i know i said in the last post that today wasn't supposed to be some exciting day. but hey guess what, it was. to me, anyway.
okay, the bahas was exactly how most bahases go. but my new favourite minister [Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan] was the guest-of-honour, and he made a speech and everything, and i just think he's SO cool. so that definitely livened up the bahas a lil bit. haha. and of cos, amy got to talk to this universally-handsome creation of God. haha. i thought it was so funny. anyway, SJI won the bahas, which i objectively don't agree with, but whatever. haha.
after the bahas, i convinced baba to eat at swensen's. i'm still semi-full from the meal. haha. anyway, it was all good.. we had prawn dippers, salmon rice and the club square with extra fries, plus a waffle with marshmallow topping. yum. and there was a cute sup working, so THAT was good. can't have a good meal without cute service staff around. he was really cool. he actually wore another black tshirt under his black sup tshirt, and the overall effect was, well, cool. haha. but i asked kak nores about him and she doesn't know him. darn.
i love eating out now! i'm just addicted! next stop will be the thai place at causeway point. woohoo! can't wait.
i took 12 to pasir ris int from bugis. it was a helluva long ride. but mostly relaxing. i got quite a good nap and everything. oh and there's this T-junction at the simei-tampines area, it's REALLY slow-moving! it took two-and-a-half songs for the bus to finally pass the area. wow. giler sey.
anyway, i digress. i was gonna say tt i dropped by WS to get fabric paint for my shirt, and after that i went to my workplace to just say hi ah. it seemed everybody except me and hannan were working today. haha. i talked to them for abit, and then they told me that i missed out on seeing a certain special someone today. apparently ex-con had dinner there with his gf after booking out. he was in army uniform and everything. and i was all like, "oh fuck it i can't believe i wasn't here!" and they told me how he looks more muscular than ever, but also thinner. they also told me that none of them likes his gf, who apparently has a hateable face and was not friendly at all. [btw, "they" refers to kak nores, jess and joseph, in general.] and finally, they told me that he asked about me. my response: "don't lie ah!" sigh. yes he asked if i was still working there. oh and when he went to pay personally at the cashier, kak nores told him that she doesn't like his gf, and he claimed that she's NOT his gf, that she's "just a friend". oh God. i can't believe he had to come visit the ONE day i wasn't working! how is this possible? and later in the bus i had to restrain my stupid tears. sheesh. even mr rahim told me not to care. but i guess i just can't.
let's take a break: there's a cool persandingan going on this weekend. preparations kat bawah blok started like, a week ago! there's like, extra tents and marquees everywhere, and the smell of food is just wafting into the study with the fresh night air. and all the chairs are so cool.. and there's this heeeuuugge platform for the couple to sit on, and it's all in shades of white and this interesting red colour, with flowers everywhere. it's all very elegant and sophisticated, and makes me wanna get married too. i hate that things like these make me wanna get married. how slenger is that, right? it prolly costs a bomb, man. but apparently they can afford it--the girl is an air stewardess [my dream job!]. anyway i'll get to see it all firsthand tmr, my mom's bringing me along in the late morning, before i go to work. should be interesting.
yes, last point. i got home to a thick envelope from NUS. they accepted me! [okay, those who know my results are prolly rolling their eyes cos it was apparently a done deal. haha. but i was scared, okay?] so yes, at least i know the next coupla years of my future are mapped out. haha.

i can't sleep. okay, fine, so i haven't even made contact with my bed since i got home. but i just feel too keyed-up to sleep. i'm not sure why. it's not like i have such an exciting day ahead of me. haha. so i think this is gonna be an entry full of aimless drivel. you were warned.
i'm watching kingdom of heaven on tuesday night!!! now THAT is something to be excited about. it's another of those starmovies tickets my dad won. and i'm going with my brother [again], even though it's NC-16. and he's not even 15 yet. what if they check our ICs? wait, scratch that. what if they check my IC and his non-existent one? and consequently, they don't let him in? am i supposed to go in anyway and watch it alone? questions, questions. the last answer will probably be yes. haha.
i can't wait to get my gaji, man! oh sure, it's only five hundred bucks, which is SO not worth more than a hundred hours of nonstop standing-around. haha. but still. it's money, innit? and i have big plans for it this month. among them: new coloured contacts [adik-beradik brown, we don't want to look like a fake doll, do we?], actual work jeans [well, if i'm gonna make this a career..], ohyah the fifty bucks i'm supposed to give my mom, and maybe a good charlotte dvd for my brother since i'm also supposed to give him money, according to kak ida. and i've been salivating over linda liao's clothes, so if i have any leftover money at the end of the month, i'm gonna get something from forever 21. yay. ohyah and kak nores wanted to go to wild wild wet on wednesday, so if that works out, it means another thirty-or-so bucks down the proverbial drain. or in this case, water slide.
been going through the tracker, and i'm really glad to see that people have decided to stop freaking me out by searching for "norainne". but some stubborn idiots are still searching for adil and nydia. i mean, leave them alone, man! oh and i have lots of EB05 searches too.. haha.
okaylah. i'm out.

