A Mind of My Own

It’s always fun to plan a day of fun. For starters, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so I’ll be at Ya Kun Toast having a set meal with my DD. After a hearty breakfast, we’ll be at Atlantic Optical to pick out some trendy sunglasses since this is the hottest season in Singapore!

Next, we’ll check out Spin The Bottle to try building our own bags. I rather like the idea since I’m always on the search for the perfect bag to contain all my stuff that I can’t help but bring around every time. Then, on to egg3 for some funky shopping for accessories, furniture, etc.

After having so much fun, time for lunch at Billy Bombers. After lunch, it’s on to Adidas and Totally Hot Stuff to check out more fashion. As a woman, it’s a natural thing to look at fashion. With Ben & Jerry’s nearby, we’ll just have some ice cream there too.

Then off to to-a-tee, XSQUAD and Metallurgy – jewellery is a must for ladies. After walking, it’s time to head to Spa Elements for some massage. Since the mobile phones can be liven up, DigiSkin is the place to either protect the cover or just beautify them. Finally, we’ll have dinner at Aston Specialities.

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I may have taken a cruise on Star Cruise Virgo, however, I had never had the chance to be chartered on board a Summit Marine.

This chartered cruise will be given away by Reebonz! Spending a special day at sea being served by the professionals, it is definitely a different feeling. That special day can be from birthdays to parties. Enjoying 4 hours of pampering is truly a lifestyle.

DD had mentioned that he would really love to have a private yacht even if for a few hours with just the two of us on special days. When I think of romance as sea, I keep being reminded of the scene in Titanic where Rose and Jack stood at the very front and stretched out their hands.

I’ve been watching Cruel Temptation/Temptation of Wife/Wife’s Temptation (아내의 유혹 or 妻子的诱惑) in DVD format. After knowing that there is a total of 129 episodes, I just couldn’t stand it any more and simply watched the last disc. I still managed to catch what had transpired before. With flashbacks, no worries.

It’s an engaging Korean drama with lots of cat fights, sharp remarks, crying, revenge plotting, money and back stabbing. Seriously, some of the scenes made me cringe as it’s absurd that their eye vision can be so narrow! How can they not see their enemy standing next to the pillar? How can a mother who was already told not to do something, still go ahead and do something only to be overheard by some nosy person?

It is also strange to find that it’s so easy to steal someone’s signature seal just for confirming legal documents without the person’s permission. It’s also too coincidental to have all the characters related to each other in some strange way. The obsession of having a complete family by Ae Ri is also scary with her personal tactics.

Seriously, I can’t believe that this guy, Gyo Bin can be so callous. Perhaps, there are such guys around and I do pity the women who fall prey to such worms. The one thing I like about this drama is the earrings though. So many different earrings! Even if they are costume jewellery, I would like to have a few for everyday use.

I have been through this before and I am trying to stay calm. It’s not easy when the contract stated one thing but the recruitment agency decided to modify the ambiguous statement to their benefits. Of course everyone is out to gain something. However, this delay of my salary has gone too far. How can a requirement agency be unable to get a person after 3 weeks? Unless something serious happened to the person or the person had simply gone overseas.

Yet again, I had to demand my salary. This time, throwing in Ministry of Manpower’s name did not help one bit since the person in charge stood by the company’s standard reason “The client has yet to respond.” Well, in whatever you do, as long as it’s to do with the company and money, you do your utmost best to get that sum of money, right? If it were your pay, how would you feel about having to delay by every 2 months? Whaddaya mean I have to eat grass for 2 months?

The most ridiculous excuse? “The temp staff…” I don’t care what temp staff or perm staff. They are still humans, right? Humans need to eat in order to have strength to continue working, right? If you get your pay on time, I expect the same too!

With this, I am battling with my conscience whether to expose the name of the agency or just keep it a secret. Perhaps, as a cautionary measure to those who are considering temp positions, I have no idea if they pay the perm staff on time but as a temp, I suggest that you use the services of Robert Walters, Addecco, Recruit Express, Kelly Services, Manpower, and Today’s Career. At least your pay gets paid on time as stipulated in the contract.

Without limits, I can just buy anything and do anything at the drop of a hat. I don’t have to inform any boss why I am taking leave and whether the tasks can be completed before I am on long leave. I always believe that no matter what, anything related to work can’t be finished even if I do the urgent stuff before I am on leave.

When I return from any number of days from leave, the tasks are always there. Without limits, I can simply buy way too much clothes for me to fill up my tiny wardrobe, perhaps upgrade my wardrobe to a walk-in so that I can put all my clothes there.

Without limits, I can buy all the shoes I like, take holidays anywhere without worrying about how much there is left in my bank account, throw a party at any place I fancy, buy way too much stuff on impulse just because I like them. Without limits, I’m wild on purchases. Not healthy but I feel happier spending money then trying to earn them.

Earning money has always been and will be a tough job because facing humans is a problem by itself since dealing with people isn’t my forte. I’m improving and after mixing around with other people, I’ve come to a conclusion. Humans love to live without limits. With limits, they lament about the pay, the boss, the weather, the leaves they have to take even though they have no money to travel overseas, the noisy kids, the obnoxious people hugging the poles in trains, the naked people running about in some parts of Singapore, the ridiculous complains about the same things over and over again at Stomp, and so on and so forth.

Without limits, I may not have discovered that I have been stopping myself from certain things. I have realised that limits on certain things help me grow in certain ways that I have never thought possible. Still, I like to buy without worrying about money. That’s the one limit that I will be rid of.

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I’m not taught to give thanks. Especially not graciously. Or with flowery words. That’s just not me. Therefore, I shall be simple in my gratitude.

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It’s my first time using this recruitment agency’s services and I must say, I’m utterly horrified, to say the least, at their business ethics. After getting me down to their office for an interview with photocopies of my NRIC, I was later informed that I was to attend an Continue Reading…

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