It's like the best Xmas ever.
2 Parties, a week after another.
First the company party, now, a party held by friends. Both had its own way of fun. The Company party was fun because it was entertaining. The friends party is fun because its full of friends. And strangers, but the friends make it fun. Anyways, here's how it happened.
One of the girls from the singles camp invited all the guys (except me I think) to her party. It costs $100, and well, no girls will be there. So, naturally, when the guys asked the girls from camp if they were going, they didn't know, and got pissed off. So Mary said that she'll make the party for the camp people. It'll be better because it's $30, and you can buy a pressie to swap with people. The $100 party was at the American Club (or so I heard), but the $30 party was at the W Hotel. Basically there's many groups of people from the camp, each type is different. One of the groups is the Cate group, they have their own people from either before or made really quick during the camp. Mainly girls, but now they have a few guys in there as well. I'm not in their group, I'm not elite enough. Anyways, they organised it within a week, which is pretty good of them.
So, December 23, I've been working the whole week. The end of the week, and I managed to come to work everyday before 8am (8am on wed, 8am on thurs, and 7am on fri). Normally we finish at 5:30, but since it's the last working day before xmas, it's the tradition to leave before time and enjoy the rest of the day. So most left around 2pm. I had to stay behind and leave around 3:30pm. However, I was given a dozen of beer by my supervisor as a present, but the beer in fact came from one of our courier companies. It's still good, because I didn't really give him a present... maybe next year, if I still haven't left yet.
I got home and changed, and then got stuck answering a guy's question on msn... I don't know why, he always msgs me asking questions. He's either shy or strange, I guess it's that he's shy to talk to girls online. Me, I'm not shy talking to both sexes online, but when in real life... hah it's a different story. That's probably because I only got brothers, and no sisters. Anyways, I left home around 5:30... the train pulled out of the station just as I got there, and I had to wait another 20 mins for a train. The train got to the city around 6:45. I got out, and I had a copy of the map, I STILL managed to get lost 4 times. Turned the wrong street, and then walked up the wrong street, backtracked, and managed to cross a bridge which wasn't on the map, because it was so darned old... but I still managed to rock up to the place at 7:30. Only David was there... we were there for a few mins because we didn't know where it was... Turns out it was at the back in a place with white curtains. We saw others who also went to the camp, and we followed them in. The gang who organised it was already there. So thats when the party 'started'.
Most people were fasionably late. That's to be accepted, especially when it's a Friday. Some even came around 9pm... But it was good to catch up on the people who you didn't see for a few weeks. Everybody was given something to put on their heads, cute stuff like that, and only finger food was served. Needless to say, I wasn't really full by the end of it, but still... I wasn't expecting to be.
Everybody just talked and had fun, which was good. There weren't any games, which was good as well. Everybody who talked to me or knew me better than "total stranger status" wondered why I wasn't talking as much, and well... I DID start work at 7am. Most of them didn't work on that friday. Lucky bums. So I tried to make it a good evening. Presents were drawn, and I had the pleasure of drawing from one of the gang. It was a set of shot glasses. Thanks Judy, they are pretty nice. (I don't think I would show anybody from camp this blog because I might say something afterwards...).
So, because that gang already decided to go to Judy's place afterwards, they already had the cars filled. I was left to go with Mary and Thomas to Judy's place. We managed to get off the wrong place, but STILL got there before everybody else. They came a good 10 mins later, and we met Canny outside Judy's place in the carpark of KFC. She just got there as well. She couldn't go to the party because she works the night shift. After that we all got into Judy's place, and more and more people came, but nobody really drunk anything... it was Friday night afterall, not a night of fun. We watched "Dreamcatcher" and then that was about it... the rest was either talking or just mucking around. The night ended around 3am. And only a handful stayed behind at Judy's place.
The morning was even worse, I guess I should've sorta just left at that time, but I didn't... I wanted to see what they would do. Most people left, there were only a few of the gang left, and they started cooking dinner way before dinnertime (after lunch). After that, people came back for dinner. And then after that, for drinks and games.
