i had quite a good day at work. i prefer it when Bun doesn't have Azhar around. he's much nicer then. haha. hm and i got to eat actual chicken baked rice today, cos it was a wrong order. loves it! well. apaperlah. that's all the news for today.
oohyah i watched the last bit of When Harry Met Sally, for the hundredth time, and i actually cried at the new year's party scene. unlike Ili, i adore Meg Ryan movies.

Harry Burns: I've been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is, I love you.
Sally Albright: What?
Harry Burns: I love you.
Sally Albright: How do you expect me to respond to this?
Harry Burns: How about, you love me too.
Sally Albright: How about, I'm leaving.
Harry Burns: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Sally Albright: You see? That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you.

sigh.

i forgot to add yest that sunday's CCD was this cute malay guy, with dyed light brown hair, and big eyes, and dark brows. he's apparently around the same age as me, and my favourite part was when he came in pushing his 2-year-old sister in her stroller. [my second favourite part was when he settled the $97++ bill personally, using his NETS.] he had sirloin steak AND rodeo wings AND a sarsaparilla. oh he's so incredibly cute, the tommy kind of cute, and that kind of cute is--well--timeless. haha. well anyway i shirked my cashier duties to serve Mr. Timelessly Cute, whose name, btw, is Din. haha. cos his dad went, "nak apa, Din?" and turned to him. aaaaahh.

so today was Hana's beach party. sorry to sound less than thrilled, but i'm just very VERY tired. my eyes are lelaping of their own accord, and i'm almost powerless to stop it. so i'll try to make this fast, then maybe i can catch the 2 a.m. Friends. haha.
omigawd i'm just really malas to type! okay, we tanned, i slept in the shade to Milah's cool CDs [all R&B, rap, hip-hop.. loves it!], and we rendam2ed in the disgusting water. i sat at the water's edge watching Hana, Milah and Sya swim over to this teeny isle/island/block of sand with accompanying trees, and was invited by the malay guys a couple of metres away to join in their water games. haha. they were part of a motley crew of chinese people ranging from the ages of 19-44, so we were trying REALLY hard to figure out how they were all connected. and we finally came to the satisfying [and accurate!] conclusion that they were McDonald's crew. haha. mystery solved!
hm what else did we do? yes Sya and i walked to New Zealand Natural, where i finally got to see the skimming mats in action, after like, 4 years. and where there was a cute malay guy at the next table. smoking. [but of course.] haha. anyway, let's just say i've found my spot. so, can't wait for the saturday after next.
urgh. and we passed by one of those seaside pubs, where this group of 34-year-olds quipped, "thirsty?!?!" please. if you're 34, do NOT try to talk to girls not even of modern marriageable age.
after that we had dinner at someplace in boat quay. i won't elaborate, cos it was just such a painful experience for us all. haha. then we hung out at the esplanade [the sort of mini-amphi where they have public gigs], then we finally made our painful way home.
i was talking rather loudly to Filza on the train home, about uni stuff, work stuff, miscellaneous stuff ah. then as we were reaching pasir ris, the malay guy next to me turned to us and said, "excuse me, i couldn't help but eavesdrop on your conversation.." and i SWEAR, my blood froze in my veins just about then, cos i thought he wanted to scold me for talking too loudly. [while Filza thought he was gonna scold us for laughing at his fat friend who'd been sitting opposite us a few stops ago.] anyway, he proceeded to explain that he'd just graduated from NUS, ..., and basically he just wanted to encourage us to attend the FOC. haha. well, i was just still in shock, so all i can say is, i'm just glad he didn't scold us. he was a big guy, and all, so it was very scary when he said his opening words.
anyway. i'm finally home after the long day, so nite.

i just watched Saturday Night Live for the first time, and it's SO cool! no one told me how great it is! so i'm gonna watch it every week from now. yay. another form of Saturday night entertainment for me.
so my mom left for perth this morning. and i'm gonna be surviving on takeout for the next ten days. haha. i brought up a few topics with her just now. ALL of which she gave resounding "no"s to. i want to take a motorcycle license. NO, it's dangerous. i want to go to London. NO, it's expensive. i want to get a hostel room. NO, it's expensive AND potentially dangerous, and my sister didn't get one till her last semester. sheesh.
there's a cute new pizza guy. yes i know i say that like, every month or something. but this one's different. he's chinese, for one. i never thought i'd ever see a chinese pizza delivery guy. and he's just cute ah, with a friendly face, and cool too. not like some of the toot ones, with their shirts tucked in and everything. tak main sey. haha.
well. 12-11 tmr. but other than that, this coming week is really one to look forward to. yay.

CCDs today were a couple of cute CD guys. in case anyone doesn't know by now, i. LURVE. budak CD. i dunno, they just look really good in uniform, and especially in the red rhino or whatever that vehicle is called. loves it! haha. so anyway. yes. two malay CD guys. one was wearing full uniform, i was totally melting as i took their order. and the other was wearing half-uni, and TOTALLY reminded me of righthandside. they ordered a combo each, and changed the ice-cream flavour to SCC. haha. i was like, "Kak, budak CD tu cute sey.." and she was like, "sorry sikit eh, they're mine!" and i replied, "come on lah, ader duer pe! you take one, i take one!" haha. i "took" the one in full uniform, and she took the righthandside one. i thought they were gonna stay a while, but i think they got a msg to get back to the fire post or smthg, cos they started wolfing down their food and asked for the ice-cream to be packed. while Kak Nores, Diana and i scrambled to settle their bill and get their ice-cream. haha. funn-ay. i even used my bare hands to scoop up the dry ice. and i only do that for the most important people. haha. cute ah. Kak Nores was like, "damn i should have asked for his number!" haha. let's hope they come back.
Bun was working, which i'm beginning to treasure more and more everyday cos he starts school on the 20th. [God i just realised that's the same as Ex-Con going back into the service! the cruel irony.] anyway, after work he mentioned that he doesn't have a girlfriend, and Diana sed, "tulah, kau ngan Azhar same aje--yang dekat tak nak, nak carik yang jauh2.." and Mortified Me started walking like a kilometre ahead. and Bun replied, "aper? dekat? siape yg dekat?" oh God. nampak sah eksyen bodoh sey. and both Kak Nores and Diana hinted even MORE heavily, it was just buat malu siak. well. he has one day to forget about it. [he's off tmr.] so let's hope he does. haha.
my mom's leaving for Perth tmr, and i have NO idea how i'm gonna deal with it for the next 10 days. any moms-for-hire available? willing to pay, ermm, 50 bucks flat fee. haha.

