YFriday, January 26, 2007
turning tables
thursday was crazy. i spent more 14 hours in my 3 inch heels AND, i actually ran in them. it was a crazy day for me, with things like the last minute printing and binding of our presentation materials, jiahui and i were late for the presentation so we ran a bit in our heels...
lucky for us, our presentation was a success. (: after school, i accompanied leong to meet a friend whom he hasnt seen for a long time before we went to fel's party. leong's "friend", ivan was kinda mean. unfortunately for us, we realised a bit too late that he had hidden agenda's for meeting leong.
basically, ivan was looking for partners to invest in some IT venture that he's doing for a school project. that, we only found out when we were just about a street junction away from his office. speaking of his friend's office, it really sucked because the office was shared with another company that sold really cheapskate looking lingerie that even my grandma wouldnt take a look at. seriously, who wears girdles these days?!
anyways, leong and i beared with him out of courtesy (though i felt that he definitely didnt deserve any!). we were led on a tour round the very unimpressive office. it bored the hell out of me. finally, he led us to a table and told us to take a seat while he gets a senior to talk to us.
aha - here comes the weird part. we didnt have freedom of choice when it came to the chairs we wanted to sit on. the seating arrangement ivan had in mind for us was to "corner us"... where he and his senior will be sitting at either sides of us. i scanned the room and saw this sitting pattern prevalent. at every other table, i see two peeps dressed in formal wear "cornering" their"victim". while ivan left us to find his senior, leong read my mind too.
so guess what? we made a dash for it... out of the office. the office is on the ground floor but leong didnt lead me out of the building, instead.. we found ourselves running towards a stair well near the fireman's lift. we ran up to the 2nd floor, to find the door locked. desperate, we ran up another level to the 3rd, and found ourselves near the car park.
there was a toilet there so we ran in, locked the main door. thank god for leong there wasnt anyone inside because the toilet we ran into was the ladies! gosh. we stayed there for a good 10 minutes, while catching our breaths and laughing at what a ridiculous thing we had done. what a retarded mini "adventure".
the stupidest thing was that he just "happened" to know where to find the stairs. he said he had no freaking idea where he was leading me to, and he had no idea what building it was.
but all he knew was that getting out of the building through the main exit was a definite no-no cos it'll be easy for ivan to find us. which is true i guess... the streets outside were definitely not crowded so it would have beenn easy to spot us. that's something i wouldnt have thought of... *shrugs*
and i never thought we'd do such extreme measures to get away from a pushy "salesman". yup... it was totally crazy, dont you think so, leong?! anyways, my heart was beating at a crazy rate. the adrenaline rush died down and that was when i started to feel the cramp in my legs (it's due to my heels i guess... and the running up 3 flights of stairs in them).
but it was pretty fun (and funny). leong diverted the calls on his phone. then we saw the smses coming in, asking about where we were and what's wrong and were we in a rush. stupid questions, really. i mean, if you havent seen someone for years but you want them to invest in your school project venture, you gotta build some rapport over time first - instead of tricking them and saying that you want to meet them cos you havent seen them for so long. it's disgusting.
but it's still funny. ivan may have thought that he could control the rules of the game by fooling leong.. maybe ivan was even glad that leong had brought me along. more people equals more capital for him? afterall the two of us had blindly followed him to his lion's den.
but the tables on him at the last minute. even we were surprised at what we did. (:
after changing my plaster and freshening up and we guessed that the coast was clear. we got out of the toilet and made our way out of the building via the carpark. lucky my "tour guide" was familiar with shenton.
we boarded some bus to harbourfront before taking the north east line to clarke quay, and had... proper fun with fel and the rest at brewerkz. by the time we actually got there, i was totally exhausted (i had afterall slept at 3plus in the morning!). *sheepish look* paisei!
anyways, looking at the whole ivan thing in retrospection, it sorta freaks me out.. i mean, what if 10 years down the road i get a call from some friend i havent seen in a long time, and he/she is as sneaky as ivan? i dont think i'd wanna do the whole running up the staircase and hiding in the toilet thing again... lol.
ive made a random list of things to learn after i graduate: nanchaku, coil spinning, cooking, yoga.. alrite i see i know you are thinking "no... not again". yes, i always get weird ideas when the exams are nearing.
