No.44 - Today I.....

woke up and went for breakfast with su lin and sze wei. it was fun, the part where sze wei and i tried wrapping present for su lin in the car. i found a parking spot, with 3 more vacants right beside. so as sze wei started to wrap the present, i told sze wei, 'hopefully su lin didnt park her car right beside us and see us doing this'. just minutes after saying that, there came a blue car parked beside us, guess who, ya, right, it was su lin! i burst out laughing! sze wei quickly dumped the present and the wrapping paper below the seat. we took books and covered our faces, pretending to be reading so as to avoid su lin from noticing us. but somehow she managed to spot us though the car windows slightly tinted. so when su lin asked what were we doing in the car, we gave loads of excuses. so then we ate. full full full. big portion. chat chat chat. until 12.15pm we parted as su lin got to fetch her bro. so back into the car, we wrap wrap wrap again. we waited awhile for su lin to get back then we went to her house and passed her the gift. my, should have a look at her face, DUH~

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so that is the only activity i had today, excluding arranging my photo album to be taken to AIMST. got the huge bag that il be loading my clothes into, set aside some things that il be bringing, will start packing a bit tonight, hopefully by tomorrow il finish pack, sunday will be a day il meet meet people and say bye bye for at least a week to taiping.

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leaving my comfort zone will be tough for me, for now, for sure. my 1st time, you see. but il be leaving for a mission, MISSION POSSIBLE : achieving my DREAM. it will be a long journey, thats for sure. to THE DESTINATION. i am sure il grow, in many ways (hopefully not side ways) as i journey along the road. its not all about the destination, it is also about THE JOURNEY as i go along. so il look at things at the bright side, pack up and start being a student again instead of being a potato couch for so many months and not wanting to leave home.

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its 8.30pm now, 07/08/09. so it means roughly 60hours more before i leave. serious packing to be done, no more sitting and dreaming and sobbing over things i cant leave behind (anyway, its only a 2hours journey to get back home, me donkey!). signing off now, will be back maybe in between packing to upload pictures of this morning's activity.

*notice the many asterisk in between paragraphs? ya, blame stupid blogspot, dont know why even after i put spaces, it still doesnt want to space up, so i had to use the service of the asterisk. anyone encountered this problem before and managed to solve it? please tell me how! thank you~*

No.43 - Today I.....

as promised, will be blogging on my latest working experience. yes, ive already gotten the pictures. so here i go!

date : 30/7/09 - 2/8/09

venue : dewan majlis perbandaran taiping

the picture says it all

the crowd, 1st day recored 6k plus of visitors, 2nd day 10k plus, 3rd day 11k plus, not bad actually, considering the influenza season

exhibitors and promoters trying to attract customers, especially on the last day

szewei and mine, our ice-cream to cool us down on the hot sunny day



so here comes the crew, us - the organizer of the event, ensuring everything goes on smoothly for the four days. helping us, the PIKOM group, are the contractors and security guards


our supervisor who drove from kl. james lim
us, three helpers (su lin ,sze wei and i) at the PIKOM booth
the contractors and us (richard in the left; ah leong in the right)us with security guards and their boss



overall, the job was fun, though sometimes a bit tiring because lack of rest, will be yawning all the time, wanting to go home. not much to do, just patrolling, walking around, talking, giving free gifts and head-count the visitors. so its rather dull compared to my previous job. learnt many things, 1) my communication skills improved; 2) it is confirmed that working mood / environment is affected by your colleagues too; etc. wouldn't mind working for PIKOM again in future. quite reasonable pay, though everyday 9am - 9pm, not including the extra time after work to wait for exhibitors loading stocks into lorry. i just wish that PIKOM would have given a tshirt in remembrance since they cant afford to give us the vest.



so at the end of the day, its photographing time (with those we are close with)!

with the TM crew with patrick the dealer for AI Computer
with IT One Stop Station crew
with Samsung booth boss
with Celcom's booth contractor
with AI computer guy
with the ATi Computer crew
with Panasonic crew
with Samsung crew




at the end of the day,
our payment voucher, supervisor preparing it





signing off here, its me, joyce lim yi phing

with Jackie Chan! look, a thumb up for me! ya, thank you, i know ive been a good girl for that 4 days, i deserve it

with the PIKOM vest, footballer-showing-off-new-jersey-style and also back view with the word "CREW"

*yes, i know, more pictures than words. well, a picture paints a thousand words. what to do, nothing much to go into detail. if i were to go into detail, you will regret trying to read this post. this is just a brief update on what i did for the past week*

~5 days to go~

No.42 - Today I.....

got no chance to blog on my working experience, the one I had from 30/07 - 02/08. got to wait for pictures then only i can blog about it. currently getting my rest, feeling a little lethargic.


am on a movie-marathon. it has been 3years since i last did this. the last was after spm. i decided to do this because i am determined to return the dvds back to szewei when getting the pictures from her.

the list of movies (in order) :
a) nancy drew
b) 17 again
c) the curious case of benjamin button (going to start watching now)


bid au revoir to erin and mel veen who finally left for fruther studies at NTU, SG. im sure they had a safe journey there and are on their respective new beds now (don't think dirty, i used the word 'respective', they DONT SHARE the same bed). so i guess il be seeing them end of this year. in exactly 6days' time il be leaving my comfort zone too.

No.41 - Today I.....

will be blogging about what happened last night and today afternoon.

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19.07.2009 (sunday)

actual plan was to bake cake, but due to difficulties, ended up decided to buy a cake. so i went to king's with szewei to scout for cake and decided to get a choco cake. after buying it was only 9.45pm. so i came up with the idea of going straight to pn.lim's house to surprise her. we were afraid that she would have gone to bed. but we took the risk and off we go to her house. when we reached, we noticed the kitchen light was still on. so i came up with the idea of calling her and asked whether she's free or not. so szewei called and crapped about debate competition. she sounded convincing and pn.lim fell into the trap. we decided to her the truth. while she was opening the gate, i lighted the candle. so she was surprised. so mission accomplished. sat and chat until 11.30pm.

the birthday cake
pn.lim and her son, together with the cake and card
my thumb nail got burnt trying to light the candle


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today afternoon went to convent, met up with tee-ni and tianwei. pn.lim decided all of us go for lunch together. the place : McD at Taiping Sentral. szewei joined us at McD. all of us had McValue lunch, thanks to pn.lim. this is a farewell lunch for tianwei who's leaving to UK in sept, tee-ni who's going back to Aus this fri and me who's leaving to kedah this august. after eating went tesco for a walk before all of us parted ways.

due to my clumsiness, a large cup of coke spilled. and tee-ni's 1st reaction was : don't worry, can refill! haha!
tianwei's burger, specially made for her because she's abnormal - doesn't eat cheese and mayonaise. and pn.lim actually believed when i told that tianwei doesnt eat chicken too! wow...someone trusted my words! something very new
our food
us in McD, picture taken by aaron (thank you,aaron!)
us in tesco, taken by pn.lim



so the meeting ends here. bid goodbye to tee-ni. will be seeing her only end of this year. take care and have a safe journey back, tee-ni. see you~



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Happy Birthday to Pn.Lim (age not included due to some reasons, haha)



last but not least, enough of events for me. there's no events for the coming few days, based on my calendar. so its time to start packing and be serious. so this blog will rot for some days, maybe? i think all of you had enough of my rantings for the past few days. so im signing off now~