when i got to work [early] today, Kak Nores stared at me, and after a few minutes, remarked that i looked pretty. i received the compliment with little enthusiasm. i mean, it wasn't as if anyone was around [besides Azhar, he SO does not count!] to appreciate how i looked right? cos Bun was supposed to be working, but he was on MC. sedih siak.
CCD was this guy at table 41 with his guy friends/colleagues/fellow NSmen [?]. we all thought he was manjen, skali he started talking on the phone in malay, and Kak Nores and i stared at each other in shock. haha.
i hate that i don't want to ever leave the house anymore. and i hate that i dread coming home too. and i hate that my eyes dart nervously left and right, and that i now view motorcylists with apprehension.

i just had THE most harrowing experience. so i'd just like to thank Shafa and my parents for being so accomodating.
and totally unconnected to abovementioned experience was this nightmare i just had last night. i was doing opening [at work], and i was setting up the tables in the alfresco area, testing them carefully to make sure they were stable. while doing this, i noticed that Azhar and Bun were standing there, making fun of me. Azhar was making some wisecrack about what i was doing, and Bun was laughing in response. and naturally, i was hurt. but i pretended to be all light and breezy about it. then we had briefing at table 44, and somehow my mom was there. after the briefing, i broke down and told my mom what happened with Azhar and Bun. and she got really angry and told me, right off, to quit my job. and i was begging her not to make me do that, like, "i don't WANT to quit! don't make me quit!" and crying and crying. i was crying so hard, and so passionately, that i woke up to find that i was actually crying. oh God. how. horrible.
went for lunch at T2 with Baba. i ate SO much. i had the crayfish pasta with spicy oriental sauce, shared a fries, the EL dessert, and half a coit tower. giler eh? but Fadhila was working, so i got my 10% discount, cos she told her AM i'm from WS. cool. and what was cooler, was that they didn't charge us for the fries. i'm not sure why. and Fadh doesn't know either. ohwell. takper. they were over-fried anyway.
CCD was.. haha, let's just say he's too old and too happily married for me. but he has SUCH a great smile, and he's just so incredibly handsome! when i saw him, i gasped and went right to the cashier counter for a better look. he bought sea soup again. and he'd just finished work, judging by his crisp white shirt. AND he remembers me! haha. he smiled right at me and said something or other about buying takeaway.
Ex-Con is back on mainland, at least until the 20th. he gets his posting on the 17th. wow i still miss him, can you believe it? sometimes i look at the fountain and i can still see him standing there with the mask under his chin. and i still remember what he used to smell like, and when some tak-guna customer wearing his perfume walks in, i feel like kicking him out. how long has it been? belum dua bulan eh. but it feels like so much longer. maybe cause a lot has happened since, yet i still haven't forgotten him.

[luper nak ckp, yest Baba's ex came with what looked like his entire family. haha. i love the fact that they're not the tudunged family all my other friends seem to have. makes my family seem more normal, blonde hair, short skirts and all.]
anyway. i was in the train home just now, falling asleep. and when i sadar-ed, i noticed this SAS boy standing infront of me. he was tall, wearing glasses, and looked vaguely familiar. i would have left it at that, but he kept staring and STARING at me, in an almost angry way. then. realisation hit. he's one of my train buddies from last year. of course, by "train buddies", i mean the people i used to see in the morning, when i took the train to Buona Vista. not that i said hi to them, or smiled at them, or anything. well anyway, i'm glad he remembers me and all, but is it necessary to stare in such a hostile manner? i wanted to smile at him, but well, i was scared he would bite so i just stared stonily back. haha. he grew so much taller in less than a year, and he's even grown into his angular looks! haha. maybe i'll bump into him again. and maybe this time i'll just smile. i have at least 2 more years of chances [he's in sec 2 this year]..
went to Sentosa with Sya and Shafa just now, just to tan and bum around. i wasn't having too great a time of it, due to circumstances beyond my control, but it was okay. and there were NO cute guys! and they were all manjens, not a single lumpur in sight! i even walked up and down the beach, alone, to look for them, but they were just nowhere to be found. i was REALLY disappointed. well. maybe it'll be better next time.

okay i had a REALLY bad day overall. i swear. so i'll just try to forget that instead of writing about it.
CCDs today ROCKED! haha. there were 5 malay guys who came in and had ice-cream. and by a stroke of luck, i happened to be doing hosting at that exact moment, so i gave them menus and all that, and i did everything else, like serving their ice-cream, and getting the bill. and they were in a silly mood [or maybe they're always silly], like when Crystal said, "welcome to Swensen's!" one of them replied, "welcome.." haha. cute. and then when one of them ordered a topless 5, he said, "topless 5.." and mimed taking off his shirt. and "sticky chewy chocolate--but not too sticky.." i was trying SO hard to supress my laughter. and practically all of them were cute! the cutest was wearing blue, and he had straight, gelled hair, and cool pierced ear(s) with earrings on. but he had to leave early, unfortunately. and the second cutest was fair and big-eyed, and with a cool goatee. [he was the one who had the topless 5.] ah cute sey, they totally brightened up my otherwise-horrible day.. haha.

the day started out so horribly, i was prepared for a huge malapetaka at work. thankfully, none hit. haha.
lotsa CCDs, all at table 7. there were these 2 cute little boys. i think they're malay, but very exotic-looking. ranging from 2-4 years of age. the younger one is SO cute, he's like a mini rugger, and if his parents had left him alone for one second, i'd have stolen him and brought him home with me. SO cute. and he kept putting on this Hi-5 cap that was too big for him. aaah cutenyer! the other CCD was this indonesian guy, i think, with his girlfriend and another couple. he's short, but seriously handsome. haha. as Diana said, "takleh angkz!" haha.
Fadilah came to eat with her friend, so i had fun talking to them. and i think i'm gonna return the favour and eat at T2 next week. i'll try the claypot specials this time! yay.
i dunno why they keep teasing me about Hannan. it's SO annoying. just cos we like to talk to each other, and we always eat together [cos we're the only ones who eat leftovers, haha], and he helps me light the tealights when i'm doing alfresco. bodoh siak. i firmly believe, now, that i DO have a "suan-me-please!" face.