I won't go into the details of the games, except that most guys suffered humiliation. Especially Thomas, because he wouldn't drink since he had to go home. So he was basically a drag queen for 3 times. All in a row. The other notable dare was that some of the guys had to french each other. Now that's gross. But the girls LOVED it. Guess no guy and no girl wanted to really french just yet... but there's signs of couples forming soon. Maybe before NYE!
I was unwittingly a light bulb that evening. I only had 2.5 shots of vodka, and since it was my first time with strong alchohol, I was dizzy, and couldn't stay up... So I went to crash in the spare bedroom. James, he loves to drink, he had maybe 7-10 shots of vodka, but he was semi-wasted, way more than me. That was ok when he was sleeping next to me. But then, Cate comes in and then they started kissing and shit. I was like OMG they don't mind some guy pretending to sleep besides them? I kept on trying to fall asleep but with them making sounds besides me (no they didn't go all the way) it was very awkard for me just to get up and leave. They would definately know for sure. So when it was 8:30am, I just got up my stuff and left. Elmer walks in and finds them on top of each other (Cate on top of James) and just kicked Cate because they had satisified looks on their faces. I can't blame them because they sure had a fun night. Thats when I decided that I can't stay in that place any longer, and called my parents to come pick me up, because it's been 2 days since I've left home. And that's the end of that.
After that, I had a chat with friends on msn, and they figured that they (James and Cate) were having something already. And we postulated that theres a few couples in the making... around 5 or so. It's already been 5 weeks since the camp, and with them hanging out every weekend, of course something's bound to happen. I didn't hang out with them enough, so nothing's happened. And their circle is bound to get smaller and smaller. Till it's a couples circle. And then I'll be looking for another circle to join. But who cares, they are still friends, and if they want people to have fun with, I can have fun with them, but if James ever crashes in a bedroom... Hell I'm getting out of there. No way I wanna become a lightbulb.
These past 2 days has been pretty relaxing. However, I helped moved our wooden fence stack and also gave away 4 of the xmas pressie beers from my supervisor to the guys who removed them, from the council. And also topped the car up with oil, it was running low. Then tomorrow (Wed) I'll be back to work, from 8am to 4pm. Yay. Work. Yay...
Hmm when will I like a girl enough to ask them first? I don't know yet. Everybody sorta been asking me that question... especially about people from camp. I'm too picky for my own good. It's not about standards, it's about the consequences... I know the consequences of making a wrong choice...
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Sunday, December 18, 2005
The Company Xmas party
Saturday... I had arranged with my brother to go meet his friends for xmas lunch... so I woke up early and tried to figure out what I'll be doing. 8am, then surfed the net for a while... then breakfast, then left the house with my video player and camera (which didn't get used). Then I caught the train to the city, $4.80 return. There, I was supposed to meet my bro at town hall, but he didn't arrive till much later. By that time, the train was coming, so I rushed to buy a ticket to milson's point. Just made it too. Anyways, we made our way to the friend's place... didn't know anybody there, but it was a nice lunch... And we ended up failing to karoke (because nobody really wanted to) but we played "Scattergories". Its to think of the answer to the questions based on the first letter (roll of the dice). Our team came last because people didn't like our answers. Like nobody there knew who Armand Asante was. And they didn't like Honey Hazlenut... Anyways, left there around 4:30 because my bro and his SO has to go to another thing, and so I walked back to the station, and got to Town Hall. And from there, it only took me about an hour to walk to Star City casino, and then another 15 mins to walk to the place, Dolton House.
Dolton House is in fact a pier. The second last pier opposite star city. The last pier is a park. With some nice art. I was there around 6, one hour early. So I walked around the park, it took 10 mins. Then I sat down and listen to music and watched Simpsons. Around 6:30 I started walking over back to the entrance of Dolton House. The entrance is in fact stairs, since the dining areas are all on the top. Already one couple was there, Ernest and his wife. Then Tim and his friend came, and then I saw my colleague. This is what happened. He came Right to Left (along the road.) He saw that there was Dolton House, and so he semi-stopped (in the middle of the road). Then he drove up and turned around, and then drove back across Left to Right, and stopped short of the Car Park ($10 for the evening). He then turned the car around and drove Right to Left again, this time I actually pointed to the car park, but he didn't see me. he went past again, then Left to Right, stopping before the car park, and then DID ANOTHER RIGHT TO LEFT! This time I was beyond belief, he's already gone by twice. Then he turned around and went Left to Right, and finally went into the carpark. That wasn't the end of it. I was still waiting. He comes out, and then I got a fone call. IT WAS HIM! The conversation was as follows :-
Him: "Man where are you?"
