Job landed!!!

haha, my dad was reminding me to carry my hp all the time in case the agency called. The interview guy told me the work should start today(mon) if we are selected. That's why i was sure my job is a gone case since yesterday. i din even bother to bring my hp along when i went for swimming yesterday. and the agency called me just now to start work tomorrow! Oh my god.....I 'm really overjoyed.. is the Power 1(the company's name) guy playing with psychology here? he has been stressing the importance of the attitude of the workers, maybe he is afraid we will take the job for granted.......whatever lah.... i have landed a 2 mths 6 bucks per hr job and that's most important. actually money is not all lah, the job sounds good for my resume and experience as it requires some technical skill to do assembly job of power supply circuit tower. it also paves way for me to get job next yr during my sch holiday. but the downside of the job is tt now it's unlikely for me to join the NUS orientation camp as it takes one whole week. the Power 1 guy was saying they often need their man to do OT to finish the order on time. The guy actually asked us if we have any other commitment but i din tell him abt it as i really want to get the job. anyway, hope they don't need to rush order during the orientation camp..

Oh, yes, i met this guy at the BT forum. he is from HK and 4 yrs younger than me. he is studying at J1 now so he is 2 yrs older than his classmates, like me! it's nice to know someone who has gone through similar experience as myself. i'm looking forward to find out more from him...

Job, job, job

The agency which i went to a few weeks ago called me yesterday to go for an interview at the International business building at JE today. It's the same job I applied previously but they told me that time the positions are already filled. i suppose they need somemore temp manpower this time round. I went for the interview this morning and everything went fine. The only reason I will not get employed is my limited commitment period from now to end of July. There were two guys who just finished poly and waiting to be enlisted. They can serve 1 to 2 mths longer than I and another two guys who will go to U this yr like me. Anyway, one of the guy who is studying in 2nd yr in NTU engin told me he had gone for many many interviews. he even went for walk-in interviews at restaurants(a job that i thought would be easy to get) but he was never succesful. He also went for many other temp office assistant jobs but was unsuccessful. i think it's really not easy to get a job nowadays. I should be quite lucky if i can get this factory job at JE as it sounds interesting and requires a bit of technical skills, thus i can learn something there, rather than just doing some 2 days labourer job.

I went to Plaza Sing and Takashimaiya with my family last Mon. On the way back, i saw this guy who was sitting at the seats closest to the entrance with his girl friend so they were facing everyone on the bus. then i suddenly noticed the guy constantly peeping at the two girls in low cut shirts and shorts who were sitting diagonally opposite. and the guy was doing this when his girlfriend was talking to him. what he did was so damn obvious to me at least and i was wondering how would his girlfriend be feeling at that moment. haha.

NUS Engin talk

feeling super gutted now. First time this season to see manu playing a game with so many chances. They definitely look promising for the whole match, yet they lost............ Arsenal is just too lucky yesterday.

The elec n comp Engin talk at NUS was better than last yr one overall. I have taken two pictures of the highlights during the engin talk. The whole talk is so interesting, inspiring ........................................... haha shit la. Actually, the lunch and tea food are all that's worth remembering. The whole talk is about glorifying the elec and comp department and how good it is for our future career. I met two new friends there so I decided to give the boring lab tour a miss. One guy was from Tampines JC and the other was a PUB scholar from NJ. Haha, we just sat there and started to introduce ourselves. Haha, i think guys don't mind to go to those talks alone, sit alone, eat alone and then make friends with strangers. it's good that i made two new friends during the talk. at least i have not wasted my time there. If not for my naggy dad, i for sure won't go for the talk......

The tea food is nice. much better than last year. 

The creamy chicken and the sweet n sour pork are not bad, but the spring roll and Dou Fu are spoilt. 

See the crammed condition of the store room! 

2nd day of work....

Want to thank B for the comment first. i think you are the first person sending me proper comment. The NUS guy brought me to the Science Canteen for lunch. The guy only said the western food there is ok when i ask him what is nice there. So he ended up eating chicken rice and i bought Wanton Noodle. Actually i saw quite a few people buying Claypot rice, but i was worried about the waiting time. I only had half an hr for lunch cos we waited 15 min for the stupid NUS shuttle bus. Must try claypot next time. haha. Oh i heard the western food at Business canteen is damn nice too.......... too bad it's closed when i went there yesterday.

