May 9, 2004
Zondag 9th May

Bushed!

Did urshering duty at OCC yesterday, had to be there at 8am, tok a cab cos I was late, arguing with Raimondo on the phone abt the DVD Player :P

I bght durians yesterday for mom, well not the best, one was harden :(  But the thing that got me was tat when mom came back, she saw the box of desert tat bro bght, white nuts ( Bai guo) and in a slang in teochew, its like loosing.. so she started getting mad..

She lost $260 at the jacpot machine, she tot dad bght the desert n thus cursed her to loose $$ so she wanted to wake dad n let her temper go, i told her its ur son who bght tat and she kept quiet

She said I wasted $$ on the durians, not nice tasty at all and she blamed me that cos we didnt celebrate Mother's Day with her while her friends had, she had no choice but to go out n thus play jackpot... well watever, jus became blaming goat again.. wats new :P

God spoke to me today :D Psalm 71, reminded me that He was always n have been and will be there, I think, well this Psalm is more of a plea to God that He would be there till David is old n grey n yes that's my plea too. That Lord you wld not forsake me when i grow old n grey, that I will proclaim His goodness & Faithfullness thru the generations to come... jus reminds me how much He had loved me n taken care of me since my youth. I do have the fear tat He will not be with me when I make the choice of marrying Ray.

HUGZ MY GOD LORD - I thnk you for being with me all these while, please don leave me alone. help us get the MVV, that you may be with us both thru the days ahead as I move, as we start a new life together ahead, grant us peace love wisdom to handle what will come forth, tat we will nvr be in need or lack of wants ( :P) but most of all that we both wld have a heart of love, n being more of what u wld want us to be. I promise u nuthin cos  I have nuthing but I will be thnkful, both of us :D

I hope me and ray will grow old together, have healthy loving kiddos, n we all be happy n a blessing to ppl ard us

Oh Christina's wedding this sunday, I'm gonna give a small angpow, cant afford much, haven pay my other phone bill from Future Tel

Met Isabel, she was trying to get me to try NUSKIn products, well as usual I'm hesitant n closed minded abt some stuff, didnt yak much, she seems so closed anyways, not revealing this n tat. Well at least I found out tat I have to pay for the visa, wonder how much.

But her mention abt going to d lawyers made me think of some stuff tat I have to settle.. insurance n perhaps getting to invest my CPF so it will yield some profits than sitting still in the a/c, will have to look up on the UOB site.. one that offers insurance wld be best too :P

Ah well tats for it now.. waiting stil for MVV, hopefully next wk some nieuws :P

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Apr 30, 2004
vridag/Friday 30th April

Took time off 2hrs today, haven realli been at the call center to work :P, just sitting there listening to Peizhen and running ard..

Went to buy two pair of boots, kost me $130, then withdraw for mom n dad, and realised ive overspent :P Just left wif ard $300, and I havent paid my bills or insurance.. have to watch out now

Bght some winter wear ( one fleece jac, one red fleece top, a scraf, one turtle neck sweater ), these were on sale but they all kost ard $60 alreadi

So was counting bac what I spent on, n yeah it adds up, sending parcel kost $50, the items in the parcel kost $50, a DVD player ($180), a facial ($120), dutch tapes ($180), boots ($130), so all in all ... hmmm wow $1100!!! Gosh... adding what I gave mom n dad.... wow... geez.. major overspent....

Ah well, I've alreadi spent them so now i have to stop spending hehehee not much to left anyways lolz

Its Queens Day n a holiday in Holland today, my hunny went out early, I took time off, tot I cld have a chat wif him b4 he goes off but guess wat, he had to go out earlier at his 9am... n won't be back till his late nite... wat a day to have fun out huh

I was wondering if he wld sms me to let me know he misses me :P  But it still sucks that he is having a fun time wif ppl out there, drinking, laughing, strolling n being lazy, having fun while I'm stucked here.

Its so stress here, work sucks, being treated without respect aint a nice feeling, I drag to werk each dag cos I needed the money to pay the bills n buy stuff when I move. At times I feel bad cos is as if I'm dumpin my family here to suffer while I pack n leave. At times, they seem to irritate so much that I don't give a damn, its not easy. I know I will miss them eventually....

I realli wish I have a million bucks or jus rich ;) so I can have them over there, buy a house over there and get things for them, me and Raimondo, well kinda set life going well with cash in a way.

At times, I still don't feel happy with stuff bght.

