concluding 2009

sorry for rarely update recently due to got nothing to update besides my daily routine life.

with barely 8 more days before the end of 2009...what have I done for this whole year??

one answer for sure, waste lot of money to study in Singapore. made my mom worry about me all the time because I am far away from her. but will be seeing my beloved family next month due to cousin wedding in Singapore!!!

my life is more happening at the final quarter of the year due to internship. got more friends, more outing but all are healthy outing. no drinking or money wasting activities...still do spend some on food, movie and badminton. but thats it, nothing more than that.

until now I still have the same question like others who deadly wanted to ask me...how can I survive with 500 salary per month and rental already consumed 400. my answer to you is I dont know how either. some how I still be able to enter my third month of internship in one piece.

besides study and internship, I really didnt do much this year. maybe that is my 2009 objective. nearly accomplish with 3 more months to go and that bloody report.

watched biggest movie of 2009 at cinema. 2012 and Avatar. both made me couldn't sleep for hours after watching the movie. awesome and must watch!!!

it is time to make up my mind where should I go after graduate, but my mind is still blur at this moment. hopefully I will have a clearer view sooner rather than later.

what else happened to me in 2009?? most happening should be officially becoming an adult. but still not doing any adult alike thing. still like a student. (no wonder Geylang prostitutes dont even bother to come close to me) what I meant by adult thing is not finding prostitutes, but more matured life time decision or something like that.

am I lucky or what?? twice internship also very enjoyable experiences. although have some bad experiences but the good one can really overcome all the bad one. other than real life working experience, I still have to say this..I found another group of friends here in Singapore.

thank you very much for supporting, assist and guide me throughout these 3 months with another 3 months to go. I cannot survive without you guys and you guys really make my life more interesting and more happening. really glad to be able to work and learn from you all.

have I changed? I dont think so...still so lame and still being myself in front of everyone. started to lose control these few days, maybe is the new year coming syndrome. the party mode is on but cant really party due to working. but somehow still can find a way to enjoy it.

yes, I am an entertainer and I have my own audience. =)

2009, not a bad year after all besides those heart broken moment. Other than that, I will appreciate everything I have learned in year 2009. Definitely going to appreciate my mom's effort to support my further study in Singapore with my deepest heart. My mom is No. 1 mom in the world!!!!!!! and I miss her very much.

anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy 2010 to everyone. thanks for keeping my life updated through out these 2 years and still counting.

wish everyone best year ahead of you. =D

Edward Low signing off for 2009.

DND : Retro Night

Dinner and Dance, Retro Night 2009 at Hotel Royal @ Queens' Royal Ballroom.

a not so Retro Night...under budget, cant dress up...what to do?
I am too lazy to update, all I can say is it was a fun night. I laugh till stomach cramp!

photo taken with Hann, Benedict, Desmond, Fiona and Carmen and Ms. Wong, my FOM.

Highlight of the night from front office have to be Ray from Hong Kong. His participation level is highest among us...eventually got runner up for Retro King.

Ben and Ray then Ray and Jaya. Doing the "PUSH" invented by Mr. Jaya.

The Retro Queen and King, Irish and Ben followed by Dance King, Daya.

staff and trainees who work more than 1 year are entitle to take part in lucky draw.

some individual photos, Jeremy, our DM, Mr. Mani, Fiona, Carmen, Kim and Desmond...

group pic with Master Thomas!!!

group pic with Mr. Mani!

although I got no lucky draw...but I still get something...

meal "cup bowl" thingy with hotel's logo printed on, a packed of small kid snacks as door gift and a plastic box to put my.....errr....I still dont know what to put in it.

overall it was a great night!!!

current life

already 2 months training in the hotel, what I get besides experience is...friendship.

got more people to hang out with now besides Jin. (wont feel gay anymore)
past 4 weeks, I played badminton once a week with them. 2 to 3 hours a day. my badminton skill is improving now. finally. twisted/ pulled muscle few times though, followed by carrying heavy luggage.


for the past 1 and half month, I see more prostitutes in my life than before. both near my work place and where I stays. now kind of use to it already, wont over react anymore. grown up? lol

OT twice due to heavy check out and heavy check in then once colleague MC.