Today's work is quite ok, it's less exhausting than yesterday. We only need to write down the type and yr of each box and rearrage on a piece of paper, then assign each of the box a shelf number according to the arrangement of the shelf at IMH where the boxes of documents will be moved to. The difficult part is to move the boxes full of paper around for us to see the title and yr of the boxes and then paste new stickers on specified space of the boxes. Seriously each box is definitely as heavy as if not heavier than 2 packs of 10kg rice. (i know it well cos i am always the one buying rice for mother.)especially when the stupid store people stack up two layers of boxes on the top level of the shelf, it will be even more difficult for us to move the boxes. the whole storeroom is so crammed that i need to twist my body in all kinds of funny position just to put a sticker on the top left corner of each box. oh yes! after getting the experience from yesterday, we all bring singlet, for us to wear while we work. then the supervisor said we need to bring down two trolly from the maintenance room down to the storeroom before it closes at 1700. As we went up to get the trolly, I realised it's a bit funny for a guy to wear singlet with jeans and walk around in the hospital. i think two of us walking together in a hospital like that must look damn gay. I actually saw a nurse looking in our direction from far and start to giggle discreetly. maybe i should have changed first before i went up, but then i need to rush to get the trolly before the maintenance uncle go home. ah.......what the heck, don't think i will go to NUH again lah...........

the storeroom after moving out 30 over boxes of those receipts and paper. 

i need to repack those stupid receipts in new box. 

First job turned out to be a surprise

What the hell man! The national health care group girl told me i'll be handling some files and documents. i tot i will be doing some filing in an office. but my colleague Alvin and I were led to a storeroom instead. Two of us are supposed to carry 30 boxes(80 cm*50cm*50cm) full of paper to the truck in half an hr's time. I'm sure each box was about 20 kg cos it felt heavier than 2 packs of 10 kg rice. Even with the help of trolley, we sweated profusely soon after we started carrying out the freaking heavy boxes. So the malay storegirl suggested us to take our shirt off. We hesitated but she said the whole basement is staff working area so it's ok. We din expect to do this kind of labour so we din bring change. We decided to take off our shirt and started to bring the boxes to the rubbish collection truck using a trolly. Then we realised there are many nurses and doctors using using that staff passage. The nurses were looking at us in a way as if we are some sex-maniac or pervert..... felt so embarassed at first, never would i imagine myself walking around topless in front of nurses. but heck lah, we were sweating like hell and we din bring change. so too bad for the nurses lah, early morning ganna forced to see something so exciting....hahaha. This job is damn tiring man, somemore the people don't put in documents according to the label they put on the boxes. i don't think they are paying us 7 bucks an hour to sort out small useless documents anyway. yeh, so it's not an easy job to do. but hey! I did two hrs of OT today and that's an extra 14 bucks for me! I need money! haha. Tmr is the second day and also the last day of my work there. hopefully they can see that i have positive working attitude and call me for other job offer lah........

oh yes, first time to try the NUS food today. The Niang Dau Fu at business block is really cheap. 6 items plus noodles only cost 1.60. tasted good also. too bad the western stall is closed. alvin said the western food is damn famous. must try next time.

Leech Found!

While i am waiting for my hair to dry(my hair is very dry by nature. one of my former JC classmates actually asked me how come my hair looked so dry right after I came out from the swimming pool) after washing, I better take these few mins to update my blog.

Went to Hawker centre followed by IKXX as usual. Before my family came out for dinner, I went to Queensway shopping centre to look for sport shoes as my favourite orange Nike shoes are showing signs of ageing. The plastic came off a few times but luckily the $1.50 glue seems to be working well. Anyway, I still went there to search for shoes just in case. The peanut waffle there is nice, at $1.30. tastes like my favourite HK hawker desert. After that I went to IKXX to waste somemore time by aimlessly walking around. When I was doing a regular check at the plant corner, I saw this new specie selling there, i'm not sure what it's called but it looked like the weak and hard-to-survive Christmas trees that IKXX always sell during Christmas. Somehow I felt like taking up the plant for a good look and I picked the one in the inner 2nd row(even though i had no intention to buy at all) and I saw him, the wet juicy leech wriggling as if he was overjoyed of being found and tot he would be brought back home together with the plant. (OMG, I must be thinking too much again.) I was kind of shocked at first, cos i never see a leech before. I stared at the leech and then took a pic of him. haha, not sure how long he can survive with that easy-dieing plant.

Dunno why I would pick up this plant where i saw the leech. 

Leech found in a plant at IKXX 

My first employment

Yeah! just signed a 2 day contract for a temp job at NUH at the National Healthcare Group today. The pay is really not bad for office assistant, 7 bucks per hr. Need to work from 0900 to 1800. Though I would like to have a longer working period, 2 days is not bad for a start. I was told that I will be sorting out documents and doing some filing only. Everything is perfect, except the working period. Starting work next Tues. it's officially the first job of my life. hope i won't screw it up lah......

I just bought the latest Loreal Hot Straightening cream and VS electric straightener. They are quite good investment really. My hair has never been this straight before, but my mum told me i've just got myself a mushroom head. She prefered my curly long hairstyle. I don't mind curly hair but my curliness is just a bit too much and i have difficulty controlling my hairstyle. i think straightening my hair regularly can help to curb my curly hair a bit lah. Still waiting for my hair to grow a bit longer then i can try dyeing my hair for the first time in my life.

