ChiNesE paLaDiN...

The album cover of the chinese show that I am currently in love with...
"Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan"... also found out that its english name is Chinese Paladin... btw, thanks prisy and michelle for this birthday present...




The entire cast of the show, got a lot of HongKong, Taiwan, China and 3 Singaporean artistes... And I found out that the main leads are all like only a few years older than me, and some are even younger than me... the youngest chrarcter, Ah NU, who is my fav, is only 16!!! ahh... i feel so ancient...



The lyrics to the really nice song by Ah Sang...




My 2 fav characters in the show... isn't the guy cute??? His character name is Tang Yu Xiao Bao...

Ski PicTuRes...

Brrr.. very cold... outside the cabin where we stayed...

No gloves... heehee...


That's me, prisy, michelle, and her colleague, Diana. Don't we look professional? haha... I am the only un-professional one...

"REn"...

bitch! mon suddenly got a call from my supervisor asking me to go and work that night... and then found out that the stupid bitch was the supervisor for that night too... and u now wat she said to me that day???! she said " andrea, do u have a problem listening to wat i tell you to do? if you dun follow my instructions, i will be your worst enemy and u won't last long here... and the door is open, u can walk out whenever u like..." blah blah... asshole. i purposely ignored her, if not, i will surely say things that i will regret later and she will go and complain to the head supervisor, so i kept quiet till she came and tell me those things... so i was like, why are u always picking on me?? and she was like no, i did not pick on you, ask anyone, i am an easygoing person... i wanted to laugh... please... easygoing? that word will never apply to you piece of shit...

and then last sunday, i was supposed to end my shift at 7pm, okay, so she expects me to end exactly at 7pm, so when it was 5 min to 7... i rang the bell and told her that my shift ends at 7... and she was like... it's still 5 min till 7, make sure that ur register is clean before i let u home, and u have 5 min to clean it... and then there were 3 other cashiers ending at 7 too... but instead of asking them to clean their registers too... she told them they can go already... if that's not picking on me, i dunno what is... asshole.

she makes me so pissed everytime she appears in front of me that i make mistakes... like dropping the change and pressing the wrong keys... and then at night, i can't sleep, thinking whether she will go tell the head supervisor and then getting me fired...
i kept telling myself to ignore her and not let her get to me... but how... when i have to see her freaking face every time i go to work...

i just keep telling myself to "ren" and try to ignore her (which is impossible, cos she keeps asking me to do stuff), and think of the money...

"Dao mEi"...

saw the roster for next week... made me dread going to work next week and ruined my entire week... why? bcos the person that i hate most will be supervising for my shifts next week... sickening... so "dao mei"...

fri... went to do a promotion for this Morning Fresh brand dishwashing liquid and Tectabs... at woolworths Hornsby... not as fun as last time when i was promoting pods... not many pple pass by that aisle where i was standing and the store did not have many of that particular stock... cos i think it's a new product... so i was really surprised that there were a few pple who bought the tabs and the dishwashing liquid... not my area of expertise though... pods is more like it... promoting edible stuff is always better... then i can "cobe" some and eat... hee...

sat morning had to attend the clinical placement camp briefing at parramatta... Tina and me lost our way cos they changed the busstop to another place and so we arrived there 15 min late... but luckily the person-in-charge also was late... anyway, they talked abt the arthritis foundation and that they have been doing this sort of camp for children with juvenile arthritis for a few years already... there were 2 pple there who also had arthritis and they told us abt their experience... the camp is this place called narrabeen which is like an hour's drive... Tina managed to get someone who is also from OT to drive us there...

good news (to me)... i found out the name of the singer and the song title of the song that i really liked in the chinese show... it's called "yi zhi hen an jing" by ah sang... really really nice song... i really have to look for the soundtrack for the show... apparently they have it and it's out in taiwan...

SkI weeKeNd...

I am Back!
i was soooo tired after coming back on sunday night, and then for the past two nights... yesterday was really tiring... started uni at 8am and finish at 5pm... and then have to quickly rush to work and what pissed me off was the stupid train service... it was sooo delayed and there was a major confusion at epping that caused a major crowd waiting at the platform for the all stoppers to hornsby... in the end, i was late (again!!!) for work... shit man...

hmmm... sherry asked how was my skiing trip... how shall i start... it was both a fun and disastrous experience... fun part was everything else excluding learning how to ski... i got to see snow, touch it, and if u want to know how it feels for those who haven't seen and touched it before, like me before friday... it felt like a more solid version of ice kacang... so go have a touch of ice kacang next time u order it... :) i didn't get to build a snowman though... but i saw a few very cute ones along the way...
got to see the beautiful scenery along the way there, it takes abt 6 hours drive, past canberra, and then 3 more hours to where we stayed... we rented a cabin and it's another 35min to the Selwyn Snowfields, the place where we went to ski...

started our journey early on fri morning, and arrived at the cabin ard 6pm... the cabin got a real fireplace... haven't seen one before too... we had to manually put logs and firestarters to start the fire... not those electrical ones...
slept quite early cos got nothing to do... the tv reception was very bad and after playing a round of scrabble...

