nicthegeek

sometimes I wonder whether should I believe so much in the show that much, but it’s too fascinating not too watch sometimes.  it’s been predicted that I’m going to have a thunderstorm of a week, and so far the first 2 days have not been good, filled with arguments, last-minute assignments and late nights and even later dinners.  now I happily sprain my ankle 4 days before the JUMP concert.  baka.  baa-ka. 

eric says i’m too vulgar…so now i must try to disguise all the profanity i use on the blog and on msn???  how to?

what else can go wrong?  remind me not to laff at shir anymore for being a baa-ka.

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I guess there’s always a silver lining somewhere, however tiny.  I’m glad I’m still able to see it, and relieved to know it’s there.

But the 1-piece-face women still SUCK, big time.  How I wished today that I could shove her cheebye face into a big pile of sai and squelch around several times, together with her bloody precious camera and fugly cleopatra hair.  nabeh, u tink limpeh dun hab digter camra ijit, limpeh bring for u to see, okay, chaocheebye…

It’s a week and a half later, and I’m not so sure anymore.  The bosses were out of town this week, so I spent some time gossiping gathering information and it seems that this ain’t the best place to be.

Female boss aside, and yes, she comes with all the stereotypical female boss quirks and idiosyncracies and whims and whatnots, what’s worse are all the 1-piece-face women over at the other room.  Admittedly, I have a 1-piece-face that could beat the socks off any of them if I wanted to, but it hasn’t killed me yet to flash them a fake smile and talk in a friendly tone through gritted teeth, so would it kill them?  I truly fear for their lives as they strut about on their heels and wedges while their noses are stuck so high up in the air.  And geez, my dear with the Cleopatra hairstyle, it’s only paper, expensive, but still just paper.  nabeh.

Yes, I’ve made a few mistakes, some even major.  But hey, if merchandising tells me one date, and my manager tells me another, while boss lady tells me yet another, which am I to take?  Ladies, make up your minds.  and communicate, communicate, communicate.  That’s what your legs and mouth phones emails are for.   So that you don’t have to look at each others’ 1-piece-face while communicating.  Ian would have a hissy fit if I said this to his face…I miss him and his hissy fits.

There’s no documentation, no procedures, no checklists, no communication, no logic so to speak of, and no housekeeping in the server for the past several years.  These women spend hours everyday in meetings, and come out to dessiminate different information to their different teams, only to go into another 2hour long meeting tomorrow and realise that they did so.  What the fuck is going on?

Give me 1 gay man, no no, 20 gay men, complete with hissy fits, bitchy comments, foot stamping and PMS, or 20 foul-mouthed, chain-smoking ah bengs any time…i think life would be easier that way.

No, not Eason’s 十年, but my 十一年 separation from 3 sexy older men.

11 years ago, I was 23, they had barely hit their prime,
11 years later, I look old and feel young, they still look exactly the same and probably feel even younger.

11 years ago, I jumped and screamed with Ah Bee on the west side of the stadium.
11 years later, I danced and screamed with 3 other mafia on the east side of the stadium.

11 years ago, I laughed in excitement as the 3 of them emerged in their white bathrobes into the stark blinding white lights of the stadium and did an impromptu encore.
11 years later, I stood by the barricade in the darkness of almost-midnight and waved at them as the bus drove by.

11 years ago, I fell in love with their energy and raunchiness and enthusiasm and silliness and didn’t want the night to end.
11 years later, I fell in love with their energy and raunchiness and enthusiasm and silliness and didn’t want the night to end.
By the way, So Boss, 我答你的问题 : 不够三级。

Retro? Bengs? 三级? I’ll say then that I love retro and I love bengs and I love 三级, and 阿杰，阿智 and 阿细 just gets it all into the perfect combination and brings me back to the days of Canto at Marina South. yea yea I’m that old.

Another 11 years to wait? Cannot leh. Monthly period? Sure, if the guys decide to get a standing gig at Dragonfly, I’ll be there every weekend. They can sing the same songs over and over agan, I won’t get tired. Throw in the Hongkie english accent, like 阿智 did, and I’ll fall even harder. I do every time.

Another group of HK guys, another life lesson. Live fast life, die stay young and HOT.  11 years ago, they were HOT. 11 years later, they are HOT HOT HOT.

Why is it that, for some reason or other, I always miss my lao da’s concerts in taiwan??? 恨!!!!

