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OMG YAY I CAN POST!! I was looking through our posts at the very beginning and as it turns out, I was the one who came up with the password. And now I've forgotten what it was. BRILLIANT. Well anyway peeps, you can still log into your respective blogspot accounts to contribute if you've been added to the list!

Can't believe it's been almost FIVE FREAKING YEARS since we graduated. What is everyone up to these days? Yes I propose a SUPER MASSIVE MEETUP with EVERYBODY (including the ones we haven't spoken to in years and years). It'll be so fun! Can we do it at someone's house on a Saturday night so we can all chillax until the wee hours of the morning without professional guilt? Yeah but I suppose this extremely idealistic scenario will have to wait a few more months to be potentially realised. But people, please keep this in mind! And erase all other plans when we decide on the big date!

Whoa I'm so missing JC right now. Real life's a bitch.

wouldn't it be shocking to know, that after all these years, someone still drops by to see if anything's stirring?

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Nobody visits this blog anymore. ):

It has been 3 months since.

I know right, it has only been three months, but it actually feels like three years has passed. Okay maybe not three years, two. Okay okay I'm exaggerating. One. It feels like one year has passed. One year is a long time isn't it?

3 months. It's been three months since I started school. The first three months in JC comprised of fun and laughter, peace and joy (that was the favourite phrase of one of my science teachers in secondary school), happy people all around. The first three months in Uni comprised of fun and laughter, damn a lot of assignments, sleepless nights, stress, huge eyebags, lots of sad, emo people all around.

My school is such an intense place. Most people I see in campus look intensely busy. Some wear intensely formal clothes. Some look intensely nerdy. Some are intensely lonely. Some smoke intensely. Some buildings are intensely drab. The whole busload of people always look intensely dreary, like as if the bus journey is a one-way trip to The Land of Dread With No Return. Why, that's not true - it's a loop service. You always get to leave the place at the end of the day.
Unless you live in campus. Which isn't such a bad idea because some of the halls have this nice laidback chalet-ish feel about them. Unless you're really unlucky and get those not so nice industrial factory-ish looking ones which are just... ugh.
No but seriously I don't know why my fellow schoolmates always emit that sian aura. Must be the weather. Or it could be the location. I sometimes see people waving to us from offshore oil rigs.

On a totally random note, I haven't eaten meat pau in a super long time. Meat paus always have unidentifiable stuffing that don't taste all that good. Red bean paus are safer, it's all red bean paste. (Or is it? It's all blackish you can't really tell if there's extra stuff in there anyway ho ho ho.)

I dunno. I like going to school (it definitely, definitely beats working), but sometimes things just screw up by themselves, know what I mean? I should just find a nice cheery roomie, get accomodation on campus, wear yellow clothes, ride around on a yellow bicycle, soak up the sunshine and sing aloud to myself every single day. Or I could paint the drab, grey buildings yellow. Either way it'd be nice.
Or I could simply stop procrastinating and do consistent work. It'd make life slightly better. I even have a Procrastibuddy believe it or not. She's the one I rely on to retain my sanity in the middle of the night. Somehow it makes you feel better to know that you're not alone. Currently we're trying to clean up our act, and we're renaming ourselves Studybuddies. Studybuddy. Ha I like the sound of that. Much better than the mouthful of Procrastibuddy anyway.

Oh Rachel's coming back from Australia just about today! (: YAY!!

Shall we meet in December in the name of fun and laughter, peace and joy?

Rescue Mission

Hello class, so much for not letting this blog die.

Can the blog be resurrected?
Does it stand a chance in the midst of all the busy class peoples' lives?
Or will it wither away into oblivion, just a page people visit now and then to see if anything new has been posted, but not wanting to update?

Therefore I shall get down to writing an entry before school actually starts and we all get busier then we all are now.

So, for those who don't know, I have been working in a spectacle shop for the past few months, and all I can say is I never ever want to go back into retail. I think there's an unspoken rule that if you voice such things out almost certainly the opposite happens (like when the day before you complain to your mom that you don't want to go to work almost certainly the next day the shop people call up and ask you to turn up for work so if you want to be rich you have to say "I never ever want to be rich" and then almost certainly the opposite happens and you find yourself striking lottery day after day. Now that's a very very sweet dream for starters, and I don't think it will ever happen, but that's not going to stop me from trying) and chances are a few years down the road I might be selling clothes at some boutique in maybe Takashimaya now for a change of environment. Ah, but seriously, retail is disgusting, KUDOS TO ALL THE SALESPEOPLE OUT THERE!

