I'm an FON. lalala.

I bought a Mr Bean pancake near one of the exits and made my way to the exit across the other end. However, I was being shouted by a lady staff in her 40s-50s standing behind the barrier, pointing her finger at me as I was already starting on my pancake while finding my way out to the exit. ( I wasn’t even dropping any crumbs onto the floor.) In fact, my friend and I are not sure which exit it is, so we also asked her the directions. While she was talking to my friend about the directions, my natural response was to continue with my pancake. Amidst her conversation with my friend, again she pointed her finger at me and shouted across 5 metres and said “Can you stop that?” To me, I was already going to get out of the station, and in fact, I do not view myself as INSIDE the station since it was somewhat near the other exit, which was as around how close Mr Bean was to the exit. I really felt embarrassed by her public accusation, as if I was a primary school child and I felt that it was because I was in my exercise attire and looked rather young.

I would like to get the message across that the staff making the accusation should do it in a tactful manner. I am one of the in-charge of a store and even in cases of shoplifting, we would ask in a tactful manner to search the bag. Therefore, no matter what type of accusation it is, there should be professionalism with dealing with it. I was feeling very appalled and disturbed by the accusation.

Another feedback is that Chinese Garden MRT (where I usually take my trains) has a Mr Bean outlet too. However, commuters can sit near the control station (on the side where the pebbles and plants are) to enjoy their food. Commuters can walk across from 1 exit to another with Mr Bean in their hands and not being accused like that. Is there a standardised agreement across all MRT stations? Should there be a delineation marked out? I personally felt that there should be some flexibility, on the grounds that we are a civilised society. For example, a person holding on to an ICE CREAM crossing to the other exit after getting it from one of the exits, should be allowed to lick their ice cream since it could have melted and dirtied the floor. This is just pure common sense.

EEErie

I was at the nursing home. The meeting room which I used to do work was occupied by a social worker and the treatment room air-con was down.

The nurse showed me a "private room" and told me I could use it.

Me: Oh that's where those richer patients stay, single bed room.

Nurse: Ya you can use it, she just died.

*goose bumps* Although I knew I didn't have to be worried, I was feeling a little spooky... haha.

Dirty Water

The first picture shows a clean water filter. and the second picture shows a dirty water after 1 month... so who says Singapore water is clean?

If you dun filter your water, you're taking these in..

CNY with the physiotherapist

on CNY D3, my mum's friends came over to our place and there's this mum's friend's daughter who is a physiotherapy student.

she assessed my gait, squats with 1 leg, jumps landing on 1 leg, and palpate my patella. she made a few comments which may be quite true about my bad leg:

1. my bad leg i.e. right leg, may be due to my multiple ankle sprains when I was younger, and so my right knee has to compensate when I run. thus, my right knee underwent wear and tear more significant compared to my left knee
2. my right leg patella was slightly misaligned more towards the inner of the axis of the tendon
3. my balance with my right leg was poorer when I was standing on my right leg

lastly, she taught me how to strengthen my left hip muscle to bring up my right pelvis.

woah.... it was a gd PT (physiotherapy) session :)

i like my Windows 7

i think it's more for the looks. but my computer really feels faster with Windows 7 hehe :)

Certified Caregiver Maid

I'm sending my maid for a course: Caregiver course for Elderly

She'll be a certified caregiver hehe.. woww

What would you do if you see a smoker smoking at the bus stop (in Singapore)?

Background: It's illegal to do so.

Vote at the right side of this blog

(testing out the poll gadget :P )

Customer Service

yes, I put in the name of the shop, I think they deserve the "publicity"

Some weeks ago, I had a very bad experience with a computer shop in Funan IT Mall.

I bought my laptop from Comex 2009 and it's from this computer shop called Juzz1. They promised of a Mcafee antivirus of 1 year.

After installing the antivirus, i realised the subscription is only for 1 month! so instinctively, I called Juzz1 and asked for the guy called L who served me during Comex. He told me to contact Mcafee without asking too many questions.

So, I called Mcafee and was directed to the customer service line in India. The person asked me to email his supervisor my invoice so that he can assist me with it. The supervisor said that the invoice did not state that the subscription is for 1 year, even though I took a picture of the product itself. Mcafee refuses to extend my subscription (although I think they know that my product should be a 1-yr subscription since I think they should be very familiar with their own products).