i. am. so. tired!!! it was wall-to-wall people today! they just wouldn't let up, and there was quite a long queue at one point. i mean, even at 10pm we were half-full. well thankfully the crowd thinned out by 1030. but i still ran around the place, sweating like crazy and mopping and arranging the condiments and shit. haha.
CCD was this like, 15-year-old boy eating outside with his family. fair, nice hair and very cute. heh.
tmr's my off day, i have big plans. haha. no not really. i'm just going to watch bahas with baba and amy. and i need to pick up some fabric paint cos i'm the "kids' ambassador" for my outlet. [can you believe it? i definitely can't!] and there's a thingy going on this sunday afternoon, so i apparently need to draw cutesy, non-obscene, ice-cream-related images on my tshirt. haha. well the only good part is that i don't have to wear my apron. haha. yay. oh and i'm working 2-11 this sunday! AND it's labour day! is that crazy stupid or what man? well at least cute new guy'll be working. hahaha. yes yes i know, me and my cute guys.
i bought one of the mother's day cakes today. with the 25% staff discount, it's quite cheap. only $29.90 for a 1-kg cake. moral of the story? work at swensen's! haha.
i had the most horrible night last night. firstly, i went to sleep at like 3 in the morning. okay, no problem there. but then i couldn't GET to sleep! i tried everything--drinking milk, listening to my mp3s, wiping my mind clear of all thought, filling my mind up with thoughts--anyway, nothing worked, and i just kept tossing and turning until i finally gave up at 630 a.m. and stoned in my armchair watching friends and finishing the carton of milk. tried going to bed again at 730, and this time it was better, i slept till 1245. haha. and just now i was eating a slice of lemon, and joseph exclaimed, "makan lemon! nanti malam tak boleh tidur!!!" and the mystery of why i couldn't get to sleep was finally solved. [i had two slices of lemon last night.] haha. but i'd already finished the lemon slice by then, so i guess i'm doomed to another sleepless night.

hey. the highlight of my day was--and i can't believe i'm gonna say this--jon chen!!! haha. i'd just gotten a reservation for ten ready, and i was helping shasha pack a cake. then i saw jon chen with two of his friends, and i was like, "heyheyheyheyhey!!!" haha. it was so cool. turned out his group was the one tt made the reservation, so it was all good. and we had another party of 12 NS guys at the alfresco area, plus three more NS guys at table 32. wow the alfresco group spent almost 200 bucks, it was crazy! ANYWAY. jon chen's group had like a couple of cute guys, haha, so i took my time talking to him. and they spent slightly more than a hundred bucks, so i finally got to use my staff privileges and i gave my first 10% discount!!! so cool.
CCD was this malay/serani guy at table 6. very handsome. chiselled face, nice hair and good tan. haha. cute.

yo. work wasn't too bad today. the singing pizza guy was off today, but he was just hanging out, and asking questions about whether i'm still schooling or not.. and one of the cute pizza guys was working, AND i was doing alfresco, so it was all good. haha. and nan kept making comments about whatever i did. buat malu sey. i mean, we all know how easily i blush. and cute pizza guy was just watching and laughing. eeps.
okay, i'm gone!

diana on the 359 home: "you know farhan? cara dier cakap macam helmi sikit-sikit eh.."
me: "YAH!!!!!!!!!!!! I KNOW!!!!!!!!!"

