November, 2009


30
Nov 09

ex-bosses

life takes weird turns at times.

while i was still a puny ‘a’ level graduate working part-time as a car-washer, i had 2 bosses.

D: my supervisor
Y: the big boss

with the advent of technologies like the internet, i’ve actually managed to locate their profiles to have a peek at their lives after all these years.

i had to strain the brain abit to remember the old times though.

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D treated me pretty well. lets me go off early if i want to, does the more difficult work himself instead of forcing me to learn.

when i last left, he promised that he will hire me to wash cars for him when he sets up his own company.

ah, an entrepreneur-minded man.

i was touched.

==

Y was a slave-master.

he’s never been menacingly mean but he speaks like an a**hole and seems to like to flaunt to me that he is a graduate of nus. omg, (so big deal, right?)

my last impression is that i had to go all the way to the main branch (far far away from the workplace) to bug him to give me my final paycheck.

he was actually adamant about giving it to me “some other day” but being a persistent and desperate puny car-washer, i was more adamant than he was and took a bus all the way down for my moolah.

when i reached there, he was like uber busy and had no time for non-essential nonsense like paychecks, so he ordered me to over-work for me one last time.

at the end of the exhausting day, i finally left the workplace at like 6+ (i think work was supposed to end at 5) paycheck in hand, proud that i managed to prise my symbol of victory off the hands of the slave-master.

he did thank me when i left, and reminded me warmly to remember to send my car to him for grooming in future.

it’s probably been 5 years since then.

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looked up information about D: there seems to be someone fitting his description posting free ads on the internet advertising his services via broken english.

not a good sign..

Y is a tad bit low-profile given his business-y character but i’ve still managed to find out abit about him.

the business is still going on, but i saw a few negative testimonials for his services, several directly accusing him, the boss as a nasty person who doesn’t honor his promises.

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i have an urge to re-connect with my old friends but 1) they wouldn’t remember me 2) i wouldn’t know what to talk to them about.


28
Nov 09

us lucky bunch

me is free thinker, so the parts about god’s healing touch etc kind of puzzles me.

anyway, these are powerful statistics which i personally know are mainly true, which just pisses me off to no end when i hear people complaining non-stop about the government.

  • If you woke up this morning with more health than illness
    You are more blessed than the million who won’t survive this week.
  • If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, the pangs of starvation,
    You are ahead of 20 million people around the world.
  • If you attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death
    You are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.
  • If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep
    You are richer than 75% of this world’s peoples.
  • If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change on a dish some place,
    You are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
  • If you parents are still married and alive
    You are very rare… especially in the United States.
  • If you hold your head up with a smile on your face and are truly thankful,
    You are blessed because the majority can but most do not.
  • If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder
    You are blessed because you can offer God’s healing touch.
  • If you can read this message you are more blessed than over two billion
    in the world that cannot read anything at all.
  • You are so blessed in so many ways you may never even know…
    May God continue to bless you now, forever and always.

16
Nov 09

car wash car wash

if you pump your petrol at SPC i highly recommend u go for the $3 car wash at least once in your lifetime.

2 reasons:

1) they wash with soap and super high-powered water hose so your car gets really clean.

2) very shiok, you get to sit inside the car when they shoot water onto your car.

the chemist thinks it’s more fun than a ride in an amusement park, and costs only $3!


12
Nov 09

back with a venegance

so i’ve been beyond busy.

i’ve probably been trying to do too many things at once, but my ailed body is telling me it’s time to work on only da most important stuff for now and say no to the rest!

and i’m hating myself again for not writing about the u.s. trip.

and man, that was last august.

mr sua ku goes to the united states of america, if still don’t write i will slowly forget everything, then how?!

ok baby, here we go..