I'm as sick as a pig!

I developed fever and flu overnight! OVERNIGHT!! Can you believe that! So next morning (Thursday), I was really sick and couldn't work because my voice is so yucky and I have to sniff/cough every few seconds. So I dragged myself all the way to the polyclinic. I almost died there. When registering, the receptionist asked me if I was still studying. I told her that I was working so I needed an MC. And guess what?!!!

SHE TOLD ME THAT NOW THAT I'M WORKING, I WOULD HAVE TO PAY AS AN ADULT AND I WOULDN'T GET ANY CHILD / SENIOR CITIZEN BENEFITS!!! (which is actually just a $2 subsidary or something like that)

This might not be much, but I was so shocked. I repeatedly told her that I was waiting for my O Level results and would continue education but she totally ignored me.

Anyway, the doctor was really really uncaring towards my illness. He was totally robotic and stoic and didn't care about the patients. I told him that I had a mild fever the night before and he checked my temperature and said that I didn't have any fever! What?! He only gave me those small yellow pills for flu, some yucky orange flavoured lozenges and even yuckier cough syrup, the ones that somehow people are addicted to (YUCKS).

Anyway, had to go to the lobby and settle my bill and the most funniest thing happened. The receptionist flashed my Q-number and called out my name (Abdul Hakim). And immediately, 3 Abdul Hakims came to the receptionist! Hahaha! The other two were paiseh because they didn't see the number.

Will post Sims pics when I get better.

Songs I Am Listening To

10. I Think I'm In Love With You - Jessica Simpson
9. I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) - Sandi Thom
8. Lithium - Evanescence
7. Promise - Ciara
6. Makes Me Wanna Pray - Christina Aguilera
5. Come Back To Me - Vanessa Hudgens
4. Irreplaceable - Beyonce
3. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
2. This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arm's Race - Fall Out Boy
1. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani feat. Akon

Well, I lied about the one-week hiatus thingy. O Level results are coming out on Feb 9th!! Maybe lah. Don't get too excited. OMG I'm so so nervous, like what if I messed up big time on my essay and fail English?! OMG that would be scary seh. Sigh.

I'm currently suffering from flu and a sore throat. When was the last time I was sick?

Anyway, work has been OK for me. I received 3 compliments! Yay! So I'm gonna get a $40 voucher. The supervisors are really nice, even though they're like, you know... I made friends with a mother and a wife and I thought that she just finished her O Levels. Anyway, she's like, in her early 20s. No, she's not those slutty kinds who just leave her kids at home without any supervision. She seems educated and keeps on talking to me in English even though I talk to her in Malay.

I am seriously keeping my class waiting for the chalet! Sorry! I'm gonna do that right after I blog.

According to my archives, the last time I cut my hair was on October 11th. So now my hair is the longest to date. My mother is begging me to cut my hair. I must admit, it gets kind of irritating because sometimes my hair pokes my eyes.

Yay! Mariah Carey is releasing a new album in Spring this year, which means around March to April! Yay! Hope it's as good as Emancipation Of Mimi.

Anyway, it's really obvious that my second brother has started smoking. He reeks of the cigarette smell and he would go out every three hours. I don't mind it. I'm already used to smokers in my family (I am the only male in the family, including my mother's relatives, who doesn't smoke). The scary thing is that I clearly remember my brother saying that he would never smoke because they smell. And now, he's doing it! AHHH!!! I have to promise myself I would never smoke... EVER!!! Seriously, my uncle died of lung cancer a decade ago because he smoked.

Nocturnal

I have become those people who would sleep late and wake up late! Ahh!! Last time in Sec 4 I was the morning person who would wake up at 7 and read the papers first thing in the morning! Now I don't feel sleepy even at 1 in the morning!

Anyway, too tired / lazy to blog. I'm on one week's hiatus. Will be posting Sims pics of my Simmies.

It's Bloody Cold

Is it me or is it getting colder. Seriously, I was like, freezing in the MRT and thought that it would be warmer when I alight but that didn't happen.

I have not been blogging much.

Anyway, I've been playing a bit of Sims 2 lately, I'll post the pics soon.

Lips Of An Agent

Yucks! Yucks! Last night I had a dream which thought me about Physics and stuff! Eww!!!

Just ignore the last post. I've been doing a lot of silly bold stuffs which I would later regret.

Anyway, I woke up today and I saw that my lips were kind of beestung and they looked like they belonged to Jennifer Garner. Seriously, last time I watched Alias (not anymore, it's too bloody confusing) and her lips are like, permanently bee-stung.

Anyway, came home really late yesterday. Finished at 11. Oh and there was this guy who wanted to order KFC who kept on joking with me. He told me that he would die if he didn't have any breasts. And I was like, laughing my ass off and some people turned around to look at me. See, not everybody is mean.

Oh and it was raining and bus 3 was late. So I had to take 358 and walk a bit. Ugh! I hate the bloody rain!

