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Finally.
I GOT A JOB!
No more staying home all day long with nothing to do except chatting on MSN or watcging anime.
Yeah.
Plus.This is one hell of a job.My best one so far I would have to say.Though I have to wake up at an ungodly hour to go to work.But at least I only have to work till afternoon.Which means I would have the rest of the day to have a proper rest or chill out with friends.What's more.The pay is good and my collegues are a rather fun bunch.Though sadly I would only be working for 3 weeks as that's all they can squezze me into their schedule.
Now talk about nostalgia.I wonder how long it has been since I wore a shirt and tie.Yes.This job requires me to do so.Anyway.What I do at this job is basically the same as a medical screening officer.Either taking a person's height and weight,or blood pressure....etc.Which is all rather interesting as up till now,all my previous jobs have wither been desk or admin jobs.Therefore,I'm definitely gonna gain lotsa experience from this job.
Now....me and Chun have actually been planning to get a permanent part time job for some time now.You know....one of those jobs at a restaurant or cafe whereby we can plan our time table or working days so that we call earn some spare bucks even while we are schooling as the job would only require us to work 2 or 3 days a week.Which was why me and him went for a literally round island job search the other.And I definitely have to say something.
I finally understood why mum says "Money is hard to earn" all the time.
Simply because even looking for a job wasn't as easy as I thought it to be.All thise while,all my jobs have been comfortable introdueced to me by friends or family...which was why I finally realised just how hard it was to go job searching in Singapore after that day's experience.But well.In the end.Our hard work paid off.wWe kinda found this tiny cosy cafe in Suntec that was hiring people.NOe even though the pay wasn't that high.I immediately fell in love with the working environment.It was so cosy and comfortable looking,I would be willing to work in it even if the pay was lower.After a previous nasty working experience at a certain well known Seafood Restaraunt.I've come to conclude that.
For long term.Working environoment comes first.Pay is secondary.
For Chun.He got the job rather easily as he wasn't working part time at any other place currently and could start work any time.As for me.I could only commmit full time for the holidays after the 20th May as I had my morning job to consider about.Haiz.Quite a waste considering that I was really kinda interested in the job as I really liked the place.Well.In life.You gain some.You lose some.Can only hope and pray that the owner will call me back once she has figure out a way to fit me into the schedule.
Well.That's it for the updates.
Rather boring update.But none the less.It is an update.Furthermore.
It is something different at last.
I AM WORKING.NOT SLACKING ANYMORE.
Haha.Okok.I think I;ve rambled enough already.
Until the next entry.It's adios for now.
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Holidays are so damn boring.
Nothing to do but Internet.Sleep.Run.Workout.Internet.Sleep.Run.Workout.
And the cycle repeats.
I NEED A JOB!
No $ = No life.
Job = $
So Working = $$$$$$ = MANY LIVES!
Hmmm....I'm not making any sense.
Luckily though.A brainwave came up just at the right time that allowed me to spend some of my seemingly limitless time since the holiday started.
I'm doing a group blog for my speical clique of friends.What is a group blog?
Simply said.It's a blog where anybody from the clique can log in and psot something on the blog.Whether it is about his or her life.Or some interesting story.Etc.Guess this is a pretty good idea since most ppl simply do not have the time or perseverence to maintain a personal blog.Which is why the group blog era has arrived and is here to stay.
Good idea right?
In my opinion.One hell of a brainwave!
Worth my whole night's work on it.
A little tired now though.
So off to bed now.Chow.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
HEY HEY HEY!!!!THE FREAKING EXAMS ARE OVER.
Althought I don't think I'll be as cheerful as I am now when I get back my results.
Like I said in a post some time back."I think I've slacked too much."
Now.I would like to rephrase my sentence.
"I HAVE SLACKED TOO MUCH."
But once again.The face of my best buddy in school suddenly appears and gives me a tighe slap left right and centre.
"FUCK YOU LAH NEO.HEY.GET ON WITH LIFE.IT'S OVER ALREADY."
Ok.This time I think I kinda agree with what he's said.
Regret time over.
Time to PARTY!!!
But before that.I think there is one very important thing that I feel I have to mention.Now.Despite waht you guys out there may think.I DO READ ALL OF YOUR BLOGS.Even if I do not comment much or at all.In fact.I read them DAILY to see if there has been any interesting things happening to my friends.Which was why like any other day.I went to the respective blogs belonging to some of my close friends expecting a good read when suddenly.I got a rude shock.
I GOT FLAMED!!!!
Not just lousy old hate mail.
But someone actually mentioned me in his blog!
OMG.This is the first time.
I am actually HATED!
I AM FAMOUS!
Sheena.Now I finally understand why you and your friends love hate mail so much!
God.I feel so trumatized by this.
Why would anyone hate me.
I'm such a good boy.
I pass up my homework.
I dun drink.Neither do I smoke.
I reach home before 12 midnight.(Most of the time.)
And I dun go clubbing.
I just stay at home and stare at my computer screen for 12 hours straight.
So........
WHY SHOULD ANYONE HATE ME??
And guess what..it's none other than our dear Mr A-v-n L-e G--s--ng!!
