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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

bitching time!

okay am still suffering from NY withdrawal syndrome haha but the sales in Hong Kong is helping quite a bit. amazingly there are sales EVERYWHERE and it's not like " up to 20% on selected items " but " up to 60% on selected items" Six-farking-ty percent! how can anyone resist not buying at all? RIGHT? however, i havent started on my spree. because am still recovering from my NY spree. hahaha but i got a feeling, a very very strong feeling it's going to start soon. GOD HELP ME TO STOP SPENDING! but hard lah.

anyway feel like bitching. although the season of joy, the season of giving, the day that Jesus Christ was born is here, i am still in the bitching mode. maybe because i am going to spend my christmas ALONE. yes. no one has dated me out for Christmas and all my friends are either going back to Singapore or in Singapore. i really wonder how it is like to spend Christmas alone. a friend just called and asked me where i am. i said " home " and he went " wah so early? " haha do i sound sad or what?

Bitching Session #1:
let's start with this AU colleague of mine. went to NY togets with her for training. she's basically a very angry woman. whatever the trainer said, she will have some comments to made. such as " yesh, my clients cannot do this and do that " or " yes, this is very bad for my clients and they are always coming to me for this and that " or yesh, when can we have this or have that? " to make it worse, the AU accent is rather annoying and somehow, it got on my nerves a little, but not enough for me to hate her. BUT, there's this one incident which i totally do not understand her at all. basically one morning, we decide to have bagels for breakfast. me and another colleague thought that they are meeting at the office and going togets. however, it seems that the rest just went straight to the bagels place from hotel. and so LBN offered to buy back bagels for both of us. so when they are back, i happily walked over to get my bagels. another colleague pointed to a desk and said " go take one over there " the moment she said this, before i even move my leg hair, this AU colleague started ranting " Nooooooooooo, those are for the implementation team, i bought for them. yours is with another person. am very sure yours is with him. those you cannot take " and then another said " but there's a lot, just take one " and before i even move my leg hair again, AU colleague went " NOOOOOOOOOOO, im very sure yours is with the other guy, those arent for you" and i was like "okay, chill, i wont take". and so we went to the training room without a bagel for myself. then in the meeting room, another colleaugue offered me half of her bagel and this AU colleague went " NOOOOOOOO, yours is really coming." and the colleague went " never mind, we'll share." and AU colleague went " NOOOOOOOoooooOOOOO" omg! what is her farking problem? first she stopped me from taking one bagel from a bag of 30s and now she's stopping me from sharing bagel? mad woman. and then the man who supposedly have my bagel walked in WITHOUT my bagel and she didnt even say anything. RETARDED! think she wants to attract the implementation guys' attention. no idea why. those guys are either married or ugly. haha!

Bitching Session #2:
this is more mild. this HK colleague of mine is on very good terms with my boss. they are very close and so during classses in NY, they will start with flirt with each other. haha to me, it's pretty alright as im getting used to it. seriously. but to the others, i can see eyes rolling. HAHAHA and then after which, KR colleague will complain to me and i think the AU colleague also buay tahan. HAHAHA im speechless. i dont know what to say. KR colleague asked " how can you tolerate her?" and i said " im used to it already" then on the other hand, HK colleague was bitching to me about how arrogant KR colleague is. im like some information center. everyone comes to me to complain and comment. all i did was like " aiyah! " seriously i have no idea what to say. but anyhow, i think both have some truth in them as these are my personal thoughts as well. HAHA!

Bitching Session #3:
this guy is an old friend cum ex colleague. he's FARKING annoying. he is always in some relationship trouble and he will always come to me for "advice". however he's always so dramatic. this time, he seems to have pissed his ex-gf off by hanging out with his ex-ex-gf. i cannot even remember the details as i m too lazy to remember. every other day, he would call to tell me he's waiting for his ex-gf, doing this for his ex-gf, want to do this for his ex-gf and all the whatever. i told him " YOU'RE SO DRAMATIC. I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU. PLEASE GROW UP AND GET A LIFE ". seriously, he's not a young lad and he has NO JOB and all he can think about is getting his ex-gf back. FOR FARK??!!!! i mean i really dont know if i can believe him totally but i gave him the benefit of doubt. but am quite a biatch as well. everytime he called, i would go " sorry, on the line " or " sorry am out with friends " or "sorry i was sleeping " hahah im 200% bitch! but i really cannot tolerate such guys ALL THE TIME. i feel so annoyed and pestered by him. seriously. so i told him " stop asking me. i dont know what to say already. get a life " sigh. but i think he still wants to tell me. do i really look like a information database? haha!

