Oh dear...

This week and the next probably won't be good. I went back to work, and promptly screwed up by slipping on wet floor (someone mopped it). I broke my fall, but in the process broke 2 soup bowls and rendered 3 others unuseable (i.e. cannot be used to serve soup, but can be usd to hold other stuff). Dropped a whole scoop of chicken mayonnaise mix too that day. Freaking bad screw. *sighs* Sometimes we just need to concentrate and stuff.

The next day wasn't too good either. I originally planned to go watch Letters from Iwo Jima with Fabian, after a Ghost Squad game which went wrong. Plaza Singapura was out of tickets, so we headed down to Orchard Cineleisure (should have tried Cathay?), but a wrong crossing of the road did us in, because it was sealed after that due to Chingay, so we had to make a BIG, HUGE detour round past Le Meridien, and head all the way back to Cineleisure, by which time the tickets were sold out too. So we ended up chatting, having dinner, then heading to Takashimaya and eating and then being "accosted" (using random surveys, how clever) by some people who were promoting some bank stuff (which I wasn't paying much attention to). Then to Kinojuniya where Fabian bought a Kingdom Hearts guide for his sister.

Rumours have it that the A level results are out this coming Friday. And there are a lot of signs indicating its truth. Damn, this is going to be one hell of a worrying week... I'm a goner.

Things are going downhill.

My mom decided that I should go down to the polyclinic today, and so go down I did. The doctor there didn't say much, and instead got me a referral to the National Eye Centre at Singapore General Hospital. So it wasn't conjunctivitis after all, but a growth of sorts. I'm not sure but there seems to be yellowish discharge coming from the growth today. Very worrying...

However, the bumbling counter staff (what they term Patient Service Crew) lost my file (and thus my referral) in a span of what, 5 minutes? as I left the counter to make my payment. My mom got all angry and shit, and they tried to search for the file but to no avail. There was thus a huge delay before I decided to go home. Then I called them up, and asked for the referral to be re-written (I should have done that there), before heading down to get it, wasting $1-plus of bus fare. :( How annoying...

They also kept confusing me with a certain "Shaun Lee Wen Sheng" because the date of birth was the same, and the last two digits of the IC number were the same too. In fact, he was probably born later than me by exactly 100 places, since his was 1472... (rest of IC no. not revealed). Oh well.

I was so damned pissed earlier in the day, but again I've cooled off now and as usual am feeling blog-fatigue. :P But what's worrying is my eye... and hence my future. Just one more thing for good ol' Jamal to worry about. Damn.

Random Musings II

This New Year doesn't feel New Year-ish at all. For once I wasn't even looking forward to it. Watched Jack Neo's Just Follow Law on the first day of Chinese New Year. Too lazy to review now, but I must say Fann Wong really deserved her six-figure pay from Jack, because she was GOOD. "See Fann Wong like you've never seen her before!" says the newspapers. Damn right they are.

Worked on the third day, pulling 8 hour night shift. And now I'm on 2 days MC for a suspected case of conjunctivitis... My right eye looks weird now. o_O

Happy New Year?

Damn, why am I even blogging when I have little to say here? Many things to hide? Hmm. Anyway, Chinese New Year's Eve, and Chinese New Year itself were still... okay. Although I'm a little bored now because I have to work tomorrow.

Many things to worry about. Booorrring, too. I think I should blog when I have more stuff to post instead of just a few simple lines then. Hmph.

Total Defence Day!

15 February 1942! The day Singapore officially surrendered to the Japanese, causing then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to comment that it was one of the greatest disasters to have ever befallen the British Empire...

And we now acknowledge this day as Total Defence Day, where at 1205, the Public Warning System of sirens all across Singapore, will sound the Important Message Signal, together with a radio (and TV?) broadcast about the three different types of signals and what they mean, and what to do. Today, the sirens in my area seemed to be unsynchronised, because I heard echoes instead of a single, coordinated pulsating wail. This isn't good, is it? Anyway, there's a lot more history behind this, and the concept of Total Defence which I'm too lazy to delve into.

Relaxing shift today too, woot. :)

Into Valentine's (Friendship) Day proper...

And thus, we step into this day (again, aka Friendship Day in VJ, the wonderful euphemism). Pulled the evening shift. Must go faster still too slow. Faster! Carrie read my dedication again (I think) but I was busy filling up water to mop the floor with. Rats!

Not much more I'd like to comment on...