Oh, I also did a 4 day stint at the Expo for the CommunicAsia event (for the uninitiated, this is where all the telecommunication and media companies over Asia get together to exhibit their technology but I swear i saw angmoh companies) as an order-form-giver-cum-drink-stall-holder. It was disgusting I never want to go into the F&B industry again. Okay at this point I'm starting to think that I'm sounding like a spoilt brat, but hey I'm NOT okay, and I don't like it when people call me spoilt brat because it sounds like spoilt bread when people don't pronounce it properly, and I sure as hell do not like spoilt bread. Okay in all honesty the drink making was fun I actually enjoyed it because the 15 year old ah bengs I was working with were so ridiculously childish I felt like I was back in primary school. Eh no la, the drink making was fun because I got to learn the difference between a latte and a cappucino, an espresso and a normal black coffee. Oh and I got to steam milk too, and the rod that goes into the milk produces a loud sound and lots of steam which causes the milk to foam wahahha. But the entire thing was stupid because the management was screwed up and very disorganized and as a result alot of precious time was wasted which I was actually quite happy about because it meant that I was being paid for doing absolutely nothing.

I dunno why, but you get alot of complaints in the forum about the service standards of salespeople and F&B people, but have you seen the standards of the customers? If all customers were nice there wouldn't be any nasty service people. (But then again maybe not, because some people are just inherently mean.) I dunno why, but the nasty customers are particularly draining. They drain you of all cheerfulness, of all energy and of all morale. (Personally I think these three are interlinked.) You know they're like the Dementors from Harry Potter who come along and suck out all happy feelings in you and they leave you all miserable and gloomy, and it would be good if you can use a Patronus spell against them, but nasty customers aren't that easy to deal with unfortunately. (Or maybe I can just shoot icy glares at them and be nastier than them, but then it would leave me liable of appearing in Stomp if some nosy passerby decides to shoot a video of lousy service standards.) ARGH I hate my job sometimes.

But then again there are the Supernice customers who make me very happy because they're very nice, and they make me want to be very nice to them too. So I guess it's true that there are always two sides to everything. Just like how I have sacrificed an early dinner just to add a bit of life to this blog. But silly me, I could have just done it after dinner eh, but I wanna watch Deal or No Deal and look at Adrian Pang dish out his "now, the banker has given it serious thought, and is offering you a total of blablabla dollars" in an oh-so-serious face which makes my hair stand because it is all oh-so-corny.

Oh well, how's everybody doing? :)

KEL AND STEF's PICNIC AT THE BOTANICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello! kel and i decided to hold a picnic party (: great time to meeet up all the athreetwo poeple and mister yooong as well!

date : either 9june 16june or 30june

time : either 11am 2pm 3pm

PLEASE CHOOSE THE DATE AND TIME THAT YOU PREFER TO MEET!

place:botanic gardens

food: kel wld bake cookies. and other pls respond to what food u can bring - i was thinking some people cld offer to bring chips,drinks,ice,sandwhiches,tissuepaper,placemats to sit on the grass,and other yummie fooood! ((:

pls sms/email/drop a comment on this blog or my lj regarding this class thingy alriggghtt! :D

i tink kel and i wld ask a few more pple to help us organize this! hope it turns out successful!

miss you all!
-steffie!

Hey Everybody!

Long time no see and hear!! Miss ya'all so very very very much! Hope you all have been well and using your free time now wisely!! For me, I decided to go explore the coporate world.. And guess what? I DON'T LIKE IT ONE BIT! :( Anybody have the same sentiments? wahhaa:p

My first job was a server at some restaurant (don't want to name it lest they sue me!).. Eeli, Lia, Cam, Van, George, Kim, Lilian and many others would noe where;) I made a lot of friends there.. but I hated the so-called 'higher ups' in that restaurant (you know the ones they call managers) And I believe George would identify with me! ;) wahhaa:p Anyways, to cut the long story short, I decided there and then: I DON'T WANNA BE STUCK WORKING FOR OTHER PEOPLE!!! IT SUCKS!!! TRUST ME... wahhaa:p