Me *looking directly at him*: "Right in front of you man"
Him *looks up*: "F**king hell". *Hangs up*
He didn't recognise me because I was wearing a pair of black pants and a shirt.
Talk about being a good friend. I recognised him and his gf when he first drove past... -_-
Anyways, we went up, we were still 15 mins early. So there were 7 people there... Then more and more people arrived. Then more and more. So, 7pm, there were around 30. Finger food was served, it wasn't too bad. Some seafood, some not seafood. 8pm, we could go in. 12 tables, each hosting 10 people. Max 120 people... one table was only 4, so totally around 114.
Entree was either calamari (not rings) or some sort of bird wing. I had the calamari, it was nice.
Then the main course was offered. Either chicken on soft yellow rice, or beef steak, well done. Of course I chose the chicken. Then they had the prize draw. my colleague got one of the prizes, a pack of 6 latest CDs (something they had bought before, but played to get the music). Another one also got a CD pack... more about her later. She seems to get prizes every xmas party... Then it was a LCD monitor, a notebook, a 32" LCD TV, and the grand prize, a Projector. Daniel got that... lucky bastard... But he got the wrong side of the books with the lady who drew the prize... basically called her old... but she begrudgingly gave him the prize anyways.
Still during the dinner, other events unfolded... Apparently my supervisor betted one of the waiters that he couldn't sing a bit of opera. $50... but he did. Then one of the girls Allison bet another waiter that he couldn't sing a song in French, and he did... $100. Then it turned out to be a heated argument about french vs italian, and then another waiter stepped in, spanish style. Turned out they were the "Three Waiters", who can sing classical opera style. They had big voices, and well they can pretend to be french and italian but they are indeed aussies. The one who pretended to be French, in order to prove that he has passion over the italian, kissed the hand of the girl who won the CDs before my colleague. For a full minute. Heh that's pretty funny. I guess we'll ask her if she got that guy's number or something :D
So after that performance, we finished our main course. Then it was dessert. Two choices... 1) Ice cream on top of a pudding. 2) Fairy Floss on top of toffee apple on top of almond icecream. 2) was what I got, and it definately tasted better than number 1) (so I think... :P) Then the magic show started.
What a great magician! He's fairly low-class (rude) but he's pretty funny. Did some tricks that I've not seen before, but some that I have... and some I can figure out. But some were pretty good... Most of it was slight of hand, plus the confidence that most people were drunk... So, after that show finished, everybody was cheering... he's that good... Then it was the end of the night... it finished around 11... some people left... then I got a ride with my colleague and his gf... to central. I just missed the train, so waited 20 mins, and thus got home around 1.
My bro Don was home from India by then, and thus ended the day. Needless to say, it was a fun evening out. And I drank 4 glasses of alcohol... 2 reds, 1 white, and 1 champagne. I was thirsty this morning... :P
Dolton House is in fact a pier. The second last pier opposite star city. The last pier is a park. With some nice art. I was there around 6, one hour early. So I walked around the park, it took 10 mins. Then I sat down and listen to music and watched Simpsons. Around 6:30 I started walking over back to the entrance of Dolton House. The entrance is in fact stairs, since the dining areas are all on the top. Already one couple was there, Ernest and his wife. Then Tim and his friend came, and then I saw my colleague. This is what happened. He came Right to Left (along the road.) He saw that there was Dolton House, and so he semi-stopped (in the middle of the road). Then he drove up and turned around, and then drove back across Left to Right, and stopped short of the Car Park ($10 for the evening). He then turned the car around and drove Right to Left again, this time I actually pointed to the car park, but he didn't see me. he went past again, then Left to Right, stopping before the car park, and then DID ANOTHER RIGHT TO LEFT! This time I was beyond belief, he's already gone by twice. Then he turned around and went Left to Right, and finally went into the carpark. That wasn't the end of it. I was still waiting. He comes out, and then I got a fone call. IT WAS HIM! The conversation was as follows :-
Him: "Man where are you?"