hm. i watched Dwidarma at RJ today. it was really good, i thought. i really liked the second one, it was SO funny. Shamiah makes such a great bimbo! haha. oh they were all funny and it was all good..
and i received comments about my hair. Hafiz claimed it looks like Matin's unruly brown-blonde wig. but Nadia and Yus love it. so. haha i dunno. actually i'm beginning to like it alot myself. it's different [from my old hair], that's for sure. and at least i don't look like i have tiger stripes on my head anymore. haha. but it's so sad, my hair's all dry now, when it used to be lushly un-dry underneath my fingers. i really hope it recovers soon. yuck it feels like straw now, instead of hair. man i really didn't mean to do this to it.
well. it's back to work tmr. hope Bun's working.

ah. kenyang. my resolve to start dieting has, well, dissolved after seeing all the cool new promo items they have. giler bodoh. tonight i had the spicy chunks of boneless chicken, raisin rice, chilli fries, 2 scoops of raspberry crumble ice-cream, and a coupla prawn dippers.
speaking of which, my new favourite ice-cream flavour is Raspberry Crumble! it also happens to be the Flavour-of-the-Month. it's vanilla, i think, with a hint of raspberry, and there are generous bits of actual crumble [you know, the yummy breadcrumbs in like, apple crumble] inside. it's crazy delicious [and prolly twice as fattening as any other ice-cream flavour]! but really! gotta have it man!
CCD was this man who bought takeaway. i swear, he's like the handsomest guy in the world. he's tall, and not-too-skinny, not-too-broad, and just very good-looking with relatively big eyes, and a great nose and a just a hint of a tan. unfortunately, he's also married. haha. but wow. a cute chinese guy. how often do you get those?
i had quite a horrible 24 hours before i started work today. [long story. but suffice to say that i've learnt my lesson, and i am SO not ever gonna mess with the chemical makeup of my hair again. i am also never gonna visit any salon/stylist other than Peter at Storm Hair.] so i wasn't in the best of moods. dahlah tu, i was virtually the only malay, and they kept talking in mandarin and other dialects. how. annoying.
it's my off day tmr. was planning to spend the earlier part of it bumming around at home, but i received a much better offer from Shafa, so i think i might just take her up on it.

heyhey. i worked the incredibly inhuman 12-11 shift today. but Rafidah had it worse--she worked 9-11 out of pity for me. anyway. it was SO tiring, cos both lunch and dinner were busy. usually lunch is pretty slow. but nooooooo. it was crazy, and by 730 i was taking 2-second squatting breaks in shadowy corners.
but it wasn't ALL bad. we had the briefing for the june-july promo, complete with all 7 dishes. and after that we got to eat said dishes. so aku aper lagie, berhari rayelah. plus it was my break right after that, so i carried out everything that they couldn't finish, and devoured it all. okay, no not really. Umar and the latest addition [yet another Farhan], ate quite alot too. haha. i dunno if it's just me, but the new Farhan is kinda cute too. but 17, unfortunately. anyway he seems quite nice, although yet another smoker, and he also eats like a trash compactor. and we have a new girl, who's starting full-time this weekend.
and in the evening there were 3 CD guys who walked past, so i was like pointing them out excitedly to Shasha, and they saw, and apparently one of them waved. haha. buat malu je. but whatever. like i'm ever gonna see them again. ooh and there was a cute talldarkhandsome policeman who walked past with 3 other colleagues. ah, guys in uniform.
oh ugh, hate to end this off on a shitty note, but we have an official Swensen's CD to be played, and it has a pretty good mix of recent hits and dulu-dulu stuff, but that's not the point. the point is that they have a Swensen's jingle [not unlike the Mac's one], which they managed to selit after every few songs. how. totally. mortifying.

Ladies and gentlemen, come on, come on, come on
Ladies and gentlemen
Mariah, Mariah
Ladies and gentlemen

Oh baby, oh baby
Come give it to me now, baby
But keep it between us
You and me got a secret love, baby
Oh baby, oh baby
Come give it to me now, baby
But keep it on the hush
You�re not mine, got a secret love, baby

It was a summer�s day
You went walking by
She didn�t notice as you turned
And you discreetly winked your eye
And I remembered you
From back in the day
You were the boy I couldn�t breathe without
The one that got away

Oh baby, oh baby
Come give it to me now, baby
But keep it between us
You and me got a secret love, baby
Oh baby, oh baby
Come give it to me now, baby
But keep it on the hush
You�re not mine, got a secret love, baby

Now that I found you
How can I let you go
You know I got my man at home
But baby, I still need ya so
And I know you ain�t
Never leaving that girl
But everytime you touch me, baby
It feels so incredible

Oh baby, oh baby
Come give it to me now, baby
But keep it between us
You and me got a secret love, baby
Oh baby, oh baby
Come give it to me now, baby
But keep it on the hush
You�re not mine, got a secret love, baby

Secret lovers

You and me, you and me, you and me, baby

Oh baby, oh baby
Come give it to me now, baby
But keep it between us
You and me got a secret love, baby
Oh baby, oh baby
Come give it to me now, baby
But keep it on the hush
You�re not mine, got a secret love, baby

Oh baby, oh baby� --Mariah Carey

i went to the Blush! sale at TM with Shafa just now. bes giler bodoh! haha. even though it's incredibly small, therefore the range is limited. but everything was 18 bucks, so i had fun buying 3 pieces.
i have realised that i have absolutely no chance, not even a smidgen with Bun, so i'm just gonna like him quietly, if he doesn't mind. but even THAT is proving to be hard. like just now, he liked some girl at table 22, and he was discussing her with Stella as we cleared table 7. then i snapped at them, to pass me the remaining cups on the table. and Stella asked me, "why, you jealous ah?" and Bun added, "yah, you jealous ah?" and i just had nothing to say, so i was like, "kepala hotak korang ah!" and cepat2 belah. then she keeps asking me if Bun is my boyfriend, and asking him if i'm his girlfriend. how incredibly annoying. what is WRONG with her? things got to a head when Ah-Boy asked me, "you like [insert Bun's name here] ah?" depan khalayak ramai! i wanted to kill myself. and strangle Stella, at the same time, for perpetuating dark and ugly rumours which are just gonna screw up my work life.
so, other than that, the past few days have been great. i went to the new Marina Square outlet with Baba on opening day, and it was so cool. i really like it cos it's very open and everything, sort of like the T2 outlet. and the former Funan ITM RM is now the MSQ RM, Kak Nores told me, so he was just there, smiling at everyone, and generally looking like the perfect guy. haha. even Baba likes him, and that's saying something, cos he's old, even by my standards. haha. Baba was like, "everytime i look at him, i have to remind myself that he's old.." and i told her, "kalau aku, everytime i look at him, i have to remind myself that he's happily married with kids.." haha. anyway a whole host of other RMs and AMs were there, so the service was excellent, of course. and there was this CSR with big eyes and cool baggy jeans, whose name i was trying to read but never quite caught. Baba and i had our favourites, sea and fish pas respectively [and 5 and 6 scoops of ice-cream respectively]. haha. sedap bodoh. but i was dying of pee-ness. yup, i had a great time, only problem was getting there. it's extremely inaccessible if you've never been to the revamped Marina Square before. but other than that--great!

