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Thursday, June 26, 2003
tweet! tweat! treat! lunch! lunch tomorrow! or a nice spinelli's scone will suffice haha.
i'm blogging from the office. can you hear the disgruntlement in my voice? i finised writing the whole story at 3pm, one hour after i came back, and have been waiting FIVE AND A HALF hours for PRs to email me back with statistics. (granted, they had to compile statistics after the sale i covered ended at 7pm, but one and a half hours to do it?...)
normally my online handle is dysgrace, but for tonight i am dysgruntled. mehhhh.
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Hullo@ :)
Grace> Oh noooo! I'm so sorry..... nevermind. Will let you have the honour of choosing the treat for my last day then. What do you wanna have? :)
Karen>Awwww...... so tweet. Don't worry, you won't be rid of me till this Friday. hiakhiakhiak. By the way, I still have your RJC orientation towel from the other night that we went gymming. Didn't use it in the end. So, I'll return it to you tomorrow. :)
I'm rather scared by all the treats I have to give come this Friday. Almost makes me want to get a relapse of sore eyes.
It was fun scaring my brother and giving him "The Evil Eye" though. hahahaha..... I won all the staring competitions over those two days.
Everyone> We must all come back and intern together, k. :) Promise.
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
oh no! will you still be around when I get back to work on Thursday? All of us really should have lunch one more time together before the fellowship breaks up when we all go do our own thing. I'm gonna miss those super slack two hour lunches and Spinelli's tea breaks at the stroke of four. Haiiiiii....never mind we'll be back next year. So Mel, make sure you come back and temp with us yeah?
Monday, June 23, 2003
*waves* bye Elysa...oi you forgot me you dodo...poor dear. Sore eyes. Don't work when you have sore eyes (or sore eye), you'll scare the newsmakers.
erkk what a boring day. i'm skedded to go to singapore poly at dover road to check on campus access measures and sars checks. like that's so newsworthy right...
By the way..... formal announcement: I'll be leaving at the end of this week. Have to go for Communication Studies camp next week.
Aaron> will try to make it for the barbeque.
Karen>Won't be going to meet Mr CEO for tea.
Melissa>Don't slack too much
Casschew>Don't miss me too much. hahahahhahahahhah....
Siwan and Tze Yong> Work hard! hahahah..... Don't worry, you'll still have the cashew nut to play around with when you're at work.
Marcelp> Why does the camp start so earlyyyyyyyyy. See you in school! heh. YOU'LL NEVER BE FREE OF ME.
Mellwee> See you when we both come back during the hols to intern.
to all those whom I'm not sure if they can even access our dummyintern thing> get someone to give you access. This is precious advice we're dispensing here, ok. hahahaa.... (like real)
Hello... did anyone miss me today? Sorry la. Had ONE sore eye. Don't ask me how that happened. I don't know. But I do have a theory. Which brings me to the lesson for today. (Cass, you were asking for advice right?)
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR OFF DAYS
Or more appropriately, WHAT NOT TO DO WITH YOUR OFF DAYS.
You do not work on your off days. (That means you, Grace and Mel Lwee.)
You do not go to sentosa, get totally tired out after reaching home at 10:00, and still wake up at 3am to send someone off. You should have passed on the inane self-examination and "Let's talk about our feelings" lesson with a group of old people (Ok, 30-50 year-olds) that you barely know, gone home to sleep, then wake up to see your friend for what could be the last time (she's migrating to the states).
You do not go to church after a night like that. (Especially if the pastor sees you nodding off as he's preaching.)
You do not go to a concert at 7:30 that very night to listen to squeaky violins played by children of the church members, even if some of the performances WERE good....
You do not watch The Wedding Singer for the 5th time no matter how hot Drew Barrymore looks in it.
You do not sleep on the floor in your brother's room because the light in your room isn't working but you still want to read.
You do not rub your eyes, no matter how painful they are. And you do not show them to your brother who then looks at it, then remarks about how you look like a panda, and walks away not believing that your eyes REALLY hurt.
