That's all folks

After 4 years of university, 2 1/2 years of NS, 2 years of junior college, 4 years of secondary school, 6 years of primary school, and not forgetting 2 years in kindergarten and 1 year in nursery, my school life is now finally over. Yippie, today is my last paper of university, which also means that after this, I'm sort of officially regarded as an unemployed, sianz. So just now after the paper, I went to cut my hair at the usual storm, at TM. Well I think its because I'm in a good mood, thats why I was actually swayed by the hair stylist to dye my hair. Damn, the whole thing cost me $75. Its been a long time since I dyed my hair in a salon. Now I look a bit Ah Beng, hahaha. Well its a new look though, wonder how my mum will react when she sees me, haha. Later will be heading down to Holland V, Wala wala with Alvin and gang. Guess it will also be the unveiling of my new look.

12 hours

Yup I know the title of this entry sounds something like the title of some Eric Khoo movie, but I just wanna share my joy, in approximately 12 hours, I am no longer a student. Finally I see light at the end of the tunnel... Wahahaha... after more than 10 years of education, the time has finally come for me to change the course of road I am taking, and venture into the unchartered waters. To see the dark dark side of life, where we have struggle to wake up early in the morning everyday so that we make it for work on time, and work our ass off to gain promotion and to get the little bit of pay increment. All this just to bring home the bread and butter, to to make ends meet, to pay for our phone bills, water and electricity bills, housing loans, car expenses, education loans, insurance, and the list goes on and on. Even before I find work, I am stuck with tons of loans to repay, hmmmm not the best position to be in, but thats life in Singapore for you. You work and work and work and work to pay the loans, and after you manage to repay everything, you are already lying in the coffin, just waiting for the guys to hammer in the final nails. What a scary thought.

Final lap

Trying to make the dash to the finish line. After a 4 year run, now is the time I make the sprint. The mind has been made up, but the body is weak. I keep wanting to do other stuff than to hit my books, what the fuck is wrong with me. Damn! Its just 2 days to my last and final paper in university, and I am doing everything else but study. In the past few days, I've went shopping for clothes, painted and cleaned part of my room, just this morning I was painting a little bit more of my room. Haiz, buck up lah you bastard, last paper already still want to slack. Okie after writing this entry, I will change up and go to IKEA to study, yup, thats what I'll do. Oh yah, I haven't called Starhub to tell them of the irritating phone calls. Okok I'll have to find time for that as well. 加油盛隆!!!!

New life with new room

Even though I'm in the middle of my final exams, I still found time (don't ask me why) to paint my room. Well half my room, to be exact. This time round I've picked the colour feisty orange for my room. Its such a bright colour, and this is the first time I've picked a colour this glaring for my room. Its a pretty refreshing change, of course my dad is complaining that it makes my room look hot, as in warm that kinda of hot, but I just love it. I see it as HOT, as in smoking hot! haha. Well today the delivery man sent the cupboard that my mum pick from my 3rd aunt's place, she sort of sold her place and now she's living in Chicago, so every family gets to go pick up furniture from the house because it would be quite a waste to throw away everything. So my mum picked up the wardrobe, bed mattress and a full length mirror. The wardrobe was to go into my room (my mum had wanted to put in my bro's room then take out the wardrobe in his room and transfer that to my room, but it was just too difficult), but I told my mum that I had all along wanted to paint my room. So we hurriedly went to the market to get 2 tins of paint, and started painting my room. Just the side which the wardrobe was going to be in, we decided to complete the rest of the room some other time (need I remind you again that I'm in the middle of my exam). But really, whether I paint the whole room a not is not the issue, because I still had to clean up some parts of my room and arrange the stuff into the wardrobe, so ultimately I still didn't touch my books till like 1am. And so practically I wasted yet another day. But let me emphasis again that I love the orange colour, simply perfect. Imran has promised to help me draw on my walls, and I have thought of the perfect thing for him to draw - a tiki. Wahahaha, to go with my current theme. Hopefully he'll be able to draw that out, I have faith in him. Actually I had taken photos of today's paint session, but I'm not sure if my sd card is working. The last time I inserted the card into my lappie, my whole lappie just hanged (remember there was an entry I mention about the scary blue screen), so I'm not too keen to testing it again. I'm waiting to test it in school next week, hahaha.

