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woohoo.. finally did some shopping..

-monday-
monday was memorial day in US.. so the boardwalk opened till 8 instead of 11.. and the good thing was i started work @330pm! so shiok.. i slept till 12pm, did some laundry.. den decided to walk to downtown to do some shopping... went to gap and stuff... gap clothes have such huge sizes.. but due to lack of time, i juz tried some and left... also not v cheap.. but definitely will go back again =)

anyway, here are some photos of downtown..
















car garage.. cars on sale!

TACO BELL! must eat there someday

my fave subway! but daily special 2.49.. so ex..

Borders! (think.. cow.. haha) haven gone in though...

-tuesday-

shit man.. my schedule for the wk sucks.. start at 1015 everyday and work till closing time... close at 5pm from tues to thurs and close at 7pm on fri... sat work till 330pm and off on sunday! yay! maybe i'll go shopping on sunday... haha..

but the boardwalk was super quiet today.. my ride only had 135 children the whole day.. when on bz days, each hr got like 100+ children already... the good thing is tt it was v slack.. stoning most of the day.. the bad thing is tt time passed dam slowly.. but i like the fact tt it closed at 5pm today..

went to capitola mall after work today.. shopped for abt 2 hrs at wet seal... and ate carls jr! funny tt i nv eaten carls jr in spore b4 and the 1st time i eat it is in us! really not bad.. but the burger was huge.. but i still managed to finish it cuz was hungry... felt bloated after tt though.. and its also not cheap.. paid US5.70 for a meal.. ex rite? but free flow of drinks =)

here are some photos of the day..

bus ride to capitola

VICTORIA SECRETS!

at cingular wireless mobile shop

my wet seal purchases!

love this top man.. can wear to work nxt time too!

the remnants of my carls jr meal..

oh btw.. i've turned like 2 shades darker.. so sad... i juz bought foundation loh! waste my money.. now hafta buy 2 tones darker ones... =( who wan buy from me? haha.. jk

kk.. here's some photos of my apartment..

my window side bed the super small toilet

the messy bedroom cum living room

small kitchen

dining area in the small kitchen

my employee ID!! =)

kk.. enuff blogging for today.. will blog again soon after i've collected enuff photos again.. haha

experience @ work

hey pple.. so sorry for the lack of post... its rather crazy here... reached here on wed and started working on friday.. so din haf time to rest cuz had jet lag.. so far i've worked friday, saturday n sunday.. 3 straight days man.. 8hrs on the 1st, 6.5 on the second and 10h on the 3rd.. and u noe why i had to work 10hrs? cuz i had training from 10am to 2pm.. and after tt, one of my supervisors asked me if i wanna work today (sun) or go back to rest.. den i asked her wat time i had to work until.. and she said 7.. so i said ok i'll work.. and guess wat? they forgot abt me totally... so i was standing there and no one came to replace me.. and i can't leave my ride cuz i was the only one operating it.. and there was no phone at my station.. so i had to try and catch the attention of the nearby ride operators and ask him to help me call for a replacement.. took like 1 hr to try to catch his attention.. actually, i dun mind working late.. but the thing is tt it was super freezing.. my fingers were turning purple even though i had a jacket on and was wearing long pants... AND the previous day, they forgot abt me too.. they forgot to relief me for my 15 mins break loh.. den i see everyone else taking their breaks one by one.. and only me dun haf my 15 mins break.. dam sad... hai... either my stupid suay luck is back or their schedule is dam screwed up..

Oh.. and i'm quite bored out.. cuz like i'm the only asian in my training batch.. and like so dam sian loh.. cuz no one to talk to... but the cool thing is tt we get paid for training.. haha.. so quite shiok... anyway, the first day i was operating this ride called ghost busters... cuz i'm new and dunno how to work the controls, i only could admit pple and help them get seated... had to check their wrist band or collect tix from them then help them put down the safety bar... was really dam boring cuz so monotonous..(is there such a word?) and somemore had to stand the whole time... it didn't help that throughout the semester i was sitting so much.. and somemore my right small toe nail broke cuz i kicked my luggage... so it broke almost 2/3 way... not pain but gross.. dare not pull it out.. haha.. so i juz put plaster.. but when walk with shoes v pain... hai.. but at least now not pain liao..

