i had an enjoyable dinner just now! nothing fanciful. it's just hokkien mee with hanwei at the coffee shop near her house. who would think that i totally totally enjoyed a simple dinner like that :)
after that i went to her house for the first time and she me hanwan had a crackling good time watching RUI EN's 9 o'clock show together, with tonnes of comments. i totally enjoyed that too :)
i really like it alot when i can hang out with friends without stress, without having to say no to the things that i do not want to do. without worrying about their reactions, worrying about how to put it across, worrying yet trying not to show it.
i really like it alot when i can hang out with friends without having to leave them. without having to say bye when they move on to pubs, to smoke, to drink.
how do i say "no i won't go drinking with you, but i really hope to hear you talk about your things." "i can't meet for dinner because i've Bible study today but it doesn't mean that i don't care about you."
nevertheless, the guilty finger also points at me: i really message my friends very little. i don't pick up calls. i don't really reply messages either. when i'm free, i also rather stay at home. very terrible, ching mei yun. seriously gotta change!
i pray i pray i pray that i will be better in handling friendships i cherish. (it has already been 6 years) i pray that my friends will accept me the way i am now. and i pray that i will get to spend time with the friends i care about. just like today.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 @ 11:11:00 PM
chingmy says bye!
i'm very sleepy now so i guess i'll just photoblog.
here are the pictures of my last two weeks in the g*lf impr*vem*nt clu*!
with aunty lily. aunty lily is the 49th floor aunty. but whenever she cooks dao suan or green bean soup, she won't forget that staffing is on the 48th floor! :)
Raffles City Handburger with the girls! stafffers and comms are good friends! we do comms work half the time anyways :D
LAST MONDAY at the club - 22 Feb 2010 my last week with them! :(
lunch with the eHR team. gwen sim, GIAP HOE, weizhang, chingkoon, maye, kris, they are all very very nice people! we always say that whoever is in the eHR team, is very fortunate!
LAST TUESDAY at the club - 23 Feb 2010 with lily! when i first joined, she was on leave for one week or something. i kept thinking lily hoe is an ang moh or eurasian cos the surname's so uncommon. we have generation gap! (cos when she talks about her son, i'm kinda on her son's side.) hahaha.
the 48th floor aunty :) she's probably the only one who doesn't run away at our singing. "all the leaves are brownnnn, and the sky is greyyyyyy."
i really like my workstation! it's so big, with a nice window view, and lots of privacy.
LAST WEDNESDAY at the club - 24 Feb 2010 from michael's camera :) i really like this picture. LIKE!!
lunch with gwen ong. i still miss her in the office though. she's like forever leaving her things all over the place, and forever kenaing from ad*, it's classic.
famous amos! he comes to the rescue almost immediately ALL THE TIME! i will call 5288 everytime my comp decides to fail on me or when i get stuck on fb. HA.
jerene han jia li.. call 5222 if you're on the 48th floor and you forgot your access card!!
LAST THURSDAY at the club - 25 Feb 2010 my replacement came in! her name's esther sim. now we have carine sim and esther sim. she knows vlookup and pivot table so handing over was quite a breeze. just that i only had two days to handover to her so i practically did some very intense verbal diarrhoea of anything i can recall about my job.
esther's welcome lunch!
then under fifi's leadership, we proceeded to a dessert shop for some very cold dessert in the scorching weather. mango snow ice
LAST FRIDAY, my LAST DAY at the club - 26 Feb 2010 carine was on half day leave (pm) cos of her appointment with her interior designer. she gave me a hug before i go off for lunch with the rest. it was hoh sad! :(
lay cheng's grandma passed away so she just came back from her 4 days compassionate leave. she is so kind so kind, so so sincere and so so nice. :)
aunty lily is very vain. she changed into her outside clothes when she knows that we are going to take photos. haha!! :)
esther! jia you in this role! :) this girl is really very very pleasant. like totally.
i must say that lily hoe is very motherly, i wonder why her sons don't listen to her! :D
when jerene just came to replace jenny, we were not shou with her and she was very quiet. but after awhile...WHOAH. i will miss you jerene!! :(
faith! faith, amy ho, me and elaine used to form FAME. but now that amy ho and i are gone, FAME is JIE SAN-ed!!
group photo group photo. my last lunch as a staff of the club was really nice, warm and memorable. thanks to all of them! :)
then i went back to continue handing over to esther. plus try to do somemore last minute work so they don't get spilled over to esther. i was striking off things in my to-do list one by one until when i'm left with the last two (lim s**n kit's letter and SHRED PAPERS) jerene came up to me with an envelope and went like, "chingmy you have to open it and read the letter NOW."
then when i opened it, it was a hilarious letter written by the girls, with all of ad*'s KOU TOU CHAN in red, and instructions to commence on a treasure hunt :D
i was like ok ok shucks! gotta do lim s**n kit's letter or i'll be killed! hurriedly printed the letter on letterhead, and franctically ran out of the staffing room to start on the hunt!
the first stop was the resignees pfile room....... followed by 48th floor breakout area....... followed by 48M1.......which i didn't dare to go in cos the door was closed and the indicator light outside is on!
