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Another screw up

Posted by: Rachel on: October 5, 2009

Sometimes it’s not that I wanna scold karen. Boss wanted us to organise the family day on November so as to welcome the new MD as wellas introducing her to the rest of the employees. She has told us to do it months ago. Only last week then everything was kinda being finalised. It just left with some minor changes to the programme outline.

My dear karen didn’t go and inform the event company about it, knowing the fact that the venue, Marina Barrage is going off like hotcakes. If we never ask, she will never call. She uses stupid excuses to say that oh… boss is not free to go down to Marina barrage to take a look. But come on… didnt she mention that even she is not free, we can go down on behalf to take a look? Only till i message her, then she went to arrange and replied me that the venue was no longer available till next year Feb and March. She started to say things like oh… it’s too rush. I’m like telling her… boss told us about this Family day months ago and definitely there is enough time for preparation. Stop using excuses. She even told me to inform boss about it…. freaking hell… you screw things up and you want me to tell boss about it… !!!!!!! FREAK!!!!

I told her no matter what… we have to squeeze a Family Day out on November. We can change the venue to East Coast Park. Guess what she say… she told me… “oh east coast park… that’s not my proposal. That’s paul one. ” It just pissed me off so much when she told me that. Paul and I have all agreed on the proposal that she has obtained. We have all presented the programmes to boss and she agreed on it. You will just need to get the event company to source for the availability of east coast park. It’s a one stop service. What is she complaining about? She just wanna have the easy way out to push it to Paul to do. Totally pissed me off.

Gazal and I were like …. ahhhh gotta clear this SHIT! We called Karen’s event company directly. The guy was telling us that he was still holding on to the venue last friday but got no answer from Karen. He has been following up very closely on it with Karen and called her every week. She is just….. ARGH!!!

SCREWED UP!!!

AHhhhh… i just hate it!

Posted by: Rachel on: September 29, 2009

Seriously, i’m not too sure if i have changed or people have changed. Initially, when my boss has just joined the company, cat was really nice to me and chat with me a lot. We often go for breakfast, lunch and even meet up with Susan.

She was then being posted to the other office in Singapore for a few months. We drifted. Someow, i have provoked the other 2 managers in some ways in work. You know … really stupid thing like she was screaming at her staffs till they cried. Morally, this is a little too much to do so. It’s not an excuse just to say that you are pregnant and just lost control of your temper. They don’t deserve such harsh treatment. Best deal… her so called good colleagues went to tell the other lady about it and that lady went to gossip adding some oil to it. This just went round like that and she assumed that it was me who complained to my boss. One more stupid woman was about her physiotherapy and make a big hoo-ha over the cancellation of an insurance policy that was requested by my ex-boss. She just seems to blame it on me on the cancellation. Pea-brainer… She think i can decide to continue or to cancel the policy. I’m just a low- rank employee. Freaking mad womens!!!

That’s y i did not want to lunch with them anymore. It jus put my appetite off with them around. I started to lunch out with those of the same level as me from Procurement, marketing and finance. When Cat is posted to my office, she still joined back her usual lunch kaki. Occasionally, i still go over to her place to talk to her. But, it just seems not to be the same again.

It seems to be that when i’m closer to my boss, they drift away. I guess they most probably think that I have changed a lot to be able to keep a close relation with my boss.

I’m jus so sick of that….and guess what today…i have totally forgotten to book conference room for my afternoon meeting. I managed to squeeze out a room in the end. However, no projector was available. I was quite mad about it as it was being brought over to the finance conference in the hotel. But think about it, hotel can’t provide our finance conference a projector??? They were like no… it is chargable. It will depend on how you negotiate and if you have squueze something on the room package then they are not able to offer complimentary projector.