haha. but seriously. i KNEW there was something about the way farhan talks, that seemed pleasantly familiar. and diana finally put it into words. he has almost the exact same voice and manja intonation as ex-con. it's crazy. and i guess i didn't identify it earlier cos i've been having quite a number of ex-con hallucinations lately. actually, they mainly consisted of customers who wear the same scent as he does. but still.
anyway diana and aidil had ice-cream just now before he booked in. at first i didn't recognise them, i was just staring at aidil cos he was in uniform. then i realised who he was and i walked over to say hi. so in honour of them, CCD today will be aidil. haha.
there was another familiar face there actually. it was pantai. haha. i wanted to die. especially since i was showing him to his table and i had to say, "table for two, sir?" haha.
working on sunday nights is so crazy tiring but somehow it was fun tonight. haha. and i'm not gonna say why.

it's been pretty damn long, hasn't it? for me, anyway. i'm suffering from internet depression these days, so i don't stay too long on the comp. apparently my recent spate of downloads let in a couple of viruses, which totally cleaned out my C-drive, so basically i've lost all the nice songs that i downloaded in the first place. and it just hurts going back to the scene of the crime [the comp], hence the internet depression. i've been living on a diet of TV and harry potter since.
today i was really thrown, cos there was one customer who actually said my name. i was refilling his table's water, and he said, "thank you." and i just smiled, cos it's weird if you say "you're welcome" anyway. then he said again, "thank you, norain.." and i was SO wowed. cos firstly, he said my name. and secondly, he actually pronounced it correctly, despite being a manjen. haha. so i just had to say "you're welcome" in turn. i wonder why he had to say my name in the first place. how embarrassing.
yest baba and i had the secretaries' week promo at tampines swensen's. i couldn't believe our luck, hilman [and fairuz] were actually working! haha. we weren't at his station, but he did serve us a couple of times, which worked for me. haha.
anyway the new guy is kinda cute. i love that he looks like he's smiling half the time. haha. and when i saw that his yellow band said "player", i started laughing like crazy.
ooh yes almost forgot, i saw bodyguard the other day, going up the escalator. i wanted to faint. i mean, okay, he was alone and everything, but STILL. it kinda gave me hope that i'll be able to see samit around WS too..

you know the phrase "fall flat on your ass"? well. it actually happened to me just now. i was walking across the floor, which i'd mopped about 5 minutes before. and i started to slip. so. i also started to scream and try to regain my balance, which i thought i would, cos i've always been able to do that. but nothing doing this time. i--well--fell flat on my ass. and i sat there for like 30 seconds laughing crazily. oh God. how the hell did that happen man?
today's CCD was this fair malay guy who had dinner with his gf and kept turning to face me when i was trying to take their order. ape je. but yeah he was handsome..

went swimming with shafa again today. the downtown east swimming pool seriously suffers from a severe shortage of cute guys. PLUS it rained and thunderstormed. sigh.
hung out at tampines, where i met niza. haha. lama tak jumpa sey. she still looks the same.
work was fine, but i was just so friggin tired. i am so sleeping in tmr. wild horses won't be able to drag me out of bed.

oh God it was just wall-to-wall people today, didn't let up till around 930! at one point i was so tired, i bent over a table in the alfresco area and refused to straighten back up. haha.
latest cute pizza guy WAS working today. i found out his name is faizal/faisal. i also found out that he's married. so. yes. haha.
ooh and cute sideburns guy was at mac's when i came at 430! i was soooooooo happy to see him again, even if it was for like 2 fleeting seconds.. i mean, it gives me hope that i'll get to see him again and again, for many months to come. he was with like, other guys, so i'll assume that he hangs out there regularly, and i'll definitely peer more closely at mac's next time. haha.
ohyes went swimming at my sister's place today. guess who we saw at bukit batok mrt?!?! ismail from BBCC! haha. okay it probably rings no bells with everyone except for me. i tend to remember the stupidest and most useless things. i spent 5 entire minutes trying to remind shafa of his existence, and in the end i just gave up. ANYWAY. had a great time swimming. except i managed to mangle my left toe before i even stepped into the pool. there was blood and everything. eeps.
i didn't really look out for a CCD today cos we were just swamped. so the honour will have to go to this minimat at the counter who was wearing one of those plaid-print trucker caps. i have no idea what he was buying, even. that's how busy i was. but i know he was cute. haha.
(by the way, today's the day i officially give up on ex-con. that way i have 4-5 days to recover before he [theoretically] goes into NS.)

