We had 4-cousins outing on Friday.
Since one of the 2 girls who are 19 this year,
Haven't gone to a club before,
PW and I decided to "show them the scene".
We picked St James Power Station,
Since the availability of variety,
Might be more suitable,
For a girl who doesn't know what she enjoys.
The ages of the fellowship,
27, 23, 19, 19.
Ahem, yes I was the oldest.

Before we entered the club,
PW said:
"Eh I just realised,
We all have the same word in our chinese names!"
"Huh, how can you never have noticed?!"
"Well it wasn't so obvious until we all came out together!"

We toured the whole place,
Just to show the girls what everywhere looks like.
While trying to enter Gallery Bar and Bellini's,
We were stopped at the door.
"Sorry it is for members only."
"Huh, since when? I entered the last time."
"Oh, tonight onwards..."
"What?! Forever or for tonight only or what?"
"Oh... you know, we renovated and there is this new concept.."
"Rrright... so I cannot go in anymore la?"
"Urm if you wear the right clothes...."
I think the bouncer could have saved time,
By saying right from the start,
That it is entry with a dress code,
Instead of giving lame excuses and replies!
It was pretty unfortunate,
Cos I thought PZ would like Bellini's.

To get the clubbing mood and drinking going,
We started playing drinking games,
With the golden rule :
"What happens here stays here".
It's my favourite drinking game actually,
Taught by Yan a couple of years back,
Called "I have never...."
A lot of little (sometimes dirty) secrets learnt ;]

We sent the girls home,
But everyone was sober,
Just that the girls were rather tired.
(The music wasn't that great anyway)

The next Mom told me that PZ's mother (my aunt),
Didn't manage to sleep until 4am,
That is when she came home.
Ooops.
And, she threw up when she arrived at home.
Double Ooops.
Well she looked okay when we left...

I guess this won't happen again,
Cos it is probably her first and last time!
(She has decided she doesn't enjoy clubbing)

Snippets of a meeting,
For a large prestigous commercial project.

M&E engineer :
No la I don't do the drawings one,
I just mark up the then the architect draw.

What kind of an engineer is this ?!

Architect:
No we don't do that, (develop facade design)
This is for the specialist to do one,
Architects only draw lines.

What kind of an architect is this ?!

Maybe people should just speak for themselves,
Instead of assuming the whole industry is like them.

Whenever I realise there are such imbeciles architects in the real world,
It makes me feel as if I wouldn't have a terrible architect.

My Wacom Intuos3 6x8.
Doesn't it make me seem more pro? ;P

Beautiful
Here we go again

Another best friend,
Changed her last name over the weekend..

A fairy-tale like and beautiful wedding,
Just like the girl herself.

Congratulations, Celine!

Buyers Beware.

I've been having a streak of bad luck,
With a handful of my purchases.

First it was the Amazon book,
Which had staple holes for the first 50 pages.
(I am a perfectionist for all things I pay for.)
They promised to send a replacement,
But it went to LX's place in Canada instead.
I told LX he can help me sell it then,
But he has decided he will sell it and keep the dough,
Since I sold the camera he dumped on me the last time.
(I reminded him that he gave the broken camera to me,
Saying that he wouldn't want it nor use it,
The only reason why I sold it,
Was because I didn't want a broken camera
- don't ask me why the buyer wanted it -
But he didn't seem to remember that.)

However, as Amazon was nice enough to send a replacement,
I give them 4 out of 5 stars for service.

Sennheiser gave me a very shitty impression.
The earphones I bought for more than $50 from Challenger,
Had their black wire tubings splitting down the middle,
Exposing the bare copper wires inside.
Since I bought them only last August,
And I haven't been doing anything rough with them,
I think there is just something crap about their quality.
When I rang up their service centre,
The male customer service officer (CSO) who picked up the phone,
Behaved like a total wanker instead of a professional.

"Alamak, you don't have receipt? Then guarantee card leh?"
"I don't remember having one. "
"Sure the person who sold you would tell you to keep right?"
"Well apparently that didn't happen."
"Then I cannot help you lah, too bad lah."

The most annoying thing,
Is that I went back to the shops to check,
And this model of earphones (OMX 50 VC Street),
Do NOT come with warranty cards.
What an asshole!

The next incident with Samsung.
My mobile phone kept hanging,
So I brought it down to their Plaza Singapore service centre last Saturday.
There were more than 10 people in line,
But only two people to serve.
With no Samsung employee in sight.
(There were also around 5 to 6 empty customer service stations,
But I later learnt from an employee,
That a maximum of 3 CSOs serve the customers at a single time)
I spent one hour waiting for the queue to jump by 3 numbers.
Since I was another 10 numbers away I decided to go off,
To come back 1.5 hours later.

