Simplicity.

Monday, December 7, 2009

First day of work...
Hello peepo~
Some of you might know, I had started my first day of work yesterday, at Marina Square's Precious Thots.
It's actually a gift shop, and I don't know why I apply for it since it's more of a feminine job. The day started off sucky. The moment I arrived, the supervisor started to teach me gift wrapping. Listen carefully, GIFT WRAPPING. Someone like me doing gift wrapping?! That's totally insane and amusing at the same time. And they taught me 2 types of gift wrapping. One is those bag kind, and it's for items with irregular shapes such as teddy bears. As for square or rectangular items, it's another method of gift wrapping (which I have yet to master...)
Gift wrapping alone is already enough to kill me. But that isn't all. There's like over 100 of different products in the store, and I am expected to know where the stocks are. Furthermore, the stocks are arranged pretty messily, and I really have a hard time remembering where to get new stocks for customer...
However, I don't know what happen, but after spending like 6 hours in the shop, I started to be pretty enthusiastic towards my new job. Perhaps it's because I'm starting to wrap the gifts decently, or maybe I am adapting to my new work place. I don't really know.
And oh! I took my schedule. I'm only working like, 9 days for the whole month! That means... I'm sooo gonna scout for a SECOND PART TIME JOB! Woohoo! ;D Gonna take a look at PastaMania or Swensens. And hopefully, my resort world's theme park crew interview on Wednesday will grant me a place over there!
I'm so obsessed with working now. LOL!
Have fun peeps!

♥ 1:27 PM

Friday, December 4, 2009

2012 is really an awesome movie.
Hey there!
Recently, I went to catch 2012 with Kelvin and Yee Seng. Although this movie was already released quite some time back, but I have no opportunity to watch it, until 2 days ago.
Basically, 2012 is about the world ending in 2012 due to the Earth Crust Displacement and it features how people tried to run for their lives but all of them ended up getting killed because the road cracks, volcano explodes, buildings unearthed and unless you're flying in the air, if not there's no chance of survival.
However, only a group of people and they are usually those rich ass or those who are capable of building a new civilization (such as scientists, researchers, or leaders) that will be able to board a gigantic ship which will ensure their survival because that ship will be sailing on the ocean, and it's very sturdy against colossal waves.
Halfway throughout the movie, weird thoughts started to form in my mind. I was thinking, what if all these really happened to us in 2012? By then, I'd only be 19 and have yet to live my life to the fullest. I was also imagining if roads started to crack around us and the earth's temperature rising and I'd even picture myself running like a maniac on the road. It'll be insane, and just the thought itself petrified me.
Also, I'm thinking if I really survived the catastrophe, it'll be really bizarre to start everything from scratch because I'm too used to having high-rise buildings all around me. It would be phenomenal to witness the rise of a civilisation and to start a new life!
Overall, 2012 is really an awesome movie, and should there be anyone who had not watch this movie yet, I would advise you to catch it at the theatre ASAP. ;D

On the other hand, I'm getting really exhausted from all the job hunts. I tried to look for positions like retail assistant in apparel shops, but it seems that either they have already gotten their part time staff, OR they need at least 18 years old and above. I have even tried gift shops, and have yet to receive any news. Every time I sent in my resume or application form, I held on to a glimpse of hope, but the thing is, there is always no replies.
Regardless of what, I'm so tired of sitting around at home, doing nothing meaningful. I'm so gonna try Starbucks and swensens for jobs, if not I'll even go to pastamania.
Hopefully, I can get a job by the end of next week...

♥ 1:24 PM

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Sitex IT fair.
Able to survive the 4 days of IT fair is quite an impressive feat.
The 4 days of IT fair is really arduous. We had to report at around 10am, and we are usually dismissed at 9.30pm. For the whole day (except lunch and dinner), I will have to be standing at the booth...
I was actually assigned to Toshiba's laptop booth. I can only say, my first time working didn't turn out to be very lucky. There are quite a number of Toshiba's booth from other retailers and my retailer's booth happens to be trap in between 2 other Toshibas. In the end, we didn't even managed to get much customers because our booth was so isolated and trapped by 2 other Toshiba booths.
And when I walked around the Sitex fair, I can barely squeeze through the walkway. This shows how the people inundated the whole hall 5 and 6 at expo. The irony is, when I walk back to my booth, I can actually walk with both arms spread wide out. Totally empty with only a few customers walking by...
Enough of the rantings. Basically my job scope is to promote and sell the Toshiba laptop. Haha, I couldn't believe I can be such a good liar. I had to weave up some lies in order to persuade the customers to buy the laptop... In the end of the 4 days, I only managed to sell a total of 12 laptops, and usually 12 laptops is what other promoters sell in 1 day...
Poor result I must say, but I blame it on the poor location, poor brand as well as my inexperience in IT fair + my flu and sore throat...
Still, working at the IT fair is definitely an eye opener and a great learning experience for me. The other promoters working in the same booth as me were pretty helpful too. They tried to help me to answer some of the customer's questions when I couldn't handle it well and some of the more experienced promoters gave me some tips to sell the laptops.
Although tiring, but worthwhile.

♥ 1:10 PM

Yeeseng's birthday chalet!
Happy 15th birthday, YEESENG~
Haha! Pretty sorry for the EXTREMELY LATE update because the Sitex IT fair totally ate up all my time (i'll blog about the IT fair on my next post)
For yeeseng's birthday celebration, we went to the chalet at east coast park!
Although it was only a mere 2 days 1 night chalet, but I hope yeeseng will really enjoy himself and will have a memorable 15th birthday celebration.
On the 24th of Nov, most of us met up at JE and we took bus 197 to ECP. Okay, I know, I apologised for asking you all to take the bus instead of the train. Didn't expect the journey to take THAT long. ;x
Attendance for that day: Myself, Kelvin, HuiHui, Xinyi, Stephanie, Francis, Devon(Or is it jacky, or both? LOL), yeeseng's friends and of course yeeseng himself.
We reached the chalet at around 4pm, and everyone was really tired from all the walking. We planned to have a BBQ, but was pulled off since we didn't really prepare for the food and such. In the end, yee seng ordered 3 boxes of pizza from pizza hut! So yeah, we cycled around ECP before our pizza dinner and after dinner, everyone stayed at the chalet room watching television for about an hour.
That was when we decided that we shouldn't be wasting time watching TV on a chalet! And we started to form a circle on the bed and played Truth or Dare! It was awesome. Those who chose dare were like, forced to kiss someone of the opposite gender with a piece of paper in between them. Cool right? And those who chose Truth will have to like, say out if anyone in the room will have a chance of becoming his/her boyf/girlf. Kinda cruel, but those are especially designed for 'SOMEONE' in the room. You all should get what I mean. xD
Around 10pm + we went out for NIGHT CYCLING! I had never cycle at night before, and it's totally fantastic. Especially because we have a potential couple among us, so we were like basically trying to match them up. Cycled until past midnight and we went back to chalet.
Its such a sad thing that I had IT fair training on the next morning, so I had no choice but to force my eyes to shut while the others played monopoly...
As usual, I couldn't really sleep in chalet, so ended up only slept for a few hours. In the morning, only yeeseng, huihui and me went for breakfast while the rest were sleeping like log. Due to the IT fair training, I left pretty early while most of them are still asleep ;D Haha!
Although the chalet wasn't really planned, but I hope everyone will have fun. ;)

Took some photos during the chalet, enjoy~ (I'm sorry for any unglam photos!)