Another rejection

Just got an email from SIA to tell me that my application for a job was unsuccessful. Haiz, that closes one more door, gotta look for another opportunity now. They didn't state the reason of rejecting me but I got a feeling that there are 2 areas where I probably lose out, one is the essay and the other is my school results. I really think I did ok for the interview, out of 100 I'll give myself a 75 for the interview (haha, under my own grading system which is very difficult to explain). Haiz, sad. I had really wanted to join SIA. Guess they didn't think I'll fit into the organisation. Well I still thank them for the time and opportunity to go for the interview, hopefully I'll be able to get a good job soon... Now I'll just try to think about what could have gone wrong during the interview that may have contributed to this tragedy.... *sob sob

Another 6 weeks to the end of my school life

Yup, you've heard it right. Another 6 more weeks and I'm officially no longer a student. Goodbye to student concession mrt and bus fares, goodbye to Mac and KFC student meals, goodbye to student rates for entertainment centers.... Goodbye to all the benefits of being a student. As I take a step closer to the working world, I soon begin to wonder, am I prepared to enter this new realm. From now on, I'll have to be earning money to support myself and my family. No more reading notes and late night study for exams. No more skipping school, and I'll have to be on time for work everyday. I never thought I'll say this, but maybe I will miss my school days. I used to tell myself that school sucks, and that I just can't wait to get myself out of school life. I mean my life now is just facing books, and notes, and preparing presentation slides. And the best part is I'm poor and can't buy things to satisfy myself. Well all that is set to change when I start working right? Hmmm, I guess so. There are good and bads in everything, and I think there's no way I can escape from whatever is going to happen. So I just have to make the best of it. Hopefully I'll be able to find a job that is interesting and fun and exciting. And of course with a good pay. hahaha

Anyway gotta go pay my car license or something... its due next week, and I think the place is not open on weekends. So I'll have to make my way down later. Another few hundred dollars gone. But anyway, I got a shoot this Sunday and Monday for Jack's new movie, probably some extra role that needs people to fill the ackground. But nevermind, at least I'll be paid, thats all that matters.

Still in school

Haiz, I'm still in school now... been here since 2 in the afternoon. Went to submit my FYP today at the office. Damn sianz, raining + cooling weather = good to sleep, but I was like on the way to school. Some more my car's compressor is spoilt, so the air con is sort of not working. And the result is a very foggy windscreen, had a super hard time driving to school. I also didn't dare to go too fast. Well at least my FYP is more or less done, just some amendments more and its over, yuppie!!!!

Before school I went over to TM to check out the phones available. Yup, I'm gonna change my HP soon. But the prices are pretty steep, so I couldn't decide what I wanted. In the end, I went to Starhub to extend my $50 voucher's expiry date. Initially when I asked the girl to extend the date she told me that in the system, the voucher is valid till the end of May, so of course I was pretty happy, thinking that I still had a lot of time to decide. Then just as I got on to the car, she called me to tell me that she got it wrong, and that she had informed the office to send me another voucher, and the voucher will be valid for 1 month from date of issue. Well that was good enough, it gives me slightly more than a month to decide on the phone I want. So I still have some time to review the phones. Oh yah, at the Starhub shop I saw one of my ex-classmates, Joel. He was from SAS but I can't remember if I was the same class as him in sec 1, 2 or 3 & 4. But don't think he recognise me.Well I do look pretty different from the past, so I don't blame him. But anyway I didn't go up to introduce myself.


So anyway I'll be back at Starhub soon to get my phone, hopefully the phone that I want will become cheaper in 1 month's time, hahaha. Okie, I'll get back to my stuff... don't want to stay too late tonight.

FYP 1st draft done!!!!!

Yeah, I've finally finished with my FYP first draft... After weeks of toil and sleepless nights (yah right, pls me getting sleepless nights for FYP, maybe in my next life), but anyway I've finished with my FYP and the feeling's great. But more amendments are still required, some touch ups like adding another example to the report (I took out the example on Ritz Carlton Hotel), and I want to add info from this year's budget speech. And of course I'm expecting my great prof to return the report with and 1 million amendments, so that means I will still have a lot to do..... haiz...

Anyway I went for my interview with SIA today at the training centre. And the most funny part was the security guard didn't let me walk around the lobby. I wanted to walk to the toilet and he came over to stop me, he said that I should ask for permission because I was using a visitor pass and I shouldn't wander about. What crap. I know there are security issues at the place, but since you have already checked my purpose and scanned my pass, there should some form of respect for my presence there. We're adults here, not some primary or secondary school children on excursion ok. Tsk Tsk, asking for permission from a security guard to go to the toilet. Bleh! But overall the interview went pretty well. At least I think I did ok in there. I was pretty comfortable, although the interviewers were pretty tough in the room. They really asked very specific questions and try their best to make us flaw during the interview. I think I caught a glimpse of the interviewer's paper, and it seems that I scored quite a few 4s, didn't see and 5s though *sob sob. But the killer wasn't the interview, it was the section after the interview. After the interview there was an essay test and summary test. OMG!!! GP, one of my worst subjects. There were like 3 questions and we had to choose to write one of them. The length should be 400-450 words. Then there was summary, we had to summarize a pretty long passage about conservation of energy in 200-250 words. Oh my god, it was like that GP paper 2 all over again. So I think after that if I don't get the 2nd interview for SIA, it would probably be because of my essay and summary, haha. All the best!