Unfortunately when I came back,
The queue numbers jumped so fast that I just missed my turn.
So I had to take another queue number,
About another 12 numbers away.
I really fell asleep waiting for my turn,
Which came almost two hours later.
The lady who serviced me was rather efficient,
Although I noticed she had to keep walking in and out of a backroom,
Just to collect printed paper and photocopy documents.
Bad office planning, I say.
I left my phone with them to send to their engineers.

A lady from the service headquarters rang me up,
To tell me that I would have to pay $180+,
For my mobile that was still under warranty.
The reason was because the parts were corroded.
I said it was ridiculous cos I never dropped it into water,
And the lady said that corrosion due to rainfall or sweat,
Would also be not covered by the warranty.
Obviously this is infuriating.
I said I would need to think about this,
Because the price is unbelievably high,
And also because I don't believe I should be paying for bad quality.

The lady proceeded to ask me,
"May I know what is the problem?"
(as in why I have to think about it)
Can you believe that??
I don't know if she was being polite or what,
But I couldn't help but tell her,
"The problem is that I don't think I should be paying for this!"

Why are consumers the victims of badly made products?
Why do we have to pay for shitty things?

The down side of a bull economy,
Is that all these sales/customer service people,
Start behaving like idiots,
Because they take their good business for granted.
I think service charge in Singapore,
Is compulsory not because Singaporeans are stingy,
But because good service that deserves tipping,
Is so rare on this piece of soil.

On the other hand,
Mom rang up the National Environment Agency,
As we were given a notice for them to check our house,
For the breeding of Aedes mosquitoes.

Bolded on the notice were the following words :
"Any person who obstructs or hinders the Director-General
or authorised officer.... in the performance or execution of his duty...
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine...
or to imprisonment..."
Along with many other words in CAPS.

The letter stated that they will visit our place,
On a specific date between 9am to 1pm
And since we had one day's notice,
Mom had to take urgent leave to stay at home.
(Doesn't the government know that it is better to come on Saturday,
Since there are people whose whole family has to work,
Just to keep ourselves afloat in this booming economy?)
When Mom called up NEA to ask about the timings,
If we could have something more specific or arrange another time,
Mr NEA-Hotline told her that he doesn't know anything.
Any attempts to ask questions by Mom,
Were all answered with "I don't know, don't ask me."
(It is safe to assume he is just working to wait for his fat pension)
Mom got pretty pissed off (naturally),
And said that his attitude was bad.
Mr NEA-Hotline said,
"This is the way we do things,
It is not for you to like it or not.
You don't have a choice, too bad."

If anyone says the words "too bad" again,
I think am going to kick their asses.

I was really ashamed that as a lighting designer,
I couldn't even hook up a proper circuit,
To light up the nice paper star,
I received from Sofia and Catrin last Christmas.

There was a loud bang ---
I saw sparks flying at the switch,
And decided my life was more important than lighting.

When I brought all the barang this morning,
To the little neighbourhood electrical shop across the street,
The lady told me that something seemed to be missing,
In my burnt switch.



)@*)(#@(*^%$

So all fingers point at the boss of that small shop,
At the basement of Parkway Parade,
Who sold me unsafe electrical products.

The very nice lady went on to spend half an hour odd,
Fixing up the circuit for me,
And the result is a Swedish touch to my room.



Jatte bra!

Wow KIVA is all sold out!

Office Happy Hour yesterday was rough.
I got too drunk...
Within 3 hours.
How embarassing.

When I went to check my digital camera today,
I found a video of C dancing on a chair.

Now I am hoping that since I left at 9plus,
The colleagues who were left were also too drunk,
To remember anything that I have said/did -
Because I don't!

Lips and Chelvin joined me on my KIVA movement!
Super cool!

Lips funded the following ---
Mavzuna Malabekova 's clothing sale in Tajikistan:



And Floric Kaune 's clinic in Kenya:



While Chelvin's funds were directed to,
Ohunov Toiir's cattle busines in Tajikstan:



Seems like Singaporean' investments in Tajikistan is increasing! ;]

Thanks for supporting my belief!

It is so great to know,
Yan also joined kiva with me!

I lent to Ms Mahfirat Jaborova :



And Yan lent to Mr Mahammadali Huseynov :



Hurry, Mahammadali still needs lenders!