The F1 Post

The sweltering weather, the blazing hot sun, the endless chatter in myriad of languages, the temporary deafness you experience after watching a race, the sunglasses, the angmohs and the japanese people who always seem to look lost without much effort, the datos and ambassadors, the super rich kids who are left unattended to spend as much as they wish, the air-conditioned mobile toilets (weird I know), DSLR snobs, the weird people who snap pictures of you when you are busy working, the language barriers... and the endless supply of cold water and homecooked food by our temporary mum of a manager. haha.

And her muffins.
Mustnt forget the muffins.
I adore Anne's muffins.

....The alarm clock going off at 4.45 am,the early mornings spent at Cititel's hotel's toilet, the melting make up, the super nice drivers Ben and John, the silence you get before the start and end a day, being stuck at MV til 9.30pm due to the long taxi line, the USD based transactions, the brown envelope with our crisp rewards, Our angmoh managers, Gerald, Graham, Peter and Sarah (english and swedish), the amusing and weird customers from all over.

japanese. english. spanish. macau(ians?). hongkies. korean. swedish. australian. kiwis. indonesian. thai. singaporean. american. chinese. russian. qatarian. filipinos. mexican. italian. peruian. vietnamese.

and godknowswhere else.

These would be the ways in which I can sum my experience working during the recent F1 in Sepang from the 21-23. Nolah I wasnt working as the umbrella lady (pit queen isit?). I was working as a promoter. There is a difference okay?

Umbrella ladies get paid to look as hot as possible while holding an umbrella while we get paid to work ma.
Pun intended. The weather was crap.

I had at least 7 bottles of water everyday to keep myself from looking like a dry wrung out sponge. Dehydration had sent many girls off to the St John's booth before. Dont underestimate the weather, boss told us two girls fainted during the melbourne F1 a few week earlier. o.0 freaky.

Point is, neverunderestimate the joy inducing effect of a bottle of ice cold H2O.

Anyway, the experience was great. The food and transport was provided. Pay was good. We got to watch the race for free.The angmoh managers were damn nice: they said thank you even though you are a staff. The food was good. We had breakfast, lunch, tea and jelly and fruits and salad and dessert and muffins.

Goodness.

Tiring as it was, I learnt alot. The whole experience had widen my perspective, broke down some of my personal stigmas and ideologies and made me a new fan of muffins.

Nyammm.

Anyway, enough of grandmother greatgrandmother stories, away with the pictures. Courtesy of coworkers since I didnt bring my camera.

I promised hot cars,hot guys and hot chicks right? Okay here they are:

HOT CARS

Being hugely ignorant of this sport, I didnt know there were so many kinds of races before this.

Massa.. before he flew off the track. Poor dude he was leading after kimi raikkonen. Must have been a blow to ferrari.

Not very hot. But also car. The stimulator thingy at the Petronas booth.

I think this is from the BMW sauber team.

HOT GUYS

Due to lack of hot guys, we were forced to have to make do with him.

Oh well.

Valerie and the BMW guy poster.

Nolah, there were plenty of eye candy for both male and females.
Ladies, please sediakan tissue.
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I was seriouslah. Meet Carlos and erm.. forget hisnameliao.

My colleague, cassy with the twin brothers from the ferrari booth.
They are spanish.

OMGOMGOMG I wanted to kill her out of jealousy when I saw this picture.
Say go toilet but then go take picture with hot guys wtf.

T.T

Nevermind next time I go spain I'll stalk them.

Neh. I think this is Kimi Raikonnen's.

Sorry Vyonne this the closest shot of kimi lah haha.
Only people in the grand stand can see them upclose.
And those tickets are around 2 grand.
haha 2 grand is too grand for us.

Sorry, la

No point complaining la I got free entrance.
Amen.

And last but not least.. hot girls. But for some reason I cant seem to see any REALLY hot girls la. Pretty ones got alot la. But hot.. I dont know la. Its malaysia and you know..we have restrictions on this kind of things.

(please roll eyes and insert non-committal shrug here)

They didnt have the infamous ferrari girl in her red dress, devil horn and trident. Sadla they told me she came last year. I wonder what drove her away..

Oh well, guess you all have to settle with me and my colleagues. Since its their cameras and pictures. My computer's bluetooth system is PMSing and refuses to let me to access to my pictures on my phone.

Technology sucks sometimes.

Malboro gal. with cassy again.
They are primary classmates. lol.
Ironic la they are sellin cigarattes but the sign behind says no smoking wtf.

10 of us.
Interesting bunch.

Try guessing which girl matches with the description la.
-part time model. modeled for thomas and guys
-eurasian. chinese+portugese+punjabi
-UM student studying linguistics.
-chemical and biology student who is now working in a bank
-ex full time model who now is working in a bank
-tour guide

Whats the difference with taking a picture with a mercedes here and a mercedes we see on the streets?
Dunno.