BULLSHIT!!!! I used to work in hotel and i know all these as long as you pushed for it. The hotel will definitely give it complimentary usage for the meeting. She even take scissors… post-it pad to the hotel. I was like duh!!!! Cna’t she just ask the hotel for it? You think hotel is so poor not being able to offer all these and provide us with a one-stop service for conference. What if we are not based in singapore but other countries? Will i need to bring those things from one country to another? STUPID… How would i know that she will need to bring that projector over. So… i get the IT team to set up monitor for me so that the presentation can be put through the monitor. He offered me a 17 inch monitor. I was just asking if there is a bigger one. He was like ” Yeah, Your Boss lor!!!” Then, he goes on… oh she has the biggest one… Damn sarcastic… He expect me to take my boss’s monitor? See… stupid again

Pardon me… but i just need to vent my frustration!!!

Happiness and unhappiness

Posted by: Rachel on: August 11, 2009

Stepping into the 1st year with RI… struggling through my 365 days… I was really touched on what my boss and gazal have done for me. My boss was talking to me last week on how long i have been with RI, assuming that i have been there for years since I seems to have gone through lots of events there. I was like… NOOOooo… i’m going to be 1 year with RI.

There she goes…she remembers… gazal remembers… they brought me out for lunch just to celebrate the 365 days struggle through. They wrote me a card with Royce chocolate as a present. OH gosh…. i haven’t felt so much being appreciated ever since my previous boss, Miss Koh back in the hotel days.

I was jokingly telling them…. does the celebration + present mean that i need to work even harder?

Anyway… totally appreciate what they have done.

However…. there is happiness, and of course unhappiness as well. Sometimes, i just don’t get it why people want to take small issue to heart. I seems to have got my colleague being scolded by her boss. It was just forwarding to me on a piece of announcement which i thought it was nothing at all. After all, it is meant to disseminate to the rest of the colleagues… so…. what’s the big fuss about it. Perhaps it was just the portion that i didn’t delete the history of the email. 

BUT…. does it matter? Does it cause life and death?

Anyway, i feel so bad that i cause her to get scolded… but… wasn’t really me… it was one of my colleague that talk about it… things justt spread. Her boss really changes. I still remember the time when i first joined 1 year ago when she was about to get married. She came with her wedding invitation and smile at me so happily to invite me for her wedding. Now… tigeress to her staffs…

Changes!!!!

My New Dream

Posted by: Rachel on: June 1, 2009

For every week, Wai Kuan and I seem to have our new dream. We have been always dreaming ahhh… how nice it will be if we can strike lottery and stop working.

She has a dream… to open a push cart selling breads. As for me, i’m not too sure what i want to do. I guess i may just stop working  for a year and take my MBA in Aussie. I will bring and sponsor ling if i have enough to spare. Hahahaha… In this way, i can be out of Singapore for a period of time and upgrade myself as well. Well, all these will need $$$$$ to sustain which I don’t have.

Sooo… if one fine day you get to see my plan executing, most prob that’s when i strike my lottery.

Haaaaaahaaaaa!!!!

Just another random post

Posted by: Rachel on: May 31, 2009

It’s really been a long time i update my blog… Nearly abandon it.  I’m was so busy with school, work, change of boss, looking out for jobs and the list goes on…

Finally, i cleared all my exams. I’m not too sure if i can clear all modules in this semester. If i do, do congrats me for graduating. I have been waiting for this day to come for the entire 3 years. I’m so sick of studying and so much prefer to work where i do not need to memorise anything. The best thing is… i do not need to rush to school, rush for projects, do my last minute essays and revisionssss…

To celebrate all these (without knowing the results), i have booked my Europe trip to Germany, Switzerland and France. AHhhhh… i can’t wait for the holidays. It has been months … since feb that i last went for any trip. I’m getting a little bored in Singapore~~~

I always tell Christine that perhaps i should go overseas to work for a couple of years so that i can be more appreciative about Singapore. Nothing motivates me at all. All i’m doing these days are going to work, meet ling, go for gym and my aerobics classes.

Can u imagine that’s really nothing interesting for me to blog about at all…? I’m such a boring person.

My blog… my blog

Posted by: Rachel on: February 13, 2009

Happy Moo Year. Though it comes a little late, it better than not greeting at all. I’ve been really busy these days and didnt log on to wordpress for some times. I’m surprised to see the change in format. Luckily, it’s still quite user friendly.

