Sunday, September 30, 2012
Sunday, 30.9.2012
Not gonna spend this 2$.
Yesterday was my last day at work. My heart felt so heavy :/ Before going to work, I was like ''Yay! Finally don't have to work. No hard feelings.'' Even thou it's for a short period of time working with my new colleagues, there's still feelings and bonding between us.
That cute ah lian colleague of mine nearly made me cried. She was like ''Sigh.. so disappointed in you.'' We had a small talk about the day when we first met each other. I think it was my first or second week working. I was arranging the shoes racking and something caught my attention (usually pretty/hot girls catch my attention). She was walking past fast, looking for someone and our eyes met.
So I just continue doing my shoe racking. After a while, the manager, Hamidah, called me over. She introduced me to that cute ah lian, Su Yee. I was blushing and smiling cause first few days when I was working, Dolly mentioned that an ah lian is coming back to work. I was like ''Huh? Ah lian uh? Pretty a not?'' So Dolly showed me her picture and I was already smiling. It's like yay, can work with pretty girl to pass time :)
The reason why Su Yee came back to the store for a while is because she went to purchase something and it's the last day Hamidah working at this outlet. So it's picture taking time. Felt so awkward and nervous when they place me in the center beside Su Yee because all the other pictures of them look fat. So maybe something thin in the center is better.
And I also remembered the day when Su Yee and I started working on the same day. I heard Dolly asking her why she didn't talk to me. Su Yee replied that she doesn't want to talk to me. Now, she explained to me why she said that because my appearance was very ''rocker'' and not those type to be messed with. But when time passed and she get to know me better, she said that I'm actually kind hearted and good personality. Not like those girls out there, bitchy types.
After hearing that, I was like thank god you talked to me after a few days because when we're working on the same day, I was dying to talk to you.
Yesterday during work, I enjoyed helping her to install apps like Cardio Counter, Calories Count and Healthy Recipe. Talking and explaining to her about calories count on the food we eat and some exercises. It's because her lifestyle changed too. It's the same like me, ''One day never go jog will die.''
There's also an incident happened between Su Yee and I. She put her fried rice on the box and the box is on the floor. I was making the shoe censor and I walked fast without looking and I hit the corner of the box. Thus, making half of her fried rice spilled on the floor. Felt so guilty and I kept apologizing to her even thou she apologized too because she said she shouldn't put the box at the center.
When I was buying my dinner, went to 7-11 to buy her an energy bar which has 45 calories for each bar. Gave it to her but she don't accept it because she dislike people giving her free stuff. She said ''In this world nothing is free.'' (In Mandarin) which makes me laugh. End up she take it because I managed to persuade her about eating the energy bar before going for her jog and the calories is only 45 for each bar.
After taking, she took out 2$ from her wallet and gave it to me. Declined and ran away from her with my bag. Before going to the toilet, I trusted her words that she won't put it in my bag. When I came back to the toilet to take some sweets from my bag, there's a 2$ note there. Look for her bag and it's nowhere to be found. So she insisted that she didn't bring her bag today.
I don't believe her because I remembered opening the cupboard and saw some bag with poker dots which belongs to her. When she know that it's my last day working here, she said that it's better for me to keep the 2$ as it's a memory between the two of us :'( Totally hate this bittersweet feeling. End up when we're about to leave the store, she smiled at me with her bag. Liar.
And I'm not sure if she'll still be working when I go back to work during my next few months holiday which is on November/December. It's because she said this work is boring, it's the colleagues, us that make the time pass by faster. So it's like no point for her to work when I'm not working.
Whatever it is, we'll all stay contact in Facebook :)
Will seriously miss them even thou it's a short period of time getting to know each other.
Geraldine Alexa Toh Besana , September 30, 2012
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Friday, 21.9.2012
AH BU NEH NEH
Yesterday isn't my day at all. Police case with a customer during work, customer from INDIA. It tend to have customers like tourists because beside the store I'm working, there's a hotel called Excelsior Hotel.
She approached me asking for her Mum's size and she called me to faster because she's taking her flight back to India. Which earlier on in the morning, she also rushed my colleague as she purchased something. So this is the second time she cone back to the store. So I said to her "Sorry mdm, there's no size available for your mum." (Usually I will address tourist as mdm or sir. Just not locals cause I find it weird.)
So her mum and her walked away, to the handbag section. After a while, there's no customers in the store and I was at one corner, arranging those heels. She approached me and said
Indian woman: "Earlier on I brought something from your shop and a girl who served me was very sweet. I came from India and I've never met a girl like you who gave me attitude."
So I replied "If you have any problem with me, go to the counter and complain to my manager, Kate, not me." This time, she raised her voice, so I wanted to walk to the counter to call Kate. She stopped me from walking and said "no no." So I "dash" to the counter and tell Kate about it.
She then walked to the counter too.
From then, we started quarreling at the counter.
Indian woman: ''I will call the police.''