i was really sleepy today for some reason. hell, i couldn't even wake up, and it was already 1pm! giler sey. and i still felt lazy and sleepy, even at work.
but it was a great day at work anyhow. why, you ask?
well, the term "CCD" today stands for not just "Cute Customer of the Day", but "Celebrity Customer of the Day"! we had the dashing aaron aziz choosing an ice-cream cake! i wanted to faint. me, wati and jessica. haha. we each took a photo with him, it was so cool. admittedly, i look shitty in my photo, but it's okay. it's still a photo with him! cool sia!
and he wasn't the only celeb today. we also had sheikh haikel buying a single scoop SCC from the fountain. and his beautiful-nak-mampos wife in the background, buying a soft toy in whatever sale that was taking place today. she is SO unbelievably beautiful. oh, to be as beautiful as her.
hm. ohyes i got my first personal positive feedback today! it was from this malay family of four. they ate like 100+ bucks worth of food. like main course, drinks and dessert. anyway they said that they received great service from me and mr rahim. wow. i was really, well, wowed by that. all i did was to serve some of their food, and take their ice-cream orders, and give them the setting. anyway i really felt that whatever i did was nothing, but i'm glad they liked me. woohoo! haha.
latest cute pizza guy was working today. the one who reminds me of hilman. joseph thinks he's cute too. he was like, "wah, cantik eh dier jalan.. tengok.." giler. i don't consider the way he walks a turn-on. but anyway, he is cute, with his defined eyebrows and all. a tad too kurus, but we can't have everything right? haha. hope he's working again tmr night.

hey friends.
i slept in till late today, then i caught be cool from the comfort of my personal armchair. haha. it's quite okay, entertaining to say the least. and dwayne johnson rocks! [no pun intended.] he's really funny. oh and i think christina milian looks hot, and i love her songs, especially the one she sang on the piano.
work was okay too. i did service this time, cos wati did cashier. anyway it was friday night, so i didn't mind. haha. but there was this malay family that came in at like 1013 [last order is at 1015] and took their time ordering actual main courses. they also ordered ice-cream, and requested tt it be served later. and what ticked me off the most, besides the fact that their little boy was literally sleeping, was that when the caesar salad came, the daughter CONTINUED reading her paper without even touching the salad! i wanted to throttle her. it was, oh i dunno, 1030 then? but at least they said thanks afterwards.
CCD was this guy who'd just booked out, and came in at around 10 for dessert. he's malay, i think. the melayu-gelap kind.. and very handsome. his chocolate-coloured skin, his dark eyes, his politeness.. everything ah. he had a coit tower, btw. good taste. he was with this other guy, from rj, so i assume he's 19 too. heh.
oh there's this cute guy who takes 359 home at around the same time i do, gets off at the stop before filza's. he's seriously lawar. he's malay, nice eyebrows, great eyes, perfect nose, and oh God i love his sideburns. he looks so smart and cool. and did i mention i love his sideburns? they're long, but shaped, and they just go perfectly with his chiselled face. so if you're reading this, 359 guy, i'd like to get to know you. haha. oh and i love your sideburns.
nites.

went out with baba today, regular thing. today it was at woodlands. we caught guess who?, which i personally think was deliciously enjoyable. ashton is hot, of course. and i love zoe saldana's dancer body and sophisticated clothes. especially the nice top in the scene where the dad catches them out in her room. and the soundtrack's great too. yup. one of those movies i can't help but love.
there's a really cute young security guard at causeway point. he's all tall and thin and malay. but he doesn't resemble the WS security guards at all. he has a universally-handsome face. handsome and baik. as i said to baba just now, baik guys are in. bad boys are out! haha.
the girl at 7-eleven gave us an extra eyeshadow sample when i bought my copy of cleo just now. it was so nice of her, and i have to admit i thought she looked bitchy at first. goes to show, appearances CAN be deceiving. haha.
i'm avoiding like a billion people at the moment. please don't get the wrong idea, it's not like i'm so desirable or anything. but the woman from NTU's SPMS keeps calling me! don't they realise that i've un-applied for NTU like, a week ago, by not paying the ten bucks? so just leave me alone la! and then there are the other people i'm trying not to have any contact with, so if anyone's been trying to call me and finds that i'm not picking up, it's because my phone's been switched to silent mode. i think i'll just pretend it got stolen? argh this is so annoying.

