A Woman's Worth x Alicia Keys

And for every thousand reasons I can come up with, to explain why I love you, you give me another thousand more...

Oh God, Sunday is like 3242547566898765433213478907654 days away...
May the days move fasterrrrr.

You Found Me x The Fray

How things change...

2005 - "Clueless & Kental"
Han's Hairstyle No.: 01

5 months later, 2006 - "Just Together"
Han's Hairstyle No.: 02

One Year Later : "1st Year"
Han's Hairstyle No.: 03

31st May '06 : "His 18th"
Han's Hairstyle No.: 04

31st May '08 : "His 20th"
Han's Hairstyle No.: I'm starting to think that the above looks similar to 03 & 04, though slightly thinner.

Fever '08: "The Mother of All Hairstyles"
Hahaha.

Sometime last week: "Back to Square 1"
Nevermind, it'll grow back.

So, how did we celebrate Valentine's Day?

We walked through town rolling our eyes at each other whenever we passed by someone carrying a bouquet of flowers, balloons or a plushie.
Rather, we spent the day enjoying each others' company and watching street performances.
V Day, or rather as we call it, "Happy Overated Consumerist Day", is not our kind of thing, I suppose.
Which I believe is a great thing.
But hey, we have nothing against those celebrating, either.

To each, his or her own =)

I can't wait for this coming weekend!
Chalet!!!

On Fire x Switchfoot

Almost 10 months into working now and personally, I've never thought that I'd stick around for this long.
I thought the moment Rain went to NS, I'd be gone too.
And so far, he's been serving for almost 5 months, and I've been doing fine on my own the entire time (despite the constant vulgar-filled rantings that he has to bear with from me =D ).

I guess the main reason I'm still around comes down to the simple truth that - I love what I do.
Even if its just on a part-time basis.

I love the kids who run amok about the store, who pick things up and put them back in a totally different place, who suddenly comes up to me and holds my hand, who instead of giving kisses to their own bear, gives kisses to me.

I love the challenge that kiasu Singaporean parents bring on.

I love getting to know tourists from all over the world, I mean, who's heard of a state called Bavaria?
Definitely NOT me... but I've had the pleasure of having a conversation from a lovely lady from there, who was on vacation here.

I love the feeling of knowing that I have regular customers, who come back to look for me, when they drop by.
I love the people who I used to work with/am working with.

And as much as I absolutely detest dealing with messy customers, the immense satisfaction that I get from knowing that that fussy customer left more than happy, overpowers it all.
It makes everything alright at the end of the day.

I don't know if I want to stay around after my degree, switch to a full time job there.
People seem to think its easy working in this environment, but oh boy, are they wrong.
The high expectations from the management level not only in Singapore but in the USA and the many other countries that has franchises, makes the job pretty stressful, at times.
The "behind-the-scenes" things that they don't see, that we slave over to complete and present to them, those are the things that makes this job a challenge.

But ultimately, all it takes, is one smile, one hug, one customer to address you by your name to make the tiredness and dread of doing the job melt away in a matter of seconds.

Welcome to 'Make-A-Toy(Tomorrow Come Back & Collect)'!!