Tuesday, June 10, 2008
-*- Zee Lady Chatterley
In Mitz’s words, “Lady Chatterley was this woman married to a paraplegic and she had a lover cuz she wanted a real life with a real man. “Yes, that’s me. Intrigued? Yeah, I’m a slut. I’m a job slut.
Yes, I have a lover (job) behind my paraplegic (job) cuz I want a real life with a real (job). If all goes well, I’m gonna go through a divorce tomorrow and elope with my lover (job) in two weeks!
My latest update was the oh-so-desirable interview that I went. I bet NO ONE prayed for me, cos I didn’t get the job. Haha… But really, I wouldn’t have mind being in that company. Oh well, what to do, such is life.
Anyway, since that interview, I have successfully moved on and gotten myself a real job. Sort of. Actually the process should have given me some hints… Seeing how my past two hundred interviews have failed and fell flat on my face, I decided to keep all interviews from my family, lest they get even more anxious for me. In fact, they were more worried about my unemployment than I was… So I went for this interview SECRETLY, hid it from everyone cept Vincent.
Anyway, towards the end of the interview, the director who interviewed me asked me when I can start work!! I mean talk about desperate man! Seriously no QC! One interview and she offered me. I mean I AM IMPRESSIVE, no doubt, but she didn’t need to show me her desperate-ness what!
Well, I also didn’t have much QC. So a week and a half later, I started work, as an events executive in the organization.
First week went quickly, I was stumbling my way through, waiting for some kind of action. But it went past without any surprises. Lonely lunches, and prompt knock-off time, the usuals of a new job.
In the 2nd week, I realized, there won’t be action, EVER. I was involved in two events that week, both of which I wasn’t really working, more like having fun and eating. And that’s something I’m so not used to!!! To me, doing events is HARD WORK and more HARD WORK.
Being the slut I am, and can’t help but start wandering lustfully. All of a sudden, I saw two men (I WISH, jobs I mean) lying in front of me. I couldn’t help but decide to try them both out. How seducing those “men” were. Let’s just call them King and Prince.
King is introduced by my ex-colleague, who is with King already, and wanted me to join her. Prince is recommended by my sister’s friend, who used to be with Prince and loved it.
I love both men. I didn’t know how to choose. But Prince couldn’t wait and decided to give me an ultimatum, June 6, or NEVER. King? No response. He liked me, but there were some issues. I had to say yes to Prince or I’ll lose him forever. I did so on June 6.
And after I said yes to Prince, King asked me again on Monday evening – HATEFUL! But well, thankfully or not, he only called me in to tell me how incompatible we were. That he would need me to be in rubber boots and wear construction caps to work on the ground. I was like, erm, not so much my kinda thing.
So the story goes, I will be meeting up with Prince and planning the elopement for two weeks later. I shall be signing an elopement letter tonight and I am officially a Job Slut!
Story of Zee Lady Chatterley, I say.
Labels: Interviews, Life, Work
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Sunday, February 25, 2007
-*- Nolstagia and more..
Man, it's been so long I don't even know where to start! Do I start talking about how different my life now is? Or about the events I had done in the past two months? Or what? But I'll try...Working for almost 5 months now, I feel like my life is very radically changed.. My group of friends have shifted from school-mates to colleagues, whom I have grown very attached to.. After all, I spend everyday with them. I see them when I step into the office at 8.30am (typically) and leave work with them when I get off at 6+pm.. During events (only two so far, but two BIG ones), I sleep and eat and slog and work and slave with them (some of them)... It's hard not to grow attached to them, really.. And even those that I don't work onsite with, they bother to come over and talk with us onsite.. It's really a close knit company and I really love it.
Of course, I miss days when I can slack and just stone at the forum in NUS, or walk to Arts canteen during the break of a lecture just to get a strawberry lime or can Milo, or sandwich or caesar salads to gobble during the lecture.. I miss being able to go for KTV-cum-go-crazy sessions in the middle of the day, skipping half the day's lectures.. Or even Skipping the whole day's lessons just to sleep at home! I miss hanging out, with everyone.. I miss NUS, I do.. Most importantly I guess, I miss the carefree life that I had, and did not treasure.. Towards the end, I did realise how good my life was, and I treasured it to heart, but of course, it had to end right?
Now that I have moved on to another part of my life (the peak, I would say, since I'm supposed to be working and earning my living for a better future..), I have begun to lose grip of many little pleasures that I enjoy when I was still studying.. Gone are the days with leisure afternoons, just sleeping my time away, or even playing games or going shopping alone.. Gone are the days when weekends don't matter, since every other day felt like weekend to me. Gone are the days when I can just sit and chill with friends at coffee joints, just chatting our lives away..
I'm sure I can still do most of what I was doing, but it does feel different.. KTV sessions are now scheduled in the evenings, coffee sessions are few and far in between, leisure afternoons are now strictly on Sundays.. Going out can be a tiring chore now, though I try very hard to squeeze time for that.. Doesn't it feel different? Does, to me..
Looks like I've decided to go the nolstagic direction for the post huh? Haha.. But really, I miss the studying days.. I don't want to slowly lose grip of it.. Really not.. Oh, and I just realised.. I miss blogging about mundane things like buying a new camera, going for KTV, going SETTLERS.. and all other silly things I do..
But I must say, beyond looking back, I feel that what I'm doing now is no less exciting than my studying times (duh! haha the excitement in the past was trivial actually).. It's exciting in a totally different direction. I am experiencing very different things from before, and very different from my friends as well.. I'm being exposed to things I hadn't expect myself to be involved with when I was studying.. I'm meeting ASEAN ministers (of tourism only) and I'm meeting Middle-easterners who pay thousands just to have dinners (from the two events that I have been involved in so far, will talk about the events I was involved in soon ).. I don't think that's shabby.. In fact, it's quite cool, if you think about it.. So yeah, I do love my present.. I love that I get to be onsite for different types of events, I love that it's giving me very different type of life from before.. I must really say that I don't think I could have had it better at the other jobs that I was offered.. I'm sure those jobs would have given me a different type of satisfaction level, but I'm really glad that my first step is East West.. And there's so much more to come from the company.. Tacky it may be, but I really can't wait!! Haha..
So although I really miss the old times, I love what I'm doing presently, and I can't wait for my future to surprise me. And I think you can say that I'm truly happy. That's all that matters, really.
Labels: Life
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