today...
Thursday, 5 February 2009
the comedic life of me
So that's why they call it Morning Sun...
Recently, I discovered a GREAT cereal that keeps you full and cleans your bowels, NO FAIL, every morning when you eat it. Some of you may know that I have digestion problems... huhu - and I do love to share about toilet stories/humour - one of my favourite past time. =)
So anyway, the brand of the cereal is called Morning Sun and I eat the 98% fat one which I have found to be the most tasty. Basically, the cereal is made up of lots of oats, fibre, pieces of fruit and other things. You just need to eat a small bowl with a little milk and you've got it down pat. Sometimes, my bowels don't even move for 5 or 6 days straight! - so you can imagine the sewerage tank building up inside my body right?
So I did a trial run of the cereal. I ate it for 1 whole week, every morning, ever so faithfully like my life depended on it. True to it's name, "Morning Sun," it has faithfully released the sewerage from my tanks every single morning. No qualms. I would even have it down pat to the dot. I usually have breakfast around 7:30am. By the time I get into the office at 8:30am, turn on my computer - I'd have to make a quick dash for the lavatory to make my "morning sun."
There was even once, I was so inquisitive - since I have been making morning sun every morning, what more "sun" could possibly come out. Am I eating that much junk? SO, one day, I decided to check in the bowl - and you know what I saw? I got the absolute shock of my life, because never in my life would I have ever thought I would see what my eyes lay on in the bowl. I saw the perfect formation of my waste - exactly as it would look on your McDonalds ice cream cone!!! I couldn't believe it. I thought "morning sun" only looked like that in the movies. I was so proud my "morning sun" was so beautifully shaped =) Made my day!
I'm fully giving Morning Sun a double thumbs up!
The benefits of being an Admissions Officer at the International Office.
I have a colleague, her name is Esther and there was once a student who had come from Melbourne and bought her a whole box of 12 Krispy Kreme donuts!!! HULLOOOHHH!!! What kind of student does that?! How kind of him! So Esther shared all the donuts with the Admissions team. *nom nom nom*
Then I thought to myself, wah lau... what if a student ever did that for me
*dreams*
Oh well, today my dreams came true. Last night, I got an sms from my colleague, she wrote this: "Hi sis, Tomorrow, will have lasagna for you from your secret admirer... if u want don need to bring lunch n u can eat that =)"
My colleague Titien and I always tease each other. She's forever winking at me and poking me - she's lots of fun - so when I recieved the sms from her, I just assumed that she thought enough of me to make me lasagna. Aww how sweet of her.
Then when I got to work, she told me that her guy friend actually made it for me! I got the shock of my life - "Errr what guy friend?" I don't even know her circle of friends. I was thinking thinking thinking - did I ever have lunch with any of her guy friends that they would make me lasagna?!
Then she said, it was a student that I had helped with his letter of offer, COE etc etc etc. Actually, it wasn't the guy who made the lasagna for me - it was his MOTHER!!! HOHOHO.... WHAT THE!!! And actually I had corresponded a lot with her via email regarding her son's application, which is my colleague's guy friend. So anyway, the Aunty got a bit annoying towards the end because we didn't have all the documents etc etc etc - but it all worked out well in the end and the lasagna was super yummeh to the max!
Like...duh?
I have a Chindian friend, her name is Usha. Today, I asked her the most stupidest question you could ever ask - like I have totally no common sense in my brain or something.
I had dinner at her place last night with her two cousin brothers - who were Chinese-looking. We chit chat chit chat... then, for a period it went quiet... so I decided to ask the brightest question I could think of.
"So, how are you guys related?"
Usha said, "My mother's side... like duh..."
*silence... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 seconds had gone past...
Me, "Oh, like duhhhh!!! Why am I so slow... *smacks head*"
(Side note: Usha's mother is clearly Chinese, and her father is clearly Indian, so her cousins are clearly from the mother's side! - like DUH!)
Why you little!
For the past week or so, every single time I shower there is a flea in the shower with me. Even with my blindness, I can still always manage to spot the flea. It just likes to sit on the walls of the shower while I'm showering. So anyway, I always try to counter-attack it because I just want it to drown and die. I get the shower head as close to it as possible before springing the attack onto it and spraying hot water all over it - but every single time the little weener moves so fast to another position on the wall. I try the same tactic and AGAIN it flies away. I even tried to cup a handful of water and throw it at the flea - but miraculously - it escapes and finds another "safe" landing spot somewhere else of the shower walls.
This has been on-going for the past week and it's been really irritating me that I can't beat this flea. How can this flea be so quick to act!!! RARH.... well I'm going to get it real soon! Watch this space!
The little smiley face
Usually when I get an email from my manager, it usually means something good - or something bad.
On the 15 January I got an email from her which read:
"I would also like to notify you that I have approved for an increase in your salary to a Level X effective today."
As soon as I read the email, I was like wow-ecstatic, what did I do to deserve this?! It must've been all the helping out in all the departments perhaps? or maybe it was because I just completed my work development plan? or my annual increment? - I emailed back and asked her what was the reason for the increment so she gave me a call back and explained the level (because I didn't understand what it meant).
When she explained it to me the first time, I didn't understand it so she had to explain it to me again. By the time the conversation ended, she had forgotten to tell me why I got the pay raise in the first place?! garh! Oh well, I shouldn't bother her with such petty questions.
Then she went on 2 weeks leave... ladidaaahh.... I was waiting for my pay raise to go into my bank account and to show up on my payslips. It didn't happen that week - nevertheless, Staff Services are usually pretty darn slow with things and always do things wrong.
When my manager came back, she sent me another email. Would it be an email of more sunshine and rainbows or doom and gloom? This is what it read:
"Hi Sue-Anne, I'm sorry to bring you some bad news upon my return … :) Just got the email that the request to increase your salary to a X has been rejected, as Staff Services has refused all additional salary increments for this year due to the dismal financial situation. However your normal annual increment will still apply towards the end of the year."
When I read the email - after having two weeks knowledge thinking that I would get a pay raise and thinking what I would do with the extra money - I was a bit shocked and disappointed to say the least. I don't understand why Staff Services have to approve it when technically the money should be coming out of the International Office's cost centre - which if you can imagine if we've got 10,000 International Students on campus - how much money that would equate to in the bank account. NEVERTHELESS, what's said is done - I'm not getting the pay rise. I didn't reply to the email for a while... because I just didn't know what to reply. Thanks?
15 minutes later, my manager emailed me again. This is what she wrote,
"I just realised that it is not meant to be a smiley face…. But a :(.. sorry.. "
Ok, the smiley face ordeal just totally made me laugh! haha
today...
@10:19 pm
bye bye~