cook on it at all. Would prefer using the conventional one.
Epic failure in cooking corn kernels and chicken wings.

Booked the karaoke room for an hour, most of them didn't come up to the room when I asked. Sadded. Well, Most of them came up when Kenneth asked them to. IL Divo version's of songs from Matthew and Jason, Arthur's version of oldies and a whole lot of Jay Chou's songs.

Went down to play a game of twister, with the colour circles substituted with a mixture of flour, food colourings and water in which the results are slimy coloured dough.

Went to wash up after that, surfed http://www.oddee.com/ with some of the choir mates before most of them went to sleep while the guest singers are playing cards.

Me and Benjamin went out to talk and we decided to walk to Clementi. Surprised to see that NTUC was opened at like 2.30am in the morning. Bought some drinks and walked back. Talked about practically everything from soccer to CCAs. Reached school at like 3am, and having to climbed through a small hole to get into the school.

The guests singers are still playing cards while Xuanxin and Kenneth is awake still. Played with Fifa 09 while Xuanxin and Benjamin played some games on the lappie too. Slept at around 4?

Woke up at 7.30 to wash up and had breakfast...blah blah. Fast forward.

Qimin asked her classmates to come and be helpers for the camp, so due to the "OVERWHELMING" numbers of choir members we have, we played captain's ball.
Why so SERIOUS?

Lunch was a packet of Nasi Lemak and 4 more chicken wings left over from yesterday. After that went back to the dance studio to slack. And planned the charades with Faith and Qimin, with words like Esplanade and Tigger's Pogo Stick. Played some games with Spaghetti, balls, and chairs.

BREAK CAMP

A great thanks to the seniors for the camp (ton-ing session or whatever this can be called), although of the low turnout of the event.

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HELLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HAHAHAHAHA SINCE PY GAVE ME THIS HONOUR TO POST IN HIS BLOG... WELL, HERE I AM! APPARENTLY, HE WENT TO HIS CAMP YTD N MISSED BBALL. OH NO ):

HAHA. YO PY! HOPE U'RE HVIN FUN THR. DESPITE THE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS HEH :D

WHEE I UPDATED!

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Ton-ning in Dance Studio in SP NOW! See the timing for reference. Lets see if we can fall asleep!

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Killed two birds with one stone as we celebrated Xiu Zhen and Joelin's 17th Birthday together yesterday. We had dinner at Shokudo at Raffles City there. Had some arguments before that, hope its alright. Went to the arcade and pool at Marina Square.

A innocent joke was translated to a late night movie at EHUB! I merely joked about going to watch a movie when they said they wanna go home, in the end, birthday girl XIUZHEN, FABIAN and DEREK thought that I was serious and asked everyone...
So in the end, 9 of us went back to Pasir Ris together and 6 of us watched ICE AGE 3. It started at 1135 and ended round 1255. First time watched a movie till go late lorh. Walked home after that.

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Took part in the first Scrabble competition for the year. Its some sort of competition that is held by NTUC, was rather surprised to find players from Singapore Scrabble Association. The first game was played with some less skilled players. In the end only liangying got the best player out of the three opponents. So we won the first team game by 2-1.

Next up was SA veteran players. Was feeling kinda demoralized when the opponents changed places to pit me against their captain. Well, they are Category A players in the Association whereas I am just a newly promoted Cat B player. We exchanged moves in lightning fashion and finished the game in about 25 min and 13 moves. A clearing last move is a bingo and I won the Singapore ranked 27th player by a mere 29 points. It still didn't warrant us a prize as liangying and xiuzhen went down to their superior opponents.

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