伍佰&China Blue 2007「妳是我的花朵」演唱會

伍佰的新台客舞曲「妳是我的花朵」紅遍大街小巷、男女老幼，今年的大型演唱會就叫做「妳是我的花朵」，令人十分期待的是這位搖滾教主獨特的台客美學。搖滾種籽開出的各式花卉，電音、復古、溫暖、冷艷、感動的各種情緒將貫穿全場；此外，因為「妳是我的花朵」MV中的自創舞蹈大受歡迎，伍佰這次也將挑戰更多的舞蹈環節，著實令人期待。

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Everytime i use this phrase, ‘life in general‘, the first thought that comes to my mind is Depeche Mode’s Somebody, a song that accompanied me through several years of teen and adult-hood. The second thought is Nelson, who was a DM fan and and because he used to answer 90% of our comments with a song.

It’s been a month since I started work. Do I love it? Yes! Do I hate it? Yes! Human nature la. If life were perfect, I’d be Jamie Cuaca and not nicthegeek. Budden Jamie Cuaca doesn’t know the mafia or mayday or wubai, so would life have been so perfect?

I spend almost 4 hours a day on trains and buses, fighting thousands of other worker bees early in the morning for walking speed, standing space and breathing air(con) [CAN SMRT IMPROVE YOUR A/C SYSTEM PLEAZEE?!], and then lao-nua-ing on bus 154 back home resisting the urge to scream at the NP/SIM students to shuddup and to hurrythefuckup and to stopalightingateveryfuckingbusstopalongtheway.

Working with a whole bunch of females is torturous, and having a female boss is an experience in itself, my store uncle seems to hate me, I dunno what to say to the other colleauges, and I’ve had to develop an even thicker skin to talk to sales staff and vendors and make cold calls. But I want the experience, I need the experience and it’s still fun nonetheless. Granted, I still have not managed to change my mindset totally, because I’m still too used to working with Ian and L. Of course, I also need to buck up a bit. only a month in, and I’m already falling behind. Looking forward to more late nights.

But other than not having time to watch TV/watch DVDs/go online/play Zeus & Poseidon/download stuff/play mahjong, I’m pretty happy with life at the moment.

Why? Because mama brought qh, me, sh and flo to an ulu ulu place to eat yummylicious crabs yesterday and celebrate flo’s bday in advance at the same time. [Ms Chris decided to fly our aeroplane (is it because she's worked at airport for too long??) and go swimming in her bikini with baby instead (note to ms chris: remember to wear ur bikini to the grasshoppers concert next week!!)] Why is that place doubly ulu, as in ulu ulu? Because once a upon a time, nicthegeek went there to take a 7pm exam paper, and not knowing how to go back home afterwards, spent more than an hour on a bus that circulated through the darkest streets of ulu northern Singapore. mafia still can ask me why I never call SH…haha, but it’s the same question i put to qh when she mentioned the ‘99 sentosa concert.

The black pepper crabs were so delicious that even my shirt decided to have a taste and mama can only shake her head. Haven’t really had good crabs for a while now, so the fat crab claws filled to the brim with firm white flesh that fell out oh-so-easily and the smoky black pepper sauce and red/sweet/sour chilli sauce were a treat. Even the har-chiong-gai and dou miao were much more delicious then other zhi char stalls I’ve been to. Very worth the trip and the amount we paid. If not for 5 xiao-di’s and the distance involved, I would probably give up xhs altogether.

We also managed to find a cozy hangout place that is great for month-ends when most of us are facing cash shortages, but that is still subject to approval. I thk Flo is quaking in her shoes as she reads this sentence…

All in all, life in general is fine. I’m looking forward to 3 sexy uncles next week and 5 xiao-di’s in 2 weeks time. The complaints and grumblings shall come in time…stay tuned. Other than that, my most important mission now is to lose weight. seriously. and then maybe DM’s Somebody would mean a lot more. Can someone tell me where to take good and cheap pilates classes?

…
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
She’ll hear me out
And wont easily be converted
…

this time, after last Friday’s Marche dinner, it’s for Rosti, complete with cold tart sour cream and a nice foot-long skin-cracks-when-you-bite-into-it chicken sausage.

i’m actually salivating as I type…

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torturous reading material: the travel threads at lesdames. Everybody discussing where to stay, what to eat and where to shop; HK, Taiwan and BKK are still within the top 5 threads there; and here I am, not knowing when I will next step onto taiwanese or hk soil.

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