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A circle that we can’t get out of

I wonder when will I be free..

Credits: Life by ~flintstone

maybe just a little.. blehs ><

I guess my computer really wants me to blog because both chrome and firefox can’t play Youtube videos. I wonder why ): Tried the Ctrl F5 method numerous times but it just doesn’t play. I just keep on getting the Error message. Gah. Forget it. This blog post is long due anyways. Guess its really time to just type it and stop getting distracted from the insignificant stuff.

Well, Friday and Saturday offs are awesome because you would miss the most busy days during work (but that’ll soon be over because I’m converting to part time by next month). Anyways, its the first time where I go out for both days of my off and for some reason, I don’t feel as lethargic as before now. I wonder why. Maybe the “tiredness” that I thought I would experience for both days doesn’t exist at all. Okay. I have no idea what I’m uttering already. Let me go into the details of what happened on Friday and Saturday instead (:

On Friday, it was almost a repeat of what happened the previous one because again, I managed to get less than the full 8 hours of sleep and took bus 856 to Woodlands SSDC at around 7am which already hinted the time which I woke up, not forgetting to mention that I slept at 2am. As usual, butterflies. It’s already my third lesson but I’m still feeling nervous every time I go to a practical lesson. I wonder when I will get use to it =/ Driving was actually FUN. I mean it was always fun but that day was special. I think its because of the instructor. He’s so good. He’s able to guide me along without making me really tensed up. So in the end I just relaxed and let my feelings flow. Shouted and yelled like insane. LOL. I guess not bottling my emotions inside did make the experience much better than the previous 2. First was too slack, second was too scary and third was just nice (: Hope this friday’s would be a good one too.

After driving, I hopped onto 856 again and reached home around 10.30am. I googled and had a shock of my life. Circle line from Bishan to Paya Lebar only takes 17 minutes. How is that even possible? It was something to celebrate about because my journey from Sembawang to Paya Lebar which takes more than an hour on the usual route which included taking the red line to Marina Bay and changing over to the green line to Paya Lebar station has been shortened to just mere 17 minutes! I was actually really excited when I was at Bishan station because it was the first time I’ve taken the circle line. Yeah yeah, NYJC people can just laugh out loud at me. It’s fine. And as expected, it was SO FAST. It was actually only 13 minutes, not 17 which was more than what I could wish for!

I met up with KaiSin at Paya Lebar and then flagged a cab down to Katong Shopping Centre. My first time there and from just a few glances, I could actually make up most of the genre of the shops in the entire building. Tailor, maid agencies and photocopying services. The reason I was there of course ain’t for any of what I mentioned above. The purpose was to sing k with my Uniqlo friends! First time to TeoHeng too (: When I entered the room, it was actually quite spacious. I thought Han Cong was joking when he said that we could order food from the coffee shop downstairs. It was actually true -_- In the end I had sweet and sour pork rice for lunch, same as Dominic who complained that it wasn’t nice.

The singing k session was surprisingly fun. Dominic seriously should just become a DJ. He sounds like Muttons! Fort Minor’s “Where’d you go” turned into a joke session though the lyrics the “rapped” were exactly the same. The entire thing hit climax when we were singing “I’m a barbie girl” and “Wannabe” by spice girls. Dominic and Yan Hua were totally INTO the songs. Oh. And something special was that it felt especially eerie when nobody’s singing through the mike because the atmosphere resembled a concert. Everyone was singing in tune. Totally made my hair stand! Especially when Hancong sings too. He sings too well! *Looks at my arm’s hair*

After that, we went to Aston’s for dinner. Waited quite a long time for 13 seats. The poly “kias” joined us for dinner. YanHua and I were hooked onto Kaisin’s phone, playing cooking mama. She’s a pro! She was like telling us how she much levels she has overcame in her nintendo ds. Was really full after eating my bbq chicken chop (:

And somehow, we spent half an hour trying to take a decent picture. It was actually quite embarrassing because we were taking the photos in the middle of nowhere, you’ll understand when you see the picture. Furthermore, Douglas’s hairband broke so he was stuck in the toilet for very long trying to fix his hair. Guys and hair! Remind me of secondary school days. Well, but we did manage to get some really nice photos (:

Rushed home while the others went to Starbucks.

