My 24th birthday
I'm officially 1 year older! Time really flies...i'm 24 now! Anyway, i don't really organise parties or anything like that but this year, felt like going clubbing so Meifang sweetly helped me organised it.
Well, as always, it's no mean feat to organise a gathering for 8 of us gals. Initially almost all (i think) could make it but in the end, there's only 4 of us (including me) AND we went to KTV instead.
Nevertheless, it was a great night out with my buddies aka the princesses! We went KTV at Bishan and it was really a crazy and outrageous night! We sang and danced to old songs in the 90s like 爱不怕 by 草蜢 , 对你爱不完 by Aaron Kwok and 独一无二, 眉飞色舞 by Sammi Cheng . We were so high we should have went to MOS anyway!
After KTV we went to Lau Pa Sat for supper and to meet Luojia. So happy that she could make it. We had quite a long talk there before heading back to my home. My mum is really sweet and thoughtful -- she had turned on the aircon and even prepared the mattresses, pillow and blankets for us. After showering and stuff, we chat while and guess what?! I slept at 6am! I was so tired the next day when i went to JB with zuyao.
Anyways, the next day my mama bought us breakfast, after which we separated and i went on to meet zuyao for our delicious Ah Soon Bak Kut Teh. Bought a really nice pair of shoes from Vincci, a bra, some Fengshui handphone accessory and a necklace. From noon onwards, i began to feel really tired due to sleeping for only 3.5 hrs the day before! So much so that in the way back, i was practically sleeping the whole journey back to singapore (abt 1+ hr coz there was a jam at singapore customs).
And the following few days was crazy. Me and zuyao kept watching Lost on DVD. We watched it until last night when we finally finished all of season 1, where the ending is such a cliff hanger!! Walt was snatched by some bad guys at sea while Jack and Locke finally exploded the hatch but it leads to a deep tunnel underground. I'm so anxious to find out what's going to happen!
Well, zuyao has season 2 but he wouldn't let me watch! He wants to start studying for his CFA first...i guess it's good in a way. Then i won't suffer from panda eyes and be so tired and sleepy at work for now.
Insurance agent from hell
Over the past 2 days, i went for 3 interviews. 2 with MediaCorp and 1 with Parkway Shenton, a healthcare solutions provider. I think all went quite well except for MediaCorp TV's position of Account Exec/ Manager. Today went back to MediaCorp Radio for a 2-hr written test. Think i did quite well on that one, and as for the actual face-to-face interview, i'd give myself a 3.5 - 4 points out of 5.
The interview is very short!! Only a mere 10 minutes and there were 5 interviewers!! 5!! Can you imagine?? 1 was Feng Hui Shi and the other i can recognise is Wen Guo Xian i think from FM 97.2? Anyway, they asked me to self introduce, then asked me how would my friends describe me, why i wana leave SingTel only after 1 year and whether i have experience in promotion activities. That's all...i dun even have the opportunity to ask any questions! But i guess they have to interview many candidates and this 1st round is just to size them up before they select the final few.
Oh, and it was the 1st time i've done an interview using Mandarin, so as expected, it was splattered with English words and phrases here and there. Generally i feel my Mandarin was good though.
After the interview, i went to Toa Payoh Bus Interchange to take 26 home. Since there was some time before the bus comes, i decided to walk around but alas!! A guy in his early-mid twenties approached me to do a supposedly short survey.
I didn't want to but being in a good mood after the interview and thinking i had some time to spare, i thought to myself, why not? That was the move that brought me to my grave.
After answering 4-5 short questions, i was brought to the makeshift "counter" where he starts to show me tables of my projected returns on my savings. Yes, he is an insurance agent. He was quite okay actually, but then suddenly another guy joined in our "consultation/ financial analysis".
This guy is terrible. He cracks jokes that are dry and meaningless. AND he thinks he is funny. I really can't stand the way he talks, as if thinking he's the funniest guy in the whole universe. AND he is lame. "You look very familiar!", "Where did you graduate from? NUS?!! My god! It's a very good school!". These are but minor minor examples of his idiocracy.
The most annoying thing is he is darn hard-sell. Perhaps i should credit him since he speaks so well and can make you sound like a fool not to sign up with his savings policy. But i hate this kind of person. I know you want to earn my money, even though it is a puny pathetic sum, i just don't feel like giving it to you. Why should i give business to a person that i dislike and whom doesn't respect my decision? Sure, i know you're doing a good thing by forcing me to save, but when i tell you i save $300 monthly, u better believe me and stop doubting me by aking me 3 times "You don't save at all right?"
