Insane Ramblings

Whew...today was...'undescribable' i guess. If there's such a word. Hmm..let's see. People I saw today: Toh Houw (junior), Ting Ting (junior/ex-junior. I dunno if she ever did quit the library. She was supposed to quit 3 years ago. Haha.), AL, Run xuan, Isabel (startled me, she did =p. Tapped my shoulder when I was arranging the scrunchies.) Saw dear Sally once I got there too. But she left in the evening. Goody good. Then after that only left me, Irene (middle-aged lady/housewife? who speaks English, ANd has dyed hair. Whoaz power. She's not bad except that she looks a bit fierce and is bad-tempered sometimes. But still better than dear old Sally.) and Yu zhu (slim lady/housewife, very nice and friendly. Smiley too. I like her best.). I've never known how to address my colleagues. Okay, I will say Irene-jie, Yu zhu-jie and AUNTIE Sally for the rest of this blog =) . Ookay...what happened today...oh yeah. I arranged stuff, stood outside and was cashier for the 8 hours. Changed 'jobs' quite frequently. But I only stood outside for a while (standing in for Yu zhu-jie). Arranging stuff is a tad boring but better than standing outside or being cashier. Can enjoy the air-con, no smoke and no hassle. Today I pressed 4x$1 instead of $1 =s. Sigh...i wish i could stop making mistakes. I hope the customer didn't need the extra $3 badly. It was impossible to give it to her anyway, she'd left already. Dishonest ol' me. Ok ok...moving on. I realised that generally, pple from other races and senior citizens are more friendly, smiley and polite. Also, more and more senior citizens i meet speak fluent english. That's so cool. Today I met this bilingual old lady who bought earrings. Then, while paying, she put her stuff on the counter. While she was removing them, I touched her newspaper (headlines-Anita Mui. Who else.) . She eagerly told me it was about Anita Mui and showed me what she bought from the vcd shop-A postcard signed by the late popstar and a vcd (also featuring her I think). Haha, so friendly. Also, in the late afternoon, after the Mediacorp stars had left (selling Orange Julius meals), the OSIM pple started promoting their massage chairs or something and they'd hired a band to entertain the crowd. I heard the female singer singing Hao Xin Fen Shou, so I got curious and went to toilet (shun bian catch a glimpse of the singer). Her rendition wasn't bad at first, but dunno why the music got faster and her singing deproved. Also, she was apparently trying to sing the duet version on her own. Or maybe it was the full solo cantonese version. But I think it was the duet as there were some parts when she stopped singing. I preferred her rendition of the next song, "Hou Lai". I was hoping that the band would stay longer so that I could at least hear something else besides the radio. But they only stayed awhile. The other 'highlights' of the day were hearing on the radio that Gui Ji had overcome Cun Zai-5566 on the UFM charts (i chuckled to myself silently), meeting other pple in the shop. Today May (supervisor) wasn't there so we could relax a bit. We closed shop at 9.30 (^_^) (tou lan), and milled around the shop after counting the money. Before counting the money, Irene kept asking me if Sally had taught me how to write down how much money there is. She couldn't believe that I didn't know how to do that and made it sound like it was my fault I didn't know. But still, I dun blame her. It is, again, Sally's fault. Maybe she didn't want to teach me as I am too young or because I am leaving tomorrow. So, anyway, count count count money, then they hung around and talked. I can't believe they really were waiting for the cash register clock to strike 10.00pm so that we can leave without the lady boss even thinking about docking our salaries for leaving early (we have to print out a receipt that shows the time when we leave and start work as proof). So when the receipt was printed out, it showed 22.00. Cool.

Saturday, January 03, 2004

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