Saturday, October 25, 2008

Last day of Digi roadshow

Finally, I'm free to blog again. THere's so much to blog about but sadly i always come home late and was feeling like a flat batt. I'm trying to recall and blog about the happening stuffs during these days. I have a feeling that this is goin to be my longest post ever and i'm so sorry for ur eyes. These 8 days brought me lotsa amazing and awesome experience I've never had in my life.


DIGI Roadshow

I"m involved in this 8 consecutive days 388hours of digi roadshow in little india.
Two nights ago i saw our CM Dr Lim Guan Eng up close and the digi's BOSS- duno wht name (the ang moh).
Tonight i saw Kapal Sink( Karpal Singh)









And the best thing is i managed to take pictures with digi's yellowman!! I have never thought that i can actually see n touch a real yellowman infront of me. Too bad the yellowman cannot speak coz the boss said he's an aerial, aerial don speak. But he's naughty with his sign languages. He had this fat fake belly and he keep poking and pointing at my stomach signalling that I didnt eat so i have a flat stomach. That was funny.

All hail digi!!





Lil India.
A place which full of sound pollution, air pollution ALL the time. 
First three days were like a living hell to me. Still under the small canopy, we have to stand most of the time and endure the intense heat emitted from the vehicles which pastby and of coz the sun. I stil rmb after finishin my water from my 1.5 L bottle, i bought 6 packs of cold water from the hawker stall nearby in just few hours tim
e. First three days no DJ, no sound system no decorations, no balloons, no big tents and no c
hairs/stool to sit on. And all those appeared after three days coz there's a backstage(saree queen contest and lotsa competition going on) at the end of the street and the cm and the boss(ang moh) will come walking on the very path. Many thanks to those big-gun characters for coming.Without them, we wouldn't have big tents, DJ and all the stuffs which grandiosely renovated the streets of little india. At first the days passing felt like years but as its coming to an end, everything changed.

Rewards- approx 1k of commision.
Side 'rewards'- sore throat, lost my voice,get tanner, skinnier, burnt out.
Sore throat and how i lost my voice i think its understandable.Just how bad the sound pollution is? If raise ur voice in the tent nobody will hear you. If u shout DIRECTLY to the person's ears then u might stand a chance to be heard(by that person). Not to mention when hp rings u have to run miles away just to find a quiet spot. Why so terrible? Coz there were three loud speakers blasting music non stop all the time.







FUn & Laughters
I'm the only chinese who mixesd so well wif the indian promoters. u know y. coz i learnt to speak tamil!! Basic tamil la like ipree irkingre( how r u), sapriia (eat dy) Yellawasum(free)and etc..
Oh the most special one, na oneh kazeriklen( i love u). LOLZ!! indian girls loved it when i say this to them! XD
Not only i'm able to speak tamil, i can sing tamil songs too. mantra also. Now i speak eng also got abit indian slang attached along the words.


Dancing is like embedded in their genes. most of the indians have special dance moves for themselves. They move or shake their body whenever a song is played. yest duno y there were lots of indians dressing up dancing in the middle of the streets. barefooted. Pity their feet after dancing. They had to sit down and rub on their feet after dancing due to skin burnt. Anyway the indian promoters were enjoying themselves too as I stood there watching. Suddenly i was dragged into the crowd and started dancing wif them. Lolz. Am the only white skin dancing in the crowd. So awkward but somehow its cool. It was an amazing experience.
I miss the indians. Indians are more friendly species(race) than chinese. 
Feels like going to work 2mr to see them again. But too bad its over already. Frens come and go, Its special only because the duration is short. Sometimes we humans only appreciate things when its over. Anyway this year's pre-deepavali in little india is indeed a memorable one.( I usually dun celebrate or even noticed the deepavali day previously) 







neramachi tunga poreh(time to sleep)
Marlei venagam.(good night)

Happy deepavali to all indians who read my blog.
Ps: pictures wil be uploaded soon. This post will be edited again!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

FIrst late night thriller

THere are so many things to say but so little time for me to. 
Last night went to watch late night movie with nearly all of my colleagues. It was a gruesome thriller-Halloween. Damn it reminds me of another thriller i watched long ago named The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Both of them have this main character who possesses socially unacceptable kind of ugliness. Something went wrong in their childhood and then they started to butcher human beings. I found that it's somehow true in a way that those who being treated as a social outcast during their childhood, can easily turn to a psycho freak provided that there's an oppression whether in a case of bully or family problems.