Dripping With Hypocrisy

Oh anyway, watched Oprah yesterday and James Blunt was performing. He looks really freaky when he's performing. When he was singing "Goodbye My Lover", he looked like he was going to burst into tears and have a breakdown, but after performing he was like, smiling and hugging Oprah. And his voice belongs to somebody who's undergoing puberty. Like as if his voice just broke.

I'm currently going through numerous "What the fuck" moments. Stop poking me. When will people learn? If you wanna bitch about me behind my back, do it BEHIND MY BACK, not right in front of me... please lah. I've gone through many miserable things in my life, OK. I have learnt to keep my feelings to myself. I don't wanna be fucking hurt any further. Love it or hate it, I can't change myself. I don't think there has been a time when I'm happy with my life. I have the right to be depressed, but I am not. I have learnt to hide my sorrow in front of people until I go home. I'm not fucking stupid. I can sense hostility! You're dripping with hypocrisy. Nobody knows that, do they?

Please don't like, ask me how I'm feeling with questions like, "Eh, are you ok or not?". Obviously I'm not fucking OK with the current situation that I'm in. I didn't even do a single fucking thing and suddenly, the fucking problem is on me and EVERYBODY now fucking hates me for some reason, which I will not find out because this is all fucking bullshit. I don't give a fuck anymore, lah!

Wow, that was expressive. Anyway, bye. I have to organise the class chalet. You know, I work during the weekends. How bout you guys? Wait, what do you work as? When did you start working? You didn't tell me. Oh yeah, you don't need to tell me.

Facade

Some people can be so fucking rude!

Last night I had to be nice to this woman ordering KFC. When she finished ordering, I wanted to repeat and confirm the order but then she fucking shouted at me and said, "EH! I KNOW WHAT I ORDER, OK? CAN PLEASE FAST OR NOT! I'M SICK OK?!!! JUST HANG UP THE PHONE, CAN?!!!" Well, I can't hang up the fucking phone, you fucking bitch! I didn't even repeat and confirm the address, didn't give her the reference number, didn't repeat the order. I hope she gets the wrong things. And I hope she's suffering from some some incurable disease. Fuck you, bitch!

Finished work at 11. OMG Toa Payoh is so scary at 11, I tell you. I thought I saw drug addicts in front of the library, ironically. Anyway, I was listening to How To Save A Life and the thought suddenly struck me! All my life I have been living in delusion thinking that I didn't know anybody who had committed suicide. Actually, I know 2! 2!!! TWO!! Can you believe that? Ok, last time in Primary school one of my brother's aquantances jumped off the flat when he came home late from school and his father scolded him thinking he was playing truant. Then the other one was this girl called Karen from my class in Primary 1 and she committed suicide in Primary 5 because of the stress. Ya, then it's like so weird, because I still remember what she looked like in P1 (I only remember about 10 people in P1. I even forgot the name of my teachers!). Ya, she used to wear a lot of talcum powder, and everyone called her "Carrot" for some unexplainable reason. I had goosebumps. I nearly cried but thank goodness I didn't, lah! Because I was sitting across a group of mats and minahs.

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Compliments

Ahh!! Yesterday I received a compliment from my customer. Well, she actually took time off her life to go to the website and give a good feedback on me. Actually, I think I know who sent me the compliment, because there was this nice lady who asked for my name before I could give to her in the end and she said that I had a friendly tone. Hahaha!! Yay! Now my name is shown on this electronic board and my supervisors came to me to congratulate me. Daniel Vosovic (my boss) also came round to my desk and shook my hand and told me to "keep up with the good work."

Then, an hour later my supervisor told me not to ask everyone if they wanted extra chilli sauce. So much for Going the Extra Mile for Service.

Finally, I could install Sims 2 Nightlife and play it. There are some glitches so I think I'm gonna have to re-install everything.

There's this middle-aged woman in her 40s in the workplace called Sara and she was making really random conversations with me. She was asking me about the book I'm reading (Adrian Mole) and all of a sudden, she's asking me if I knew Townsville Secondary School, then all of a sudden, she started talking about her church group reading some book about famous artists and all of a sudden she started talking about how many Saras there are in her church group. Then she said, "Sara Poh, Sara Chan, Sara Lee..." then I wanted to make a joke and say, "Oh like the cake ah?" but then I was scared that she was the Sara Lee she was mentioning. So I just smiled and nodded. She speaks really loudly to the customer (poor them) and one of my supervisors nickname her "Loudspeaker" HAHA! Well, nobody seems to like her, which is kind of mean. I'll try to be more friendlier to her.

OMG I'm a workaholic!!!

Busy busy busy!! Leaving house at 9, coming back at 11, since Wednesday.

My new New Years Resolution would be not to curse too much. No, seriously, I seem to curse a lot in my mind! So I'll try to be nicer, inside my mind.

