Sunday, November 30, 2008
Met Eve last night for a chat till 1++am before we slowly walked back home. We always got lotsa gossips and stuff to lament and chat about. Girl talk, hehe. Then turned in at only 3am but didn't sleep well cuz Baby kept disturbing me. When I finally woke up at almost 12pm, I had a lil' swollen right eye and kept feeling breathless. Till now, I still feel some sort of pressure in my chest. Suppose to meet June today too but till now there's still no news from her yet.
The following is a backdated post from last weekend when I met up with Viyond. I was wearing a bright pink long sleeve top from La Senza and Viyond commented that the color made me look tan, machiam a Malay....
Wahh, sibeh sad lah. I wanna be fair fair but somehow seem to be getting darker. And I really love that top cuz it's comfortable thus.... I'll still wear it despite me looking like a Malay. Duhzz!
We headed to Taka first to have our lunch at....
Shopped a lil' around as Viyond wanna search for a dress to attend a wedding but did not manage to get one in the end. We then went to have a drink at BakerzIn....
Our itinery of the day was to head down to.....
Viyond then drove us to the The Max Pavilion at EXPO to attend JJ Lin JunJie's mini concert. The free tix was from her ex-colleague working at KBOX cuz the concert was sponsored by KBOX as well. It was raining cats and dogs and the weather made us sleepy.
There wasn't much food available there thus I only had MeeSiam for dinner.
And the pretty shade of the sky after a heavy downpour....
When it's time to enter, we were rather disappointed cuz we thought we had the VIP seats but it turned out not. Our seats were in fact quite a distance from the stage and couldn't really see the star himself clearly.
OoOpz! No pic of JJ so sorry cuz the pics turned out rather blur and small thus no point uploading at all. We only stayed for an hour after hearing him sing a few songs then we left for home.
My free Pantene conditioner finally arrived by mail. It was raved that it's really good so I'm gonna try using it. Bought a box from Taiwan before but duno why the packaging seems different.
Purchased some candies from The Central and it tasted sweet and nice plus cute as well. Bought a jar and it cost me about 10 bucks. Unfortunately the jar's too big and heavy thus I'm still in the search to find a smaller container for me to bring them out. Sadly the candies are melting fast and I gotta store them in the fridge. The sweets are hand-made and you can see two men, an angmoh and a Chinese making them on the spot. Very unique and special, dun get to see them outside at all. Comes in different flavors.
I have too many skincare and cosmetic at home now that I can use till next year already. So dear frenz, pls do not give me anymore cuz I'll just be stacking more and more of the stuff in my cupboard. Gave a lipgloss and a bottle of PoLo perfume to my bro's gf cuz I dun wanna keep too many. Really alot on hand. Shall be packing my stuff soon and giving more of those that I dun use away. Passed Eve a small, cute Ferragamo body shimmer last night too. Hope she likes it.
Tml's Monday again and training is back at Urban Beauty Academy. At least dress code there ain't that stressful compared to DFS office cuz we gals dun have office wear at all. Can tell that some gals are getting stressed out due to the countless brands of products we'll be selling. But dun worry yeah! We can help one another out when the shop really opens.
No one's perfect and each of us have our flaws. Though I may have related experience and I've seen the worst at the airport then, getting to meet all sorts of people, colleagues as well as customers from all over the world but there are still many times whereby I can't cope with situations or stress as well. Thus unity and teamwork are really important in our working environment esp when it's a all female workplace.
As everyone knows, females are more petty and conflicts tend to arise very easily in our line compared to other occupations where there's a balance of both gender. Perhaps sometimes my straight-forwardness and tactlessness might have offended some, maybe when I tried to explain my point of view and yet mistaken as being arrogant. Any scenerio that I might have unknowingly went overboard, I hope to apologise and to clarify. I dun expect others to agree with me of cuz but I just wanna voice out my opinion that's all and not trying to get anyone to agree with me. Still, everyone's gotta give and take too right? Luckily the gals there are mostly alright for now.....
