Do Not Disturb - Busy With Bachelor

28/4

Anyway, I didn't turn up in the end. But the invite's still sitting on my desk. Good distraction for a hard day's work :)

I got an invite to the party.

*Overwhelmed with lust*

Taxis and Claims

It's 9pm and ticking. I'm blogging from the office, waiting for 10pm, the eligible taxi claim time.

Last September, when I was greener than green in the company, the taxi claim time was 8pm. Perhaps it was I who submitted dubious claims, my boss decided he was being too lenient by allowing claims from 8pm. Starting from November, the rules were changed to 10pm.

Inevitably, the new law sparked much protest from my colleagues. Angry emails (some written in caps) flew back and forth (The announcement was unwisely done through a cold email and it was not accompanied by an explanation). The management decided to relent a bit by allowing dinner claims from 8pm. Taxi claims stayed at 10pm.

10pm is an impossible time to get a taxi. Taxis pass by all the time but none will stop, not even those with the Taxi sign lit. Even when I prepare to fork out $4 on booking fee, it takes 30 minutes just to get through to the automated operator (and no taxi will stop during this period).

How ridiculous. We are already slogging so hard, working 14 hours a day. What we want to do is to quickly get home and bathe and rest. And we have to spend 30 minutes just to wait for an available taxi who will pick us up?

And why won't the empty taxis stop?!?

I'm gonna see if the situation improves or I may start a petition to get the management to bring forward the claim time to a more reasonable 9.30pm. It's 9.38pm now. Time to start calling the taxi company so that I can get one at 10pm.

Personal Ad - An Idea For My Dear Friends

Found in a magazine:

How to meet that special someone

Create a personal name card and slot it in your favourite book from the library or book store. The next person who opens the book is likely to be someone who shares similar interests with you. Who knows, you may just receive that special call!

Very cool gimmick! Being forward without being too brash :)

Movie Mania

The sudden influx of Oscar-worthy movies during January and February does no good to a busy girl like me. How am I supposed to watch all of them before they end their run?

Being seriously deprived, I vowed to catch all of them (those still showing) during the CNY break, irregarding the costs involved. Until I caught a glimpse of the Channel 5 promo on TV - a contest to win a pair of tickets to the Oscar Extravaganza Movie Marathon (5 at a go!). Because I only caught a glimpse, I didn't notice how to take part. I badly want to win so that I can watch all at once. In fact, I was very prepared to pay if such a package is offered by the cinemas.

Anyway, I went to great lengths to find out the contest details. I contacted someone I knew from Cathay (ah... the power of networking) and was informed that I had to take part through Channel 5, the organiser. So I scrolled the website and it told me to send an SMS with my particulars and the reason why I should win the tickets.

My reason? Too corny to publish here. But corn works. And I won :D How time-saving. It's free too! Lalala~~

But sad to say, I missed the Oscars because of work. Although it wasn't much of a loss, according what I read from the reviews.