assholes

You meet alot of people during work, and there's the occassional assholes. Even asholes come in many different forms. The first type of asshole I encountered was that day when they came in big groups and swapped the dollar coins they placed as bets with quarters when they realised they lost. I call them cheaters. Then there's those who come in big groups and have 1 person asking you question about the game while the rest find ways to steal your prizes. These I call robbers. Then there's those who come in big groups with no intention of playing your game other than making fun of you so that they look funny amongst their friends. These I call trouble makers. Last but not least, a new type I discovered today comes in big groups, make a big fuss about you being slow so you'll hurry up, then at the end of the game when they lose, they will ask why you have not returned them change for the 10-dollar bill they gave you. I could not remember if I did give him change, but I always return the change before I move on to collect money from other players, so I could not have gone wrong yar? These I call sore losers. Notice they all come in big groups?

Yup, as you can see, working here is enriching, even with all these assholes around. The only problem is that they spoil your day. Thankfully there was fireworks today near the end of the day. It was so beautiful, I stood there all by myself basking in the beautiful sight.

Oh did I also mention that when I went jogging this morning I ran past a few hundred kites flying in the sky? A beautiful sight!

Slack.

Night owls

No more boob flashers today but even if there were, I'm too busy to notice. This is the Americans Memorial day weekend. Its suppose to big a big thing to mark the start of the summer season, when we'll just get busier and busier, but its already SO BUSY NOW! Goodness. THe shops on the boardwalk opens till 2am!!! Our theme park closes at 12mn. Its insane. Where else in the world can you find such happening nightlife. I'm not talking about the pubs or clubs here, I'm talking about normal Orchard road stores and a theme park for goodness sake! I worn out, yet we have to go to work at 11am tomorrow.

Totally slack.

Breasts

Some brat came up to me and asked me: "You like my breasts?" Stunned. American girls are like so... disgusting. Serious. What type of parenting they got man, and they do it when they're not even drunk?! On the topic, it reminds me about the time when my friend told me her boyfriend preferred big breasts and she was thinking of perhaps getting boobs op. haha... Come on, boobs are nice, but isn't it sufficient as long as there're some fats there? So big for what? Anyway, if you guys really like big boobs, u guys are missing out on alot here man... bwahaha...

Slack.

Drunkards

Some thai students told us: "drinks for $1 at fairview on Thurs" We were hooked.We entered with a $3 entrance and then, housepours were 1 buck and beers were 2 bucks. Guess what, we drank lor. Once again, i got semi-drunk and I bet I made a fool of myself. Things I normally will not say comes out from my mouth. haha. Anyway, I think the relationship of 2 of my friends are very rocky. All the best to the guy, hope u get her back.

Tired liao, slack.

Hollanded

Okie, so it was my fault when I found the wrong map to Six Flags today, but hey we got to see new places yar? hehe. Anyway, a normal 2 hours drive took 3 hours instead, so we wasted 2 hours of the day getting lost and asking for directions. =)

Anyway, when we got there, that was when the fun begin! I always had a fear for roller coasters and I always thought it was not worth to get myself uncomfortable and pay for it. haha, but this time round it was free, besides, my friends all wanted to on the rides so badly, so I went along. The apprehension for the first ride was killling me. The queue, the other riders' screams and the slow and ardous climb to the top really made my stomach churn and doubled up in knots. But, in the end the ride felt really too short as I started to have fun. The second ride was even more thrilling as it brought us up 7 ups-and-downs, and 1 gigantic drop. Then I realised something, I was actually having fun on the rides. It was no more a scarey affair but I could now face the camera during the ride and smile! and wave my hands and stick out my tongue... yeh, you get the idea. It was a pity we could not take the newest ride there though. It would have brought us up 455feet (30+ stories), make an inverted loop and come spiralling down at 200kph. Just imagine!

Can childhood dislikes be overcomed? Maybe I'll enjoy horror shows now. Maybe I'll like the taste of ginger now. You never know till you try - Morale of the story.

Slack.

Boring boring

Today went by slowly. I tried to be enthu but my stall was just sucky. US$3 for a game and only when 4 players play, do you get a chance to win a basketball or football. So if you wanna win, you have to at least fork out 12 bucks so that you can win the ball. No wonder no one came over.By the 4th hour, I only had 9customers. Yes, you got it right, 9! They seriously throw away my game and Shuling's games. But we went to a party tonight and got free drinks from Sash, our supervisor. They said it was pretty dead. I agree, but all the guys there are people I know, so it wasn't that bad for me. Anyway, we came back for Ben & Jerry's instead. Mint cookie flavor, nice...

