June has been a month of slacking... Was told that I need to substitute my mother's friend in her work, since she wanna go back thailand to visit her family. Was pretty relunctant, cos I was looking forward to the oppurtunities of working with the art school right after the cutting job. I was offered another cutting job and a book coloring job which I rejected, due to the cookie job which was expected to last for a month. Cancelled badminton too, standing for 8 hours is enough to make me tired... So there goes a month.
Cookie cookie cookie...
So it started with me putting on the red apron again. Kind of prepared myself mentally, all smiles like a salesperson... (makes me wonder if sales people suffer from split personalities...?) Working with Jaryn again makes me feel pretty safe, with her around, you can be sure the customers doesn't bully people, and time will fly, since she's a workaholic, which in turn motivates me to work more too. During work, she told me many stories, stories of customers... ugliness of sg... her current social life and the people at work. Lamenting about customers not acknowledging her presence when she tries to ask if they needed any help. Somehow, it kinda taught me how to be a better customer too...
Finally got to work with Joan, who I heard some stories about from another worker who seemed to be gone. She wasn't as bad as I've heard, at least we could talk and laugh together. The aunties are still the same, and at least Jaryn's bro didn't shoot me this time round.... >_<
There goes about two weeks, and my work days got lesser. By the last week of June, seems like I wasn't needed and I had the week to myself to enjoy. Haiz... shouldn't have rejected the book job if I'd know this would happen... Come to think of it, I haven't recieve my pay for the cutting job... yet.
Maplestory
The plan had been: work morning to evening, come back home chiong maple! Bought a 2x exp card from 6 to 10pm. And to my surprise, there was an 2x exp event at the last two weeks, every night from 8 to 10pm.... Which means, Zardas can hit 4th job, and yea, I did it... think from 9X and now he's 124.
Pretty crazy, pressing buttons and killing squids all the way... my wrists hurts now and then, quite warning me that I should take a break.
DouDou!
And yea! Finally sent off the drawing of Doudou to her (thank God Xiu didn't take that piece to Australia...). It was really by chance that I spoke to her. When someone just mega-ed a congratulatory message to her in game, I whispered a 'grats' and the next thing I know....
Was stunned there... and our dialogue began. It's nice talking to her again, although, she sounded pretty down... While I thought how to pack the painting up for her, I thought of drawing a small card along to cheer her on, since I dunno what else I can do... I'm not someone very close to her, hardly hear her woes too.... Sunflower again! I couldn't think of anything else other than that (must be Ms Sunshine...).
And then... I realised I dunno her real name while I filled in the address.... NGGAAAHHHHH......... T_T Wrote her ign instead... hoping that whoever got that mail first wouldn't feel awkward at that...
And hey, Singpost is pretty efficient! She got it within two days, and I was really happy to know that it got to her safely. Even more so when she said she was gonna find a frame for it and put it in her office. XD
... and unexpectedly, a few days after that, I recieved a letter from her. >_< Cry nia... seriously cried after reading it T_T It's very heartwarming to know that the drawing u did for someone is appreciated and valued, and the card did made her smile (longer than a second maybe... she wrote that which I thought would last just a second, lol..). Enclosed was also a 20k a-cash card, which was super out of expectation. Spent it immediately on a three-lined thank you mega where I tried to make a bunny with typography(which failed!!!! >_< Why.........) Doudou......
Drawing
Yea, done not much drawing really... A picture of the Goddess Cygnus:
Photographed... cos it's done with acrylic and the scanner do bad jobs when it comes to acrylic paintings. The base was given a layer of white acrylic (cos the paper was already dirtied with paints), and drawn directly on with pencil, after that I experimented a bit with paints and markers. Some alcohol here and there, and it looks pretty messed up. The white sprinkles probably finished it up, cos I was tired of the blue mess... And hey, turned out ok with the finishing touches there. The lines are done with a brown pen. A pretty random piece...
Wireless...
Gave me a headache. Aunty Soon signed up for a wireless connection with pacnet and hell did the router gave me probs. Stayed up late to do it, bugging my aunt for the information needed to access the connection. Haven't had a headache for some time, and after many failed attempts on getting it done on the pc, I gave up. Couldn't be bothered anymore, making me wonder if the pc is even able to go wireless since it's bought in 2001. There wasn't even a 'Local Area connection' on the network list which I could find on my laptop (and I found out that the router worked with it).
Then came Aunty Peck one night after entering the house... Seeing me play maple, she scolded me, her words going quite like a machine gun there. I got angry, and wanted very much to go into the kitchen and say I didn't ask for that wireless connection and the two of them ain't helping at all (even when Aunty Soon said she will be calling up the service men the previous day). Instead, just told mum loudly that I'm going downstairs to buy some milk. It's more than anger, it's upsetting. Didn't want to talk to them at all after that.
Was in a dilemma after that, I didn't want them to come shouting at me again the day after, and decided to surf the internet for information again. Headache arr... came to the conclusion that the home pc's driver needs to be updated. And even after that, the wireless connection on my sister's lappie wasn't working as it should. Haha... 512... couldn't even enter msn.
That night, tried to talk with Aunty Soon, and she told me she's concerned as to why I'm gaming so often and till so late these days. I poured out my thoughts there, why I didn't want to touch that router again and the 5am gaming session thing. Guess the ntu prof stabbing incident created an image of me becoming a gaming addict, throwing away responsibilities. Please man... I still eat halfway through the game, bro doesn't. Why get wireless when you say you don't want us to game? Oh man...
Birthday!
Haha, as always, it's a home affair. XD Cake cutting again! This time is a mango keki!!
So glad it was finished up! Many times, we couldn't finish the cakes due to the cream and all, but this one from Four Leaves was just nice. :D
Haha, I've cut my hair short yea....
Hair cut
Lesson learnt: Never go to the barber and say you want to cut your hair short. This is what happens.... Man, I look like a guy now... especially when I wear tees... T_T Recieved many wierd stares when I go into the public too... ARRRGHHHHH! I forgot that my ear was pierced only on the right side (due to the left side getting some infection and it closed pretty early), and yea, I zoomed off a few days later to get the left side done.
For the first time, I was called an aunty while I was selling cookie, and the person who called me aunty looked even older than me..... T_T Jsut so happened that I was facing the wall, scooping the cookie batter, Li Ning aunty was standing beside me, hidden from the views of the customers... and someone called out 'aunty'. I turned my head, and the woman was shocked. The people around her (most prob her colleagues) were chuckling to themselves "eh, she aunty ar?" XD XD XD XD XD It was some laughter there, but haha, some spice to the would be boring cookie job.
Anyways, yea, that's about it for now. Gotta let the pc off for Ting to work on her e-learning. 'Thanks' H1N1, NYP extended the hols for a week and she had to do e-learning at home from 6 to 10pm. Ah well... studies first yea. Lol...
