class 2B -- lesson 2!!

hahahah...

and how can i forget to give updates on my bike lessons?

finally...after 4 tries at lesson 1..of which, i'm actually getting quite sick of doing the same thing over and again.....im now finally promoted to lesson 2.....

happy as i am....but thinking abt yang aldy going onto lesson 5....haiz...i'm forever slower in whatever we did...heh...

but still....i'm gonna chiong wen he's in camp...upcoming tuesday i have a night class....if i can have my one time pass, i'll be booking for a thursday night class if they have.....

whatever it is...i must spend less than 1K for my 2B licence!!!

May....

looks like this is gonna be a super looooonnnnnnnnggggg entry...hahaha...cuz it consist of so many entries in the past month of May...of which i didnt have time to upload the photos and update my entries....and cuz i couldnt rmb the dates of those events..i couldnt date the entries accordingly...

so....i jus have to do it the lazy way...hahahahah...put it all in one entry...

but if i didnt get the sequence wrong...the events are arranged from the most recent to the least recent....

here it goes:

oops...looks like i've forgotten to rotate my photos before uploading it! haha...tsk tsk tsk...its my bad and lazy habit...

but nevetheless...i thnk its pretty easy to view the photos still... and not that i wanna advertise for tis small crepe store located at suntec L1...opp the popular donut store...but pardon me cuz i actually forgot the nama of the donut...ha! cuz i only support dunkin donuts.. :)

but anyways...back to the crepe store....apparently, it originated from japan...and the fillings they had for the crepes are incredibly delicious...not to mention the Gelato....which makes it less fattening for those who wants to indulge in their ice-cream filling...

yummy...i'll go back for more....

price range for the crepe sets are slightly on the high side...but who cares...its the good food tt matters.....some indulging dun hurt... ha!

hhahaha...look! yang and i own a ferrari each!...hahaha....yalar...its from the arcade actually...but its so cool! haha...we would have taken more photo if there weren't so many passer-bys...hahahaha....

The national runway'08 had been a fresh experience after having missed tis once-a-yearly event for the past 2 years. we took on the shortest and most leisure route - 6km. And its definitely undermining our stamina. it took us only 26min to finish skating the 6km and we were surprised wen we reached the end point....if i had known its going to be so easy i should have tried convincing yang tt we shld go for the 15km one.

AND...i nearly got my chance to havE  a free ride at the Go-Kart booth. but sadly...i didnt have toe covered shoes with me so i had to give it a miss...what a waste....i had used san's name to register for the event and had been lucky drawn out for the free ride...sighz....i have to wait till my church camp at KL to play then... 

yes!! photos of yang's BX. so cool looking rite? his ATI POP was so awesome. it would have been best if the whole event were to be videoed down...makes me feel like signing on for SAF too...haha....who ask me to be such a sucker for uniformed stuff....haha....but uniforms really gives a sense of collectivism....the pride and honour....for someone as egoistic as me...its no wonder i love it!!

minimal photos were taken wen we went to Macritchie's Tree Top Walk..haha...not tt cuz its tiring...but cuz my parents were walking so fast...we have no time to stop and take photos!

jeff's auto-shuffling majong table..but sadly its spoilt..so there's no way to play majong on it...we end up playing blackjack instead......and i went home with winnings amounting to $9.....the same amount yang yang lost...hahaha...oops....

in the blink of an eye, its alrdy halfway through the month of may and by now i had handled and closed 2 vessels. of which, many many problems and mistakes popped up, making me feel so irritated and useless....

in abt another 2 weeks, i would have been with the company for 3 months, yet, i still feel like a newbie to alot of the stuffs that i'm doing daily. but then again, things did get better...i just need to figure out how to solve the mistakes i made more efficiently, or rather, stop relying on my partner to help me pick up my mess.... sighz...

as much as i am enjoying my work, somehow, i do feel dreadful wen i need to go work....but when i'm there and start doing the work, i start enjoying it.... i'm just wondering how can i motivate myself before i go to work....esp on sundays....when i have to deal with being separated from my darling for the week while having to be at work... heh....

eventhough i might have seem like i've gotten used to having yang only book out on Fri, and booking back in on Sun, its still so difficult to bear with the upsetting feeling of not seeing him for a whole week and the only means of communication is via sms.

thnking abt the many more overseas training tt he might have really have me feeling thrilled yet upset at the same time. thrilled cuz he'll have many experiences to share with me, but upset cuz we'll be separated for weeks again.

but distance does make the heart fonder. so, i'll say tt its actually a good thing for him to be so busy with NS. ha!

2 weeks ago had been Chuan's bday....its so touching to see so many of his friends turned up despite it being Mother's Day. it made me feel a little regretful that my sisters and i didnt make our birthday party grander and more fun. afterall, we only turn 21 once.....but with out bday so early in the year, it felt like there's not much time for proper planning and organisation...plus, with christmas just over, we're alrdy rather broke...

still, Chuan's party had been enjoyable.... and i'm convinced tt he inherited his singing genes from his dad...hahah....and looks wise, he seem just like a chip off the block!!! no offense la...but really can see the exact resemblance of him and his dad.

after tt, there had been the long weekend cuz of vesak day....i got to spend the WHOLE of the public holiday with my darling and my family....i'm so so so happy...

i wished time wouldnt pass so fast.

now i'm back in my office. but at least for this one last week, i get to countdown to knock off time and i cna meet my baby darling.

nxt week onwards its back to my countdown for the whole week before i get to see my darling.

sobz sobz.

Visit to the port!

A photo taken with our captain of the Bankline vessel. i love wat we ate for lunch. if everybody wasnt all prim and proper, i would have taken photos of my food!!!

some photos tt i wanted to update 3 weeks ago...

all these vessels belonged to our company.... wow....

okay..... today had my first scolding from my manager...

i cant believe i'm such a klutz...

alrdy, for my previous vessel i forgot to include in my company's cargo and thus they end up having to miss out on 2 voyages....and the nxt vessel the cargo is going on, is the current vessel i'm handling.... but that, was no problem...cuz this time sam and i did double checks and everything was in order.

But just as i expected...i can nv heave a sign of relief...cuz each time i did it....another problem arose....

take yst as an example.... sam spotted a mistake in the POD for one of the shippers....so i had to call up PSA and get them to change in on portnet for us....but that wasnt a big issue...cuz the vessel wun be calling at the mistaken port anyway....its just for documentation purpose...

but sigh....didnt it occur to me that i should have checked through my other bookings to make sure all the port of destinations are correct? no...apparently it didnt....

and guess wat happened? today the vessel came into port.....only to have the yard call in and told me there's a discrepancy between the shipper's shipping order and my booking forecast.... after doing some frantic checks, my entry on the forecast is the wrong one....

wats worse....its a breakbulk cargo...which means everything would be pre-planned so that the cargo have a particular place to be stowed away on the vessel.... this mistake would caused last min disruptions to how it could be stowed on board.

when my manager saw the email i sent out with regards to the change in port, he came and questioned me abt it. i told him it was carelessness on my part and so i was scolded for not doing all my checks properly.

sighz. now i'm so upset. it was stressed upon me that cargo going to the wrong ports would cause losses to the company...so its important everything is as accurate as it should be. which is why everyday we keep doing tallying of all our bookings and confirmations and blah blah blah before we call it a day.

i want to go for my sushi buffet!! i hate the stress...but i love the satisfaction when i got it right.

when can i get it 100% right? i'm giving myself another month....but there's still so much to learn...argh.........