+ Stepping into a Primary School

For the first time in ages, I went to a primary school in Tampines. I was there early this morning to deliver skates for the school kids. As one by one came to take their skates and protective gears from the containers, I felt like I was just like them not too long ago. But the fact is, it's been a long time ago.

Some of them are enthusiastic about having their skates lessons, while some others feel the dread of having to come to school on a saturday morning when they could be better off staying at home doing their things. I learnt that kids will be kids and they won't appreciate the kind of learning opportunities that they are getting, which is learning how to skate. Thinking about how I would have felt when I was their age, I believe I'm unappreciative too. I wouldn't have understood the time, effort and money spent on providing such fun and enriching activities.

I joined them for their skate lessons, but for only 5 mins. I gave up my pair of skates to this girl who didn't have her size. Here I am, enthusiastic about learning, but she on the other hand, found it a chore. haha. I watched them skate for the next hour or so before we packed up and I drove the van back home.

It's nice being around with the primary school students. I watched how these kids behave and it brought smiles to my face. I remember doing the things that they did. I miss being a kid......haha =)

+ BSP on a Sunday

It's 14:19 on the desktop clock. Surrounded by the sound of the chinese television program in the background, I could also heard cicadas (I think it is so) making those high pitch noise, as I sit here reading up on inline skates. It feels pretty lazy on this sunday afternoon, wish I was reading the papers, listening to some music and a cold drink would be nice.

I'm not doing all these.............because I'm working now. Ha. I was told that there aren't any customers between 12 - 3pm and so here I am typing away. Otherwise, I'm a good employee who doesn't (I didn't say never) use msn during office hours. My thoughts are with the Man U vs Pool match later at 7pm. I close at 8pm. But who closes the shop on time. This match was something I looked forward to this week, only to my disappointment that it's the first sunday match of EPL. Well.....

Another few more hours and I'll be happier. I'll have my 'weekend' then while most of you would be groaning about having to work tomorrow. How about a new term: 'Tuesdays blues' since I start work on tuesday. hah.

Cheers,
By the way, there's no blues for me. =)

+ Frasier, Tossed salad and scrambled eggs

I'm watching Frasier now. It's airing on Mondays at 1230am, or rather, tuesdays at 0030am. This is the only comedy that I do watch nowadays. What has happened to all comedies? I watched so many when I was young. Everyday of the week, at least one comedy would be shown at prime time. But now, it's taken over by crappy reality TV.



Comedies make you laugh. Laughing makes me happy. haha. They do have quirky plots like Seinfeld, brotherly ones(Perfect Strangers), friends(Friends) and even cartoons like my favourite The Simpsons. They have witty lines, which are at times hard to catch and definitely mind stimulating. You do see the funny side of human beings, the way they act and react to things.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is indeed impressionable to a young boy I once was and I tried to imitate him, thinking that Will Smith was all so cool and I wanna be cool too. :P Maybe in a way, I'm shaped slightly due to the shows that I watched last time. At the end of the day, these comedies do teach us something that we all could learn from.

"Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin'. Tossed salad and scrambled eggs
Oh My! Mercy! (alt: Quite stylish.)

And maybe I seem a bit confused, yeah maybe, but I got you pegged!
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
But I don’t know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
They’re callin’ again." - Frasier TV ending theme

+ No Title

Restless.

Thought I should just type something although I do not really know what. Shall type as what comes to my mind. As I look at the numerous contacts I've in my msn, they have just become contacts. How many of them do you actually chat with? I have to say a few. Even if you make the effort to say hello, only a few really do appreciate that. Probably I could keep my list short. haha

Being appreciative is something that is lacking in our culture. That probably explains for poor service that we're providing. We have come to a stage where service is a right of a customer. It is expected of a sales person to provide good service and that the customer is always right. This got to change. We have to be appreciative of what others do for us and not take for granted. No one likes to be taken for granted.

Hopefully, learning to provide a good service and showing appreciation for it can be started in schools as part of the young's learning process. So we may see better service in future.

Start being appreciative of the people around you. It's only when you lose it that you'll learn. That's a harder way to learn. Live with no regrets! =)

*Off for a jog...*

+ My 'Weekend' is here

Hello!! =) My 'weekend' is here! After starting work on 1st Sep, I've been already been thrown to the store at UPL right on the first day. It's now the fourth day and I'm there everyday. Retail is what I do for now.

When I was told to go to open up the store, I was going 'wtf' in my mind. And so I went to open it up. Right then I was a lost sheep. Mehhhhhhh..Totoally clueless about the products, how to operate the NETS machine etc. I even had to figure out how to on the lights in the shop. haha.

There's a warehouse sale going on and it's really busy over the weekends. Stood around the whole time serving customers till the shop closes at 8pm. But it doesn't because there's always someone who'll come in and shop at the last minute, meaning we all have to work somemore. But this is what retail is all about.

Customer service is something I value and hold to heart. I'm really particular about it, and as I have expections of what good service is about, I do have an even higher expectation of myself to provide the best of it.

Just read the reflect page of lifestyle sunday times by alan jon on disservice culture. I do get the Silent Treatment from sales people too, they don't talk to you at all even when you speak to them. It can be pretty annoying and you don't feel good at all. Even the National Day message by the PM stressed on improving our service. GST (greet, smile and thank) is what I applied when I was doing about my job. I shall have my own standards of good service and I welcome constructive feedbacks. Till then... =) , thanks for reading!

+ New Chapter Awaits

Another chapter has finally approached. In a few hours, I'll be starting my sad life working! Four months of enjoyment was good for me. Enjoyed while I can, when I can and now it's time to move on again. Another four decades of working before I can retire. Hopefully they don't raise the retirement age during this time. haha. Another way would be to earn disgustingly much........*dreaming.....*

I hope I won't end up like this.....



Cheers! to working life....=)