Enuff said.
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Thought I can come online longer tonight but they came back alot earlier than expected and I have not even started blogging yet! Only managed to upload some pics from camera... So I try to make this a quickie.
Finally it's weekend and can take a breather from the non-stop bombarding of trainings this past week. We've been attending trainings for various brands that will be sold on the shopfloor upon opening. Think I can hardly remember most of the products and need to read up the notes when I have the time. However the most anticipating about attending trainings is that we girls get to have freebies!!! Just like when I was back at Changi Airport, lotsa freebies as well. Hehe.
On Monday, training was on the brand CHRISTIAN DIOR and it was quite a comprehensive and fun one. I simply love DIOR's products esp their cosmetic and fragrances. The designs are always chic yet classy.
Sisley was supposed to be next but something cropped up and Sonia, our retail manager gotta stand in last min to conduct our inhouse brand, Sephora. Everything was gone through very quickly and too briefly as a matter of fact. I dun think I manage to absorb any info at all. Sonia's a French and at times, we simply dun understand her words cuz her accent is too strong and vice versa. We gotta use extremely simple words to put across our message most of the time. Unfortunately, there were no freebie at all for our own brand. DUhzzz.
Tuesday we had Estee Lauder and Clinique. If you remember, I was from LaMer before and it is under the Estee Lauder Group. Clinique is from Estee as well thus we had to travel to Estee's office to attend both trainings. I brought along my LaMer uniform that day and called Lorraine to inform her of me returning my uniform. She was at the office and was so stunned when she realised I was there for training, and that I had joined Sephora, hehe. She was further surprised when she knew that Hazel was there as well cuz she too wanted to return her Bobbi Brown brushes.
It was Hazel's birthday that day as well and Winnie, our assistant store manager bought a cake for her. We sort of celebrated and sang a birthday song for pretty Hazel in the training room. Hazel also returned from her Thailand trip not long ago and bought me a nice pink cosmetic bag.
Thank you so much my darling, sorry for not getting you any birthday gift cuz I'm too broke at this time. Will make it up to you next year hor....
Third day was Lancome and Biotherm training. Biotherm's quite stingy in their gifts......
Fourth day was Clarins and the MTX brand I mentioned earlier. Everyone enjoyed the training cuz Clarins products are really good though I have not used them myself yet. But again, they could have been more generous with the doorgift.
MTX... the one brand that everyone mistook for a China brand due to the product presentation and not to forget the Cheena trainer with the "Superb Engrish". Once, Farah (non-Chinese) asked the trainer to repeat what she said cuz it was spoken in Mandarin. The lady repeated her words slowly, in Mandarin again and I couldn't take it (Yeah, I have absolutely no patience for China people) and voiced out that Farah ain't a Chinese. For gawd's sake, it's so obvious that Farah's a non-Chinese.
Then when the session ended, the trainer couldn't take it le and started conversing with us in Mandarin. When another group of colleagues walked into the room (We were divided into 2 groups), the trainer quickly changed back her language to broken English again. Pui! Typical China people. It's the umpteenth time I saw China people trying too hard to flaunt in a language they totally sucks in. It's the same at the airport back then. You talk to them in Mandarin initially, they replied back in English. Then you
"ying xiu" them with English and when they couldn't find the right words to express themselves, you try to talk to them in Mandarin again. They will then look at you with mouth agaped and exclaimed in disbelief that
YOU CAN ACTUALLY SPEAK MANDARIN!!! NABEH LAH! You have been speaking Mandarin right from the start.......
And the pathetic gift and unique product info in a cube form but unfortunately, was written in Chinese.
