greenhouse and greenday

"The effects of global warming are starting to creep ever so not discretely into our daily lives, affecting our lifestyles and interrupting our habitual routines. This is evident from the huge increase in cockroach frag and mosbite counts through the months. Awx pest control statistics show that monthly cockroach kills have risen from an average of 0.083 last year to a whooping high of 2.0 just last month. Awx's sole staff and president Ang Weixuan also complains of incurring greater amounts of damage in his battle against the mosquito species, which have thrived and proliferated in the recent weather conditions. Right now as he speaks he is suffering from 7 sustained 7dmg/s type-p stab wounds, dealt by cunning mosquitoes which struck only in the dead of the night. They seem to have evolved to a high level species as well. Do simple maths, and you'd realise he is receiving 7 x 7 = 77dmg/s. However, no matter how high the damage, it doesnt seem to bother him at all. "My hp is infinite, haha", he quips. He's such a funny guy.

Global warming has also claimed its own victims. The screwed up scorch/rain/scorch/rain climate patterns have brought relative humidity levels up to as high as 93-97%. Precious bikes are beginning to rust at rates such that they reach painful levels even before their owners can awake from their procrastination spells. Bass strings also feel the effects of increased humidity, and rust as well. Rusting is mostly prevalent in the G-strings, though no effects are observed on its cloth variant. What to use to clean rusted strings? What strings are good to buy? Answers will be provided when fellow Bass veteran David Lee answers to either this tagboard or msn. Yes please do. haha.

Animals and humans alike have also adapted to the changing climates. Humans, under the sun, are able to produce brown pigments called melanin to shield them from the evil UV rays. It is a process known as reversible evolution, the process that has turned this author to the Dark side. Hence, do not be alarmed by his darkness when you meet him in person. Household pets have also exhibited changes in behaviour in response to screwed up weathers. Tortoises are starting to make more rounds into the living room at much higher frequencies than before, perhaps to escape the sweltering heat. In the past few days, it has also extended its daytime rendezvous into the kitchen as well, to smell food and perhaps peak at its owners dining. This global-warmed tortoise has also picked up a new trick as well; sit down in the living room and it would climb up your leg and bask on it. How adorable!


Jumping to some music news, a new band has been formed, and they just had their debut jamming session last week. The new nameless and singerless band is formed wholely of retired acsians, comprising seasoned guitarist darren chan, veteran bassist weixuan, breaking drummer abel and temporary singer john kan. I was privileged enough to be able to be there in person to hear their studio shaking live jam session. Man, it was a blast. woohoo. Chemistry was everywhere and they effortlessly pulled off songs from bands such as U2, Franz ferdinand and Red Hot Chilis. This is definitely the new band on the block to watch out for. If you're wondering what greenday in the title has to do with anything, here is where it has its relevance. Sorta.

Down to Entertainment and Gossip, interesting things have been happening. Ang Weixuan, main character and figure in the popular ilovewx and awxion series, has yet again been making headlines in his very own blogs. In an recent exclusive interview with Mr Ang, he tells us that he has been steeped up in many activities, with much more undone. "I have great plans before i enlist, and i will strive to do everything before i am banished. Only time stands in my way.. " Well yes he certainly is a man of great aspirations.. "

The above exerpt from awx daily just ended like that. The author became tired of writing that way.



Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year to U! May this new lunar year be the best year of your life, but still the best year yet, cos the best is yet to be! Thanks for bothering to keep in touch with my life =)



Cny's been fun so far. Eat, take money, eat. gamble, lose money. That's pretty much it haha. Ive got the most new clothings this new year! rock my socks

Life is fantastic =). Life at its best, no school no work no bills, how much better can it get? haha. It's true that you can appreciate life to its fullest when u've learnt to leave things behind. I'm glad ive learnt that.

This is the only period of time where i can do everything i love doing, but there're just too many that im finding it hard to find time and energy for everything. Enjoying every bit of life now, but of course i still have my complains. Don't feel like spoiling the mood of this post.


Just returned from an outing with fellow employees. Watched Norbit, haha like wth show. Funny though =). I've finally expanded my social circle, i love my friends! got a new girl in mind too haha. Nothing much, and not planning much either. Not close enough, and dont know her well yet. I've only spent 3days and 2nights with her hahaha. So, just attracted thats all, nice girl. Enlisting soon anyway, anything that starts now is bound to collapse. Spare both the possible heartaches eh.

No zongyi, 2-day sms conversation ended long ago. haha. I didnt even have any intention at all, it was all you who hyped the whole story up for tingfu lol. I was just trying to get my kayak certificate, and decided to talk for fun.


Oh my arm came off again, and now my neck gets stuck when i tilt left. It's like gear shifting, crick crick. What the heck


I hereby award samt and david with the most loyal site supporter award. But seriously thx for the past 6 years dudes =)

Employed and free

Weixuan is finally employed! haha. I'm glad i didnt just get any random job, or get contracted into borinng long term admin jobs, like many have (and are regretting). To the few of you i know that are going to start admin jobs, who are still blinded by the prospects of high pay and nothing else - have fun! loll..

