Tuesday, September 05, 2006
My American colleagues @ work
okay, this post is gonna consolidate all the photos that i have taken with my colleagues at work. all the americans that i have gotten to know through my trip here. okay, not all of them.. since i didn't take with all.. but just those whom i've worked with.
3 of my favourite americans whom i always work with... everybody knows jesse now so i shall not talk about him anymore. haha. i have run out of pictures of him to post anyway.i'll start off with an exemption here.. a SINGAPOREAN!
weiying is my fellow singaporean at my ride! basically there was only 2 of us to survive and live and die and fend for ourselves when we started out initially, being ostracized by all those americans. i started one week earlier than her and for the weekend that i was there, i was fending for myself in the cold May, shivering and wet in the freezing cold rain. poor me.
she's one year younger than me and is studying chinese in NTU. WOW! i need to learn more chinese from her to polish up my "depreciating" chinese. haha. chinese is one of my assets and i need to revalue it and improve it so that it can depreciate less. lol. talking rubbish.
taken in the dorm.. anyway i think we are like fated to meet because i've already met her once at US embassy in Singapore when we had to go for the interview for our visa. i knew she was going to PKD too when i overheard her interview process. so i kinda like remembered her but i didn't think it would be so coincidental that she would end up in the same ride as me!
taken back in singapore! at our bbq gathering. i know my face looks like a ghost. i got too tanned and apparently my foundation was too fair for my skin. boh bian. anyway i really appreciate weiying alot because we used to always have late night talks at the dorm about everything that happened during the day. it was lotsa fun because she was always the one listening to me. oops! she gets tickled by little things and starts laughing about stuff. i really appreciated her because she was there for me on one particular night that i was crying so badly when we were walking back to the dorm. she didn't say much but just being there meant so much for me at that point of time. sighs too bad we are not in the same school.. and NTU's like in the uluated part of Singapore that i don't go to. haha. at least we both live in the west though. i missed the times we had together.. it was really memorable. sighs.Next up are all Americans!
This is roger and the first picture we took together. i still remember how it was like. it was so embarrassing. haha. but roger's probably the 2nd american that i've taken the most number of pictures with, after jesse. he seems to like taking photos though.
this was the 4th and most successful attempt at this shot... because he was the one holding the camera... yes because my arms are short and my skills are poor.
oh yes, roger is my area manager and is... *gasps* the same age as me! haha. he's worked at the park for 6 years! he's a nice chap but can be pretty scary at work sometimes... he seems to enjoy popping out from nowhere in the middle of the day to "spot check" on people. haha. but off work, he's a really nice and fun guy.. abeit a little flirtatious. haha.
but too bad i guess i didn't had much of a chance to really get to know him much better... because i was going to leave soon when i started to know him better. but anyhow, he's definitely one of my favourites at PKD. he tickles me whenever he tries to mimick us speaking mandarin.. it's really funny and i still have a video of it. haha. i miss roger too man.
this is mese, a scrambler lover! haha.. ok she used to be one. she's my favourite black girl. my first impression of her was so good because she was the first "blue shirt" to take the initiative to come and talk to me... during one of the cold and wet weekends when i was left to fend for myself. sighs.
she's really friendly and a sensitive girl too... she always says nice and encouraging stuff... so now you see one of her...
and da dang! there's two now! haha. the other one is mese's twin, nese. she works at italian job, the ride just beside her. her sis's a really nice and sweet girl too... i took a picture with her before too.. just that i can't find it. it's probably with someone's camera whom i don't even know who.
next's justin! justin is a 17 year old little boy who's still in high school. the very first picture i took with him was ruined by me and i regret it because pictures taken at different times are just different.
justin's such a nice boy because he always helps out at work.. err.. helping out to do stuff people don't want to do. haha. someone's friend once commented jokingly about how it seems like i will like him and somebody else will like me, resulting in a triangular relationship. it was really funny when i heard it.
this is ben! ben has a funny last name farmer. haha. anyway ben is another 17 year old little boy who loves the beach and sports. this is the first picture we took together when we didn't know each other that well. xueying thinks that he's quite cute.. and better looking than roger. ha but i just don't see him in that way. he's my good friend.
