Monday 23rd May

I'll be visiting the Niagara Falls this wednesday. It's a trip orgnised for the employees. My schedule for this week starts at 12noon almost every day and i work until close. There's nothing much actually...oh ya, but i ate donuts this morning and mummy woke me up with her call at 6+am. I like Krispy Kreme! It's really sad that Singapore doesn't have it and strawberry shortcake is my favourite flavour. Their donuts are not like the ones we have in Singapore. It's a circular dough without the hole in the middle, and they have fillings inside and the outside surface is coated with sugar or chocolate or nuts depending on what you buy. It's sweet, but it's special. All of the other friends have gone shopping and i'm deprived of shopping! We only managed to browse through 2 stores and i didn't buy anything except a lot of groceries. We bought rice and maggie mee. Lixia's working at Mac too but i don't think i'll work there because she looked so tired everytime she worked 2 jobs a day. For the past 2 days she worked 5am-10am in Mac and 12n-close at Cedar. This's crazy and i'm already v tired fr cedar work. How am i going to stand the additional hrs if i work at Mac? Though i'll earn less money, but i think it's not worth it to tire yourself out in a far away land. Adios.

11th May Wed

Hi all, today's wed. I'm working at 230pm later. I'm working in a candy shop called Sweets N Treats. It's pretty cool. It sells popcorn, cotton candy, icee, fudge, taffy (a kind of saltwater sweet) and its specialty is elephant ear. It's sth like roti prata coated with sugar and cinnamon and tastes real good. I learned to spin cotton candy too. Its taste is somehow different from that in Singapore. Each time when we buy cotton candy, it's cold already but here, i get to try the freshly made warm ones and there're so many diff colours, not that we don't have it in Singapore, but the fact that i get to spin it out all real nice and fluffy is another thing. I tried the choco fudge and choco mint fudge yesterd too. It's not in liquid form. Instead, it's in a whole solid form and you cut and weigh them and pack them in beautiful boxes. Oh yes, we sell hot caramel apples too. Apples are cut into wedges and we poured hot caramel over it. It's damn delicioius. You can coat it with peanuts and rainbow sprinkles too. Mydear, looks like i ate a lot of god and fattening stuff over here. There's a whole lot of nice food here. I tried eating cheese on a stick, cheesewulzers and the pretzels. The pretzels here are diff too. It's like softer and more doughy and they dip it with cheese. They have everything with cheese.
Haha, and most of the people here are not as model-like as those we saw on sit-coms or movies. They are pretty fat but they are confident withthemselves, so it's good. The rest of them are working at Hot Potatoes, gift shops, arcades, ticketing entrances etc. The other batch of students from Singapore reached here 2 days ago. There are 7 girls and 2 guys. They moved in with us.
I have been working real hard these days. From morning till closing time and almost every day i'd reach home at ard 11pm. Morning starts at 8am. There's only half hr- one hr break each day. I haven't tried any of th erides yet but a few of them are off today so they went to try out. I think it'll be fun. Some of the rides definitely look scary. I took a lot of pictures but there's no way i can upload them now. There's no off day for me this week because they said that there's a lack of manpower. The park's opened till 8pm on weekdays and till 10pm on saturdays. I'll be taking off on 25th may because i signed up for the niagara falls trip organised for the employees.
Weather's turning warmer day by day. I't snot as cold as when we arrived last wk. Alright, i've got to go work. Will keep you updated.

4th May'05 Wednesday

Argh.... actually finished my entry but pressed sth wrong and everything's gone! my goodness! this is my 4th day at CedarPt and it's alright. The weather's not just cold. In fact, it's very cold here, esp in the mornings and afternoons. Just 2 days ago ,we met with a mini hail. It's so cool, imagine rain turning into ice when it touches your hair or clothes. There are 12 of us together rt now, from Singapore. 8 girls and 4 guys and we are living in the same apartment. That is, guys in one apartment and girls in another. I'm now in the employee recreation centre using one of the eight coms and one of the girls managed to sign up for internet connection in our room yesterd night. She's damn happy cos why? Can see her bf through the web cam! haha... she's a happy girl. We went Walmart and Meijers just yesterd and on the second day we arrived. Bought a lot of foodstuff. Made a sandwich this morning. There's egg, veg, ham, hotdog and my fav coffee. I think i'm gonna get fat at this rate we're treating ourselves. Home-cooked food is definitely better. Yesterd's dinner was a sumptuous microwaved lasagna. That's pretty good. We had this ultra big tub of ice cream for only USD$5+ which we shared. Topped with strawberries and bananas too. I don't even treat myself this well when i'm in Singapore. Woa! The only problem we have here is that distances between places are quite far away and we rely solely on taxis. I remembered the first time when we squeezed into a single cab, the whole lot of 12 of us. Amazing! But it was exhortion. Had to pay USD$5 per person and i thought that it was 5 per cab. So, we became smarter and bargained with the drivers. Subsequent rides counted up to 3 or 2 bucks each. Much better. I like the weather here. Though it's cold, you can feel that the air here is fresher. Some of the people are not that receptive towards asians but some are quite ok and they are rather friendly, i think it depends on the person as well. I haven't really started work yet but the hours will come in soon next week because the park will be officially opened this saturday. I think there's going to be a firework. Looking forward to it. Ok, i'll update you all again. Meanwhile, enjoy your hols and stay cool. Hasta luego.