i was quite surprised that they put me as cashier today. i mean, it's friday night and all, and i don't really have that much experience. but it was all good. besides me dying of kepenatan at different points of the night.
ooh and after work we got to eat the cookies and cream ice-cream cake. i was in heaven. it's just amazingly nice. duh. i had *ahem* 2 slices. which means my noble vow not to eat anything tonight has just already been broken into teeny tiny pieces. haha.
ooh and bun was unexpectedly working today, cos shasha was sick [or so i surmised], so he did OT till 11. ah, the power of fate.

it's 26 may. which means that it's the birthday of [possibly] the first cute guy i've ever liked. haha. i still remember when yasmin asked him his birthday, in the hall. haha. okay whatever. just reminiscing.
CCD today was this mixed-looking vik at table 8, with his girlfriend. he's all tall and fair, with that classic vik nose and big eyes and dark wavy hair. and he's all cool, too, he practically looks like a vik version of the hugo boss soul guy--all long-sleeved black shirt with sleeves rolled up, pale blue jeans and shades hung on the neck of his shirt, that practically match MY topshop shades! ah very cool. and he was quite friendly too. actually they both were. he had curry rice, ILT and an ice-cream blended. great taste, i say. haha. and i was just standing there, looking at them, when he got up, opened the door of the storeroom, and stepped in. i was really shocked. but too tired to react.
after work i actually bummed around till 8, and then i walked home. i tried to walk as slowly as possibly, but at traffic lights there IS an unwritten minimum speed. haha. but it was quite fun, actually. there was a stretch of pavement lined by mango trees, and there were 2 mangoes on the ground [one slightly crushed]. and it got me thinking, what would happen if a mango happened to drop right on my head? anyway i concluded that i'd prolly faint right away, being as lembek as i am. less that 5 seconds later, i heard a loud PLOP sound, and when i turned around, i saw a third mango on the ground. barely inches away from me. oh the irony. i am SO glad it didn't fall on my head.

i was feeling depressed this afternoon, so i went for some retail therapy [a bottle of wella colour cream developer AND a new tube of lipgloss]. i am seriously overbudget now. this is crazy. it DID make me feel a little better, though. and at least i didn't get 2 new tubes of lipgloss. AND i have to give myself credit for not even stepping into forever 21, even though it was temptingly uncrowded and all. after retail therapy was bus therapy. that was good too. i love it when the bus goes on the ECP, it's such a great view. it reminds me of when my sister [and kumara] used to send me home from skl.
thought i'd be late for work, turns out i was like, the earliest to arrive. again. haha.
there was a pair of service auditors who spent like, hours there. one male, one female. the guy is actually quite cute, and he speaks with an accent i can't place. he's chinese, i think. yes. very cute. like budak2ishly cute.
bun was working, yay, but nothing new about him--he was just effortlessly cute as usual.
rafidah started fountain today, and i told her not to master it too quickly, cos once she's done, *I*'m due to start fountain. can't have that happening now, can we? i mean, i'd prolly cause a fountain jam from 5 all the way till 11. haha.

i got to work like, super early today. i guess i was just so excited at the prospect of working with bun again. haha.
CCD was this tall and fair malay guy with his "mama". argh a mummy's boy! and so cute and cool! seriously, he's really cool--like, skater-ish. i hovered around their table until they got me to take their order. haha.
i have this funny sinking feeling that bun knows i like him too. damn! i didn't want him to know--i mean, i'm obviously not one of those delicately-built John Little girls i'm sure he likes. oh whatever. oh just now he was asking me about the new CD i'd brought in to play, about the song that went "i'll make love to you.." and i was so surprised when he said that he loves the song, and that he's liked it for a long time, and he never managed to find out the artiste. wow. i mean, when he said last night that he likes GC and all that, i was like, "darn we're not music soulmates!" and today, everything changed. okay i know i'm being overdramatic or something, but i ADORE I'll Make Love To You! it's freakin' sweet and romantic, and everything! okay whatever.

Boys are cheats and liars, they're such a big disgrace. They will tell you anything to get to second base... ball, baseball he thinks he's gonna score. If you let him go all the way then you are a whore... ticulturist studies flowers, geologist studies rocks. The only thing a guy wants from you is a place to put his cock... roaches, beetles, butterflies and bugs. Nothing makes him happier than a giant pair of jug... glers and acrobats, a dancing bear named Chuck. All guys really want to do is - forget it, no such luck.--from The Hot Chick. loves it!

yoohoo! haha i worked the 12-11 today, so i'm crazy tired right now.
actually i was working 12-5, but joseph didn't turn up for his 3-11, so wan ing asked me if i could OT till 11. okay, see, i knew that joseph wouldn't turn up, like, weeks in advance. cos he already told me that he wasn't gonna come. it was supposed to be his last day, plus it's his birthday. so. yes. the choice was clear, i suppose. so this morning i was thinking that if he didn't turn up, and if bun was working the 5-11, i'd readily accept any OT offer from them. turns out bun WASN'T scheduled to work, so i "negotiated" with wan ing and decided to work till 9 instead. then at like 5 i found out that bun WAS working after all--he was supposed to replace hannan. so of cos, i was THAT much bouncier after hearing that little nugget of information. haha. then at like around 7-ish, i realised that we'd be quite understaffed for a sunday, if i left at 9. and, feeling sorry for azhar since he'd have to do closing alone [and also looking forward to spending at least 2 more hours with bun], i decided to stay till 11 after all. haha.
some customer left behind one of those imitation livestrong bands, and crystal spotted it, so she gave it to me. haha. and i immediately put it on--i've been wanting one of those, but they're so fad-dy(?) right now that i didn't wanna actually BUY one. anyway then shasha started suaning me infront of bun, about us both wearing the bands or whatever. argh buat malu! but you know, he's just so adorable.
i had alot more to say, but i just realised it's all about bun. so. takpe. haha.

