After a long day

...of putting up with the annoying Self-Important Bitch (we shall now refer to her as SIB), it was great to have something nice happen.

But first let me bitch about the SIB. She's this annoying person who thinks she's the smartest person in the world and likes to insist she knows everything. And probably thinks the puzzled looks on peoples' faces are because they don't understand what she's saying, and not that they're puzzled by why the hell she's restating the obvious like it's the greatest discovery yet, which is the actual case. Bet she'd take hours to get all the preceding sentences in this paragraph.

That said, I was pretty tired after work. Self control (ie. not to scream at her or try to take her bloody big eye contacts out of her eyes - sorry I generally don't have a problem with them...just hers) is pretty exhausting. And so I was thinking of just quickly getting some take-out to eat at home in front of the TV.

But then I decided I should probably go look for a top to wear for graduation. I've been scaring myself that I don't really have as much time to browse shops as I think, given that I'll only be getting busier in the coming weeks.

So on my way to the store that I wanted to check out, I passed another one that I don't normally go to but decided to just have a look anyway. Walked around a bit, and realised they did have some pretty nice stuff. And they weren't to expensive. But not entirely my style...though I wouldn't mind switching up my look with some of the clothes here. Anyways, I was on my way out, pretty sure I wouldn't find anything...when I saw it! The most perfect blouse ever! It was exactly the kind of blouse I was looking for with those soft ruffles in the front. And also fitted all the restrictions my school has on attire. I was a little apprehensive lest they look like some growth out of my chest. But when I tried it on, they fell perfectly in place.

And so I bought it. Yay!

Oh, and it was about half the price of other similar blouses I'd seen in another store.

Having nothing to do at work is pretty demotivating. Here I am raring to go wanting new challenges, or at least to learn something. Instead, I'm settling into a routine of 9 to 5 bumming. So, I've been trying to keep myself busy. I've been trying to learn how to do more stuff with Excel, because I'm sure it'll eventually come in handy. But that doesn't last long - it's pretty boring if you haven't even got any real data to work with, and thus any real need to learn some of these functions.

I know I should just hang on for a little while longer until I'm assigned my real work. But it's getting harder and harder to just do nothing all day long. I also kind of feel like my time is being wasted and I could be gaining more experience elsewhere.

On the upside, this is giving me time to think about things I normally wouldn't bother to. LIke new ways to mix and match my work wardrobe and accessories.

And also what to wear to my graduation. Suggestions, anyone?

It's been awhile since I've had time to blog. And then a few days since I finally did have time but didn't have anything to write about. Writing about nice people I've met and the new people I'll probably bitch most about from now on just seemed a little too...boring.

Earlier this evening, I was going to write about my first indulgent purchase since I got my proper job. Between food, transportation and getting the necessary furnishings for my new room, I've felt pretty broke.

But then there were those heels.

Most girls have several pairs of nice heels to go to work in. Okay, I have a pair too. And then there are my two comfy work/walking shoes. But they're all pretty serious looking. I haven't found any nice, pretty, not-so-serious looking ones.

And then I found them! I'd seen them a couple of weeks ago and thought they were really cute. But I was even more broke then - I hadn't even gotten my first pay check.

And then I got them just now! :D They're a beautiful, cheerful yellow with brown bows. And they're so soft and comfortable. Can't wait for Monday to wear them. Think I'll wear them out tomorrow.

Yay!

And then I came home to put away my groceries. And a ginormous rat scuttled from the kitchen to the living room!

OMG

Now I'm just feeling super paranoid and scared. Never have I been so glad to see my housemate.

But I have pretty shoes. :)

Breakfast alone

A few things I've noticed about having breakfast alone on the weekends.

1. You can read the papers comfortably because there's enough room at the table. And also because you're not being rude and ignoring anyone.

2. You notice more things around you, because you haven't actually got an engaging conversation going on at your own table.

