7 cab rides in 24/7
Friday, October 30, 2009
I tagged along with a colleague of mine on tuesday night to watch cum interview cyril takayama,the famous japanese illusionist. He came to singapore to film a new magic series by Axn,which will be aired on Nov. 1 of the things i love about the event was food. Our main course was a fish delight topped with lovely cranberries. Not to forget the dessert served-creme brulee.Yums~
Besides watching cyril from a up close range,the only thing i still vividly remember was hunting for $1 laksa on wed afternoon.It was a news posted on a cj.omy, and the only obvious clues that were provided were: $1 laksa,sungei road trishaw laksa, and it is located at 新长城餐室.
I also didn't expect myself to break my personal record of cabbing 7 times a day. It seems extravagant,but i'll not gonna claim all the expenses from my company,i'll only claim part of it. =)
1st ride: To sungei road,searching for $1 laksa. Cab driver drove me around the vicinity,trying his best to help me find the shop. He even called a couple of his taxi kakis,but his friends were clueless too. He got no choice but to let me off his cab,else the meter will burst.
2nd ride: From my clues, i decided to proceed to New Bridge Road(my gut feeling),as the name of the hawker centre resembles like the one shown on cj.omy. I walked up on down the stretch of shophouses. Called my colleagues to help me locate the place of the laksa, when i actually knew that chances of quite slim. Okay,at this moment i was completely flabbergasted,almost to the extend of giving up. Plus,i think the weather hates me. It poured so heavily when my mind was close to the state of delirium. Then i asked the owner of the coffee shop and he said that he have another branch at Whampoa.I took a name card from the counter and departed asap.
3rd Ride: I hopped on the 3rd cab,proceeding to my 3rd stop. I arrived at Whampoa Drive Blk 82 and began my desperate hunt for $1 laksa. There was 3 coffee shops at the hdb flats, while i finally reached the 3rd coffee shop. I saw a banner showing"$1/$2/$3 laksa". At last,i found the mystery $1 laksa stall. BUT...turns out that i was 1 hr later. Because another reporter from another evening papers had already interviewed the owner. Still,i kept my calm and began my interview. The shop owner was really kind cause she treated me a $1 laksa, although the portion was little, but it settled my lunch problem.
4th ride: Return trip back to my workplace.
5th ride: Because i forgot to ask for the interviewee's number, i had to make an extra trip back to the $1 laksa stall. That was so dumb of me! I didn't know what i was thinking when i left earlier, but i did hesitated a little on whether i should ask for the interviewee's number.
6th ride: Returning back to my workplace again. A little worn out by all the travelling.
I personally find the laksa quite good,but $2 portion seems a better deal to fill your tummy. 8:10 AM
纯粹闲聊咯
Saturday, October 24, 2009
有一回，我问同事A：“你们当记者会有压力吗？”
A说：“当然会啦，怎么可能没有。”
我说：“那你通常怎么处理压力呢？”
A笑着说：“只要不把工作压力当成压力，就行了”
我追问她：“是不是像阿Q一样，用精神胜利法说服自己？”
A 摇摇头：“其实我会往好的方面想，比如说，压力是自我提升的过程，它有什么好处等等”
我说：“哦...是酱啊”
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与同事B闲聊时，我问：“你平时休假会做什么？”
B说：“难得休假，就会陪家人咯，其实一天的时间也不多耶。”
我说：“酱啊，那不会很无趣？”
B叹气：“没办法，做这行就是这样子，很难找时间的...”
我说：“哎...我看要认真考虑以后是否要继续当记者。”
B好奇地问：“那么你休假都做什么呢？”
我说：“看书，看电视，呃...有空就跟朋友出去咯。”
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说实在的，日子日复一日地流逝，有时回头一看，真的是无聊乏味。当工作忙起来，我也没有特别的闲情去做其他事，只好把兴趣或计划暂时搁在一边，一切等实习结束后再说吧。
4:06 AM
please go away,stress
Friday, October 23, 2009
Oh my god~ I'm such a bad stress handler,who succumbs to undesired situations,and complain about how pathetic my life is. Stress!STRESS!STRESS! I seriously dread that. I've got awful breakouts on my face, gastric pains,dying braincells... Adding to that, I'm bringing work back home almost everyday. I can't possibly find a perfect day when i will be watching youtube videos without being tied down by the thought of "shit,i've got to complete this by tonight".
So,1 months & 2 weeks of intern at Sph had flew by at a blinking of an eye. What have i achieved till now?Ok,i published a couple of articles,i wrote a health column for Uweekly,i am still learning...Honestly speaking, i can't really raise my hands up in joy and exclaim:"Yes,i'm improving...I've impressed my supervisors, I'm so gonna be good at this(journalism)" Nah nah, i haven't even reach my supervisors' expectations,yet alone my own. Am i'm the slowest and dumbest intern? I had the gut feeling that probably this is the OS of my supervisors. Haha...allow me to be pessimistic cause i feel better if they had thought so too. Ok,I'm a slow budder. But do they do know that? Well,it doesn't matter.
I just pissed 1 of my interviewee over the phone cause i constantly bugged him 3 times. It's normal he feels it that way,i completely understand. Yes,that's when i had this feeling-I'm screwed...it's no doubt he ever picked up my calls. Anyway,I still had to figure a way out.
Putting aside the stress talk, i finally went for floorball training after a months of MIA-ing. I really glad to be back for training, and somehow i converted my working stress into playing hard on court. I wanna attend more floorball trainings!
