Dead By Sunrise

when you are in this blog. the song you are listening, does the voice seems familiar to you?

yes, it is the shouting in Crawling. it is the voice of Chester Bennington.

Mike Shinoda got his Fort Minor.

Chester have his Dead By Sunrise together with Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh since 2005.

the album Out of Ashes suppose to be released on 2006, but Chester put his priorities in Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight.

but now, it is ready featuring the single "Crawl Back In"



the songs you are listening to is my favorite, Give Me Your Name.

enjoy!

rock on Chester!!!

new friends

after gone through my internship for 1 month, I have met many new friends from the hotel. majority of them are from Malaysia, so is easier to get along with them.

on one off day, I followed Nicole and Fiona to Merlion Park. I've been there before during day time, but it was my first "night" to see Singapore night view due to previous curfew.

the famous bling bling liu lian, Esplanade

the vomiting Merlion

Marina Bay Sands in progress 24/7

that is Nicole and Fiona from Ipoh and me looking at my potential place to work in future

after 1 "night out", few weeks later is one of my Duty Manager, Sharon's Deepavali open house. Not many turn up due to shift work, only few of us meet up at hotel and go to her place by bus. Raining heavily when we were in the bus nad took us nearly 1 hour to reach the interchange.

from interchange opposite Hougang MRT station

by the time we reach her place, we were all wet and hungry. (I never eat anything for whole day. been sleeping half of the day due to night shift)

we reach there close to 8pm, we departed from hotel at 5.30pm. in between we missed 2 busses at interchange. John reach earlier than us with his motorbike after finishing his work at 7pm

Jaya from Perak, my bell service supervisor presenting our mousse cake to Sharon. John greeting Sharon

belated Deepavali celebration

after saying hello, next thing is "we are hungry...."

all of us went to the kitchen to get some real proper Indian food.

John and Guna (blocked) both technicians taking their dinner and the table full with nice food!

my brunchner (breakfast + lunch + dinner)
nasi briyani, prawns, mutton, chicken and favorite cabbage that should cost more than 7 dollars. its free here!!! and taste gooooooooooooooooooooood!

that is Hann from Kedah and Carmen from KL.

after dinner, we enjoy some dessert

and Sharon show us her house and her wedding photos

then we left at 9pm because I will be working at night shift. if we stay, we could have drink vodka and beer. damn!

more activities coming up. played badminton with some of them every monday. back to healthy lifestyle!

need to work on my report and final project as well. stress!

freedoom!

after 9 months plus of staying with relative without much freedom, finally the verbal contract of staying with them has expired. (between me and my mom)

since internship already begun while Jin's will starts soon, we need to find a place as soon as possible. after some arrangement to view a room, we decided to take it immediately, kind of a desperate act as we did not view few more rooms and compare. rookie on this and kind of got pushed by the agent.

whatever it is, we found the place to move out and enjoy freedom and be totally independent, finally.

lucky for me to work on afternoon shift on second week which gave me enough time to move in in the morning.

all packed and ready to go.

the nearest MRT station is Aljunied, which is just 2 stations away from Bugis. I can take my own sweet time to the work place.

last Sunday we move in some stuff followed by major shifting on Monday. lucky enough for me to work on afternoon shift on second week, so I can get everything done in the morning.

from Aljunied station, walks around 7 to 10 minutes depends on the traffic.

pass by some shops and and resident area through the path way on right side.

cross this main road, thats why is depends on the traffic. either jay cross it or wait for cars to stop.

if you dont know where the hell is Aljunied and think the name is kind of cool. you are wrong!

Aljunied is just the station's name which located at Aljunied Road. The place I am staying is actually located at..

yes, Geylang it is.

the famous red light district area in Singapore. when people ask me where am I staying now, I will reply Aljunied. because if I say Geylang, they will go (o_O") and say "Geylang?" in a suspicious tone as if I am staying with a huge group of prostitutes.

but this place is not as complicated as you think although it is very close to the happening place.

it is more like a condo/ apartment rather than HDB flat. thats why we are paying 800SGD per month!!!

the place got a cool name called Cosy Lodge

its just an 8 storey building with resident code to enter this place. no security though but feel more safe in this area.

although it is near to red light district, but there is where all the good food located according to some locals. especially after sunset

800 rental includes utilities, TV, wardrobe, washing machine, fridge, light cooking, air conditioner and double decker bed!

view from 4 corners in the room. I got a table for my laptop while Jin prefer sitting on the floor. before this is a queen size bed but we insist to have separate bed. so, the landlord bought double decker bed for us.

one thing is the housemates here are not friendly at all. but we dont bother that much. until now, I only exchange conversation with 2 housemates and smile/ nod head with 2 more. Others? not even look me in the eyes. and they are Malaysians!

what about my internship you might ask, or maybe not. but I will tell you anyway.

its my second week in bell service and been working in the afternoon shift for few days before having 2 graveyard shift followed by an off day on Saturday. it was my first time working at late night. it was a whole new kind of experience.

bell service that include duties of room service and housekeeping is something new. I have to send blankets, pillows, extra bed, soaps or even ice to guest room upon request. besides late check in, early check out and sending newspaper. most of the time I just sit at the counter and read book or chit chat with security and technicians.