den the 2nd day i operated this kiddie speed boats by myself... really quite fun to operate a ride on ur own... but i tink i got a bit of language barrier... some ang mohs dun understand me.. dam it.. i tot my spoken english quite good wat... =( den i tried slanging a little.. den they understand betta.. hahaha... but hoh, the kids are dam cute!! their cheeks super rosy.. feel like taking photos but no camera with me during the job.. sian..

today i did sea dragons.. its those like kiddy flying dragons tt go up and down.. haha.. the operation also quite easy loh...

anyway, the company's employee benefits quite good leh... we get discounts on food (even though still dam ex... the first day i din noe how to get discount so i paid USD3.24 for a corn dog! dam... den after i know got disc, i go the store with 40% disc and ate burritos for USD 1.79 only.. wah lau.. US food all so ex one.. so i decide not to convert back to S$.. if not, i wun buy at all.. haha), we get free all day passes for rides, we can even get free passes for family n frens but limited... we get to buy movie tix at disc (but USD7... still not cheap loh..) etc etc!

hai.. but hoh, this whole thing not as fun as i tot it'll be.. maybe it'll get better but for now, quite sian.. still haven gone shopping proper... and haven gone to the beach.. and haven gone running.. although i did walk a lot.. walk to work and back and to supermarket.. haha...

k la.. i'll post more nxt time.. now i put some photos relating to my previous post k.. =)







Dinner @ Yen Flower(the Chinese Restaurant)













After our fright walk @ the employees' party

my fake tatoo

Hai.. dam sian.. most of the photos in amy's camera.. so i'll post only after i get from her k? kk.. post again soon!

Santa Cruz-ing

Hey people! this is my new blog...set up especially for my santa cruz upcoming adventures... (for those who dunno, my previous blog is www.xanga.com/sugarn5pice... will still blog there sometimes.. especially in June, when my photo cap starts from 0 again.. haha)

Anyway, chicky (amy) and i travelled an excrutiating 22hrs before we reached our destination... 4.5h flight to taipei, 2.5h wait at taipei airport, 11h flight to san francisco, 2h wait for our airport transportation and 2h journey to santa cruz beach!

hmm... quite disappointed with my current accomodation... thought that we could stay at the motel cuz jessica (amy's fren) is staying there now... its like a hotel bedroom la... however, we ended up staying in an 'apartment' which is a far cry from s'pore style apartments.. (will post picture of the room and place soon) so chicky and i are sharing room with a sporean girl, rachel... 3 poor souls crammed in a small room with a small bathroom and kitchen... the room is so small that we can't put all our stuff there.. so we hide all our toiletries in the 'closet' and our clothes are still in the luggage.. hai.. dunno how to tahan for 3 mths... but we might be moving into a bigger room for 4 in mid june...

i had serious jet lag last nite.. tink i only slept like 2hrs max... and the nite b4 i left, i slept abt 2hrs.. on the journey (which is one whole day) i slept only 4hrs max... so tt makes 3 days of poor sleep... hai.. feel so exhausted... too tired to enjoy the place.. but still love the weather in the day.. sunny but cooling.. but at nite, its super cold...

anyway, today we had our 'paperwork' orientation.. i've been assigned a job as a ride operator.. heard its boring.. but hope can see some cute ang moh kids.. haha... and i'm going for my drug test tml... and will be starting work tml liao.. (chicky is gonna be doing ticketing... sounds slacky..hahaha... jk).. after the paper work was done, we headed downtown to grab our chinese lunch.. the portions are so huge! we ordered 2 sets... and in the end, we only managed to finish the side dishes... left super alot of rice... so we asked for the box and da pao the rice back for dinner tml... we shopped a bit.. i bought some postcards and a track pants! its like s$25.. not cheap but i tink it looks like those that i can wear go out shopping... plus, can wear for my future gym classes.. haha.. oh.. the beach company had a party for employees today.. had free food and could go on the rides for free! i even got myself a fake tatoo on the ankles... (will post the pic once i upload it.. =))

okie.. here are some of the photos i've taken so far.. enjoy!

P.S. friends, pls leave ur email and home add on my tag board if u haven given me yet.. thankz! =)

:: Chicky n i waiting for our 1st flight... ::

::On EVA air... on the way to taipei::

::yummy lunch on board::::at taipei airport::

::waiting for the airporter @ san francisco airport::

kk.. will post more pics once i upload them k? hopefully tonite i can get a good nite's rest.. =)