Monday, January 11, 2010
After shopping, I was dead-hungry cos I skipped breakfast. Maybe Bugis Junction has alot of restaurants and stuffs but didn't feel like eating those nydc or MOF. The food court also not appealing cos not worthit to spend $$ at food court in town too expensive. So we decided to venture further, maybe eat at Iluma or the QQ noodle house. Wah, we walked until Iluma thinking nvm see outside one of those places on the BK-LJS-KFC row of shops got things to eat a not.
Then we u-turned right outside Iluma leh... lol. By-passed QQ noodle house too. Walked all the to the OG Albert there also nothing to eat like that, the nearby hawker centre reopened liao but so many people la. Ok lor, walked somemore Bencoolen liao so we just settled at the coffeeshop outside OG. Ok la, not too bad since I was hungry and sg food still the best.
咖喱鸡面 & 烧鸭面 for $6.50
After lunch, we each still bought the $1 ice cream from the bike-cart uncle-aunitie haha... nice to eat on a sunny afternoon. And we headed over to Burlington Sq there the Shine Korean Supermarket to buy some korean ingredients and stuffs. Whenever I'm at Bugis with dear, we'll always usually go there to see see one. Cos I really like good korean food, love the stir-fry meat and the stews lor. Yum! So in case you wanna go there have a look or like me, to get some things korean =p here's the address:
175 Bencoolen Street,
#01-10/11 Burlington Square,
Singapore 189649
Tel: 62388897
Dear paid for everything yea so happy. We went back to my home straight after this cos we wanted to keep the Kimchi fresh. So in the end we didn't go back to Iluma also la haha. No shopping for me also :( cny coming so it's time to shop shop again. Machiam eveytime around my birthday I will keep going back to Bugis cos I need to shop for cny clothes lol.
1. Korean Vemicelli 당면300g $4.50 - he knows I like to eat glass noodles and now I can have it inside my stew or steamboat also can haha
2. Lotte Apple Squeeze 사과 스퀴즈 250g $0.80 - btw do you know that their pronounication of apple "sa gua" and apology is the same? that's why you always see them throwing apples around when they wanna apologise to someone haha
3. Pork Bulgogi Sauce 돼지 불고기 양념 840g $6.80 - special marinade for their meats well cos I can't eat beef so I got the pork one but who says I can't use it for chicken meat haha. and i'm gonna make Bulgogi stew someday soon...
4. Cabbage Kimchi 배추 김치 400g $5.30 - you get to eat this even when you order korean set at food courts... but not eveytime nice right cos I think the "china stallholders" made themselves or they got the "china made" ones haha... and I tell you the authentic ones taste really much better. I ate this straight out of the fridge and it's so crunchy and not too spicy too ^-^
Hmmm... since I tpyed so long liao, the next section shall just be short. If I can keep it short and not start to grumble la haha. So I went to the SIA walk-in interview yesterday, Kangtai and I were early. Not early like those we reached 6+ or 7am but we reached around 7.45am or so. It's good not to be so kiasu cos I hate to see people or be one of those who start queuing right away. Haha, we saw people who "scare" themselves by queuing up out of no where and everyone at the back started doing so, only we and those who were seated kept their composure and stayed where we were. Around 8.10am the staff called us to be in the line and wah I tell you everyone chiong lor... you know why cos those who thought they were already queuing hor (mostly girls) were hogging the guys line la... so they chiong to the front of "cross under" the separator lor so unglam. But well, very singaporean.
So the front of the ladies line damn fat can... cos all cramped there want to faster faster. It's not even a queue la, more like like the starting line of a marathon haha. We stood there until maybe 8.30am then the staff started to check and collect our application forms in batches. So there were 10 in one group and we were brought inside a ballroom so be seated 10 in a row in our fixed group. Kangtai was in group 4 I think and I was in group 6. We were shown a SIA video which kept repeating and we waited. By the time my group left the ballroom, I think there was 20 over groups in the ballroom already.
We were brought to another holding area as we waited for our group interview. Damn, there was still a long snake of wanabees out there. So I estimate maybe few hundreds by then lor... and that was around 9.30am only. Imagine even if they weren't gonna allow people in by 2pm, I think already break 1000wanabees lol. I was unlucky no.1 of the group... serious. I'm not trying... ok well maybe I'm finding an excuse la but first person really no time to think. Arbo my response not quick enough lor. Actually I expected the first round to be self-intro + answer the question posted to the 10 of us.
There were two interviewers; one an aunite in forties or so, the other could be late twenties or thirties. I don't think they were make-up haha... anyway the younger greeted us with this "Good morning ladies, I will ask each of you a question and you will answer the question one by one. Ok, if there is one thing can change, what would be be?" Then she looked at me. OMG. I totally freaked out... I think. Cos I'm thinking "hey what happend to the self-intro?", "should I self-intro?", "oh no, am I supposed to start talking now?". Ya and I blew it... I really should have intro-ed instead of starting if there'r one thing I could change, it would be.... so boring. And better yet, a girl from a previous group came into the room without warning and interrupted my speech.
You know why. Cos she wanted to know why she didn't get it! I guess it was really bad cos her presence somehow affected most of us ba, I mean surely we were kaypos in our minds wanting to know why also haha. Then she stared to "is it my specs" or "is it what I wear"... to which the older interviewer commented "can't you see we're in the middle of an interview". Ooops throw face can. Want to ask also choose a better time, when we leaving the room mah. So imagine how hard for me to carry on cos I really mind blank after that. Anyway with my kind of speech I expected to be out liao. Come to think of it I think they were looking for maturity in responses ba. I don't know la but I feel this SIA interview no matter which round, luck is very crucial because the interviewers change all the time and the questions too.
Two in group managed to move onto the next round. And they were the 8th and 10th in the group; so I was rather adamant in believing that one would be slightly advantaged if they were behind in the queue in the group. And the last candidate did gave a self-intro while the 8th girl was really fluent in her speech. It wasn't even 10am when it was all over... damn fast la if you compare to the don't know how many hours of waiting time on average it was previously. But I think they changed the procedures this time also cos there was no checking of documents, no height and weight measurement nor any tiptoeing to touch the tape on the wall.
I was surprised I wasn't as downcasted as I had thought I would be. In fact, I felt numb although it was just my first try. Perhaps it was the talking I've had with some of the girls and the grumblings we made. I made two friends from my group :) and we were out together :( but it's nice to have company home on the mrt train haha. I didn't manage to get Kailyn's number but I got Sheryl's. We agreed to go to the next SIA interview together if we are still interested by then.
If I'm still interested and unemployed.
Dear said I had better find a job before the next batch of grads come out... omg. Sigh and he told me to go back NTU for the career fair lor. Yixian, go with me? If I'm going, I don't want go back NTU alone to the career fair.
It was a love story @ 09:40
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
