Merry xmas! The xmas lights are beautiful this year and you got your loved ones with you. So be happy!

As you can see, I am truly happy judging from the guffaws last Hari Raya Haji. And no, usually my mouth ain’t that big.

Merry xmas once again!!!

I have been working at my aunt’s maid agency for the past week. Although the work is mundane and doesn’t require much brain cells, I have been feeling tired everytime I am back. I don’t even have the urge to use my laptop. My working hours are 10 to 7pm but somehow, due to the time I am back which is 9pm, I will be a blob of tiredness.

Doesn’t help that I have tuition on my off-day. My aunt works 7 days a week which really amazes me since she has a child aged 5. I can’t work non-stop, and is already feeling tired and the exhaustion. The funny thing is that I have been working for the past 6 months, and have not felt this tired at all while working in China. My mom said its the weather.

And the food in Lucky Plaza is crazily prized. Coming back from China with cheap and affordable food where i work, I am stumped by the high prices of the damned food courts. 3.80 for a bowl of ban mian or fish soup noodles??? No way. 3.80 for yong tau hoo? No way. In the end, I settled eating dessert since it costs only 1.80 compared to the rest. Either i will bring food from work, or it will be apple pie or dessert for lunch. Good for my dieting plans. My friends who have met me have commented that I have lost weight. I think I have lost 7-9 kgs since 6 months ago.

And I am in a real clubbing mood. Time to hit the clubs every week though my dad won’t be too pleased.

Just a moment ago, I was depressed with no tuition kids to start 2008, no form of sustainable cashflow to last my academic year, and now all’s good. I have taken back my highest paid tuition kid, gotten a new ex-tuition kid, and may be teaching a friend’s tuition kid. The best part, all the tuition rates are now back to what it should be. I am no longer undercharging. YAY!

Tomorrow I shall head to my aunt’s maid agency, not to be a maid but maybe to do admin work. Somehow she said I won’t get used to it, that’s why she got me to come down and take a look. Hmmmm. Hopefully she will hire me as the 1 month temp help.

I ate fried mee goreng, murtabak yesterday, ate dumplings and wanton noodles since i am back, carrot cake and all the peanut butter. Best thing? My weight is going down. It was down by 1-1.5 kg since I am back which hasn’t even been a week.

Prior to going to Shanghai, i was on a gain weight plan which is really silly cause i am fat to begin with -_-. Ha, then i went to shanghai, eat good food, fast on some days and vahoom, I lost like 6-7 kgs. Shanghai is really a food paradise, and with food so cheap and accessible, it’s a miracle I lost so much weight.

From someone who can’t stand oil cause my stomach was allergic to them (I can feel the oil coming down when i eat sambal, fried chicken and then my stomach starts to churn), I started using chilli oil as my gravy. China’s food is really oily and after 6 months there, I was like oily meh while proceeding to slurp up the hot oil. It doesn’t help that during winter and autumn time, my favourite food was ma la soup, which is essentially like yong tau hoo except that you add chilli, and hot oil and vinegar (which I don’ cause I hate it), garlic and so into the soup. And usually I skip the hot oil cause it’s ma and I don’t like my tongue numb. But the chilli which they add is usually full of oil, so imagine 1 huge tablespoon of chilli inside the soup, the whole soup starts turning red and oily. But oh so yummy.

Maybe this oil training in China is good. Singapore’s oily food is considered secondary, and i can eat all the fatty food without gaining weight.

On the interview I had yesterday, let’s just say that the organization did not state what they mean by positions in the advisory department. In the end, i wanted M&A and all the consulting positions which wasn’t open to fresh grads. Only IT audit was recruiting under advisory which stumped me cause when I was reading through the website yesterday, it did not say anything about IT audit. So happily my interview was cut short, and I will be going back to interview for Audit on another day. Wasted my time reading on all the current affairs news -_-. Spate of bad luck for me, I hope my luck changes.

I got my first face-to-face interview tomorrow and I am a bucket of nerves. (YAY!!! Flunked my phone interview for another company though -_-). Shucks. I am applying for a difficult department to get into. Sigh. I just love to challenge myself. If only I apply for audit, life will be much simpler, and I don’t have to read up so much about the recent commercial news in the last minute. Doesn’t help that I got addicted to ANTM’s cycle 9 and watched like 4 episodes -_-. Sigh Sigh Sigh.