didn't get to blog abt yest, cos there were a lotta shows to watch. anyway. CCD was this vik/mim guy who bought a cake and stood there eating a crunchie cone while waiting for me to finish packing the cake, all the while surreptiously sweeping the fallen almond bits off the counter. i thought it was quite cute of him to do that, plus he commented apologetically, "i'm dirtying your counter.." how nice.. haha. then his cone broke off, so eric gave him a whole new cone, while he protested and lamented that the first cone would go to waste. meanwhile, i just tossed it in the bin. haha. he was all appreciative and stuff, then when i finally handed the cake box to him, he asked for a carrier. so i was like, "oh you can hold it like that.." showing him how to use the nice ribbon i'd just tied around the box. and he was like, "ohyah, bodohlah aku.." of course, i was hooked. and i managed to say, "nolah, your first time what.." before he left. yes. cute. nice and cute. the best kind. eric's insisting tt he's gonna write a thank-you email, so i'm just waiting for tt to happen so i can find out his name.
today's CCD was, undoubtedly, hilman. i'd waited all day for him to come. and by some stroke of fate, i managed to just walk in from the toilet, when stella asked me to take out his cake order. just in time siak. and i glanced at the entrance to see him and i almost slumped against the freezer. he was wearing a black shirt and khaki berms. he's SO cute! -dies- eric was working again, so he chatted to eric while i packaged the cake, shaking fingers and all. i even managed to fend off liyana's and azhar's suaning, and eavesdrop on the conversation between eric and hilman. liyana: "a-HEM! a-HEM!" azhar: "bad taste man! bad taste!" sheesh.
i used l'oreal hot straight today. verdict: it works, but it takes too much time. or maybe it's just me. i mean, first i had to dry my bale of thick long hair. THEN i had to use the straightening iron. leceh sak. it took an hour altogether. but i have to say i love the results. so if i have an hour free everyday, i'll definitely take the trouble to straighten my hair. oh and i love the pink bottle the lotion comes in. it's hot pink! love it!
i hijacked the CD player with taufik's blessings today. it got groans from kak nores, eric AND liyana, but i had a couple of kid customers singing along and exclaiming surprised delight at the fact tt we owned the CD. haha.

cashier again today, but it was pretty slack, cake-wise. we sold like 8 cakes in all, not really alot rite? we didn't even meet the KPI. anyway, i have a confession, i think azhar's friend is kinda cute, thick eyebrows and all. and i love the amusing fact that his black eyebrows do NOT match his orange hair. haha. i mean, he doesn't look like azhar, which helps. haha. but i better not mention this to liyana. or anyone at all.
oh God i just remembered who else i saw yest. stephen chin! as in, the rj vice-principal! haha. i swear it was him. he was wearing casual stuff, and he came in and took a balloon from the balloon-stand. haha. i almost died.
CCD today was this cute malay guy with a pinkish face and cool goatee and stuff. and he reminds me of tommy, his voice, and the way he talks and everything. not the way he looks though. but, of course, as is the usual case with these kinda guys, he has a gf. and not to be perasantan or anything, but i'm definitely better-looking. sigh. well it's okay, the girl's quite nice and unbitchy, so in return, i was nice and unbitchy to her and did NOT try to flirt with tommy guy. haha. actually, i have never flirted before in my life, so i dunno why i just typed tt.
i gave myself this enormous paper cut on one of the cake boxes. i am so freakin pissed with myself! i mean, who the heck gives themselves a paper cut on a friggin cake box? argh it's so bad tt it hasn't even closed up yet.
there's yet another new pizza guy. and he's cute too. he kinda reminds me of hilman, or maybe that's because i'm still on a hilman high. i'm not sure. haha.
you know what, i don't get why people like to buy takeaway soft drinks from us. i mean, it's 2.3 freaking dollars! wouldn't they do better by buying it from mac's? and ours comes in one size only.. i mean, seriously. it's quite a ripoff, in my opinion. well whatever.
ooh and speaking of money, i had two $100-notes today. how cool! i lurve big notes. lurve them.

