Awesome Bangkok..

This is Bangkok Airport.. Accordingly, still quite new... Think our Changi airport cannot ya ya papaya for long... alot are chasing after us... Anyway, this airport got a very "aluminium" feel to me.. hahhaha... First impression of bangkok.. PASSED!

Moving on to our hotel.. surprising! they have a very good taxi Q system... but funny how my friend describe.. haa.. we r Q in one row, the taxi driver Q at the other row facing us... so when it reaches our turn, we tell the counter where we r going and ta da! our taxi driver appear right infront of us... "like match-making hor?" that's what my friend describe.. hahaha... but our taxi uncle bor handsome.. I DUN WAN.. hahah.. Journey to hotel was smooth.. no JAM wor! cannot believe.. perhaps its a saturday morning.. all not working? what supposely to be a 30mins ride ended up we reach in 20 mins! cool!

from then on... there's only one thing, nope 2 things in our agenda... ie --> SHOP & EAT....

its a short trip, just 3 days 2 night, we didnt have time for tourist attraction. mayb i'll do that in my next trip. However our first stop, we visited the famous 4 face buddha. Can really tell it is FAMOUS lo.. along the way to there also have a few 4 face buddha but bor lang pray de leh.. this one is so different.. so grand so "smoky.." dun know how to start and pray, so monkey see, monkey do. haha... somehow.. i still prefer my "SI MA LU GUAN YING MIAO"... dun ask me why, i can't answer..

Shopping in bangkok test ur patient.. coz.. its HOT HOT HOT!!! very hot! end of the day, i dun dare to smell myself. scared i'l faint.. weather there can kills man.. luckily i got my portable powerful battery operated fan with me.. if not i can die man, but coz the weather is so hot, the wind from my beloved fan is also hot wind. Anyway. got wind better than no wind. haha.. i drank coke like i drink plain water. its.. HOT! even the local can't tahan and tell us this summer is extraordinary HOT!! No matter how HOT the weather can be, it still cannot shop us from SHOPPING! wow.. tell u, we can really shop till forgot lunch forgot dinner. just had my coke i'm contented. haa.. things there are generally cheap. even before bargain sound reasonable to me, but since it is their culture to bargain, we MUST do it, and i have my representative to do on my behalf! haha.. coz. i really dunno how to bargain one leh... this must leave to"auntie" to do it for me. OPPS! hahaha...

FOOD in bangkok is GOOODDDD also! i basically had tom yam everyday... taste so good! i'm missing them now!! however think i had too much tom yam or spicy food... i kena cough.. TILL NOW! it has been 1 week already..i'm STILL COUGHING.. cough cough go away.. i hate cough.. i hate cough syrup even more! the thought of cough syrup taste make me wan to vomit. yyyeeeekkk...

so ya, u all can imagine, i bought alot of things back!! from head to toe, from inside to outside.. all have! hahaha...u name it.. u have it! and all within my budget! i only change S$600. and i spend all there! no cards payment! i'm impressed with S$600 i can spend like queen in bangkok..

ok ok.... nothing perfect.. so i shall MALU myself here.. but also share with u all mah.. LAUGH all u wan after u read. i'm prepared.. just dun suan me ok? haha

1st - We paid SQ pricing for jetstar ticket. We have booked our jetstart ticket online ages ago.. and all sotong never check la! so actually the payment didn't went through and $%&$ jetstar actually took our names away WITHOUT informing us. my sotong friend also never realised her credit care stmt didn't deduct.. so when we check in, we were shock by this news.. so.. ended up, we bought the ticket on the spot and spend S$500+ for JUST JETSTAR AIR TICKET.. omg.. this is really HEART PAIN.. and this is also why i only spend S$600 and no more for my trip. haha... but most importantly, we still went bangkok and enjoyed. ok la. $ can earn back...