Then lastly, today's trainings were on OleHenriksen, Becca and Murad. OleHenriksen might be a foreign brand that mostly have not heard of but it's very popular with big celebrities and they're damn good!! We've tried and tested the products during the training and were excited about them. The Angmoh male trainer was super zany and made the training lively and full of laughter. We were on cloud nine when the brand generously gave us full sets of their products that cost over a hundred dollars!!! Huge smiles were plastered on everyone's faces. You guyz simply gotta try the products too cuz they're really really good.... Come to me when the shop opens and I'll intro you the best that we carry cuz lotsa brands are exclusive to us only or otherwise found in limited places.
Becca and Murad were not too bad. Becca only deals with cosmetics and Murad's a doctor brand so it should be not bad as well.
Actually there's a fourth training after Murad but I left earlier and headed down to Changi Aiport to collect my pay cheque. A meagre sum only, have to pay off part of my debt with it. Sigh.
[To be continued....]
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
It has been a hectic week of training at work. When I reach home, it will be evening time and I dun get to come online cuz everyone knows I can't use the computer at nights le. Thus the lack of updates.
My bro's gf been ill recently too and all the more I hope to give her the privacy to rest in the room without my presence tho she said she's ok with me in the room. She's a really good gal, bro must have told her before that I'm paiseh to use the PC when she's around therefore at times, she will take the initiative to ask me whether I wanna use the PC and to just inform her if I wan to. So no choice, I can only update my blog not as frequent as before.
One of the training today was a brand exclusive to my company, MTX. I can tell you lor, once I saw the trainer, heard her speak.... I totally shut down my system. I din really paid much attention to her cuz....
She's from godamn CHINA.
Not only me, majority of us were bored by her training cuz she talked so monotonously. And not to forget her ENGRISH sucks too.
For instance, she said, "SUCKING SKIN.... SLACKING SKIN...."
Actually what she wanted to say is "SAGGING SKIN"
Wtf.
Oh yeah, I still gotta cab all the way to airport tml and leave my training earlier cuz I need to rush down to collect my pay cheque from my previous company. Still say will call me when it's ready, I called them this noon during my lunch break lor. Twice I called this month, I knew that they will definitely be inefficient and I gotta call them again to get my overdue pay. If I dun remember to contact them, I dunno how long they will take to finally wanna issue me my salary. Haizz. Soo troublesome and soo freaking far.
Going to have my dinner now. Bro and gf coming back and I'm weary too. Hope I can update in the weekend.
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Email from Evelyn.
This picture is one of the signs from the Japanese metro trains.
Looking at the stick man in green and white, I would have thought that;
1st pic --> A man with an erected penis.
2nd pic --> Another horny being straddling on the aroused man.
3rd pic --> The aroused man become pregnant! Haha, dun ask me how a male can be pregnant, I'm just interpretating the pic!
4th pic --> Pregnant man gives birth finally.
The CORRECT interpretation should be to give priority seats to;
1st pic --> Person with injured arm.
2nd pic --> Person holding a child.
3rd pic --> Pregnant woman.
4th pic --> Person with injured leg.
Finally having my well deserved break after a week of training. Tml will be going to JJ Lin JunJie's mini concert at Max Pavilion with Viyond cuz she got a free tix and will be fetching me tml. Asked her why last week never go to the other concert that she jioed and she said that Peggy's ill so they didn't go after all lor. Will bring my camera and hopefully am able to snap some clear pics back for you guyz to see.
Really dun feel like going out today cuz been out everyday tho it's for work. Would like to spend some time nua at home too. Bathed my Baby just now, later will wash my one week dirty laundry. Cass did jio prawning tonight but very exp leh and is only for about 3 hours thus I did not join her. It's ok to go once a while but not when I'm sooo broke now, hehe.
Been visiting the lavatory lotsa times and kept having tummyache. Wah lao, can't believe 我有满肚子的大便 cuz I really shit alot.
Dun have pics of my nice, pretty and new colleagues thus I went to Carrie's blog and stole a few (with her approval) from her.
Me and Carrie
Carrie, Yuxin and Huiqi
Left to right; Vanessa, Carrie and EvelineThere are lots more pretty colleagues but that's all for now. Hope the gals really can work together as a team since the commission is shared.
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