Currently listening to...

this:

I love instrumental songs

I've finally got the songs from Esther's hard disk after one month she arrived at UK. The songs remind me of the songs I usually listen in a chinese restaurant here in Leeds (what a dodgy place to listen to songs ..haha). Soft and soothing songs. I love them.

Thanks mum for buying the cds!

on hiatus

I wish I could lie-in until anytime I want everyday

Finally weekend has arrived and I'm free from uni and work for two days!

Time for a break from everything

on strike!

Last week Thursday and Friday and this week Monday I was exceptionally free coz RM was on strike!

Actually the strike lasted for 4 days (which is Thurs, Fri, Mon and Tues) but I went to work yesterday coz my class finished early and I also need some money to feed myself.

First time experiencing a strike as I don't see it often in M'sia and usually the union president get thrown into ISA for planning the strike. But here, nothing happens to the union president (and the workers as well).

Well, it's mainly of the pay dispute and the modernisation of RM (RM going to introduce some machines which might cause some ppl to lose jobs) that caused the strike. I heard that the dispute is not settled yet and there will be another strike going on on 16th Oct.

Yesterday when I went to work, I had to sit in the specially arranged van with its windows covered up to prevent the pickets at the RM entrance from seeing us.

there was only a hole through the driver's seat where I can peek through

outside view of the van. Sorry for the blur pic

My housemate who is also working in RM told me that on the first day of the strike, he had to squad in the back of the van and it was pitch-black. ''It's as if we are illegal immigrants (难民)", he said.

One of my colleagues wanted to work last Thursday but had to return home as the pickets at the RM entrance didn't allow her to enter the building. They even blocked the bus route which goes to RM! So the bus have to use another route. Yesterday when we entered through the entrance, I could hear some people whistling, protesting us from entering RM.

It was rather chaotic in RM. All the classes of the letters were mixed up. It makes no difference whether you are using first class mail (which of coz delivers faster) or second class mail.

I pity those people who paid more but got their letters delivered at the same time as the people who paid less

RM was so quiet for the first time


Quiet but not empty as there were loads of trolleys overloaded with mails.

It means tons of work for us today when work resume.

I don't see any relevance in the strike really. I think the pay in RM is quite high already and the company is treating its workers well. Compared to the previous company which I worked at, I didn't even get a pay rise after working for one year there!

Shouldn't we be satisfied with what we have already?

Summer hols have ended.

School have started.

People are back from their hols. I start seeing familiar faces around...

There are new people too. Still yet to meet my medic juniors.

Weather is getting cold. So cold that I had to switch on the heater in my room last night as normally my room is quite warm.

Catching a minor flu already.

Going to end my cleaning job for good this Fri. Can't wait.

Next week onwards will be busy full-time as uni work + project kick in

my royal mail job

Jz got back from my super boring royal mail induction today.

So boring that I dozed off a few times. But I got paid anyway for those 8 hours.

I'm doing the evening shift from 5.30pm.

To my parents, I know my limitations and the hectic medicine schedule. If I find the job affecting my studies, I will quit immediately. No need to worry. I also know that studying is my first priority and I WILL NOT do anything to jeopardize my studies.

I hope my parents can trust me in that

I had my haircut

Finally after one year and one month..i've finally cut my hair!

Before


After


thanks to Melvin and Stephanie for cutting my hair :)