Got an sms early in the morning from Denise and this is what it reads,
"From tina, I heard Susan did well at today's interview".
Think I was still in a daze when I got it, so I didn't really read it till I woke up later. Hope she wasn't just being polite when she said that. So do I stand a chance, do I, do I? I wun know till a week or two later. So I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed till then. But the job seems like what i would enjoy and like, so yeah, I'm really keen on this.
Oh and I had a dream about this interview last night, that Denise told me that the interviewers were impressed with me! But the content of the interview seemed a little diff though from what I said. Coz in my dream, I actually quoted management theories and like big company names. Maybe they are all the things I wanted to say, but didn't get a chance to.

Had an interview today, but at least I didn't have to wait to know that I wasn't selected. So need not be in another waiting game.

Then again my current job' not too bad too :)

The first sign of wisdom

when your wisdom tooth starts to grow and when chewing becomes such a torture *Ouch* It hurts so much, and I'm getting the feeling that my teeth are grining on each other. But I cant help being wiser. (Innocent grin)

Oh I've got an interview tomorrow at UOB. Know I'm starting to see the little perks of connections. So remember this always, dun burn your bridges. Today you do them a favour, and tomorrow you may need their help. One good deed will beget another.
I'm looking forward to it. Pray for me okay. I'll keep you posted about how it went.

Going to start working again on Friday. It's a temporary part-time job where the work is fairly easy and the best thing is the enviornment's really casual, (think jeans and berms) which I really cant complain about. Oh of course unlike my previous temp job, I get to pick up new skills. But I'll know more on Friday when I start work.

I like the arrangement, coz I only work on 1,3,5, which is mon, wed and fri :) So the other days I'm free to go for my other interviews if I have any and also to just continue looking for a perm job. Oh and another thing that's good is that I can leave anytime I find anything better. Oh and work starts only at 9:30am!

Met up with my friends from SIM and had a nice time catching up. But I'm kinda zonked out now. So so sleepy. Looking forward to work.

Another New Week

Another week, another day. And not just any day, but a Monday.

Oh and I quit my job. Not just because it's boring. But I feel that this job is eating me on the inside. Or rather it's not the job but I feel so unprepared for work despite having spent 3 weeks in Raffles Place, the rat race seems so so real. In the past, I probably wun give a care, but the thought that now that I've graduated and am stepping into the corporate world, all these is pretty much what I have to deal with.

Life in Raffles Place made me feel like a shallow and hallow person. Everyday, of course minus the Saturdays and Sundays, I'm on the mrt with these huge crowd of people, who live life like a routine, just living from day to day trying to clear work on their in-trays. The ladies especially are dressed up to the nines, with their pointy witches shoes, and ironed pressed suits, guccci bags and their immaculate hair, nails, make up, etc. And as I travel from home to office, I always ask my myself, just what am I called to do? Not that I resent my job as a temp bank clerk, I really don't.

But I feel I needed to take a much needed break to really do a lot of reflection and to really give my future a more serious thought. And of course to do something which I havent done, and I should really take it more seriously, which is to pray and commit it to God. I know I should, but in all honesty, I think I could have done more. And of course it's not all, but also to HEAR from God.

So after all these is done, I pray that I will be more prepared in all areas to take on the challenges of my next phrase of life. I'm excited but also abit apprehensive... Just see how it all goes.

Snip snip

Went to trim my hair after work today. Had to drag myself to the salon literally coz I was already zonked out after work. Well just another day of writing envelopes again. Hopefully this part of my life will change very very soon.

Quick Beauty, (what a tacky name), promises haircut in 10 minutes for $10. Since all I wanted was a trim, what better place than this. But their promise of no waiting is far from the truth. Then again being a Singaporean guess I've already got quite acustomed to having to wait for anything and everything.

And now my hair looks neater and lesser too. Ha, but of course, DER! but I'm still waiting for my hair to grow longer, then I'll think of what i can do it to. Having long hair is so fun.

Good Morning, this is Susan with today's headlines..

Went for a voice audition with Mediacorp radio this morn. I was in the first batch with 19 other hopeful applicants. And just for today they wil be auditioning 3 batches, so that makes 60 applicants for today. Frankly, I don't think i'll make it considering how I can even make a mistake of "cheddar"! Haha private joke with eeleen :P

We were all ushered to a waiting area and given scripts which we had to read from. There were 5 short news and a list of words. Was hoping that among all the news I don't have to read the one with a foreign indian name, but alas, :( I had to read that and sorta smoke my way through. Anway I was a bundle of nerves and tripped over my words too. Disappointed with my performance, but then again I didn't really think that I'll get it too. But good experience, kinda fun too.

Have another interview on Friday. That's like my 2nd round of interview with them. Hopefully this one turns out better :)

updates! Been a long since i last blogged.

Tuesday: So I started work on Tuesday, a drag man. Was busying myself writing
1) Address of customer
2) Account number of customer
3) Name of customer
on envelopes and then sorting them according to alaphabetical order. Not even clerical duties man. Making me feel stupid. Oh and did I mention I'm locked in a "prison cell"? Coz the place where I'm seated is where all the customers info is filed away, so whenever anyone wants to retrieve the files they have to use a key and unlock the grill door and get past me. No lah I'm no doorkeeper, just that I'm locked away, away from everyone. And the most most horrible part is, they make you record every single thing you do. Like what you did, how long you took to complete the writing and how many envelopes you wrote on. It's so dumb, coz all i ever do is write the above on envelopes... *grumble grumble*

Wednesday: Took half day leave, (Yes on my 2nd day of work!) to go for an interview, but after seeing their office, which was situated in a industrial estate, I'm not so impressed and have 2nd thoughts about wanting to work there.

Thursday: Having a headache at work, coz there was such a commotion in my "prison cell", coz the people couldnt find their files. Made so much noise that disrupted what would have been a peaceful afternoon. @#&(*# Oh oh I had my Commercial General Insurance and guess what? I passed I passed! And the one who said i was stupid, Failed :P so dun you dare try to run me down with your words. I'm tougher that you think. *MUAHAHAHA* evil laughter. Very tired now. Been staying up the past night to study, I can sleep before 1am today.

Sweet dreams everyone

Feeling so absolutely pathetic. I went to the job agency today to find out my exact position and place of work. Turns out I'm merely a bank clerk! Like how excited can I get about working? And my one months pay after deducting CPF is not even a thousand.

Demoralized, jaded, broke. I dun even have a choice at what I want to work, simply coz there's not enough jobs out there. Just plenty of mindless jobs like data entry, admin, telemarkting etc. Like how motivating can that be to wake up early in the morning so do such work? And people get this misconception that graduates are fussy. Ha, yeah we should be SO happy to have graduated and then work at jobs where the challenge is to avoid paper cuts and where time is spent, doing filing, photocopying, etc!!

KK, at least I still have a ray of hope at a job I like. So I received a mail that I'm scheduled for a 2nd interview. Just gotta wait for their partner to come back from reservist. Oh God, please let me have this job...