hey everyone... one bad news for u guys.. that is, I WILL BE GOING FOR WISDOM TOOTH SURGERY TOMORROW!!!!

yup,that's the ever bad thing i have to face in my life. anyway i can't delay my surgey anymore as i have been on painkiller medication for one month. Nobody likes to be on medication for so long,so 长痛不如短痛。。。So i might as well end my suffering by extracting my wisdom tooth.

From what i heard from my friends and what i have read from internet, wisdom tooth surgery is indeed a painful(and also expensive) process. some says that it is best that u extract out ur wisdom tooth as they will exert pressure on ur other teeth as they have space constraint to grow out... last week i have been "attacked" by this hidden tooth for many days that i really cant eat and talk properly. talking about this surgery, the dentist told me that i have to undergo an x-ray first before conducting the surgery as he has to see where does the wisdm tooth lies inside my gum. seriously, when last week i visited another dental clinic, the painkiller and antibiotic they prescribed me takes such a long time to take effect...i managed to talk properly and chew some food after my pain has gone temporarily...i know that i cant just rely solely on the painkiller as u may not know when the pain is going to make a "comeback"..lol...

now i am still feeling quite nervous about tmr's surgery. although they claimed that the surgery takes only 30-45 minutes, i still have my reservation about it. i woory that once the anaesthetic effect has gone off, i will go into hysteria and keep moaning about my gum pain. plus also my surgery fee. no doubt they will deduct from my parent's medisave account, but i still have to pay the remaining balance in cash. it's about less than $100,but its from my own saving account. how am i going to survive for next few months with only $100 plus dollars in my savings? my mum lor,she always says she had no money, i know that but she cant always ask me to fork out money... even her TV license bill,utilities bill and even her phone bill i had to take care for her....like that 我不变成穷光蛋(pauper)才怪....after the surgery i still had to take lots of painkillers and antibiotics and also had to rest a lot...what the heck,like that how to study for my exam next week? oh God pls help me.......!!!

hi everyone...so sorry for not blogging for some time cuz me quite busy these few weeks...time really passed so fast.. i will be having my 1st paper(which is fluid mech A) on 30th jan 07. that means i only have 8 more days to study for it.. so far i am quite satisfied with my performance(practical-wise and theory-wise) this semester... its just that this sem is much more tedious than last sem. 2 ICA modules, 4 practicals, and 5 examinable papers and many many e-learning assignments this sem. (last sem 3 ica modules,2 practicals, and 4 papers,much more relaxed lor)...as for fluid mechanics a,i am not so confident in doing well for the exam coz i think this module is slightly more difficult than other modules..and also bia paper(my 2nd paper)..cuz bia is only 40% calculation, the remaining 60% accounts for understanding of concepts and mostly application...what the....

i realise that i have been too involved in my studies that i seem to be neglecting other things happening around me. besides studies,i only focus on working hard to earn extra money. Even jun cong say i become very sua ku(hill tortoise),means u are ver ignorant. Seriously, its not that i love to study so much and only stay at home on weekends. As u know,if u are really poor, u really cant do anythinh lor. like taking a malay language course,learn swimming,driving, go gym,etc...u see there's too may things i wanted to do but i have no means. i regretted that i didnt keep my promise of buying a laptop when i go poly once i have enuf $$ at jht two years back...now that my savings are depleting in a matter of time, so now must really work hard to earn money, i dun mind other ppl calling me a despo... As long as i can earn money to support myself financially.Well, enf said...

let's continue what i blog yesterday. I was saying that i had worked at 3 different places during the 3 weeks break.

the 1st job i found is damned terrible.the place is at tanglin mall. before the 3-weeks break,my mum recommend me this job. when i first met the owner of that super damned antique shop,i was damned sian diao...that boss was vey fussy lor..he ask me this,ask me that...when i cant answer his question well,he give me that idiotic chou lian...u know what? his shop was damn small and messy lor, but he say hor,my shop may be messy as long as the person is not "messy" can already...i was thinking,"what the...?"

