17 January 2005
5.28pm
Yes, this is gonna be the company that I will be working in SOON.
Why I say soon?
Cuz I haven start work lo...
Sianz...
The HQ HR dept is taking forever to approve my letter of appointment lo...
Timeline:
- 4 Jan - Went job agency hunting.
- 5 Jan - Jesslyn from Niche Agency called up to ask me go for an interview.
- 6 Jan - Went for the interview @ Jurong East.
- 11 Jan - Ivy from EM Services HQ called up to confirm my position in the company. Told me it will take 3-5 working days for the GM to sign my letter of appointment.
- 17 Jan - Ivy from EM Services called up again. She says GMs all not ard these few days. She says she will call again on Wednesday.
Haiz... All these hassle has robbed me of my high paying temp job as data entry clerk at $11/hr!!!
Today I went online early cuz Ivy called at 10am. Cun get back to zZz thereafter.
Mum keep doubting whether I got this job. How to reassure her when I dunno abt it myself?
My 1st time working leh... I dunno how the management works oso lo...
Then hor.. All my frenz tot I start work le... Hahaha...
There is a NTUC career seminar on Wed & I am intending to go. I hope it wun clash with my appointment to sign my appointment letter.
Excited! I am gonna collect my TV n player tml.
I am thinking of baking cake tml or on Wed. Wonder who will be the lucky one to taste my cake. Haha... Anyway, I am meeting them for dinner on Wed. (them = my khakis)
My khakis
- Peiyi (Shirley)
- Wanwei (Amanda)
- Shiling (Serena)
- Yanling (Jae)
- Huifen (Janice)
- Huiping (Joey)
- Siling (Sheryl)
While I was online today, I had a great chat with Senior.
He is back in town for his vacation & CNY.
But he is sort of down on his luck in the year 2004.
I hope his luck change for the beta this year.
Senior, go Chinatown buy 'Feng Che'. It will help to change luck aka 'Zhuan Yun'.
I have 2 at home. I buy dunno last year or the year before.
U wan, I can gib u one. Haha...
Then I read the news online. I learned quite some vocab today.
I juz realised my engrish standard is so low... OMG!
Cannot! I muz do something.
So I took out a pen & my notebook & start to check all the words that I dunno.
This is my old habit whenever I came across unfamiliar words.
- pedestal : An architectural support or base, as for a column or statue; A support or foundation; A position of high regard or adoration.
- raunchy : Obscene, lewd, or vulgar; Sexually explicit; Exhibiting lust; Grimy, unkempt.
- randy : Lascivious, lecherous; Of or characterized by frank, uninhibited sexuality; Ill-mannered; feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny".
- gyrating : Revolving around a fixed point or axis; Moving in spiral or spirallike course; Oscillating or varying, especially in a repetitous pattern.
- halting (english) : Hesitant or wavering - a halting voice; Imperfect, defective - halting verse; Limping, lame.
- revelry : Boisterous merrymaking; Unrestrained merrymaking.
- boisterous : Rough and stormy, violent; Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline [Synonyms : vociferous]; Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline - "a boisterous crowd", "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand", "a robustious group of teenagers", "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings", "an unruly class" [Synonyms : rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]; Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits - "boisterous practical jokes", "knockabout comedy" [Synonyms : knockabout]; Violently agitated and turbulent - "boisterous winds and waves", "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound, "rough weather", "rough seas" [Synonyms : fierce, rough]
- conciliatory : Making or willing to make concessions - "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [Synonyms : compromising, flexible] [Antonyms : uncompromising]; Overcoming animosity or hostility - "spoke in a conciliating tone", "a conciliatory visit" [Synonyms : conciliative] [Antonyms : antagonistic]
- impervious : Incapable of being penetrated: a material impervious to water; Incapable of being affected: impervious to fear.
I hope u guys learn as much as I did today.
Learning good english is oso part of my plan of upgrading myself.
We learn while we live. (Does that happen to be PJC's motto? Kekeke...)
I oso realise nowadays on HOME news is so 'Shi Feng Ri Xia'. Go read the Newpaper Online if u dun get wat I mean. Haiz... All the negative news on the press is making my day pretty down.
On the WORLD news, the Ren Ci team (including artistes) have reached Sri Lanka with part of the funds pledged to the Tsunami victims. The article on Newpaper online is very heart-warming & heart-wrenching at the same time. Read up the one on 'the smiles of the victims'.
Meanwhile I quote out some of the nicer phrase here.
- 'I think it's the simplicity and contention of life, something we've lost in a closed-up society.'
- 'They are beyond the depression stage. It's about moving on. Maybe we represent the hope.'
- 'Expectations are usually wrong.'
- 'It turned out that the devastation was not the surprise - it was the smiles.'
Other than all those above, today I did some fortune-telling quiz/test. Pretty fun! Those below are some of the results. I come across them while I was searching for some astrology websites for Senior. He cannot imagine why he is so down on his luck last year. I hope 2005 is smooth-sailing for him.
#1
- LOVE : high self-esteem, never take the active role even you like someone.
- MONEY : you are quite flamboyant indeed.
- CAREER : cautious, when there is a chance, you will think twice before taking any action. but then you lose a lot of opportunities.
- FAMILY : long for stable and warm family.
- WISH : despite you appear to be confident, you actually feel inferior to others.
#2
- Personality : You always worry about your health.
- Work : You are over-sensitive and inconfident. You are likely to work in the same job for your whole life.
- Money : You are sensible and can keep savings.
- Friends : You are particular in picking your friends.
You can do those tests/quizzes too.
They are all available on the Little Astrology Prince.
Pisces Personality
Pisces is one of the less flamboyant signs. Pisceans are gentle, patient, malleable, generous, friendly, creative and sensitive to others' feelings. They are easygoing and affectionate and are deservedly popular with all kinds of people. Pisceans are escapists and usually wait for problems to sort themselves out rather than take the initiative to solve them. They tend to be too otherworldly for the practical purposes of living. Their concentration is weak and easily withdraw into a dream world. They exist emotionally rather than rationally, instinctively more than intellectually.
Pisces Love
Pisceans are never egotistical in their personal relationships and they give more than ask. Most pisceans would want a relationship in which the partner's mind and spirit rather than the body resonated with their own. They are intensely loyal and home-loving and will remain faithful - though their dreamy and impractical natures do not fit them to keep a tidy and well-run house.
Pisces Work
Pisceans are better working either by themselves or in subordinate positions. They would be afraid to manage more than a small department, worrying always that they would fail in a crisis. Occupations which can express their creativeness or sympathy suit them most. These include charities catering, nurses, veterinary surgeons, astronomers, travelers, architects and lawyers.
Posted at 1/17/2005 5:38:18 pm by Xiao_TiAnTiAn