this is how the anaconda exit area looks like... i like ben because he amazes me with his level of intelligence and maturity for his age. he chats with me about stuff that other americans don't. and well, he just really surprises me with the maturity he exhibits and the stuff he says about little things. he always tells me little things about his gf and how he wanted me to meet her that time. it was just a small action but i felt it was really sweet.
i had alot of fun with ben although he doesnt come to work that much. i remember the times we had at scrambler when it was pouring so heavily that we just spent half the time chatting away about anything under the sun. it just made time felt like it flew past. how we got into trouble with roger once... haha. he speaks with a pretty strong accent but well, we still managed to communicate pretty well i guess. nice american boy. :)
don is my neighbouring supervisor from my neighbouring ride, volcano. he's the sweetest american boy i know and i regret not getting to chance to know him better earlier. we didn't manage to take much pictures together either. he's the only one who i didn't had a very good first impression of.. but i like him after i got to know him better. he's only a 18 year old young little boy. and he's a very enthusiatic fireman who loves firefighting. :) nice countryside boy.
but too bad i only found out how sweet he was on my last day of work when he made me cry. it was just a very small action of his part but it made me so touched. he's the kinda sensitive and sweet kinda guy whom i believe would make a very good boyfriend. haha. i look like an indian in between the both of them!
this is erica from my neighbouring ride too! from don's ride volcano. i got to know her cuz she came over to anaconda quite a bit previously when we were short handed. she's really friendly and talks alot. i look so fat beside her! ok that's because she's thin. haha. she's probably one of my favourite white girls. :)
megan is the supervisor from my another neighbouring ride, italian job! she's really one of the nicest supervisors i've known. i only got to know when i went over to cross train one day... and well never went back again. haha but i really like her too! she's so nice... because she remembers little stuff that we have chatted about before... and she gave me so many checklists in a day! lol. she's 1 year younger than me!
this is brandon from italian job too! i got to know him at the same time i got to know megan.. when i went over to cross train. he's nice and goofy.. and i had fun with him when i was over there. he likes to poke and tickle me. haha. i still remember how he shocked me when he said i should marry him and stay in virginia so that i don't have to go. gosh! then he went on and on.. it was sweet but err... i hardly know him well. i'll rather marry jesse or roger or willie... haha talking rubbish.
this is mike from my ride. 16 year old young boy. he talks and plays around alot... can be fun... but annoying at times. but he's nice and he's the kind who's very loyal to his friends. he's the yo yo yo what's up kinda black. haha.. ya know what i mean.
this is kim my other supervisor. she doesn't work very often... mostly during weekends or whenever jesse is off. which explains why i don't know her very well... and well it's partly because of her that jesse had to work so much that i face him almost all the time... which was good in a way for me. haha. she's okay with me.. i'm just not close to her. but she's like one of the few americans who've been out of US before and to asia.. she was telling me about her trip to japan last year or something. at least less suagu.
this is demonte another of my area manager. hmms i don't really know him well either cuz he's kinda like "part-time" for our area. he belongs to another area actually. but he just comes about at times. he's okay... didn't get much of a chance to know him either.
this is jen from my ride.. 18 years old! she's okay at times... but er not so at other times. haha.
this is derya.. one of the turkish internationals! i like derya because she's such a nice girl.. we didn't get much of a chance to know each other too because the turkish came in to take over us so we didn't had much chance to work together. i still remember how she helped me to pass some stuff to some of the americans the next day after i left... i went to find her at her dorm room at like 2am in the morning on my last night. i really appreciated that.
this is oz.. one of the turkish too! haha i don't know him very well enough but most of the turkish are nice people.
this is ibo, another turkish! he is funny and cheeky because he plays along with me and we talk about silly stuff. haha most of the turkish are nice people.. just that i found it hard to talk to them because their command of the English is not as good.
yeaps.. basically that's about it... i think i probably look younger than most of the people that i've taken photos with... hmms americans tend to look older and more mature than asians... and well also because i look young. but seriously, if you get to know them they really behave like people their age though. haha. most of them seem to think i'm like 17 or something. yeah right. but then again, my malay neighbour the other day that i was talking too thought i was like 16. it shocked him when i said i was already in my 3rd year in uni. hahaha. i'm so youthful looking! lol.
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