Saturday morning was the best morning ever! I had my full 9 hours of sleeeeep! Super happy that day. When WenJia came over to my house to get notes, I was still in my bed, enjoying the comfort. I bet she’s the only one who’ve ever seen my sleep face Oh no. I forgot I go to camps :X LOL! In the afternoon, I met up with Yuan Xi to watch Monga. I finally understood why it was such a popular movie. The truth was, the story is actually quite short. But the details were so fully developed for each scene. For example, the part where the main character joins the gang, they went through a hell lot of process to show that to the viewers, us. Overall, it was a nice movie but I agree with Yuan Xi that the ending is quite abrupt.

Then, met up with WenJia for dinner at Northpoint. It’s seriously so long since I’ve hung out there. Everyday is town town town. Gah. I feel like shopping suddenly. Can’t wait for Friday to come!

Went to Arts Fusion in the evening. I’ll elaborate more about it next time. Going to watch my show now. Let’s go Dream Team season 2 xDD

TIRED.

Today’s team talk consisted of Belinda, ho ho ho, Jayson and … hmm… oh, me. Four people Our location changed from stock room to staffroom to manager’s room ><”

I had to do innerwear for my first shift. Folded leggings and camisoles. Help lots of people locate their desired items. It’s a mess really. I wonder its always messed up. I swear I’m going to tidy them all up and sort them the next time I get innerwear duty. ARGH.

Break was spent with Jas. Walked all the way to Wisma to find The Face Shop for a… no-idea-how-to-describe activity. I guess the staff also realized we ain’t really interested in the products. A part of me just wanted to quickly get out and eat something because I was so hungry! I didn’t eat lunch at home. Instead, I had some burnt bread that my mum forgot she was heating up.

After that was Cashier Been so long since I’ve cashier duty! -.- Everyone’s commenting about my nails again. Well, will change colour soon and then, they will comment more! LOL. Look forward to my colourful nails

Before break, I had to do an hour of cleaning which was reduced to a mere half an hour because of the queue at cashier. Clean clean clean to Fitting room with my dust mop. Then I saw Nic who wanted to try clothes at the fitting room. I was soooo bored at that time so I told him “See la. You come, no rooms already” After that Jas came along and told me that Weiqin’s outside. Once I stepped out of the fitting room area, I heard WeiQin say “I’m here with Cassandra!”. Been SUPER long since I’ve seen Cass ><” In the end I was kind of “mopping” and chatting with them. Gosh. If they didn’t come along, I would have died. I was bored to tears. The day seemed so long. After a short while, Jas came along again and guided (I think) Syeh yin and her friend to me. So shocked -_- All came at the same time. It was like a friends gathering or something except it was a pure coincidence and I wasn’t actually “free”.

They left a short while after. Syeh yin and her friend bought something. And I forgot to mention that her friend’s a staff from Tampines outlet. She wanted to get this sweater that’s on limited offer because there’s no more sizes her side. I was wondering Tampines don’t have… Ion should be worse right >< We are the ones who always run out of stock first -.- Well, in the end they did get something which I have no idea what it is.

Second break was spent with LingLing, Jean, Tsien-Ren and Kelvin. Chat chat chat, didn’t even feel like going up. Jean was the one who dragged me up. I didn’t even finish my bubble tea in time! );

Woman’s front. Fold fold fold my most hated EFCs. Then they pull pull pull, so I fold fold fold again. The cycle continues.

Finally CLOSING! Arao-san and Belinda are so hilarious. They were correcting each other over the pronunciation of my name. The conversation went like this:

A: Belinda and Weiling. EH. I mean eng feee.

B: It’s eng wee!

A: Oh ya ya. Eng wee.

M: eng HWEE.