I just want a job now, so that at least I get an offer and don’t have to worry so much. And then I will start looking for better opportunities later.

Sucks to be me. Wish me good luck. Sigh

Ever since I am back, my food intake has just zoomed all the way to the finish line. Shit! I have afternoon tea everyday which is bad considering that in Shanghai, I can eat and somehow survive on minimum amount of food daily.

I think it got to do with my waking habits. I wake up at 11am (working peeps can kill me), eat lunch straight away and by 130-3pm, my stomach is a symphony of music. Which means I have to eat again. And then I have an early dinner at 530-6pm, and by 9ish, I have to eat again. ROAR! I scare myself with my appetite.

Case in point
Lunch: instant noodles, with egg, fish balls and pork balls
Teabreak: Roti Prata, 1 bowl of cereal, milo, 1 meat patty
Dinner: to be confirmed

Heh, but since dinner is like going to be at 8pm, I gave myself more allowance for teabreak. Going out is out an option cause transport fees are expensive and I am adjusting to the astronomical standard of living in singapore after staying in Shanghai for a long time.

So far so good, I only spend $2.50 since i am back 4 days ago. However tonight’s dinner is going to be a bomb since it is a birthday dinner. Sigh. I shudder to think of the bill after I multiply it by 5 (5 rmb: 1 Sing).

Going to meet mr fag today, after such a long long time.

You can take Singapore out of a Singaporean but you can’t take Singaporean out of a Singaporean.

Yes, I am back in hot singapore after wearing winter wear for the past 1-2 months. It feels great to be back, but i am missing my Shanghai life alot. I told my mom about working in Shanghai again and she was supportive, daddy wasn’t so supportive though.

I got alot of motivation to go back to Shanghai, lotsa friends there, and some guy (whom I suspect is gay, I really hate my gaydar). China guys are really much more gentlemanly to the girls, or maybe cause it is Shanghai and Shanghai girls set high standards for the males to fulfill. No house, no honey seems to be the culture after hearing from my boss and some guys. Usually when we hang out in a group (just a group of friends), the guys usually pay for the girls and send us to our doorsteps all the time even if it is more convenient to go to their house via cab first. And these guys are students mind you. It’s a pity I only knew these guys 1 month before i left Shanghai, but during this period of time, we played at arcade, have dinner and partied together (which I was drugged but that’s another story for another blog entry -_-).

So now I am back in Singapore, just slacking by surfing internet, playing with babies in my neighbour’s house, eating tons of peanut butter again, eating home cooked food, trying to reduce my spending cause I am freaking broke.

It’s great to be back, but it’s also great to be in Shanghai.

Ok, anyway there’s a bottle of peanut butter in the house, and I have gone back on my peanut butter craze. Read here and here, to know my love with peanut butter. I hate bananas, but here’s a dish which I have been eating for 2 days.

Banana with peanut butter love
Ingredients
1) banana
2) peanut butter

How to make it
1) Put a banana into the microwave. If you like the whole banana soggy and soft, cut the banana into half and microwave. If you like it slightly hard on the outside and soft on the inside, put the whole banana in. I tried it both ways, and both taste fabulous. Microwave it for 1 minute.
2) Put oodles of peanut butter on the side, and eat the peanut butter together with the soft banana. Taste great!!!

Being back to Singapore means responsibility. I have to re-active my Singapore line, unpack my 70 kgs worth of luggage which I didn’t get fined (another blog worthy story), finish up another case study for my boss, go for interviews, apply for jobs.

And alot of friends welcomed me back to Singapore. All of them are dying to meet me, or so I think. heh. It’s great to have friends pushing you to meet them in the first week or first few days that you are back. So far, I only met the uni gang cause Miss Pooh and sis are going to China for a grad trip, MY is going to vietnam for grad trip on the same day. So I hauled my ass back to the airport, barely 30 hours after I just returned from there.

And tadah, there’s no point in this whole entry. But I am back, and will be blogging a lot more consistently.