Nowadays as I have to go site, I would usually park the car at Ngee Ann Poly thereafter Jean would come and pick me up before we go to site at Tuas area.
Most of the time, we will be having our lunch at the Poly canteen. At that point of time, I will be admiring those Poly students and try to reminisce (Thou my age gap wasn’t too far away from theirs, 5 years?), what was I doing when I was at their age, 17 – 19 years old.
I used to be a very bad, very rebellious teenager.
I have once left home for close to 2 ½ year.
After my GCE N level, I stopped schooling. I passed all subjects during my GCE N level but failed the total points.
I started working for Peter at Boss (Lavendar) as a KJ.
KJs - plays and manages the music for a venue. The role of the KJ often includes announcing song titles and whose turn it is to use the microphone.
Nowadays, the job for KJs have die off as most of the KTV pub are now computerize. Stayed there for a year or so, I left Boss, wanting to change my working environment.
Donno isit heaven prank or what, I saw on newspaper that another pub is hiring. I called up the boss and realized it was Peter again. All along, I knew he have 2 pubs (Boss and Q Club) but I have only went Q club once for a week, to temporary assist them as the KJs then left.Peter asked me to go back help him as he is in need of staffs. I thought why not? I am working with familar faces yet in a different environment.
I have the most fun when I was working at Q and gotten to know a bunch of great gals like Evelyn, Cat, Asher, Elaine, Angeline and ppl whom I have still been contacting till now like ber, mui, daniel, kev, ray. I also get to know Alvin and gang during this period.
Still can clearly remember those incidents that have happened during that period.
- I knew Alvin and gang at 龙泡泡's birthday, at a pub near Mr. Bean.
I spent my 18th bday on a Wednesday night with Ms Angela, Alvin, Sean, Raymond, Weijiang at Zouk, Mambo Night. For fear that I might not be able to enter the club, we still purposely wait till 12am den start queuing at the entrance of Zouk. That's was my very 1st Mambo encounter! =) - With the gals (Q Club)... Whenever we gotten our pay, we will go for a big supper feast at Geylang =) We will hang out together till early morning after work. We will bitch and do retail therapy together.
- I knew Ber they all during work time. They came into Q in a large group and opened quite some bottles. I reckon Ber was kind of drunk when he came over to get to know me with Kev. It was a "I dare you" between them. That was how our friendship started then. I cant remember much of a details but I remember at that very night, when we close shop, Ber was being carried out by them as he was totally wasted and he left his slipper inside Q.
That night, I went supper with Elaine, Mike and beng at Geylang and about to reach our destination, Mike throwed up (comparable to a Merlion)
My next meetup with Kev and gang was at Bugis MRT followed by Club Instinct - For Raymond, ShiHan, Ray, HanMing (Gang of Mandai).. They can be consider as another group of Q regulars besides Ken they all. Raymond and Ray used to compete alot with me on who can be the top by playing Shanghai. Nevertheless, yr faithfully won =) I last heard from Ray that both ShiHan and Raymond were marry already and they each have a baby coming up.
That very "unfateful" night, I broke the record I have for my own life. I can only recall that I drank a total of 17 tequila shots, 4 - 6 baileys, a mixture of martell and beer BUT I cant recall at all how I managed to swallow those drinks down my throat! 17 tequila shots is definitely not a joke, not something to mess with.. -_-"
But even thou I was very very drunk that night, I know someone gave me a call on my HP, Ashner told that person I was drunk and resting at lvl 2 therefore that person came all the way down to fetch me back home even thou that person was already 1/2 way in dream land, it was already close to 2 or 3 am and on a weekday! I really appreciate and am thankful that the person came to fetch me home. I knew that on that night, I had shown that nice person my ugliest moments. Puking for at least 4 times and some of my drunken acts. Luckily although I was super drunk, I still have self control over myself. I didnt slept on the floor like those gals u see at those clubs, I also wasnt carried out by my friends. Im still able to walk for a short distance but I will feel weak and simply just sit on the floor and I talked loud. REAL LOUD. Haa!
Im grateful that I was once working at Q. it have indeed given me a lot of great memories and great friends.
Ofcos besides having happiness, there is bound to have sorrow as well.