(Actually I would rather take pictures of mini coopers)

Since everyone take, I also take lah.
For memories.

Jangan tanya mengapa kaki aku teramat pelik sangat.
I feel weird in skirts la. I like jeans :)

They said we look like sisters in this picture.
Haha. they must be blind.
Oh yeah her name is SuYen.
Sweeeeet gal.

Her real sister haha.
Also very pretty.

Mastered the skill of stoning while smiling. Interesting.

Meet my make up buddy in the mornings, Valerie.
Before we took this picture, she told me:
"eh must take a picture together so can show off to mun pui"
Mandy, please forgive us.

I will miss hanging out with you in cititel's toilet at 6 am.

And you complaining that the hotel staff stared at us funny..
ayam not so hardworking wake up at 6 am okay?
hahahahahaha.

Although I had learnt alot in the process, there are two things that still escapes my understanding.
1.The fuss about mascara, eyeliner and lipsticks. I think they are so troublesome to put on.
2.Why people pay so much to watch the F1. I nearly feel asleep during the race lah.

But one thing's for sure
Having around 4 hours sleep for three days straight makes one feel constipated, bloated and unpretty all the time.

I was so happy to be reunited with more normal hours of sleep after the three days.
I still am.

The grandstand where all the socialites gather.
Picture taken after the race.
Goodbye Grandstand.

And good morning people!

You lie awake at night
With blue eyes that never cry

Perhaps sometimes all we need to do is to temporarily cut ourselves from the world to search for what we want?

I. Dont. Know.

All roads lead somewhere. This I know. But where?

Smile.

The way your face breaks into that brillant dimpled smile fools me not anymore. For behind that smile, behind those pretty dangly shimmery earrings and the sweetness which all of you project, there lies characters so manipulative, so complex to the point where it just leaves me speechless and awed by the level of pretentiousness, the pettiness and the sheer lack of objectiveness for the things which you all deem to make sense.

I see no reason to understand your lack of understanding towards others.
After all, you see no one other than yourselves in this whole brilliant scheme of things.

People do not exist to do to your bidding my dear princesses.
Just because you work your charm and flash that brilliant smile of yours.

Smile at me. Smile and tell me things will be alright. Smile and tell me to fuck off.
I’ll gladly do so.

And I’ll tell you that your smile don’t look so pretty to me anymore.

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# Girls, please don’t use your looks to manipulate people to do donkey work for you. It’s a bad habit that’s hard to break and eventually you start using it on people of the same sex. That’s when things get messy unless of course you work your charm on a lesbian.

Oh wait, that’d be even MORE messier.
Opps.

You are beautiful, you are strong and you have brains. Why don’t you cherish them and put them to good use instead of using them to come out with schemes to get people to do things for you?

PsPs: I knew this whole hiatus idea is wrong. I have such sort term attention spans. I always end up drawing when I should be studying. End up taking pictures in class instead of fully focusing. When the class is draggy, I have this urge to drag myself out of the room. Half the time I don’t really need to go to the loo or refill my bottle also. Just go out so I wont be bored out of my head. And I hardly really remember where I put my keys, it just drives my housemates mad. Haiihh.

At least I managed to be anal long enough to rearrange my blog links in alphabetical order yo.

Company law presentation cum report and fundamental of finance assignment.

Sepang 21-23

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Goddamnbusy

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Unable to blog for around a week.

Sorryla sayangs, I promise to make it up to you all with pretty pictures of hot cars, hot racers and hot girls later okay?

Make you people go =


I know you all will like one.
(haha dont bluff okays)

Been looking back on my past entries and I realised that my entries are becoming more and more self absorbed. Me, me and more me.



(yawn)
Tsk, its like watching a one woman soap opera.
Albeit a very very boring soap opera.
Well, I say enough.

Thus today, I shall NOT be taking anything that has to do with me. Instead I will be talking about the random interesting/thoughtful/funny/stupid things which my lecturers have said during their classes. This list of course is complied through memory and is randomly arranged cause I have very selective memory. Especially for remembering nonsensical things.

Okays here goes nothing.

"Today we shall be talking about Taufu debts and Char Siew interest"

and

"FAMA bank!"

LOL. I'll always remember this guy. Funny man, though has an uncanny way of wandering off topic and mispronouncing some words. The classic mistake will be the one above.

Initially I thought he was mad, suddenly going off about food. Then I realised he was talking about DOUBTFUL debts and Charge YOU interest.

By the end of the class I was really lusting over the thought of char siew rice and taufu. =.=''

Oh yeah, FAMA isnt a new unheard agricultural bank. Its actually is: FAMA bank= Father Mother Bank.

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Its pretty long, but I remembered it well cause what was said actually made alot of sense. Made me think for awhile actually. Most of us are already burdened with so much before we come into the work force.