man i am stuffed.
work today was great, by anyone's standards.
it was non-busy, even though it was friday night and all. and since i was doing alfresco, it was even less busy. so yes, an easy night for me. and that's not all. one of my customers left a box of desserts behind. like, it was just sitting there on the chair. and i stood there uncertainly, wondering if she was going to come back. i opened the box and there were 2 slices of thingies. so i was like, okay, and i put it in the cashier area with a sticky saying "table 61 (2 ladies)". but by closing time, she still hadn't returned to claim her stuff, so diana and i split the booty--one slice each. she had the cheesecake, and i ate the other one, which turned out to be a really yummy slice of blackforest cake. the only time i like cherries is when they're in blackforest. so that was great customer(s) #1. great customer(s) #2 was this aimee mother-daughter pair, who ate like $22.40 worth of food. that's all! but the daughter like, waited for me to come back out and personally put 2 bucks in my hand! i was just so overwhelmed by gratitude [i'm about to be broke again]!
yup it was an easy, rewarding night. and of course, bun was working, which made it all the more fun. joseph was just flirting shamelessly with him all night!!! takleh angkat man! oh but bun is so cute, and just now he showed me his phone wallpaper [spiderman], saying, "cantik eh?" haha. cute.
ohyes. Cute Stripes wheeled his bicycle past just now, with his gf. he was wearing his uniform, and this time, his nametag was--wait for it--pinned onto his cap, which he was STILL wearing on his head! which leads me to conclude he's still the same slenger guy not-so-deep down inside. haha. but still cute, of course.

carrie sang this in the latest Idol. i really really love the nangisability of this song! and i even prefer her rendition to the original!
I was alright for a while
I could smile for a while
Then I saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
When you stopped to say hello
You wished me well, you couldn't tell

That I'd been crying over you
Crying over you
Then you said so long
And left me standing all alone
Alone and crying

Crying, crying, crying
It's hard to understand
That the touch of your hand
Can start me crying

I thought that I was over you
But it's true, so true
I love you even more than I did before
But darling what can I do?
No you don't love me and I'll always be

Crying over you
Crying over you
Yes, now you're gone
And from this moment on
I'll be crying, crying, crying, crying,
Crying, crying, over you

so check it out--that's me with aaron aziz. woohoo! haha.
anyway. work has been really boring of late. it could be due to the absence of bun. haha. it could be cause i've been so sleepy all the time, which is in turn because i can't seem to fall asleep at night. and it could be the lack of outstanding CCDs. haha. okay i make it sound like some important academic thingy. but whatever, so cute guys reading this, do swing by whenever.
hm.. kamie, baba and i, along with the current rgs angklung girls, are performing in this concert thingy [romanza, which is, as it sounds, a concert of romantic songs] on 28 may [next sat] at 745pm, rgs hall. it's $7.50, i think, so any takers? just give me a holla. [haha okay everyone hates me now.]

there's this stall at tampines that sells both bikinis and those long-sleeved tops. so i was commenting how weird that was, and baba said, "yeah, it's like selling korma and babi together.." haha.
yest we were at century square, and we walked past these 2 lumpurs. and one of them started singing, "baaaaaju merahhhh.." [i was wearing pink.] and when i managed to compose myself enough to turn around about a minute later, i saw that 2 girls had suddenly appeared and were attaching themselves to each of the lumpurs! so rupernyer they had girlfriends who were barely metres away, all along! and i was telling baba, if i were one of the girlfriends, and i'd witnessed that little karaoke session, i would've gone crazy nuts man! and i'd make him apologise to me like a billion times!
i love the boss soul advertisement. the guy is so incredibly hot--the white shirt, the eyes.. haha and his take-charge-ness just makes him even hotter! loves it!
i just watched the hot chick for like the billionth time and anna faris is SO cute! her eyes are heeeuuuge, and well she just looks so adorable. oh to be adorable and non-ugly.

on the train home yest, this really familiar-and-nerdy-looking guy boarded the homebound [i.e. pasir ris] train from bedok. he was wearing the full BK uniform, including his cap and nametag, which read "Muhai-[something-or-other]". he sat down, one empty seat away from me. and i just couldn't shake off the feeling that i knew him from somewhere. finally we reached home [i.e. pasir ris]. he got up and started walking out. and watching him walk, i realised that he was... [wait for it...] Cute Stripes! i couldn't believe it. but it WAS him! omg how cool! sesiaper, please volunteer to go to bedok BK to look for him whenever.. i mean, he was my customer before, so it's only right that i receive service from him in turn right?
haha aku giler. hey wasn't last night's thunderstorm like, freakily cool? i was trying to sleep [therefore: eyes closed] and still i could see the flashes of lightning. and the low rumbles of thunder.. wow.
i finally watched school of rock tadi, and it, well, rocks. haha. love it! love kevin clark too, of course. and i like all their songs. so cute.
hannan called me at like 9 a.m. tadi. i was like, wth? and trying to reject the call but i ended up answering it, but it was all good in the end cos he was calling to ask me to replace him. and i readily accepted, knowing that bun was supposed to work too. haha. ahhh bun is so adorable, but i already said that right? but today he actually crushed my hopes when he said the girl at table 23 was pretty. and she wasn't even pretty! i swear! i've seen prettier girls, e.g. the cool flight attendant. and he also took off without waiting for me and diana. sigh. but u know, overall, i still had a great time, cos he's so cute and funny and all.

well. work tonight was, for the first time, exactly that! but. bun was working, wasn't he, so it wasn't all bad. in fact, i go so far as to call it great!!!
hm. horrible interview i shall not bother to document here. haha. i have major blisters to show for it, btw. haha. sakit gilerrrr! but i met maly and shaheda, and missed meeting amy who turned out to be a couple of floors up all the while. but anyway, baba came by around noonish, and we had a great time making fun of people on AM, d/ling songs, reading blogs, and eating pre-made waffles with premium swensen's ice-cream. haha. after that we had lunch at magic wok, and then i spent the last of the money i had today at WS. merepek sey. but anyway, baba's visit wasn't a total loss--she finally got to see bun. and she says "yeah he looks baik. gd for u haha." argh he's unbelievably adorable, takleh angkat!
what else. ohyeah there was this 3-member family at table 23. i could have sworn they were chinese, until the son spoke. but i suppose they say the same thing about my dad and my brother, yes? anyway the boy reminded me of righthandside, haha, so it was really great serving him.
CCD was this NS guy, part of a party of 15+++. manjen, but with the most exotic-looking eyes i've ever seen! he also seemed to be the leader of the group, asking for the bill, and using his MC to settle the bill and all.
there was also a certain anfield22 who was being all aloof as usual. whatever lah eh..
omg there was this guy who was the spitting image of john eber [EB05] who walked past! kak nores was swooning, while i was gaping. haha. giler sak.
okay back to bun. thankfully i was doing service today, with him, so it was lotsa fun getting to spend all waking moments at work with him. haha. and we shared all the drinks that joseph made for us. joseph likes me cos i'm nice; and he likes bun cos, well, cos he's gay, of course. there were 2 ice-cream-blendeds, a strawberry milkshake, a vanilla milkshake AND an SFM. bes. [i'm gonna miss joseph when he's gone. and no, not just cos of the free drinks, but just cos he's nice to have a chat with..] sigh and now i have to wait an entire WEEK before i get to work with bun again! this is pure injustice.
there were LOADS of NS guys today, weirdly. as compared to other fridays. and as compared to other fridays, we actually WEREN'T running a full house. i mean, it looked full, cos of that party of 15, but the alfresco area was completely empty. that is, until a party of 8 showed up. oh God. i really love my job! haha.
okay nights. and i just know that ex-con will show up tmr, on my day off. again. well. it's not meant to be, yeah?

