next time should you
become the boss or reach managerial level i implore you not to let dictatorship rule your head. gezus what happened to the years of studying and simple common sense? i've had the same experience in SENC bosses expecting us to be miracle workers or magicians no less. they want you to produce results. sorry not results contributing to the bottomline hor but answering to their nonsensical demands can. hello? being the managing director of an MNC doesn't mean airlines will bump pple off just to let you have a seat ok. unless you buy over the airline la. oh wait that's what lee kun hee did. he owns a private jet just so he doesn't have to be subjected to waitlist. duh. you also can. charge to company lor.
"the 10:30 flight is full. so i've put you on waitlist"
"..."
"..."
"which queue position am i? how many on waitlist?"
"?? i've checked with them but they can't reveal that. they can only say you're the first few on the waitlist"
"....try try harder"
"!!"
wait. do they somehow imagine i have connections with the airline perhaps while working as an airstewardess there or maybe that i date the pilot? or are they expecting me to hack into the reservations system and confirm the seat? i reckon koreans probably think that all companies can be manipulated in face of a great power. automatically bow to a kim n stuff liddat. ooor the word 'okay' simply doesn't exist in their english vocabulary. me thinks the mcp in them can't stand any form of rejection lol. seriously i hate bosses who lack empathy and can't put themselves in our shoes. like bugging SQ every 2 mins will help. come'on who am i to influence the protocol of major airline reservation systems or hotel room bookings? this world wld become chaos! anyway use ur brain la if i cld work up all the mojo i wldn't be sitting here liao rite? cancel the booking but no charge? hotel your grandfather one ah? sigh this last email i received reminds me of that.
"keep trying for CX"
"!!"
interviews, interviews...
don't you just hate them? i do. with a vengeance. i mean first of all it's so fake. second, it's meant to sell yourself as a product. unless you're into sales, you've really gotta convince people sorry strangers to buy something you yourself don't believe in. you've got 20 minutes to convince them your capabilities/experience of your whole career life and convey the message that somehow you are the one they should hire instead of the one with cleavage ahem maybe the one with honors then. merely by talking. i don't understand the logic because it's really by a stroke of luck that you happen to click with the interviewer and thereafter in your job you get along with your colleagues and happen to love the company culture. but nothing absolutely nothing in the interview is able to foretell that nor is the HR able to predict that you will fit into the position required. i went to a company once where i had to go through 3 written tests 2 verbal interviews before meeting the directors for the last round! eh i'm not here for a scholarship you know? the last test had me doing ard 8 powerpoint slides in 30 mins and inbetween giving up i was thinking to meself drats i would love to stuff those tests down the throat of the person who thought of them, tsk tsk shallow thinking that they're appraisal methods of a person's worth! of coz i didn't la and as always the whiner i am meekly completed everything with a smile on my face. oh well my thinking is interviews are a definite waste of time yet dear me still concerned about the way i present meself during the process. humans are such contradictory creatures and i do admit i top the list. no choice mah must face reality and compete with others for 1 position only sia.ok so the feedback from one of the recruitment agency was to be more enthusiastic about the work i do. i was like...hello? it's only administrative work can not like i'm singapore's next top model!? i didn't tell her that la. how to be more excited about filing paperwork? if i smoke crack lor then i'm guaranteed to appear vibrant in anything i do even if cleaning toilets. maybe i shld hum or start whistling a beyonce tune while photocopying? yeah that might lift my mood somehow and look forward to more typing. fake yays! oh basically pls try to sound more interested in the job. gosh...such lies. how can one have an interesting job in secretarial work? it's not that glamorous like the apprentice ya know unless your boss is li ka shing or bill clinton? most people i know fall into the work routine as a result of the rat race. we simply work because we have to. at least i do. and i'm just the average singaporean with abit more mid-life crisis than everyone else. i suppose circumstances dictate what i do now unlike those in the creative line or are their own bosses. at least they pursue their interests. sigh all in all i find it a rather silly game because interviewers know you are faking it to give them the answers they want and you know you have to fake it to give the expected answers that the interviewers ask for. lame. lol.
