... is what I have. I used to be able to study the day before a test. Chapters by chapters are stored in my head as my fingers hurriedly turn the pages. I had learned how to develop my photographic memory midway through secondary school.
But age and technology catches up with you, forever tempting you to leave that book aside for just a couple of minutes to relax.
And see, I have a paper in 10 hours, midway through material costs, but sadly haven't touched anything on correlation & regression neither the chapters on objectives, strategy & planning nor the role of information technology in management information!
Other than that, my head's in such a mess from having to decide if I should take the offer to transfer to Starbucks KLCC.
There he was, sitting right across the table from me amidst 10 other people...
And yet it felt like as though we were continents apart.
When my manager asked why I was so quiet, I just laughed coz' I had been rambling away all night... what a stupid question. But I knew what she meant. Why was I so quiet towards him? Well coz practically everybody at the table knew I liked him... and everytime we did speak to each other, the table would just go silent to hear every single word we said.
I haven't seen him in a month... and I had so much to say to him. And he too, I guess, coz everytime I asked him something, he answered in a way that you knew would be a long answer... except that the whole table would go silent and he'll just stop short.
Sigh.
I bet he thought the others were weird. To go silent like that...
The PFS class had a re-vote and we managed to postpone the FIM Progress Test till AFTER Chinese New Year whooooppppteeedooooo....
But I think I screwed my PFS paper?
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In the feeder bus on my way back from coll, my manager rings me up sounding all serious n' shit. It was a Wednesday, she knew I had a paper that day and Thursday... so why the call hmmm?
Manager: Hey Cel, are you free tomoro ah?
Me: *oh shit they want me to work!* Errr... yeah I am but my paper got postponed till Friday *liar liar pants on fire!*
Manager: *drops the seriousness in her voice* Haaaaa then you can follow us tonite la!
(Lots of familiar squeals and voices heard in the background)
Me: Where y'all going la? Oh don't tell me... Planet? *giggles*
Manager: Yeaaaaaaa... and this time I'm going too.. so see you at the store at 9.30pm alright? We need some of you guys to go and get a table 1st coz it's a Wednesday.. aiyah you know the situation what Cel... see ya later k? Bye!
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I didn't mind going out that night even though I didn't get a wink's sleep preparing for the PFS paper. I didn't mind dancing in a really packed Planet Hollywood. Didn't even mind much when the bartender told me at 11.30pm that the free margaritas were out.. or that the free wines were just too diluted for my liking.
Didn't mind that a group of guys at the table in front of us offered us a couple of drinks from the bottles they opened. Took one myself when the guy mixed it right in front of me at our table.
And then I accompanied my manager to the toilet. When I came back to the table.... ahh then all my 'minded'ness came back.
One of 'em chaps was sitting at our table... then as we all danced the night away, I noticed that these guys were offering more drinks, but since they kept giving it from their table, alarm bells rang in my head.... and no I didn't know why.
At one time, I was so thirsty that I took a sip from one of the JD cokes on our table (offered drink)... and whoosh it went straight to my head. *alarm bells went off again* Not to mention said guy was looking at me in a funny way as I took the sip...
At about 3am, my manager decided it was time to go and I agreed. Something was wrong with the group...I drank more than them what the hell....
By the time we got to the cars, it was certain. Muha's voice was like Doraemon, Viv talked like a bitch and Maz was just giggling. My manager went all worried on me and I just told her to drive to Steven's Corner to meet up with Edwin, Reezal and the others... we shall know what to do there.
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At Steven's, the sobered ones ignored Muha while Maz and Viv just kept denying that they got hit too by the drinks...comparing their 'sober' state to Muha's.... but then 1 hour later... the effects of mixing your drinks with pills hit them too and all wanted to go home.
Yeah. I saw one of the guys putting a pill into the drinks. That's why I agreed to leave!
Others at the table in Steven's didn't know the exact situation so when Reezal pulled me aside and asked why his girlfriend sounded stupid after only 3 drinks, I told him what happened. I felt so guilty for not taking care of them... Reezal never liked Muha drinking coz she only just started doing it last year and him being a big drinker means he knows what happens when you've had more than your limit. But then Muha always told Reezal to not worry coz "Celeste will be there, don't worry she knows when to stop and what to do..."
"Exactly..." said Reezal. "Imagine if you took the drinks too? Don't be sorry Cel, things just happen. Let's just hope these gals learned their lesson."
And home we went. But if only... if only I didn't go to the toilet and stayed at the table. Sigh.
The strange things people do to bring a smile to your face....
I have been sitting at home trying to catch up with my classmates in regards of studying for the Progress Tests next week. And this fact has been known to all who know me through the usual sms'es or phone convos I have with them the past week.
Not working every darn day and having your head in between the pages of your books will, subsequently, get to you hehe.. it gets boring after a very short while and so.... when a mysterious stranger messages me with the subtle hint that I actually know him... I do the un-Celeste-able by replying him hehe. He calls himself a "Mambang" and has a very funny side to him, not to mention his ability to scare me out of my wits by asking me to look behind my back coz he's there at 3am in the morning! This goes on for 3 whole days with sparse messages going to and fro between us, which is all fine by me coz I'm not spending that much on my sms.
...... But then the curiosity boils within me... who is this fella? I ask every single person I know if they recognise the number but nobody does. Hrrrmmppphh... Much as I like the mysterious cloak of the game, I would very like much to know who the hell am I talking to hahaha....
