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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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
-*- All the Best to Ms. Zee
I'm up at TWO in the morning. Not uncommon at all, cept for the fact that I am supposed to be up at 7.30, which, come to think of it, isn't uncommon either! Haha.. But I must be going to bed straight after this.. Which I will, I promise myself (silently)...Aaaaanyway, if you are reading this in the morning/afternoon of 15th April, please pray for me okie?
I shall be going for an interview at 5pm, and this is thusfar the most exciting opportunity I've gotten even near to, so pray for me. Pray that I will be the bestest candidate they see all day, that they would offer me the 2nd interview!!
If all goes well, then I shall announce the nature of the job. Otherwise, it shall forever and ever remain a secret that few will know, and those who know shall be killed if they expose the secret...
So let me know if you did say a prayer for me okay? Hahah in whichever religion, I'm an anything-goes girl. ;p As long as I know you love me enough to pray for me ya?
Haha okay then, Good Luck to ME!
Labels: Interviews, Work
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Sunday, September 09, 2007
-*- My two Business Trips.
Am back Am back Am back!!!Kuala Lumpur killed. And the aftermath even worse. Work and more and more and more work.
It really killed me, more my spirits than anything else.
On a happier note, Beijing trip rocked my world. I was totally happy in Beijing. Missing home and all (especially my dearie, and SINGAPORE FOOD!!), but I really enjoyed my trip there. The exposure was one of a kind, ranging from Beijing city tours, experiencing the lives of the old dynasties of China, and the local family lives; to being under one roof with 3,400 delegates from all over the world; to the hour-long, police-escorted, traffic-stopped, 60-coach convoy; to the 1000-pax, Great Wall dinner (also police-escorted convoy). Guess it's an exposure that guarantees a lasting memory.
I must really thank the COO for insisting that I go on the trip. And the director that had faith in me. Really glad I did this Beijing trip.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
-*- My Journeys - Life, Fun, Work, Travel
Dear Long-forgotten Diary,Been a long while, kinda miss days when I can wile my time away just blogging the entire day. I didn't even have so many things to blog about at that time! Irony!! Haha now that I have more things to blog about, I really have pretty much no time to blog about them all.
Quick Summary: I am still happy! :P Though times are hard.
Work is really hard at times, really really hard. So hard I just want to break down and cry, but rarely anymore. Somehow, I think I'm much stronger than before. A year ago, I would have cried looking at the shitloads of work I have to do. Now? I shut up and CHIONG! Odd thing to hear from me, I'm sure! But really, bite the bullet and chiong is kinda what I have to do to get through with the piles of work.
Sometimes it just feels so taxing, I need to scream at everyone and/or run away from life. Just for a day. Nobody but me. Focus my world on me. And nothing else, no one else. No emails, no human interaction, no forced smiles, no hypocrisy. You think?
Everyone around me seems to feel that I'm not doing a lot. A lot of people actually undermine my efforts. But HECK them! (Sometimes even the supposedly supportive people are totally not encouraging.)
I will prove them wrong, I promise myself this.
Anyway, on a much lighter note, I did kinda just take a break.. Went Genting with Ah Fu! Pictures available! Click here!
Trip was very short, but was definitely fun! Hehe, we did very many silly things, but was all good fun! Being silly is our thing! :P Themeparks were different with Ah Fu, I say! He was SO FUNNY on the rides! If only I could take pictures of his look on the rides! Hehe!
By the way, Vin thinks that the below ride is the SCARIEST Ride in the entire world!
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Well, the gist of it is that: I TOTALLY ENJOYED MYSELF during the SHORT trip we had. :)
So there was the long journeys (there and back, I mean) that Ah Fu and I took together.
Next up for me?
Yet another long journey in the pipeline - TWO, in fact.
In about 6 hours, I have to wake up to a gruelling day. Lugging my packed bag, I will prepare myself for a 6-hour long journey to a place never been discovered, a land where no one has found - KUALA LUMPUR...............
On a COACH, no less.... BAH!