Me *looking directly at him*: "Right in front of you man"
Him *looks up*: "F**king hell". *Hangs up*
He didn't recognise me because I was wearing a pair of black pants and a shirt.
Talk about being a good friend. I recognised him and his gf when he first drove past... -_-
Anyways, we went up, we were still 15 mins early. So there were 7 people there... Then more and more people arrived. Then more and more. So, 7pm, there were around 30. Finger food was served, it wasn't too bad. Some seafood, some not seafood. 8pm, we could go in. 12 tables, each hosting 10 people. Max 120 people... one table was only 4, so totally around 114.
Entree was either calamari (not rings) or some sort of bird wing. I had the calamari, it was nice.
Then the main course was offered. Either chicken on soft yellow rice, or beef steak, well done. Of course I chose the chicken. Then they had the prize draw. my colleague got one of the prizes, a pack of 6 latest CDs (something they had bought before, but played to get the music). Another one also got a CD pack... more about her later. She seems to get prizes every xmas party... Then it was a LCD monitor, a notebook, a 32" LCD TV, and the grand prize, a Projector. Daniel got that... lucky bastard... But he got the wrong side of the books with the lady who drew the prize... basically called her old... but she begrudgingly gave him the prize anyways.
Still during the dinner, other events unfolded... Apparently my supervisor betted one of the waiters that he couldn't sing a bit of opera. $50... but he did. Then one of the girls Allison bet another waiter that he couldn't sing a song in French, and he did... $100. Then it turned out to be a heated argument about french vs italian, and then another waiter stepped in, spanish style. Turned out they were the "Three Waiters", who can sing classical opera style. They had big voices, and well they can pretend to be french and italian but they are indeed aussies. The one who pretended to be French, in order to prove that he has passion over the italian, kissed the hand of the girl who won the CDs before my colleague. For a full minute. Heh that's pretty funny. I guess we'll ask her if she got that guy's number or something :D
So after that performance, we finished our main course. Then it was dessert. Two choices... 1) Ice cream on top of a pudding. 2) Fairy Floss on top of toffee apple on top of almond icecream. 2) was what I got, and it definately tasted better than number 1) (so I think... :P) Then the magic show started.
What a great magician! He's fairly low-class (rude) but he's pretty funny. Did some tricks that I've not seen before, but some that I have... and some I can figure out. But some were pretty good... Most of it was slight of hand, plus the confidence that most people were drunk... So, after that show finished, everybody was cheering... he's that good... Then it was the end of the night... it finished around 11... some people left... then I got a ride with my colleague and his gf... to central. I just missed the train, so waited 20 mins, and thus got home around 1.
My bro Don was home from India by then, and thus ended the day. Needless to say, it was a fun evening out. And I drank 4 glasses of alcohol... 2 reds, 1 white, and 1 champagne. I was thirsty this morning... :P
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
'tis the season for cherries...
I am sick of cherries. Some people might think that cherries are the bee's knees, but to me, they aren't the best. But still I would have one or two, just to give the impression that I still like cherries. Why? Because of the trip... to cherry land.
Saturday 10th of December... Was still in a sleep state when I heard music... ah crap it was my phone... who would call me up at this ungodly hour? Of course, the person who invited me. She was worried that I wouldn't be waking up on time... but never fear, she underestimated me... I always has two sources of alarm... one's my watch, the other's my alarm clock. They don't ring at the same time, of course, just to keep things interesting (kinda like a snooze function...) Anyways, I got up, dressed in jeans, and even though some thought it was gonna be hot, I still wore jeans... then had brekkie, after what my dad kept on saying... to pick the good ones, blah blah... then I drove to strathfield station. I had to find a parking space which wasn't timed... So it was quite far from the station. Turns out that there were more than one group going to Young to pick cherries... because at 7am sharp a bus pulled away with only 10 people on board... I got called about 10 past to find out I was on the wrong side of the station.. there was a xmas tree on the other side and met the crew... two michelles, one jean, one chao, then more people came... one jenny, one mihiro, one jiro (some name), and some other people... and then the bus came at half past 7... they were late from the city. When we got on the bus, it was about 3/5ths full, we had filled up to 4/5ths... then it was a 15 mins trip to liverpool to pick up the remaining 10 people... the bus was full with 52 people...