A: Okay okay. Eng fee. *shakes head* Eng wee.*shakes head* Eng Hwee.

M: YES YES.

A: Okay. Belinda and Eng fee.

M: never mind forget it -.-

B: It’s eng wee.

A: Nono. Its eng hwee!

M: … *laughs like crazy*

It was pretty funny seeing 2 people getting so hyped up arguing over my name. And I just realized they are A and B. LOL. Okay. I’m crazy -.- Too late to be so high.

Hmm.. Oh. And Arao-san mentioned something about having leaders thing. I don’t understand >< Ah. Something else. He’s sooo funny! He was like explaining to this customer who was outside of Uniqlo’s door as we are closed for the night. So the customer asked if we still had premium downs and he said no. The customer continued asking if other branches has and he replied Nope. Not in Singapore, not in the whole Uniqlo. As in the entire global Uniqlo which includes Japan, Korea, blah blah blah and he listed all the different countries that had Uniqlo. I just couldn’t stop laughing because the person was only asking about Singapore outlet and he went one whole round talking about all the outlets in the world. After that, Tsien-ren commented that Arao-san’s english has improved and the auntie likes him. He was like so happy at first saying “yah yah. my english improve-na” *smiles widely* then he just realized the auntie part and he exclaimed “oh my god” and the way he said it has this really funny accent which made us laugh out loudly again.

We managed to finish tidying and running so I guess the morning shift people ain’t gona waste time running all the clothes!

Time to sleeep Goodnight people. Candycane dreams.

Oh. And I learnt that white wrapper hacks sweet is actually not hot ><” Thanks to Kelvin.

so self-centered. why can’t you just think about others more instead of yourself?

49hours. That’s the number of hours I’m working for this entire week. Full-time workers are only supposed to complete a minimum 44. Well, I thought mine was bad till I saw Jayson’s 55. I guess I should be glad that mine have not reached the 50-er yet. Actually, I think it will. I extended today by 15minutes. 3 more times and it’ll hit 1 hour. And nope, pay’s not gona be higher this month because of my 2 NPL (no pay leave) which is quite sad ): What can I do? Sick sick sick. Work till sick then take MC. After that recover, work again.

Life for me right now is on a daily routine basis. It’s almost like having over demanding parents who plan the schedule for their kids except that instead of tasks like piano, violin or studying, I get fitting room, front or cashier duties. That’s the only difference I guess. The other thing? I don’t get to choose my breaks either and also my pay. So well, yes. And well, it’s weird. REALLY weird. I think I might be accepting this job already, as part of my life. I’m such a fickle minded person. One moment I wana quit and the other, I just want to work on because of some other factors. Gosh. I need to make up my mind! But not having to make a decision rocks as well. I’m contradicting myself once again.

Anyways, I haven’t been touching the computer for ages. I feel like a cave woman. Someone who has been transported to the stone age. I have no time to use it since I’m always working. Right now, sleep is a luxury that I want to enjoy, something that I took for granted ages ago. Also, reception has been poor in Uniqlo’s staffroom so my phone’s been rotting away. Haven’t been replying messages or on the phone partly due to the reception of course, and my laziness. During breaks, I just wana have a good rest and slack away.

Been spending my breaks with LingLing these days. So lucky to have someone that shares the same break as me. Today was even better. Jean, LingLing and Hami. Laughed like crazy right in the morning. Oh. And someone stole my thrash bag! *hints at that someone* LOL.

Anyways, have anyone realized that ever since we’ve been working in Uniqlo, it almost seemed like we were “brainwashed” as described by Adzree and Natra. It’s crazy! I’ve been using phrases such as “please wait for a moment” in my daily life. Its so weird that I get the urge to remove empty hangers when I go into a shop or I feel like scrubbing the floor when I see stains. What’s more? I even smile to strangers when I’m walking home. Creepy. Shouldn’t think about it anymore ><

Before I get insane, its time to sleep.

PS. I’m super worried about my studies.

PPS. I think I’m going SIM. SHIT!