First Rejection

I just got my first rejection, probably of my life (not that I can remember when was the last time I got rejected), and its not over a relationship. Its my job application. I've always tried my best to avoid such situations, and only go for areas where I'm confident that I can at least manage, all this so that there is minimal chances of rejection. Well I guess there's always a first time. And it doesn't really feel good. Although I know my limits, but I've been sending out my resume to a few companies and just 2 mins ago, I got my first rejection email. But on a comforting note, at least the company bothered to email me to say that my application was rejected, that's a little better than letting me wait and wait and wait right. Haiz, so I guess its back to the old drawing board, gotta learn to accept these situations because I got a feeling that this is going to be coming on to me for quite a few applications. Good luck to me!

PS. Today is the 15th of CNY, which also means that its the last day of new year, and it also means that there is the million dollar Toto today, already bought my numbers yesterday. Super good luck to me, Huat Ah!

Gold

Took my IPPT today... and I stuck gold again this year, whoppie. This year is a little difficult because they've started to computerise the course already. And the first to be computerised is the 2.4 run. For the run, everyone is issued a tag (that comes with an electronic sensor inside). So every time the tag passes the sensor line, it will record how much time you have used and how many more laps to finish. So as expected my run time went down. Finished it in 9.40 mins... very very lucky. By the last round, I was really damn shack already (plus it was pretty hot today), I kept telling myself to dash for the finishing point, but my legs just don't seem to be responding, luckily I still made it. So its $400 Ang Bao from the government to me (damn missed out of the $200 shooting ang bao).

But I must say the IPPT this year was very much a cock up. First, of course, was the administration. That Shakil (don't know how to spell his name lah) guy initially called me on wed to remind I had shooting on thurs. And the best part was, that was the first time he called me. Then it was the ROs. No RO was sent to me, I wait and wait and wait for nearly 2 months. And when did I get the ROs, yesterday. after my shooting. And even the ROs were not correctly sent. I got an RO for my shooting on monday (which had already been taken the day before), and 2 ROs for tomorrow's retreat, and no RO for today IPPT. Well I'll just leave this to our top management to settle, I'll just attend tomorrow's retreat and see how things go.

And of course I'm pretty happy now, that $400 in my pocket. Hope they remember to bank it in my account, because I think I'm still missing 1 pay, which I have no idea what happened to it.

Shooting

Just came back home from HTA, and damn it my shooting has de-proved. KNS! Not only did I not manage to get marksman, my total score went down by an astonishing 20 pts. What an ass, there goes my $200 ang bao from the government. Looks like I gotta work hard for wednesday's IPPT now. But it seems like the money is not easy to earn this time round. Been going for some training, but it seems like I'm not going to make it to gold this time. Haiz, sadz... Guess I'll just have to work it on wednesday. Now I'll go and practice my shooting skills, to show the whole world that I can shoot, ass!

Edison

From my previous post, it comes to remind me that I did not say anything on the current scandal between Edison Chen and a whole bunch of female celebs. Well I have to acknowledge that Edison is a pretty attractive guy and he is one hell of lucky person. It appears that he has done it with some of the hottest stars now. Well to give my 2 cents thoughts, I really feel that there is nothing wrong about taking nude photos of yourself or your partners (of course I referring to cases when both parties are in the knowledge that they are being filmed and that they have agreed to be filmed). Just for own pleasure, keep sake, remembrance, whatever you'll like to call it. I mean since the people are all adults, and that sex is not really anything thats so evil, so there is really no harm in taking a few photos of yourselves having fun together. But always bear in mind the consequences that may follow when such photos are being circulated around, through the years, there have been many instances that sexy photos are leaked out to public, in this case its laptop recovery, previously there was a handphone stolen case. So always be prepared for the worse. Maybe I just a little more open minded than a lot of people out there, because I feel that sex is not all that sacred, to me its not something that must be kept to marriage. Lets just face it that many young people are having sex in our society, and I'm perfectly fine hearing people tell me that they are not virgins anymore. Even when it comes to gay sex, I'm quite open to it (this does not mean that I engage in it or that I lead a different kind of lifestyle okie, I'm straight, it just means that I do not crucify gays and that I'm not homophobic). I've had gay friends telling me about their sexapades and their parties and sex romps. Its not something that would encourage people to do, but I just feel that everyone has his own idea of how he wants to lead his life, so there's no reason why I should condemn their type of lifestyle. But then again, this is also very contradicting, because we can be accommodating to our friends who do this type of actions, but when it happens within the family it becomes a whole new story all together. So I'm still in the midst of learning to strike a balance. And I think in the near future more will be done to bridge the gap, and that more differences will be resolved.

Disco at home

Sometimes I begin to wonder what the world is getting into, well right now, my neighbors are blasting away chinese new year techno songs, which I find a little amusing and maybe also a little irritating. I mean who in the world actually listens to these retrofitted techno songs. They just sound so wrong in the heartlands. Then yesterday I got a message from my good friend, who told me that he just did his own porn video with his boo, goodness, does he think he's gonna become like Edison Chen, haha. Well in any case, I'll just have to bear with this music for the time being, I still have my report to clear, Kambateh!

Jobs, jobs, jobs

Lately I've been looking around for job openings, been to a few career talks and went to my school's career fair, went online to checkout openings and all. And there is one thing I find about this whole job hunt thingy, it is quite a chore to fill up the online forms and online resumes. My tutors have said that we should all write very nice resumes and make it as presentable as possible, but whats the use when a lot companies don't want our resume, but prefer that we fill up their own forms. And the forms are damn long, so much information to fill in. Well, I've sent out a few already, hopefully from those few I'll get some response, keeping my fingers crossed now.

Yet another day at home

Its another day, and again I'm spending the most of today at home. Probably, will doing a bit on my FYP (actually really think that I have to buck up on my FYP, a bit lagging behind). Yesterday went to get my mahjong set and table back from Serene, I've like lent it to her for 2 years already, finally got it back from her. And after that I stayed over for a while to play international chess with her (she wanted to challenge me, haha) and guess what, I won both rounds, wahahaha. These few days have been looking through the papers for phone offers, my phone plan is almost up (ends in june), I've been looking around to see what phones are available now. I've even went to Starhub to get a voucher for phone purchase, haha, so thats a $50 discount for my phone, just wondering if my current phone can still be sold for at least $50, if thats the case, then I would have a total of $100 discount for my new phone. After my 'research', I've narrowed down to a few models, one of them is the samsung music loud thingy. That phone seems not bad. Not too expensive too. It has all the criteria that I need - can call, can sms, got alarm. Another one is the LG viewty, that phone is nice, got a large screen (which is what I like), but the downside is that it is a little more expensive. So I'm still weighing my options, my voucher should reach me in about a week, and expires in about a month, so I would have a month to decide what I want to buy.

Tonight I have a wedding dinner to attend, its at harbourfront. Think its the same one as the one I went to for my Aunt's wedding (the auntie that is only about 2-3years older than me). Just got the Ang Bao rate from Koh, so I will be giving a grand $60 for the couple + my blessings for a great relationship and life together. To Ho and Jesslyn (like they will see my blog like that, no one sees this anyway), congratulations and happy always.