I went to one of the tai-tai’s house yesterday for dinner with the rest of our JC friends. She was lamenting about the life of an auditor (ultra late nights and hard work), while the rest of us nod in sympathy. Another friend commented about her boss calling her the whole day on her off-day, hence resulting in her working at home on her off day. And all concluded that Singaporeans are hard workers.

And they analyzed the shopping habits of such hardworking people. Cost is no longer an issue, they will just buy what they want, since time is the issue. No time to spend their money hur. If only they are generous to give some money to spend, which I will gladly help them with.

Some funny bits of the conversation to document

Overheard that some domestic worker cooked porridge for the mdm during CNY as she was sick. The children excitedly ran and tell their mother that there was abalone in the porridge. The mdm was of course confused and ask the maid what she put in the porridge. “Mum, I cook mushrooms.”

Turns out it was abalone, and the most expensive can type. Abalone and mushroom cans do look rather similar to people who can’t differentiate them.

there were 2 cousins at the taitai’s house. Since they are young (aged 7 and 10), we started talking and playing with them. Questions posted to them were ” How old do you think this jiejie is?” “Who eat the most?” “Which animal does this jiejie look like?”

The children’s answer to mine was 30, me, pig :(:(:(:(

But the 30 part was abit of my fault. Cause when the kid was guessing my friend’s age, I kept putting age 30 to indicate her age, but the kid thought it was my age. And she happily replied with gusto that I am 30. *cries in a pool of pineapple tarts*

Got a major presentation this week. Sigh. I feel like killing my prof who not surprisingly has BO. Guess God is fair to fuckers.

OMG, I think I have consumed enough food this 2.5 days (include reunion dinner) to last me for a whole week. Over-eating however seemed to the norm this CNY. I think the only exercise I got was from waddling in ultra high shoes, exercising my mouth and the rest of the digestive system and perhaps exercising my fingers from photo-whoring.

I got the “shanghai got no food to eat isit” comments as usual, coupled with comments on my weight loss , and then exclaimation when they saw my rice portion ( reduced to might as well don’t eat rice portions). My aunt whom I used to go to her house weekly to tutor my cousin, couldn’t recognise me and was wondering “who is this lady in the living room.”

My soon-to-be cousin-in-law got smacked by my cousin when he said something truthful but not so nice. But coming,from a guy’s point of view, what do you say when you have 2 hyper-active women who kept posing and kept asking “Can you see my fat arms?”, “Like that pose, can hide anot?”, and lastly using a skinny cousin to stand in between us so that we can use her to hide our fats. Muhahaha.

Cousin-in-law’s response to the whole saga, when asked if the arms look fat in the pic “But you all look like that what?”

Innocently said of course.

But seriously, why are arms the hardest part of the body to tone and lose weight?

Since the CNY is looming ahead, looking good for the relatives’ eyes have never been more important. It sucks to have comments about weight, complexion, beauty, bf coming from the relatives. Hence, after facing many years of criticism about weight gain, I can finally lift my head high and say ta-dah with my weight loss *cues triumphant music*, and then laugh secretly at the relatives that put on weight. Ok, time to stop it cause there will be bad karma.

The gym efforts are paying off. Although I said that there was no weight loss in kgs, I was wrong. Wow. I lost 1.5 kgs from last week. Whee! It took me about 1 month to register a loss despite the consistent exercise, so perseverance is the key.

My endurance has skyrocketed within 1 month. From not being able to run at all, I am able to run 4-4.5 km and then continue walking 1-3 additional km. Today was the most thus far, 7.5km in 70 minutes. I will attempt 5km tomorrow. Is running fast or normal pace better? I can run more if I run at a slower pace.

Tomorrow, I will hit the gym again before class. Sigh, class on a CNY eve so might as well make the most out of it, by going to the gym. I must prepare for the onslaught of calories I am going to ingest within these few days.

Happy CNY everybody!!!!

I can’t wait for the bak kwas and pineapple tarts.

The year of the rat is good for me. Anyone born in the year of the pig, they say male pigs are good as partners this year.

just came back from a networking event. Initially I was having butterflies in my stomach, but as the end went on, with beer to relax me, networking as scary as it was.

as this is an industry networking event, i get to meet alot of people in my future line. Pity that the guy from my company didn’t come at all, if not I will get to talk to him more about my job.

So I talked to another trader, and found out that drinking and golf are required. Ha, I was thinking about reading up on soccer since this is a male-dominated industry, and usually soccer is the ice-breaker.

Time to start training my “jiu liang”. Golf is too far off and will have to wait a little longer.

I was talking to this trader, and turns out my internship company and his are doing roughing the same things. When I mentioned my company’s name and the internship, he was like “send me your resume” and was quite insistent too. Before that, he was not really interested in me at all and wasn’t even thinking of asking for our resumes when we said we were looking for jobs. What can I say? My internship is going to open alot of doors for me.

That sums up my networking experience. Think I look really old. Old acquaintances forget who I am already, though we use to say Hi and bye. Hopefully it is the weight loss which renders me different. Alot of people have commented that they don’t recognise me anymore, must be the past few sems I was too nerdish (specs and ugly clothes and not-so-thin). Luckily it is change for the better.

Finally, I can stop hunting for jobs. But I will be taking a huge risk. Let me explain, I have not updated fully on an interview 2 weeks ago.

Basically this is an interview, panel of companies vs panel of students. The golden ticket at hand is a scholarship, with a full-time job attached to it. I went for it, screwed it up and then returned miserable. Apparently the results are out last week, and the names of the scholars were determined. I didn’t find out cause it was via the grapevines, and so it sucked like hell when I found out who the scholars were this Monday.

Mr Shit was the one who informed me of who the scholars were. He happily went on and happed about it, insensitive to the fact that I was upset that I was not chosen. I have to pretend that I was alright and interested in those who got the scholarship. This wed, he discussed this topic again, and is super duper interested in those who got it. Best part is, he did not apply for the scholarship. I think the whole idea is, he’s extremely KPO.

Anyway, today I received an email that I was offered an internship by one of the companies. And this poses a huge dilemma. I am graduating in April. This is a 3 months internship. Who the hell interns after they grad?

Mrs Lim.

I have decided to take the brave plunge to do a 3 months internship with them. If my performance is good, the chance of a permanent job after that internship seems pretty high. If all fails, I can go back knocking on the doors of Big 4. Demand for accountants are thankfully very high.

The reason for doing this internship is rather simple. This is a huge MNC, one of the big names in their fields, and I am in an industry whereby there is huge growth in the next few years. Sounds good? I was hopping with excitement when I saw the name of the company offering me an internship.

And so the job hunting ends.