WHAT IF GC IS INSIDE!!
then i ran back to the staffing room and jerene was like, "hmm. just knock and go in lor."
THEN I KNOW ALREADY!!
when i knocked and went in, haha, aunty lily, esther, amos, edmund, ching koon, weizhang, fangying, cuishan, and fifi were all inside!
it was a surprise indeed :) i didn't expect it, or smelled anything fishy.
they bought lotsa ECLAIRS and COKE! these are things that i always whine about, and they remembered :) jerene said the eclairs were ordered the day before. hoh touched!
i am hoh touched! (although i didn't cry) it's ultra super sweet to know that people planned things for me. coordinating, discussing, getting the food, deciding who should be involved, think of the riddles for the hunt, write the letter etc etc.
i mean, my time in the club has only been a short one year plus. most of the time i'm just in my own world doing my own things, fighting the war with my teammates, getting high on coke, laughing hysterically at uncomprehensible things, i hadn't been like exactly very sweet to anyone in fact. so i really didn't expect anything. i just wanted to SHRED MY PAPERS! haha.
it was really really nice to have those farewell lunches, friends dropping by to say bye, receiving gifts and food, and photo frenzy moments when people know that i've resigned. i felt like i don't have ample time to say all the byes to all the people that i want to say bye to. the one month notice period just whizzed past like that!
i've made many friends here and yeah, when i look back and think of what i love most about the club, i say, "FRIENDS!" seriously. so to everyone who's on my FUNNY farewell email, those are friends whom i intend to keep for a long long time.
so yup, chingmy is leaving! take care, God bless and jia you!
many many loves. :)
p/s: does this constitute a farewell speech??
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 10:01:00 AM
you should wake up early on Saturday mornings
madam thu is sick today so my violin lesson is cancelled. i only need to go for the ensemble class tomorrow.
explaination for the depressing post below: darius & i had a major quarrel on tuesday night that stretched over to thursday evening.. but we are ok now, thank God really :')
alright, yesterday was my last day in the golf improvement club. monday i'll be starting work at the beef pie!
no break. this weekend's considered my break.
i have a million things to do!
1. Contract & Agency Law group assignment - check through and submit 2. Plan Children Sunday School lesson tomorrow 3. Upload the past one week of photos on Facebook 4. Blog about my farewell (i think i ought to write a farewell note or something) 5. Write YPF programmes in my organiser 6. Watch Xia Yi Zhan Xin Fu at 11:30 am later on Channel 56 7. Practise violin (ensemble piece and exam pieces) 8. Pack bag for church tomorrow 9. Charge my camera 10. Put salt on my ulcer 11. Call Mandeville to ask if the ensemble class is at 3:45 pm tomorrow 12. Pack my office barang barang
quite a list.. bestie, kaix, kang are coming over in the evening to BAI NIAN. looking forward!
truth forever
on the scaffold,
wrong forever
on the throne.
yet the scaffold
sways the future,
and behind
the dim unknown,
standeth God
within the shadow,
keeping watch,
above His own.
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| beautiful, i just want you to know, you are my favourite girls
not what my hands have done
can save my guilty soul
not what my toiling flesh has borne
can make my spirit whole
not what i feel or do
can give me peace with God
not all my prayers & sighs & tears
can bear my awful load
Your work alone, O Christ
can ease this weight of sin
Your blood alone, O Lamb of God
can give me peace within
Your love to me, O God
not mine, O Lord, to thee
can rid me of this dark unrest
& set my spirit free
Your grace alone, O God
to me can pardon speak
Your power alone, O Son of God
can this sore bondage break
no other work, save thine
no other blood will do
no strength, save that which is divine
can bear me safely through
i bless the Christ of God
i rest on love divine & with unfaltering lip & heart
i call this Saviour mine
His cross dispels each doubt
i bury in His tomb
each thought of unbelief & fear
each lingering shade of gloom
i praise the God of grace
i trust His truth & might
He calls me His, i call Him mine
my God, my joy, me light
'tis He who saveth me
& freely pardon gives
i love because He loveth me
i live because He lives (:
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