the very first thing he taught me was how to open and set up the shop and then switch on the lights..this is a very difficult job. u now why? his shop is like so small and messy that there is hardly any space for u walk inside the shop and open the lights..some more, he ask me to identify the items displayed outside his shop. i can identify some of the items,but others i dunno how to name them or dunno who are they,so i kenna criticised by that damned boss. u noe what he say? he say these are not "plastic toy"(which is what i tell him when i dunno how to identify the toys and other items),and he say those are marvel or DC toy(huh,what's that?)...so what he know all these items? he say being poor doesnt mean u cannot afford to gain new knowledge, i know that. its just that i'm not interested to know these cartoon charaters when i was young...watching anime was not my style of life.

i really dunno why he want to tekan me one...alrite,at least he is observent enough to know that i have a bad impression of him and ask me to voice my feelings..and of course i dunno to say it out,me just telling him that i had no hard feelings against him. and another "lecture" began. he ask me how do define"hard feeling",i was damned stunned man...then he explained me to his definition of "hard feelings". ok,so what if my definition is wrong? that doesnt mean he's always rite!!! he claims that being in a retail biz,we must cater to our customers' needs by learning their language and not just sticking to ur own language.. What the hell! Do u noe what kind of ppl u can expect to meet at tanglin mall? its very international lor..and u expect me to learn how many languages?Forget it, i've never met such a domineering and highly demanding boss like him...

nvm abt this thingy..after that he assigned me a task to clean the displayed items one by one for him. so after i cleaned it for him,then i go for a short break. after my break,i saw him taking out some of the toys and i was wondering what he was doing after i spend so much effort and time to clean the items for him. he commented that no doubt i had done my job,but he said that the way i redisplayed the cleaned items show my insincerity to work for him and to learn from him,and said i cleaned the items= never clean the items...hey i spend so much to do a good job for him yet he said such an inhumane word to me.

i know that from the start it is not worthy to work for this kind of person...i tried to act friendly to this boss by smiling but he always nvr fail to show me the fouling face and he might be thinking that i'm nt serious worker at all..that's why he ask me at the end of the day whether i want to continue to learn from him or just go there report work 8 hrs everyday but just like other student go there camping there everyday,just only to pass time....so i took this chance to tell him my decision that i will stop learning from and even "thank" him for wasting so much time to teach me everything in the shop...ok after i got the pay for day then i have gained my freedom(although i was unlucky to have met this kind of person,lol...). Shiok ah!!!!

hey everyone,i'm back from school holidays! wow, time really flies...B4 u noe it, now it is yr 2007...one year has passed,i have been keeping this blog for more than one year. to think of it, its quite an achivement to have kept my blog for so long. Well, i haven't been blogging regularly all this while. why? its because i dun keep a PC @ home,so it's quite difficult for me to to access internet anytime.

For those of u who are fortunate to have a PC @home,u must be thinking that i am kidding u guys...they must be thinking:we are already in 21st century, almost every household would have possess at least 1 PC,how could u not have a PC? well, these ppl cannot assume every household to be well-off. some families have serious financial problems,they cant even provide for their basic needs,what's more for a computer which is more of a luxury? so to me, computer is like a luxury. anyway,i won't die w/o a PC la...lol...

anyway, i realised that nowadays a lot of ppl(including me) are too much dependent on internet or other IT(info tech). just like what happened 2 weeks ago. Taiwan was having serious earthquake, leading to internet disruption across the whole Asia due to the underground cable being damaged by the earthquake. so the whole of S'pore was affected too. when i went back to school for a project work 2 days after the incident, i see so many students there trying to surf internet yet the internet still crashed on them that they are not able to do research. Well, they could have used other library resources like reference books to do their work. Why be so insistent when the internet service disruption is not over yet? that's why i say ppl are too reliant on modern technology. i think they should be more flexible when met with crisis,do u agree with me?

well,i only get to blog only if i have money to visit the cybercafe or if i am at my school campus. luckily SP have free computer access facilities,or else i will be unable to do any research or projects. therefore i have difficulty to blog regularly. so those who have reading my blog, i would like to apologise to u guys for having to wait for my next entry for so long. Enuf said....

u guys must be wondering what i have been doing during this 3-weeks vacation? well,i couldn't be playing with com since i dun have it at home,rite? actually i was working througout the 3 weeks break. so far i have work in 3 places. they are: Tanglin mall(1 day); Loyang factory ALLS(11 days) and Ramen Tei @ Robinson road (2 days).

