The Blog Without a Name

Suicide

Sorry everyone who has been regularly checking out my blog and have been disappointed to find no posts. This will make up for it! So here is whats been happening....

The day after I got to S'pore we left at 5am to go to phuket. Yes I was afraid another tsunami would hit but living a life in fear is a life half lived! so we got there at about 9am and the drive to patong beach was almost an hour, of which I nearly puked going round the bendy bits down to the beach itself. The hotel was really nice and the rooms..so so. The food was so cheap and nice. We went snorkeling and jetskiing, we watched a cabaret show, saw a thai boxing match and explored the night life. Steve's two friends were getting picked up by "ladyboys" and one conned us into buying a drink for her. We also went to watch one of those sex shows hoping to be amused, but we were only disgusted! haha but it was funny. It was quite sad to see alot of girls/guys selling themselves because the country is so poor, and it made me realise that the problems I have are so much smaller than theirs.

After getting back from Phuket on Sunday I was kinda looking forward to starting work the next day. I packed everything and set out my clothes and prayed that training would be fun. But lo and behold, NO TRAINING. I was put on a job straight away, with no laptop and only a few pens and a calculator. Luckily I had a really nice senior who was very helpful and patient and liked to joke about the client hehe :P We took a cab to and from work everyday which was awesome however we had to walk about 15 minutes to get lunch! Last Friday we finished the job, well I finished and my senior continued on Saturday and Sunday, and that night me, Steve and Steve's friend Scott went to the opening of the new Ministry of Sound club on Clarke Quay.

This is the best club I've ever been to, ever. When we got there around 11pm we were told there were 6,000 people inside the club and about 5,000 people waiting to get in. But as luck would have it we didn't have to queue up and walked straight in! The club has lots of different rooms, kinda like Metros Freo, where they play different music and there are some rooms that are VIP and some rooms that are "secret". If there wasn't a bouncer standing outside the door you wouldn't even realise there was a door there. The night went off to a good start in the R&B room where me and Jos scammed free drinks only because the bartender was too busy to collect any money from us. However as wewent upstairs to check the rest of the club out my shoe broke. So for about a period of 20 minutes I was pissed off that I couldn't fix my shoe because the buckle had been glued on and now could not be glued back on. But Scott was kind enough to lend me his sweatband to put around the strap. After that we went into the VIP room where there were lots of seedy old men and an skanky girls who were drinking lots of expensive drinks. We even saw one girl try to feel up the bouncer to get her way into the room haha. After watching some "feminine" guy in checked pants dance like there was no tomorrow we decided to leave.

So that was Friday and on Saturday me, Steve, Jos, Wenni, Jace and her "friend" had fondue at our place. We had cheese fondue which was really nice but salty, and chocolate fondue for desert. (Fondue tip: If your chocolate is too thick from the cream and has gone all glugy and cold, add some milk and turn up the heat. Stir till smooth.) This is a pic of me and J&J at fondue, even though you prob can't see our fondue sets. Check out Jos' blog for pics of the actauly fondue part I thought everything would be ok from there, but I was just recently proven wrong.



I've been booked on a new job for the next two weeks, and talking to my senior at lunch he told me that hes been working till 9-10pm. I'm thinking thats pretty bad already, but then he goes on to tell me that the head accountant has requested from central admin to keep the floor's airconditioning on till 12am for the next month- implying that we should be staying till then!! Hence the title of my post. I've also heard that my training will start on the 3rd Jan, which means I won't be on the job while the rest of the team attempts to consolidate 100 company's financial statements. Please God, please let me be on training!

Shopping tip: do xmas shopping EARLY, especially in S'pore. It was totally packed at Taka on Saturday when we were rushing around trying to buy presents for everyone. Poor Steve has to spend so much more money than me on his family. The worse bit was shopping for toys for the kids. We had absolutely no idea what to get them and the roadshow in Taka near the fountain was filled with kids being menances, pushy parents and slow cashiers. But once it was done I felt sane again.

In case you're wondering, yes I am posting this during work haha but the senior I'm under has gone back to the office for a meeting and I'm here all alone. Well, thats me up-to-date. For all of those coming to S'pore, make sure you call me (get number beforehand). Can't wait to see you guys.


"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinate hope"

aimless ramblings at 1:49 PM