Five reasons to watch Geisha ( not the movie )

1) Constant rapid dance movement that will captivate you.

2)       To watch the shamisen player painfully singing his kouta (short songs) and wondering what the hell is he trying to say till you realise that there are subtitles above the stage.

3)       To get this surreal feeling that will drown you into their world of illusions and fantasy but to your dismay realise that it is merely your imagination.

4)       To be amazed by the shadows of the ‘floating world’.

5)       To watch the end of the play (not in a bad way) but if you watch it, you will know what I mean.

Just needed 2 very talented persons to make this work and of coz the super long stamina shamisen player.

Captivating.

Don’t watch if you are not into dance, theatre or abstract art, go watch a movie instead.  

Down to real work and play.

About a month into the job, it has been really fantastic so far. Finally a closure to the month long training, lecture style of numerous, countless products and calculations. I swear I can dream up calculations in my head! My colleagues have been really great; I wished that all of us are posted to the same branch where we can work happily together! That would be fantabulous but since well this is REAL WORK so the happy family would eventually have to split.

Work would have been so boring if not for my super hilarious branchmate who cracks me up all the time, snoopy and all the mad bunch of people who try to be atas but well…they are not really there la…yet.

Finally the long awaited assessment is over!! Although I have like four more certifications to complete, however at least this super stressful internal one is cleared!! Phewww!! I hope I have enough knowledge to survive for the next two months before the sales counter target starts running. STRESS!!

I will be working in Orchard so please feel free to look me up for lunch or dinner and tell me where the good food are coz Im damn bored of far east, wisma, scotts and lido!! So please help friends!!

Currently Watching Transamerica (Widescreen Edition) see related

Consolidation of my Life in the Past 3 months (some may not be chronological)

1)     My birthday- yay!! Everything else is a blur, can’t remember.

2)     Chinese New Year- relatives that I see once a year, many polite smiles and hustle and bustle from one house to the next.

3)     Driving lessons and more driving.

4)     Job hunt and more.

5)     Driving test in the bad bad weather, hit kerb, didn’t make it. It’s not me.

6)     Got cable and faster internet access, more lazing around

7)     Lime Flea Market in desperate attempt to earn some cash

8)     Watch Australian Open, newfound interest in tennis.

9)     Job hunt and more interviews

10) Driving lessons and more

11) Brother entered army.

12) Finally found a job.

In the next 2 wks,

1)     Go to a dentist, think my teeth are rotting.

2)     Try to pass my driving.

3)     Wait for my brother to come back from NS

4)     Get birthday prezzies for two of my beloved people.

5)     Try to meet up with as many friends as possible.

6)     Get a car, if I pass my driving and money falls from the sky.

Currently Listening You Could Have It So Much Better By Franz Ferdinand see related

A Very Special Christmas

Christmas was different this year as compared to the past. It was really through the Grace of the Lord that I was able to celebrate this joyous occasion with my loved ones- family and friends. My mum once a skeptic of being a catholic, was actually so into the religion now. It is wondrous indeed that the Lord works in many miraculous and beautiful ways. To have my whole family with me and my beloved with me during the midnight mass overwhelm me with so much emotions that I had to keep myself from tearing.

I have to admit that even though I was baptised ever since I was 16 and believed in the Lord ever since I was a child, I was still cynical in some ways. I had faith in the Lord, I pray to the Lord almost every night but I never saw the need to include Him in every aspect of my life, still believing that I knew best. My faith wasn’t strong and I had little trust. After my family joined the RCIA, it has actually strengthened my faith and knowledge in the Lord. To see my family transform in little ways has finally open my eyes to everything I ever had is nothing that is truly mine but what the Lord has given me.

My Dad who is a man of few words and expression of feelings actually personally chose a watch for my Mum which was a first! Seeing my family grow together is a fantastic feeling and it is actually ironic how when the Lord took away my grandma, He blessed us in so many other ways. I know my grandma would be very happy if she saw all of us like this.

Many of you might be shocked by this entry coming from someone who was never a regular churchgoer and dreams of lunch during mass but maybe things will change. ( you might see wings and a halo soon ).

All I wanted for Christmas….

I had a wonderful Christmas day stay with Ming at the Marina Mandarin. Since we both could not find the time and day to book a holiday, we just decided to settle for sunny island Singapore. Everything was beautiful even though we felt a lil cheated of the so called City view-meaning Suntec city instead of the original high floor Harbourview. But it doesn’t matter anyhow. Everything else would make up for that, more than enough actually. 

I received many wonderful prezzies too!! Stuff I actually wanted!! Ming gave me the new Amy Tan book which I pointed out before that I really wanted. He actually remembered, despite his fish memory and I love the some other cute and funky stuff that he got! *winks* My Mum gave me this hilarious and provocative Adam and Eve pillowcases and I got pearls, purse and a handphone pouch and a super cute top! Whoopee!

Soon it’ll be 2006! I love the festive season and I love all this celebrating!

A cushy new job would be just the thing to top the xmas wishlist and to usher in the New Year.

Anyone wants to go to Ministry of Sound or The Balcony? I’m feeling suaku that I haven’t been there yet….

Currently Reading Saving Fish from Drowning By Amy Tan see related

Crossroads

Working has really killed all my braincells and given me like multiple eyebags even though it is a mere two weeks! I don’t really hate my job but my slave driver boss who is obviously aging and suffering from dementia is the central cause to my misery. But well no one ever said that the working world was easy. Actually I kind of prepared myself for it as well, all the backstabbing, office politics blah blah.

Sometimes I wonder if it is all about choices. If I were to have waited and waited for that perfect job to come by, I would still be jobless by now. On the other hand, if I had waited, maybe I wouldn’t be stuck with this job for 5 and the half days every week with no time for myself, no time to jobhunt or do anything else. Seeing people’s resumes and kaypohing their qualifications and expected salary makes me realise that people nowadays have too many choices and are far too picky. In the past, people would jump at any chance at a job opportunity regardless of the pay, the location, the number of hours and would be so grateful that they would work hard. But now, it is a whole different scenario, everyday I am faced with like countless numbers of young kids who would like demand that the workplace must be near their house, five days wk and HIGH pay!! They might as well just not work and stop bothering me.

The worse applicants are those who are graduates like me. Manz, I didn’t even dare ask for such high pay when I was looking for a job…over 2K??? If you get really lucky maybe…if not you can just continue daydreaming and stop wasting my time! I was genuinely appalled when applicants are so haughty when I have job offers for them, they are like is it 5 days work week? If it is not, then I don’t want. Period. My boss is another prick in my A** who is so unethical in conducting her business. It’s a long story. Anyway I don’t think I will stay in this job for long, not because I don’t know commitment but because it is not my kind of thing and there’s just no future in this company, also because I am totally pissed off with her way of handling things.

Okay enough about my job which I have been complaining about for the past like two weeks. I think all my friends who have met me have heard enough. I have to say loverboy has been an absolutely darling in acceding to all my whims and fancies, my tantrum throwing haha and my crampsy days and he bought me a dress that I have been wanting for ages!! I promise I will like pay him back la..but of coz I hope he secretly forget since I am so broke…hee~~  I am dying to like do something fun for ages, I have become officially boring ever since I started work and I want to go drinking or something haha also so that I can have a chance to wear my dress!! Hahah

Currently Watching Little Miss Broadway (Colorized / Black and White) see related