Slack.

OMG! - part 2

I didn't know that when they meant it was gonna be busy this weekend, they actually meant we won't have time to eat. Haha. 35 mins was all I had in the whole day to feed my busy body and empty the waste. Nevertheless, it was an interesting day. Daytime work was long and dreary but the night was not, ah-ha! I was wondering what made the night alot easier to pass by, and I realised that my attitude for work at night is so different from that in the day. I was lacksidasical in the day and laid back, not interested in engaging the visitors. However, I my attitude was so different at night. I was dancing, singing into the mic and talking to my customers non-stop. My stall was located very near a ride so it was very strategic and garnered alot of attention. Add in a mic and loud speakers, I was out full force at night, playing with the kids and prancing around in my stall. Time flew when I was having fun and I wasn't constantly eyeing the clock for break time anymore. I think this is one thing I must try to achieve in the days to come. As you can tell, I like my work, but please give me more breaks in future, boss? =)

Tired from a long day of work.

Slack.

OMG!

Holy shit, last night was the second time I drunk till I puked so badly man. Wat to do? Free food, free drinks, so drink like crazy lor. Some more I keep losing when playing guessing game, haha. Yup, it was a weird feeling, I was not drunk enough to not know what I'm doing, but I was doing things I would not normally do, hehe. Hey, can't help it if Juan Pablos was giving out free food and drinks yar? Initially, we were there for the food, but after a Corona, maguerita and a HUGE tequilla shot, we were all stayers for the free drinks. I tell you, it was plain madness. All 7 of us there were totally gone! Drunks walking along the streets, bumping into police officers and puking in the drain, haha. After that the rest was a blur. I know I made it back safely but I found myself sleeping in a friend's room... on the floor. Geez, do I suck or what.

Slack.

Photos up

Cleaned up my blog and posted the photos up. The link is in the sidebar. Hooray!

Just came back from a bout of fattening Ben & Jerry's ice cream, chips with French onion dip (simply gorgeous, 10 times better than Sour cream and onion flavour), vanilla fudge... erm and many more sinful items. Man, we're pampering ourselves! Anyway, I worked hard today. At least for the morning portion because I got to work at the warehouse with the South Americans. Did I mention I was the smallest in size over there. Yup, and we had to move 100s of boxes from a large trailer into the warehouse. Man... U know what, I feel like the Banglahs in Singapore. Underpaid to do manual chores, haha. Anyway, something interesting happened. These guys I was working with are the more uneducated Americans and uncouth at best. The cool thing was that their supervisor was a young chap, albeit big size, was too young to control these people. However, he managed to do it, why? For one, he joined them in doing what they were doing, even when the boxes were super heavy. Secondly, he gave everyone a bottle of drink after we were done with the work. That sure bought them over. Haha, nice leadership skill there Tom! Thumbs up.

Yupz, for the rest of the day nothing eventful happened, but I'm looking forward to watching Star Wars tomorrow man! Shiok.

Slack.

Slack

Yupz, as the title suggests. Today is a super slack day. We went to work but did very minimal until I was arrowed. Those blardy Ukranians think they damn chio can make me carry all the heavy loads for them. Haha. But they are very chio yarh? I forgot to mention. I'm working with 4 Ukranian ladies, or girls (under 21) if u please. These 4 ladies are tall (1.7m at least) and slender. Nice leg, big boobs and beautiful. In fact they're very good at flaunting their goods. Despite the freezing weather, you can spot them in very short shorts and tight tees. Speaking of which. 1 of the girls turned up in a g-string that rode way higher than her low cut jeans! You practically see the whole T-shape! So there was this bunch of Americans bunching around them. When one of them, Natasha, had to climb up a ladder t clean bulbs on the stall's roof, this guy was like fighting to help her support the ladder. Oh gawd! *smacks head* Then like Shuling said, he practically looked in awe of her. This bunch of Ukranians are really... hmmm... *lost for words* Now you know why they could make me carry the heavy stuff huh, but I must credit them for being really friendly people, yarh?

Besides work, we played mahjong. Mahjong in a foreign land, cool yarh? hehe. Lost money though.

Slack.