..................
Ok.That was so "NOT-ME".
Apparently.It was a rather pathetic effort to try and sound like you Sheena.
(Forgive me.)
I definitely can't write as well as you for one thing.Haha.
Anyway.Whatever the reason is for flaming me.I'm cool,A-v-n.Really.
Simply cos I put that stupid paragraph of marquee words there expecting comments like this.Besides.I thought only certain people who know me better would read my blog so they wouldn't give a shit about that.Anyway.Everything's cool.Also,afer much thought,I've since changed the contents of the marquee as adviced.Unfortunately I really couldn't be bothered to redesign the outlook of my blog because I assure you,HTML is a real pain in the ass which is why I do not wanna spend hour after hour again just to make the blog easier to read.Besides.Even if the current outlook of the blog is really stupid,I still kinda liked it and since this is also MY BLOG to begin with.I think I have the f*cking right to stick with it reagrdless of waht people may think.(Right,Mr Lee?Haha.)However,be rest assured that the next time you are fuming and wanna look for someone to flame.It wouldn't be me again.I'll try my best not to be stupid on purpose.TRY ok?
OK that's it.Tired from the round town cycling I jsut came back from.
Cheers man everyone!Exams are so f*cking over.
Disclaimer:Again.I'm "cope"ing this from you Sheena.Irregardless of the angry tone which I appear to be using in the post above,I am really cool about everything.It was just a comical(I hope) way of expressing my feelings about receving comments from this friend of mine.Besides.He was just a sandbag to let go of some steam.And being the usual sandbag I am,I don't think I would complain at all lah.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Well.Today's Networking Essentials Paper was ESSENTIALLY...
Complete crap.
As much as I've promised myself not to whine about a paper once it's over.I cannot help but say this.The lecturers who set this paper really ought to quit their current posts and become farking GENERAL PAPER LECTURERS instead.
The damned questions were SO DAMN BLOODY GENERAL.When I compared answers with 3 other classmates.Everyone's answers was amazingly...all COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
Absolutely...unbelievable.
Anyway.Since I've already promised myself not to whine so much anymore,I shall not go back on my words and stop the complaining right here right now.
Actually,for a while now,I've been wanting to blog about this issue that's been occupying my mind recently.But the problem was,with exams coming and all that.And also partly because of plain procrastination...I've not had the chance to really sit down and think aobut it,much less write about it.
However now.Having just finished a paper today and also,not insane or hardworking enough to begin revising for next Monday's test,I've thus decided to give writing about this issue a shot.
Ok.Enough with the bullshit already I guess.The issue I've been wanting to discuss about is none other than this:What is it with Singaporeans and looks?
To begin with.I think the title itself would be self explanatory.Being fellow Singaporeans,I'm sure most of you would agree that people in this country,including most of us are a bunch who are really damned conscious and concerned with the way we look.I mean.Just pop into any toilet at any time of the day and...
You'be sure to see someone standing in front of the mirror.
I mean.This may sound very DUH.But the interesting thing is that most of the time, the toilet cubicles are usually not even half as occupied as the area in front of the sink.HONEST.And people in front of the mirror.Are not just the young and supposedly vain bunch.
You have uncles in their late 50's,usually combing their extremely greasy looking and evil smelling hair.You have teenagers who are usually still schooling,carefully grooving up the spikes in their hair,and making sure each is as prominent as the spikes on the Esplanade durians.And occasionally,you'll get the kind of weirdos whom you see come into the toilet just to take a look at themselves in the mirror,smile at themselves and then leave the toilet without even taking a piss or whatsoever.For the women,I think we would not have to elaborate huh.With arsenal upon arsenal of making up equipment placed beside the sinks,the area in front of the mirror is almost usually always fully packed with women touching up or apllying makeup.
Now.I'm sure anyone and everyone would want to look good.Which means that the situations I desribed above probably occurs everywhere right?Well.That may be true,but only to a certain extent.But the point that I'm trying to bring across here is actually not about the strange things that Singaporeans do in the toilet,but rather more about the issue of how we Singaporeans are really becoming a very appearance based race.What do I mean by this?
A good example would be this.How many of the people out there that has the latest Nokia handphone model actually know about and utilize all the functions that are available on the phone?I think only a minority of the more techno-savvy or geeky people.And out of these people who know about and utilize all the functions,how many of them actually need the functions available on the phone,or a new phone itself?
Most of the people who bought the phone,probably considered only one thing."This is the latest phone available.If I buy it now,I would be the FIRST among my friends to own it."
Food for thought?Here's more.
One would simply have to go out onto the roads anytime of the day and find either a Nissan 350Z Fairlady,Lotus Espirit,Mazda RX 8 or Nissan Skyline R34 zooming by with their engines roaring.However,the funny thing was that,before our brain even registers the type of car that just flew by,the roaring of the engines would already have stopped.
Due to a traffic light.
Singapore has an unbelivable number of traffic lights.And also,an extremely miserable excuse for a speed limit whicn means that fast and powerful cars are basically equivalent to scrap metal here on Singapore roads.Before you've even reached half of the cars' fastest speed,you would already have been stopped by either a traffic light.