SOOOOO I called Juzz1 again and L said it should be highlighted to the Mcafee vendor but L was going overseas and asked me to contact B to follow up with the case. I emailed B, thinking that L would have sort of told him about my case after telling me to contact B.

I had to email B twice to get his reply by email and since I did not hv internet connection during my nursing home visit, I called to check up on the email. B sounded hostile and said that he did not know what product I was talking about and sounded as if I was a goondu. He advised me to bring my laptop to Juzz1 so that the guys there can help me take a look first. I felt it was rather inconvenient that day as I did not have my laptop with me and I have to travel from Tampines (nursing home) back home and to Funan. I was quite appalled he said a sentence "if you dun bring to the shop, how do you expect us to help you." I also found out that by this day, L was already back from overseas and it was already my last day of Mcafee subscription, and you see, I've to email twice to get B's attention.

So I had to bring back to the shop that day as it was already the last day of the subscription. The guy at the shop helped me with my laptop. He did stuff on my laptop without explaining to me what was happening, so I had to prompt him to ask what happened and he was short in his answers. After a while, he became quiet and I walked around the shop. He was interrupted by another customer so he was serving 2 customers (me and another one) at the same time. I was okay with it as long as he get my problem solved fast.

After a while, he restarted my comp, and he was serving the other guy. I did not know what was happening to my comp so I was still killing time walking around the shop. and then, i buay tahan and walked up to tell him i'm going to the toilet. after that, i walked around the shop for another 10 min. My laptop was on batt so i was concerned whether i need to change to cable so I asked him and he said IT WAS ALREADY DONE! hello, i had already killed like 20 min without knowing that my laptop was done long ago...

I was rather pissed with the whole experience and packed up and stormed off. I wrote a feedback to Juzz1 which they did not reply.

what went wrong:

1. L prescribed a solution (a wrong one) before diagnosing. He could hv asked me to bring to the shop first before telling me to go 1 whole loop with Mcafee.
2. Mcafee did not extend subscription based on goodwill even though I specify my product through the photo and I even insisted a few times that they should extend. This did not happen last time when I was using Norton, the Norton customer service last time just did a remote access to extend the subscription.
3. L should have informed B about my case in order to avoid confusion at B's side.
4. B failed to see the urgency in my problem and did not assist me until the last day of subscription.
5. B was hostile to his customer on the phone.
6. That guy at the shop did not interact with his customer when the customer was interested in learning how to troubleshoot on her own.
7. That guy at the shop did not update the customer when the problem was solved, and the Juzz1 did not reply my feedback to show that they've followed up with the problem.
   

Learning points:

1. I should have insisted that Juzz1 solve my problem instead of going through Mcafee.
2. I'll use Norton after Mcafee expires.
3. I'll be an unreasonable customer next time as I think it'll help in solving the problem fast. HAHAHA.
4. Keep talking to quiet computer guys when they're troubleshooting for you, talk until they talk.
   

This... is randomness...

From Sodagreen's new album, written by Qingfeng...

Dionysus walked across
the Tropic of Cancer, his pain and ecstasy is on fire, while the human body keeps growing, and yet ones mind and soul keep dying.

By the smell of grapes, (?!??!)
its going to rain...

Dionysus let it rain
without reason, all the indulgent desire had been unbuttoned. Our wisdom can only control all the animals, but humans.

They all become dolphins... (?!?!?!)

Dionysus had come and
gone with the red afterblow, in the long hot summer day, he shouts his name:

We won! We won! The glory
belongs to us and no one!

Laptop

I bought a new lightweight laptop with a 9-cell battery at Comex 2 weeks ago...

and then just when I was into my 2nd week of my Thinkpad X200 use...

my boss told me she wanted to get laptop/netbook for the nursing home pharmacists...

and I've to reject her.. cos no use to duplicate an asset to look after..

timing timing timing.

Ms Bimbo

Rmb i was blogging about Ris Low who is in Ms World Singapore finals?

SHE IS NOW MS WORLD SINGAPORE....