hm. it's been kinda long--at least for me--so i don't know where to start.
okay, on tuesday i caught kingdom of heaven with baba, at TM. to be honest, i was falling asleep. haha. not entirely the movie's fault, of course. i was just feeling lethargic that day. actually, this whole WEEK i've been feeling lethargic. it's been really hard to wake up even after 12 hours of sleep. crazy or what? anyway it was actually a great movie, the princess is so exotically pretty! and wow the war violence is seriously violent. haha.
oh for the past two nights, this really pretty lady has been coming for supper with a girl friend. last night was actually the third time i served her. and wow she's so incredibly nice to look at! she's all fair and flawless-complexioned, with perfectly manicured nails, and a cute short bob. i'm thinking she's a flight attendant or something, i mean, you can practically tell from her nails! anyway, she's prolly also malay or smthg, cos she speaks fluent malay to one of her friends. and wow she's just so cute and pretty, i love her so much, and i can't wait for her next visit! haha. i'm going to make her my regular customer! ..assuming she WANTS to be a regular customer, of course.

out of pure, unadulterated boredom, i created this quiz, aptly titled "How bored are you?" so make my day, and take it now!

everyone at work LOVES bun. kak nores wants an older version of him. joseph flirts shamelessly with him, and the rest of us use honeyed tones when we talk to him. i don't know what it is exactly about him. but i know that when he smiles i just smile widely back without thinking; and when he talks, i listen cos it just sounds so nice.. haha. giler. i shall stop now.
i have to say that i had a great day at work today. firstly, it wasn't busy. and secondly, he was working. haha. and i even shirked my cashier duties so that i cld show him how to do alfresco closing. and i got to walk to the int with him, just like i once did with ex-con, what seems like millions of years ago.
[but when i got to work, i was feeling majorly depressed about nothing in particular. i just sat there quietly, listening to my mp3s with my eyes closed. and kak nores didn't believe me when i insisted i HADN'T been crying, and i WASN'T gonna cry, and NO ONE broke my heart. sigh. and wan ing claimed i wasn't wearing make-up, when i'd already applied coats and coats of mascara which made me look like i had false lashes on. well. whatever. my mood improved, didn't it?]
hm. i saw setan at the lobby area. but that's about the only interesting person today.

Berlalulah masa tak sanggup ku menanti
Gelora di jiwa tak siapa mengerti
Siksanya menanggung rindu
Sukarnya memendam rasa... kekasih

i'm in a really bad AND jiwang mood. like, seriously. but i'm trying not to bore the people chatting to me right now with the mundane details, so i'm going to do the same here.
had a mother's day brunch, if you will, at sakura [eastpoint]. there were LOADS of cute waiters, presumably from an ITE, doing their job attachments. there was this cute guy with an especially festive name: 'ami'. haha. anyway he's really cute, with like, eyeliner and everything. hehe.
then i went to get my hair cut by peter at storm hair. i think it's been practically 2 years since i last saw him. he totally shot down my request for cute bangs, saying my forehead is too narrow. but he still had to salvage the bangs tt i butchered myself last year. haha. anyway, loving it--he didn't take off too much, just thinned it drastically. takes a bit of getting used to. haha.
so. i got to work. it was all good. the penat factor was raised to a power of ten. CCD was this malay guy at table 43, eating dinner with a female form i assumed to be his mother. tall, dark, and chiselled-handsome. haha. and the permanent feel-good factor was, of course, bun. haha. yes i've decided to use baba's suggestion after all, but i tweaked it from "ban" to "bun", so it could be short for "honeybun"! when i told this to baba she said, "ur crazily insane n utterly disgusting. honeybun kau.. i thot u didn even lk him. giler nyer pompuan. haha. dahlah aku nk tido. slmt bermimpi roti madu kau." haha.
argh i have like a billion papercuts from my frantic folding of cake boxes at 4pm just now! anyway. speaking of colleagues whom i like, i got an sms from an unknown number today saying tt it was ex-con and that was his new number. oh God. does that explain why he never responded to my sms on monday? i'm SO confused, and i have no idea if i should bother to msg him again. buat sakit hati je.
well something to look forward to tmr: bun's working! my fourth day in a row with him!

it was another tiring yet fun day at work today. it was practically all malays except for eric and crystal. and it was just loads of fun, even though it was like beribu orangs, and there just had to be that one odd family eating till like 11. haha.
when i got to work, liyana informed me that ex-con came by earlier. and i was practically screaming at her to spare me the details. cos i just can't bear to hear stuff about him, tt i missed. you know what i mean? and later kak nores was telling me some shit about how cute his friends were and whatever, and i said, "why am i never around when he comes? it's a sign!" and she was like, "a sign of what? that you're not meant to be together?" and i exclaimed, "yah!" it's just really sad, and if it's really true that i don't have a chance in heaven or hell with him, then i don't want to hear about it cos it really gets me down for some reason.
i wasn't supposed to work today, actually. but yest night jess asked me to replace her. and after consulting with shafa, i said okay. you know why? cos cute new guy was supposed to work. hehe. [notice i'm still saying "cute new guy". if not for baba's second comment, i would have accepted "ban", actually. haha.] anyway yes he worked, and so it was loads of fun. i even got to like, feed him a piece of chicky chick. haha.
today i played my tangkap nangis CD after the last family left. it was pretty well-received, especially by abg rahim. haha. i lurve jiwang songs man. bring it on!
and besok i'm working 3-11. my timecard is going to look really impressive this month, i think. all this overtime and shit. this week i'm actually working 6 days in a row siak. cool eh?
well. looking forward to another tiring day tmr with cute new guy. hehe. ohyes. happy mothers' day.