hmmm i guess the crux of my problem is when i try to act demure and rather serious i tend to become dull and my voice goes monotonous. i'm not high enough when i present myself. i don't go HEy i'M exCeLLEnt iN mUlTItaSKing. iT's a GreAT JOb tHAt I aM doING anD I REallY enJOY scHEduLing my bOSs's aPPts. nope. i say all these in a very indifferent voice with hardly any expression. you can't ask me to smile like a goondoo to s/o i just met or who might be my potential employer rite? i mean it's very easy for porn stars to fake the crap they are doing. i hear them (who? no not me) women fake orgasm the whole time. afterall all they mutter or cry out loud is made up of only one syllabus wat. i can't fake that i'm high for a bloody whole sentence about boring work mind you. anyway i reckon to myself it's really their fault for making me so lacklustre during the interviews. you see...i get all hyped up before the interview, probably not resting sufficiently the night before or gathering all my concentration in the morning. THEN when the time comes, they make me fill up a bloody form REPEATING details which i vaguely recall about my parents DOB? or stuff that is already stated in the resume and let me WAIT a further 20-30 mins for them to come out. ok sometimes 10 mins la. but 10 mins coped up in an empty room with nothing to do except admire the walls and bite my fingernails is torturous ok. can you really blame me for not appearing more fervent about the new position later on? excuses i know but now i come better prepared! wahah
how to get high before interviews
- pop 20 clorets into your mouth so that the menthol is an instant wake-me-up
- chew on sweets because glucose gives you a natural high (i wld suggest eating 2 sticks of mentos n worry abt diabetes later)
- double shot espresso coz caffeine gives me a high too
- splash face with ice-cold water (which wld ruin my make-up hmm)
- watch porn (siao not that kinda high la n cannot have dirty thoughts on the interviewer eh unless he's cute)
- pluck my eyebrows (to me any removal of hair is pain that will jolt me up n the teary eye effect after may just win the interviewer over)
- repeat tracks to the likes of 'my humps' (if you prefer mambo 'square rooms' will do as well just remember the hand signs to go with the song)
- take dope (i wld suggest poppy seed muffins aiyah sg death penalty le dun pray pray)
- 100m sprint (anything for the adrenaline rush or you cld climb stairs all the way up to the co. for extra kick)
- lastly wasabi or chilli will do fine becoz i hate that stuff
alright wish me luck! ｵﾒﾃﾞﾄ♪(*⌒ｰ⌒)o∠★:ﾟ*
laments from a trip
being bored aka stoning in the office and refusing to work for some inane reason that's encrypted in my genes i decided to blog instead (will post pictures later)....was in hk for a biz trip (yes the international globe trotter that i am) last wed to fri and extended on my own over the weekend so that i could do some shopping. i was dehydrated/woozy/weak/lack of sleep having recovered from stomach flu the previous day so not exactly looking fwd to my first biz trip out hence bad karma accumulated this trip was not all that i had imagined it to be.
1. i lost my mom at the airport (my parents came along being singaporeans so they cld enjoy the free hotel nights bunking in with me). somehow we missed seeing each other while walking out and it was rather dramatic because my dad insisted she was left on the plane, the international globe trotter he is so not. he wanted to re-enter the plane to search for her after the gates/doors have closed after the stewardess left the aircraft. i told him it's not possible for them being the professionals they are to leave behind someone on the plane and get out themselves. no la i tell you she fell back to sleep in her seat. no i tell you she will wait for us one and will not go off on her own. nobody i tell you nobody argues with the lam family becoz we're self-righteous indignant pigs who think we are right even when proven wrong. SO we hankered ard for an extra 40 mins because of this which had me rushing to the hk ofc after that. you know there's a very valid reason why i don't bring my parents out.
2. basically i worked 2 solid days there glued to the laptop n it's more work than i do in a week ~_~ so by the time i get off at 6pm and had dinner i barely had the energy to shop @causeway bay. but the things there were generally more exp than kowloon....like S$40-50 for a top whereas i cld easily get S$10 for any piece of clothing in fa yuen street.
3. stayed at express by holiday inn which is just behind times square. hotel's chic and new but the bed's rock hard which means i couldn't sleep sufficiently at night. and dumbass me went to drink hk's milktea for dinner on the last night which kept me awake till wee hrs of morning and resulted in some spooky hallucinations whereby i thought i heard sounds in the room. get this...we stayed in rm 1303 and when we switched to kowloon hotel on our own over the weekend we got rm 1330! how weird is that ok?
4. my office is in central very much like raffles place but with vivocity incorporated in it? there are loads of branded boutiques and starbucks interspersed within office blocks. great view to the harbour and you cld walk to the next mall with interlinking skyway but nothing cheap to eat. mostly takeaway outlets and restaurants unless i think if you knew how to get to the streets and ate at the typical roadside eateries. then they had a lot of random tables and chairs outside the malls for you to sit and makan leisurely albeit not quite like alfresco dining.
5. it rained the friday i got off work and the amber rainstorm warning followed. it's windy with a light drizzle meaning the only time i could shop i couldn't walk 1 step without getting wet! bummer ain't it? totally dampened (sorri cldn't resist) my mood too and with my parents lugging ard waiting while i went in shop after shop i cldn't shop leisurely as much as i wanted to coz i felt bad they were bored! remind me again why i brought my parents along?
6. we were in an eatery having our beef brisket/ball noodles and sharing table with this arsehole. my senses being sharp as ever distinctly felt that something was amiss. the stupid f*** had his hp out pointing at me and i knew he was trying to discreetly snap a picture. i am not imagining this ok i felt thoroughly disgusted and sick. i sorta stared at him to show that i knew what was going on. it was like come 'on i was wearing a spaghetti top with abit of lace trimming and a cardigan. mind you no cleavage at all lor! i'm not like a bloody ms F cup so at that moment i very much wanted to dig his eyes out to show him that those are paddings milord! that's what push-up bras are made of capisci? made me so traumatised can.