OMGOMGOMGOMG

and this is totally funny --> BOOMZ

Smoker young gers

(Blogger is getting cranky... when will the problem be solved?)

I dun understand why some young girls who look like they're students like to put cigarette sticks between their fingers and puff away... they're too young to understand how much dirt they're sucking in?

I cant stand haze and air pollution. I wonder how come they wan to suck in tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine plus some dirt and soot into their lungs in a high concentration...

Bonded Scholarships

I read this

I was so glad I did not succeed in the PSC/DSTA interviews years ago after my A levels. I couldn't imagine doing an admin job which I've no interest in, or some other projects which I once thought I liked, but not anymore...

Pharmacy opens up more windows than these scholarships which do not support healthcare degrees.

SHAPE run sux

Logistic was really bad. not enough signage to show us the distance and the different sections e.g. Baggage and Finisher's Medal. Only got 5km signage along the whole run. The most "amazing" thing is "the finisher's medal is out of stock" when I went to collect... I was abit late cos I wasn't ushered to collect the medal. Only when I finished collecting everything, I asked the usher. There were no tents set up so everything was inside Millenia Walk. No place to do proper cooling down and no place to eat our free yoghurt. We were asked not to sit on the floor of Millenia Walk even though we were not blocking anybody and I was so pissed that I told the "helpers" who asked us not to sit "we need to finish off our yoghurts before we can carry our things away". That's the truth, I've 1 big bag of barang and the goodie bag which was not mine (cos i'm only supposed to replace somebody in the run). And yes, the goodie bag queue was so long and blocking everywhere as it curves in and out of everywhere.

I'm going to boycott SHAPE run (in addition to my boycott of SAFRA run)

I'm sooooooooooooo tired.

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Some updates:

1. I've met the most paranoid patient. She's afraid that she'll faint when she walks to the market when I explain to her the probable hypotensive spells during the 1st 2 weeks of hypertensive meds. I spent 10 minutes talking to her on a single Nifedipine LA 30mg, and she wanted to talk to another staff who spent 10 min on her (she even ask whether the blood test will be painful and my colleague told her it'll be like an ant bite)...

2. I'm happy that my company has plans for me. I also presented our discussion during Strategic retreat to my boss and colleagues whom I dun really noe. Strategic retreat was at Furama Riverfront and I think it was quite well-planned as things go according to the timetable quite tightly.

3. I went for a FOC vocal class :P

4. I saw Yokes' rebonded hair.

Bimbo

It started with Felix asking me "have you seen a bimbo before?" and then he showed me this RazorTV clip

The way she talks make me shudder and wonder how come she can make it to Miss World Singapore... So bimbotic!!!

And I dun like the way she says "it's all about me". This self-centred girl just dun deserve to be a "Miss World Singapore".

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Sesame Street Pinball Number Clip

cant help it, was singing this song after i watched it after Giam posted the link on Facebook haha.

Fruitful day

After jogging today, I was flipping thru the newspaper and saw Liang Court Audio House having a Grand Opening Sale. There're some good deals for cameras. I was aiming for the $199 camera (Casio Exilim with some freebies). However, only limited sets. Went there anyhow and found out that Singaporeans are indeed kiasu haha - the Exilim ones all wiped out le haha. So got myself the Olympus FE-3000 for $258 with many freebies.

The Camera

The freebies including:

Lens clearning kit
4Gb SD card
Mini tripod
Extra battery
$40 dining voucher (not in picture)

All for $258!

I was packing my room a few days ago and found my Swatch Irony with dusty and "fungus-y" strap. Not moving anymore. So brought it to change strap and battery. This looks like new!!!

Yay. Fruitful day.

James Barnes is a busy guy

Besides composing band music, he writes papers too...

haha. just a joke. i'm qt sure it's a different James Barnes :P

i miss band!

Time to be BHB :P

Strange people...

Every night, at least one Bus 198 passenger will act strangely by blasting his/her handphone music... as if we all like his/her music...

somebody should educate the use of earphones to them...

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i wan to take MC. so sian, feel like i'm getting sick but i'm not sick enuf to get an MC, and i noe i need to rest..

bleahhh..