Just got back from lunch at, where else but Mc Donalds. I don’t have to work today, well I was scheduled to work actually but they messed up the schedule somehow. That’s okay with me walopun sebenernya pingin banget kerja, hihi..cause yesterday was MENYENANGKAN sekali at work. *biasa lah masih baru lagi semangat2nya*.
Anyway, I was amazed with how enthusiastic the customers were with the opening of old navy in this area. I worked at the fitting room last night..and almost every customer were telling me that they were so happy that this store is finally open and that they don’t have to drive all the way to the one at south county, or olive or ladue anymore. Gue juga seneng sih waktu tau mereka mo buka, tapi seneng karena pingin kerja disitu, bukan pingin belanja, hihi. Anyway, ternyata seru juga yah di fitting room itu cause I got to see a lot of different people *the customers who are willing to purchase are most likely visit the fitting room first, right?* Dan orang sini tuh bener2 deh kalo nyoba baju nggak tanggung tanggung…7 or 8 clothes sekaligus gitu, and end up with buying only 1 or even not at all. Trus mereka tuh ternyata banyak nanya yeee, banyak yang pada nanya2 ”do you know what kind of shoes would go with this skirt?” or “do you think I need a bigger size or this one looks fine?” or “Is this shirt match my pants?”..dan masih banyak lagi lain lainnya….lucu juga sih gue udah serasa fashion expert gitu…hihi. Baru 3 jam kerja aja kemaren udah banyak hal2 yang menarik dan lucu lucu…..apalagi besok2 yaah??…*nggak sabar*
OK deh..I need to do some errands now, need to go to the bank to the deposit my paycheck *alhamdulilaaah akhirnya ada isinya juga bank account gue..huehe*. Harus ke post office juga to send the rest of the documents to complete my mba application, trus tadi udah revised my resume, it looks better now. Trus juga benerin the gallery page walopun belom semuanya ada linknya siih…:P
huaah..akhirnya bisa ngerasain nyantai2 di rumah lagi deh setelah di bajak old navy. I practically nggak pernah liat matahari these past couple of days..*read: brangkat subuh pulang mid-night* . Badan gue sekarang pegel2 semua gara gara ngangkat2 box yang ada berjuta juta itu. Seriously, i'm not exageratting here...we got 3 trucks worth of shipments to fill the entire store yesterday. Jadi kemaren itu gue berkutat dengan baju baju *i love the smell of new clothes by the way*, hangers...and folding and folding, dan sebelum trucknya dateng kita tuh yang assembling shelf nya gitu, dealing with all the hardwares... I got bruises all over my body now..=(. Tapi untung sekarang semuanya udah selesai and the store will be open tomorrow..*pheww*
By the way, i have 10 discount cards with me now, we have this.."family and friends week from august 5 - 12*. So each employees got ten of 20% off discount card to be given away. Kalo ada yang mau..let me know, you could shop online too.
Nduti got a new fish, this time is a goldfish and hopefully this one is going to last long...*amiin*. Anyway, the cable guy came yesterday to hook up the digital cable. I got a digital cable long time ago but then decided to downgrade it since i don't watch that much TV anyway. Tapi sekarang since the rate for the analog is gonna be higher next month, i might as well just re-upgrade it to the digital...soalnya cuma beda dikit gitu. And today is sunday, so sex and the city will be on tonight....woohoo!!
Work was OK today, it wasn’t as hectic as last week, asli deh kemaren itu sibuk banget sesibuk2nya cause my boss is on vacation to panama city this week, so we were trying to straighten everything out before he leaves otherwise it’d be like hell at the office. A lot of checks to be printed and mailed, phone ringing off the hook from vendors asking for the payment, a lot of invoices needed to be sent, I also had to call some companies regarding vendors reference check, etc2. And then there’s this Kmart project which is taking up my time. We’re trying to file for petition to get our share cause Kmart has been fraudulently charging us for things that we didn’t do. Everytime we shipped something, their distribution center always complained that they got the stuff late and charged us for that when in fact the shipment got there on time but they are so backed up that they processed everything late. And not only that, they also charged us for damaged products, or missing labels and all that. Of course it’s okay for charging us automatically if that’s the truth but the thing is they have never given evidences. So they have charged us for like ..I don’t know, a huge amount of money since we first doing business with them. Dan ternyata, they do this to their other vendors also..so a lot of companies will be joining for the petition…*gotta fight for what you deserve!!* So this is an extra work for me since I have to search through the files, study the data, compile the reports and all that..