Or a traffic police.
Once again we ponder.Why do people still buy fast cars?Again,a similar consideration would likely me made."This is lastest sportscar model,if I buy it now.I would be the FIRST among my driving buddies to have one."Or another thought would be."This car looks so damn cool.If I buy it,girls at a club will definitely come to me FIRST."Ye another thought would be."This car sounds so damn powerful.If I buy it.I would definitely get first when I race with my friends on the ECP."
Note my constant highlighting of the word FIRST.
This is the problem with Singaporeans.They are just so....unrealistically perfectionistic.Everything must be the first.Or the best.Or whatever.Anything and everything.As long as first,or best CAN LIAO.Nothing else matters.
What's the problem you may ask?The education system.Nuff said right?
Now.Besides, the probem I mentioned above.Another issue about Sinaporeans and apperances are the way fat and ugly people are treated to with respect to the pretty and slim people.My good friend Merenwen used to tell me."Aiyah....you guys are all the same..shallow bastards who only like skinny beanpoles...like your women to be thin and beautiful.."And to think that I used to always argue back saying."Please la...not everyone like that one...Sheena.."
Now.Even I'm beginning to doubt myself.
Actually.I understand the feelings of those people who are obese or who was born not very attractive looking.Life in Singapore for these people are really...can be pretty difficult...almost equivalent to living hell.How do i know that?I was once very fat.And I can tell you that,the attitude of people around me actually consisted more of politeless rather than friendliness.And at anytime,an attractive person with a bad attitude would always be Public Enemy No.2 compared to an unattractive person who would definitely not be popular at all and would always end up being Public Enemy No.1.
Life was really miserable when I was fat...and to a point ugly.And I can tell you.Obesity and attractiveness come hand in hand.Why?When a person is fat.He or she would usually be stereotyped and thus would have a lower confidence level.Therefore when a person has a lower level of confidence.He or she would always look down on themselves and not dare to or bother to try making changing themselves.Which includes dressing themselves up or improving upon their physical looks.Therefore even causing a fat person who may have potential look goods to look even more unattractive than before.
Therefore,having been there and done that,I would definitely say that I would not want to return to my old life again.Which I've put in a hell lot of effort to achieve waht I have so far today.Even though becoming thin may not be exactly that much of an achievement.But the important thing is that.I've really put in effort.Which definitely is way better than sitting there,doing nothing and sulking about it.
However,this leads me to come to an oxymoronic conclusion.People may claim that looks are not important,to which I think all those who do that are simply liars,yet,at the same time,nobody would want to look unattractive or fat or etc.And I admit,I'm no saint.Maybe I do not have much right to be choosy.But in the end.I would definitely still prefer someone who is more presentable looking and attractive looking.This is an inborn nature of all human beings.Even in an experiment,babies will smile when attractive people carry them and cry when the opposite occurs.
Therefore to conclude.I feel that the issue with appearances is really a grey area whereby one cannot take a firm stand on either side.Concerned and unconcerned with apperances..we human beings are always on the line of balance whereby we cannot be too concerned with apperances yet at the same time...we cannot be totally unconcerned.However,in the case of Singaporeans.....the answer is plain obvious I guess.
Right?
(P.S.Wow.This really felt and looked like a GP Essay.But nonetheless.I do hope ppl who actually read this give some comments in the tag board.It can be about anything form the way I right to your agreement or disagreement with my points of view.Thanks...)
My Networking Essential Semestral Exam begins in a few hours time.
As usual.
I am feeling absolutely f*cked up.
Wish me luck man.
Saturday, April 02, 2005
I apologize for the lack of updates once again.
But I've been really busy this week with exam preparations and all.Especially since my first paper scheduled on this upcoming Tuesday.Furthermore.I've just discovered that just how much I've been slacking off these past month and a half since my Mid Sem test ended.
I knew nuts about anything and everything that was taught after the tests.Come to think of it.This feeling is really...."Woah Deja Vu."Since the exact same thing happened to me during the last semestral exam.What the hell man.But who else can I blame but myself once again.This i what I call being too complacent.
Complacency often results in a person's downfall.Especially one who has just tasted the sweetness of victory or success.It often results in all the hard work put in by a person before his success to suddenly seem so insignificant and irrevelant.Which is the most terrible part about complacency.This is because once a perosn becomes complacent,he becomes overconfident about himself and stat thinking that he no longer need to work that hard to achieve the same success.Therfore,he no longer puts in the same amount of effort which which he used to put in which will eventually result....
HEY.What the hell is this.My Critical Reasoning test is already over.Why am I writing an essay once again.
........
Too much studying man.Even the blogging and crapping part of my brain is getting affected.
Anyway.Gotta end off here.Even though this hasn't been much of a post.But I really gotta go and revise somemore.Call me a nerd or whatever.In Singapore,without paper qualifications,you MAY still become rich.But most of the time.You WILL most likely not be able to survive for long.That is the sad truth about this damned nanny of a state governed country.
Okok.Gotta go.Hope you guys enjoy the new background music I inserted.It's not tehcno by the way so you better think twice before calling me an Ah Beng.