ALLS(Aero laundry and linen services) was the 2nd job i work during the break. so far only this job i worked the longest among the 3. this factory was located at loyang(b/w pasir ris and changi)....i started to work there the day after i quit my job at the tanglin mall as the shop tender(who would want to go back to work for that boss again after u've ur bad experience working there? i dun think i would fall for his 18-mth challenge,no matter waht within these 18-mth i wont go back to work for him!)...

this factory was damned far lor and the pay was very low($26/day,considered a cheap labor in s'pore,lol...)...but i only have 3 weeks break,what to do? anyway my older sis and younger bro are working there also...my experience there is like,"Wah,so many ah mah ah gong working there? 不变老才怪(its a wonder if u dun become old like them)" from what i heard,this job is for those who are retirees or retrenched but haven found job one.... i was very sian diao again...not much young ppl there la...even those who look very young are "promoted" to grandmother liao...butbthe aunties there are really nice lor,except christina(my supervisor)...u will noe why later on...

i rmb my line leader auntie mary...she was a very kind and friendly person...she can also speak multiple languages such as english,hindi,mandarin,malay,hakka,cantonese as well as hokkien...wow,although she's a mixed blood(chinese and indian),she's so multiracial lor...another person is that auntie Meow Eng...my impression of her is her catch phrase"la,la,la"(pull)..dunno why everytime talk to her sure got the word 'la' come out from her mouth...and she reminded me of auntie linggam back at jht...her voice very similar to auntie linggam,got very hoarse voice one...tok like slaughter chicken,very cute...

Another person i know is auntie Maureen. just like how her name sounds,she's really boring....she keep telling my bro:"u must read books to widen ur knowledge,so that ur mind will become active"...i know she's a chrisitian,came from same church as me(CHC)..but shouldnt be so boring mah...must be "hip"...and her face ah...i dun want to talk abt it...when u see her badly burnt face u will like dun feel like eating,lol.. ....sorry for any offence...

Finally on my 4th day i met a new friend who's a youth...his name is charles...he is quite easy to get along...but he sometimes quite weird....i nvr met a person like him who will ask u to guess his or her name one....at most just guess the age will do...but we really had fun working together,talk crap when we're bored...waiting to pass time together...really want to thank him for his company all the while....however i still had to wake up 5.15am every morning and take mrt train to bedok mrt station from jurong east mrt everyday to wait for shuttle bus...sianzz..luckily we end work at 4pm,if no OT la...haha..:)

then on 31st dec 06, christina(my supervisor) approached me to work in a jap ramen restaurant for 4 days..it was at robinson rd,at raffles place...hahaha,i was like excited lor cuz it would be my first time working in a restaurant and this place was much closer to my place as compared to ALLS so that i dun have to wake up early in the morning...So she asked me to start work on tuesday (02/01/07).. the working hours is from 8am to 8pm(the actual operation hours is from 11am to 3pm), pay is $45 per day(which is very little as compared to when i worked in JHT)...but nvm,as long as i can enjoy working there and learn new things,i wont mind the hard work and the long working hrs :-)

the owner of that small jap ramen tei restaurant(Jason) is actually quite a nice person.. he is actually the SP alumni for over 10 years. he used to study marine Engineering back in sp. then after he graduated,he joined police force for a few years before setting up an IT company. But he's just too unlucky,his IT company got acquired by another company,so he has nothing in the end until when he had gone to japan for short holidays and found out a new idea there and came back to Singapore to set up this ramen restaurant.