Anyway, that’s what I know about big corporate America, they do whatever it takes to be on top, even if that means taking filthy actions and make their clients/customer suffered. And don’t let me start with MCI…ooh don’t you know how glad I am to see them going down?? Each of them can kiss my ass now…..
Dilemma by Nelly and Kelly Rowland is got to be my summer anthem, it so perfect for summer and it just create a happy mood I guess…”..no matter what I do..all I think about is you..=)”
Eniwei……udah senen lagi deh sekarang and I just got my schedule from old navy..adoh doh dooh..asli mo nangis gini liat schedulenya..bener2 nggak berprikemanusiaan banget deh old navy. Wednesday sama Thursday aja I have to work for 11 hours altogether. Trus jum’at kerja dari jam..6.30 PAGI oh man.. sampe jam 6 sore, sabtunya dari jam 8 pagi sampe 6 sore..trus minggunya jam 8 pagi sampe jam 5 sore..huhuhu..*meratapi nasib*..itu aja udah 45 jam gitu dalam 5 hari..=(. Hopefully this crazy schedule is for this weekend only deh since it’s gonna be the soft opening for the store..
Hmm..mending cerita tentang weekend kemaren aja kalingga?..nothing extra ordinary sih, tapi cukup eventful juga. Dari mulai jalan2 di galleria, dinner at tachibana, makan Pho Bac at Pho Grand, bowling, café cartel, the grind, etc2 sama dina, jani, ading trus sempet ke rumahnya rommy lia juga buat say goodbye. Yang seru dari weekend ini..kita dah bisa foto2 lagiii.. D just bought a FinePix 2600 which is a really good one, if you’re looking for a digital camera, I strongly recommend this one. The size is a bit boxy sih emang tapi jadinya lucu di liatnya gendut2 gitu and this one is even better than the more expensive Finepix 4800 *who knew Porsche could design a camera?* that I used to have..hiks, jadi sedih banget kalo inget the moment it slipped off my hand..udah aah nggak usah diinget2 mendingan.
Oh iya….hampir lupa, minggu lalu kan..tepatnya hari jum’at on the 12th, gue nonton Moby and Paul Oakenfold, outdoor gitu..asli keren. Well Oakenfold was awesome ..moby was allright i guess, abisnya dia yang terlalu artistic gitu sih, nyentrik banget jadi joke2nya banyak yang basi2 gitu...trus dia yang tiap selesai satu lagu yang "thank you thank you thank you" dengan style ngomongnya yang aneh. But still a good performance though......
Thought of sharing the entertainment news I heard today with you…….
- Britney Spears apparently has a fan at the white house cause her Webmaster noticed that there’s a visitor with the president office’s IP address hit the site. Huehe..slow day at work, eh?
- T’nyata…the 4 casts of Sex and the city hate each other so much in real life. Especially Carry and Samantha.. who would’ve thought that??.. Kudos to all of them deh yang still act professionally despite all the drama.
- Angelina Jolie is back on the market!!. Anybody interested??
- Iverson..*hihi, actually this is more like a sport news* is in trouble yet again. This African American badass just can’t stay away out of trouble. Hopefully the police will just leave him alone cause it ain’t fun watching the sixers if he ain’t playing
Went to Carbondale yesterday..for those who don’t know, Carbondale is a place where I went to college, I spent the last 3.5 years of my life there. It is a plain old college town and famous for its party school image and Halloween riot, hehe..*the good old days*. Well when thousand of students stranded in a town surrounded by cornfields and no skyscrapers in sight, that’s when alcohol plays a major role. Anyway, but now the university has been trying really hard to erase its party image though..i’m not sure if they’ll ever drastically changed people perceptions, but they have hired an outside marketing agency to somehow repositioning its image. The dean even went overboard with his program to ban alcohol from the area..huhu..jelas jelas aja semuanya pada protes.
