Yesterday was my last day working for Royce! Audrey, Candice and her family visited me, and I stuffed them with samples 'cos I'm so happy when I see my friends. :D Qianye and her friend dropped by too! I think they had some bball event in orchard haha.
Some memorable things happened during my days in Royce when...
1. I worked the morning shift.
There is an opening anthem in takashimaya every morning. There would be an announcement which says "Good morning everyone, and welcome to takashimaya department store..." So the music plays and all staff stand in front of their booth entrances and when the music ends everyone will bow. Then the customers would walk in and start shopping. I've always found this practice very amusing, and I like the bowing part! :D
2. I answered a call. It was from Yasser.
Me: Good afternoon royce.
Yasser: Is Mikami (the jap manager) here?
Me: Nope.
Yasser: Okay. Who are you?
Me: Royce.
Yasser: No, I mean who are you.
Me: Royce?
Yasser: What's your NAME?
Me: Oh! Hahaha, Elaine.
And later Ah Beng (Edison) who found out about this story called me "Royce" for the rest of the day...
3. I was cashiering.
I just learnt how to use the NETS and credit card payment machines yesterday and I was made to handle the whole counter on my own in the morning. -.- At first I didn't dare to touch the machines, and asked the customers to make payment with their cards at the taka cashier or pay me cash. Then later I decided to try.
A customer passed me her NETS card.
I slotted the card in the machine, and started pressing some buttons. I got stuck and stared at the machine.
Me: I'm so sorry, I'm new, so...
Customer: Uhh, you want me to help you?
And she cancelled the transaction and started pressing the NETS procedures herself! While I stood by her and studied what she was doing, also to make sure she typed in the correct amount she was supposed to pay. Gee my customer knows my job better than me! XD
4. Said tells me about his unbelievable education background.
"I re-took PSLE 5 times, retained 1 year for sec 1 and sec 2, and I'm waiting for my O level results now. I'm 22 this year." I'm still having trouble calculating to confirm whether this is true/ his lie is accurate!
5. The "nuttybuttys"!
Filzah was serving a customer, and I was next to her.
Customer: .... oh, and give me one nuttybutty.
I grinned, and when the customer left we burst out laughing. "Nuttybutty" is a very cute name for our signature nutty bars!
I really had fun working in Royce. Hehe and I'm happy they'll welcome me back whenever I want to work there again! :D
Photos here!
My view from the counter. Godiva is really colourful huh? Oh, and the stack of sales slips at the side is where I grabbed paper from when Jeff Wang was standing in front of where I took this picture from. :D
The cashier, the place where I make the most blunders! XD Most of the time I still get out of trouble by smiling... :)
My sinfully good FOC Godiva chocolate iceblend! :D Mr JJ made it for me manually because the machine which measures out proportion is out of order, but it tasted great! I had a chocolate high after that haha. Thank you sooo much! ^^
Me finishing my last bit of my chocolate drink, squatting down. Yeah we have to squat down when we eat/ drink at the counter, taka rules.
Filzah and me! Gee, this girl's good at camwhoring hahaha.
Filzah, Said, me and Cempaka. The four silly camwhoring part timers!
This is what happens when it's the last day of work for part timers!
Filzah, me and Cempaka. :)
Me, Yaseer and Said. Yaseer loves to attack people with his killer stare, but he's very nice too! And Said's funny hehe.
Me and Meekey, a friend I made from Leonidas, booth just back-to-back to Royce!
SJ 40th anniversary dinner on 27th December
Rushed down from my job, but my poor estimation of time ended up with me being early and waiting for Candice and Audrey for half an hour plus plus! I changed at my workplace and gave everyone a big shock in my white dress haha.
Anyway, it was good to see my squadmates again, after so long! :)
Squad photo with our instructors! :D
I love std4s '08.
The dinner was not bad I guess, and the 40th anniversary committee did a great job preparing for this event! Especially the mosiac. It was a nice big SJ gathering. Even Mr Kiw and Mr Sng came!
I have to report in school by 7.30am tomorrow! Geee I'm tired out by consecutive days of late nights and early mornings out I rushed home to sleep after dance after making a special trip to TCCIHS at outram to collect my one day's worth of pay. $44! Okay not so bad haha. I want to get my paycheck from Royce soon!
Mr JJ gave me and my colleagues some christmas logcake today. :)
Awww man. He's really nice! But I kind of got teased by my colleagues for the rest of the day. And tricked into giving him my number. -.- Omg my colleagues are like matchmakers! I hardly have direct communication with him. Maybe he doesn't dare to talk to me. But I think I'm quite friendly! Hmmmm.
My slice of cake. :D I think only Gladys and I enjoyed the cake; the rest of my colleagues threw away their shares (there were about 5 slices altogether I think) 'cos they didn't like it! :/ I feel really bad since it's expensive and it's a treat... but I appreciate his effort haha.
JC gave me a cute little pooh bear! :D So I'm receiving christmas presents this year after all.
I have to use blogger and pictures to record down all these nice little things my friends have done for me, or else forgetful me will forget haha. But so far I haven't read my archives though. Blogging is like saving my memories in a thumbdrive. Perhaps when I'm old I'll start reading about my posts and reminsce the good o' times. :)
I was dreaming of Elvin Ng coming to buy chocolates today but he never came... :( Oh, and Gladys saw Wong Li Lin and Addy Lee before my shift! XD So cool. But they were just talking nearby; they didn't buy chocolates from us.
Ooh, it's past 12. It's CHRISTMAS already! :D Merry merry christmas to all my dear friends. May everyone get lots of presents! I'm spending my christmas working this year, and I kind of have a feeling that it's going to be a special one. At least, a different one. In any case, I look forward to surprises, if there are any! Hahaha I'm so highhh about my job. But I'll miss a lot of my part-timer colleagues who're stopping work yesterday (24 dec)! :( There're Gladys, Michelle, Cempaka and all. I'm like one of the few left who were allocated work schedules till christmas. Maybe it's because of my smiles. In any case, I won't let the jap manager down! :D
Santa Claus is coming to town~
I had a super cool yester-day at work! Jeff Wang came to buy chocolates from us! :D Actually it's only my colleague Gladys and I who were getting excited and making a fuss over him because we're the only chinese working at the booth at that time.
The whole process of confirming he's really the actor took really long though.
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Me: (Look at the customer and couldn't help but stare)
(Quickly turn back and thought for a couple of seconds- He looks like Wang Jian Fu!) x 3
(Turns to Gladys and whispers: "Eh, that guy in the black specs looks like Wang Jian Fu leh!")
Gladys: "Yes! That's what I was thinking too!"
Both of us got really excited and hesitated whether or not to ask him whether he's the actor. But later I was serving a customer in front of him and Gladys attended to him. He spoke in English, and it sounded like it was with a foreign accent so I thought we'd gotten the wrong person. But when he finished his orders,
Gladys: "Can I ask you something. Are you Wang Jian Fu?"
Guy: "YES."
Both of us burst out laughing (out of excitement)! And I quickly asked him whether we can have his signature, and just grabbed 2 pieces of taka sales slips which were very conveniently placed at the top of the counter for him to sign on, while Gladys took the marker.
Here's the signature! :D :D

