My work ended yesterday, thank goodness, although I did feel abit sad to leave StarHub as I think the colleagues there are nice. Some of them gave me "farewell" presents; book, pen, chocolates and cookies. It's so nice of them, it's like even though I'm just a temp and they could have chosen not to bother abt me, but still treat me with respect, and on some occasions treat me to meals/coffee and stuff like tt. Then they told me next time when I am free, I can go back Cuppage there and have a meal with them or stuff like tt. So friendly of them... Owellz, perhaps during sch holidays next yr I will consider going back there again..

So now I have one month of "break", but I guess I will REALLY want to concentrate on studying Japanese lar... I'm still too cui... And tuition for my students still goes on.. I will want to go for swimming sessions to shed off the excess fats that I have accumulated. A day-trip to JB will be nice for some cheap shopping (Yaz, call me a cheapo or whatever, I don't care.) Then I also donno what I'll be doing next. Perhaps wasting my time away.. But see first lar, take one step at a time.

I think my patience has indeed wear thin whenever the issue of "Punctuality among Singaporeans" turns up. (Okay, the reason I talk abt this is becuz the temp gal who takes over me doesn't seem to be punctual, and tt irks me) For the past 4 months I work in StarHub, there was NEVER a day I turn up late for work. In fact, I'll come like 15 minutes earlier for work most of the time. But I noticed ppl around me, whether perm staff or temp staff, 99% don't seem to adhere to the timing. They come when they please, late for 15 min or 30 min, it's perfectly fine. Then this will link me to the fact when I go out with friends, yes, Singaporean friends who as usual, are always late. Then I realised when I'm "late", it's because I really deliberately be LATE, that I don't value that "meeting with friends".

I'm not trying to reprimand my Singaporean friends, but as I talk about this with some of my Japanese friends, we realised that Singaporeans can't survive in Japan well when punctuality comes into play. Whether is it for work, or juz a casual meeting with friends, Japanese will 99.99% be punctual, or in fact be early (Maybe it's the Japanese culture). And seriously, when someone is late, the person will REALLY feel guilty abt it perhaps becuz it's really due to emergency or whatz, and feels apologetic towards it. But Singaporeans on the other hand, just feel that it's a "norm" to be late, and perhaps a casual "sorry" will do. To be frank, I still can't get used to ppl who are late, as my sec2 science teacher put it, "Punctuality is a type of Honesty", if you are late, you are not being "honest" with your friends and gradually over time, you lose that trust you have in friends. This may seem a "small issue" to many, but to me I'm quite particular abt it. So I realised if I really start turning up "late" for friends outing, it's probably the fact I have lost the trust in him(them).