So i asked him why he wanted to set up a ramen tei despite there were many ramen restaurants in singapore such as Ajisen restaurant. then he said the way he produced the ramen is the distinct difference between his and other restaurants. while ajisen used the ramen supplied from the production factories,he made the ramen himself.

No wonder the restaurant only opens for 4 hours,the rest of the time was used for preparation of the ramen and the ingredients. wow, he look so confident abt this food business....furthermore he got this idea from his trip in japan. the restaurant in japan has its own secret recipe to make the egg gluten in order to smoothen the ramen. they dun use sodium bicarbonate in the ingredients. they also used the most updated ramen-making machine to make the dough and to cut the noodle. that is their outstanding selling points.

Well christina asked me to work there as jason's assistant need to go back to indonesia for hari raya haji celebration for a few days,so i'm the assistant noodle maker in that ramen tei. Actually, on my first day there i was sort of nervous coz it was my first time working in a restaurant located in the town area,and it is my first time working with food so quite worried for my personal hygiene. Luckily jason was really quite a nice person he patiently taught me the things i should learn...that day was considered a public holiday so we were preparing the food for the next day's biz and there were only three of us in the shop...at the end of the day i and auntie soh left the shop,leaving jason behind. as i walked to to raffles mrt station together with aunt soh, she told me that christina was actually jason's mother-in-law...oic...i always tot christina knew that malay guy (who went back to indonesia) only...

however my learning experience in men tei was shortlived and the this has instead become my unhappy experience on my second day. in the morning b4 jason has reached the shop, i would do the pre-preparation of the ramen dough for him like weighing the flour and mix the flour as instructed by jason. As i have done my part and was waiting for jason to come, i offered to help the kichen staffs by cutting the coriander stem. however when jason comes to the shop and saw what i was doing, he asked me to stop and help him with his dough making. it was then i realised that i am not cut out to be a kitchen helper. i was not a help at all and instead a hindrance to them...haiz...sian...算了吧。。。

then i saw 3 more staffs(1 guy,2 ladies) coming to the shop...then i realised they worked there as the waiter and waitresses to serve the customers..i tot thsi restaurant was self-serviced one lehx...lol....but i dun really like them as they are so “刀”(snobbish)..when they saw a new comer they should intro themselves and make me feel welcome although i will be there for 4 days mah...even when jason's wife,which is christina's daughter(cant rmb what's her name) intro me to these staffs, the way they say "hello" to me was annoying to me (no sincerity at all), as if i owe them a fortune..haha...

when the shop opens, i was assigned to help in the kitchen. then i got to know this lady called mrs lim..she's a taiwanese and her husband was a singaporean...she's a nice person. she taught me how to heat up the japanese 叉烧（bbq pork）which looks like a spiral in cross-section. i tot it was the normal cha siew (for chinese) we eat everyday...lol...then she also taught me how to do other kitchen stuff like piercing the tamago(jap bruised egg卤蛋) into halves and refill the empty pot with hot soup when i see the empty pot being left on the ground. she also said that when u carry the pot of hot soup to the outside counter, ur back must be facing the outside of the kitchen and must say the "Hot Ah,hot ah!" when u walk backward to warn the ppl outside to prevent the pillage of the soup....so i have learnt how the restaurant communicate with the kitchen during peak hours...

it was then i realised i am really a shy guy when she asked me whether i'm malaysian cuz she said i have a slightly tanned skin. then she explained to me why i looked a malaysian cuz the malaysian are shy in nature...oh my God,really got such phenomenon one ahx?....

after the peak period i went for my break. i went outside to makan cuz i dun like eating salty food like miso ramen,shoyu ramen... i might as well go outside buy myself a more "humane" food...after i came back from my break,it's time i help jason in noodle making as the shop was abt to close.. as i was curious abt making the dough sheet (by flattening the dough several times using the machine),so i asked jason to let me try it out. the first time he was guiding me how to fine tune the doughsheet,but my 死期 starts when i take another dough and try to push it inside the roller w/o jason's permission...becoz i forgot to switch the gear from gear 7(for most flattened use) to gear 1(unflattened use) and compressed the dough,so when i tried to push the dough inside the roller, i saw the dough stucked in the roller and i pressed stop button immediately. i informed jason and instead "kena" scolding by him...