A busy saturday

Started the day early and yet I had only less than 45 mins of break in total for this 13 hours day starting from 11am. God am I tired man. I had to man a betting games store. It goes like this. There are 3 numbers ( 0, 1 and 2) to choose from and 2 colours for each number. You have to place your bets on one of the 6 combinations (eg. Blue- 1) and the wheel is spinned mechanically like wheel-of-fortune. If it lands on your bet, you simply get to bring home a choice ball from my station. Each 'bet' is $2. Awfully expensive I must say, plus chance of winning is only 1/6. Wait a minute, isn't this a family theme park, how come there's gambling??

Anyway, the days were dreary and customers came in trickles, however nearer evening time, the number of guests started increasing and there were times I was overwhelmed. There was this time where a guy asked to join a game but it had already started so I asked him to hold on a second. After the game ended, he asked me to change his bills to coins so that he could play but I ran out of coins so I asked him to wait awhile longer. At this, he flared up and said he had enough of waiting and walked off. Geez. Not like I could help it.

There was also this bunch of black asses who came to play. I thought they genuinely wanted to play and win something, but all they had on their mind was winning. I changed their bills for $1 coins for use in the game. However, they swapped the dollar coins with quarters instead while I wasn't looking. Man! What cheats! I hope I won't have to cover up for their black asses. Idiots!

Otherwise, the day went pretty okie, it was interesting in fact. There were the itchy-hand gamblers who played for the sake of playing and had no interest in the balls that were prizes, and there were those who played so many time just so their kids can get the ball. Interesting. The parents giving everything for their kids remind me about how my parents provided for me without question. I now see the light of how hard it was for them to drag me away from something I probably insisted of having as a kid. Salutes to my parents! I'd give anything to you guys in future. I swear.

That's all for now. I'm awfully tired. Gotta wake up to work tomorrow (sunday).

Slack.

To work

Started work today cleaning games stalls. The guys we met are so friendly. The interesting thing only occurred after Morey's piers opened for operation. We had an early dinner and went back to start work. Was initially asked to man the same stall as Shuling, but I guess they were in lack of workers so they pushed me to the darts stall. I thought it was damn miserable considering that the weather was friggin' chilly and the breeze was like a gale, but the night was pretty interesting. To my left was a thai called Pond who was exceptionally friendly and aptly kept me entertained when I was bored. In front of me was a lady in charge of a ride. A high class, more scarey carousel, while I operated a dart game where u'll have to score 50 points and above in order to get anything at all. Haha, at least the prizes were worth it... i think.

Slack.

Jog on the boardwalk

Went jogging for the first time today. This was to work out the sumptous buffet we had the day before. We stuffed ourselves to the max, trying to complete the portion we took plus those the girls could not finish. We jogged by this old couple who waved to us like we knew each other for ages. It was just so endearing. The people here are rather friendly and definitely more polite than Singaporeans. We're immersed right amongst the culture. I'm glad we came.

My newest past-time is trying to figure out how to reply friendly gestures. Like if someone said thank you, it was only natural for them to reply "u're welcome". Then if someone said Good morning, you could reply "Good morning, have a good day". This and many more.

Another thing, there're SO MANY flavour for Ben & Jerrys. In fact we bought 5 different flavours of ice cream which we have never seen before in Singapore, and we worked on our first tub - Half baked.

Slack.

Visit to Atlantic City

Finally at Wildwood New Jersey. We have settled in and bought food for our kitchen yesterday. Today, we went down to atlantic city to check out the gambling town. It was filled with old foggies spending away their pension. hehe. Anyway, I got myself a trackshirt although it cost a bit, but I didn't get a watch. Sob. We walked down boardwalk and chased birds at the beach. It was shiok man. Its defenitely something you won't be able to do in Singapore. Ha! Anyway, its late today, I think i'll start uploading the pictures only tomorrow. Right now, I wanna go sleep already. With my sweatshirt I can now wake up for my morning runs! Tada. No more fats!

Slack.

Plane journey part 4

Waited a whole 7 hours for my friends at Newark airport. Long wait coz their plane was delayed. My FHM and 3 other magazines were not sufficient to keep me company. It's a pity my laptop ran out of batt. Anyway, now its happily charging away in the corner while I'm chatting with my friends. Another long 7 hours wait at the airport before we leave on the first bus tomorrow morning to out final destination. Wildwood New Jersey.

Slack.

Plane journey part 3

On the train now to EWR on the NJ transit. Heard that the Sat trains were packed to the brim with standing passengers, thankfully it ain't that bad today as I got a seat in the front cars. In fact the train is very similar to the on u take to go Malaysia. Oh man, its only 5pm. Taking the train to New York liberty station before changing to an airtrain to Newark int'l airport. Dinner was subway and it was totally horrible, maybe coz i don't have much appetite left. Too much food inflight.