Anyway it was good to come back to Carbondale yesterday, it’s only been like 2 months since I’ve moved out of there but already I miss it, I miss my campus life, I miss being in a classroom, I even miss my classmates..*I wonder where they are now..*. I didn’t see anybody in particular yesterday though, but I saw Alanda and chatted with her a little bit. Hmm…I know there were days when I bitched about being in Carbondale…but now that I look back, I am glad that I experienced the life I had back there. I appreciate what I’ve gone through every single day there and I think I’ve learnt a lot..(not only academically, but also about life in general) that I don’t think I’d get it anywhere else and I also met some interesting people there.
Well..the reason I went there yesterday was because I had to take care a lot of things. I got a lot of paperwork needed to be done, I needed to go to administration office to get the outstanding student form signed by them so I can get a discount for my insurance..*I was in dean’s honor list last semester…yay*. I also needed to get my transcript and….I also had to go to the health clinic to get my shot. The university wouldn’t release my diploma until I’ve received the tetanus shot…*kaya bayi aja yaa…*. Apalagi waktu di nurse officenya, after she gave me the shot she was like..”hey you did good…you want a sucker?”..hehehe..asli berasa kaya balita banget..:P..masa di tawarin lollipop.
Anyway…enough about Carbondale kali yee…..! I had my first training at old navy last Wednesday. I was trained in the south county store which is quite far from where I live..and I was quite surprised when I saw the size of the store cause that’s like the biggest old navy store I’ve ever seen. It is h.u.g.e, but it’s only 1 level though, not like the flagship store they have in major cities. Anyway, so I got my discount card right away, hehe…but I haven’t used it though cause I actually don’t really shop at old navy, well sometimes they do have cute stuff but most of them are pretty basic. Oh iya..kan discount cardnya bisa di pake di GAP and Banana Republic....but i don't really shop there either except for the perfume and body lotion.....but hey nduti can use it..and dince will be more than happy to use it...hehe *ya nggak din?*..
I just got back from a job interview with unionplanters. That was my second interview with them, I had the first one around 3 weeks ago with the human resource department, and I thought they have crossed me off the list since I haven't heard from them again since, but last week one of the branch managers called me and asked me to come today for the second interview.
I don't think I did a good job on the interview though, there were 2 people interviewing me simultaneously, well they are kinda nice actually..but I don't know, I guess it's the office, the environment…it's so corporate setting, jadinya nggak nyantai gitu.
Well anyway, I don't really care about how it went anyway cause I got myself a job and I went there only to see what else is there for me, if I can get my self a better career opportunity why not go for it? Kalo dapet yah di liat2 lagi which one is better, kalo enggak ya no problemo cause sebenernya I don't really like the location anyway. I mean it's nice to have an opportunity to work at union planters but the thing is the branch that they have opening is the one that kinda like a neighborhood bank, you know what I mean? So it's kinda quiet, most of the customers are the people who live around the area. Sedangkan gue.. I prefer the location where it's busy, a lot of people in and out, somewhere downtown or other business district lah. Well..we'll see..
Anyway, hari minggu kemaren…we went to dina's, ngumpul2 aja soalnya Lia and Rommy mo pindah ke Delaware..they're leaving next week. Huhuhu..no more bakmi GM deh, cause she's good at that!! Anyway, last Sunday was a day to remember for me cause something was happening back home, right in my house, in my living room..something that I've been waiting to happen since god knows when…..soo…woohoo life is good..=)
It's still 5 months away from December...yet the airplane ticket to go home are selling out quickly. Yesterday, i called some of the indonesian travel agents to check and compare the ticket fares, i thought i was too early to ask about it and oh boy was i wrong??..cause they're all fully booked already that they even have to put me on the waiting list. I know there are more options if i want to depart from either west or east coast because the airlines that offer Chicago-Jakarta routes are only JAL and SQ. For those who plan to go home end of this year, you better hurry guys!
