alright, the moment everyone has been waiting for: mel is officially jobless and will remain that way for the rest of the year.

as such, she is no longer excusable when she blows you off, does not reply your messages or take your calls. she will meet up with you to the best of her ability and she will stop sleeping so much in her spare time. i've got slightly more than a month left, people! (slightly more being very important to me because i am in a little denial) she will also bake for those she loves, including Sprouts (she almost forgot).

so to celebrate this, i might streak her hair blue. i say might because i am having second thoughts now because i am such a wimp.

here's a summary of the things she has done in year 2006

1. intern at zhaowei. worked under E. learned a lot of things and got to be on set for a short film. face also appears in said short film briefly and half of self was in the new paper. have been to crazy horse club as a result as would have never gone in own personal time. also smoked enough passively to last her a lifetime. on the whole, a very good experience. E was very good boss.

2. the maldives community service trip. scandalous trip, involved sleeping in the boys room some nights to escape the heat and a lot of gossip. because of inherently anti-social nature didn't really make friends with people other than the volunteers. saw things that have never seen in life and went fishing. maldives truly beautiful, appreciated nature for once, though briefly.

3. waitressed at cedele. this was an extremely exhausting job. was overworked and underpaid. really complained a lot about this but got to like it a little bit after a while after making friends with colleagues and having very good-looking dishwasher around. got to eat a lot of free goods while actually losing weight because of hectic lunch hours (saturdays were the worst. i tried never to work on saturdays and colleagues would call me, 'wow you big shot huh, how come not working on a saturday?'). this job toughened me up a bit, made me more aware of things. i have a soft spot for bengs.

4. interned at caketheatre. this corresponded with cedele and as a result i was very tired as i'd work 8 hour day shifts at cedele and then rush to Katong for rehearsals and eventually reach home at eleven or midnight. this went on for a month. there was a lot of bitching and unhappiness on this show but i think i learned a lot of technical things, and again, it taught me to be more resilient. you can't fall apart in the theatre industry, people aren't so forgiving.

5. worked at a deli. learned how to make coffee (though still have not fully perfected art of frothing milk) and operate a cashier. probably the job i stuck with longest, and honestly, though not as artistically enriching as internships or as out-of-comfort-zone as cedele - i think i was the most happy here. very nice having regular customers and i work better in a more personal environment. i just like it when the emphasis is placed more on the individual. also quite fun most times with colleagues who were all nice people which is always very important. this was the one job i was the saddest to leave. maybe because i knew it was my last job of the year, or maybe because i just really liked it? i don't really know.

i'll be leaving for college soon and i can't really believe it still. from this year on i'll see my years starting in september and ending in june.

+ posted by M @ 4:57 PM