Me: ''My dear, go ahead. I'm not afraid because I've done nothing wrong. There's no proof too. Go ahead, go ahead.''
Indian woman: ''I don't need you to tell me what to do.''
Me: ''I'm not telling you what to do. I'm telling you the fact that you have no proof. So go ahead and call the police, I'm not afraid. Why? Can't take it that I'm telling you the fact?''
Then she shout ''Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!''
Can't help but to laugh because of her reaction and her eyes became huge. Then she began to tell other customers who came from the same country as her that I used Chinese Kungfu to attack her, which I didnt. I had no idea where the bruises on her hand came from. Just like that, the store image was a lil ruined.
She went out of the store to approached those firemen crossing the green light. She thought those are the policemen -_- She even approached those passerby, who ignored her. Somehow, she still managed to call the police. After a while, the head manager, Fion, called me and I explained the whole story to her. She told me to pass the phone to that Indian woman because she wants to speak to her.
End up, the Indian woman said ''I'm not interested to speak to whoever is on the phone. I've called the police and they told me not to talk to anyone.''
Lmfao, no choice so Fion had to head down to Excelsior as she's at Payless Suntec.
Two policemen came, a Chinese and a Malay. The Malay policemen outside the store, asking and jotting down while the Chinese policemen approached me in the store and asked me to explain the story. After explaining everything, the Chinese policemen said that to solve this, I had to apologize to her Mum.
Of course I decline because I did nothing wrong. I have my dignity too. Thanks to the cute ah lian colleague, Su Yee, because all along she have been cheering me up. Like putting her arms around my shoulder and asked ''Ni okay mah, bu yao fang zai xin shang.'' (You alright? Don't take it to heart.)
Which freaking make me want to tear up because working seems really stressful. Worst was when I checked my phone, Mum text me ''Baby Mao, tc always! got mince pork inside the fridge and mushroom in can. i buy the ingredients for you already. go back home from work and cook.''
Had to bear my tears and I could feel lump in my throat. The reason why I feel like crying is because there are times when I don't get to see my parents at all when I got home/go to work because of the timing, stressed out because of the long hours and end up being an ass towards Mum because I'm easily irritated when I'm worn out. Dad even told Mum that I became hardworking. Yes Dad, continue to compare with those Cousins. ''When I’m a Parent, I’ll never compare my kids to other kids, because that shit hurts.''
So the Indian women came back in the store and asked loudly to the another Malay policemen ''This whole thing in India is a criminal case. In singapore is it a crime case?'' And the Malay policemen said ''ya'', which doesn't make any sense. Then the Chinese policemen smile and asked me ''hard to apologise uh? Just apologise then case close.'' I didn't reply him and I was like wtf, why do you want to want me to apologise when I did nothing wrong? After that, that Indian woman and her mum just leave the store.
Before the two policemen leave, they talked to me. They said that if there's CCTV, it would be better as I can prove my innocence. It's up to her if this case will be still open because she might come back to Singapore again. But might be a long time. So whatever it is, this case will be given to the investigator to investigate and we're siding both side of the parties, not one.
So around 8 PM plus, the investigator called me to ask for the whole story. Explained to him and he said ''Aiya, small matter only. Never mind, don't think too much alright.''
Felt so much better after hearing that. Apologise to Fion because she wasted her time coming over to Excelsior. Still, thankful to Su Yee and Kate for cheering me up. Told them that I won't serve Indian customers anymore, it's too scary. Yesterday is the day where I felt so close to Su Yee ♥_♥
And I know this incident will spread like wildfire to other Payless outlet. Standard.
In the past, Mum told me me that people who came from Indian are not ''good'' people because they're very boastful as they're rich in their country. But they have no idea that their race is a common thing to be made fun of. I'm not racist towards this race but after this incident, it made me think otherwise.
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Yesterday isn't my day at all. Police case with a customer during work, customer from INDIA. It tend to have customers like tourists because beside the store I'm working, there's a hotel called Excelsior Hotel.
She approached me asking for her Mum's size and she called me to faster because she's taking her flight back to India. Which earlier on in the morning, she also rushed my colleague as she purchased something. So this is the second time she cone back to the store. So I said to her "Sorry mdm, there's no size available for your mum." (Usually I will address tourist as mdm or sir. Just not locals cause I find it weird.)
So her mum and her walked away, to the handbag section. After a while, there's no customers in the store and I was at one corner, arranging those heels. She approached me and said
Indian woman: "Earlier on I brought something from your shop and a girl who served me was very sweet. I came from India and I've never met a girl like you who gave me attitude."
So I replied "If you have any problem with me, go to the counter and complain to my manager, Kate, not me." This time, she raised her voice, so I wanted to walk to the counter to call Kate. She stopped me from walking and said "no no." So I "dash" to the counter and tell Kate about it.
She then walked to the counter too.
From then, we started quarreling at the counter.
Indian woman: ''I will call the police.''
