Friday, October 31, 2008
说好的幸福呢?
back blogging, oh man i start to feel i may not exactly be the type to keep a blog, sometimes i'm too busy i simply forget about it. Anyway let me recall what exactly happened for the last whole week:Job hunt still going on, i realise for most of the applications i sent, the closing date for the applications are not nearing yet. Could this be the reason why i did not get a single call yet? generally do employers wait till closing date is up, before they review all the potential candidates and arrange for interview? or will they normally start to interview candidates as they receive? now the whole world economy affected, oh man ... really not a good time to find jobs, but i will keep trying and sending and waiting ...
Retrenchment in many MNCs in singapore seems to be taking place now, according to today's papers, and mine wasn't spared either. I see employees coming to work, mind thinking this should be just like any normal day, but aha, they least expect to receive the news that they are laid off, and you have to leave RIGHT NOW also, not even at the end of the day. Well, if fusen's gossip with HR are to be trusted, one particular employee certainly deserved it. If you are really earning this big amount of $, please do work. I see her as someone who simply does not wish to take on any responsibilities at work. I simply can't believe it when fusen told me how much is her salary.
And with all due respect to HR personnel all over, please explain "HOW THE HELL CAN SOMEONE EARN SO MUCH JUST DOING ADMIN WORK !" I expected her to be the one to get the boot, although i didn't expect so fast. In the morning when discussions with her did not go well, i was thinking "it's ok, cos next week i wouldn't have to discuss this with you already." She left at noon.
The question in my previous post was because when i first heard the new songs from Jay's latest album, this song particularly stood out for me. I remember the title was "失落非主流", but due to unknown reasons, when i want to find the song, i realise the title became "说好的幸福呢". The new title has lesser class compared to the old one, although i don't know what the old title has got to do with the song. No link at all if you hear the song. But anyway, as long as it's a good song, the title is of lesser importance.
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MP3 of the day:
周杰伦 - 说好的幸福呢
11:15 PM
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Downtown East Chalet
Last weekend was chalet weekend at Downtown East, was a funny chalet that made us found new jokes to laugh about each other (will go into detail later). Wa, there is quite the place to book your chalet compared to just last year, when the shopping centre wasn't fully opened yet, now it has bowling, cinema, arcade, K-Box, and quite a number of eateries, pretty happening.This chalet also marks the first time we played bowling, and cycling as a group together. The prev cycling experience was with apple and yx only. Apple's "tiger woods" style of rolling the bowling ball was the first time i have seen anyone bowl like this, and i feel kinda bad when our bicycles collided in a small accident, i expected her to stop, cos i was going at a rather fast speed, but she didn't, and it was too late when i eventually did stop. I thought she was hurt rather badly, but luckily, there wasn't a cut or bruise or anything like that on her. Phew ~
K back to the jokes section. It all happened on our first night dinner at BBQ Chicken. To summarise, waiting time simply too long. Close to an hour of waiting for our orders to arrive, and we reminded the staff and manager at least once in between. People who have arrived later than us, already finished their meal (YES, its THAT LONG). Finally, our da jie snapped. First time ever i witnessed she scolding the staff and manager together. I shouldn't go into the heated words she used, key sentence was "I want to speak to your manager." Because everything that didn't go our way for the rest of the chalet, we kept saying "I think we better speak to the manager." Then our da jie will chase us for the jokes we made about her. But i agree with her when she said she is helping us.
果然有大姐风范. Just that this is the first time i was involved in such a situation. Oh ya and the staff gave us free soft drinks as a token of apology for the long waiting time. 已经这么生气了还喝汽水 ...
Guess i'm really lucky to know this bunch of friends in SIM, recalling the times when we overdid group projects and worked till 3 am in the morning together, this late because we are studying part time, I already started to miss those days already. Hope all of us are all successful in our respective careers, now that our studies are over, and most importantly, don't snatch each other's rice bowl ! **********************************
Question of the day:
Why the same song have different names?
11:49 PM
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Start of a busy week
A busy week kicked off today, with my company's annual shutdown taking place. Basically almost everything that we could not afford to shut down or even have down time during normal operating days, are all turned off for 2 days to do some form of maintenance. And of course, all unrelated personnel of the company gets 2 days off from work, well, not exactly "off", more of "force you to take leave", got deduct annual leave. So the company was unusually quiet today, with only little people needing to come to work today. Yet when i see some of them in the company today, i get questions like:"Eh, 你今天也要来啊?" or "你今天来做什么?"
=.= Hey dude, you obviously don't know the reason why we have this annual shutdown. And oh ya, they call it annual, i have been here for 2 years and this is my first ..
First time i witness vendors from all over the island working together in our server room, HP, IBM, Commserv, just to name a few. Poor fusen was still working when i left at 10pm, one of the few times when i spent more than 12 hours working in one day . Dinner was pizza hut, was originally planning to leave at ard 6+ pm, when my boss saw me and say "Robin, 我晚上有叫 pizza". Double =.=" Got the message loud and clear. Which is why i stayed till 10. A case of 世上没有免费的 ... pizza ?
Thurs going for 2nd round, lets just pray everything goes smoothly. Was on top form for the 1st round, kinda expected to be called for 2nd. Not bragging, but there are lots of people ard who can't even say a complete sentence and still landed a decent job. I kinda blowed the boss away with my answers to his stack of case study questions. Feel more tensed when you see your interviewer bringing a stack of papers and asking you questions from them. You just know it's going to be a long session. It was a IQ and EQ test i guess, mostly to test your response and ability to tackle difficult situations. My guardian angels please look after me ~
Fri to Sun - Downtown East Chalet. I'm sure its going to be real fun, just like always. And tiring too. Dunno why the 5 people combination works perfectly, i guess we all fits each other in the areas the other party is short of. Hopefully something like the "word-guessing" game like we played at the sentosa chalet more than a year ago will be great. I looked back at the video we used the camera to secretly record the actions the gals did to make us guess the 成语, man i swear no one can ever guess the correct answer ..
Quite a long entry already, time to sleep, tomorrow is another day
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Thought of the day:
Expecting a long and eventful week ahead
12:41 AM
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
F1 Saturday 27-09-2008
Last Sat was F1 Day, thanks to Alex's lobang, was able to get the tickets at a reasonable price. It was the first ever night race in F1's history, and also Singapore's first ever F1 - definitely Singapore history in the making. Overall feedback of the race: maybe it is only the qualifiers, and my seat is near a bend of the course, speed wasn't there, the gap between each car is way too much, not many great incidents happened, k i shouldn't get started on the Ferrari case on sunday, most of you should know what happened to the poor lad, food was EXPENSIVE, then again you'll never get another chance to sell a hot dog with steamed bun for $8 !
Photos to do the talking instead:
Photos to do the talking instead:
Lunch before F1
F1 photos can be found at:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=59726&l=e7b0f&id=754599107
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Question of the day:
Are Singaporeans really THAT into F1?
10:25 PM
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隆重开幕 !
Finally the opening of my blog, i know there's been an awful delay, was supposed to start doing it in august, but *ahem* "due to unforseen circumstances" ... well at least here we are!Why this blog? well mainly i hope to put these few things up using this blog:
1) Interesting happenings, my thoughts and feelings in everyday life
2) Share some old photos, bring back some old memories
3) Lastly, once i begin on my digital keyboard, my 自弹自唱 pieces
Will be adding the little bits here and there to complete this blog every now and then ~
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Thought of the day:
Finally, my first entry up!
9:51 PM
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