Slack.

Plane journey part 2

Back on the plane. Its 1631 back in Singapore, but the local time now is probably only 0831. Yup, flying over France now. Apparently they're having bad weather in France today coz all I see out the window are clouds and more clouds. Just had brunch, it was fantabulous. Grilled beef fillet was tender and succulent; veal sausage with pepper sauce and English mustard was gorgeous; coupled with the roasted tomato, yes, roasted tomato, takes like tomato juice and looks over-ripen at first glance but, melts inyour mouth. I then washed down these sinful food with a cup of dom perignon 1996 champagne. This was followed by a more than sinful plate of cappuccino mousse with chocolate sauce. Now I'm going back to my show 天下无贼。And to film my bed taking shape. Bwahaha.

Got off the plane and felt kinda lost. Don't know what I'll do until tonight. Bumped around and ended up in the airtrain. I thought it might bring me to another big terminal where I can find more shops. I was at terminal 4, then 5, then 6 and before I knew it, I already passed all 9 terminals in JFK international airport. Yes... 9 terminals! So I made it to Jamaica train station where I paid $7 for the trip to 34th st. Penn Station via subway. Haha, I'm actually on the well--renowned NYC subway. Yup, then when I reached, I again bumped around looking for NJ transit to make my way to EWR later. Passed by a subway, and starbucks but I didn't stop. Nope, all the way till I found the NJ transit ticket counter. I realised that it was only 1200hrs, so I had lotsa time. So I took to the streets. Yes, once again I bumped around, checked out Empire State building (very tall, in fact the only tall building around, hehe). I realised that the streets here are very organised, especially here in Manhattan. Avenues run north-south and streets run east-west. Yeh, the famed 5th Ave is where I am now. Starbucks on Fifth ave, typing on my iBook and checking out the streets while sipping my venti Java Chip Frappuccino. Whoa, lovely.

I realised that New York City is a really multi-racial society. Lotsa blacks and caucasians, then there were the Chinese and other minority races. Cool place, oh yar, did I mentioned the weather here is a cool 12 degrees unlike burning Singapore temperatures? Bwahaha... Over here, the Macy's departmental store is suppose to be the largest in the world. Well, I'm really not interested, but I might check out the sneakers shop later. 20 bucks for a pair of Nike. Cool. Anyway, I'm done telling stories for now. - pinksire (1356hrs, Fifth Ave NYC) 0156hrs in S'pore.

Slack.

Plane journey part 1

I just watched Coach Carter. It was a friggin funny show. I must tell u that this first class seat is amazing. Nice big TV screen, sofa seat big enough for 2 of me and 60 MOVIES! What a choice. Then there was Meet the Fokkers. I can't resist it anymore, so I whipped up my iBook and decided to take some nice photos, but the cabin was too dark. I was suppose to be 3am in the morning see. So I turned my seat into a bed, and got into a 180 degrees reclining position. Gorgeous. Oh gawd. Did I mention I also tried foie gars last night? Some duck liver which taste like salted egg yolk or something like that.

Having a breakfast after waking up wearily although the bed was gorgeous. Finished watching electra and watching dare devil now. Bwahaha. Breakfast was good with croissant and scrambled eggs and bacon. I'm quite sure I'll get enough of that in US. Anyway, I'm reaching Frankfurt in 45 mins according to the co-pilot. I'll take a picture when we land. I'm gonna go finish my breakfast before the take it away. Okie, something interesting. I didn't know that the Elektra in Daredevil was the same as the one in Elektra until I saw the Sais. Goodness... Jennifer Garner...

Just got off the plane. In Frankfurt now, caught a glimpse of the city on way down. It was funny, clumps of buildings and only 1 or 2 high-rise buildings, so unlike Singapore. Noticed I said clumps? Coz, the other region was all covered by forested areas. Cool right? After landing, I finally got to take some pictures of the seats, with the help of a friendly leading Steward Alan. He was nice, encouraging me to be an Air steward after I'm done with my studies. Haha. Had a nice chat, and it really convinced me that I wanna become an air steward in future. Its 5 degrees outside and now my stomach is aching, I wonder if it was because to the food or the anticipation of what lies ahead. Okie, signing out for now, to watch my 天龙八部。- pinksire (0703hrs, Frankfurt) 1.03pm on my comp clock?

Slack.