It's gonna be like a major Deja-Vu for me man, I was just on the coach like a few days ago? Taking the long long journey. To a place unfamiliar to me, where it's gonna be home for me for barely a day and half. Yeah, blardy short trip - All CRAMPED with work. I'm gonna be very good friends with the office in KL - and I'm talking about the office space, not the colleagues, since I'm gonna be in the meetings/trainings like DAY LONG. Blegh.
And I have been warned about this trip - it kills, bad. With the boss, NO LESS. THE BOSS, THE COO, THE DIRECTORSSS. Basically a regional meeting/training. Oh! I didn't mention, I'm on the same coach with ONE director and THE BOSS. *kill me now? PLEASE?*
Onto happier thing... 2nd long long journey. Come Tuesday, I will, once again, lug my packed bag (this time about TEN TIMES bigger), and starting yet another estimated-to-be-7-hour journey. Thankfully, or not, this one will be on the plane. Destination China, here I come!!!
Yeap! Going Beijing! The Heart of CULTURES and all traditional beauty! Where Zee is gonna be bombarded by right about 3000 delegates, from ALL OVER THE WORLD! With the EWET China team, naturally.
I am really excited and nervous about this trip. It's gonna be with THE COO (a fine lady - she's one of the main reasons I shut up and chiong - main main main reason being I wanna rock the world!), and the LAO JIAO or old bird of the company. Stress! But super looking forward.
And oh yes, I've been warned about THIS trip as well - yes, it will also kill, bad! But it will be a most treasured memorable journey of my life - I promise myself. Will be the first real away-on-business in my life, and it will be BIG. Can't wait. Really. No words can describe my excitement now.
But as always, it's gonna be a whole shitload of work I will have to do, there and before. So I will still die.
Oh did I mention? It's gonna be a GOOD TEN DAYS. Will be back on 8th September. Nice.
I love my life. As if you didn't know that. :P
Yours sincerely,
Long-forgotten Blogger
Labels: Happy Days, Travel, Work
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
-*- Two months and Happeeeee~
Hmm sounds like I'm in a new relationship huh? Haha I guess you can say that I am, in some sense of the word.. Yeah, I'm in a relationship, with East West Executive Travellers. And I'm totally enjoying the relationship, as well as the relationships within EWET!I love my job, my jobscope, and the industry (but of course, that's no surprise). I love that I get to know more about M.I.C.E, I love that I am exploring new places, in and out of Singapore. Though I have not been OUT of Singapore for work, strictly speaking. But I've been out in the sense that I am being exposed to many things in the region that not everyone can really get exposed to, and I love that. And we are doing more than just remaining stagnant, which means I WILL get the chance to go one day, as many in the office have told me, even my manager. So that's great!
And I love that I get to learn A LOT OF THINGS. From proposals, to handling of clients, to researching, to talking to suppliers, to everything involved in creating exciting events! Of course, I do do some mundane stuff, but who doesn't right? And in midst of the mundane-ness, I see excitement, I anticipate what will come and I REALLY CANNOT WAIT! And like I said in my previous post, Travel Industry is good la, no doubt la. Hehe..
Oh, and as it is, I am enjoying quite a bit of perks from working in the company already. We are in the inbound tourism industry, so we have to understand Singapore better than anyone else. And so we go for a lot of site inspections, and that just means that I get to see all kinds of places in Singapore, especially restaurants. And although the seeing of new things in itself IS a perk, the most exciting (and shameless) perk is the FOOD! Hahah, we have had so many people sending us Mooncakes (or Autumn Festival related stuff) and Christmas goodies! AND SO MUCH MORE! And we have gone on many restaurant site inspections, where we can try the food and everything. Hehe, shamelessly, these perks really CAN perk me up. Hahah..
Besides everything, I love my colleagues. Like ALL of them. Each has his/her own likeable-ness and I like them all, and most importantly, I like how they make me feel very at home, and not very stressed at work, even if I have got loads to do. They really make working ENJOYABLE, to say the least. Of course, sometimes, some people may get on your nerves (outside of the company, as well as within the company, though the latter is less). But at the end of it, I can still, and I do, talk about my job with a smile (even a wide one sometimes) on my face.