Went for an interview at an adventure center which i always cycle pass at bt timah hill, and I'm now a camp instructor! Lead a group of kids around in camps, play games with them, do rockwall, obstacle courses, kayaking and dragonboating, sure's fun, if not for problem kids.

I wanted a job for experential rather than utility reasons; more for fun then money, so this job very suitable. It pays 160 per camp, which usually lasts for 3 days 2 nights. translate it into pay per hour and it's only a miserly $2.50/hr. But it's alright, fun and satisfaction are all that count for me. More then NS pay already anyway. Pretty pointless to get jobs just for the pay eh? a short 3-4 months, how much can you earn? This is the only period of total freedom I'd ever have, wasting it all away with boring long hour jobs sound bad to me. With no bills to worry about, 160 is much money already, a lan session costs.. $8? booking of courts cost.. $4? If im mad enough, i can take 3 camps in a week back to back, 7 days 6 nights, and rake in $480! hahah. I enjoy the social aspect of it as well, people handling and much interaction, wonderful =). Comes with complimentary forestry, nature and sunlight.

Still looking for job attachments and internships, but probably do more of these in march, need time to settle all my trivial matters and feel organized. My life feels like a mess, i seriously need a timetable to plan my activities. Did i mention? I'm employed but still as free as before haha, the power of freelancing. But yeah not all that good either, i still wake up everyday to the same quandary - "what i do today?". Answer it well and id have a productively fun day, leave it blank and more posts may spring up on my blogs.

I did do an attachment at ttsh under the physiotherapy department, for about a week, until i got kicked out after they found out i only wanted a 2-3 week attachment, haha. Some misunderstanding, they were more interested in 4-month volunteers. I said noo you must be mad, i dont even have 3 months of holiday till i enlist, and it's a no pay attachment too. Im not gonna lug myself halfway across the island for 4 months for no pay nor allowance. There are other attachments that i want to do as well, and of course i want to work and have fun too. Still in the process of applying for other internships.

But anyway it was enjoyable too, and rather insightful. I made new friends too! A phyllis and a joyce, from scgs-cj and chij-vj. there were guys too but nah i dint really bother. hahaha, i mean, just kidding.. the guys were far from our age. We were also instructed not to exchange phone numbers with the patients haha, especially since there are hot athletes who come in for physio sessions lol, quite amusing. They said it happened before too. For the camp thing we were also told not to exchange numbers with the participants, and lots of weird stories about pubertizing teens going crazy over instructors, and then threatening to commit suicide. Lol.. but of course they dont do it, they say ppl these age can't think straight so we shouldn't give them chances to think otherwise.

On the 11th Jan i did catering too, at gdwood park hotel. It was a last minute thing. Had physio orientation in morning, driving test in the aft. Met junkai at driving center, and he asked me to replace him so i went. Anyway it was a total china environment over there. haha. Unlike the travel agency job. i had to switch to using china accents, which came surprisingly naturally haha. Seems like with exposure to different accents, your brain would automatically adapt and switch to theirs. My china speaking was perfect k..haha. Anyway there was this supervisor called Ace. I like to laugh at his name. Nobody likes him, cos he favours girls and is nasty to guys. He smiles and jokes with girls, and den comes over to find fault with us. I would have had enjoyed job more or even go back to work again if not for him. Made many friends too, a prc called David, a bartender kelvin, and a poly girl attiqa, all were very nice to me, esp attiqa and david who helped me out alot. Thanks alot man, I really appreciated it =)

Anyway, the uniform was really cool, the guys one looks smart. i like the shoulder paddings. haha




Catering was quite an experience too. Now i can emphatize with the waiters/waitresses serving me..haha. It really isn't as lax as i thought, esp with some grumpy manager around. I did quite well that day i think. All i did was spill some sharks fin soup, and pour a glass of red wine on someone's pants. hahaha. The first one wasn't my fault, someone just rushed in and almost collided with me. The latter was.. nvm.. haha. Fortunately i only emptied 1.5/4 glasses, with only 1 glass full spilling onto him. And thankfully the manager didnt notice hahaha.

Anyway, Eureka travels still owes me money. Probably never tasted the fury of fire.

Day Job at travel agency

10th January 2007

Warning: Flaming

2 days ago i had my first part time job, working for a certain Eureca travels (name changed for flaming purposes) company. This marks the end of my all-play-no-productivity period to the productive-play stage. Of course, no reproductive-play at this age.

The Job was from 8-3 and 6-9 at harbourfront cruise center, and the pay was real good, at 8 per hour. Quite an enjoyable experience, even though the company seriously sucks..haha

Much of the time spent was just stoning around, either because we had nothing to do, were waiting for something to do, were not given stuff to do, or were given stuff to do that were really pointless. I reached the cruise center a few minutes pass 8, which is very very punctual for my standards.. Surprisingly, i was one of the earliest ones there! Lol. Nowonder we're called casual labourers. Zongyi was late by more den 30 minutes, and then we waited about an hour for more people to arrive. Read: 1 hour = 8dollars.