From this i have learnt a lesson. Not all good deeds are worth doing. Perhaps i'm stupid. I know not all insurance agents are like that but i'm sorry. A few black sheep will cause the entire herd to be black. So the next time when someone approaches me to do a survey, you can be sure that i won't give him/ her any chance. It is better to be cruel and reject him than to let him bear a flicker of hope that i will be a prospective customer.
Unusually weird fetishes
Read this in Cleo Magazine March issue and it's really weird!
Scientific names for some really unusual fetishes:Axillism Fetish for using the armpit for sex (as a vagina substitute)
Androminetophilia A woman who's sexually aroused by impersonating a man
Coprophilia Arousal by faeces
Dasyproctic Fetish for hairy buttocks
Idrophrodisia Arousal from perspiration
Mysophilia Sexual arousal by dirt and filth
Nanophilia Fetish for short people
Nasophilia Fetish for kissing, sucking, touching or looking at another's nose
Zelopilia Arousal from jealousy
My de-stresser
After work, went to Comfort Driving Centre at Ubi with Bee Kim to book my Basic Theory Test. Unfortunately, the earliest test date is 21st March and Bee Kim's baby may be due in that period, so i ended up registering for it alone. After that we went to Sim Lim Square to buy some stuff then Bugis Cafe for dinner. Ah Kim left at 9 something, while i stayed to do some shopping.
It feels good to be alone once in a while. I bought a top for work, probably can wear it for my coming interview. Dunno why but felt like walking so i switched on my MP3 player, put on my ear phones and started to walk towards the direction home.
I think the type of music/ songs affects one's mood. I was listening to My Lovely Samsoon's soundtrack and it's really good! Among the various soundtracks that i own, namely Stairway to Heaven, Sad Love Story and Full House, My Lovely Samsoon is the only one that i've been listening to for the past few days, without skipping a track. All the songs and music inside are simply heaven...my current fave.
Anyway, i felt like i was back in my schooling days...seeming to have all the time in the world...walking at my own leisurely pace, listening to my favourite songs, with the whole world shut out. It's a really good de-stresser i feel. At least for that short period of time, there's only yourself. You are temporarily cut off from the reality, with no need to think about work or anything depressing/ negative.
I like taking bus rides too. It may sound weird but it's the same idea as walking alone. Both gives me a sense of peace and a moment to myself. Perhaps its like this: the things that i see around me passes so quickly that it just makes me feel so insignificant...yet there i am, walking/ sitting in the bus, watching them go past. It simply has a great sense of irony yet there's something calming in it to me.
Getting lucky or...?
Some good news to share...I've got 2 interviews with MediaCorp! Like SingTel, I've been applying to MediaCorp for as long as i can remember (2 years i think), but not once have i not been called for an interview. Perhaps miracles do happen, and in this 2 days, i'm called twice by the same HR gal for 2 interviews! 1 is as an Accounts Exec with MediaCorp TV while the other is as a Promo Exec with MediaCorp Radio, FM93.3 Station.
I'm really excited about this! I mean, it's an industry that i'm interested in and the job scope of both looks interesting. But of coz, being the usual pessimist, i am getting paranoid and worried about my performance in the interview. I can say how much i would like to snag the job now, but i'm afraid things are not as simple. Am trying to not get myself too excited/ hopeful lest the bubble bursts eventually, which is usually the case. I just pray that everything will turn out fine...
Falling in love with My Lovely Samsoon and Hyun Bin...
Been quite a while since my last blog entry...well, this time not due to work, but becoz of My Lovely Samsoon!! I've been having late nights to watch the series, and it's a really great series! Great acting, an excellent cast with good looks to boot, nice songs and many meaningful lines and touching scenes that are close to reality.
To summarise, My Lovely Samsoon is about woman called Kim Sam-soon (Kim Sun Ah) who is chubby, uncouth, and has never had a smooth relationship in her 30 years of life. That is until she met Hyun Jin-heon aka Sam Sek (Hyun Bin), the owner of a restaurant called Bon Appetit and by a twist of fate, ends up being a couple under a "love contract" for $50,000,000. Fom that day onwards, she goes on a roller-coaster ride...getting angry at Sam Sek, facing problems with her ex-bf's constant pester, and falling in love with Sam Sek...