7. ok then i wanted to do something to my hair in hk coz their package very worth it. straightened my fringe, plus color/highlight, treatment and cut for HK$499 which is less than S$100! damn cheapskate huh me? anyway i didn't want to waste time n decided to pop by on the last working night so that the remaining days i cld shop. plus it was also raining. i got into a shop at 9+pm and they told me it'll take ard 2 hrs. in the end i was their only remaining customer till 12.30am! haaa poor hairdresser had to wait there for me as well. i was so lethagic and trying hard not to fall asleep too. guess i wasn't in the right frame of mind to manage time properly.
8. somehow miscalculation on my part also ended us nearly missing the plane. when we arrived at the airport, the check-in counter had already closed for our flight! i think we arrived 40-45 mins prior to departure time. mad rush again.
so that's how it is. my second (woops now i remember first was to jakarta for some $ laundering transactions for my ex-boss in samsung) biz trip. well done novie! it could have been alot worse T_T
ok the first pic shows my co. bldg n there are absolutely no partitions in the ofc between workstations even the MD's ofc is glass walled imagine how stressful that is? erm...my sushi lunch / beading accessories shop / IFC mall where branded stuff are n airport express hk stn stops there / shopping at the wholesale sham shui po / beef ball with soup inside! / my black dust ball hp holder kekke now all i need a white totoro to pair them up.
cheenatown
wah din know they painted chinatown point YELLOw so obiang anyway i went opp to people's park complex or centre?? so many things to shop there now ha! bought some beads then had the very nice tianjin guo tie...that's the famous 嚎煎 outside my place crispy n chewy mmm ~
tadah! helped my fren with scrapbook...not enuff layering i think but first attempt ok la she still gotta finish it up tho'
HK classics
you know i watched super fans the other day well just because it's free ya' know (thks to 00 once again =]) and i got bored out of hell it's one of those b-grade show that's trying to be arty and whimsical and romantic at the same time hence it was lost on me 1/3 into the movie. it's been eons since we had decent martial arts flicks which btw is my favourite. i love fighting scenes esp those era where they had 轻功 n cld 点穴. amazes me same way as how heros cld wield superpowers in comic books (yah tell me abt spidey 3 abit disappointed le). at that time it was jet li lor he's the only master wong fei hong but this is the one that i lurved.
fong sai yuk!! got part 2 somemore...after that when he ventured into hollyw shows like black mask n fearless don't seem to do it for me either =[
mind you. last time no special effects like hero which makes even the tiniest water droplet cool or autumn leaves sexy. anyway i also happen to watch alot stephen chow movies while growing up ok which prob explains the way i am now hahaha not farnie hor. imho his best shows were in the olden days before he trained for his six packs... 
justice, my foot is a classic because of anita mui so the pairing of the female lead character is very impt as well like with carina lau in 大内密探零零发 or zhang min in
OMG 逃学威龙! and his most successful has got to be the 赌圣 franchise which spoofed off the rubbing of cards n sandra ng's infamous armpit mole trying to be 绮梦 n 三叔! lol jacky cheung can be a very funny sidekick too in curry n pepper...
this is one of the classics n my fav 西游记 =) do you see the effort in dressing up in costumes like those and making the actors look like they haven bathed for mths?
of coz i watched kungfu hustle as well (remembered it was in aussie and we had to wait for someone's vcd to arrive by postage hee) alot more effects but it was HIS way of saying 'xiew lunm' (shaolin in canto) that got us tickled (how can you not watch stephen chow in cantonese? all the vulgarities are so cleverly made fun of haa wah lau screw speak chinese campaign i tell ya')
then if you have 赌圣 how could u not have the original 赌神 wor?! that said i miss chow yun fatt being funny lor him saying 'welcome to singapore' in pirates does not do him justice *humph*
there were the romantic shows as well i bet every single student was spouting 追 and just hardcore memorising the lyrics then coz it sounds so much better in dialect!! keeke
after that they did come out with a few good shows like infernal affairs (i don't just go for 无厘头 de but honestly not alot of in-depth chinese movies one wld waste $9.50 to catch and i'm not talking abt zhang yimou's type) in recent years long after 古惑仔 (long hair used to be IN) made gangsters famous but that's if you sieve thru' the whole lot of other crappy shows
and to digress you know before F4's 流星花园 i was so mad over 琼瑶! those were the days when taiwan didn't produce 偶像剧 and you just had to have a weepy drama script to get by like 六个梦 series and my 青青河边草! *kok* remember or not? or you one of those bananas from another planet one? sigh those were the days lor...ok wait wait i'm not that old >_<
last of the mohicans
was my uncle's wedding on saturday at pan pac...he's the last of 9 siblings to get married so it's beeen ages since we had a joyous occasion a reason to celebrate....hmmm food was good met up with my cousins/nieces keke who uses a donald duck msg tone god that was farnie plus he had a red pigtail to show off...stup bro never smile for pic *kok* well that's family for you ;p
whatever makes me happy