Name changed

After months of thought, I finally decided on the new name of my blog: Orang Tiki!!! Yup, I've incorporated some of the things that I like, and that fascinates me. One of course if the Tiki. I don't know why, but I just find this Polynesian thingy very interesting. Another is orange, one of my favorite colour. I was contemplating between orange and purple, but decided on orange. Erm because I just love it. But as can be seen from my side logo, I've incorporated both orange and purple together. Yup, I did that logo myself, with the little photoshop skills that I have, and yes, all I had to do was search for the pics online, paste, add a few words. And don't tell me if the colours don't match, I don't care, I'm colour blind anyway, I like it as it is, wahahaha. I know that the Tiki that I found is not exactly orange in colour, but its the best I could get. I tried using photoshop to make it as orange as I could. Actually I had wanted to change the entire colour scheme of the blog to fit the theme, but I just changed it to green not too long ago, so I think I'll keep it this way for now. So check out the new theme! =)

Blog counter

I've realise that there are actually people who read my crap. Thats surprising, because I don't out my blog address. Well I got that hint from my blog counter, because I'm supposed to be the only one that goes to my blog, so today I sense that the number is a running a little faster. I even got a comment on my entry, but I went to check out his blog and it doesn't exist. So probably not really a lot of people, maybe just another 1 or 2. But anyway to tackle this, I've installed a new counter on my blog. This counter works better than the previous one, it even draws the graphs of of the blog traffic for me and rates the number of first time visitors, pretty cool stuff. For all you bimbos and himbos who cannot figure out what this means, please check online yourself, hahaha. Anyway the previous counter's last hit was 113 (This is just a reminder to myself).

I'm so lucky

Before I begin my topic proper, let me first clear a few stuff. Firstly, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank this little boy who was really kind enough to tell me that I dropped my money on the floor instead of taking it and run away. Thank you for being so kind to this poor man here. Keep up the good deeds dude. The thing was that I went shopping with Imran today at Bugis. I finally bought this cardigan, I had wanted to get one quite some time ago, so it sort of dragged till now. After Bugis, we walked over to City Hall to shop more (of course I didn't buy anything there, too ex for me, I'm on a budget remember). Yup, had a great day shopping, its just so unusual for me to be shopping now. I have never in my life went shopping in the middle of an exam period, but I must say it felt great. There were so many clothes I wanted to buy, but I had to restrain myself, not only because of the money but also because I really have too many clothes at home (think Shanghai and US). After shopping we went over to Haji Lane (which also means that we walked back to Bugis and even down a little further) to have dinner (well my car was also parked there anyway). I must say that Haji Lane is a pretty cool place, must go there more often, in fact we made a pact to go there next week to another restaurant that serves Moroccan food. This time round we had dinner at Blue Jazz, great food, good atmosphere and ambiance, loads of ex-pats, there's even a band at night. I had the Grilled Dory fish, Imran had the Grilled chicken. Food was fabulous, the portions were just right for me. After dinner we headed over to Pasir Ris, Imran wanted to meet his friend there as well, so I dropped him over there (I stay in Pasir Ris if you didn't realise). And as usual, after I came back I parked my car at my grandma's place and walked home. When I reached home, I realise that I had left my home keys in the car. I called my mum only to find out that she had just left the office, then I tried to call my bro but he didn't pick up the phone. So no choice, I had to wait. Well in the end I decided to walk over to the market to grab a drink while I wait (my mum would take at least an hour to reach home). While taking my cash out of my wallet, my coins fell out, together with my cards and all... I was so damned. I had already picked up everything, but I think my notes few out of my hand while I was standing up. So there was this kind little boy who told me that my money was on the floor. Soooo sweet. BUT he called me an uncle! Basket, there goes my happy ending to this episode. Well Thank you boy, though I don't think you'll ever see this entry.

