Monday, September 05, 2005
Malay Weddings
That person is so evil! I shall be nice =p
I was down at my ex-colleague's wedding on Sunday. If I dont remmeber wrongly, that was the second malay wedding I have attended. But for someone who is related to me first degree (not friend's friends or parents's friends or blah blah), thats the first time my friend is getting married! I've been down to her engagement and it was an eye-opener for me because malays really have different customs altogether.
I met Elena at the MRT station and we sort of like calculated how long we have never see each other and it amounts to like one year and ten months! Time files~ I remembered the days when the 3 of us will be busy working in that big big office with the manager's room empty! My big boss's office is at the MOE building and he will be seldom at our place (which is the old MOE building) and we have like 7 terminals and 3 phone lines for our use!! Work was stress nonetheless and teachers are sometimes a really despicable lot and some teachers just dont behave like one. I especially remember this teacher who often tried to flirt with me on the phone and I simply hate to call him and that day when he insisted coming down to seek how the things was supposed to be done, I nearly armed myself with armour and bulletproof vest! It turned out that he was a OLD FOGEY!!! That was so disgusting!!! And there was another teacher Mr Goodenough (yeah, that was his surname, he's a caucasian). He was irritating enough on the phone, pestering us everyday to help him with the system and stuff and that day he came down, we changed our opinion about him because he seems nice enough or good enough. HAHA!
And because the place we were at were quite secluded, there's always not much food we can have because the nearest was at Tanglin Mall and if we were lazy or too busy, we would head to somewhere near and pack cup noodles. The people working there all had cars and they will drive to orchard or what to have their meals and because we three worked in a different office, we weren't very close to them. Elena was always looking at the older men in the other offices and telling which is more handsome than who, she even had some scandals with one of them!! HAHA! OPPS! I could go on and on about the stress we had and the dialouges we have with teachers, in-charge, some big shots in MOE although I only spend like 3 weeks there with like 5 days on MC because I just cannot keep up with the stress and the work. Sometimes we got to work from 8am to 8pm and that was like too much for my health because travelling took like 1++ hour and there was once when I reach home and I cannot see anything! It was like first hand experience of the working life, with meetings (yes, although I am some small fry), writing reports, calling the schools in Singapore and emailing to the principals and stuff and there was no way in life when I'm so concerned about my grammar and tones and blah blah because I am always rubbing shoulders with the in-charge of the West district, East and my primary school princinpal even became my colleague and I was so SHOCKED and elated at the same time! It is like Alice in wonderland although I am not Alice but Joanne. HAHA!
I was supposed to say about the wedding but well, think I say too much already! HAHA! I did not get a chance to take a picture with the bride because I was a small fry and she was so buSY!!! Anyway, try to see if you can spot her in the pictures, =)
I added new pictures to my shelf because I got nothing to do and there are additiional members in the family. So much so for nothing to do?
And wonders what happen if all of this falls on your head??
They are so beautiful!!! I took a snap since I got my phone. By the way, nokia 3230 is down with some idiotic problems recently and Nokia cannot solve that! It is not a major problem but it's just that theres this stupid "@" sign at the top right hand corner of my phone and it was irritating and Nokia do not know how to solve it!! The thing is being spread by sms-es!! you will receive some sms with weird characters and then you will caught the "@" thingie and supposedly only my model is vunlerable to that! IRRITATING!!!
HAHA! Thats so long isn't it? School is kinda busy and the term is starting to heat up already! SIANZ!!! tata~
JOanne thought hard on 5:45:00 PM.
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