2nd - We r sotong.. ok ok. i admit.. but not all the time ok? haha.. as i mentioned we shop till happy, my friend brought us to this shop that sells all the cookies, and tell us they'll pack into a box so we can check in the box, dun need pack ourselve and hand carry so mafan. Upon hearing that, u know how lazy i am.. i buy lo.. really buy enough to pack into the box, plus all my shopping for that day, all packed into the box. people there were so friendly.. then then then.. (Really cannot blame me. coz i wasn't there to listen hor...i was dunno doing what.. ) told us they have free delivery service but only LOCAL ADDRESS... so the 2 blur one say WE R FROM SINGAPORE, SO CANNOT... can u imagine... we carry the box from the shop to our hotel... that would be... 15mins walk to MRT stn (coz we walked the wrong way, actually only stone thrown distant, we walked a BIG rounf), 2 MRT stops, 10 mins walk to hotel... but the time i reach hotel front door - FINALLY, and i heard them saying the free delivery thing.. i wanted to kill someone instantly.!! make me carry such heavy boxes around.. my hand almost broke! sweat till like nobody biz.. when ACTUALLY THERE"S FREE DELIVERY SERVICE!? LOCAL ADDRESS!!! arn't our hotel LOCAL ADDRESS!? we r not leaving on that day, can always ask them to deliver to our hotel what!!! why must i carry till so XIN KU!!! can u imagine.... it remind me of my trip from hong kong to shenzhen.. really can fight lo.. hahahahaha...

ok la.. its an experience, so ended up, we laugh whole night.. hahahaha.. really must appreciate those i bought... not easy to bring back ok? hahahah....

ok ok.. STOP LAUGHING! hahahaha... and i wonder when my cough go away... sighed... *COUGH* *COUGH*..

My new job scope.......

One of my job scope which is totally brand new to me..is CREDIT CONTROL...

i have never done this before and this does not impress me initially. of coz.. i dun mind trying and since they willing to pay me right? so i just try lo..no harm...

i'd been doing too much reporting in SPH i guess... i lose track of all operational things, nvm... this can pick up. so long as no more reporting, no more SGX deadline, no more reports to write.. i think operation issues i still can handle...

so i started working.. everything went well... and as i review their aging report.. i got a shock... u mean.. u mean.. U MEAN... there's still debt outstanding even till way back early 2007, 2006 and 2005!!!!! didn't the previous accountant do something to this? didn't the previous accountant chase the debt? didn't the previous accountant write off the debt? didn't the previous accountant do the proper job. well.. obviously the previous accountant didn't do her job that's why i'm there. hahaha...

and guess what.. i spend one whole day CALLING! "Hi, i'm Liwen calling from XXX pte ltd, i would like to speak to ur accounts payable department regarding outstanding invoices Pls transfer me... hi, i'm calling to check on invoice # XXX - XXX, it was outstanding since XXX, pls settle this payment immediately and would like to draw ur attention that there is a late charge is u dun pay within credit term.. etc etc etc blah blah blah....so when can i expect ur payment??" and this thing go on and on for one day...

and as i call.. i talk shorter .. hahaha.. lazy liao la.. it was hard to find their contact in the first place!? didn't the previous accountant keep contacts?! how come system never update!!!!! ok ok... that WAS PREVIOUS ACCOUNTANT... PRESENT ACCOUNTANT will not let this happen...

and to my surprise! 80% were generally polite, and co-operative to settle the sum.. i'm someone that u r nice to me.. i'll be nice to u... so i have no problem talking to those 80%.... there were this 20% minority ppl.... is really JIN BUAI TAHAN one lo....

one thing i would like to draw all ur attention... there is A DIFFERENT BETWEEN ACCOUNTS AND FINANCE! i'm in FINANCE... finance is higher class than accounts. and the 20% i talked to they definitely belongs to ACCOUNTS.

1st - THEY R AUNTIES that work prior FRS era... they only know book keeping, not accounting.

2nd - THEY R NOT ACCOUNTS TRAINED. as i mentioned earlier, they r book keeping, not accounting

3rd - THEY HAVE NO MANNER

4th - THEY TALK VERY ROUGH.. the languge they used are so CHEAP...