Me: ''My dear, go ahead. I'm not afraid because I've done nothing wrong. There's no proof too. Go ahead, go ahead.''
Indian woman: ''I don't need you to tell me what to do.''
Me: ''I'm not telling you what to do. I'm telling you the fact that you have no proof. So go ahead and call the police, I'm not afraid. Why? Can't take it that I'm telling you the fact?''
Then she shout ''Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!''
Can't help but to laugh because of her reaction and her eyes became huge. Then she began to tell other customers who came from the same country as her that I used Chinese Kungfu to attack her, which I didnt. I had no idea where the bruises on her hand came from. Just like that, the store image was a lil ruined.
She went out of the store to approached those firemen crossing the green light. She thought those are the policemen -_- She even approached those passerby, who ignored her. Somehow, she still managed to call the police. After a while, the head manager, Fion, called me and I explained the whole story to her. She told me to pass the phone to that Indian woman because she wants to speak to her.
End up, the Indian woman said ''I'm not interested to speak to whoever is on the phone. I've called the police and they told me not to talk to anyone.''
Lmfao, no choice so Fion had to head down to Excelsior as she's at Payless Suntec.
Two policemen came, a Chinese and a Malay. The Malay policemen outside the store, asking and jotting down while the Chinese policemen approached me in the store and asked me to explain the story. After explaining everything, the Chinese policemen said that to solve this, I had to apologize to her Mum.
Of course I decline because I did nothing wrong. I have my dignity too. Thanks to the cute ah lian colleague, Su Yee, because all along she have been cheering me up. Like putting her arms around my shoulder and asked ''Ni okay mah, bu yao fang zai xin shang.'' (You alright? Don't take it to heart.)
Which freaking make me want to tear up because working seems really stressful. Worst was when I checked my phone, Mum text me ''Baby Mao, tc always! got mince pork inside the fridge and mushroom in can. i buy the ingredients for you already. go back home from work and cook.''
Had to bear my tears and I could feel lump in my throat. The reason why I feel like crying is because there are times when I don't get to see my parents at all when I got home/go to work because of the timing, stressed out because of the long hours and end up being an ass towards Mum because I'm easily irritated when I'm worn out. Dad even told Mum that I became hardworking. Yes Dad, continue to compare with those Cousins. ''When I’m a Parent, I’ll never compare my kids to other kids, because that shit hurts.''
So the Indian women came back in the store and asked loudly to the another Malay policemen ''This whole thing in India is a criminal case. In singapore is it a crime case?'' And the Malay policemen said ''ya'', which doesn't make any sense. Then the Chinese policemen smile and asked me ''hard to apologise uh? Just apologise then case close.'' I didn't reply him and I was like wtf, why do you want to want me to apologise when I did nothing wrong? After that, that Indian woman and her mum just leave the store.
Before the two policemen leave, they talked to me. They said that if there's CCTV, it would be better as I can prove my innocence. It's up to her if this case will be still open because she might come back to Singapore again. But might be a long time. So whatever it is, this case will be given to the investigator to investigate and we're siding both side of the parties, not one.
So around 8 PM plus, the investigator called me to ask for the whole story. Explained to him and he said ''Aiya, small matter only. Never mind, don't think too much alright.''
Felt so much better after hearing that. Apologise to Fion because she wasted her time coming over to Excelsior. Still, thankful to Su Yee and Kate for cheering me up. Told them that I won't serve Indian customers anymore, it's too scary. Yesterday is the day where I felt so close to Su Yee ♥_♥
And I know this incident will spread like wildfire to other Payless outlet. Standard.
In the past, Mum told me me that people who came from Indian are not ''good'' people because they're very boastful as they're rich in their country. But they have no idea that their race is a common thing to be made fun of. I'm not racist towards this race but after this incident, it made me think otherwise.
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Geraldine Alexa Toh Besana , September 21, 2012
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Wednesday, 19.9.2012
Will be getting this tattooed on my back calf (left) next month after I get my salary :) Shall ask the tattoo artist to add colours. Pretty excited about it. The reason why I'm getting this tattoo is because I need a strong personality. I'm the type of person who is easily affected, afraid to go out alone at times, giggling from some girls that makes me feel paranoid and automatically assume it's about me.
So I think Leo/Lion would be a good choice to remind myself to be a stronger person, not a weakling duck. Also, not a person whom you can look down at.
Dad seems to be okay with the inner forearm tattoos I have. It's because he was like ''Why those black ink until now still at there? Is it real?'' (In Mandarin)
So my reply was ''Aiya, fake one lah.'' (In Mandarin)
It's because Dad have been asking me like for 3 times already. Mum might have told him that I had tattoos because there was one time, Dad asked Mum if I had it and Mum confronted me. See, always talking behind my back. I'm always so honest towards Mum which I can't help it. Hopefully he won't be furious if he saw this on my back calf ~_~
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Geraldine Alexa Toh Besana , September 19, 2012
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