And finally I do. Mambang here got to know from my friends that I was on the lookout for him ( my friends didn't know he was the one when they were at a mamak ) and became all excited in his messaging, pinpointing where I was at certain periods of time yesterday ( he knew I went to the toilet, he knew I was working the closing shift, he knew I was going out for supper with my friends ) .... that it all became so obvious as to who he was... coz he was right there, in the store waiting for us to finish closing and go for supper.
It was my favourite former supervisor, Syahrien, who is now the manager of Starbucks OU2!!!!
* I felt like killing him! *
But wait a minute, why don't I continue the charade? I am bored outta my wits. Only one other person knew that I knew it was Syahrien.... and very unfortunately, that said person told him of my knowledge after we all went back to our respective homes. Cheh. He messaged me saying he knew I knew already. Aiiiiihhhhh..... he had found out about my exam from the my manager and decided to cheer up my day abit. Celeste not working for a whole month meant it was a serious thing yo!
Now its back to Celeste being bored again ...................................
posted by Platypuck |
2:09 AM |
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
I feel alive!
Yea I do... let's see, last day of work was on Thursday. Friday night came filled with surprises as Fadia & Haris picked me up for dinner at 8pm. We went to where else.... my beloved mamak Bukit Indah!! Whahahahaha... damn I haven't seen this place since I moved to Ampang Jaya in June. No Ampang kaki la that's why... I wouldn't want to take the bus all the way to inside of Ampang just to sit alone & have my teh tarik without chit-chatting abit now would I?
The 'maples' there all gave loud hoots of surprise when they saw me. The new ones didn't know me but they soon will hehehe. I'm not the type to sit around waiting for one of them to give me a tissue.. heck I just stand up and go get the tissue, or extra fork... or a glass of water myself thank you very much. So we ordered... heck alot of food for 3 of us.. 25 sticks of satay summoe...with nasi himpit! I went giddy at the thought of what to eat. It's been sooooooo long since I ate here *sniff*...
Then I see Ain and Atiqah coming to the table! Oh its a small gathering! Fadia said my eyes twinkled when I realised that she had organised a small mamak session for us before I go to Hillpark and won't be able to come to this part of Ampang as often as I would like. Warghhh what would I ever do without Fadia? And Ain? We've been close since we hit our teens at 13 yrs old. Although we don't see each other much, but its the times that we do see each other that matters the most.
Guess what the bill came to? RM 35.10!!! Satay RM12!!! And this place doesn't sell stuff like nasi goreng paprik la, or pattaya la or ayam masak merah la.. its just roti roti roti and nasi goreng or mee goreng dahhh... hahahahaha
Saturday it was just me and the computer, or the telly, or my balcony, or doing house chores. Aman giler beb!
And then Sunday, there I was ,at 6pm, waiting for my dad to send me to Hajar's place to pick up some textbooks when Syafik calls. Five minutes later we (he, me, my brother & his housemate, Hamzah) were on our way to Melawati. Aaaaaaaa Hajar cannot tahan already as we stood outside her gate laughing & yakking. Dia nak keluar jugak! So okla.. we planned. She stayed at home first as the rest of us went to Alpha Angle to get my brother's school uniform - where we also bought some kuih from the happening (damn I miss that) supermarket and lepaked in Starbucks awhile. Gotta see Kak Ros and also one of my babies - Ayu who I trained when she first joined Starbucks. I missed them...
Later I was at home, having home-cooked dinner. Our plans to meet up later that night didn't materialise as Syafik was tired after his dinner. Besides, we were gonna meet up in college the next day...
But I didn't expect to be in Sunway until 11.30pm!!
Classes were from 8-11am. I got my test results back. I must admit, I was a little unhappy about it seeing that I had fumbled through Question 2 on Regression all becoz my graph was not what it should be. I was like what the hell.. I got a songsang graph! I doublechecked and realised I made a mistake in my calculations... oh God forbid! When I finally went through all the subjective Qs, I scanned through the MCQs and saw that all of the questions needed Overhead Absorption Rates calculated....arrrrghhh no timee! I made the most of what little time I had left and tembak-ed the others. And so, although the others said my results were quite good, I was unhappy becoz I could have gotten better had I not made that dumb mistake in calculations for Q2. I would have had more time for the MCQs and not lose so much marks there. Yeargh.
After that, it was me & the gang, though it wasn't all of them at any one time coz some had classes and some had to go back and some came later on in the afternoon, but basically, I saw everybody..except for Payal who had a severe headache. Seeing everybody was weird coz Monash's semester hadn't started yet and this was only summer school. But then I guess the 2nd year of Monash is so tough that students finally needed to attend summer classes eh? Except for Hajar, Sara and Syafik who are not attending summer la... they are either gonna be having fun.. or being bored out of their wits until the semester starts in March hehehehe.
Alot of catching up was done yesterday in the canteen, pink shop, Baskin Robbins in Taipan and Penang Street in Pyramid. We found good food in Penang Street Restaurant...which was the much needed closure to all the food I had throughout the day. And for as long as I have known Hajar & Sara, yesterday was the 1st time we went window shopping around Pyramid and I must say, we had quite alot in common when it comes to clothes hehe.
Although he doesn't reads this blog, but to Syafik... thanks for being the designated driver yesterday!
P/s: new addition to the list of blogs I read - Arni writes without hesitation and her entries make a wonderful read :)
