I'm blogging now because I'm feeling happy. And being happy is such a good feeling... Being able to feel better no matter what is going on in your life is pretty much an amazing achievement in anyone's life.

Let me update everyone about my life. (Presuming I really do have readers who reads my blog). I always tell myself to update regularly, there was once I said I would update my blog daily but procrastination always reigned over me.

I've been working in my current company for about a year & more...And at this moment, I'm rather dissatisfied with my job. I was told to prove myself a year ago, when I was still green. I worked my way up, getting results, showing my potential & making sure my boss knew I was hardworking & worthy to hire. Hired as a coordinator but told to do even more, I accepted it willingly. Targets were given & I achieved it. I made requests to be rewarded and hoped silently to be recognized for what I had done. I fought for an ideal "compensation" but till now, none came. Let's be realistic. Sales is about the money right? I get the deal signed & I rightfully should ne paid with the commission value right? I requested several times but every time I did, I was rebutted with a "Not enough, prove again, do more script." Let's say the target was 3.5 million & together with the team, we hit 4.2 million. Does it not show something? Have we not proven?

And today, an increment happened. Thank you for that A. But a 2 digit increment is just so shoddy. I'm not greedy but a normal sales job out there could kindly give more than what I am getting now with the experience & base that I have. I've been offered a good rate by other companies but I was taken aback by the working location. I've given up though.. In trusting your words. You asked me why I had no reaction towards the increment & also told me that when I started this job, I gave excellent results but somehow I changed. I'm sorry, I didn't. You was the one who couldn't keep to your words. I saw through you. Let's not call this slavery, I can only compliment that you practice amazing cost-savings skills. Let's move on. I have to move on.

Good things have been coming and I'm staying both positive & grateful and I believe the turn of events will lead me to a better step in life.

I have so much to update everyone & I will but give me time. I have some restrictions at the moment so I seek your understanding.

On a lighter note, I dyed my hair violet & I totally love my hair now! So much has been happening & I'm looking forward to the end of the year. Ideas are buzzing & I am jumping around with enthusiasm! My love-life has been pretty much very delightful as well. What more can I ask for?

I am grateful for James, his friends (who are also my friends), my friends, my mother and Mei Lin from Marshall Cavendish who saw what there was in me, allowing me to fulfill my long-awaited dream. I am thankful for all these people & so much more.

I have trust that my future holds many rainbows!

P.S : The budget airline has refunded our payment for the overbooked flight during February. You'll know what I'm talking about if you've been reading my blog... And they compensated BF and I a pair of vouchers so tickets to BANGKOK yet AGAIN has been booked in September. I hope a few friends can join us this time!

Let's end this post with my latest camwhore shot! Or... maybe a few instead? :D

Stay tuned to my blog. I promise EXCITING NEWS.

Back to this empty space that lags behind time...

Today,I'd be blogging abt my first laser treatment.

Last Tuesday, I actually went to this shop at Tampines Central to thread my eyebrows. As always, the lady would persuade me to go for facials and all that but I rejected her cos I hate getting pressurized to sign up for those packages and it's always so difficult for me to reject them. Then she started talking abt the small lump of meat on my left eyelid. All the beauticians always talk about it... "Eh Xiao Mei, why don't you laser it? So ugly.. Just one time laser than pretty already la.."

I'd always ignore them but this time I was a little impulsive and thought that since I have been considering for so long, why not just give it a try?? She assured me that it'd be painless and it'd be over in a minute. I damn kiasi one ok, I kept telling her I was afraid of pain, I was afraid there'd be a scar etc and she retorted saying "You have tattoos on your hand & you're afraid of pain?!" So I was like, Fine... I'll do it. She said it'd cost $20 cos it was very near the eyes.. I didn't know the market price so I just agreed. It was after that Boyfr's mum told me that it was expensive.. But I'd done it already.. Bo pian.

She used this sharp pointer like pen and did something to the meat lump and I smelt those burnt smell which was pretty freaky because it felt like she was burning my eyes. Felt a slight sting and it was over after that. She showed me my reflection and I was damn freaked out cos there was like a hole in place of the lump..