First got a called by DM at 11pm when I was about to sleep. asked me start working at 5am cause heavy check out. I suppose to work at 7am. woke up at 4, took taxi to hotel. claim it back from hotel.

Second time, heavy check in. working midnight shift. but been asked to start working 2 hours earlier. so, 9pm to 7am.

Third time, I suppose to work from 11am to 7pm. Slept at 2am, got morning call from DM at 6.20am. ask to take over operator and be in hotel as fast as possible. woke up, shower and fast walk to MRT station. fast walk to hotel after that and reach hotel by 0705. (power sial)

reach there DM say, you can go home already. one staff already stand in for operator. but too late, so I just work in between operator, reservation and concierge. I work till 7pm that day. 4 hours sleep, 12 hours work.

the latest will be I work at the wrong shift, suppose to be 3-11 B shift but instead, I went to work at 11am. ended up volunteer to OT 4 hours and finish working at 11pm. 12 hours again!!!


finally, got my code for the system and started to do check in, check out. feel more complete being in the front office department. now, I can assist guest's request immediately even when I am in the concierge counter.

started to face some tough guests, but will do my best to be as professional as possible.

now, I got more duties, more responsibilities, more stress, more challenging....but I am READY!!!

but my report still hanging there, wish I could just do my internship and graduate without needing to do report and project.

got these photos at one night after finish working while on my way to MRT station. its full moon!!! and no, its not the sun, just street light. so galaxy lookalike.

Dead By Sunrise

when you are in this blog. the song you are listening, does the voice seems familiar to you?

yes, it is the shouting in Crawling. it is the voice of Chester Bennington.

Mike Shinoda got his Fort Minor.

Chester have his Dead By Sunrise together with Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh since 2005.

the album Out of Ashes suppose to be released on 2006, but Chester put his priorities in Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight.

but now, it is ready featuring the single "Crawl Back In"



the songs you are listening to is my favorite, Give Me Your Name.

enjoy!

rock on Chester!!!

new friends

after gone through my internship for 1 month, I have met many new friends from the hotel. majority of them are from Malaysia, so is easier to get along with them.

on one off day, I followed Nicole and Fiona to Merlion Park. I've been there before during day time, but it was my first "night" to see Singapore night view due to previous curfew.

the famous bling bling liu lian, Esplanade

the vomiting Merlion

Marina Bay Sands in progress 24/7

that is Nicole and Fiona from Ipoh and me looking at my potential place to work in future

after 1 "night out", few weeks later is one of my Duty Manager, Sharon's Deepavali open house. Not many turn up due to shift work, only few of us meet up at hotel and go to her place by bus. Raining heavily when we were in the bus nad took us nearly 1 hour to reach the interchange.

from interchange opposite Hougang MRT station

by the time we reach her place, we were all wet and hungry. (I never eat anything for whole day. been sleeping half of the day due to night shift)

we reach there close to 8pm, we departed from hotel at 5.30pm. in between we missed 2 busses at interchange. John reach earlier than us with his motorbike after finishing his work at 7pm

Jaya from Perak, my bell service supervisor presenting our mousse cake to Sharon. John greeting Sharon

belated Deepavali celebration

after saying hello, next thing is "we are hungry...."

all of us went to the kitchen to get some real proper Indian food.

John and Guna (blocked) both technicians taking their dinner and the table full with nice food!

my brunchner (breakfast + lunch + dinner)
nasi briyani, prawns, mutton, chicken and favorite cabbage that should cost more than 7 dollars. its free here!!! and taste gooooooooooooooooooooood!

that is Hann from Kedah and Carmen from KL.

after dinner, we enjoy some dessert

and Sharon show us her house and her wedding photos

then we left at 9pm because I will be working at night shift. if we stay, we could have drink vodka and beer. damn!

more activities coming up. played badminton with some of them every monday. back to healthy lifestyle!

need to work on my report and final project as well. stress!