House of the Wax

I watched House of the wax today! The movie is not bad lah. Din realise it's a NC 16 movie until i entered the theatre and the auntie asked for my IC. hehe, I tot i look so young. but actually the auntie asked quite a number of people for IC also. think it's just their procedure lah. I actually looked forward to the movie as it's categorised as NC16. I remembered other horror movies like the eye 10 also not in NC 16 category. And yes, the movie turned out to be really gruesome, can see the human's legs and necks broken off (they used real human beings to make wax sculpture and the human body became fragile after the process). There are scenes of people chopping and slashing another guy, blood squirting all over the place. However, i think the NC 16 label is due to the 2 sexy girls' exposive wearing and the sex scenes. ok lah, not a bad movie to watch. but the plot is not very fantastic.

A Proud Man

I was recently told by a friend that because I put this in my profile"I see myself as a philosopher and a worker", I am a proud guy. Haha, this incident tells me I need to be more accurate in my expression. What i meant was I feel I am a hardworking person who like to study philosophy of life. I don't think I am a proud person and don't want to be seen as one. so i just rephrased the sentence in my profile and problem solved! This blog is set up for me to share my experience and feelings with friends and strangers, not to show people my body.that's why i deleted the photos too(people can still email me for the photos!). I don't think I'm wrong to put the photos there or use expressions loosely in my profile, afterall, this is my blog! It's not like i'm accusing people or put porn photos in my blog. Just that I'm worried i will turn away people who may want to share my experiences and encounters.

Now back to the topic ,proud man. I want to talk about this since my friend brought it up to me a few days ago. There are positive and negative meanings to this word. I don't think a person will mind if other people use the word in a positive way. So when will people tell you you are proud? as in egoistic, arrogant? I think when a person gets over-confident or when he is looking down on someone, he is a proud person. There is simply no reason for anyone to be over-confident or to look down on anyone. I use "proud man", but not "proud girl" cos i feel there are many more proud men than proud ladies in Singapore. Why? i think men are taught a culture that they are more impt than ladies as men carry more responsibility in family(money wise), working or politics. They also observe their parents, and what's happening around them. In a family, children and mother usually look to the father when they encounter problems. Another reason is gene, somehow there seems to be an ego trait in most of the men since they are born. Somehow even for non-physical competitions like sch exam, guys feel ok to lose to a guy, but not a gal. They may not always feel they are smarter than girls, but the masculine mentality will give them a strong desire to win gals. However, these two factors are by no means excuses for men to be proud. I think they still can control their arrogance by understanding life better, put in more thinking to what's happening in their surrounding and they need to observe the reactions from their family, friends or even strangers more. Usually those reactions are good mirrors for you to see whether you have acted correctly or not. Just take it as an advice, it does not matter if you don't understand at first. Soon or later, you will know whether that action is correct or not. Many people say you need not care so much about how other people think of you. However, life will be much easier if you are aware of other people's impression on yrself especially when you are working or doing a task which requires cooperation from others. This is good to improve yr relationship with other people too.

Facial auntie

Today i went to do facial at chinatown as usual. Haha, i would never have considered having facial a yr ago as i think only girls do facial. but after realising facial can actually help me solve my acne problem, I start to have regular therapeutic facial session once a mth. I went for facial again today. I think the facial auntie is really good. She charge me discounted rate even though my acne problem is very serious and requires special treatment. She will give me a bit of back massage at the end of each session somemore.. however it's the conversation with her that i enjoy most. We can talk about anything under the sun and she will not ask me things that i don't want to talk about. I like to give my views about family, friends, sch, life, everything and she agrees with me on most of my views. She will also emphasize on areas i neglected. It's really great joy to find someone who shares my views and beliefs.

Chalet at Bintan

Damn it. why must my sec4 student's mid yr exam be in the week after next. Nvd lah. Must be a responsible man.............damn........

The agency has yet to call. Really hope to get the job. However, i may not be able to go for orientation camp if I am doing the job. heck lah, see how first.

wanted to try the canopy walkway in Kenridge Park for 2 weeks already. All kinds of excuses are stopping me to go there, even though I am living 30 steps away from Kenridge park! Haha, the more convenience a person gets, the lazier he becomes.

gonna stopped listening to the midnight hongkie radio programme already. It's getting boring to know how lousy guys can be, how sensitive and insatiable some gals are or even how many sex partners those clubbers have. Haha, must admit those things are quite new to me at first, but it's getting repetitive and it is depriving me of my precious time to do other stuff, such as learning piano. Oh yes. I spent only 10 days to finish learning Cannon. For amateur like me, it should be considered quite a big success. learning to play faster and with greater fluency. it's quite hard to concentrate on the notes when you have to use the pedals. should be able to master it in 10 more days, that's if i am faithfully practising every day........