happy but tired freelancer

i created a record of sort for myself today or actually yesterday and today added.

on 10 dec, i started freelancing from 9a.m. and i only stopped at 4a.m on 11 dec. that is a record of some sort right?? dunno how to count? it is 19 hours straight!!

crazy right? but the money is good. (enuf to buy that thomas sabo ring...haha....dun worry, i am not doing that)

and then i only slept for 2 hours. then the time sheet today recorded 9 hours of work. curse that traffic jam! i could have clocked in another hour!!

however, i am not complaining at all about the job. it is fun.

let me list what i have done so far. i still have 2 more days to go before wrapping up.

10 dec
worked as a helper in the people's team from 9a.m. to 8p.m. reached impiana hotel and was delegated my task. it was easy. just cutting tags, cards, laminating and punching holes in the comfort of the hotel room. anyone can do that. and i was called the scissorshand (edward scissorshand?) for doing most of the cutting. three of us locals were in this team helping the brainstore team who flew in from switzerland.

view of the klcc from the hotel room.

brother jet also was roped in. actually he replaced cousin zhong for this task. his was more interesting. he got to go shopping for stuff needed! and they went all the way to carrefour wangsa maju, failed to find the things they wanted and then proceeded to midvalley. he did this with another local girl from tmn. tun. all expenses were paid i.e. taxi fare and food. they had sushi (jealousnya).

as for me, we went to little penang cafe for lunch.

then the next item was helping to build-up things for function in the exhibition hall 2 of kl convention centre from 8p.m. to 4a.m.

here, jet, zhong and ah seng were also involved.

however, i did not go at 8. i was in one of the brains (the brainstore team members) room at the hotel sorting out stuff and we called room service for dinner. but there was some miscommunication and dinner came only at 9.30p.m. so there we were sitting and cursing at the hotel's kitchen staff while others started loading things from lorries and stuff. we are really treated very well huh? hahha...they bill everything to the company anyway. only 2 of us freelancers had hotel dinner. lucky me.


i only crossed to the convention centre at 10 and starting working. we had furniture from ikea to assemble and lots of them!!! it was hard labour man...but not complaining. i think we are underpaid for the stuff we are doing if we convert to swiss currency.


we assembled, screwed, blowed inflatable floats, fixed, moved stuff, etc. everyone was sweating from head to toe. those who complained of hardwork left before midnight. those are really sissies who think that money is earned by sitting in front of the desk. can't even take a bit of hard labour. and there were also some irritating ones who raised their voices but did not lift a finger. i really felt like shouting 'shut up and move your ass!'. luckily, all chinese worked really hard and majority of us, freelancers that night was chinese.


we had potato chips, biscuits, water, beer and mcdonalds meal at one hour after twilight. this is another record! the earliest mcD's meal! why complain when they feed you and let your work out some sweat to replace the work-out you can't do because of bad weather? hahaha









those who stayed back till 4a.m. were given sincere gratitude and they even offered to pay their cab fare. since i drove, they paid for my parking which was just rm6. ah seng even got a job offered for today. actually his name was not listed for the build-up and first day of conference. their friend swapped with him for 10 dec and the head builder offered him another day today. that made him a very happy boy.

then it was sleep at taman tun. and i woke up feeling the limbs all numb. on my palms now was like another layer of course hard skin. there are abrasions on the palms and the thumb! sacrifice.



this morning was the first day of the conference and i worked as a minute-taker, transferring notes written on paper given by the participants of the workshop to computer. it was easy. and we got nice polo shirts! one day for each day of the conference. that means 3 new shirts by the end of it.

enuf of this. going to sleep now. my shift starts from 12noon to 7p.m. tomorrow. again, minute-taker. i wish i was a steward who ran around doing all those miniscule work of fixing, repairing and maintaining the hall. it was much more active but too bad, the pay was less. hahhaa. that is why i chose minute-taker. even one of the freelancers said she was surprised to see me sitting in front of the computer when she saw how active i was in the building-up. and..and...those just out of high-school girls sitting in front of me said i was 24! hahaha...not bad eh. made my day lah.