Amirah. 19. Singapore. Bookish. Life.

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May 31st
9:53 PM

  1. 2 more days till I finish my housekeeping training oh my mama.
  2. I’m so frickin tired. But Alan said I’ve lost weight. 2 other people said this too. Score!
  3. I still look for his motorcycle when I come to work. Although he’s clearly working in another hotel now. Lol I dunno
  4. Ughhhhhh why’d he leave. We’d get to see each other a lot with his room service and my housekeeping. 
  5. Front Office next Monday yay! Eunice is excited too
  6. Yesterday I met my Mum at Clementi and we went to NP together to return the grad gown. Then we ate sushi and ramen and potato salad and fried scallop and mochi ice-cream and Baskin Robbins and Mum bought me shoes and we went to do some grocery shopping after. Looooooove
  7. I need to get back to reading asdfghjklsdfghjkdvasklfalfn
  8. Wow I didn’t talk about the staff chalet did I? Oh well
  9. And there was that TRM grad party. 
  10. Good times.

May 30th
8:37 PM
Cousin’s wedding on Sunday. After eating non-stop and stopping by Gek Poh to buy 8 cups of Gong Cha, we went to the playground to play and made friends with a couple of kids who were playing soccer. The cute one turned out to be my sister’s primary school friend hahaha shucks

His brother’s 5 and kept my hand is his and brought me around the neighbourhood. Reminded me of my days working in the Singapore Zoo. Kids can be so lovely.

Cousin’s wedding on Sunday. After eating non-stop and stopping by Gek Poh to buy 8 cups of Gong Cha, we went to the playground to play and made friends with a couple of kids who were playing soccer. The cute one turned out to be my sister’s primary school friend hahaha shucks

His brother’s 5 and kept my hand is his and brought me around the neighbourhood. Reminded me of my days working in the Singapore Zoo. Kids can be so lovely.

May 27th
9:45 PM
Graduation ceremony on 22nd May.
(Old sucky camera is sucky)

Graduation ceremony on 22nd May.

(Old sucky camera is sucky)

May 22nd
5:59 PM
The only graduation photo I’m tagged in on Facebook right now. Fried chicken in my mouth. Awesome.

The only graduation photo I’m tagged in on Facebook right now. Fried chicken in my mouth. Awesome.

May 15th
9:30 PM

Man I can’t seem to open my eyes.

So he was supposed to leave. And I was already all sad. But this morning I saw his motorcycle and I was like “Shit, is he here” and he was hahaha the HOD won’t let him leave and they’re able to do to that because of his work permit or something like that. Yay he should at least wait till I’m gone, right?

F&B staff chalet next week. I’l be moving to a new department next week so my name wasn’t on the list. But I am invited, of course. Someone (someone I don’t talk to much) said “Please, come. We have too many guys.” Lol

I’m going to buy a new phone oh my god yes

May 12th
4:53 PM

I’ve yet to really talk about our Bangkok trip.

Basically it was scorching hot, we ate a lot, shopped a lot and were super touristy. We rented a 7 seater with a driver cum tour guide, went to a temple, rode elephants, went to the floating market, went to the day and night markets, climbed up the bridge to watch the sunset, rode Tuk Tuks (my absolute favourite), bought hats, drank coconuts etc. etc. 

4:28 PM

Today I woke up at 9:30am and talked to my sister in bed. We got up for breakfast at 10:30am, ate and immediately went back to sleep hahaha I woke up at 2pm after that.

I had been attending WSQ courses. The first two days were fun because Kay & Ryan were there with me. The next two days were unbelievably boring but no matter. Once I complete everything, I’m gonna be certified and get $200 and a pretty pin.

Short, incomplete class gathering on Wednesday in school. Went to collect our graduation gowns! So great to meet them again. But it hit me how old and grown up (not really) we all are. With jobs and stuff.

Meeting with GM yesterday and when it was ending, the GM asked, “Anything else you guys want to voice out?”. This guy opposite me cleared his throat, raised his hand and said “I would like to take this opportunity to get to know this lady over here”. Me. FACEPALM. 

May will be exciting. Meet up with the Red Cross people for cycling, staff chalet, graduation ceremony, graduation party, my cousin’s wedding. I’ve borrowed 3 Haruki Murakami’s books from the library, one of them being 1Q84. Awesome.