After awhile I asked the lady in charge, i realized that we weren't waiting for more people to arrive, because everyone had already arrived. We had no idea what we were waiting for, just stand there stone and wait for instructions, which never really came. But who cares? stand there 1 hour, 8 dollars more haha =D.

There were so efficient in handling their manpower, that for quite awhile they looked quite flustered as to deciding what we could/should/were supposed to do. After some more waiting we were split up and finally assigned duties. We were supposed to direct tourists to their bus carriages, which just meant pointing to the exit on our right, but their instructions were sooo poor, we decided to start directing people around harbour front instead. Singapore cruise center should really pay us for showing people where phonebooths toilets mrts taxis cablecartower and money changers are.. hahaha.

We did that because we subsequently found out that our duty was void because all the C grp tourists (whom we were asked to direct) had already boarded their carriage and were already somewhere else to elsewhere. like wth man. but it's alright.. +8 +8.

After that it was nothing much, we relocated upstairs, where i had to do saigang jobs like carry signposts (which were quite heavy) up from the the storeroom (quite a distance). And the supervisor was also so fickle about the number of signposts he wanted that i had to run up and down a few times. But at least i was granted to privilege of access into embarkation checkin area, haha.

Real enjoyment came when were were given proper roles by the staff of the Artemis, a British ship docked here that was attached to Eureaka travel agency. It was a check-in counter, and we were basically runners to fetch matching cabin cards for the counter staff. The british people were really nice, and it was a pleasure to work for them and not some asdf agency. A good chance to play with fake british accents too. hahah.

released at 3.40+, i went to study for my basic highway code at the topfloor of vivocity, zongyi went pageone bookstore. We reported back at 630 after dinner.

They had moved their counters to another area, a more open and lousy environment. Only 2-4 counters were operating because of the small length of the counter. In front of the counter was right in the middle of harbourfrontmall, with no markings/cordons to direct the tourists as to where to stand. This was made worse by tourists that returned in bulks from carriages, instead of the slightly more trickle like arrivals in the afternoon. The old people had no where to sit, and we had to get chairs for them to sit. (they were almost all elderly)

All this while, the people frm youreka were nowhere in sight. No instructions, no guidance, no supervision. We had to do everythin on our own initiative, they really trust us to do everything huh? The British-Indian ship captain was getting quite pissed off by their absence as well, but thankfully he didnt shift the blame on us, "it's alright at least you tried to contact him". The british had apparently asked the agency for an extra table to set up another booth, but that table never came, and still the agency people were nowhere in sight.

That derrick (name altered) guy would probably still be somewhere walking around with the walkie talkie held to his ear, trying to look important, haha useless guy. Anyway he's this guy whos abt the same age as us, that walks around the whole day holding a walkie talkie (on his shoulder, most of the time). He may look busy, but a little more observation and you'd realize he's actually just walking around. Lol. Quite senior i think, probably related to boss. We should be paid more than him, irritating crap.

Soon after the Indian capt guy told me to go further down to direct passengers into the embarkation check-in area; the passage to the ship. Finally free of nonsense. I had the most fun here, greeting ppl and pointing them directions. Being able to offer them good service attitude is absolutely rewarding, the sense of satisfaction i got was really great =). I realised that im quite cut out for PR occupations, or just the lowly "hello goodmorning/thankyou" jobs. A receptionist/concierge would be fun! Anything that requires ppl services. By entering/exiting the ship so many times, a few of the tourists were already familiar with me, and smiled everytime they saw me. Before one of them boarded for the final time, he even said "won't forget you" and gave me thumbs up. That was like.. rocks.

Anyway what's so hard about providing good service and attitude? Besides me, there were 3 jc graduates like me, zy, and about 8-10 poly ppl. The poly ppl came wrongly attired, even tho we're told to wear white top black pants/shoes, and had to be given agency polos to wear. Attitude wise im not sure but they sure loved to crowd around and obstruct ppl. Almost all of them had dyed hair, and their dress sense is... what you expect frm neighbourhood schools. If foreigners ever have bad impressions of singaporeans, I can imagine who are responsible, lol. Oh well, at least they could speak decent english, not singlish. The jc ppl were properly attired, though they tend to look sloppy. I don't understand their inclination to have their shirts/polos partially tucked out, or their tendency to slouch. Why don't ppl see the importance in dressing/acting smart when working in service sectors? like hello it's a job. They just don't exude the kinda confidence ppl would expect; their posture, actions and the way they talk. even the poly ppl were a little better then them.

At the end of the day, zy told me that the indian guy had complained about poor service in singapore just before of all the things that happened, and that they come to S'pore once a year just to receive this kind of crap. Feel sorry for them man, felt like going up to tell them "hey Singapore's a great place, just that this agency sucks, please don't engage them next time".

Anyway it's a fact that the part time ppl who worked sometime back in 20-24th december or something haven't even got their pay yet. That's already more than 2 weeks ago. Makes me worried about whether id get paid or not.

They better pay up, or i'd arson down their pathetic office.


I was really bored. what do you expect from an unemployed boy? haha

Anyone looking for a creative director? hahah