festive eating

parkroyal buffet.
crabs
guilingao.
at straitskitchen.

too much food this festive season !! but nevermind it's just for a while. and what's the harm of some good food every now and then?

i dont feel like writing anything. shall just plaster some pictures for this post...

MY PHONE GOT STOLEN. some disgusting bitch took it from my bag at topshop. i am absolutely CERTAIN of that.

i hope she rots and dies. in an accident. in which she will bleed to death first. i hope the lcd screen of my phone cracks on her like it did on me last time. i did like my phone very very much despite the occasional problems it gave. it was still a 6month old baby after all. :( my contacts are all gone. and i spent 2 over hours at singtel just to get a new phone. i feel like both my phone and my mp3 player got stolen.

TRAGIC. X10233344445545345554

deck the halls.

it's the time of the year again. the radio is playing those jumpy joyful christmas songs. but every year i grow a little bit more tired of all these festivals. i make grand plans in my head every year to do this or that on christmas or new year's eve or valentine's day or whatever. but of course i never carry them out. i really do want to take cheesy pictures in front of some ostentiously decorated mall down orchard road, be excited about christmas festivities and soak in the warmth and cheer of christmas like most people probably do. i really do want that. but i usually end up doing none of the above. maybe it's because i know christmas is just one day that will come and go. and sometimes, i feel slightly numb to the coming and going of things. what's there to celebrate when you know it's going to be gone in a while? well, most people say it's precisely because of that that we celebrate and enjoy and appreciate these things. but i just dont feel...i dont know, indifferent or numb, at times. i cant give an answer if someone were to ask what's my favourite holiday of the year.

i want to be truly excited over things again. not just for the sake of it. but, really excited.

or maybe it's just growing up la. i dont know.

and just to convince myself that i'm still not entirely incapable of feeling festive, i leave this post with 2 pictures of the christmas gathering at mindy's house. ahahah. although i must add that the traditional chinese steamboat wasnt exactly very christmas-sy. it was still rather nice anyway. :)

so, happy holidays y'all.

halfway

and i am getting nowhere with my calling. seriously. so today my other supervisor came to talk to me to give me 'constructive criticism' of my calling. i am actually very well aware of the things mentioned. but i just dont think i have the aptitude of being a good salesperson. because you gotta be persuasive and well, salesperson-like when you call these companies. traits which i am sorely, sorely lacking. i blame it on my reserved personality.i know these things are fairly trainable. but i just dont like it. so sales is definitely out for me, even though the money is in sales. and it's probably good for me if i try to be more less reserved. but i'm maybe i'm just too stubborn for my own good.

so, anyway i think he gave up on my calling and assigned me stuff which i have far more interest in. i'm going to attempt to construct a portfolio. by friday evening ! and i have a feeling i'm going to end up recommending some rubbishy combination of funds and he will probably have a good laugh at it for a while. but it's okay, much better than calling !

caught golden compass this week too. it wasn't as good as expected. although they have gorgeous female leads. eva green is not exactly pretty, but she's arresting. she just has the kind of face that you want to look at forever. and the demons are so cute. i want a little demon too.

please dont stop the music

pets&kids.
normal, sane people.
december babies.

been eating too much lately. dinner at sofra was pretty good. turkish. then mariott high tea the next day. plus i'm quite immobile at work. so i guess all the eating is going to have to accumulate somewhere.. jiayan did ask me to gym tomorrow but i suggested shopping. which is a way better alternative dont u think !

i'm getting pretty used to work ! i still dont like calling. but i'm used to it. and i need to get a HR appointment sooon. otherwise i'll be quite useless. and i do wanna help my supervisor who is really quite nice and has been quite tolerant of my very disorganized excel files and messiness in general. i did learn quite alot today, at the expense of calling. so i'm really not complaining ! i finally know what are hedge funds (always wondered what they are) and some financial jargon. i'm sure what i was told today is very basic, and i have a hell lot to go before i fully grasp the fundamentals. but... one thing at a time.

okay i'm going to read my newly borrowed book now ! the holidays aint that awful after all !

like a few thousand miles is not enough. now we have this. it's beyond ridiculous, really.

i think if u're competing to see who gives the worst impression even before a first, proper meeting. then i think i win, hands down.

no, i'm not talking about work.

:(