The Story of Me
The Story of Me
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After breaking up with all my steady girl friends, I stayed single for only a while to make me realised that I'm missing Bella. In fact during these few months of our break up, we're still keeping close in contact with each other although we're not together. Our parents also didn't know about our break up, as we don't want them to know~! I guess we hope to be together again...
Well since we both still have each other at heart, we were back together again
soon. This patching up made me get involved further. I make myself part of her
family. I started to be caution about the well being of her mum and her sister. I started treating
her home like mine. I once helped Bella do a
make-over for her house. We pack things up, do cleaning up and I can tell you
that her house is normally quite messy, thus it's quite a hard task if you get
what I mean. I have sensitive nose and eyes, thus the dust normally get me into
sore eyes and running nose, which will make me catch a fever the following day.
One of major make-over in the house is her room. I bought a lot of glow in the
dark stickers, with shapes of 1 big crescent moon, lots of stars of different
sizes, shooting stars also, sheep and dolphins. I did all the design and placing
of these stickers. Bella helped out by
peeling out the stickers for me, but she helped me the most by just sitting
beside me while I'm doing all the pasting of these stickers. The most rewarding
part is whenever I turn around and see her smiling happily. So sweet &
pretty~! She must be feeling very happy then... 
One of the common problem that we faced is money. We spent quite heavily, especially on cab fare. I don't want money to be a problem in a relationship. I told myself that I don't my loved ones, be it my family or lover, to be worried of money whenever I'm around. I'll want to go into a restaurant and only look at the left side of the menu, where you have all the names of the food, rather than looking at the right side of the menu, where you see all the prices...
I start to work part time. I 1st started as a part time banquet. Which normally pays at the rate of $5-$6 per hour, and normally they need people from 1800hrs to 2300hrs. So roughly I got $24/- whenever I'm working that night. Actually it's a good deal for students like me, who'll need to go to school in the morning. Thus my parents didn't really object that much... But the only problem is that you get money on the spot, so you don't see the big money and normally it'll be finished within two days. Sometimes that very night already spend finish, especially when after work, I'll bring her for supper or catch a midnight show where I normally send her home after that.
Money became quite precious to me and I wouldn't bare to spend it on myself. The
most I bought comics for myself, what to do as it's the only thing in this world
I enjoy reading. 
I'm
kind of a comic freak~! However these little money that I earn is still not enough to
support the heavy expenditure couple. Even with our weekly allowance include
liao also not enough. So Bella also insisted
that she wanna work as well. I hate the idea. Not because of my ego or what.
Come to think about it, it's nice to have her chipping in, but she's quite poor
in her school work liao. What's worst is that she's a Medical Certificate Queen
man. She'll get herself a MC whenever she can't wake up, or she'll take a cab to
school. Thus if she work, it doesn't really help much. It'll only make her spent
even more and unnecessarily. What's worst is that she'll skip school...
She's a very stubborn girl, thus it's not easy to stop her from working. The only way is till the day I can afford everything. I can work everyday, but it'll never be enough. I needed fast big money, but where to get when I'm only a student... Don't worry, I'll never do anything illegal~! Finally got a lobang from Marcxs, who introduce me to his former workplace, Carnegies. It's at Far East Square, which is beside China Square. It is a restaurant in the day, but a pub in the night. There're vacancies for waiter there, and for new part-timers they're paying at $7/- per hour. It'll raise to $8/- if you're capable, and trust me that you will~! What's best is the tip customers give there, they give good money...
The big problem is that they need more people in the night than day... Especially on their busy nights, they are Wednesday, Friday & Saturday. The busiest night is Wednesday which is their ladies night, but I still got school in the morning. Not only that, what about my parents~? They really object man~! You'll know why later... Anyway, I don't care~! I took up the job no matter what the price is.... However Charles joined me for the job as he needs money too.
The deal is that I got to work a minimum of 3 days weekly, inclusive of 2 busy nights. That's good news as that's why I'm working what. I wanted to earn more money. Working hours for non busy nights is from 1800hrs to 2300hrs, while busy nights is from 1800hrs to 0300hrs, except for Saturday where it is from 2100hrs 0300hrs due to late crowd. For busy nights, we need to do cleaning up, thus they'll add another half hour to the pay. However, by the time where it's time to go home it's normally at least 0500hrs liao. Actually the cleaning up will finish at about 0345hrs, but gotta wait for the management to count finish the money earn and check the bills, then they'll release the workers. All meals are provided. If working closing shift, transport will be provided.
However after closing, the staff will go for supper at Lau
Pa Sat, which is nearby. Cos we gotta have our dinner by 2100hrs, and
by the time after closing we're really hungry liao lor~! Normally after supper,
I'll stay there all the way till 0700hrs with a few friends, especially Charles.