Bitching Session #4:
another HK colleague of mine pissed me off when i was in NY. when he was in NY for training, i am like his PA. i made calls to his clients, made appointments for him and updated his calendar, do all the shit jobs while he gets all the contracts. but i did it willingly as he's away in NY for training and so i did it. however, when i was in NY, some issues with Standard Chartered Bank came along. it was a legacy problem and i was handling it because this colleague was away previously and i was supposedly covering his arse when i just joined the team and so it's my issue now. BLARDY HELL. the least that he could do is try to help right? guess what he said? he said " i am not copied in any emails. so i am going to close both eyes and let hannah handle " WTF. i was super pissed when i read this. i mean seriously, you're the senior here. you were here when the issue occured. and all you can say is to let me handle when im in farking NY and the client is in HK. seriously, i am super pissed and i really do not thikn he deserved my help at all. and now, i really feel that he's treating me like his PA. whenever there's shitty job or jobs that might get him into trouble he would go " can you help me with this? " and whenever there's a client meeting with contracts possibility, he would go " you need my help with this meeting? " seriously, WTF! i am really not compeitive at all and im more than willing to help but he's pissing me off. another incident that happened today. there were some admin work to be done and im concerned about doing it because it would generate a new account number for the clients and i dont want my clients to get confused. so him being more senior, i asked him for his opinions. he told me " i dont know. oh are you doing the linking now? can you link for me as well? i'll forward to you " farking idiot. i am not your farking PA okay? so this time i told him " are you crazy? no you do it yourself. am not going to do for you " then he said " oh, then i just act blur and dont do it as i dont want to create new account number " seriously, he better not push his luck. i am not such a pushover okay?

i have more bitchy stories but i guess i am tired from all these bitching. shall save some for another time. ooh to end this bitching session on an informative way, Forbes' Richest Hollywood couple is Jay-Z and Beyonce! they earned a total of US 162 million this year, 80 from Beyonce and 82 from Jay-Z. AMAZING!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

i LOOOOOOVE new york!

just came back from NY. landed in Hong Kong on Saturday morning. it's Sunday night now. and guess what? I MISS NEW YORK! i so wanna go back there. it was 2 weeks of sheer bliss. i shopped, i ate, i had fun and of course i worked. the main purpose of my 2 weeks stint in NY is for my basic training. stayed at Westin Times Square, amazing location - near Times Square, near 5th avenue, near Port Authority, basically near EVERYTHING. but Westin is only a so-so hotel. not very impressive. wish i could stay in a better hotel but oh wells, cant complain when it's free accomodation! haha!

well, i shopped sooo much that i am so broke now. i bought 4 bags ( 1 for mum), 4 pairs of 9-west shoes, 4 tops, 3 sets of pajamas, 2 pairs of jeans, 2 books, 2 pairs of socks, 1 wallet and watch Mary Poppins on Broadway. and all these only cost me USD 1.3K!! and mind you, all of them are branded stuffs. well coach is a brand. 9 west is a brand. levi's is a brand. HAHA. so happy. but feel damaged, financially that is.

this trip i didnt do much sight-seeing as i have done the NYSE, ground zero, bull, empire state building in my last trip in 2007. this time, i can be seen at 5th avenue, SOHO and central park. some nice pictures i've taken:

5th Avenue basically.




Christmas Tree at Rockfeller. missed the lighting up of the tree on 12/02. was in princeton that day and caught up with my previous team-mates for dinner and drinks. didnt regret a bit. totally enjoyed myself.


we have a beautiful christmas at our office at lexington too. pretty right? actually our NY office is pretty amazing. didnt take any pictures as i was shy and afraid that the security guards will haul me out of the office. ha!


i have no idea why but Central Park is simply such a nice park that i wish i have one full day to spend in that park but i didnt and only went to part of the park which i have already fallen in love with. the trees, the partly frozen lake, the squirrels, the ducks, EVERYTHING.




i also have the chance to go to the lower east side because a very nice colleague invited me to his bar crawl party. basically, in NY, the bars and clubs and lounges are located all over the city. so one of the activities for them is to go from 1 bar to another. from midtown to downtown. amazing. totally enjoyed myself. taught them how to play the asian beer games like 5-10 and 7-up. hillarious. they couldnt understand what im trying to say. too drunk to learn. we were at the 7th bar for the night already. unfortunately, none of these places look like any of the bars that i see in SATC. ooh talking about SATC, i did visit a restaurant which was featured in SATC Season 5 Episode 4, i think. it's the Tao Restaurant. food was pretty good but it's pretty expensive but totally worth it!!!

on a more cultured level, i actually visited 2 musuems - Metropolitan Musuem of Art (MET) and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). i am soooo glad that i did this. this is the first time i actually visited a museum. honestly speaking, have never stepped into a museum in singapore. one thing that i can take back from these 2 visits, i am in love with Claude Monet. according to wikipedia, Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature. okay i have no idea what is wikipedia trying to tell me but most of the pictures that i've fallen in love with are Claude Monet's. Let me show you some:




arent they beautiful??? especially the last one. i was sooo mesmerized by it that i stood by it for like 5 mins. pretending to understand the stroke and techniques, which i totally dont but i simply love this painting. it's called Ice Floes. and i've also "made friends" with Pablo Picasso, Van Gogh, Dali and many otheres but Claude Monet is my man!

mmmm, although the main stint of this trip is for work purposes but i havent mentioned anything about work. think i shall leave the "juicy" gossip till my next entry. i just want to say I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE NEW YORK!