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There was another surprise for me, at the earlier part of the day. I received a christmas gift from someone I don't know! Well... I know what he looks like, but I don't know him properly. Yeah, it's the guy I mentioned in the previous posts who likes to wave at me over at the opposite Godiva booth. He gave me a box of Godiva chocolates, passed to me by my colleague from his colleague, and everyone at my booth laughed at me! XD
He's really nice I guess, and I had to return a gift or else I'll feel really bad. My gift is really slip-shod though! :/ I bought him a box of truffles from my booth (I personally think they're really good!) together with a little note saying hi on a sales slip. Gladys kept teasing me when I was writing the note on the sales slip, and I actually wrote the same thing twice because I signed my name slanted for the first note. Perfectionist habits. But thank goodness I wrote a note 'cos I'd found out he had a note for me in the little package when I opened it on the train on my way home. Michelle calls this the "chocolate affair", and I'm only mentioning this because it sounds really amusing and pretty sweet if it's real but I guess for my case it's not? I'd think this is a simple 礼尚往来 good-hearted act. But at least both of us know each other's names now. He kind of recognised me as the very-smiley-girl before that I think, because my colleague told me he described me as something like that when he asked about me from another colleague the day before when I could only report at 6.00pm because I had dance.
Anyway, I still think it's sweet receiving a christmas gift like that. Omg I love working at royce more and more! But I guess my work schedule's ending soon, 'cos Christmas' TOMORROW! Yeah, which means they won't need many part-timers after that. :( I believe today will be the most busy day after all the days I've worked? I feel highh already. Must work harder and make more customers happy today! :)
My Christmas gift. :)
On a side note, Iimelda, Shirlene and Keni dropped by to see me yesterday! More friends. :D I was so busy I couldn't attend to them too, sorry! Happy happy. ^^
Modelling is fun! :D
Me, D (owner of flirtynights), Shar (owner of glamourgirls), Yijie Angelina came with me today to go to Botanical Gardens for my modelling trials. We got lost taking the wrong bus! The board at the Dhoby bus stop said 171 goes to opp Botanical Gardens. We counted 9 stops, went wayy past 9 stops and I later found out from the driver that we passed by Botanical Gardens long long time ago. -.- Then after that we alighted from the bus and had to take 174 (the correct bus) for 10+ stops before we reached Botanical Gardens. And we weren't too late after all, 'cos the owner of the blogshop I'm modelling for was not there yet. :) Oh, and it's good to be responsible. 2/6 models turned up today, me and another girl, yijie, because the rest all overslept. -.- Yeah, they actually had the same reason! So in the end with 2 of us and 40 clothes, I posed with 22 pieces of clothes! That's really really cool for me. And I get to take pictures with lots of dresses. :D
On the way to finding a spot for our photoshoot, a guy approached me from under a pavillion asked me to eat a banana for him. -.- Yeah, and there were a group of guys laughing in the pavillion. Okay, maybe it's for a dare. I have no idea why I agreed to eat the banana, but I did. I thought angelina would want to share it with me! But she didn't. So I peeled the banana, took a bite, and gave it back to him. And I have no idea why I did that too! Thinking back now, it would have looked quite weird. Maybe I didn't want to throw the banana away for him. Oh well, I'm nice to have already eaten the banana! :)
The banana looked like this when I returned it to the guy. Omg I think I'm weird.I also realised I look unglam wearing heels. Maybe it's because I'm not used to it. And makeup is really troublesome! Hehe thank goodness I didn't have to do it for myself. I had eyeliner and fake eyelashes on again, it felt like the time I was in the salon doing make up for prom. Fake eyelashes bring gloom to your eyes, sighh. I think I'll never be able to apply eyeliner on myself, and I don't really want to do that anyway.
After the whole photoshoot which ended at about 4pm, I felt hungryyy! Shar/D's boyfriend treated me and angelina to iced lemon tea after the photoshoot. It helped, thank you! :) Okay, I attempted a last minute diet and skipped proper lunch today. Well... I had a mr bean redbean pancake? Haha nevermind! Today was so satisfying. :) Heh after that Angelina and I took the bus back to Orchard where we took neoprints at Cineleisure and she found some juicy gossip when we went to Heeren!
THIS PARAGRAPH IS DEDICATED TO ANGELINA, as promised. Omg thank you so much for accompanying me today! I hope it didn't bore you out too much. Hehe but we did have fun after that, taking nice neoprints and walking around orchard (except for the fact that our legs hurt so much because of our heels) right? :) May your phone get well soon too!
[edit] PICTURES! Here's to "Flower Power"! :D