Timecheck: 0014 - 14 minutes into Valentine's Day

So it's Valentine's Day once again. Whatever, I'm not attached or anything, so who cares? Its every bit as commercialised as every other damned festival day we have or something anyway. Ugh.

Just came back from yesterday's (meaning the 13th) afternoon-night shift at Space Out. Sent a dedication via SMS sometime at 8, under the name of "Seraphim". I think it was too long, the SMS server cut up the middle portion of the dedication. I was preparing fries at that time and didn't pay full attention, but it sounded cut off, because Carrie Chong read up to my "on the bounce" part, then I heard my "screw Valentine's Day" part next. And she thought I was random. :P Which I am, but, hey, the server cut off the important parts! Damnit.

Unexpectedly met up with Yang Sheng, Benedict "Dicky" Heng, Lee Jyun and Jing Sheng, among others, and decided to settle for a game of DotA with them. As usual, my lack of skill showed. Heh.

No offense to you, Yang Sheng, but in my opinion you still haven't changed in the two years that I didn't see you. Basically obnoxious, hah. Don't think I have to cut some slack. Stop worrying! -_-
Need to bathe and sleep, first day I "broke" my mother's imposed curfew of sorts. Screw it.

Beginnings and Endings...

Tralalala! It's Jamal once again, and many things to say, hopefully compressible within my tolerable blogging-patience-limit.

Since my last post, I've lost the job at PA, and it was high time that I realised that I was throwing my life away. Typical game addiction, perhaps. Oh well. My future doesn't look too bright for me, but all I can do now is change my lifestyle (already doing so, although...) and take it on day by day. To my previous two supervisors: If you ever come across this, rest assured that I am doing my best and putting in every effort in whatever I am doing now. I was probably wrong to bear hatred for what was my fault, but... oh well. Things are changing. All the best to all of us!

Then came Singapore's victory at the Asean Football Championships, defending our ownership of the champion's trophy. The first leg may have been disputable, but we won the second leg fair and square. Looks like Singapore football isn't *that* bad after all, whatever cynics may say. Overnight, our footballers have become heroes once again, what with Noh Alam Shah, Indra Sahdan Daud, Khairul Amri, Precious Emer...(can't spell :P The Nigerian footballer!), so on and so forth (lazy to type the rest, no offense :P), and now are basking in the limelight. Onward!

Soon after, I managed to find employment after a couple of trips around (thanks Reynard, I owe you one!) with Reynard. To cut the long story short, I am now employed as a waiter at Space Out at Katong Shopping Centre outside the Asteroids cybercafe. :) Hopefully I can stay there for long, hehehe. I cannot screw up! Colleagues are generally nice people, yes, cool to get along with (even Bao Guang! Yeah! Never look down on the disabled - they say he's intellectually disabled, but the way I see it, it's very very mild and he's actually pretty normal) except for the fact that some smoke. I detest the cigarette. 'Nuff said.

Hmm... you know about the I Not Stupid variety show thingamajig that appeared on Channel 8 recently? The guy who acted as the chubby boy in the first instalment of I Not Stupid, he managed to make a guest appearance on the show. Boy, he looks so different! Totally unlike 5 years ago when he acted in that show. Now he has long hair, styled like Paul Twohill of Singapore Idol 2 (covering half of face). I couldn't recognise him at first, seriously.

The release of the GCE 'O' Level results on Friday made me jittery as well, as it triggered off that day's quota of panic attacks about my A Level results. Nothing I can do about it now, hmm, gotta face it and move on.

And with that, I start to wrap up this post. Today, the finale episode special of Phua Chu Kang Pte. Ltd was broadcast on TV. We've had memories of the past 10 years as a sitcom (with another 2 years as a sketch?), and a final episode that included some laughs, and was heartwarming still (where was Ah Goon in the final picture taken? Why didn't they include him?). Interviews with Michelle Chong, Andrea de Cruz, May and Choy (Wan) and Fiona Xie, who have all guest starred on PCK before. Carole Lin made a guest apperance in the final episode. So... 10 years, 8 seasons, many episodes, three mentions by our then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, and its all over. Gurmit Singh was visibly upset and was choking back tears as he made a final thank-you on-screen, with this show hosted by Adrian Pang. After three rousing "yam-sengs" the programme ended at 2130. Camera shots during credits showed people crying (May and Choy, when they hugged Irene Ang :)), and the rest cast hugging one another, and also the crew.

And thus, things end, as shall this once-again random post.