9:34 AM
somehow,i like public holidays
Sunday, October 18, 2009
I'm starting to love public holidays. It was like a bonus resting period,in addition to my regular 5 working days. I checked the calender and realised i had an extra rest day for each month.
- This month it was Deepavali.
- November, Hari Raya.
- December, Christmas the 25th. YAY~
- And lastly, New Year Day on Jan 2010.
Happy Birthday Nanxin!
Saturday,watched the movie Nanking! with zk. An astounding movie that depicts the nanking war in 1937-1938. I liked the black and white style of portrayal in the movie,it makes it reenactment seems like the real thing.
Today. Met up with singyee and cuishan to catch Julie & Julia at the cathay. A lovely movie based on 2 true stories. I can't imagine myself cooking 524 recipes in 365 days, i simply got no time and no ideal kitchen to accomplish this challenge. It was a great day out, catching up with sy and cs... It was hard to meet up since internship starts, and i really have no idea when will i have such opportunity again. Probably after my intern,which is like feb 2010? But,i'm do welcome if anyone ask me out on Thursday,cause it so happens to be 1 of my off days. We can always arrange for meetups,lest you don't mind. Anyway,Julie Powell, 1 of the characters portrayed in the movie is still writing her blog. Do visit her blog if you're interested.
& last of all,a mini group photo taken after the movie
5:52 AM
一场真实般的梦境
Saturday, October 10, 2009
我好像很久很久没有参与地板钩球的练习，是两个月？还是半年了？连我自己都记不起。重新见到一张张熟悉的面孔，不禁感到很欣慰，很开心。如同一个兴奋的孩子，第一次到游乐园那种亢奋的心情 ，有一股冲动突然涌上心头，促使我迫不及待想抓了球棍就上场练习。
正当我兴致勃勃一只脚准备踏进球场练习时，我却被队友阻止了。
她冷冷地对我说：“几个月没见到你，教练已经选好球员，可惜你没来，所以从今天起....你不属于这个球队。”我愣住了，不知如何反应。顿时，声音卡在喉咙里，发不出声音。
“不属于这个球队？”
我舍命挣扎着，苦苦地喊出旁人听不到的声音。许久后，我终于战胜自己。不过，声音虽然恢复了，但嘴巴像含了一颗颗碎石似的，脱口嘶叫着：“这样对我不公平，我只不过几个月没来练习，我是有苦衷的！”我费尽唇舌，噼哩啪啦地吐出一堆理由，拼命替自己辩解着，只求他们谅解。
突然间，场景变换了。
我发现自己已在下一个故事里扮演一个新的角色。
梦，一直延续着。
5:29 AM
忙碌会操“老”
Sunday, October 4, 2009
这几天，我不是普通的忙碌，而是超级无敌忙！今年的中秋节，就是这样忙到没时间庆祝。很庆幸上星期提早和朋友庆中秋，不然今年的中秋节除了工作以外，其实就真的很乏味。
最近不喜欢晚上10点才放工那种日子，但是有时候必须赶稿就没办法啦。连续几个晚上都埋头赶稿，让人全身筋疲力尽，而唯一的休息时间只剩下睡眠。我不是超人，没有无限的精力，只有有限的能力。
记者的生活，并没有想象中那么悠闲自在，一旦进入这个圈子，就必须奉献时间和精力。但是，还是要感谢主任们愿意给我机会去采访新闻，使我吸取经验，提升自己。
忙碌的女人，会不会有细纹、皱纹、鱼尾纹！
每天累垮了，连最基本的保养工作都没有力气（或闲情）去做，通常都是马虎完成。几年后的自己，会不会看起来老了十岁呢。哈哈~
I was deep down in my thoughts while on the journey back home 1 day. I saw my reflection from the glass window--i got droopy eyes,messy hair and wore a totally "knocked out" look. I began to picture myself 2-3 years later,doing the same old thing,and probably i'll looked more aged,with strands of grey hair and wrinkles on my forehead! I know it's a bit of exaggeration, but i couldn't help preventing those lingering thoughts. Is that what i want in my future career? Will i enjoy doing this for the rest of my life? Am i willing to sacrifice my time and floorball?
Actually,I don't have answers to these question. I never like to make the choice that determines a change. Career or floorball-choose 1 to proceed in life. Can i have both of them,please?
5:03 AM
Time is never enough
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Yay~it's Children's Day today.
Yes and i'm taking a day's break just like all the primary school kids.
Everyday,my life is surrounded by news & more news.
Be it local,foreign,sports,celeb gossips...
I read about them, and sometimes get involve in writing them.(in fact,i belong to the local news department)
We all heard people saying that "Time is never enough", and i couldn't agree more. Well, the nature of my job definitely proved it all. We are always close competitors with time, especially when it comes to the call of articles deadlines. Sometimes when my confidence wears off, i found it extremely stressful and annoying. But looking back at how my hard work paid off, i realised it motivated me to be more efficient. Imagine if there was no time rule and no rush for deadlines, and a scenario when reporters were too laid-back, i bet there will be lesser news made known to the public. News will not be news anymore, when it's not even new if it was reported few days later.
Anyway,my supervisor called me today informing me that i have 2 news to run tomorrow, including 1 which is held at night. Okay,that means i have to miss this tomorrow's training, and it'll be like 3 weeks of absence from floorball trainings. I really hope i can make it for next week training...or else i will be MIA-ing for 1 month!
Maybe,it's good to be a kid.
Their world is like a lala-land.
Stressfree and carefree.
6:09 AM