Sunday, June 26, 2005
Why isn't the world a humane one?
I don't understand what some ppl are thinking. Or whether they know of their flaws. There are tons of ppl out there who are arrogant big farts, but they let it stay that way instead of changing their mindsets. True, they may be the best among their counterparts, but according to the chinese saying "Yi Shan Hai Bi Yi Shan Gao" (Each mountain prevails over the other), it already confirms the fact that they are not the best in the whole world. I've also come across many ppl who thinks they're infallible, and usually I try to shun those with traits like these. However, no matter where I go, I'm sure to bump into these kinda ppl. Not that I look down upon them or whatever, as I know I'm made of inferior quality too, and have no business to point a finger at other ppl better than me, just because I'm jealous of their intelligence. But the fact is, I'm not jealous of them. Instead, I feel sorry for them, sorry that they possess such humongous ego that may crush them in future, without them realising it.
I guess the way to command respect from your friends would be to treat them in a way where you would want them to treat you as. Of cos, not everyone will reciprocate the efforts made by others, but it's no harm trying rite? If that person doesn't care a hoot for what you are doing, den it's high time to leave that seat next to him/her, and go in search of better folks who will acknowledge your presence, and be glad of having a nice friend. Which is the reason why you have heard others say your friends are a mirror image of you. They reflect your inner feelings and possess similar traits and moral values as you, because you all are one of a kind, and that explains why you all can be good friends who hold out for each other. Now you know why there are different cliques in school, where all the dorky types stick together, and where the more fun-loving ppl treat the nerds as taboos. It all boils down to the differing personalities of human beings.
Now, why am I writing an entry like this? You can only blame one person, who just called me earlier on to blabber on abt his job, and how he'll be taking over his manager's tasks while the manager's on leave or something, plus some sarcastic comments of me slacking at hm and only doing the registration for the graduation ceremony at the last min, which I interpreted as "Serve you right for not doing the registration earlier. Now that the page can't be accessed, it's your fault and you can blame nobody, and who asked you to slack at hm everyday instead of doing proper stuffs?" It wasn't a personal attack on that somebody, but rather an opinion of my own. Fine, so I slacked at hm, so I only did the registration during the last min, but so what? I like it, and that's not within your control. You have no authority to tell me what to do and what not to do, and I don't care if you are going to be some big shot in an IT company in future. It's the fact that I can't stand you. (Peeps who hv no idea who's that somebody, dun ask me. I dun hv the mood to show & tell. Maybe some other day. U can guess it, reggie...)
Fingers dancing ended on 6/26/2005 02:29:00 PM
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Not attending the Graduation Ceremony
Well, from the heading, u guys know wad I'm gonna say already. Just received my updated roster for July and it seems that the graduation ceremony clashes with my training period. So I doubt I can take off for that period as they dun repeat the training just for u alone, plus I won't be training within my office premises. I'll be going to some kuku branch, and I dun think I can afford to skip even a day of training or I'll be dead meat when it comes to hands-on of stuffs after I've sorta "graduated" from the training phase and proceed on to do the actual tasks I'm supposed to be doing, which will be technical support. Loads to learn. Sianz...
I haven't spoken to my supervisor yet, I wanted to tell her today, but apparently I forgot haha..But I reali doubt I can take off for that day. If I'm not in the training period, it'll be easy, cos I can just swap with whoever that's off that day. Anyway, work's rather fun, with nice colleagues (what I meant are those who started work on the same day as me). As for the perm staffs there, including my mentor, well I've just been told by him that I'm SLOW..Fine..I'll need to buck up, but it's unfair, cos I've not touched even a portion of what's been done during training, well maybe for one part, out of ten zillion parts. Other newbies got to hands-on, and apply what they learned during their training, so it's not fair. Well, I'm going to be attached to 4th floor tmr, to apply real life situations of what I have learnt during training. Thank God. N thank my sup, cos I guess she finally realise I indeed am blur without much hands-on, and indirectly I'll also be hindering my mentor from performing at his peak. The productivity my sup briefed me on scares me outta my wits today. OMG..I better not say, or it'll be too loh soh, since u all hv no idea wad it's all abt, and it's hard to contemplate too..Duh..I'll stop here.
Fingers dancing ended on 6/21/2005 08:43:00 PM
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Monday, June 13, 2005
Life of the past few days
Ok, in chronological order.
On Friday, we had our BBQ, as planned. Just when we were getting excited when we saw the charcoal starting to burn nicely, and the fire starters in its place, which was a cue for placing the food to cook on the barb wire, heaven decided to make sport of us by releasing drops of rain on the peaceful ground of ECP. Well, we did not expect this rain at all, and we were lucky cos there was an umbrella in the boot of my friend uncle's car. Therefore, we frantically opened the umbrella, and tried our best to cover the charcoal for the sake of keeping it dry and burning. That was the most awful sight on earth. Ppl in nearby sheltered huts were staring at us, and I bet laffing their hearts out too, at idiots like us. Though we look like lunatics, but I guess this BBQ will be one that we could not forget. We made alot of bungles on the way, but it was a fun nite out nonetheless. Abt half an hr later, the rain receded, and we thanked God for it. Here's the url of the photos taken during the BBQ, for ur viewing pleasure. Most of the shots look stupid though haha. Click on "View Slideshow" to see the photos at its default pixels, and the captions that comes with it.