What will make me happy...?! I don't noe at times..will moving to Holland make me happy? Will issues with communicating with his friends n family, netherlands leren, coping with his love for partying ( I noe its not all the time) but it bothers me abt drinking, getting wasted..

Guess I'm just a hermit, rather sit home, watch a nice movie, cuddle, cook, or go for walks, just not partying at noisy places n smoking with those smells ard me :P

Spoke to  Terry today, and realised he studied in Perth b4 and I asked him abt weeds, well he tried it n was telling me that its less harmful then cigs cos no tar and drinking that will damage ur lungs, well in a way it made me feel less paranoid abt weeds but doesnt mean I'll endorse it ! LOL

Gotta werk tomorrow at Esplanade, yeah one of those holidays that they say its ur honour to werk on labour day - sigh and they don't pay u even grapes! lolz

NExt week also kena OCC, from 8am.. geez hope I dont have to be there early, but planned with Beng Gii to use the gym there later, but then again, knowing lazy me, I might jus head home to collapse hahahahaha

Seem my weekends for May b burnt.

Oh Ray told me that the lady he spoke to IND will write an email to request for positive reply since it was not in our control ( his control) to not be able to get a full paycheck this month. Not sure if the whole process will be delayed or not, or on the bad side of being rejected. Technically, we realli didnt submit all documents required. HOpefully by end May we wld have some feedback on if its good/bad, either way I will go there jus that it be sucky to b flying to n fro 3mnths each, kost a lot and less feel of permanency :P Lord pls let it be a positive to getting the MVV! Thnks! :P

I feel lonely here, each of the family members is so individual, we don have dinner together, don talk abt our life together, u jus see mom comin each time either to complain abt werk or nag at u for something. She is not home yet its 1020pm, probably went gamblin again, heard her saying she wanted to go n have fun, yeah some kinda of fun that kost alot!

Wonder if they have brains, spending each wk on gamblin (lottery), a try of luck, who noes I might win a million.. yeah rite.. counting back since she started betting, she might have alreadi contributed a million :P  Oh yeah its good if u do win a million, but they forgot what they put in thru the years....

Dad another one, lies non stop, seems his tongue can't b tamed anymore...Aunt called so urgently, asked her wats abt, she refused to tell, probably abt lending money frm dad again.. likewise mom wld do wif Uncle n yet both are at one another's throat. I still vividly remember when I was a kid, dad brght me to the coffee shop to meet aunt and being small, I saw dad passing money to her, UNDER THE TABLE... this scene etched in my mind till today.

Some scenes etched in my mind.. I drew a Hello Kitty on my cupboard... I dropped my first tooth in my uncle's house while playing hide n seek wif my cousins ( I was taken care by granny most of the time, thats why I ain't close wif my parents, especially mom, mom moved to this new house n quit werk onli when bro was born - tats the first sign of biasness FYI), the scene of me using pins to scratch on granni's wooden bed :P

The scene where I always cry when I was told I had to go home :( cos uncle's house wif granny ard was alreadi home to me... me helping granny fold the cigarette.. school bus, being bulled, having my water bottle tied up on the handle barrel, I was too short to take it down, the bus driver uncle always had to do it for me.. Mandy, first caucasion friend I noe, she always take the seat next to the bus driver... takin the last row on the bus just to feel the bump when the bus goes over one...going to my bro's school wif mom cos she picks him up everyday... the church in my school, my hiding place.. cleaning the pews n doing knitting of carpets, selling of Xmas card for charity, candles with paper holder...being bitten by Weenie ( the one whom I hate..changed my course of life...she used to me my best friend but she was always bragging that her house has a pool n gold bars in her house, to a kid then, I was wow but I didnt hang ard her cos of that lolz, I just hung ard thats all, but often got bullied by the grp, then they started accusing me of stealing their stuff by placing their pencils etc in my bag during recess then telling teacher I stole them.. she bit me in Chinese class, she pretented to 4get bringing her book n insisted sitting beside me to share, halfway thru lesson, she bit me! Teacher called her an animal :P she blackmailed me.... I remember clearly, Pet's day in school n she bght her hamsters, loved them so ask mom if i cld keep them too, well obviously no, then was told she had bght a pair for me alreadi, which I didnt ask for, n well she said since I dont want them, she will set them free n let them b eaten by wild cats.. hmm for a kiddo then, it was sad but i cldnt keep them. So she suggested to help me keep them first till I finish my exams n then ask mom again ... sounds good, paid 10bucks for the pair which is alot of money for a kiddo then alreadi...then she kept askin for more n more $20..$40.. cos the hamsters are growing,eating more, needs a bigger cage etc.. till I cldnt afford to pay no more so I told dad... cos she threatened if i don't pay she will tell mom, fear gripped me~~ Dad went to school wif me to tell teacher abt the threats n realised that Weenie has no hamsters, aint hers, was her cousins, she didnt buy any for me.. she jus keep asking me for $, well she cldnt pay bac of cos but we bcame enemy, that event happened thruout my xam period n in the end affected me and i didnt get result for PSLE, went to normal stream, still remember mom slapping me infront of everyone in school.. n my so-called good friends all suddenly turn their bacs at me cos i didnt do as well as they, tis event changed my life cos I wanted to stay in tat school, Marymount Convent, all gals ;) n then go to Uni to do psychology.. but it didnt happen cos of Weenie)