The worst encounter which I ever had in my whole life also happened back den. I can still clearly remember the dates till now. Dec/Jan 04 and Aug 04. Thou it was a VERY BAD experience, Im glad I had managed to overcome them. Thanks to those lovely people who stood by me. Even thou it was so many years ago, but whenever I think back of the things that had happened, I could only smile and laugh at myself. For being foolish or stupid?! This are the only 2 words which I can thought of to describe myself. Ha!
However good time always past fast.
At about Nov 04, the rental agreement were up and Peter decided to close down Q club. Someone else were to take over the place so I decided to leave.The old customers at Q club lvl2, were all very nice to me. They felt that I should hold a proper job thus they were all very enthusiastic to help me find a daytime job. Melvin knew that his uncle's company were looking for a sales coordinator so he arranged with Eric on my behalf for an interview and helped me to prepare myself for the interview at Shinmei Electric (S) Pte Ltd. I said "helped me to prepare" bcos I can still remember us role playing the interview procedure at TBP Coffeebean *Grin*
That's how I gotten into Shinmei and spent 2 ½ years there. On my very 1st few days at work, my colleagues asked me to key in some P/O. I gotten very nervous as all along beside using computer for gaming purposes (I plaed Diabolo II and world of war craft de!), I was a total nerd to computer and the functions that it served. I can say I totally donno wad is Internet, donno what is Microsoft, donno what is email, donno what is blog and I don even know what is friendster about!!! Luckily, I had Ms Angela's help. I called her immediately and she assist me with the stuffs that I wanna do, step by step over our phone conversation. Really appreciate her help that time and always.
Thanks Guan Yin Ma, that I managed to pickup the relevant skill sets fast and get use to the hang of computer! It was really perseverance that makes me stayed there for so long. During my 2 1/2 years at Shimei, with my own means, I studied and paid for my certification, diploma and driving license MYSELF!
Like one of the interviews which I went recently. Donno why but the interviewer told me this: "It is only something that must have given you alot of impact thus you will remember it clearly otherwise you would had long ago kept those memories in the unused storage space inside your brain."
The above was wad I had been doing since the age of 17... Drinking, smoking, being in a bgr, earning my own income and more. I really appreciated the people who have been in part of my life, be it from then or before or whenever especially the few people who have been there witnessing me since then when I was growing up and Im also thankful that I am able to witness each of my friends growing up life stages as well.
Sometimes I would really sit down and think, if I wasn't that rebellious, if I didn't step into Q, if I didn't get to know those pals, if I nv did wad I did before, how would my life turn out to be. Would I be happier? Would my life be more fulfilling?
But Im very sure if I was given the chance to relive my life again, I would definitely choose the same path! Choose to come out of school early, choose work in Q, choose to get to know those important gals like Abbey, Jing, Meixin, Angela and those Q gals, choose to get to know him and all the other stuffs that had once happened to me. I would want ev things to remain the same as it was but probably not to get to know Boy and I would want to treat my Ah Ma nicer cos in the past, I wasn't a very filial granddaughter, you see. But all this is fated one de la, I cant choose.
- To the secret peoples whom I knew on late Aug; I shall call them Aug.
Aug might not be reading this but still I wanna tell Aug:
Thanks for once being there and have added plenty of sunshine, happiness and love into my life. Promises that were made were mostly honor although not all. I appreciate you and have always knew that all along you had been doing alot of things and sacrifices for me but probably at that point of time, I was still young and ignorance. Do not really know how to show out to people that I am appreciative towards them or treat ppl well with respect and just want things to be in my way. Im very sorry for all the upsetness that I have caused.
My "antennas" are still long and sharp enough to know what is going on. Thou I may not totally agree with the things you all are doing now, but I belive you all are old enough to know how to differentiate what is correct, what is not. Cherish your life and time. To everyone: When time has bypass u, it will never come back anymore.
Anyway, eversince I left Q...
I haven stepped into that lane before. Whenever the car bypasses that particular area, I will always have that kind of butterfly feelings in my stomach. I remember not long ago I was still mentioning that the whole shop was left vacant as the guy who takeover Q cant sustain. Those regular customer had also stopped patronising Q since we (the old Q gals) left. Recently I bypass Middle Road again and I saw that the shop have a new owner. If I didnt see wrongly, the old Q club are now a food stall selling curry rice? The world is changing real fast. Haiz! 往事只能回味
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