NEOPRINTS! (These photos are taken from the neoprint machine when decorating so lighting may be a bit weird.)




I'm working for Royce Chocolates tomorrow! ^^
YES I'm working for ROYCE! :D *jumps around in excitement*
I was waiting for my call, but no one called so I couldn't resist the urge to call. And then I found out my name was already on the schedule for the taka branch with vivian and xiaoping. :D So I went to suntec to submit my photocopied I/C today. Thank goodness I called!
Oh and I realised JC's working in taka too! He's like working at a booth for testing toys at B2, while I'm working at B1. So I can see him in his tie heehee. His job sounds nice though!
I'm looking forward to 19 December. ^^
WILD CHILD was nice! :D
I watched it with Liz, after year 4'09 orientation dry run. It's a very fn chick flick to watch with a girlfriend! Funny, romantic and touching. Both Liz and I agreed that Alex Pettyfer (Freddie) is hot! :D He's like the only guy present in the girls' school (as the headmistress's son), but he's more than enough! And somehow we just had to compare with the situation in dunman high. XD
Wild Child poster. :D
The girls dressed up for the school's social night.
Poppy and Freddie. AWWW. :)

Their "secret date", one of poppy's plan to get expelled so that she could return to Malibu.

(This is not in the movie.) Omg Alex Pettyfer and Emma Roberts look so cute together!
I shall record this funny bit. After the movie, we were going down the escalators of TM when I commented that I sensed that it was raining. I really did; it was a feeling. We weren't able to see the weather conditions inside the mall, and Liz said if it was raining I would have super powers or something. Haha and it WAS really raining! :) Oh well, I guess it's a coincidence, since it rains so much these days. And this time I'm equipped with my umbrella! I'm convinced that no guardian angel would come and save me at the bus stop when I'm waiting for the rain to stop hehe.
Oh, I shall note down my schedule for the week here, so I feel more organised. :)
Monday: Dance (afternoon) - CHECK
Tuesday: Year 4'09 orientation dry Run + movie with Liz - CHECK
Wednesday: Dance (afternoon)
Thursday: FREE! [for the time being]
Friday: Full-day dance
Saturday: Dance (morning)
Sunday: JLPT + first day of work at Raffles Hotel!
Gosh. I need to study my jap soon, with JLPT on sunday. I think I've gone all rusty already!
Next week is much better 'cos it's the school's block week- no dance! Which would be a great time for me to crash work and earn money. But I want another job, instead of a hotel waitress! Like my pending royce chocolates job. I hope I get informed of the meeting with the manager soon! :) Tried asking a couple more restaurants today and they need people who can commit. Sighh.
I shall also note down a list of movies I'm interested to see before I forget:
1. Twilight - I need to find out for myself why a whole lot of girls are going crazy over the book! :)
2. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - I think it's going to be romantic, hee.
3. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging - I have no idea what is it about; the poster just looks interesting.
I certainly feel more organised now. I shall rest for dance tomorrow. Night! :D