Flash bac tonite :P  - I saved a whole box of coins when I was a kiddo, mom said she will bank in for me in the POSB Squirrel Savings acct for kiddos, well somehow the acct was started but not with all the money I had saved. wonder where they went.. a little box opened by magnet.. I remember tat.. my first saving box.. then dad got me one wif a lock lolz

Barbie dolls - everyone in school has it, mom struck lottery that time and promised to get me a barbie, guess wat, she got me the cheapest.. one wif black hair, I still have it.. in fact I still have my two barbie n 1 Ken doll ( he is now ex of barbie hehehe)

Wat did bro get, batman cave, a whole set of xmen toys.. sigh.. 2nd sign of favouritism :P

Mom nvr cooks in fact when bro is not at home, me n dad alreadi know the plan when bro says he is not coming home lolz

My room, my hiding place, place I cry most, cry when mom hits me, for any reason or not :p When she gambles and looses money, she wld find a reason to wake me up and wack me.. dad used to quarrel wif her for hitting out at me for no reason, n I still remember one scene clearly.. we were in the kitchen.. i was hmm 11yrs old... mom hit me cos she lost $$ at gambling, blaming that i had sat on her seat reading a book ( book in chinese meant loose so she said I curse her to loose) n dad was defending me.. she took up the chair and wanted to hit me wif it, dad screamed at her n then she puts down but screamed that it was I who caused their fights.. somehow, anything goes bad at home, I'm the one to blame, bro wasnt behaving.. it was me not setting a good example...she lost at gambling, it mus b me nagging, or putting my clothes over her (overshawdoing her.. duh) flipping her shoes.. not a good sign n causes bad luck....sigh all reasons.. bro never had a problem wif her.. he never got screamed at.. ( hmm 3rd sign of her taking sides :P)

Well i never felt loved by her, I earned my own money frm my first job, I put msyelf thru Marketing classes, tutioning while in college to try to find money to buy books, i stopped college partly I didnt realli like Business studies but also cos I can't afford it.. it was stressful there at Serangoon Junior College i must say, crying at nite cos I can't finish my homewerk :P

Dad does favour me alittle more cos he sees mom's favouritism n cos I kinda saved his life, dad werks in a shipyard, apparently it was me whom he took an off day frm werk n guess wat, an explosion took place tat day, he was luckily not involved...n i noe secrets that I nver told mom.. so dad tries to cover me quiet wif giving me allowances haaha of cos he has stopped now, he himself is trying to survive these days but i always find that his love is not realli geunine cos it seems to b for covering himself cos of wat i noe. Mayb its cos I am cynical..shrugs

THis is a long post lolz. but so much has flashed b4 me tonite.. simply cos I feel vunlerable, lonely, sad and not knowing why I am here for or why I aint happy but getting more easily irritated n cynical these days.

Which is the happiest day of my life so far looking bac d 30yrs? Childhood? Nah, dont remember much except tat i spent most of my time wif granny.. i miss her.. i do .. alot.. Hugz granny wherever she is..

When I went to primary school? hmm well those were impressionable years n it kinda shaped my life ahead.. it caused me not to trust ppl easily n realised ppl who call themselves friends are never reall there. N i grew up wifout support frm my family, always being compared to the gal nxt door.. dad gave me more freedom, probably cos he travels as a seaman n is more open minded.