it was back to doing cashier again today. but it was SUNDAY! so there were like a billion people collecting their cakes. the best part is, they like to come at the same time. so i'm just going crazy there, with my fingers being burnt by the dry ice cos the gloves are wearing thin. but i still think doing cashier is better than doing service.
the highlight of my day was when this guy wearing swensen's uniform and headphones walked in. i almost fainted. it was hilman, no doubt about it. i think i gasped or smthg similarly stupid. haha. he wanted to order a disney cake, so wan ing took his order. and i stood next to him and tried to make conversation. but i won't detail it here, cos he was just being completely unresponsive, even though i knew his name and everything. and it's not just me, wan ing was trying to make conversation with him, and he was still unresponsive! well whatever. he ordered the cake, and he had to leave his number, so i have his number now! [not that i'm gonna harass him or anything, don't worry.] oh he's so cute, and i bet he lives in pasir ris and he was on his way to work. oh God i'm just waiting impatiently for wednesday, 10pm, cos that's when he's collecting the cake. let's hope he collects it, and he doesn't send anyone else to get it.
after tt i went for part deux of my shopping trip with kak ida and zul. wow. i got this transparent sequinned thingy from petalbox/freshbox. and then we went to topshop, and that's when i went completely crazy. i just flitted around taking skirts and short-sleeved tops, and tried on one after the other. then at the last minute, i grabbed two sluardalams [the garment, not the person]. anyway, let's see--i got two new short-sleeved tops, one of those bohemian-looking skirts i've been searching for, and a bright blue pleated miniskirt [which was actually a tad too small but hell, i'm gonna squeeze into it anyway!], and abovementioned sluardalams. haha. anyway my sister finally put her foot down after tt, and when she later revealed tt i'd spent $600 so far, i realised i couldn't really blame her, could i?
anyway. after tt we went to tanah merah and picked up zaki and his equally-cute twin brother, rak or whatever his name is. they don't really look like twins, cos rak is chubbier, but whatever. and they have different hairstyles, but like i said, both looks work. haha. and they're SO funny, and they were like quoting p ramlee, so cute! we ate dinner/supper at bedok corner, and it was all really nice and fun. oh and in the car rak was like, "we should all go clubbing one day.." to which my sister replied, "den maner aku nak letak my brother?" but still. the promise is still there, right? a few technicalities though: my sister is clearly dating zaki, and they [as in the twins] both smoke. ohwell. whatever. oh it was so funny, when they were playing the Straw Game, and rak got like 2 straws in his mouth, in half the time it took for zul and zaki to finish theirs! okay whatever, you had to be there to appreciate it, i guess.

i spent all day sleeping! how much more piglike can i get?
yest yus and jau dropped by, what a pleasant surprise. they are so cute. yus and her big eyes; jau and his sepet eyes framed by glasses. haha. i love having people come by, but i have to be careful not to stand and chat for too long, skali kene marah, mampos aku.
there was this guy at table 6 with ryan-cabrera-ish hair, PLUS gold highlights! so it really looked like a lion's mane. and SO i found myself wondering if he was the 6-year-old boy's father, or brother/uncle/whatever. and while i was refilling their water, i wanted to ask, but i didn't want him to get the wrong idea so i just kept my mouth shut. haha.
ooh CCD was this guy, who came in and bought a cake off the shelves. he's malay, and probably another of those fathers i seem to be liking these days. haha. he asked for one big candle, so it cld be a one-year-anniversary cake, or a one-year-old's birthday cake, or a ten-year-old's birthday cake. or maybe it's a 57-year-old and he just wants to cut the hassle of five big and seven small candles. haha. but yeah he was good-looking.
and speaking of cakes, there's a 600g mango cake, with the inscription "would u marry me?". i kept hovering around the freezer and stared at the cake, oh i dunno, every 5 seconds? i was just so.. wowed. i mean, i know it's grammatically wrong and all [it's supposed to be "WILL you marry me?"], and that in this case, it was a girl who ordered the cake [tak malu punyer betina!], but STILL. the whole idea just swept me off my feet, and, as i said to liyana last night, "wow if someone gave me tt, i'd marry him straightaway." [of course, there are certain conditions regarding who "someone" can be, but generally, you know what i mean.]

i. am. so. sleepy. you should have seen my head lolling around on the bus just now. i just couldn't keep my eyes open. and before you tell me it's cos i sleep late, i have to say tt i've been sleeping at 2 a.m. regularly since i started work. so i dunno what's going on here, but i keep on doing a rip van winkle. it's really annoying, when i'd rather watch tv and stuff. like last night i fell asleep during anwar's and nadia's performances! how's that possible? it was like, 8 p.m.! so. something must be wrong with the air around me.
my off days were yest and today. so yest i met up with baba to watch the eye 10, which sucks so much, i wouldn't even watch it again if samit asked me along. oh but the day wasn't a total loss, cos there were just loads of ite mats [my favourite kind!], and ite viks, and viks in general. and if that's not enough, an entire convoy of army trucks rolled past, PLUS, there were budak2 CD also. haha. i am SO moving to yishun.
today i woke up at the now-unearthly hour of 5 a.m. went to rgs with sya to help out with their syf preparations, then jetted [in a bus] to rj to help out with THEIR syf preparations. it was good, it was all good. but seriously, i was totally bored out of my skull at the last few contemp items, i have no idea how they managed to get gold. saw alot of familiar people. besides the usual tarian community, there were the little RI boys, notably alimi and cute little saiful, whose older brother could have done well to join tarian too, at his age. haha.
and now my knees are like, worn out from all the kneeling i had to do while putting on makeup. haha. well, it's back to work tmr.

