Sep 7 1980
Likes: Arsenal, Technopop, The Cataracs, Adele, Pedro Almodovar, Sodagreen
Quotes:
"If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages."
"A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."
"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."
Elva no. 12 album was finally released. I like her songs a lot. Her previous two albums were awesome.
I haven't got time to check up 'I'm Ready' but I think I might be disappointed judging from some of the songs that I heard from youtube.
So far the best song from the new album have to be 'Love phone or Me' aka '爱不离手‘. The tempo is very good and it's really catchy.
Some tracks are not really impressive. I suppose the previous album has set the bar too high that disappointment is inevitable.
Elva's mini drama serial is also out. I caught a glimpse of the fourth episode, haven't got time to catch the rest.
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Time really flies. I have been in my job for almost a month already. The first week, I realised things will be very, very different.
During the first week, I was asked to attend the sales training & meeting in Penang.
The best part of the trip was of course the free and easy day and going around with colleagues to hunt for food.
The first week was really like honeymoon & the sales meeting was kinda relaxing.
When the honeymoon ends, it was really back to reality. The first 'end of honeymoon' week was really hectic. I remembered going to the same institute almost every single day.
The first customer I visited was a bit cold to me. I was actually a bit taken aback cuz I thought I can't bit that detestable right.
But, thereafter, he kinda becomes
more relaxed towards me & I managed to clinch the deal!
I like the customer interaction part but I quite detest the paper work that is part of the process.
Colleagues Wei-qi, Kate and my boss has taught me quite a lot during my first few weeks. I think it is really quite an eye-opener.
Wei-qi is really quite a good 'teacher'. She accompanied me to see customers and then at the end of each visit, she will give me a debrief, so really grateful for that.
Anyway, I think things will get even more hectic, so let's see how.
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The hip-hop lesson has been really great. It is one of the thing I look forward to every week.
Instructor Evy is kinda cool and is super friendly and patient; really very impressed by her!
My frenz wanted to extend the lesson to 2 hrs, but Evy said that there is a lesson after ours. Thank goodness, I seriously don't think I have the concentration for 2 hrs. I doubt Vivian & the rest can absorb as well.
This will be a fast one. I need to get into bed early today. I think I have overworked my engine for the past 13 days.
Anyway, the turn of the year just happened too fast.
This yr for the gift exchange, Huiling's gift was voted top! Minghui got the votes for the worst gift.
I got one vote for best gift, which is pretty good. I guess Alex is my lucky star, we were walking ard in ion with no target in mind & he just disappeared into a shop. I went in and fished up my gift, all in the space of half an hour.
Thank you Alex! Nxt year gift exchange's format will be different but it sounds quite interesting.
On New Year's Eve, we went to Donna Carmela for dinner. It is a very fine Italian restaurant.
This is mine third time there. I was surprised I was the last to reach & I was only 7 minutes late.
I started work on 3 Jan 2012. It was and still is a pretty weird feeling for me, kinda ambivalent.
Although, I am really delighted to get a job, I really do miss the freedom I have last year. Freedom is like happiness to me, u can't have enough of it.
Last year was weird, cuz although I do not have to go to school frequently, it feels like it wasn't really a vacation.
So it's not really true when a lot of my frenzs said I have slacked enough. A lot of the time I was editing manuscript, preparing presentation, tuition and going for therapy. You don't define tt as a break right?
On 3 Jan, my group of friends finally started our hip hop course at the dance school in Novena.
It in really fun, but hip hop is really hard. I think the best analogy is like when u first started learning how to drive a manual car.
The car always stalled! The braking is not smooth. And basically, it is just difficult for the brain to coordinate the legs and arms.
Will update more and write more in the nxt post! Time for bed!