.Beautiful Disaster.

I'm back! Alive, well and kicking.

Brief recap on past 3 days:

Friday(17/12): Selling Candles at Expo

Went down with Swi to sell the candles for this charitable organisation, Mercy Relief. Proceeds go to helping out poor orphans in parts of Asia like Iran, Indonesia and China. We did the afternoon shift, from 3:30-8:00pm. That day Expo was like some heritage museum that no one hardly visited. Dismal crowd. A few streams of people now and then, but on the whole, the hall was empty and silent.

Except for the irritating sounds of Swi's handphone sms beeps+vibrations.

Told her to shut it up, which she eventually did. Heh :p Anyway, I wasn't really in the mood to persuade passers-by to buy candles and face rejections that day. Just felt like chillin and bummin around. Swi was more hard-working though, wouldn't have sold a grand total of 71? candles if it weren't for her 'teh-ness' and persuasiveness.

I found it really interesting however that whenever totally-clueless-in-basic-mandarin Swi approached chinese-speakin people who couldn't understand her immaculate english, she'd stumble and turn anxiously to me and say, "Bianca! Chinese!"

*pengz* You should have seen the bewildered look on those passers-by faces...Haha soo Spastic. And i would go up and attempt to help translate, but i'm slowly losing it... Can't speak Chinese as fluently as i used to in sec school anymore. Back then, it had the 'wow' factor on strangers, who hearing me speak their native tongue, thought i must be immensely talented. LOL. Now, like on friday, it was more oh-she-knows-a-little-chinese...And no one thought me impressive. :(

*sobz* i want back that bilingual tongue :(

Saturday(18/12): First Day as Fruit Promoter in Bugis CS

Yes, your eyes aren't playing tricks on ya. Its fruit promoter....Cyril called me up on Friday(when i was manning the charity booth) and asked whether i would like to work for a few days promoting fresh fruits at CS Bugis Junction. I had the weekends free, and i was hard up on money, so i eagerly agreed to it. Supposed to go down on Monday as well, but Swi convinced me to do the candle selling for Monday's morning shift, so i turned Monday's working salary down. Thats equivalent to turning down $65, my daily wage, which is a pretty neat sum, $9.20/hr. All in the name of Charity, worth it.

The job was simple enuff, just cutting up fruits like Australian peaches, apricots, plums and that big fat Mango into bit-size pieces for sample. Then convince people to try. I realized there's 2 kinds of Singaporeans, one who eat free samples unabashedly(i.e.: eat more than one for themselves/ distributes one each to every member of the family, even the smallest baby who cannot express any self-opinion). But watever it is, i liked consumers trying the samples, esp. the mango, which i really liked as well but is very sick of rite now. This is because i take delight in going into the back kitchen to cut the mango up! once current samples have finished. Yesh, can dilly-dally and try to squander time away, just as long as i don't bump into that unpleasant haggard hell of a meano CS female staff that occupies the space beside the sink to cut her veggies, and scolds every promoter she can pounce on. Got scolded by her cos i didn't clean up a teeny weeny bit of mango flesh lying on the bottom of the kitchen basin...

@%#$^&$&^%$$&! Bitch!

And i bet she said more mean stuff to the other woman in the kitchen at that time too, just that they spoke in Hokkien, and i cannot understand THAT. I don't know whether i should feel blessed or disadvantaged...

And i had the most unwanted luck meeting an ex-fellow jjcian. An indian guy who i recognize from appearance but did not know personally. Saw him staring strangely at me as if he found me familiar so i smiled back in acknowledgement. COS i was a FRIENDLY person/promoter. And wat happened? WRONG MOVE. He felt encouraged by it and came to talk to me. At first i was ok with it until i sensed he was probably standing next to me for too long more than welcomed... I mean, i was supposed to be working, and i'd get in trouble if the Supervisor found out i was chatting instead. Told him that, and then he started rambling on and on abt how he wanted to talk to me in jc but never had the courage to, then he asked how i did for A's, wat i'm doing now blah blah blah....And all the time i was screaming a silent HELP inside of me. Gosh, like i didn't even LOOK or SOUND interested. But still he wanted my number, how thick-skinned...

I gave it to him in a bid to fend him off, cos he was sounding really blatant and all. Asked if he could call me to talk, and i told him bluntly it would be fine but just as FRIENDS, nuthin else. I tot that would discourage him, but then, it had no effect on the thick-skinned fellow.

Followed up by a few smses from him that sealed him in my bad books as very despo guy. Tsk tsk...And to think just a few days ago i told myself perhaps i should lower my expectations on finding a guy, and to smile more and be friendlier, reject less and at least offer a hand of friendship...

And this is wat i get. I'l just have to conclude i'm really down in l.o.v.e. No other reasonable explanation really. I always get hit by the wrong kind. Sway...

Sunday(19/12): 2nd Day at Work

Officially yesterday. Had a huge shock at the start of work when lo and behold, just as i was setting up my booth and getting my stuffs ready, who else should come up then an 'old friend' SHI QIN herself! (Szez and Stephy would understand why)

But i was in a bubbly mood, so i spoke amicably to her. Though half-way thru speaking i stole into the kitchen, and came out only 10 mins later. She asked me: "Last year we spent xmas together, do you remember?" And i was like, "Oh really? Oh u mean that LOUSY xmas, unfortunately i do..."
It was after this sentence i stole into the kitchen actually.

When i came back, she just wished me a merry xmas and said 'keep in touch'. I just byed her and pretended to get back to serious work. She was someone i used to be very close to in jc, but we broke up because of certain issues. Meeting her was beyond awkward.

But really i was swearing beneath my breath afterwards, because firstly i was doing such an unglam job( albeit decent), and secondly my booth was located at the entrance so i was rather prominent, and i was getting increasingly concious of getting spotted by people i knew....

And it did happen. Met Swee Giang and Beng Chong, the lovey-dovey always holding-hands couple. Giang affectionately calls him Beng, fed him with MY SAMPLES! and after chatting shortly with me, teasingly asked Beng Chong to get her flowers. *no comments*

And then on my way back home, got called up by that fellow agan from Day 1, who wanted to accompany me back home, even though he was taking a different MRT route back and i was already on the train. Bloody asked sooo many questions, like why i sounded angry over the phone and wanted me to get off the train at City Hall where he would meet me to go home tog. I was terribly reluctant, but he sounded persistent so i dropped off at Tiong Bahru and waited for like 5 mins... The next train came and i just couldn't care less but hopped on it. Was soo freakin tired and i badly wanted to get home. Got a call from him that he had reached n was wondering where i was. Cooked up a really lousy excuse of me having to get home cos my father was ranting and stuff. Really regretted afterwards cos i really should have told him straight i didn't liked him disturbing me. But thats my freakin problem...i hate to sound rude and upset ppl, and then i end up creating a sticky situation i find it hard to get rid off.

Got home and finally smsed him the 'shoo/scram off' message. Alright i sound mean, but i was very tactful, and honest. Told him frankly he isn't my type. Period.

Thats basically it. A whirlwind weekend. Earned $$ and indulged myself by doing some shopping. Bought a bikini and a bag and so i'm temporarily satisfied. Contented with my single status too i should add, until that one and only prince charming comes along.

For now, i'm juz a simple single gal needing some sleep to do charity work for tml. Nitex!:)

--*BiAnCa*--