Anyway, i called my credit card company just now, pretending that i was about to close the account cause the APR rate is so high i couldn't afford it anymore..hehe, actually i was hoping that they would offer to lower my APR and it worked people...!!. The customer service offered me to cut my APR to half of the current one..hohoho, just what i wanted!! My job to pay off the balance is a little bit easier now..woohoo...
i'm at the public library in central west end.. hihi...another lite day at work so i got off early...payah deh orang orang liburnya kok di bablasin gitu?...anyway, i totally forgot that i supposed to have an interview with office team at one o 'clock this afternoon. I have canceled the first appointment and re-scheduled it for today..*i scheduled it long time ago when i was still looking for a job*. i've been meaning to call them to cancel it cause what's the point of coming to their interview anyway? i got a job now, even though it's only temporary but i have secured a permanent job which will start end of this month...but i kept forgetting to cancel it somehow. I am sure they are really pissed at me, especially the lady who's been calling me and scheduling the interview back and forth for me...hihi..i bet she would have ripped me to shreds if she sees me. ah...gotta go now.....
arrghh, i need to vent here. Bank of America is officialy in my blacklist now. I just opened an account with them a couple of weeks back and this afternoon was my first attempt to withdraw cash from their atm machine. So i used my bank of america atm card to withdraw money from bank of america atm...and guess what happened???...they charged me!!!! they fuckin charged me for using their atm, how fuckin retarded is that????? I mean i can understand if some banks charge us for using their atm if our atm card is from a different bank. But this? fuck this, I don't need this...!!!. I am so closing my account, way too many hidden charges...cause I just remember that they also charged me everytime my balance is lower than required. That is plain pathetic...!!...arrrghh... Anybody know where i can get a free checking account???
Anyway, on a lighter note though.....i got the job at old navy...=), they called me yesterday when i was at the office...so i'm gonna work for their new store which located just next to my apt complex..woohooo, it'll be open either end of this month or early next month. An intense training will be given for me starting july 17. Now i need to figure out how to tell Sheila that i'm gonna resign from the office?..hmm...
I'm not going anywhere today, padahal di luar lagi enak banget, not like the past couple days....skarang yang lagi windy2 gitu, but i don't feel like going out. Kemaren ke marshalls..with nduti and dina...dapet jeans..low rise and flare..very well fitted jeans, bener2 yg pas banget i don't need to bring it to the alteration house...for only ...taraaaa...*drum rolls please*...6 bucks sajaaa!!!..hihihihi, am i an excellent bargain hunter or what?? then we had dinner at tachibana...
guys...better stay at home today, especially those who live in big city kali ya...soalnya di LA aja udah ada kerusuhan di airportnya, sampe airportnya di evakuasi segala. Ada orang yang opened fire at the israeli ticket counter, three were shot dead, including the gunman. Trus juga ada a small plane crash in san dimas, LA..emang sih yang ini bukan terrorist attack, tapi tetep aja. Makanya...mendingan bbq di rumah aja kali ya?. Have a nice and safe 4th of july everybody!!
NB: I know old navy called one of my references...hmmm..is that a good sign?
my macromedia fireworks can't be dissapeared from the programs just like that, can it??..i don't feel like installing the softwares although it's only take 3 minutes. Anyway, i just got back from interview with old navy. I don't know..i just feel like i didn't do my best there..there's just a lot of things left unsaid and for some part i didn't get my point accrossed...which is stupid cause you'll never get a second chance to make a good first impression!!!...*sigh*....i'm keeping my finger crossed here...
Ternyata...monday is not always membetekan. Especially when you have such a light day at work and your boss allowed you to leave early...that's what happened to me today. I left work around 1.30, contemplating whether to go straight home or just browse around the mall while wait for nduti. I decided to stroll around galleria..i just love to go to the malls all alone in the afternoon when it weekdays. Liat2 bebe, arden b, tried on some jeans...nothing fitted...and how come I wasn’t surprise? I really really need to work on my tummy. And that’s exactly what I did, hit the gym around 7, ran on the treadmills and sit-ups like mad…
Nduti bought a bettafish or a.k.a ikan cupang today, huahaha. Watched Kate & Leopold..i know i know...i have to admit that i'm a little behind when it comes to movie. Tadi balikin dvdnya telat lagi..damn blockbuster!!..i think i've spent way more money there to pay for the fine rather than for the actual renting fee!!. But why do i keep coming back to them?..oh well i'm going to the gym now...