I really love this k-drama! Though the plot is predictable, even recycled (many will find it similar to Full House), the way the script is written touches me. Though I'm not similar to Samsoon, I can identify with her fears and tears. I am especially touched by a scene in the last episode, where Samsoon reads from a bus stop billboard:-
跳舞吧， 如同没有任何人注视你一样
去爱吧， 如同从来没有受过伤害一样
唱歌吧， 如同没有任何人聆听一样
工作吧， 如同不需要金钱一样
活着吧， 如同今天是末日一样
I think it's really meaningful though it's almost impossible to achieve...but at least it gives people an opportunity to stop and think of life...no?
Oh, and by the way, I've fallen in love with Hyun Bin!! He's just so cute!! Love the way his dimples look and his boyish smile...well, that's the 3rd male Korean fave for me now, hee...Kwon Sang Woo, Rain and now Hyun Bin! Yay!
Oh, and 1 more thing, Hyun Bin and Rain are the same age as me!! 24 years old!! And get this, they are both born on the 25th!! That's so cool! Well, i know it's bo liao but i just want to mention it, hee...
Ok, i better get some sleep now...hope to dream of my Korean oppas later, hee...
Busy days
These few days have been really busy at work...but what is fortunate is that she seems to be in an okay mood. Even sat by my side and taught me patiently how i should go about analysing the data. Frankly speaking, she's really very strong in analytics and this i must look up to her. Though i'm not good at it, hopefully in this period of time i have picked up a thing or two from her.
Bought My Lovely Sam-Soon (我的名字叫金三顺) VCDs at $21. Really cheap!! There's 2 dramas i want to watch:- Let's Go To School, Sang Doo and A Love To Kill both starring Rain. And i want to buy Full House to keep as well...been wanting to watch it again...
Talking abt K-dramas, i wonder when Sang Woo oppa will act in a new drama...he has got 2 new movies but not yet showing in cinemas here, i wonder when will i be able to catch them...
Update: No news from StarHub yet. Guess i'm probably not selected but i'm not disappointed or watever...will just carry on with my job search. It's a slow and painful process but hopefully at the end of it, it's worth the wait.
CNY and beyond
The CNY holidays have past and it's back to work. Didn't do much over the holidays...kept watching the TVB drama 酒店风云 (Revolving Doors of Vengence) though. The storyline isn't really that fantastic and the plot is sometimes predictable, but it is a good drama coz of its plentiful twists and turns. It has got a good pace as well...fast enough to keep me and my family keep wanting for more, haha...shall review it later on after i finish watching it.
Back to CNY, besides watching VCDs, i went out on Monday 大年初二 for K-Lunch at Suntec KBox with Weiliang, Alvin and Ruoyi. After that went to Qiuyan and Trina's aunt's house to 拜年. Was rather fun -- we watched Rain's concert at Qiuyan's place and gambled with Trina's cousins at night...but we only played for less than an hour!! I was so looking forward to gambling, hahaha...but coz Qiuyan got to work the next day, so we left together...no worries though, coz coming Sat is another gambling session!! Yeah! Must win!
Didn't take leave so resumed work on Wednesday...time passed quite fast since we had to do month-end reports. Today she gave me a new assignment and there were some problems...though after some discussion, it should be resolved...but still hope when tomorrow comes, everything will fall into place nicely...i don't want to do stay back on a Friday, spoiling my weekend mood...
Well, time for a piece of news -- I went for dunno whether it's a woman's intuition, a coincidence or pure "nothingness", but i kinda had a feeling that i'll be called for an interview when i applied for the position.
Anyway, the interview itself was okay...despite being very paranoid and nervous before the interview, i think i did quite well, though not fantastically impressive. At least i'd gone through (in my mind) the questions he may ask me beforehand and how i should answer. The requirements of the position seem tough, but every job has its shitty parts and if i wana take on a sales job, i should be prepared for such hard work and pressure.
The thing is, although my experience in client/ account servicing and the telco industry gives me some advantage for this position, i don't exactly feel that excited should they really offer me the job. I dunno why but something's just bugging me at the back of my head...perhaps i don't want to stay in the telco industry? or i am scared of meeting the sales target? or i'm just looking for some sort of excuse to not accept the job? I really dunno what it is at this moment...hopefully when the time comes, i'd have sorted out my ideas.