So, a randomly scary thing I noticed while at breakfast. There weren't that many screaming children. And it was Sunday!!! Okay I have to admit that part of it was because there were well-mannered children. But...BUT there were two families sitting near me. Just parents and a young child at each table. The first couple had their daughter watching Upin & Ipin or something like that on the iPad. The other couple, had their son staring at Barney on the PSP. I know I'm not kid expert but is that really what parents want to allow their kids to do at the table during meals? The PSP kid was just pretty much staring at the screen while the mum holds the cup and makes him take several sips of juice, and then the dad feeds him a mouthful of food at a time. Again I'm no expert, but I really don't think that kid looked like he had any kind of disability or anything. He just looked like he couldn't be bothered to look away from his show. If that's what kids are doing during meals, then tell me, during what activity should they multitask and learn about table manners?

Then again, I'm the one reading the papers at the table, right?

Royale Bintang The Curve

So another one of my sporadic hotel reviews.

My family and I recently stayed at the Royale Bintang at The Curve. It's connected to the shopping center and is just opposite Ikano and Ikea. It's a four-star hotel, looks really nice...except for this super random fake life-sized camel at the entrance.

Great, right?

Not.

Check in time is at 2pm. We arrived in KL a bit early so we decided to go elsewhere first before checking in. At 2.15pm I get a call from the hotel asking when we're arriving because it's already past check in time. I assure them we're on the way - we're just running a little late and are a little lost.

We arrive at about 2.30 and I hurry over to the reception desk. And I'm told my room is not ready. WTF? Okay nevermind....she gives me a voucher for a welcome drink. We sit and have our drinks...in a leisurely manner, mind you. And it's about another 15-20 minutes before I go and check on the status of the room again.

They tell me that it's still not ready and will probably be yet another half hour. They can't locate the previous tenants of the room who still haven't checked out.

15 minutes later, they said it would be another 20 minutes.

WTF.

One of them tells us the latest check out they can give us as compensation is 1.30pm. She's the most junior staff amongst them, I think. The next guy says guests can have checkout as late as 4pm or 6pm. And the manager says it's typical for them to allow guests late check out for free. They obviously haven't gotten their stories straight. Until now, I still don't know which one of them is accurate.

Anyway by the time we check in it's past 3pm. We've asked them to compensate us for the super long delay by allowing us a late check out. Which the manager agrees to and claims he's set our key cards to allow for a 2pm check out.

So we go about our business and the next day we have lunch and come back at 1.30. And our key cards don't work. Luckily housekeeping is somewhere down the corridor and see us and open the door for us.

All in all they were just hopeless. Service was poor and they basically promised things and did not deliver. And then took an apathetic attitude to things when we complained.

Allow me to whine just a little bit

I started writing this post whining about something. But by the time I was done, I decided to delete the whole thing and rewrite this.

I wanted to whine about having to turn down this other job. I wanted to whine that, as much as some of my other friends who are having a tougher time finding a job than I would like to scold me for being a showoff-y bitch, I should still be entitled to feel a sense of loss. I was turning down a job I really really really wanted. (It's especially hard to do when the HR guy is so fit! Ok I'm digressing lol)

But yeah...I think the time for being sad over that has passed. Back to looking forward to the other job I really really really wanted - and accepted.

Lazy to read.....agh

There's this application I have to submit for this thing I don't even care if I get selected to go for but I think my school will have my head if I don't submit the application because I already told them I would. But agh! It's so damn tedious.

There are several questions that we have to answer and while they are pretty interesting things I wouldn't mind reading up about...I'm just so damn lazy to do this. Lots of reading 'intelligent' articles and papers and doing my homework before I can actually write a proper answer for it.

I know I don't care about whether I get selected or not. But....BUT....I'm not going to have my name on a form where the answer to a question on current issues and economics is:

"Umm...I guess our economy must be doing fine cuz shopping here is getting better! But we might want to hire better purchasers because they don't have enough stuff that cater to non size 0 and rather short girls - which is what Asian girls really look like."

Haha but yes, I think that's all I'd be able to have as my answer without doing my homework first. Agh.