Btw I attended Adrian & Vanessa's Wedding on sunday. It was great seeing another couple tying the knot but it is also a reminder to myself that I am still single, DAMN! And the food was pretty good at Marriott, there wasn't too much, I think the portion was just nice. At least after it all I wasn't super full. Didn't have much time to congratulate the couple that night, so here's wishing the 2 of you a great and blessed wedding, work hard towards a little Adrian and little Vanessa ok, hahaha.

Oh yah another interesting thing happened today, or maybe I should say its a pretty sad thing. When I came back from the interview I saw a lot of people gathered on the overhead bridge, then I saw that the whole road was cordoned off by the Police. It was along Loyang road. So of course the Kay Po me quickly parked my car and went to see what the whole commotion was all about. And the first thing was OMG! There was a car crushed (I'm not kidding, the whole car was crushed) in between a truck/lorry and a bus. The first thought was," The driver confirm die". There was absolutely no way he could survive in that crash. The wrack was really terrible. So the police were using some cloth to cover up the wrack, and probably the body. The whole place looked pretty frightening. But the funny thing was, my car is apparently famous now. Well it seems that the news camera caught the footage of my car turning into the private house, and just on the 11.30 news the footage was reshown like 3 times, haha. So I have a mini star in my car now...

Okie its getting pretty late now, gotta sleep soon. Will be submitting my report tomorrow, yuppie!!!

Europe

I'll probably be going to Europe for my grad trip!!! Yeah!!! But its gonna cost me a bomb, we're expecting it to come to around $6k, so after the whole thing I'll have to come back to SG to eat grass. Now looking out for cheap air tix, hopefully can settle this soon. I just told my bro that I'll be going Europe and ask him to invest in the send your brother to grad trip fund... well he doesn't have a choice, so he has to invest in me, what to do I'm his bro, wahahaha. But before anything I gotta finish my FYP 1st, supposed to submit today, but I still have one last part to type so I hack care lo, gonna submit on wed instead. My prof got no choice anyway. Wah, I think I sound a little bitchy and bossy in this blog, haha. But thats life, you gotta accept me. Tomorrow I got an interview with SIA, gotta prepare a little for it later on, now I better get back to my report, aiming to complete it today! Good Luck to Me!!!!

My Birthday!?!

Well, last night was supposed to be my 'birthday'. Damn that cy and gang, he went to tell Dong Yuan's bro that its my birthday and that he should make a Ho Li Kei Sei for me, so after that he thought maybe just get a graveyard and a flaming should be enough for me. But some guy at the counter told him not to waste money on those useless drinks. And if cy wanted a strong drink he should get the Satan Loves You (they changed the name to Leong Loves You, kns). Well the drink came with 2 cups, there was this really awful drink that taste literally the same as Ho Li Kei Sei. After i finished it (took me quite a few mouths to finish, an I already wanted to vomit after the drink), I was given this lime drink that taste pretty good. I finish that much easier than the first drink. After the 2 drinks, our dear boss said," the first drink is about 60%, the second drink is stronger, its about 90%" I almost fainted immediately. And the best part is, I have an interview this morning. Luckily I already called my mum to wake me up in the morning else I would not have made it to the interview.

Today I went for my first interview with Maesek. The place was damn difficult to find, its even further than school. I had some trouble finding the place, I kept looking out for Kepple Fels (because the guy told me its opposite Kepple), but the thing is there are so many Kepple along Pioneer. And that wasn't the most challenging task, after I found the place, I went into the field, there are so many identical containers I didn't know where to go. After asking a lot of people, and making a few wrong turns I finally found the office (I was like 20mins late for my first interview). For the interview, he first asked me to tick a form of several characteristics that I think others would expect of me. The second form is the same as the first, only that now I had to tick on the characteristics that I think I possess. Then it was onto a quiz of 50 questions. I had to answer as many as possible in 12 mins. The questions were pretty easy just needed some thinking, some had literally no correct answer, but to answer everything in 12 mins is quite a mission impossible. Everything went fine, then it was question and answer, so he asked the usual questions that my Pro Comm tutor had told us. What are me strengths and what are my weakness. And what I like to do in my free time. The most interesting question would be, if I was in a room of 50 people, all of whom I do not know, what would I do. Think my answer for that question is not very good, could have given a much better answer. But then again I doubt I'll be able to get to the next round of interview, in the first place I didn't place too much hope in this interview. Its not that I lack the self confidence, but Maesek is very difficult to get in, and I am prepared to be rejected. Well I still have another interview on tues with SIA. Hopefully it will turn out better. Huat Ah!

Manhunt

Well its been in the news for the past 2 days, the hottest topic after Edison Chen... Its the escape of Singapore's most wanted man from some detention centre in Whitley Road... Now security all over Singapore has been heightened and all our resources from the army to the police are on a look out for this very dangerous man. Actually I really wonder how that man managed to escape from Singapore supposedly strong security, even more so when this man is classified as very dangerous by Singapore. I don't know, but I think some heads will be on the chopping board for this incident. Well someone has to be accountable for this, and this is very important because Singapore's security has sort of been undermined now. But amazingly, from the news, people on the street are not really bothered by his escape. I know that it is important to keep our lives going with minimum disruptions, but shouldn't we be a little more concerned about the trouble he might bring if he's not caught. Everyone interviewed seem quite nonchalant about the issue, only saying that they are very supportive of the police's effort and that they believe that he will be caught soon. But no one seem to be the least bit worried of their own safety. I'm not saying that we should be panicking now, but at least try to be a little more defensive now, take certain precautions to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Isn't that what all the advertisement about national defense is all about.

Well I do hope that this dangerous man will be caught soon, good luck to the police and the army!