ohhh so sleepy.
got my hair braided by sya today, at lido, of all places. met silah, who was lunching with chuckie starbucks. turns out they're mates. haha.
it was my second day as cashier, and i goofed up a couple of times. i forgot to give 20% discount for the cake, and another time i didn't exempt the service charge. but it was all good, i didn't get scolded or anything. i just hope i don't forget whatever i've learnt so far. ooh there was one customer who tried to pay with a thousand-dollar note. i almost fainted of moneylust. haha. i've never seen a note in such a huge denomination before! unfortunately, we didn't have enough money in the cashbox so i didn't get the honour of slotting that beautiful note into the register. haha.
cute pizza boy khairul was working today. wow he's just so cute. and the other cute guy, the one with the cool ringtone, was working too. but i didn't hang around outside much. you know, being cashier and all. haha.
no CCD today. i just can't seem to think of anyone. anyway, we made much less today than yesterday, for some reason. but a few cute guys did walk past. haha. too bad i had to concentrate more on packing the cakes and breaking up the blocks of dry ice and stuff.
ohyes, there's going to be another new guy soon. yay! more XY chromosomes!!! haha. he's azhar's friend, so i'm sure he'll be just as nice.. and i better not let liyana think i like him or anything, i have enough to be dealing with right now, without another rumour running round the place. haha.

bad day. i'll try to summarise it.
i woke up, went to work, got out of the house right on schedule. only to find that.. i just missed the bus! okay, no big. i sat and waited for the next one. it came, i got on it. before it even reached the next stop, it broke down. i wanted to roll on the grass patch and scream. i didn't. i walked to the next bus stop and took the next bus, which happened to be 12. from the int i brisk-walked all the way to work, and burst into the storeroom to punch my card. only to find tt.. somehow my schedule was changed from 12-11 to 5-11, and NO ONE BOTHERED TO TELL ME. once again, i wanted to roll on the ground and scream. i didn't. i went home. and slept. it helped, kinda.
back at work again at 5, i found out tt eric would have switched my shift to 12-5 if i'd just stayed. and once again, the desire to scream. once again, i didn't.
but anyway, work itself was okay. eric [the head chef] said he missed me. haha. and there were plenty of contenders for today's CCD.
1, and the winner, was this genuinely handsome fair-skinned vik at table 7, dining with his mom. he had the brd chic and SCC sun. very handsome, and i think he's dined there before. anyway he's the hands-down winner.
2. guy-who-bumps-into-railings, prolly booking in, even though he was in civvies. he was with a girl--i'm not sure if it's his sister or not. he had practically the exact same thing he had the last time, except he had CC sun for dessert. i hate that he doesn't seem to know me. i was supporting him all the way when he was with baba. i've taken like a billion photos for them together. well. whatever.
last, and definitely least, were these 2 mats who ate like, $45+ worth of food, and did a runner. i was really crushed, cos i really thought they were cute. one was wearing those white-framed glasses, and the other had ash-coloured hair and great eyes. they sat outside, at table 61, and i convinced hannan to let me serve them, even though he was the one doing alfresco. they had 2 milkshakes and a main course each, plus 2 banana splits. i really thought they were cute and everything. they moved to table 44, and then in the scant few minutes there was no one outside, they scarpered. so u can imagine how crushed i was. i hate it when people i give the most attention to, turn out to be runaway billers. like the last pair of idiots, i practically showered them with attention! anyway, the MOD tonight was wan ing, so she was livid! she makied them all sorts of things, and declared that she'd bring them to the police if she ever found them. then she told hannan to kill them first, before calling in the police. wow. well the good thing about me thinking they're cute is that i'll definitely recognise them if i ever see them again.
anyway. yeah tt's it. what i love most about my job is the way it draws me in, and i forget all my other problems, until, finally, 11 o'clock comes and it's time for me to go home and think about all this other shit that i've been freed from for 6 hours.

