this is how bored i am

damnit, i had a long long entry but it didnt get publishedddd. and people ask me why i hate computers so much.

HOW pretty is my blog now????? as u can see i'm bored at work and thats when i usually have my blog template changed. but its soooo pretty now! i lurve the colours, they remind me of coffee, which is like the bestest thing in the world.

okay i know i sound really ditzy saying "pretty" and "bestest" but i dont care, i'm just happy that i managed to put my whole blog up all by my lonesome. [although i'm still trying to change the massive font size on my comments. help anyone? cuz its fugly now and i'm a html idiot] talking about my comment box, if u think i've gone whacked and discarded my purple phase i havent, i think the comment box is purple enough to make up fer it.

anyways, all my friends have gone back to australia [aka land of the friend-snatcher], but i'm quite glad the rest of the girls and i are trying to meet up more often. we just met up yesterday at the chocolate bar and it was soooo great. everyone was there [cept vivien], even peter and lovynn and it was just good to chill out and update each other bout everything. felt like home again, somewhat. :) plus, i'd been dreaming bout chocolate the whole damned day at work, so the choc bar was just what i needed. *happiness*

yes work. i'm back at NUS picking up phone calls for the CORS again and hell if i'm complaining. 8 bucks an hour to surf the net and change my blog template, this is the mother of all jobs! cept that i have to talk to the occasional gorbloc student and the fact that my body is violently rejecting me getting up 2 hours after my normal bedtime. hello again, eyebags. but hey, its all good.

i've been getting real rotten luck lately with tuition. as some of you know, i had been fired from my last tuition job. thing is, i had asked my kid to msg me what time she'd finish school on that fateful day so that i can come after. she said okay but didnt msg me, so i happily forgot about it. that is, until her mom rang me up at night and demanded to know if i was supposed to have tuition in the day or night. which really confused me cuz i thought she'd be busy with school and eca in the day. little did i know it was youth day and the little twat didn't tell me she didn't have school at all! so fine, i missed one day of tuition and it was my fault cuz i forgot about it. but hello! how many times have i gone all the way to her place and stood outside the door like a stupid idiot when my kid forgot we were having tuition and went out! grr. well anyways, her mom calls me up sounding all disappointed and saying that we have a "commitment problem. i'll give you ample notice, but if i dont call you, dont come down." .click.

SHE STILL OWES ME MONEY!! but i think i'm too embarassed to call her for it.

so anyways, jacq called me a coupla days ago saying that she a tuition job fer me. so i'm thinking great, second chance. and whats more, its at signature park, which means i'm teaching foreign students, which means there'd be no nasty parents suddenly deciding that there's a "commitment problem". oh, and since i'd taught there before, i knew that there wouldnt be a stupid 50% commission for agency fee.

or so i thought.

i should've smelled a rat when i got a call from the landlady's husband instead of the landlady. the dodgefest began when he said "uh, hello. this is james from uh, james tuition agency" right. 50% commission off my first paycheck. okay, seriously, people giving tuition are usually undergrads who are struggling to pay hp and travelling bills and you still wanna take 50% of their already pathetic paycheck?! so i call him back, determined not to get ripped off, and said i worked for his wife before, and there wasnt any agency, no 50% commission, and i dont remember signing up with your agency anyways. so he says he'll check with his wife and call me back. but like a lot of men [relax, i said a lot. i didnt say ALL], he didnt, and it took jacq to ring him this morning and hassle him before he told her he'd given my job to someone else. perfect.

i wonder if the daycare centre near my place will hire me when i'm studying. or maybe they consider that a "commitment problem".  gah i GOT to get over that.