Once full, we were out to the countryside... via hume highway... 5 hours with 2 pitstops.... drove past the intersection to yass... the pitstops were for food and breaks... food was hungry jacks, and it's fun to see people rush to order food and scoff it down... when they could eat on the bus...
Once at Young, it was to a farm called Wombat farm... plenty of flies... some guy even swallowed one... but yeah, we had 2.5 hours to pick, and well, I picked the big ones so I had quality... 3 kgs... other people went crazy and picked around 8-20 kg... but at $6 its considered cheap... also I had a stomach ache in the middle, so lost some time there... but we were glad to get out of that place... the flies were EVERYWHERE... anyways... to cut the story short, the bus trip back was also uneventful... except for the guy who went out to take a leak... and half the bus took pics... I think he's not gonna live it down... it was a company outing for my friend's (who invited me) company... and they are very mysterious about it too...
After arriving back in sydney, it was around 9... then we had dinner (me, two michelles, one jean, and michelle's bf, johnny) at a korean restraunt... 10pm finish and I drove them back because they were on the way... so got home around 11... and that was a day I won't try to repeat in a long while...
So, cherries... I'm sick of it but I'm really not gonna say anymore about it...
Saturday 10th of December... Was still in a sleep state when I heard music... ah crap it was my phone... who would call me up at this ungodly hour? Of course, the person who invited me. She was worried that I wouldn't be waking up on time... but never fear, she underestimated me... I always has two sources of alarm... one's my watch, the other's my alarm clock. They don't ring at the same time, of course, just to keep things interesting (kinda like a snooze function...) Anyways, I got up, dressed in jeans, and even though some thought it was gonna be hot, I still wore jeans... then had brekkie, after what my dad kept on saying... to pick the good ones, blah blah... then I drove to strathfield station. I had to find a parking space which wasn't timed... So it was quite far from the station. Turns out that there were more than one group going to Young to pick cherries... because at 7am sharp a bus pulled away with only 10 people on board... I got called about 10 past to find out I was on the wrong side of the station.. there was a xmas tree on the other side and met the crew... two michelles, one jean, one chao, then more people came... one jenny, one mihiro, one jiro (some name), and some other people... and then the bus came at half past 7... they were late from the city. When we got on the bus, it was about 3/5ths full, we had filled up to 4/5ths... then it was a 15 mins trip to liverpool to pick up the remaining 10 people... the bus was full with 52 people...
Once full, we were out to the countryside... via hume highway... 5 hours with 2 pitstops.... drove past the intersection to yass... the pitstops were for food and breaks... food was hungry jacks, and it's fun to see people rush to order food and scoff it down... when they could eat on the bus...
Once at Young, it was to a farm called Wombat farm... plenty of flies... some guy even swallowed one... but yeah, we had 2.5 hours to pick, and well, I picked the big ones so I had quality... 3 kgs... other people went crazy and picked around 8-20 kg... but at $6 its considered cheap... also I had a stomach ache in the middle, so lost some time there... but we were glad to get out of that place... the flies were EVERYWHERE... anyways... to cut the story short, the bus trip back was also uneventful... except for the guy who went out to take a leak... and half the bus took pics... I think he's not gonna live it down... it was a company outing for my friend's (who invited me) company... and they are very mysterious about it too...
After arriving back in sydney, it was around 9... then we had dinner (me, two michelles, one jean, and michelle's bf, johnny) at a korean restraunt... 10pm finish and I drove them back because they were on the way... so got home around 11... and that was a day I won't try to repeat in a long while...