Sat morning, started our ascent to the mountains... when we arrived, there were already quite alot of people there already... mostly families and u see these little kids wearing ski gears and skiing... so cute... and they ski so well! unbelievable! kids were tobogganing, and they had these little doughnut like tyres that u sit on and u slide down the hill... expensive though...
took awhile to finally get our ski gears and we were all ready to start skiing... except me... huh...
i can't even stand up properly and i can't even get my ski boots into the ski board... i think i took abt like 15min before i could do it...hopeless, when i finally start moving like 2cm, guess wat happened?
no surprise... i fell on my b***... luckily the snow quite soft and my b*** got padding to protect... otherwise, by the time i finish, i will have blue-blacks all over... which i still have on my arms and legs...
prisy and michelle and her colleague tried to teach me how to ski, like how to snowplough, which is like having to make ur legs to an inverted V... which somehow i still can't get it... that's how u stop urself too when u lose control and ski downwards very fast... which always happen to me... and michelle's colleague told me that it's really bad to fall back, so i had to always lean forwards, but somehow, i always end up on my behind...i was soo tired after my third attempt and falling down so many times, and wat's worse was that i can't get up by myself, they had to come pull me up, or take off my ski boards...

and then, we sat on the ski lifts to go up the hill again, again, i had difficulties standing up, i always fall and the guy there had to come pull me up... so whenever he sees me coming on the chair lifts, he must be preparing himself to pull me up, cos i fell every single time...

I kept trying and trying, but in the end, i still gave up, it's really difficult... and i didn't ski on sunday... i sat there and watched people ski... sigh... prisy tried to comfort me by saying that it was my first time and that when she skiied for the first time, she also hated it...
anyway, it will be a long time before i will even attempt to try skiing again...
overall, it was a good experience, and now that i noe what it's like to ski, at least next time, IF and it's a big IF, i ever go again, i will have something to "fall back on"...
haha, get it??

okay, i will try to post some pics when i have the time... till then...

GetTiNg diFficUlt..

in the computer lab now, nothing to do, waiting to pass the time, then have to work later...
week 1 of semester 2 officially ended today... timetable this semester got good and bad... the bad things are that tuesdays start at 8am and finish at 5pm... thursday, which is today, got 3 hours lecture... the good news is that we get to have fridays off...
this semester, starting to learn more about OT, things like splints, measuring ROM, anatomy (oh man, i kept hearing Dr Ravi's voice in my head, saying the anatomical names during anatomy lectures and practs... is that creepy or wat???), neuroscience, occupational roles across lifespan... very "chim"...
but i am sooo glad that i dun have to take sociology ever again... almost died last semester studying for it... can't even remember a single thing now also...

oh and I finally got to meet Chris Chapparo in person... she's teaching us systematic instruction this semester... in nyp, when i was researching in the journal articles, her name kept popping up, and i found out that she's actually a really well-known OT here in aus...

btw, i will be going skiing during the weekend... yay... dunno whether it will be fun or not... prisy said it's actually quite difficult and tiring... will update when i come back...

I hate you. I hate to see ur detestable face. Who the freaking hell do you think you are, to scold me and humiliate me in front of so many people? Why do I have to put up with ur shit? I never EVER want to see ur stupid freaking face again, not if I can help it. Go away, and I hope you get fired soon... or someone else lodged a complaint against you...
Why do we have to clean the place? Our job does not require us to clean every freaking inch of the place... so stop bossing us around.
I have never met another person as annoying and bitchy as you.

One mOre WeeK tO gO...

found myself back in ceci again... after so long, still remembered the last time i was there was when we were celebrating mel and karen's birthdaes... this time, i was the one giving a treat, so auntie, uncle, prisy and michelle and me drove to strathfield last sunday... ordered 4 dishes, and in the end, it was too much and i was like tearing up, cos the rice cake was really really spicy! i felt so bloated after drinking so much water... and poor michelle could only eat her non-spicy potato noodle... cos she can't take spicy stuff... now abit sian of ceci already, have to look for other nice places to eat...

last week of a 2 mth long school holiday... mon, me and prisy went to the city to shop, sing karaoke and more shopping... bought a poncho for myself, and she bought a belt...
tues and wed stayed at home, doing some reading and watching my chinese show, oh man, all the songs in the show are so nice! wonder whether they will show it in singapore... and whether there will be a soundtrack for the show... when we went karaoke on mon, i found two of the songs in the show, and i was so happy i got to sing it... but there's this really really nice one which i am still figuring out who sang it...

work is as usual... nothing much to talk abt... except that sometimes i feel that to get into the supervisors' good books eg give u more shifts, treat u nicer when u need help or press the wrong buttons, u have to suck up to them... u noe like, 'pai ma pi'?
sometimes i feel like i am doing just that, and i feel so fake... even though u dun like that particular person, u still have to smile at them and treat them like ur close friend... especially when they ask u to do something u dun like... sigh...

and on thurs... finally, and i mean, finally, got my learner's licence... yay... valid for 3 yrs, the thing over here is that, the driver's licence is like our IC... wherever u go u have to bring... especially when u go clubbing, or places where there are age restrictions... so i dun have to carry my passport ard...
have to find someone to teach me driving, so that i can take the next level and upgrade to a P plate... and then when i save enough money, i am going to get a car... it is really inconvenient here without a car...
i also bought a calling card, and called some pple back home... after talking to them, i have this feeling that by the time i graduate and go back home, some pple back home will have already forgotten me... all i am left with are memories and photos that we took together... but i just want to say that, if u are reading this, i am glad and fortunate to have met and known u as a friend... thanks for all the happy memories that u have given me... i will always remember...