Secondary school? hmm first time i went to a co-ed school, had some crushes but yeah I was looking like a pig then of cos nuthing happened LOL but i tried hard the first year to get up to express stream so mom wont' look down on me n keep bringing up that I've dissappointed her n got myself in shit so i didnt do well in PSLE... she even forced me to switch school 2nd year, i cried alot then cos i didnt want to switch school, eventually the new school didnt take me so i stayed on

Got to know some gals who are still "friends" wif me, they have their own families now and I must say, they are also their own selfish bunch, in fact I don't think they have known me well lolz

Working life was tough, first job, paid me onli $700 n i had to do everythin, frm front desk, to packing, to smelling those paints.. ( its a skillscreen printing company) and I was alreadi starting to give household money since till today. Loansharks came cos boss owed money, he was always hiding n not paying our pay or creditors.. eventually i quit outta of fear i might get locked n burnt in that office 1 day :P

Geez don seem that i have a happy life :(  Happy moments is when I'm travelling I guess, I rarely miss home :P it gives me a feel of freedom, a choice of able to do wat i want out there wifout ppl behind my bac

Ah well, my vingers are tired from typing.. catch up 2morrow.. ill go moan n groan ( not frm sex) but frm depression lolz

11.04pm.. shld i call ray n make myself more depressive?:P










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Apr 26, 2004
Maandag/Monday 26/4/04

Argh .. all I've typed gone~!

Sickening have to retyped again..later then brb lol

http://www.consumer.philips.com/global/b2c/ce/catalog/product.jhtml;jsessionid=JZAOHTDM0KVY3J0RMRERX2VHKFSEKHAW?divId=0&groupId=VIDEO_GR&catId=DVD_CA&subCatId=DVD_PLAYERS_SU&productId=DVP320_69

Bght this DVD player( the small squarish one), gonna bring over.. I've sent some stuff over, jus towels and toiletries, kost me 50 bucks alreadi, not sure if its worth it in all lolz, things kost me $50, senting is $50.. don think its worth it lolz

but done is done :P  Went for a facial, kost me $130, wasn't that great a deal, the IO2 cost $500, hell, I am not gonna spend on my face with that money lolz

Keeping a track on what i've spend so I noe i won'tgo too overboard :P

HAd a fairly oki day, slept 2-4pm, needed tat nap cos didnt sleep well yesterday nite, my mind was bogged with the unfair treatment my boss gave me with regards to the transfer.

Can't believe he is so mean to me, having gotten me over to Marketing to help him two years ago, persuading me that I have potential n that Marketing is the place for my career plan, that he wld help me plan my career in Marketing if i go over to help him.

K fine, I moved to help him, working hard, from the recruitment management, going down to the Fairprice outlets to check on the recruiters, collecting vouchers, moving stacks of gifts, packing them, unpacking them, distributing them to the unions.. even got my back hurt, my hand bruised cos of all these.

I still remember be walking almost an hr to make a police report, under the hot sun.. and all these wifout an appreciation, n now he jus kicked me out

Well he had it planned since last year n i wonder why realli?? i didnt mess wif him...

And him promising me the position of a team leader, "to be fair to me" (quote unquote him) when I transfer, which is BS! n then downgrading to Ässt team leader, which is also BS!!

then the straight lie in my face abt joelle havin to go on a long leave. and now the fact is that she is being transferred to Marketing... sigh, all the lies n deceptions!


I realli hope he wld get his deserves one day and taste the same medicine he feeds ppl with.

I'm looking forward to getting MVV ( Lord have mercy) so I can realli get ready and start afresh.

Isabel is worried nad of cos i noe it is scary but wldnt noe wat it be till I'm there, settled and learning to adapt... I love him lots, n can't iamgine a day wifout him... smoochie

k enuff for today ... :P


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Apr 24, 2004
Saturday/ Zaterdag 24/04/04

Hmm jus woke up and watcing "Mona Lisa Smile", rented 3 vcds to watch, had to kill time lolz


  http://www.nexttransition.com/
  Take a look at this site, remembered I said abt God wanting me to go back to basics ;)

I juz read an article today dated 24th April ( found in tat website) abt Burnt Out ( at work obviously)  but the article can be generalised to someone going thru stress and facing burnouts.

Oh jus realised what a nice date today is all the 4's lolz

K, anyways, there is this section on "Are you forgetting to go back to the basics"

"Why did you choose your career What attracted you to do the work you do?"Spend a few minutes to get in touch with the pasions that motivated you...

Gets me pondering.... why did I pick this job? ahhhahah for the simply reason I needed a job ?!  Well I have been in the customer service line for a long time, and well the time workin at th Singapore Changi Airport (www.changi.airport.com.sg ) where I worked as an airport hostess ( that's what it was called during my time :P now its Customer Service Officers).