Haha cos I'm so kiasu, I didn't know that was normal. I called my mum & apps my girls and they told me it was normal.. I just have to wait for the normal skin to grow back & it'd be good once again. Heng uh, I was damn scared for like 15 minutes..

So after it recovers, I can finally draw a perfect liner on my eyelids. YAY TO BEAUTIFUL EYES!

I shall end my post today with very ugly photos of myself but better than nothing right? :D


Haha ok there are 2 quite pretty ones actually.

Xoxo!

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My earlier post yesterday was about that friggin budget airline. But this post is gonna be even more interesting.

It's about my first time going for an audition for a movie. This was SUPPOSED to be my second audition but I missed the first one because I was leaving for Bangkok on that day. So my agent actually emailed me about this casting call & arranged for me to be there at 2pm. It was held somewhere in Katong, if I remember correctly.. Boyfr went along with me just to accompany me & give me some support. I was so nervous, I was practically shaking in the cab.

Once I reached the venue, I was told to fill up a form & than I was given a number plus a random script. The banner outside the venue said that anyone could audition for this movie so I told James to join it for fun. He declined though. Hahaha. My boyfr is such a private person while I am so attention-hungry! Yin-yang!

Anyway, I went through my script.. We were given the script in both Chinese & English and we could choose to act out whichever we chose to. I really sucked in my Chinese language. (God knows how I got A2 for my Nlevels seriously) but I found that the script in English sounded really weird. So it was Chinese for me. I was supposed to act as a relief teacher who's fiancé cheated on her.. The most important part about this role was to compose the right emotions. I thought that I could try to squeeze some years maybe? I had everything planned out in my head but I had like only 20% confidence in myself. Everyone looked rather dreamy, talking to themselves, rehearsing their scripts. My first experience with an audition and it was so interesting.

Honestly speaking, I knew deep down that I wouldn't be chosen because I wasn't prepared. I didn't know what to expect when I meet with the panel of judges. I presumed there would be like maybe 3 judges up there.. And maybe I could use someone as my cheating fiancé to make the act more convincing?

I was so anxious that I went to the restroom to pee & somehow when I went back, I had missed my number. So I informed the in charge & he arranged for me to be next! I was led to the stairs & I stood there listening to the lady that was acting with so much emotions in her voice. She had the judges attention in her hands, the applause that she received was just so loud! At that moment, I really felt like just leaving, giving up.. Seriously. I wanted to walk away. I knew I couldn't make it. But I had gotten cold feet 2 years ago when I applied to join Star Search, got a priority slot and than decided not to go for it. So I thought... This time I'm just gonna go for it.

So my turn came, I walked up the stairs and there were like SO MANY judges. I think there was like 8? My nerves had gotten over me & I just dare not look at anyone of them. I was told to hold my number up, take a photo and start.... And shit. The perfectly memorized script in my head just vanished. And I didn't know what to do. So I,as expected.. Screwed up. I just babbled some nonsense, tried to be sad... Ok, I was really sad. Not cos of e script but cos I knew I was wasting the judges time.. Looking at my stupid act. I failed badly.. And I ended e act rather awkwardly. All I received was some pathetic encouraging nods from the judges as if telling me "You suck, but at least you tried."

I knew how badly I did and I felt so sorry for wasting the judges' time. But after all, I learnt! I was brave enough to go for it, experienced it & well, just do what I wanted to do. Doesn't matter that I didn't get any roles cos at least I tried! (Self-comfort)

Here are a few photos which I was tagged in on Facebook.

You all may judge, may laugh or criticize but I don't care. It was an experience for me, I enjoyed it somehow! Many others out there don't even grab hold of the opportunity!

I looked pale,my face was cramped but still you all can see the tinge of sadness right? Come on.. Say yes? Hahaha.

That's all for now.