Then we'll go to school straight~! 
What~?
Yes, you heard me~! It's really very tiring lor, especially when the lesson on
Wednesday is from 0800hrs to 1700hrs, and then straight away I rush down to
work, and then I go to school without sleeping at all. What's worst is that the
lesson on Thursday is also a long day from 0800hrs to 1700hrs. Cases are that
normally I'll drop flat in the lecture theatre or classroom when it's around
1400hrs... I normally skip lunch on Thursday, as I'm really too tired and got no appetite
to eat anything. All I want will be sleep during lunch break~! Or I'll skip
either the morning or afternoon lesson, which I usually do.
The good thing about this job~? Yes, money is the word~! The long working hours make me earn quite a lot, taking about $500/- home every month. And that's excluding tips from customers~! What if I tell you I earn more from tips than my pay~? Yap~! That's right, I do~! For non-busy nights, the average tips per night is about $5-$15, but for busy nights the average tips per night is $50-$120~! My personal record is $280/- in just one night~! I'm in fact one of the Tips King there, cos not everyone got so many tips. Not even some of the gals. I guess it's due to my friendliness and determination to earn more money. I really put in every effort to entertain my customers, especially those regular ones. Thus in the end I end up getting good tips.
Nothing in this world is so free k~! Though it earn fast big money, but it's not easy~! Not only is it super tiring for me, I even got to bare with super unreasonable customers, not mentioning some of the bad managers and cock up colleagues. I still got to smile at customers who's using vulgarities on me, only hoping that he'll tip me~! There're times that I wanted to quit, but whenever I thought of Bella, and that I'm actually providing a more comfortable for her now, I swallow everything down...
Well, I became quite affordable in our expenses. I even get a hand phone instead of having a pager. Bella doesn't seems to like that I own a hand phone, which till now I also dunno why. Anyway~! No matter where we go, what we wanna eat or buy, money was no longer a problem. To me, I'm really glad that one problem is out of the way...
However, there's a few problems and one of it is Saturday. I usually worked on
Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Thus I always return home on Saturday morning,
then I'll sleep all the way till late afternoon. Thus by the time I get ready to
go out, it's around evening time. And I was normally still tired~! So in order
to have a longer time together with Bella, I
always ask her to come over to my place 1st, where she give me a so-call morning
call to wake me up. That way we can save a lot of time rather than I go pick her
up at her place, which is at Bukit Batok,
and then go back to city area for our date. Furthermore it is so-call on the way
for her also mahz, as I stay quite near to city areas. My favorite part is that, she'll be the 1st person I saw
when I woke up~! But Bella was not happy
with the idea... She thinks it's troublesome, and she'll compare me and her
friends' boy friend whom they will go fetch their girl friend. Thus we quarrel a
couple times because of that... A new topic to argue about huh~!
I understand that every girl hopes that their boy friend will go and fetch them out during a date. I wanted too also, but I'm really too tired to wake up early. I suggested so, is also since she hope that we can meet earlier one mah... Another problem about Saturday is that, remember that I gotta go help out at my daddy's stall every Sunday from 1000hrs to 1500hrs~? I still got to~! But Bella is the type of girl who likes to go out till late. At 1st I thought it's because that she wanna see me longer, but the feeling I got later is that I was wrong...
I'm already so tired yet I gotta go out till so late, and then gotta wake up early the following day. Of course it's a matter of time that my body would no longer be that strong anymore. I soon tell Bella that if possible try not to walk too much as I'm tired, maybe we can sit down and talk or catch a movie. That way I'll also get to rest also mahz... Then she got the idea I don't like go walk walk with her. Though I personally don't really like window-shopping, but I never hated the idea of shopping with her~! But she just don't get it, so we add a new topic to quarrel about in our Argument List again...
So in order to really see each other longer, we fought with our parents again.
We started to stay overnight at each other's house, especially on weekends... At
first we'll lie that we got chalet and stuff, till too many of these started to
make our parents have doubt in us. Who that hell will have chalet every week
man~! Even if you really have, I don't think you'll wanna go for every single
one of it lor~! Argument between us with our parents broke out. My side still
not as worse as Bella's. After all she's
still a gal. But the bad thing is that she'll always throw it out on me whenever
she quarrel with her mum. Common topic to start an argument. But for everything
that we quarrel and fight for, we earn back one of the most precious thing. That
is we'll be able to hug each other to sleep. Whenever I got to hug her when
sleeping, there's this unexplainable comfort and peace in me. It'll indeed be a
GoodNite & Sweet Dreamz... Is this what we call Xing Fu, meaning blessed
with happiness~? To
me, it sure is...