So, cherries... I'm sick of it but I'm really not gonna say anymore about it...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
week in review
So, there was a bbq last saturday. I offered to bring mochi, and they said ok. Then the day just before, they told me to bring steak. So I was kinda conned into bringing steak. Anyways, that aside, I got told to change my glasses... so I kinda only had one day to do it, and that was saturday. Basically, the bbq was at 2pm, and so I woke up early at 8am (on a saturday... wah... that's early :P) and then got to the shopping centre to check out the optometrists. There were two, but since I've dealt with OPSM for most of my glasses wearing life (which is pretty much since grade 7) I decide to go check them out. Turns out the frames are rather expensive... easily passing $200. I chose the cheapest frame there, for $160 or so... STILL TOO EXPENSIVE! I thought the lenses would be like $80 max, but turns out after the consultation (on sunday) it turns out the lenses cost $209 for the cheapest polycarbonate! The hi density ones costs EVEN MORE! CRAP! That's over my budget already... so I had to pay a deposit and they will call me back in a week... Then I will look different... and hopefully be more attractive... :P
So, I bought $40 worth of steaks. 8 pieces of pork, 6 of beef, and 4 of lamb. Turns out I did most of the bbqing as well. I turned up at 2pm sharp, found a place to park, and immediately got called over to cate's car who just pulled up and helped her with her bbq foodstuffs. Then once settled inside, we planned our attack... to cook food now or later? and other trivial stuff like that.. I got delegated to help make some fingerfood, which is quite easy since it's just copying a master biscuit. Cheese, then salmon, then onion, then caviar, and a different caviar, and finally a piece of green vege(basil? or some herb) It's nice seafoody biscuit. Then the next one was a mixed cherry + tomato + cucumber garnished kinda biscuit. The last one was a fruit one, it had fruit cheese, then blueberry, then sliced strawberries, then halved grape, then cream on top... all nice finger foods. Then basically, more people and more people rocked up, and everybody started eating and chatting... one of the girls had to leave for a wedding, so we started cooking at 4, she had some food, then left... I became the unofficial chef for most of the day, cooking all sorts of stuff... steaks, korean bbq meat, prawns, octopii, and sausages. People had their fill. Well if they didn't, they didn't complain to me... But the food was satisfying enough. So the other events were: cards, chatting, mahjong. I had played cards and chatted, but didn't play mahjong. What else was there... Thomas was the unfortunate soul of the bbq. He basically got dragged into some activity, and well, it was licking cream off his arm. Had the guy won, the girl had to lick off his arm. But the girl won, so the guy had to lick it off Thomas's arm. That wasn't the end of it... the girl had to lick cream off the finger. But the guy had to lick it off Thomas's EAR. So he was a victim. Also, at the camp, he made a bet with a girl called Mary. If mary can throw a small piece of rubbish about 2 meters into a bin, Thomas will jump into the pool. What he didn't count on was Mary scrunching up the rubbish into a tight ball and threw it in like a rock. And he didn't jump into the pool at the camp, so Mary was calling him chickenshit for a whole week. Till he decide to jump into the pool once mary came back from the wedding. So to get mary off his back... hahaha I think there might be something going on there, will see if anything does happen between anybody who went to the camp for sure.
So work was kinda weird... I get dropped into the service role for the morning and then back to shipping goods in the afternoon. And there's like work on and off, which makes people wonder what's going on in the sales department. Tomorrow I'll get sent back into the shipping department. Yay.
There's talk of a xmas party organised by the camp people... so I'll have to see how that one will turn out... ever since the camp, I think I've spent more per week than I'd spend in 6 months. But it's all good, meeting new people is always a good thing, in my case.
Ahhh I'm so tired nowdays... sleep is not coming to me easily, I get woken up sometimes 4am for no reason. Maybe it's too warm or something. Working in the warehouse when it's humid isn't good, especially when I walk into the offices and it's nice and cool... and coming back out, I almost caught a cold. Lucky I didn't. I just had the sniffles for about 10 mins but after that I was fine.