And! And! And! I actually am willing to work till whatever hour that I have to, even though sometimes I can really just stop and do the stuff the next day (I'm doing a lot of researching work, so it's practically ENDLESS). Just yesterday, I was in the office till SIX PM, on a SATURDAY! Hahaha I totally didn't realise how late it was till I realised it was SIX! -faint- I mean, I never did expect myself to want to work overtime until like that!
And when working, I feel like I can really learn, in that people are willing to teach me and help me whenever they can. And it just feels a quite heart-warming the way they treat me and one another. Like Mich says, it feels like a homely environment. And I do like it a lot. And they are willing to let me try new things, and be very understanding when I make mistakes. Obviously, it's this understanding that will make me all the more determined to perfect the job. And I really love the feeling of that.
So in this relationship of barely two months, I have established more than just a relationship with work. I have formed friendships and increased my passion for something I never knew I could like so much (tourism, in case that wasn't clear enough). And I'm sincerely thankful for the day of that my HR colleague called me in for the interview that I had been so happy about. And thankful that my COO actually decided to employ me, despite me being so fresh out of college.
I'm happy, really. =D
Labels: Work
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
-*- And so the offer goes to...
On a happy Wednesday morning, a happy girl receives two happy calls.*Names have been altered to protect the identity of the persons
First call:
P*: Hi, I'm P calling from HPB. I am happy to inform you that you have been selected for the temporary position that you have applied for. Is it okay to start work on Friday?
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>Background info on Call No. 1<
-HPB=Health Promotion Board
-= GOVERNMENT!!!
-=GOOD PAY!!!
-Application was sent in on Monday (i.e two days before)
-Interview was on Wednesday morning (i.e less than two hours before the call)
-Temp job (i.e I can quit whenever I want, they can sack me whenever they want, I get paid by the hour)
-Good pay = $10.50 per hour!
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Me: HUH?!? Didn't I just go for the interview, like an hour ago?? (yes, my exact words) P:Yes, and we would like you to start work on Friday, is that okay?
>some discussion on procedure of salary, days of notice to be given etc.
>an Incoming Call (to be known as Call No.2 thereafter), which went to Missed Call
Me: Okay, I'll be there 8:30 on Friday! See you then! Thanks!
P: Okay, bye!
Second Call (i.e the Missed Call) called back:
E*: Hi Happy Girl*! This is E calling from East West.
Me: Yes?
E: Okay, after some consideration, and discussion with the rest, we have decided to give you the chance to try.
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>Background info on Call no.2<
-Marcomms for a premium travel agency
-I WANT THIS JOB!!!!!!!!
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Me: OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!!!!!! (thinks to self)
Me: (for real) Okayyyyyyyy... That means?
E*: So we have to discuss some stuff now...
>discussions and some haggling
E: Okay, I'll get the person to draw up the employment letter and call you up to come by to sign it soon!
Me: YES YES YES YES YES !!!!!!! (thinks to self)
Me: (for real) Okay! Thanks A LOT! I hope I won't disappoint you! Bye!
E: Bye!
And so, Happy Girl gets TWO job offers. Of course she chose the one she is SO MUCH MORE excited about. And she called back P to reject the position soon after.
But Happy Girl still is a little paraniod. What if they change their mind? What if I won't get to sign the letter? What if it's not real? WHAT IF???
For Happy Girl's sake, the call to ask her to go down and sign the paper better come soon. Otherwise, she may go crazy..
But Happy Girl is really happy!
And on top of everything, Happy Girl is very grateful to everyone who has encouraged her, helped her, supported her, and most important, GAVE HER MONEY to survive the past few months.. So, mainly my parents la.. I love them to the max! They were not pushy, never expected too much from me, encouraging, and extremely careful with their advice, and they didn't hurry me the least bit.. They won't see this, but...
I LOVE YOU, DADDY MUMMY!!! :)
And grateful to the rest her family, Erjie Dajie Korkor and BB Rhys! Hee Rhys of all people! Cos he was the one who entertained me the most of this period! Whahahaha...
And of course her dearestest!!! Thanks VINCENT FU XISHUN!!!! Thanks for Seeeeeeeminoleeeeee! Thanks for EVRYTHING!!! Muacks!!!!!
I LOVE LIFE!
Labels: Happy Days, Work
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