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YFriday, January 19, 2007
im so puzzled by my Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde behaviour.
the moment i step into campus (or even taking the bus to go to school), i feel like dying. it's like little things here and there that irritate me, but i dont say it cos im too tired of everything. then when im out of it, whoosh, i feel like a helium balloon.
anyways, last night's dinner at C&F with fel and irene was a great way to end the week. i may have dodged your questions of concern but really, i dont want to rant or think about all the sticky stuff im stuck in. why not just have fun while we're together? (:
i did some lame tricks like my gravity defying ring trick and knife-in-the-bread trick. im getting tired of whinning that's why i try to amuse myself by giving you a little (lame) fun. lol. dont worry about me. only 3 more presentations and 1 report to go. they wont kill.
we did a bit of window shopping too and i bought a pair of shoes last night from far east! a simple pair of dark brown pumps. yes..they are FLATS. heh. my style too. i've sworn off heels already. so what if they are pretty? they are nasty toe-cramping torture devices in pretty packages.
hmm.. i helped out for open house today. it's really dumb because Mua - an accountancy student - had to explain to people about the darn Business Studies course. but lucky i can crap my way through and pretend to be a business studies student.
the other 2 co-helpers were bugging me more than the other classmates with me. i hate it that they were always standing so near. and they think they are helping me when in fact they are screwing things up. it's like when im explaining to a group of visitors, either of them will stand nearby and cut in suddenly. they make things worse for me because they talk a lot but they dont answer the visitors' questions.
sheesh man. it's the Male Answer Syndrome - where some men like to answer a question even though they dont know the answer. i always have to shoo them alway and clear the mess myself. -__-
and when i was alone, one of them asked very lame questions like, whether am i in year one and what do i think of the bartender (we had a bartender in the room). the other one was also a pain. he asked if we had met in this year's BAoC (business & accounting orientation camp). i just shot him a "duh" look, said that i wasnt even there and hurried off to the toilet. i had to get away... or else, i'd really have smashed their heads.
heh. yet again, my patience level drops 3 fold whenever im in school. i really dont know why. i wish there's something i can do about it.
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YFriday, January 12, 2007
nothings
i stared blankly in front of the window
listening to the rhthym as the rain, like pellets,
hit my pane.
the flowers outside
disintegrate into mud
they fall over and lay buried
and droplets
like murderous hands, pumet them to death.
shallow pools
grow from little ponds to oceans
their murky depths are reditioned
by people running through the rain
hurdles to clear
23rd jan: company law presentation
25th jan: marketing presentation
29th jan: enterprise creation report
1st feb: enterprise creation presentation
(registration for uni begins too)
9th feb: 1st exam - econs!
(exams all the way till 15th)
arghz. freaking projects, exams and uni applications.
i have no idea where my life is leading me but some of your lives have led you to me. my blessing perhaps and your misfortune? heh. for the support you've given me through this tough time, thank you.
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YThursday, January 11, 2007
haha. i realised my last post was dated last year. today, we are 12 days into 2007. i can still remember the fireworks we watched 12 nights ago at marina... while everyone was screaming and "wooting", i was so seduced by the display that my mind went ablank. but i was happy. if i could, i'd want to watch it all again and not think of anything.
some things at school are so bad that i can cry. i mean, if i wasnt mentally stable i would have broken down. i havent shed tears amid being stabbed in the back but before i sleep, i think about it. even dad's so stressed that he cursed quite a fair bit in his sleep. he has his own freelance deals to be pissed about. like mine, his situation involves backstabbing. but his is scarier cos the person who backstabbed him doesnt know him but is a fraudster who tells clients that he had worked with my dad and painted a negative picture of him. it's amazing how business rivals would stoop to such unscrupulous means just to steal a deal.
disgusting.
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