Work! haha...

Ah.. haven't been updating lately as I haven't had much free time after work. Gotta sleep early & wake up early... Work starts from 9am-6pm. Some stories of my working life.. Well this is the first time I'm working for a stranger company, and first time in an office environment. Previously either I did not work at all or is busy with hall activities in the holidays :)

My first day @ work was such an adventure. haha.. as a few of you may know.

Blunder #1
As my work place was @ Eunos & I seldom take such short train journeys, something happened... while on my way there, I shut my eyes while listening to the radio, as usual. who knows, I almost missed my stop, so I rushed out w/o much thinking. And guess what? when I was searching for my wallet so I could tap my EZlink card, I found my wallet missing!!! Darn! I knew I dropped it while rushing out of the train. and die! how on earth can I chase after it? itz long gone.. so I went to report it, but the smrt guy said that he'll send a msg down to all of the people & whether my wallet reappears depends solely on the honesty of the public. so okay... and he can let me exit for now. Butttt... w/o my wallet, my ezlink card & all my money.. how am I supposed to take the bus to go to work? and lunch? how abt the trip back? I couldn't believe what had happened... it was the first day of work, and how am i to get there? well I could borrow money from colleagues for lunch but, how awkward! itz just the first day and stuff. Luckily, as I was filling up the form about my wallet, the woman who found it came to the control station!!!! phew!! At that moment I felt so relieved.... and happy. and I thanked her profusely.
Lesson learnt: better becareful & try not to doze off again.

Blunder #2
I took the bus on the wrong side of the road after work. As a result, I landed in Aljunied MRT station instead of Eunos MRT station, and had to take the train back. oh well, haha... Blur queen on monday. maybe becoz I didn't had enough sleep.


Other than those, colleagues were good, they were friendly, majority are middle-aged people, and I like the office environment coz I can wear nice formal clothes everyday. haha.. sounds crazy. My boss is very nice & friendly too. Had lunch with my department & the guys drove all of us out. First day was very slack for me, so much so that I feel so tortured and could not take it any further. I had to wait for a few hours in a meeting room while they settled stuff for me, was so bored that I read all those wordy rules of conduct & the like so many times, and read the company's newsletter too. zzz... After which I was being shown to my desk, but still had to continue entertaining myself with nth but the same "reading material" and blank paper as I waited for them to setup my computer. Without it, there's nothing much I could do. Some of the stuff I started writing on the blank pieces of paper were, modules arrangement, maths problems, binary numbers, names of people in S19 and The Pledge. Yes, I wrote The Pledge because I was so bored. so u can imagine....
But the situation has improved since then, got lots of learn & do and I can get real busy sometimes. Well, having stuff to do is better than having nothing so, I shan't complain too much. :)

The best thing that has happened so far was discovering & meeting up with the rest of my comrades. haha... Fellow uni students, NUS interns and freshies. I was so happy & excited when I heard about the rest of them. Yay! can have lunch together next wk! :)

Of Buffets & Work

While searching for buffet places to go, i came across a nice restaurant. and maybe Nice is an underestimation for it is much better than just Nice. darn it! I WANT TO EAT at EQUINOX RESTAURANT!!! lol.. just thinking of it makes me excited. located at Level 70 of Swissotel the Stamford, the view is gonna so great.

ok enough said, here's the website: http://www.equinoxcomplex.com/

Ah.. and for my buffet treat, I've also decided on Plaza Market Cafe.
It offers the best Peranakan Cuisine & I've heard that it's good. hehe... I'll go check it out & see how it is.


Talking about work, there's this funny thing with me & phone calls from employers. At least 80% of the work-related phone calls that I receive is when I am sleeping. Even before I wake up, I get a call, when I take my lunch, get another call, take a nap, get a call, take 2nd nap after being awaken, get another call. LoL.... This leads to a conclusion: maybe I should sleep more, then I will have more job prospects :D

Seems like the hit rate that I get from sending resumes a few days back was quite high. Have been getting calls from different companies and actually I did not expect to get a job so fast considering I'm Picky Lin. Anyway, I'm now up for an admin job. But seems like it isn't a brainless holiday job after all. Gotta prepare invoices etc, liase with other departments and be under pressure, as what I was told. But, it's good cause I know I will learn a lot. Hopefully, the guy that is leaving will teach me well, then I can do everything. So, I'll be working on Mondays to Fridays, and a few hours on Saturdays, till end of July. :)

Girls Gathering

Hello ladies involved, here's as mentioned.

Any suggestions as to where we should eat?? buffet? lol...
Date? (maybe rebec can post ur free days here, the rest are already inside the email.)
Activities? Just eat & chat, play games?

Just feel free to discuss here, so that all of us can see one another's suggestions. Cheers!

about Singapore Idol....

Was watching SG idol's piano show today and i'm predicting that Paul Twohill and Jonathan Leong will go through to the next round. They seem more outstanding than the rest of the contestants. Not that the others are bad, it's just that they are okay.. and I suppose it'll need that extra bit in them to survive in the competition. Let's see how it goes at the results show tmr.

WOW.... just saw that Karen had the 2nd highest all-time score for our chocopets game. AMAZING!! u're a natural, girl... *hails* my score never reach that high. lol... yeah cheers~! to the girls! ;)