Work is always never ending and tons of things to complain about. That stupid dung from Accounts is getting on my nerves. He does all sort of stupid things. I can’t help being so grumpy these days. You know he must have been thinking that i’m brainless to believe and reveal confidential information on people’s salaries to him. He was like telling me it was the big boss from UK requested for it.

I report to my boss, my boss report to global HR director and he will report to the big boss i was referring to.

And if i dun give him the info, big boss will scold the global HR director, and he will scold my boss and my boss will scold me.

What does he think it is? Food Chain…? What a dumbass!!!

He went ahead to do recruitment with headhunter and being charged on a huge sum of agent fee. What happen in the end? His candidate turned up for work for 2 days and went disappeared the entire week. No phone calls to inform… But again, he refused to get new candidate with the headhunter for replacement and waited for her to come back the next week. He threatened things like he will report to UK that we are hindering his attempt to stabilise finance team.

Sometimes you will just have the temptation to go over to 6th floor ( FYI, the 6th floor of my office building is Blanga embassy) and get those people’s shoes to stuff inside his mouth. He’s such a pain in the ass.

Other than handling this dung, i gotta have my conference with the UK people every week. Sometimes i just gotta miss my lesson for this. SOOooo… classmates and project mates, i didnt mean to skip school at times.

Anyway, I just went to Bangkok… I will upload those pics soon though all of them are already in facebook.

My next destination will be indonesia for this weekend and next week will be KL.

BUSY!!!!

Joker of the year

Posted by: Rachel on: January 7, 2009

Met up with Susan and catherine for dinner at Conrad- Oscar yesterday. Last minute Cat had to go down to Senoko office for meeting and would be late. Hence, i met Susan first.

I lost the momentum of working  and left at around 6pm. I recalled that i wanna change my toothbrush so i walked to Marina Watsons to buy. When Susan reached there, she gave me a ring and asked if I have reached.

I did… but went to marina n buy toothbrush. She was like…. DUH!!! Marina sell better toothbrush…. apparently, nope… but jus tot i can fully make use of my time.

That was not the part that they laughed non-stop and cat wanna award me the joker of the year award. 

It all happened when it comes to footing the bill. Cat overheard the conversation of the waiter and the customers on the other table that Amex card has discount. So.. we were trying to see if any of us have Amex card. Susan has… Cat dun have and I said… i have but…it’s not exactly a Amex card.

They were like .. HUH!!!!????!!!!!!!

I got no idea why i jus simply lost my normal self… I dunno how to express myself one ytd… I was a bit brain dead i think. Hahaha.. i tried to explain further.

Mine has the Amex logo but not Amex card. Mmm… u know nt thru the traditional Amex card… blah blah blah

And cat was listening until so seriously and she suddenly burst out into laughter… and asked… u mean u have the fake Amex card that usually it comes with it when u buy wallet? That’s the only Amex card but not exactly Amex card.

I told them to wait and show them my card. Okie… it’s an Amex card issued by DBS. Sigh… so they were asking me to try it out on the waiter and ask if i can use my Amex card but not exactly Amex card to see his reaction.

Give me a break man!!!!

Hahahaha….

Taipei Jan 09

Posted by: Rachel on: January 7, 2009

Everyone is enjoying half a day off on the new year eve except me. Well, my company has its own reason for not declaring half a day coz we were officially off on 2 Jan 09. Everyone is taking leave to go on their trips just like my boss, she is away since mid of dec and only be back in mid of jan 09. My office was really quiet…  Though i jus came back from Korea and Hong Kong… + Melbourne back in nov, i can’t stand the boredom and still feel like going on hols.

And so, i plan for a trip down to Taipei- the only place that i feel like going and can claim through the krisflyer miles. I didnt wan to waste my leave away and i decide to fly on 31 Dec 08 night. Guess what, i spent my countdown in the airport lounge. How interesting right… watching the tv to enjoy the fireworks of different countries.

DUH!!!

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I was really trying hard to keep myself awake till 1.30am to board the plane. So… we took pictures….