5th - THEY R NOT PROFESSIONAL like me... huh

so when u called a co whom have AUNTIES in their accounts dept.. u'll get this...

Me: Hi, i'm liwen calling from XXX, can i speak to the AP regarding outstanding invoices .......

AUNTIE: Aiyo... what is it?? what???

Me: Regarding outstanding invoices... pending ur payment... let me tell u the invoice number........

AUNTIE: I dun know... u dun tell me...

Me: Excuse me? then who should i speak to?

AUNTIE: I dun know... u dun tell me.. tell my boss, she ask me pay, i pay lo

Me: WHo is ur boss then? pls transfer

AUNTIE: AIYA.. tsk.. tsk.. u call MISS TAN la

Me: Can i have MISS TAN CONTACT NUMBER? [bloody hell lo.. at this point i already angry liao lo....]

AUNTIE: Aiyoooo.... tsk tsk.. u call XXXX BUT HOR, she not around, so dun call hor

Me: [TA MA DE....] Then can i have her email?

AUNTIE: HUH!! AIYOOOO... y so ma fan!? [background: ah XX, Miss Tan waht email huh?]

AND FOR UR INFO, THAT AUNTIE GAVE ME THE WRONG EMAIL LO!!

can u all imagine me! me! how i feel after this call.... halo auntie, u OWE my co $ leh and u definitely dun know who u speaking to lo... ME LEH! haha

sent email to MISS TAN [dun know why cannot give me her name lo.. must be MISS TAN?] and failed... i damn pissed...

the following day.. i buai song liao... i call MISS TAN directly..

and i'm still happy with what i said:"Hi Miss Tan, i'm liwen calling from XXX. i actually called yesterday but ur assistant is unable to assist u by helping me to check on outstanding invoices. i therefore have to wait till today and call u personally since they insisited it." then i hear her.. "HUH? hmmm.. sighed... sorry.. yes can i help?" i damn song liao.. whahahahhahahahahaha

dun play with me ok? hahahhahaha....

and ladies and gentlemen.. MISS TAN is good one lo... she pay up liao wor! whahahahahahaa....

another kind is BIG COMPANY.. i was from BIG COMPANY... so i know. but now.. i hate BIG COMPANY.... u can call, transfer 5 times, repeat who u r and ur intention of this call 5 times, they r STILL TRANSFERRING UR CALL.. transfer till lao niang PEK CHEK lo... and STILL CANNOT HELP! end of the day.. i have to get my sales ppl talk to their sales ppl to settle. i think this is more effective rather than me calling useless "payment" ppl... arghhh...

what else.. SO MANY... so u see.. reporting is high class job, u write reports, u deal with managers and executive which r professionals themselves, but life is stressful and dull..

u go operations, u get this kind of rubbish and u talk to AUNTIE... but actually quite FUN la.. hhaha....

there's lot more funny ppl around lo... imagine i'm only there for 1mth. and encounter so many "idiots" liao.. more to come.. hahahaha

since this is my KPI.. guess i have to put in effort.. sighed..... CREDIT CONTROL... will it make my life shorter.... AUNTIES.. omg..

Wow.. Cool ya?

Cool ya?? This shall be my next phone! i'm so so so attracted to it... nice..... pls infrom me when it launch.. hopefully it won't cost me a BOMB! time to change my HP.. my dearest e65 is still doing perfectly fine, infact i like this phone.. but but but but.... u all know me la ya? hehehehhe

ya ya.. started my new job. couldn't comment much now as everything is still in initial stage.. hopefully as time passes, i'll handle better and more balance.

Sometime i really doubt what i wan in life.. things come and go.. but y cannot stay? haa.. i guess that's what ppl meant by "MOVE ON"...

Congratulations dearest K!!!!!! told u.. IT IS A BABY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can't wait to carry him man... SY, pls plan ur leave.. we're going KL!!!!!!!!!! i can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!

alright... take care and we shall meet soon!