 And the psycho's characteristics? 
The PSYCHO stares, evil and scary. check
Tormented mindset (b4 turn into a psycho). check
Has lost the meaning to live and view life as meaningless. check
Extreme calmness(when performing the act). check
No sense of guiltiness/remorse(after performing the act). check
Extreme hatred(easily provoked). check
Unable to reasoning.
OMG.I WAS THIS close to turn into a psycho.

'The real terrifying evil doesnt come from the abyss of hell. The most frightening part is the real evil exists and walk silently among us.'
I have to agree on that sentence.
Human being is the most terrifying creatures on earth. Without proper guidance, one poor/disturbed soul can easily walk onto the path of destruction. 


With all those thoughts on my mind when i'm heading back to home after movie. Its 1.30 am and something unexpected happened. PENANG WAS FLOODED!! AGAIN!! The last time i remembered seeing roads of penang flooded with muddy water was like decades ago. And to my surprised, I HAVE NO WAY TO GO HOME!! all the routes which leads to my home were blocked by the water.. added to my despair when I called home nobody's willing to help me. T.T
Six of us stopped the car and went down for a sightseeing. There were multiple car accidents in Scotland road and the overhead bridge to greenlane was full of cars stopping by the roadside for a sightseeing.

     Imagine this is the sight u see at 2am in the morning.



Finally, miracles brought me home. Thank the unexplained miracles which brought me home.

Monday, October 13, 2008

SIck and tired

Today is my 2nd day of my unpaid leave(off day). Tomoro is my team's off day so i'm automatically off too. 3 consecutive off days I should be extremely happy but too bad i'm sick. Having mild fever and flu. I Hate flu!! Makes my head spin and ache. Was pretty useless and unproductive today, bed was my only destination and sleeping was my only activity today.

I'm sick also becoz of this job. Goin out to do sales under the afternoon scorching sun and suddenly the rain god took over the sky. No amount of water comsumption was suffice to maintain my health. Now. I'm finally sick and the leader's not happy about it. Ex leader. Oh he's stil pretty much in command. Bcoz we'r doing sales together in a place and my new leader seems inferior to him. She still acknowledged him as leader so we followed. Of coz he still acted as the team leader in front of everybody.I was not feeling well at all after dinner at northam beach cafe and this ex leader was not helping at all. That night my colleague resigned. And its hot topic to my boss n ex leader.My boss n ex leader always dislike my ex-colleague. HE was tryin to make me say bad things about my colleague so that our leader-worker r'ship can be improved. I always dislike to talk about other people. Not to mention I've already rejected him twice last week in the office when he wanted to gossip about my colleague. By nodding blindly at his lectures and questions he kept throwing words at me whilst I was starin at his forehead thinking 'How can i turn this nasty brain off'. 

I'm fine with all this workplace ups and downs but recently I've fall sick I felt that I'm struggling to fit myself into all these again.Tolerance and patience has reached its limit as my body's immune system crumbles down.
I'm in dilemma. I felt that i'm wasting my talents, time and energy doing this job. I cant really learn anything practically benificial from this job. My pride starting to resurface everyday at work questioning the value of my work versus the outcome. Just because i dont wana lose all my hard earned commisions if i resigned, I kept my mindset straight and continue to work without dignity. Is it worth it? How much money does my pride cost??none. Exactly and I've proven to myself that i'm able to handle and face the tough challenges presented to me(so far) .And this challenge is new to me, came home everyday mentally and physically exhausted just to prove a point. Wht point? surviving at work.
Question, Am I that desperate to claim all my commisions before I quit?? I felt like letting it go but my money-craving-self wont allow me to do so. Apart from the $ issue I would also like to prove to the condescending boss that I can survive for one month. Struggling begins.



Happy events.
Yesterday Aus uni open day in trader's. WEnt wif a fren of mine and straightaway applied for 4 universities. UW, UNSW, UA, and UQ. Good news.My fren told me that my application to UOEC has been completed. I'm looking forward for the SBU(Stony Brook Uni)'s offer letter. New york. I wana go new york!