Well, you see, after that.. I didn't really learn my lesson.. After I resigned from my first job, I was enticed by another offer another company gave me (the money was not much really, now i realised).. I STUPIDLY signed some contract and got stuck again for 1 and a half months.. It was HORRIBLE:S Everyday was the WORST day of my life! wahaha:p (come to think of it, it was really hilarious because half the time I was dozing off at work:p oops! Lia could vouch for that because I msged her to tell her how boring it was, right sister? wahaha:p) no free time for family, no free time for myself.. no waking up late (that was the worst for me at least).. boohoohoo:( I would have died:S Then I realise my friends there are no better off than me! The friends I made there told me they signed 2 year contracts! And when I asked, "How did ya survive?" they laughed shrugged their shoulders, "What to do? I got a family to feed! No choice!" But there IS a choice and they have chosen it! Would you have chosen the same? Furthermore, there IS lots to do that can totally transform their lives.. You see my friends.. It's not about WHAT you do, it's about HOW you do it! Those millionaires out there don't start being millionaires.. they were once like us!

From this 2 experiences, I ask myself, "Do I really want this kind of lifestyle? To slog for THE BOSS Monday to Friday for the REST OF MY LIFE and all I get is a fixed income while THE BOSS gets the BIG money? " The answer I gave myself was a BIG RESOUNDING NO! And mind you, I WILL live to a ripe old age of 120.. So if I start work after uni at, say, 22 years young, that would be slogging for about 98 years? Even if I retire at, say, 60, that will be about 38 years of sweat and blood! After that, what happens when I retire? My income stops after I retire and I don't think my CPF or savings could support me another 60 years! So what is there for me in the future then? Is there another way? (Now, I know some cheeky people will ask me.. you live so old for what? well, I want it that way! wahhaa:p)

Thank God for my parents! They brought me to an event called National Achiever's Congress 2007:) Anybody heard of it before? It's an event held every year where world famous speakers (only millionaires are qualified to speak at this event) are invited to speak! Their massive knowledge astounds me! It inspired me to THINK BIG! And I realised that there is more to making money than just getting a degree, finding a good job.. I know it sounds cliche but it is a FACT! Anyways, I'll tell more to those who wanna know more about this event if you come ask me personally:) My point is, I learnt from the Gurus that there are so many other ways to make money in this society! And one of them is a business I'm in now: NETWORK MARKETING:)

Network Marketing is a business most often misunderstood by people. People think it's no different from pyramid selling but it is DIFFERENT! :) Network marketing is about helping people to achieve financial freedom.. to help people retire with grace and more... The keyword is: LEVERAGE. The company I am involved in is the company NEWAYS.. Most of you would have caught a glimpse of my unique looking bottle that says MAXIMOL in the front? I remember people asking me why you bring a bottle of petrol or detergent to school? wahhaha:p NO.. the bottle does not contain petrol nor detergent.. It is a actually a supplement drink produced by my comapny:) Besides this, Neways also produced home care products like shower gels, shampoos and all neccessities. This is the Neways Mission:

Neways is committed through its worldwide efforts to seek, develop, and acquire the safest ingredients and breakthrough technologies currently available for personal care and health science. Neways further pledges to manufacture and distribute safe, effective and innovative products that address common health concerns. The Neways business opportunity promises Distributors one of the most lucrative compensation plans available in the industry and a standard of Distributor support unparalleled in the world. Neways mission is to enhance the health, wealth and well-being of people around the world.

As you can read, it is about helping people, helping yourselves and your families at the same time! That's why it can be one of the most successful companies in Japan! Fundamentally, it just takes you to spread the word to 3 persons and you will see AMAZING things happen in your life:)

Lastly, I want to end my post with an inspiring video reccommended by my dearest papa. This video introduces the fundamental concept of network marketing, of spreading the message and helping people. It is not about paying back, it's about paying it FORWARD:)



~Jianwei:)
http://neways-network.blogspot.com
connect with me @ huang_weiwei88@hotmail.com

ps. If you think what you read was inspiring.. call your friends to come and read it as well:) If you wanna know more about this business, email me:) Last but not least... GIVE ME SOME COMMENTS! so i can do better next time;) thanks n God bless ya'all!! <3 A32