Sunday, March 21, 2010
Time to do some updates before I either forget or have too much to type...
14 Mar
Met dear at Anchorpoint, we walked around and went to Queensway shopping centre. I got a new pair of shorts haha. Regretted not looking at the pants at G2000 cos I want to get new working pants for the future yeah. We wasted no time and went taking bus to Tiong Bahru for our late lunch... just nice before it started to rain heavily. Cos you know we had no umbrella and there's not shelter from Queensway shopping centre to the bus stop.
We shared double sliced fish soup with rice... cheap and healthy :) After that we walked around Popular cos I wanted to get some supplies but dear didn't want me to buy on impulse haha so I had to sneak back to cck to buy. Spent close to an hour in LotOne's Popular cos I couldn't seem to find the things I wanted. But I did get some of the things I needed to make some cards... yeah continuing with my cardmaking =p
15 Mar
Nothing else. It's the March holidays for the school-going kids. No tuition at night cos tutee had plans. Job searching online and sending resumes the whole day...
17 Mar
Went for an interview at Smith Street, Chinatown - Sales & Marketing Management Trainee. Ok, to be frank I was skeptical about doing sales but yet I think it is fun do be in marketing. So I went ahead... turned out that the managing director who interviewed us(group interview of 3 of us cos scheduling problem) cleared my doubts in that area. However, I have to admit I was not pleasantly surprised to know that their client for one of their projects is National Cancer Centre. I had recently read about NCC outsourcing their "sales & marketing" which is actually acquiring fixed giro donors. So this is what it was all about...
Of the 3 candidates, I was the only degree holder (holding an unrelated degree). One was a fresh graduate from Temasek poly from Tourism & Hospitality and the other had graduated from MDIS whom had a lot of F&B experience.
The journey back home was with the poly grad (I've forgotten her name) cos she stayed in Yew Tee with her brother. She's 21 years old and was a foreign student from Myanmar who had been invited to obtain a PR and so she could stayed on to look for jobs. Her brother had graduated from NUS and is now doing programming. She is of mixed blood, about 4 types. So her features are very prominent. We had tons to talk about on the mrt... it was refreshing for me :)
She told me she will only work for 2 years after which she hopes to further her studies in the US. We ended up talking about work & travel which is really horizon-widening in a short span of time cos I've course mates who worked at theme parks at New Jersey. Nice lor... I told her I would want to take up courses like BA or Acct in future when I had a stable income to upgrade myself.
We both agreed we didn't like the job cos it felt we would be obligated to stay on after the training although the director said there is no contract. Anyway I was offered but I rejected it cos I certainly don't wish to do hard-selling for NCC... I don't know about her but I think she would most likely be offered a job in either IR cos she's holding a very related diploma from the industry.
19 Mar
My 3 lovely cousins came over from Pasir Ris and reached my house at 2pm. We were supposed to have a 2D1N camp but you see, we didn't plan itinerary earlier so we spent the 2 hours rotting at home. Jia Hui was trying to do her JC maths tutorial and Qing Ying was playing maple with Marcus while Jing Hui surfed the net with me.
When we finally decided to go Farmart, it was already about 4.45pm and we chop chop prepared to go out cos the next shuttle was 5.30pm at cck. We managed to board the shuttle bus and reached the place, but sad to say we spent only 20mins and finished walking cos most shops were not opened at that time (already) and it was starting to drizzle so we hopped onto the same shuttle bus back to cck. Spent $1 per person on the shuttle so about $5 went down to the drain haha...
We were hungry by then and had economic bee hoon and mee at Fei Siong. A warm and filing meal cos of the cold weather... we then went up to the Arcade to watch people play. We chanced upon the photo-hunting machine and got a free play leh... must be someone hit twice with the card be. Many new machines since the last time I've been to an arcade myself. Sigh... gone were the days - I could still remember Bong, Kt and Wx competing on the drum machine. And maybe I do miss challenging each other on the Daytona. Oh and playing photo-hunting with Jing Xi etc and the Bp gang too.
We went home around 7pm... very fast right haha. My mum already prepared fried rice during lunch and it was in the rice cooker all day. My dad came home not long after and we all took turns to bathe and then had dinner together. Then we slacked around playing cards etc. Then we watched Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief on the laptop (connected to the big TV screen) in the living room. All of us were spread on the floor much like chalet or sorts...
Movie ended around 12.30am and we went to bed. The 3 girls had my bedroom while I slept in the study room. Cos I didn't want to squeeze and I'm not used to sleeping in air con, especially on an already cooling night.
20 Mar
Sheryl(friend I've made during last SIA interview) smsed me the night before asking if I would be going today for the interview. She wasn't so sure yet... and I told her I'm not going already. Turned out she smsed me in the morning she didn't go as well le. Sigh, all of us wannabes-no-more.
Anyway, cos it was already decided we would be going to the zoo today so we went ahead already the weather didn't seem fine. Should have listened to my plan of heeding the weather forecast - Plan A (no rain): Zoo, Plan B (rain) : Science Centre & Snow City.
Geez, at least now we know next time heed the weather forecast!
This was my visit to the zoo within 2 months...haha so I'm only uploading pics showing people. Serene & Leon joined us for the zoo trip as well. Apparently my cousins were either not used to taking pictures or didn't like taking pictures. Most of the pics I took were candid shots. Thus, hardly any pics with me - me being the photographer =p
Labels: Dear, Family, Interviews, Zoo
It was a love story @ 16:47
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
