I GOT A PART-TIME JOB!!! This is very exciting news because it means I won't be going broke anytime soon hehe.
So here's how I got it: On boxing day I wanted to go to Cedele at Wheelock to apply for a job there because Hanying is working there and she said that they were shorthanded. But smart me went during lunch peak hour and the staff there told me to come back at 3pm. Then I remembered that I saw a 'Now Hiring' sign at one of the shops at Scape underground when I went shopping there with XH on Christmas eve. So I went there and asked if I could apply, they asked me to fill out a form with my particulars and everything and told me to come the next day for a trial... and I thought wow that was easy.
So I went the next day from 12-7pm and learnt a lot of stuff. Namely the prices of the items in the shop, how to use the cash register app on the ipad, how to use the nets machine and how to tell the difference between samsung, iphone 4 and iphone 5 cases. Haha how enriching. The boss also came at around 4pm. He's n entrepreneur and he's younger than me! He started Art with a HeART Pte. Ltd. and also opened the shop My Box (which I'm working at) to help young people in Singapore. At the end of the day when he was giving me my pay I asked him directly whether he was going to hire me or not and he said YES!!!! I was really freaking happy omg. So now I work from 12-5pm Monday to Friday. The job can get stressful when there are many customers, but when there are none it's quite slack so I'm pretty happy with it :D
Anyway I spent the evening of Christmas eve with Xinhui :) We went to eat Makisan together and did a lot of weird stuff like visit an art gallery at SOTA.
Walking at Orchard road
Interactive piece at SOTA
Haha. We also went to Cold Stone for ice cream which was an item on XH's post A's bucket list. Orchard road (the part near Somerset 313 at least) was super crowded with people taking pictures with the Christmas decorations and XH and I had a hard time getting to Cold Stone. All part of the Christmas eve experience I guess. After that I went off for midnight mass.
Nothing much happened on Christmas day, just had lunch with relatives from my dad's side and dinner with relatives from my mum's side. Boringgg.
Went to Kristen's 70s themed party and Brice's Indian themed party which were both fun. And they made me seem non-loserly lol. So I didn't have to be like oh I'm just staying at home on a Friday and Saturday night. Cos that would be uncool.
Rambling,
It's so easy to idealise people when you can't see them or interact with them physically. Now that I know how it feels, I really can't blame my sister for falling for someone she'd never even met before. Whether we want to believe it or not, we've all imagined somebody to be exactly who we want them to be, often someone they are not, just because we can't see them or maybe because we don't want to face the truth. And sometimes it's comforting to be able to tell yourself that they are exactly what you want, what you need even. But the truth is, you'll never know until you meet them and have an actual conversation with them. Everything can seem perfect through a screen because emotions can't be felt in the same way as they are in person. You can't tell if a person is lying from the words on the screen, just like you can't tell if an apple is sweet or not from its appearance. I have to assume the worst, take precautions and not subconsciously give too much of myself, because I don't want to lose yet another friend. Or perhaps we were never friends to begin with.
Also, I finished The Kite Runner and started on a new read!
It's disappointingly not as interesting as The Kite Runner, but it passes the time.
Loving life right now! xx