oh it was one of the most tiring days at work today. i think we made quite a lot, even for a friday. i mean, total cash was like 2000+ bucks, Visa/MC total was over a thousand bucks, and there was still NETS and Diners. so, tak sia-sia aku mampos during work tadie. haha. seriously! it wasn't just the crowd and stuff, it was also the fact tt we're running a promotional menu these three days. so i had to run around serving not just ice water, but soup and flavoured tea, AND the mother's day gift packs. it was totally crazy. and we kept running out of teaspoons, cos you need like two teaspoons per person.
but ANYWAY. i still had a lot of fun. cute new guy [okay he needs a name. suggestions?] was working, which was definitely one of the highlights. haha. his smile is SO cute! and i had a group of eight NS guys again, at the same alfresco table. haha. not the same guys, but equally nice, and with appetites twice as big. i swear. the last group spent $105 or so. THIS group spent $205!!! or course, that could be due to the fact that the promo menu has inflated prices. but STILL. they had like THREE orders of calamari rings, in addition to the main courses, and each guy had an average of two ice-cream orders. but it was all good. very very fun, and they were really patient with my confusion when i was taking orders.
takde CCD ah, i was waaay to busy to look out for one. oh but i actually screamed out loud at one point cos i thought i saw my favourite EB05 walk past. i SWEAR it was him. but then again, it was for only 4 seconds max, so i might have been wrong. oh and speaking of cute, an entire soccer team from MY alma mater [no, not RGS] came and ate ice-cream and fries. they were sooooooo adorable!!! i was just dying. all in their jerseys and tak sabar nak makan fries and stuff. very very cute.
i exercised some influence today to get a cooler playlist in the outlet. mariah carey, 50 cent, destiny's child.. haha.. it was so cool. too bad i was doing alfresco, i didn't get to fully appreciate my hard work. and too bad kak nores wasn't around, or we could've danced together. i mean, if i was the only one dancing i'd just look stupid. haha.
oh this group of 5 malay girlfriends had ice-cream, and one of them was SO nice! firstly, she settled the bill secretly with me. about an hour later, she called me out and her friends asked for the bill. and she was just grinning like crazy. while i practically laughed out loud as i told them, "dah bayar dah!" and secondly, she actually tipped me personally! like 4 bucks! i was SOOOOO wowed! at first she just asked me what happens to the tips, then when i told her, she gave me the money and told me to keep it, and not put it in the box. wow.
abg rahim gave us [me, azhar, farhan] a lift home just now. first, though, i had to wait around while abg rahim had a smoke. so i sat in the car, enjoying the aircon. then farhan joined me. and then the smoke started wafting in, so i told him to close the door, and he was like, "tanak ah, nanti lain macam je.." haha. giler. and he ter-saw the screensaver of me and baba, and he practically grabbed my phone as he tried to determine why baba looks familiar to him. haha. after that, he ter-saw the wallpaper of the "my boo" screenshot, and was like, "Astaghfirullah! gambar cium-cium pulak!" funn-ay.
went to watch house of wax with baba today. it's one of those typical slasher flicks where the main characters are all stupid--that's why they get pursued by murdering psychos in the first place. and then the stupidest character survives. you know the type, right? so. yeah. but paris looks hot in this movie, as she always does, i suppose. love her! [yes, i know. kill me now for saying that.] and i love her boyfriend in the movie. he's the guy from cousin skeeter, with the incredible eyes. i love him. he looks REALLY good. hm and i got my dose of ITE mats, but not nearly enough. haha. there was this group that offered us ice-cream: "nak sikit?" and there were loads of viks too. besnye. like i said to baba, i wanna move to yishun. haha. anyway, can't wait to do that again. the movie thing, i mean. ohyah i finally got my interview shoes. haha. according to shafa, they're risky but what the heck. i actually like them, despite my aversion to anything that isn't open-toed, but these are just aDORable! yes. i personally love them, and they're not even very high, so an extra plus point for that. maybe i'll even wear them out sometime. see, that's how much i love them.

i had this dream last night about ex-con. it was practically a nightmare. basically, he was like, "eh, asal kau bilang aku kau kerje tuesday? aku pergi, kau tak kerje pun!" and proceeded to really really scold me. and i was on the verge of tears, and i was trying to explain myself [i had a really good explanation actually], but i gave up halfway and apologised instead. me and my stupid dreams.
during briefing just now, diana let the cat out of the bag. [ugh what a gross cliche to use! sorry..] mr rahim was talking about how the new guy doesn't serve the drinks properly, and therefore we, the CSRs, should teach him the right way. and then diana opens her mouth and says, "yah, norain can teach him.." and they ALL turned to look at me. and kak nores exclaims, "wah, second target already ah?" oh God. how mortifying. the only good thing was that azhar wasn't there. i think i'd have died of complete and utter embarrassment. i never actually TOLD anyone i like him, you know. i think i'm just unlucky. i attract suaning. if that's not enough, i attract BASELESS suaning. argh.

what did i do today? let's see. ohyes i went to wild wild wet with kak nores, jeslyn, jessica, and ah-yi [or however you spell it]. haha. it was loads of fun, actually. we went on the ular-lah ride thrice, i think. hehe.
yes. then i had work.

i went out with shafa yest to look for interview shoes [mine] and interview shirt [hers]. well, she got her shirt but we hit the usual snag of the absence of my shoe size. it's really unfair, having size 9 feet in Singapore. i don't blame my feet in the slightest, i blame the shoe retailers. for example, everbest doesn't even have a single size 9 at all! they only go up to 8, which is quite dumb, really, considering bata even has size 10. anyway. i guess i'll have to try again another day.
since i was so disappointed and pissed at not having gotten my shoes, i bought a pair of sunglasses from topshop. loving them! haha. i actually tore off the price tag and wore them while walking to the taxi stand. ape je. haha.
yest was, as i told shafa, my favourite tv night. friends, charmed, CSIs NY and Las Vegas, topped off by friends again. but i kept nodding off at CSI:NY!!! so i gave up at 935, and went to sleep. haha.