Ok sat now. Did some casual surfing, and I have no idea how I ended up reading a 13 yr old gal's blog, but I chanced upon this dollmaker webby, and it was quite fun. U peeps can give it a try, it'll sorta relive ur childhood dream of donning ur barbie doll with the prettiest clothes u can ever find haha. Well, I guess this website reali captures the heart of all gals/woman, since there's a child in every heart. There's no age restriction to this, so just go ahead and flaunt ur dressing skills hehe.
Ok, I'm starting work tmr. Position: Customer Affairs Consultant. Company: Starhub. Right..I do hope it will be fun, though there will be 2 weeks training, to familiarise urself with Starhub's products, and what with all the networking and troubleshooting shit to learn. I shall slp early from tonite onwards haha. Report at 8.30am tmr. Shucks. Anyway, on the way hm from the agency today, I boarded a train full of blood donation adverts pasted all over. "For your information, in Singapore, 40% = O Type blood, 30% = B Type blood, 25% = A Type blood, and 5% = AB Type blood." This was quoted from one of the many ads pasted in the train haha. This adds on a new piece of knowledge for ppl who doesn't have the slightest idea of the percentage of blood types in Singapore, yours truly included, until I came upon this advert. Thank you HSA for educating negligent folks like us.
Fingers dancing ended on 6/13/2005 04:36:00 PM
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
A coupla thoughts...
It's not everyday that you receive a call from some anonymous person asking you to go for a job interview. Therefore, when I received this similar call yesterday afternoon, my spirits elevated instantly, which resembled a rush of adrenaline being injected into me.
It seems like a nice enough job, as a technical support officer. Job scope includes handling of toubleshooting enquiries from customers, in a call centre environment, and training will be provided. The pay's a knockoff, at 9 bucks per hour, so what more do I have to think abt? The problem/issue that lies includes a 9 mth contract, and in the case of a resignation, I'll have to reimburse the company whatever salary issued to me, until after the 9 mths' due. Seriously, I won't wanna take this risk, but I'll go down for the interview tmr and see how it goes. There's this choky feeling of being tied up in a room, where ya being fed & everything, but you can't step out of that room for 9 full mths. The thought's rather scary ain't it? Yeah well whatever...
Was discussing with my fren abt wanting to go for a trip, either Hong Kong or Bangkok, since both are shopping paradises haha. Well, we'll need to save up first in order to execute that plan, and I was marvelling abt another cruise trip yesterday, well another one for my other frenz, but the first one for me haha. It so happens that my other frenz all had their cruise trip onboard Superstar Virgo in 2002, after O lvls, but my mum had warned me from going anywhere near water that year due to some superstitious act of hers. Well, even up till now, I strongly believed that she cooked up some nonsense reason to prevent me from going overseas with my frenz. Actually the primary reason I wanted to go onboard the cruise is bcos I wanted to experience being on my own astro sign cruise, the scared Virgo :P.
Hmm..Our clique decided on the innovative idea of having a BBQ nite on fri. It was supposed to be a 2D1N chalet at east coast, but apparently they dun cater to a 1 night stay during weekends, so there goes, our chance was blown off just like that. Stupid costa sands. What's worse, mins earlier, my fren called and told me the east coast bbq pit still available for booking is situated in the far end of the park, a spot where nobody will ever ever stroll over. Looks like we hit a bad patch. The rest of the more crowded and lively spots have all been booked. But being the determined us, we have decided to go ahead with the booking no matter no how far, dark & unattached-looking the place is. Haha...
Fingers dancing ended on 6/07/2005 06:26:00 PM
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Monday, June 06, 2005
Blabberz...
Just yesterday, my fren was asking me if I had any ideas for my 21st birthday. Well, I've been harping on the idea of celebrating it in some pub, since my bday falls on a Wednesday. Just nice eh? Haha..Well my bro aksed me abt it today too, n he suggested Devil's Bar, while a fren of mine who thinks she's really TALL asked me to consider DBL O.
So what I did was I visited the dbl-o webby a few hours earlier, and I was rather flabbergasted. I dunno (shrugs), but reading the captions on the webby sort of gave me a hint that financially unstable folks can forget abt it altogether, and that term suits me to a T, right? Sighz...
After some contemplations, I thought maybe I could fire off my bday celebration with a nice meal at a restaurant, where all the singing and cutting of the cake ritual will take place, and then end it off merrily at some pub, and drink till I drop haha. That seems like a rather nice day out, ain't it?
More updates will be posted soon abt this issue. Anybody with nice ideas just shoot it off in the comment box hehe, dun be shy.
P.S.: It wasn't until today that I realised mass chatting on msn has more cons than pros, and for airheaded ppl like one of my BELOVED fren, I guess u better stick to talking on a real phone. A four person chat window makes her confused, and she doesn't even know who's typing what at times. Bang ur head on the wall, gal! I shall not name her out, for the sake of not making her embarrassed. Peace out....
Fingers dancing ended on 6/06/2005 12:04:00 AM
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