Well, work has been great. I just befriended this older Mat this morning. His name is Syed and he's like those people you think will beat you up if you stare at him for more than a second. He's actually quite nice and he told me about the movie Blood Diamond which he watched yesterday (was on MC yesterday) and he told me everything about the movie. It was really weird, but then he seems nice and he helped me out when I forgot to put in the special requests to the restaurant.

Sensed some hostility among some people. Just something which I will refer to when I'm grey and old.

Did something stupid during lunch yesterday. It's like, the most stupidest thing one could ever do. I feel so like, "OK, I shouldn't have done that..." But it's now in the past now.

Listen

Ok, that's what I'm supposed to do in my job. Well, yesterday was quite a first-day. Firstly, I was in training so I was buddy-ing with Sarah and she took the calls. Apparently, my uncle called and it was so coincidental, I tell you!

Then after the break I was going solo, and the beginning sucked like hell! Ok, so it started at 5pm so this woman called me and told me to have a delivery time of 6.30pm and I kind of panicked and forgot the delivery time code and took a little longer than usual, then the stupid woman asked for my name. So, it isn't a good thing because she might complain. Stupid woman, can't you see it's my first time. Then the superviser was nice to move me somewhere else because my microphone was too soft and I had to shout to her. So I sat in between Sarah and a woman called Lindy. She's a bloody pro who reads magazines while ordering. Then I got the hang of it and then this woman asked for my name and then she said, "Thank you so much, Hakim!" Ahhh!!! Those sweet words.

Ok, whatever... Anyway, it's quite a slack job. The manager looks like Daniel Vosovic from Project Runway. And the senior agents like to curse at one another. And yesterday I took calls once every 10 minutes. So you can read magazines while waiting for a call.

And also, Caucasians seem to say "Yup!".

Songs I Am Listening To

10. Unappreciated - Cherish
9. Love @ 1st Sight - Mary J. Blige feat. Method Man
8. Crybaby - Mariah Carey feat. Snoop Dogg
7. How To Touch A Girl - Jojo
6. Runaway Love - Ludacris feat. Mary J. Blige
5. With You - Jessica Simpson
4. Loverboy - Mariah Carey
3. How To Save A Life - The Fray
2. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
1. Listen - Beyonce

Not Unemployed Anymore

I currently work as a KFC Delivery phone operator alongside Sarah and Nuriman. Pay is $4 per hour, which is kind of low but then the job's real easy and you can pick the shifts you wanna work in. And it's fun talking to strangers.

Went for training last night from 6 to 10. It's amazing how the database keeps record of people's address and contact details and what they ordered last time.

So, anyway, can't wait for my first paycheck! Ahhh!!! Oh and I did something so embarrassing during the training. See, Sarah told me earlier that she's not coming to the place because it was her off day, but then when the trainees were sitting and waiting for other trainees to come, this girl in a tudung who looks like a dead ringer of Sarah came in! Seriously, she looks exactly like Sarah, so I kind of waved at her and whispered loudly, "SARAH!!" and she kind of looked at me like, "WTF?" and everybody else was like, looking at me like I'm some kind of freak. Then, I realised my mistake and totally kept quiet throughout the training.

Totally relieved about the "fucking terrified" incident I mentioned earlier.

2007

Well, a year has passed. I'm going to be 17 this year. Sarah and Hannah are going to turn 17 in a few days' time, which is kind of freaky. Well, Happy New Year. This year is the year where I will not be attending secondary school! I'm so fucking sad lah! I wanna go back to school tomorrow!

Anyway, went to this New Years' party at my dad's place in Bintan. It was semi-suckish, semi-nice. The older Rahimah Rahim was performing and my father told her that my mother is her biggest fan, which is totally a lie. Well, she sang quite well. The MC sucked like hell. Everyone there was either drunk, promiscuous, dancing or violent! I mean, seriously! This guy was drunk and he was dancing like a madman and when security tried to calm him down, the drunk guy punched the security guard. Haha, now he's banned from the resort! Anyway, I was right below the fireworks and was scared for my life. I thought that the fireworks were gonna fall on me and burn me but it cooled down and disappeared before it reached the ground.

There was this hip-hop band consisting of teens and they sang pop songs with a touch of rock. Seriously, it was like, the coolest fucking band I have ever seen! Some songs they sang were Hips Don't Lie and Heaven. And the girl singing has the nicest voice ever!!!

After the countdown there was like, this disco and the only people who were on the daancefloor were the employees (waiters and chefs). The DJ was sucky because he played rock songs. Seriously, he should have played pop songs like Promiscuous or Buttons!

I nearly died in the all-terain vehicle. My elder brother drove the vehicle and he kept on drifting and water and mud splashed onto me!!

It's really weird that it's 2007. The future is here.

I'm so fucking terrified! It has been almost two weeks!

Oh, Saddam is already dead. It's like those moments where you don't know how to react. Happy that a dictator died or sad that someone was hanged.