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This is the THIRD time I am writing in to you, CUSTOMER CARE DEPARTMENT. I am completely disappointed with your company, who was supposed to be the BEST budget airline in Singapore. My boyfriend, James, has written in maybe 3 times? So together we have written in to you for 6 times. I REPEAT, SIX TIMES. So you think we have all the time to write feedback forms to your side everyday??? EVERY SINGLE TIME we write a feedback form over to your side, it is EITHER we DO NOT get any reply or we get a stupid auto generated reply saying we need to WAIT 15 days for the issue to be resolved. You keep telling us 15 days, 15 days, 15 days.. HOW MANY 15 days do we have to wait? We were promised a $250 voucher for EACH PASSENGER from your side at the Bangkok international Airport when our flight was overbooked. All we got was two pathetic $100 voucher, I think we definitely deserved more than this for this stupid ordeal we were put through, Do you know the time and effort we have wasted just to settle this issue? FIRST, flight overbooked, we received a lesser compensation than promised. Second, we called the hotline several times, sent feedback forms several times and NOT ONCE did we receive any follow up calls from your side AT ALL. You guys have FAILED SO MANY of your customer service guarantee and NOT ONCE did you all try to appease customer or provide a PROPER SATISFACTORY compensation for all these. We asked for the compensation, it took weeks. For the receipt for the refund, it took weeks. We needed the receipt urgently to send it to our insurance agent to claim, it took weeks. Everytime we call your incompetent hotline, all we received was a reply that WE HAVE TO WRITE IN so that the customer care department can do something. AND AFTER we write in, we have to wait for 15 working days, We received replies saying that "We are sorry Ms, but we are the reservation department so we cannot do much but to escalate this issue to our customer care department." When I asked to be transferred to the customer care department, IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE. Why?? Than what is the department for? To hide behind the computer and send automated replies telling us to wait 15 days? Please enlighten me. The MOST RIDICULOUS issue was that whenever your side send us the receipt or did the transfer of our refund, we RECEIVE NO CALLS OR EMAILS to inform us. We need to call in EVERY single time TO FINALLY find out that OH my receipt has been sent, OH the refund has been done. We were told that our refund was transferred on the 1st of March 2012 but when we checked the banking accounts, there was no money transferred. We called to inform your company but guess what was the reply? "Our system shows that the transfer is done, if you did not receive, you have to write a feedback form to us." AGAIN! So another stupid 15 days of waiting YET AGAIN. Have you all ever stood in our shoes for all these trouble we had to go through? You write this on your website --> [ We strive to make every part of your experience with us uncomplicated, pleasant and enjoyable. That’s why we have over 7,000 people doing their very best, all day, every day, to get you to where you want to go.  }.. Sorry, EVERYTHING was complicated, it was NOT PLEASANT that we could not go on the flight we booked and it WAS NOT PLEASANT to be told that our flight was overbooked, we had no choice but to wait 12 HOURS LATER. This stupid process to get the refund and compensation from your company was NOT A BIT of enjoyable at all. YOU KNOW THAT? You understand how we feel? Every time I call the customer service hotline, I try my best to speak in the NICEST tone possible and not vent my frustrations on them BECAUSE I know they did not cause this. I stood in the place of your personnels to not ruin their day but WHO IS going to UNDERSTAND ME? The MOST hilarious situation happened. It took US a whole month to finally UNDERSTAND WHY our refund did not came into our account. Our account number started with [ 209 ] and your side actually TRANSFERRED to an account starting with [ 009 ] .WHAT IS THIS? Please tell me. We only managed to FIND OUT because we called over to your hotline and demanded for the transaction details FOR US to INVESTIGATE ourselves. It was only TODAY, 30th of March 2012, 30 days after the transaction that we finally FOUND OUT what was wrong, We DID inform you that we did not receive the refund, BUT THAN did you all do any investigation AT ALL? It is now the beginning of April, it has been ONE MONTH PLUS since our flight. When we spoke to your customer service personnel and told them that you guys have transferred to the wrong account, the reply we received was          "We are sorry, but the account number is indicated in the system" It SEEMS that there was nothing you all can do?? Nobody offered to help us rectify the situation, we have to call YOUR SIDE and ask "HOW ARE YOU ALL GOING TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION?" So we were told ONCE again to write in this FEEDBACK FORM, and wait for another 15 days (WHAT'S NEW?)...I called the bank and the bank said that your company MUST inform them so that they can DO SOMETHING. So WHEN WILL YOUR COMPANY inform the bank for us and do something? We want to see our refund. Will this feedback of mine receive any reply? I shall wait and see.