Well it was fun cos I get to do announcement of flights, cld still remember the panic attck when I was told that I had to learn to announce in Malay! wooh.. i memorized it and had a note sticked infront of the micrphone so I can read it hehehe

You get to meet all sorts of people from around the world, I wanted to see the world, I'm sure there are lots of stuff, things, ppl, behaviour, architectures, culture that are out there that which perhaps have not encountered.  I don't wanna be jus stucked in this circle and its way of having shaped me but it doesnt' necessary mean that its all bad, but I wan to know more, and expand my mind to new ideas, new ways of living.. like how ppl cld living happily even with the miniumum in some countries like South Africa, of cos there is poverty n they not much to have fun with like PC games, Xboxes but without all these, they were happy with games like running around, hide and seek.... well you can I am contradictory if you think by the way that hey isnt the advancement of technology helped you alot to expand your world??? like now you're using it to get all these thoughts out??  Yeah but I have indeed lost the innocence of life.. If one day, all these technology be taken away, if, would I be able to live wif myself?? wld I be happy ( not that I am absoutely happy with these technology lolz, imagine the frustration of ur hard disk being wiped out :P )

Oh well bac to basics, what makes me tick? What is my passion? What gets me going ?

Think on it... don't burnout though pls lolz

Doei!








 

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Apr 23, 2004
Vridag 23rd April 04

Lorna. Tan,

You have placed the following order:

Book: basiscursus Nederlands (with cd-rom)
Number of copies: 1

Book: Dutch for self-study. Beginners course Dutch (with 2 cd's)
Number of copies: 1

The total amount due for this order (including 8,50 euro shipping and handling) is: 86 euro.

Paying method: by credit card.

The delivery address is:


Lorna Tan
Blk 572, Ang Mo Kio, Ave 3, #07-3359
S560572 Singapore

Your e-mail address is: cap2@pacific.net.sg


Ah finally ordered the CD's, hope they will help mijn in nederlands leren.

 A question popped in my head when I was listening to Bosson's CD,  " What are you living for?"  "Who are you actually?" or basically in this sense who am I?

Are ppl living each day simply cos of survival, simply cos he/she has to? Are we realli given a choice in life to live what we want? Yeah I guess so to certain extends but then again, aren't we all restrcited by obligations, expectations of people & society and this doesn't realli allow us to be who we are or who we realli wanna be or do.

Are we jus bogged down daily by having to earn that cash to pay the bills, meals and stuff we need or not need hahahahaa... isn't that quiet pathetic way of living each day?

I donnoe, each time I come to a point where I start asking myself such questions, I go into a slight depression :P What we we really living for???

I do look forward to starting a life with Raimon, even though I am little scared of what will it be when I do move there, can I adpat, will I able to have Nederlands as my daily language there, will our finances b oki?
That I am worried cos he still has debts to clear & I won't be able to help much. The factor if I cld get a job is another question...

Yeah we are planning to get married and have kiddos hehehe, that would be another life changing experience! Oh jus heard him telling me that day care cos $4000£ /mth there, gosh!! How can we afford it?

Hmm still, with all these questions roaming above my head, I still look forward to having start a new life wif him there :D

Love makes u do crazy things, hahhahaa I guess that sayin is true.


 


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Apr 22, 2004
April 22nd Dinsdag/ Thursday

Darn bored now

Been web site hopping and can't anything interesting to really capture my attention.

No werk? nah I have but since my boss has been so mean and transferring me over to Call Center,
I shall leave all the left over werk to the lazy bum colleague.

Am amazed at how people are here, they are generall ruthless and do anything to get what they want

And for those wif a conscience, they dare not speak up.

For me who spoke out, I got kicked out LOL... guess they are smarter than me :P

I can't wait now to get an approval frm IND on the MVV application, partly cos I miss my hunny alot.

Smooch Raimondo, miss u lots n tons hun!!

N partly, so I can walk outta of this shit hole !

Lord have mercy, please grant us both a quick reply, and hopefully, the whole process will not get delayed cos of the payslip, otherwise.. SIGH.. more waiting n getting stucked :P

Oh well, twee en half urr more to me heading out and one more day to my weekend off.

Better treasure this wkend, cos after this, I will have to werk 3 saturdays b4 I get one off :(

Enuff of nagging, jus hope time flies atm and I can land into the arms of the one I love.... hehehee

N i think God is teaching me to return to basics, where I started out wif this transfer, hmm yeah i think i need to go back to his feet to rest and recover !!

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