I’m still deciding if I wanna join my brother for Jason Mraz’s “Tour is a Four Letter Word” concert in June.

I find myself thinking of NZ every day. 

I want to go to Iceland.

May 2nd
10:36 PM

May 2nd. The agreed date is here. :S

Work today. Adult problems are unbelievable. I can’t believe I have adult friends. Makes me not want to be an adult. So glad I still have my parents.

My hero at work got scolded yesterday. And today he tried to clarify with the other manager. And he cried. Oh my god. He cried. He walked pass me, stopped by the door and rubbed his face. He turned and looked me straight in the eyes and tried to smile but. My heart broke for him. I wanted to hug him right then and there. I hope I’d never have a day as bad as the day he’d had. God. I can’t stand looking at sad people. Especially him, the one who’s been helping and saving me and always asking me to smile. 

Orientation tomorrow yay

April 29th
10:42 PM
Carol & I on an elephant in hot hot hot Bangkok.

Carol & I on an elephant in hot hot hot Bangkok.

12:00 PM

I miss you.

Like crazy.

April 26th
9:57 PM

Eeee it’s only my second day of work but I alrdy like it. Standing up for 8 hours straight sucks though. And I’m still not sure about the fastest way to go home so I’ve been experimenting for the past 2 days. Fail, seriously. Today I traveled from Orchard to Choa Chu Kang to Jurong East to Clementi (wrong train) and to Jurong East again and finally Boon Lay and home. Hahaha silly, I took 2 hours to get home

Working in a hotel friggin rocks. I hate having to put on make up and styling my hair every day but Idk, I like the feeling of walking through Orchard Road after work with my make up on and hair still intact but in clothes as comfortable as PJs. 

2 other companies I previously went to for an interview called saying they want me. So typical of life. Back when I was so depressed about being unemployed, no one wanted me. Now? Meh

This job will surely make me lose my old friends though. No matter how many new ones I make

April 24th
7:46 PM

Back from Bangkok! Terrible sore throat. :/ I will make a post about the trip after I get the pictures from the girls.

Bangkok was so hot though. So. Hot. Singapore’s heat is nothing compared to Bangkok’s. I love the tuk tuk rides the most. 

New job starts tomorrow. A little nervous, a little excited. My training schedule till end of June is out! I have most Sundays off which is good good good. 

I guess in the future, if I were to look back and figure out when everything started falling apart between me and Doritos, it would be this date. 

April 19th
1:43 AM
"I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side."
—  Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
April 18th
10:14 PM

Just a couple of things;

  1. I’m leaving for Bangkok tomorrow! In 12 hours? I’ve not yet packed. You know me
  2. My brother just started his part-time lessons in SP last night. 6:30pm to 10:30 pm from Tuesday to Thursday. This, plus his 8 hour job every day. I don’t know how he’s gonna cope. 
  3. My sister’s now the vice-chairman of CSSRCY. I’m really quite impressed. I didn’t know she liked the CCA that much. 
  4. I bought new glasses (an astonishingly boring pair compared to my history of glasses, but completely necessary for my new job), contact lenses and stockings. Pfft nvm, investment. 
  5. I don’t understand why people have such strong negative feelings about my job. I think it’s pretty damn good. Different departments, different job scopes, free meals, washed and ironed uniforms plus I’d be friends with everyone in the hotel! Sure it’ll be tiring and the pay’s so-so. It’s really no one’s business.
  6. I’m currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. What a strange, strange book. I hope it all makes sense soon. 
  7. My Dad is the best. Sigh. He’s been helping me a lot. I don’t deserve such a great Dad. 
  8. I went for the seminar last week. About getting permanent residence in NZ. I went alone. And I didn’t expect the large crowd. There were close to 300 people there! I sat beside a guy who came alone as well. We actually took 106 together and sat beside each other, technically. Anyway, we were pretty friendly throughout the seminar but after, I didn’t want to have to go home with him so I quickly ran out and snuck into the toilet till everyone’s gone. Awkward Amirah is awkward >.<
  9. Really bad misunderstanding today because of stupid Ebuddy. Some of his messages didn’t get through and I thought he was ignoring me. I left abruptly because I was pissed. I feel like I should apologize but it might seem silly. Like, he might not have even realized I was angry. asdflknslglbjdlbaf
  10. No internet for 5 full days I reckon.