You do not blog while the abovementioned brother is breathing down your neck reading every word you're writing because he will make you change it. (Sounds like a few newsmakers i know.)
Guess it's no surprise I'm sick.
Sorry la. It's a lame lesson. But you can close one eye to it.
Saturday, June 21, 2003
:P
for your information.. casschew nuts are the best of its kind. *yum*
Friday, June 20, 2003
how come no one's dispensing advice no more?
Sunday, June 15, 2003
elysa.
i'm reading what you wrote again.
It's still hilarious!! haha
Thursday, June 12, 2003
oh, it's Howe Yang, at pixdesk :)
Elysa.
you're hilarious.
What's life in the newsroom without someone like you? :P
p/s: i think it's hao yang...
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
By the way, are we inviting the new interns (Sze Yong and Siwan, Crystal, and shucks what's-his-name is it Gao Yang.. nevermind. You know I have holes in my brain *twirls hair) to blog here? I don't really know how to do the invite thing.
MELVIN'S SPEECHES
Today's topic will be Melvin's speeches. I like Melvin, I really do. In fact, I think he's rather cool-you know, the way he swaggers around with his gigantic backpack (what does he put in it?) and unshaven I've-been-to-East-Timor-and-survived look.
It's really fun listening to what he has to say. (" I believe in a celestial being with god-like powers, but I don't want to call it God. Why? Because it could be an alien." )
But don't get him started on how people are "sophisticated by association". ("Just because the hawker drives a Mercedes, doesn't mean that he's classy." )
I'm afraid that there's no way you can come out of one of the Melvin-Do-I-freak-you-out-Singh speeches not thinking about how surreal that conversation was. ( Melvin: You're born on a February, aren't you? Me: Oh man.. how do you know? Melvin: I saw a '2' somewhere. Me: ..........)
But there are some tips to lessen the shock one of these conversations gives your system.
1. Just nod compliantly, and smile occasionally. It doesn't do to disagree with him.
2. Bear in mind that you're talking to someone who believes that aliens are the cause behind most of human development.
Its virtually impossible to defend yourself against one of the Melvin (Its the Qualitative argument versus the quantitative one!!!) tiarades. Only the strongest will survive.
But remember: Your brains are not mush.
Melvin> You know I'm just kidding around. Deep down inside, we all love you :)
Saturday, June 07, 2003
cass honey
that's nothing
i was working on my stories over the weekend! doing interviews and all that. nuts.
argh..
you know you've turned into a mel lwee when you think about your stories over the weekend.
you lose your break cos you think of work! arh!
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
Santokh's definitely has my vote for best supe.
Hey everyone in the office.. i'm at home slacking till social team's lunch at olio wheelock. wheeee...
don't get me wrong though. Last nite was close to hell for me. the standard incessantly throbbing headache and a story+stidebar to file.. when you think you're done at 9.10, the editor calls you at 9.30 to tell you to call your newsmaker and ask more questions. By the time the editor's done reading to you his new version of the story with your name on it ( I HATE THAT!! HE MIGHT AS WELL JUST PUT PUT HIS OWN NAME AND LEAVE MINE OUT!!!!) it's already 12am. wat a life.
Tuesday, June 03, 2003
OH NO! you mean marcel's attached?? Aha.. oops.. keke.
EH Marcel.. you know i'm kidding rite.. haha...
AAron.. you're still GAY GAY GAY! heehee
Bowling for Columbine review of sorts up on my blog :)
Aaron - there are so few males in this intern bunch that we just have to have some fun with them whenever we can. I mean at their expense. Oops, you weren't supposed to know that. The very fact that you're thinking about what the handguns-in-pockets kid would show if he started walking is a definite indicator of gay tendencies...
-sighz- neither of my parents, nor any of my family members, is showing up for next thursday's scholarship presentation ceremony thingy...my dad's got work and my mum will be out of the country on business...