Then he fiercely asked me "did u smell something coming out from the motor?" Oh my God! i'm in serious trouble! can u imagine the fiery expression on jason's face and full of "fucking" words coming out from his mouth? he actually scolded me infront of his customers...he asked me to stay away from that "fucking" machine and just do the weighing of the ramen...i wanted to tell him i'm not going to help him anymore but i still have to tolerate and pretend nothing happened...

towards the end of the day, i helped jason with the packing of the weighed noodle and stored the ramen in the refrigerator overnite for next day's biz...i helped the kitchen staff with washing as the washing lady has left the shop a few hours ago and we had to wash the things ourselves. after i helped to do the housekeeping, i was ready to pick up my belongings and left the shop. just before i left the shop, jason asked me to change into my own clothes and gave him the men tei uniform. he claimed that he provides free laundry services for all staff and he said my uniform was all dirtied with the flour and dough,so must wash it... i bid farewell to jason and other staff (my last day there) and go home. as i was on my way home,i was wondering why jason was so kind to "help" me wash the uniform when i only worn it for just 1 day, i dun think u need to wash ur newly worn uniform after 1 day rite? and i was thinking of telling jason that the next day would be my last day.

when i reached home i received a call from christina abt that day's incident. she asked me what happened that day and told me that jason's machine would cost abt 100,000 dollars（she din say isit jap yen or sing dollars) and yet i nearly damaged the machine. Well, jason was that damned christina's son-in-law so she was informed of this incident soon enuf...正所谓：好事不出门，坏事却传千里...so she told me not to come to work in men tei animore,saying that i was an alien to to this kind of job. Hey i can always learn mah, just tat u all dun give me chance....ok since christina says i'm an alien to this job,why did she recommend me to work there in the 1st place? i bet she's trying to sabo me,since she got sabo my older sis in ALLS by accusing her of theft...she dun like my sis at all,so she must haf extended her hatred to me and my brother...

i suddenly realised why jason asked me for my men tei uniform back. this is his way of firing me. Why dun he tell me directly when i was abt to leave his shop? and somemore he ask his mother-in-law to tell me...so cunning of him....to think i tot of "firing" him the next day,yet they were much faster in doing that....well i would not be so surprised anyway,since i have nearly spoilt their expensive machine causing the motor to emit the fouling smell due to overheating,so i dun jason and christina will trust me anymore. it was christina who recommend me to work there for four days and she say if my next holiday is coming soon i can inform her that i want to go back men tei work. Looks like its damn impossible lor...aniwae,i wld just forget this matter after a few days. i would just take it as my bad luck to have waste my two days to work for him...this is the second time i lost my superior's trust in me ever since the first incident in JHT(motorola) when i was working nite shift back in yr 2004/05.

to make it brief, i accidentally insert the PCB with electronic components facing the stencil plate into the printing machine(used to print the PCB with solder). maybe that time i was quite sleepy as it was around 3am plus,so i wasnt alert enough that i insert the PCB on the wrong side. as a result i heard a jerk sound inside the machine then i realised that i was so careless to have put the pcb on wrong side,causing the components to be partially crushed by the stencil plate. i was damned shocked and worried at the same time.

My former SMT supervisor ah chuan came to know it soon after this happened. so i was summoned by him and 'kena' scolded by him. he said that luckily the machine wasnt damaged but this damaged pcb would cost a lot...i know that he would say like this lor...to protect myself from being 'tekan' by him, i kept quiet throughout.....So do u think i'm a loser? i always give ppl trouble,as well as getting myself in trouble,ppl lost trust in me after one mere incident,why dun they give me chance?...why am i so useless? yet similar incident in men tei had to repeat the history...
:-(

aniwae, these three weeks break wasnt a pleasant break at all...i would rather stay at home studying for exam than to 受人家的气。。。咳。。。i shall continue describing my job at tanglin mall next time...bye-bye!