I was busy settling new stock matter this morning. Well it's my first day of period, I was feeling extremely unwell and weak (unfortunately!). Gotta work anyway so yea... And then in the afternoon, I attended a Xmas Drinks Party on behalf of my boss. She's overseas so I was asked to represent her. I wondered why and felt a little don't-know-what-and-how since I have never attended such function before.
It was an accounting firm plus property agent kinda company which handles my boss' business matter in Australia. I remembered some important names and yup, I went. I was a little late because a regular customer came with some friends when I was about to leave. So I accompanied them a while to show some respect and appreciation.
The Xmas Party was =.=" Seriously it's just like what I always see in dramas, people standing around carrying a glass or having some bites. I just had some orange juice because I wasn't in the mood for any alcoholic beverage. Gosh. I went there and.. was so lost. Everybody seems to know at least some people there but I went there without knowing anyone -.- I just said hi to some people that my boss mentioned and tried to chat a little (did I mention TRIED?) and just kept my mouth shut and listened eventually. It was basically socializing and it felt kinda awkward!
Didn't stay there for long. Ethan (one of the staff in the shop) said one customer who came to the shop and looked for me regarding some wholesale matter. Hmm, that's alright. I will pay her a visit on coming Tuesday. I was not really needed in the shop but I just made an excuse and left the party.
Guess I need more "training" in this...
Today's Horng's birthday! (Ahem, no more today, yesterday??) HAPPY BIRTHDAY again! We had a super filling Italian dinner and we gave him a little surprise >.<
This is the most disgusting morning I've ever had.
First of all, I never knew my phone has 3G function. I always see the 3G sign on the home screen but it makes no sense to me (my blurness - as usual) until this morning I received this call...
I was waiting for people from the airport cargo to inform me about what time I should go pick the stock up so my phone rang, it's a private number and I picked up. I notice there's sth different with my pick up call screen coz normally it's all white when I pick up my usual voice calls, this time it was all black. Anyway, yup. There's this white guy who spoke halo halo and I also halo halo but there's no more sound after that.
Must be the connx prob, so I hung up. Then he called again. Again, the all black screen came out. I asked who's this but he only said halo halo... and I looked at the screen. And realised... my face is on the screen! (Ok, I'm being very kampong now coz I have never experienced this 3G thingy before -.-)
I was shocked when I saw my face in the little box on the right. Then I realised there's another bigger box on the left... That's when I felt like puking instantly. A nude guy was there, focusing on we-all-know-what and doing some disgusting thing! OMG I freaked out and hung up within 2 seconds of course!
Seriously I have been feeling so disgusted. What's wrong with these people man?? He called twice but of course I didn't pick up anymore!
Ok don't laugh. I know I've been saying this since like forever. BUT! I have to be determined this time. Seriously. Gosh I'm so sick of not being able to wear what I like. You know.. that kind of feeling.. when you have an outing, you open your closet, and realise you will look so chubby wearing this or that. Or.. when you go shopping (or just window shopping), find sth you like, but at the same time knowing that you won't be able to fit into that.. That's frustrating.
So my friends, pls support me. If you're around me, kindly remind me when you see me eating unnecessarily or eating more than I should! My part... sshhh, I might do something in secret and let me know if you see any obvious lost of weight in me! Well, don't expect to see a super slim - you and me know that's not gonna happen - just hoping for a more balanced and healthy body shape :)
By the end of the year, hopefully I'll get to see some result :D
I was talking to this regular customer few days ago. We were talking about jobs n stuff.
Basically she's been working as a dealer in casinos for a few years. She was in Crown at Melbourne and now Burswood at WA. Set that aside, let's talk about me before going further about this lady.
Before I got this current job of mine, I was jobless for about half a year. I was very desperate for a job and I basically applied for every single job regardless of whether I liked it or not. So yea jobs like cleaner, waitress, bar jobs, casino jobs etc. But I did not get a single positive response from any of my application. Now... this is what happened. I obviously thought to myself, come on, I'm a uni graduate, is it that hard to get a job like cleaner or waitress?? I was even willing to work as a kitchenhand although the fact is that my hands are pretty sensitive type. All my application for those jobs just didn't bring me any luck, not even a chance for an interview or something. Frankly speaking, I was really down and disappointed. I was just trying to get a job to pay my bills!
Anyway, here's the point. She told me she was in that situation once and she learned something - you need to modify your qualifications on your resume according to the type of job you're applying. Well everybody knows this point. We all change our intro part of the resume or cover letter for different jobs. What about qualifications part??
Not a lot of people will be interested to hire a engineer graduate for a waiting job, or to hire a manager who has just lost his job for the position of a cleaner or something. I used to wonder - why not?? Now I understand the reason. Seriously, if both an IT engineer and a waiter (previously) come and apply a casual position in my shop at the same time, I think I'd first consider the waiter rather than taking the engineer's application seriously.
I think you know why.
Back to my story, I think I should have cut off my psych degree part and focus much more on team work and customer service experience when I applied for those jobs a couple of months ago. Her experience was that when she put her highest qualification for such position, nobody would consdier you, but if you have a more compatible and appropriate (you decide what) background, you will have a higher chance! Not to her surprise that most of her colleagues (casino dealers) did not mention their highest qualification. She's right in a sense that, when it comes to reality, sometimes you just gotta cheat a little to survive.
I guess I'm still learning.
By the way, it's damn good money to become a casino dealer, you can get paid as high as $30 per hour. It can truly be a very-not-bad part time/casual job.
Ok, as you might have already realised... I have changed my blog skin. However, it's certainly not complete because I never knew this could be quite a hassle... -.- Zenxiong was the one who helped me on this kinda stuff last time... now when I'm trying to be a little bit more independent, it's quite a mess ahemmm... Gotta figure out the colour code because I wanna change the background color a bit lighter. I think it's quite difficult to read because the colour of the wordings do not really match with the background colour... hmm. Oh, and also all my links are gone!! Silly me didn't save my previous template and now I've lost them all. Oh gosh.
Nevermind. It's all about.. practice makes perfect :)
有点混乱了。今天好像是星期六，不是好像，事实上是星期六。可是别人问起的时候，我又回答得不太干脆。周末对我来说可能没有意义了吧，反正我的“周末”不是周末。周末给我的感觉已经不一样了。别人是日夜颠倒，我则始末颠倒。听起来怪怪的。别人的thank God it's Friday 和 blue Monday都与我无关。跟姑姑聊起，他问起的是我和朋友们的空闲时间的配合度。哈哈，我倒是有点惊讶他关心的这点。话说回来，事实上是真的不怎么能配合。从昨天看电视剧学来的对白：现实又岂能尽人如意？但愿问心无愧。我觉得这句话挺好用的。
我也记不清喝的已是第几杯茶了。应该喝了至少有2公升的茶吧。在加上白开水……嗯……今天喝了的有白菊（我近来的新宠）、铁观音乌龙（本店的招牌有机冻茶）、陈了十一年的普洱（绝对醇）。不是最高纪录，生意没有意料中般好。今天进来的都是本地人，做了两单生意。将近三点了，离开关店时间还有两个半小时。在这做了五个月之久，我体会的是：expect the unexpected 往往惊喜还在后头。