graveyard shift is like having jet lack because I'll slept whole day. when I off to work, people are going back home. when I come, people just woke up. but enjoying it so far and morning shift again. =D

by the way, soon I have to start my internship report and final project. 20,000 + words for both.

and Jin's internship will be at Clarke Quay instead of Changi. WTF. we could have find a cheaper place to rent at purple line. but who cares, he is the one who got doomed!

week 1

time flies, I have started my internship for a week already!

first day in operator answering calls and get familiar with front office staff and some information. then been placed in bell service for a week and still counting.

due to previously did some bell service back in Golden Sands, it was kind of easy to pick up. just need to adapt their system and procedures which is almost the same. need to wake up at 5am and sleep at 10pm everyday for morning shift, makes me having the same life style like my aunt, finally. but not long because I started afternoon shift as well that leave them no choice but to hand me the house keys. only temporary because I am moving out soon!!!

found a room in Aljunied, 4 stations away from City Hall. nearer, more food available, more freedom but one problem, it is near Geylang. the red district is about few blocks away but been told there is where all the good food are. uncle was kind of worry because of the surrounding, but I am ready to be more independant. although need to stay with Jin. again.

anyway, the staff in hotel were friendly and majority of them are from Malaysia. easy to get along with. not so systematic which means kind of flexible in everything and everyone still learning and trying to improve in every way. enjoying it so far and the best part is getting few bucks tips everyday which are more than enough to cover my expenditure on food each day. still not depend on tips to survive each day due to home cook food and staff meal. but sooner I will need it.

been told soon I will be place in front desk as receptionist, thats mean no more tips for me. ouch! but I am looking forward to it.

feels great again as I am back to serving people at the lobby once again, maybe it is in my blood. am I born to be in this industry? still cant tell. but I am enjoying every moment now...

remaining holiday

this could be my last semester break because after internship, I will be 100% stepping into the working world. Internship is just to get myself ready for this new chapter of my life.

after spending time with friends, it is about spending some quality time with family. what is best to do it than on Mid Autumn Festival?

on this special day, we will be celebrating it at cousin Ellaine's house. It is a steamboat dinner, Mid Autumn Festival celebration and my brother, Edmund the fussy one's 23rd Birthday celebration.
there were only 9 of us but it was a great time! first time trying steamboat with Miso soup. of course it must accompanied with a can of cold beer!!!

we didnt finish up everything and we did not stop from there. after steamboat, we had ice lychee longan water, mango, cheese cake, moon cake and some fine hot chinese tea for dessert!

mango and tea, top right : colour changing tea pot

while not letting our stomach to take a break, we were watching White Chicks. very funny even re-watch it again.

Edmund's 23rd birthday celebration in advance

we all are too old for birthday song singing and stuff that we suppose to do on birthday, so we roughly sand the song and thats it! we were too full anyway.

throughout the whole side, Chun Hsiong cant stop playing with his star-back tortoise

meet "fei po" and "fei zai", I dont know which is which. But just heard from Ellaine that "fei po" pass away 2 days back. R.I.P. fei po...

after cheesecake, we had moon cake.

blueberry mooncake

we had lot of laugh that night and it is something I miss the most. because we seldom meet up. nothing beats family love. =)

Jocelyn was too full until she falls asleep.

Sunday went shopping with mom and brother. got a pair of new leather shoe, a wallet and a belt. did I tell you guys that I wore my previous leather shoe since form 2? it is time, so new shoe for new chapter of life!

at night yumcha with Kelvin and Yanjie. ever since William, Andrew, Win Datt and me studying overseas. the usual yumcha gang is becoming smaller and smaller. It was my second attempt to ask people out yum cha and only 2 turns out. first time only me and Yanjie. lol

Monday went to Sungei Wang support Kar Hui who is performing on stage for charity event organized by University Malaya. after that went "shopping" with Tania while waiting for Lee Keng to finish working. went yum cha at BRJ near Lee Keng and Yanjie's place. again 3 ekor only. but main purpose Lee Keng asked us out to yumcha is because she want her stuff from Singapore.

when I reach home, check mails. got 1 from college asking me to contact HR department of the hotel because my training pass is ready.

next day gave a call and they want me to go back as soon as possible. so, I went to buy my bus ticket before meeting up with Kenix at Midvalley. at that moment, I was kind of lost because it happen too fast. I need to go back on wednesday, thursday get my uniform and settle everything then friday start working. wow!!!

a pic with Kar Hui and Kenix.

me and Kenix just talk crap for hours while walking around Mid Valley and getting anything that I think I need to buy.

later that night yumcha with Sunway gang again because Jin is back to KL! na beh...he come back to KL, I go back to Singapore.

then I bit farewell to them and head home to pack my stuff. basically just throw everything back into my luggage.

there goes my holiday. tomorrow it will be a new chapter of my life. excited!!!

This post is boring because I lost my interest in blogging once again. grown up?? not really, just not in the mood to type a lot and didnt really get any nice pic throuhout all the activities I had during this holiday. When one person got no direction like me who dont know when will my holiday ends, this is what you get.

time to sleep, tomorrow is a brand new start! =D