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I knew my nose cant take night flight. It just keep sneezing away. By the time ling and I reached Taipei, we were kinda shag. We headed down to the place to get the express buses to get our to the heart of Taipei. There was this taxi driver that wanna quote us NT 900 for one way trip to our hotel whereby we can get NT260 per pax for a 2 way tickets through and fro of the airport. Though from the airport to hotel, the bus dropped us somewhere near and required us to take a cab there. It’s definitely way cheaper than the amount that cabbie quoted us.

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The purple coins are the ticket for their MRT

We had totally underestimated the weather in Taipei. It was chilling… esp when the wind blew… While waiting for the bus, we were looking for pillars to hide from the wind. Journey from the airport to the city took around an hour. We arrived at the hotel at 8.15am. Leaving our luggauges in the hotel and walked to Xi Men Ding which is just round the corner (5 mins walk). We went around looking for some indoor places to get some warmth and we found Macdonald for our breakfast. It was still too early after we finished our breakfast. We cant check in yet… shops were all closed at that time.

We travelled down to City hall near to Taipei 101, hoping some shopping malls would open around 10am or 10.30am.

NONE!!!!

BUT… the cinema was operating already. We watched the bedtime stories. It was rather a nice show, something that was unexpected. It jus bring back those childhood days whereby you believe it fairy tales. Something magical can happen anytime. Well, it was good. After the movie, most shops were opened. We walked around xin guang san yue a little… and went back to Xi Men Ding to check in to the hotel room.

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My free bookmark for purchasing the movie ticket...

We “dived” right into our beds once we reached the hotel room and took a nap… We were simply too tired especially me cos my nose failed on me. Till now the area ard my nose is still peeling skin due to the running nose i suffered in Taipei.

Went over to Shilin Night market in the night… We filtered out all other stores and zoomed straight to the famous fried chicken chop there. The queue was really long. Since we made our trip down to taipei after 4.5 hrs flight, what’s about queuing up for another 30 mins for the chicken? It was huge… and 1 serving + bubble tea are good enough for my dinner. Hence, we didnt eat anything after that. Oyster omelette …. stinking beancurd all these aren’t my favourite. In fact, i find them really yucky!!! Let me clarify… oyster omelette should be okie if it does it without that orangy sauce. That stinks!!! ( no offence but just personally opinion)

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Did some shopping… but not a very successful one. All winter clothings sold there… I jus got myself 2 jackets jus in case i’m planning to go to anywhere snowy again in Dec, 1 boots, face masks and some goodies for the entire trip.

Now comes the best part… on 2nd day…We went to Dan shui to tour ard. Guess what ling was so curious to try the food there… got there and that. I was like… can u please try something that we eat before instead of trying those weird these… And so… he ate tian bu la and squid which i didnt touch much on. Jus one mouth to taste it… He was down with food poisoning. Blame it on him man… Everything also wanna eat.

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GOSH!!! Recalling That pale face of his… searching for toilets… Poor him!!!

There pretty much gone for my taiwan trip jus addition of of a couple few more places that we went like the SOGO…gong guan…wu fen pu

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That’s it!!!

My tale of taipei~

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Seasons Greeting

Posted by: Rachel on: December 28, 2008

Merry Xmas and happy 2009 to everyone.

As usual, i have not abandoned this blog.

1. I’m just too lazy to blog

2. I’m busy at work these days

Many things have happened within this period. My manager has left for a better job opportunity. I’m so happy for her to get this job advancement. Though the times that we worked together is considered kinda short( 4 months), it’s good enough to build up a good relationship with her. She has guided me and taught me how to handle situations in the corporate world better. Everyone wish to move up, so do I. But I still have lots to learn along the way to come. Personally, I feel that it is important to meet a mentor during each working experience. The mentor will be able to share the experience with you, anaylse different issues with you and point out the areas that you have done wrong or can be improved on. I have been so appreciative to Susan’s effort towards me for the past months. She’s someone that i respect a lot.

Due to her departure, I’m given a wider scope of work, taking over most of her duties. I’m not too sure if I can handle it well but i’m trying my best. I dun get to enjoy the perks of going back on the dot at 5.30pm anymore. Handling conference call with UK that may lead all the way till 12am. That isn’t something that i’m looking forward to.