Also another fact I found interesting was that I've never really properly drunk alcohol before camp. The highest alcohol % I had was 4.5%, which was a vodka cruiser. Beer was only 3% or something... Then at the camp, when we snuck out and I had scotch, that was pretty high. But nothing as high as what I had on saturday. I had baileys (12% a/c) before they bought out the big guns, an alcohol called "Mou tai" from China... it's supposedly the best spirit they got, for dignitries and such. It's 45%! That's pretty high. It burnt my throat as it went down, but it's nice and sweet before it burns. I will have to say that with these new friends, I'll have to build up my alcohol tolerance. Not that I will drink too much though... so I should be ok :P
In my spare time, I've been playing Need for Speed Most Wanted. While most people think it's 'so-so', I didn't really feel that way. They probably don't get the point of chasing and shit, but hey, I enjoy it quite a bit... it takes all your skill to dodge the cars...and crashing into cars and not dying, that's simply the best. I shall play it to completion I hope... :P
So, I bought $40 worth of steaks. 8 pieces of pork, 6 of beef, and 4 of lamb. Turns out I did most of the bbqing as well. I turned up at 2pm sharp, found a place to park, and immediately got called over to cate's car who just pulled up and helped her with her bbq foodstuffs. Then once settled inside, we planned our attack... to cook food now or later? and other trivial stuff like that.. I got delegated to help make some fingerfood, which is quite easy since it's just copying a master biscuit. Cheese, then salmon, then onion, then caviar, and a different caviar, and finally a piece of green vege(basil? or some herb) It's nice seafoody biscuit. Then the next one was a mixed cherry + tomato + cucumber garnished kinda biscuit. The last one was a fruit one, it had fruit cheese, then blueberry, then sliced strawberries, then halved grape, then cream on top... all nice finger foods. Then basically, more people and more people rocked up, and everybody started eating and chatting... one of the girls had to leave for a wedding, so we started cooking at 4, she had some food, then left... I became the unofficial chef for most of the day, cooking all sorts of stuff... steaks, korean bbq meat, prawns, octopii, and sausages. People had their fill. Well if they didn't, they didn't complain to me... But the food was satisfying enough. So the other events were: cards, chatting, mahjong. I had played cards and chatted, but didn't play mahjong. What else was there... Thomas was the unfortunate soul of the bbq. He basically got dragged into some activity, and well, it was licking cream off his arm. Had the guy won, the girl had to lick off his arm. But the girl won, so the guy had to lick it off Thomas's arm. That wasn't the end of it... the girl had to lick cream off the finger. But the guy had to lick it off Thomas's EAR. So he was a victim. Also, at the camp, he made a bet with a girl called Mary. If mary can throw a small piece of rubbish about 2 meters into a bin, Thomas will jump into the pool. What he didn't count on was Mary scrunching up the rubbish into a tight ball and threw it in like a rock. And he didn't jump into the pool at the camp, so Mary was calling him chickenshit for a whole week. Till he decide to jump into the pool once mary came back from the wedding. So to get mary off his back... hahaha I think there might be something going on there, will see if anything does happen between anybody who went to the camp for sure.
So work was kinda weird... I get dropped into the service role for the morning and then back to shipping goods in the afternoon. And there's like work on and off, which makes people wonder what's going on in the sales department. Tomorrow I'll get sent back into the shipping department. Yay.
There's talk of a xmas party organised by the camp people... so I'll have to see how that one will turn out... ever since the camp, I think I've spent more per week than I'd spend in 6 months. But it's all good, meeting new people is always a good thing, in my case.
Ahhh I'm so tired nowdays... sleep is not coming to me easily, I get woken up sometimes 4am for no reason. Maybe it's too warm or something. Working in the warehouse when it's humid isn't good, especially when I walk into the offices and it's nice and cool... and coming back out, I almost caught a cold. Lucky I didn't. I just had the sniffles for about 10 mins but after that I was fine.
Also another fact I found interesting was that I've never really properly drunk alcohol before camp. The highest alcohol % I had was 4.5%, which was a vodka cruiser. Beer was only 3% or something... Then at the camp, when we snuck out and I had scotch, that was pretty high. But nothing as high as what I had on saturday. I had baileys (12% a/c) before they bought out the big guns, an alcohol called "Mou tai" from China... it's supposedly the best spirit they got, for dignitries and such. It's 45%! That's pretty high. It burnt my throat as it went down, but it's nice and sweet before it burns. I will have to say that with these new friends, I'll have to build up my alcohol tolerance. Not that I will drink too much though... so I should be ok :P
In my spare time, I've been playing Need for Speed Most Wanted. While most people think it's 'so-so', I didn't really feel that way. They probably don't get the point of chasing and shit, but hey, I enjoy it quite a bit... it takes all your skill to dodge the cars...and crashing into cars and not dying, that's simply the best. I shall play it to completion I hope... :P
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