went to KKH to visit cik jun and her new baby. it's a really adorable boy. [okay, honestly speaking, i can't tell if he's adorable, cos he's only a day old, and it's the stage where he's still red-faced and with permanently-shut eyes and stuff, but if he's anything like ellna, he'll be adorable.] his name is Ari Johan. nice name, tapi takleh kalah Rahul Ishmael. hahaha. anyway i was hoping to see cute male nurses or smthg, but i realised it's KKH, and therefore there wouldn't be much call for male nurses? well at any rate i saw none. but i enjoyed the fully air-conditioned foodcourt, and the whole retail mall, actually. AND cik jun's private room. it's like a hotel, almost. an uncarpeted hotel. and there's none of that hospital smell. you know, the kind that just spells out S-I-C-K.
work was great. tiring but great. josh walked past, and i practically ran out to greet him, and started punching him excitedly. ape je. ape je me, of course. haha. turns out he's the only 3D left in tekong, which is really sad cos it means tt i won't be seeing any of the other class guys around then.
my most fun customers today was this group of about 8 NS guys. mostly manjens, one malay, and one serani, who reminds me of someone i know, or maybe i've actually seen him before. anyway they were sitting alfresco, which was my station.. so yeah i had to serve them.. and farhan was so kesian, he accidentally spilled water on the malay guy. i was dying of mortification on his behalf. haha. but they were quite nice about it. anyway they ate like over a hundred bucks worth, as usual, and i had to wait there for like 10 minutes while they attempted to calculate their individual shares. haha. and they were making jokes about how they were really bad at maths or smthg, and then one guy said to me, "by the way, we're from mohawk company.." and i just laughed and said okay. but why did he tell me that, anyway? tak faham. and he kept repeating it. ??? but anyway they waited patiently while i counted the money, and then the same guy said, "have a good weekend," paused and looked at his watch, "i mean, have a good week.." and later he asked me if he could buy an ashtray from us. isn't that weird? who would think that a restaurant sells their ashtrays to customers? but anyway, i loved that they were very friendly and nice and stuff. i just love talking to customers, and they were the most friendly bunch of NS guys i've had so far.
after work i changed my tshirt and shoes, just cos i felt sweaty and rimas. and azhar was like, "eh kau nak gi dating ke?" to which i refused to respond since it was SUCH an inane comment. but later he asked me again, "kau nak gi dating eh? gi dating ngan helmi kan?" aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhh!!! he keeps suaning me abt ex-con! how. annoying. and if that's not enough, diana is now suaning me about the new guy. i don't know how she could even tell that i liked him, from the limited time we spend talking in the bus. and she was encouraging me to go after him and everything--saying he's single, and telling me to get his number, all that shit. no thank you. i'm not gonna set myself up to be embarrassed again.

yes yes i know it's like, four in the morning. all i wanted to do when i turned on the laptop was blog about what happened today. but suddenly lots of things started happening and before i knew it, half of "what happened today" turned out to be stuffs that happened after i got home.
went for the orang kahwin downstairs. wow. it was so so grand! but my secret hope of seeing cute mats went unfulfilled. i did get a cool photo of the platform for the mempelai though. and there was like, a 5-tier wedding cake. and a chandelier-looking thing, made of flowers, over the archway. and the food was served to the tables, which were in clusters of eight [seats]. they even pour and refill the air. great and attentive service all the way.. and the food was great--dishes of the daging thingy tt goes with nasi briyani, ayam masak merah, some curry thing i didn't touch [i like my rice dry], some sayur thing i didn't even bother to glance at, and [my personal favourite] these really cool black pepper udangs. omg. i must have had at least five. i even had to take one from the people next to us. hm then we went to the block opposite, where they had a contrasting simple affair, with like two long tables, a table of food set buffet-style, and a really simple pelamin. but they were all nice and friendly, and the best part was the eye-candy. haha. there was a group of mat dishwashers. and some of the guests/relatives were really handsome. haha. yup. two completely different weddings, but i enjoyed both.
okay, i got to work at like 135. haha. so i sat around outside till 2, then i went in and got the glitter glue for the hand-painting thingy. then, since i didn't have the guts to go around offering my services [haha tt sounds bad!], i did service for about 15 minutes. then i did my first kid [yes tt sounds bad too], and her two brothers. but there weren't THAT many kids to ask, and besides, they were all eating so i couldn't just sebok2 rite? haha. but i did a few more kids after that.. and i even did some after the 2-4 window.. it was pretty fun, except they kept asking for the hardest designs! heLLO, do i LOOK like an expert to you? okay but generally, that part of my job was fun.
i had my break at 4, with kak nores and rafidah.. and although i was still kinda full from the orang kahwin food, i decided to buy smthg anyway. so i got the omelette. it was reaaaalllly filling! haha. but they were all like, "you buy omelette waste money lah.." but i don't care, cos i've always wanted to try it, and it only cost about four bucks anyway. wow i like having breaks. it's fun. haha. okay, i guess it's only fun if you have breaks with your friends. anyway, thanks to the hand-painting thing, i got to enjoy a full 45-minute break instead of the half-an-hour one i'm supposed to have. haha.
CCD was zulkarnaen zainal, whom i did NOT recognise, not being a follower of Singapore football. but i liked him anyway. he's all tall and vik-looking and he's just very very cool. he stayed for so long we had to halau him away to mcdonald's.
anyway yes i got home, and i started telling nadia how sad i was about the whole ex-con thing. then this stupid thing hung, so i had to restart it like three times. by that time, she was gone, so no more listening ear. haha. then i logged onto AM cos i was just bored. and guess who msged me? the pizza guy! the one who's been talking to me for the past few days! i couldn't believe it! and in the middle of waiting for his SN, ex-con came online. but because he'd changed his nick, and i didn't know it was him, i didn't chat to him. [i would have. really.] and he actually said hi to me first. and when i realised it was him i almost screamed and died. but i replied in a calm and relaxed manner ["hey you"]. and we chatted for a few minutes. and for every letter i typed, i had to restrain myself from typing "i miss you". for example, he said "dah lama tak nampak awk", which i believed merited an "i miss you" from me, but i stopped myself. but guess what. he actually said it himself. he said, and i quote, "rindu awk adela.." help!!! why does he do this to me? i mean, he knows i like him, it's just unfair for him to use that to torture me! and i was dying to reply, "i miss you too.." but i stuck with the safer, and more cowardly, "ye ke?" i am SUCH a wuss. well then i was steeling myself to tell him i miss him, and to come by tmr before he books in, but then he said he'd brb, but here i am, 1.5 hrs later, and he's still not back. but it doesn't end here. i'll msg him tmr. tmr as in, before i go to work. promise!

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.