Leaving all these aside, I visited korea and Hong Kong during my December break. I love Korea!!! It’s really a very very nice place and it just makes me wanna go and learn korean language. BUT… let me take a look at my timetabe first before i sign up for anything. I’m serious on picking up korean this time. =)  

And now… All about my trip…

In Korea,

- O2 Ski Resort

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Going to ski… It’s my first attempt to ski, so… stop telling me that ” hey, that’s the beginner course.”

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At mount Sorak,

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At Everland,

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In Seoul ( Outside Novotel Ambassador),

It started snowing that morning. I was behaving like a little kid, getting really excited over it.

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It stopped in the afternoon and continue snowing again at night. The snow became too heavy that I nearly slip and fall. It went like -15 degrees…. GGGrrrr

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Places that i visited

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Strawberry farm

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Some historical places that i forgot

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The palace

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The place where the minister works

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Somewhere  near to north korea

Meals in Korea

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In Hong Kong,

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Hong Kong was okie… I still prefer Korea though. I dun enjoy the food in Hong Kong that much even everyone is praising about it. The only nice food i ate there was the Tim Sum.

Let me do a comparison… since i’m heading to Taipei in this coming Wednesday. Hee… I’m in a travelling mood. I wish i can travel all year round without being a stewardess that need to serve people. I truly wanna being served than serving people.  I shall jus load these photos… too lazy to get everything online.

CHEERS!

Meet-up Session

Posted by: Rachel on: November 21, 2008

I met quite a number of people this week. I met

- Tricia and Yee Choo for Lunch on Wednesday

- Annie for Lunch on thursday

- Jolyn and Sherin for dinner on thursday as well

Finally, I’m able to find some time to meet up with them. Not that i’m very busy… perhaps it’s the poor time management. Hahaha…

Lazy should be the appropiate word to use.

It ’s really nice to meet them up to update each other especially Annie. She has just gave birth to a baby girl and if i dun meet up with her now, she is going to return to Malaysia for good. I’m glad that she is doing well, still pulling thru her days in Royal Plaza. Though things have become a litte out of hand, many are just dragging their feets to go on. I miss those days whereby HR was in good working terms with the Kitchen staffs. On and off, i would go over to the kitchen to look for chef to chit chat and do some food tasting. But the last time that i saw chef about a month ago, he told me that after miss koh and I left, he no longer go over to HR anymore. How sad right?

U see… there are always such morons at work that make things difficult for the rest. In order to outshine themselves, they can just make use of people like a stepping stone. I’m not being evil but i think what comes around goes around. It’s jus a matter of time. I cant wait to see it happen.

And Tricia and Yee choo are doing fine too. When i was still working there, they have been saying that they wanna find new job coz there are not much progression over at Vita. BUT…. months down the road, they are still there.   =)   They felt that it has been so much better after they are moved to hotel and do not need to see that witch anymore. STILL… as a friend, there’s not a place to stay for long. Once you are able to find a better one, PLEASE move on.

Tricia is still so nice… got so happy to see me!!! Hahaha… yeah, she misses me a lot, okie!!!

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As for Jolyn and Sherin, when the 3 of us come together… we went mad! We were very noisy… laughing loudly like nobody’s business in the restuarant. We can laugh until we went out of energy… I still get to see the both of them but not 3 of us together. The last time that sherin and Jolyn met was last year october, celebrating my birthday. We make it a point that we will meet again when i come back from korea. If not, it’s gonna take another year for the 3 of us to get together. we have tons of expressions… and now I present…

 

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The Best Constipation look award goes to ….JOLYN

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The innocent little girl look award goes to…. ME!!!

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The most stylish award goes to… SHERIN

She won it coz of that big tag over at her head. DUH!!! And Jolyn broke the sunglasses and asked us to get out of there fast. SO… if the camera over in John Little captured our faces…. please… go and get jolyn to pay. She’s the culprit.

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The Fearful look award goes to … ME

Crap…

And all of the others of our pictures that we took… the classic pose and expression

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I tell u.. sherin got very long tongue. U cant see it from this pic right?

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And lastly… just the normal 3 of us with the normal pose and the normal expression

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