Now to my case proper: I'd like to just bitch about a call I got this morning. Basically I've been getting calls from this jewellery company called Bi Er Si Chu Bao Gong Si (read it in chinese, duh!). They first called me like 2 months back to first tell me that I had bought something with them (or was it that I sign up for some coupon thingy), so I was selected to take part in some lucky draw in Malacca. And they wanted to invite me to the lucky draw. Of course deep inside I know that I never bought anything of any sort, its so obvious its a scam, but I just played along and told them that I couldn't make it because I was too busy. And they replied that its ok, they will send in the lucky draw on my behalf and will let me know of the outcome. About a week later, they called again to say that I am super lucky that my lucky draw had actually won some top 5 prize in the draw (oh wow, lucky me!). And the prize was I don't know how much worth of gold, if I remembered correctly its quite a few thousand dollars. So they asked if I can make it down to their office somewhere in Malaysia or Hong Kong to collect the prize, and of course I said cannot. So they gave me another option. To open an account in HK, then tell them the account number so that they can transfer the cash worth of the gold into that account. They made it so real, even have their own website and created for me an online account and password. And I continued to play along to say that I'll do that in a few days time, now busy. One or two weeks later they called again to ask me if I've done the account, and I said no, I am busy now. And again they asked me to hurry up because everyone else has collected their gifts already. And then every few days they call me to ask if I've done the account. I thought they should have gotten the idea that I was not prepared to be fooled by them already, and they should just give up, but nooooo, they just kept calling. So this morning, when I had just awoken I got a call from them again to ask if I've done the account. Having just woke up (and I am telling you, I hate talking too much when I just wake up, I need some stoning time to warm up), and being in the middle of my exam period, this call is the last thing I need. So I just told them nicely that I haven't done my account, and they asked me if I'm really interested. So I tell them why not you give the prize away to another person or to the charity. It was really pissing me off already. Then he said,

"So now you want to give away the prize? Are you sure?"

I said, "Yes, give it to someone else"

Him, "So all this while you are just playing with us"

Me, "Huh?!? Can you say that again I can't hear properly"
(I really couldn't hear properly, he was speaking too fast, I only managed to figure what he was saying after the entire conversation)

Him, "You @#%#^#&$%&$&"
(I don't know what he was saying, but I reckon he was scolding me)
and finally, *click* he just hung up on me. What a bitch!!! One of the Ultimate things that I hate is getting hung up on the phone. If its because you hp got no more battery, or you accidentally press the wrong button on your phone, I can understand. But not hang up in the middle of a conversation. Ultimate rudeness that I cannot stand. If not for the fact that I do not have his number (his number doesn't show on my hp) I would have called back and give him a piece of my mind. That phone call left me fuming. Luckily I had already arranged to meet up with Imran for shopping, or my whole day would have been spoilt by that bastard. So all you people out there, do becareful if you gets calls from these fuckers. Btw did I mention that I got another call not too long ago, supposedly from Ceasers hotel in Macau (I've did a check, this hotel doesn't even exist in Macau). Apperantly I also signed up some thingy which I never can remember, and this time I was invited to attend the lucky draw ceremony in Macau, its like wow, my life is changing. I'm getting luckier by the day, because this time I won a BMW in Macau. How lucky can I get. Well this time they said that because I was not a Macau citizen, so they would convert the value to cash and issue a check to me. And this would be sent out by their lawyers. So once I received the check, I was supposed to call the hotel and let them know that I have received the check. Of course I didn't receive anything, and so the last time they called me to ask why haven't I call the company (duh! because I didn't get anything, like they don't know). So I told them that I did not get any parcel or check, and they told me to call their lawyer to check with him. I of course didn't bother to call, one reason being, its a foreign number. This means I'll have to make an international call, another reason being, the number she gave me had the same first 5 number. Well I don't know about Macau, but in SG (I think its also the same in many countries) the first few number of an area is the same to represent the district, of course there are a few exceptions. But generally, the first few numbers of the telephone number of the same area should be the same. Having 5 numbers similar is indicative that there is a high chance that they are very near each other, or even the possibility that they may even be sitting next to one another. Alamak, they should at least try to make this more real lah. So I can't be bothered with them, they'll probably call again and this time I'll make sure whoever is on the line gets it from me, assholes. Think I better call Starhub to inform them of all these scams around, maybe even write to the papers. More people should know about this to prevent anyone from falling into their traps. Yup, I'll call Starhub tomorrow, thats exactly what I'll do, also to ask them for an explanation as to why my number is being given out so easily to everyone. Not only these scams, I've been getting calls from insurances companies, banks, loans, credit cards, all sorts of rubbish. And they like to call at the most inappropriate timings, like when I'm in the toilet doing my business or when I'm in a lecture. Utmost Irritating!!! Argh!

Okie letting that out makes me feel so much better. Enough of bitching today. I'll save some for next time!