baba saw the photo of me and karl, whom i introduced as "my new boyfriend", just for kicks, and freaked out. haha. looks like she's still fighting strong in her war against older guys. and by older i mean those born after december 31, 1986.
had lunch with fana at kamie's workplace a.k.a. centrepoint pizza hut. and there was this limlike girl working there, who turned out to have the same name as the nickname i gave to her. buat malu je. she also did this whole "sorry-can't-hear-you" pose, which cracked me up, and good.
oh and i bought 3 more of those giordano V-necked tops, in emerald, blue and white. haha. gotta have 'em!
argh i'm bracing myself for a crazy day at work tmr. 12-11 on a sunday? i may as well kill myself now.
i miss ex-con!

so yest was the EB05 finals party at the tent, which, btw, is not a club. haha. it's the huge white tent outside taka. anyway. overall impression: disappointingly anitclimactic.
the winner was, predictably, brendan lim. the universally cute, yet short, guy with what seems to be a fetish for ties. but he's very fun-cute. he was totally grinning during the striptease. tt was fun.
hm i don't remember ALL the subsidiary winners, but the too-cool bachelor was caleb lye. you know, the 1.9m-tall auditor. he really IS too cool. he plays the guitar and he sings so well, and he's just really cute! i have lotsa shots of him in action. haha. okay, then the bachelor with the best hair or whatever was keith prakash. woohoo! he HAD to win smthg, he's just so hot! oh and nathaniel ho won the bachelor with the most seductive voice or sum shit. haha. well i have no complaints lah, he's not THAT bad a singer, or how cld he get into idol right?
there were 2 very hot viks standing across from us, and i declared tt they're keith's brothers cos they're hot--duh--and they look like him.. and my theory was proved right when they cheered and clapped for him, and took his photos, but not those of the other bachelors. ha. i rock. anyway one brother is blonde and the other has black hair and was wearing the coolest shimmery olive brown shirt i've ever seen. shafa claims cool shirt is hotter than keith, but i beg to differ. but we DID agree that all three brothers shd have been featured in the bachelor spread. haha.
oh, some bachelors seemed to be MIA. like, ALL the angmoh ones or smthg. i totally don't remember seeing any botak guys other than kane or whatever his name is.. and i don't remember seeing the gael sydness guy either.. so like, where did they disappear to? hm anyway the rest of them look SO much better in person than in the photos, so don't be quick to criticise. hahaha. oh and fazril is still cute! i wanted to die. he's so cute and baik-looking, wow. and he was the only guy who was flanked by two models during the energie-and-miss-sixty catwalk. i bet they were fighting over him backstage.
ohyah i just remembered another subsidiary-award-winner. john eber. he was the bachelor who looks good in jeans or smthg like tt. cos they had this flesh parade of a selection of them, wearing just jeans.. and yeah he did look really hot, once u get past the shortness. seriously. the cutest ones were the shortest ones. but who cares. besides shafa, anyway. haha.
spot-the-celebrity? hm there were past-year winners, mark zee, leslie kwok [woohoo!] and another hot guy whose name i forgot.. and there was fiona xie with a tousled hairstyle I'd never get away with.
oh God how could i forget? we [me, shafa and nabilah] were standing outside the taka lobby, wondering if we shd start queueing up, and who comes strolling out, in a blue shirt, with his skinny manjen gf? this really cute vik. and i was about to point him out to shafa when i realised he wasn't just ANY cute vik, he was carlsberg guy! oh God. i was NEVER supposed to see him again! tt was the whole point! never! ever! why did he have to appear, on tt night, to attend the very same event i was supposed to? anyway i spent the next few minutes trying to find a suitable hole to crawl into and hide the rest of my life away. but on hindsight, he probably never recognised me.
yep. tt was it. my EB05 experience. billions of photos taken, none with the bachelors. so i just have tt one photo with karl. btw, my mom sounded me about tt photo this afternoon.. she sort of asked how old he was and how i knew him. haha. so i simplified things and said he was a friend. it's too leceh to explain right, and she probably wouldn't get it anyhow. but anyway it was quite funny, cos she was implying tt he's old and looks angmoh.
hm i'm sure all the fun was at the after-party, but i was just in no mood to even try and convince shafa to go. so haha. takpelah.