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"As freshies into the work force, people will always ALWAYS ask you to do stupid things. Like making your boss's coffee. And we all know that is the coffee ladies' job. And you dont want to do that dont you? Now here are some ideas on how to make your boss drop the whole idea"
-Quote Ms Chin, Intro to Human Resource Management lecturer, Semester 3

Then she went on the tell us 3 ways which is avoided making coffee for THE boss.
1. Pretended she was busy with paper work.
2. Made the coffee too bitter.
3. Made the coffee too sweet.

I actually like her alot as a lecturer. She always had stories to tell about her experiences when she work. Three words I would describe her in would be: Sharp, witty and sarcastic. And she's so brillant she speaks almost every language imaginable except mandarin wtf.

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"Promoter is the one who does anything that is needed to form a company. So a promoter is like a mother who does anything that is needed to form her.. erm child."
(awkward pause)
-Quote Ms Anne Vergis, Company Law lecturer

She must have realised it as well, cause of the momentary pause she made. Fortunately for her, everyone was too busy copying to notice it.

Abit out of character for her so say such a thing la. Cause she's really good most of the time. Cant beat them law lecturers, cause they are very sharp. You'd probably lose horribly if you got into an argument with them.

Moral of the story:
Dont mess with law lecturers.

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"BN=Barang Naik!"
-Quote This semester's Fundamentals of Finance lecturer.

He told us his student told him this one.
Yeah right.

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"Correct me if I am wrong"
-Quote Mr Johan Lim, Business Management Lecturer.

This line is a classic Johan Lim phrase. A lecture without this phrase is just not a Johan Lim lecture. I noticed he likes saying this while raising his eyebrows. Correct me if I am wrong.

About Johan Lim. Smart guy with a sense of humour. And can be sharp with his choice of words. Winked at me before when I said hi to him in the canteen. omgwtf

Initially thought he was a malay fellow due to his name. Manatau saw this fair chubby chinese guy walk into our lecture hall and declaring himself as Johan. lol

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Cant think of anything else now. Will have to try to remember more and (perhaps. Just perhaps) compile a second part to this post.

If you all recall anything interesting your past lecturers said, please tell me. I want to kehpoh.

Strikes me funny how some lecturers have more impact on us then others. Most just come and go, leaving us with tons of homework but imparting nothing to us about lessons about life. Leaving shallow footsteps in our memories which will eventually fade into oblivion..hmm

Oh yeah, I am fine already now btw.

And I dont want to feel so emo.

Who doesnt want to draw stars and smiley faces where ever they go? To see the world through a kadeilescope? To smile at random strangers on the streets? To love everything and everyone unconditionally?

As promised here are the continuation of pictures taken from our class trip to cherating/kuantan/genting.

And sorry I think I had typed Kelantan instead of kuantan several posts ago. Yeah I am so blur I get kuantan and kelantan mixed up. Lol. The worst part of it all is that I just realised it.

Opps.

Anyway, on the next day after a massive failure by all to wake up at 4am to catch the sunrise due to erm weather conditions, we packed up and drove ourselves to Kuantan to kidnap visit Mr. key.

After our extremely late chinese new year visitation, we headed off to check into our hotel.


Which is actually a huge bungalow converted into an inn/motel/apartment thingy.But what the heckla it came cheap. Comfortable and clean*. And it had wah lai toi!

Batu Bersurat Teluk Cempedak.

The watchtower.

Like a boulevard right?

Antique benches look so quaint against the backdrop of gray seas

The walkway from the main beach to .. another stretch of beach.

So serene lah.

The waves spared the rocks no mercy.

I will follow you.

I wonder which idiot did this.
In mandarin it means " I love XXXX"
then it was crossed out.

We had this feeling that whoever wrote this broke up with the person he was declaring undying love for wtf.

Pondok-pondoks line the walkway.

I wished I had brought kites.
but then again, they could have suffered the same unfortunate fate as the one above.

A meditating wilson. An amused denis looks on.

Another season of lost.
Starring ying erh.

Seafood!

Came out from the beach drenched. But due to rainwater not seawater. How sad.

That night we had more seafood.
Cause in kuantan, there is nothing but seafood as well.



Fortunately, the food was better than the first day.

:D

#Regarding the elections:
Barisan won. Marginally.
There are many casualties amongst the top guns.
5 states were captured by the opposition colliation.
The biggest blow to the ruling government had seen since independence.

health minister scandal/hindraf/bersih rally/bocor/zakaria/increasing prices/crime rates/the recent mahathir-anwar tape/lingam case
and etc etc

I think the people are tired of it all.
The rakyat has spoken.
They want changes.

I hope things will change for the better.
And that everyone will remember that this is a kerajaan demokrasi berparlimen.

Malaysia, I wish you all the best.