Okay, after several thoughts (Ok ok, change that to LOOOONG and MUCH thoughts), I have decided (FINALLY MAN!!) to take up accountancy. Well, for those who doesn't know, I've already been in a major dilemma ever since the end of last year. About what? I'd say it's about my future. Throughout this 1/2 year, I've been asking myself, seeking for others' advice until they got fed up, asked Baba etc etc whether should I take accountancy or chemical engineering. Well, many would wonder, wow, these 2 courses are very distinct from each other, how did they end up in your top 2 career list? Okay, since this is my blog, entitled "The Place Where I Can Talk, Talk and Talk", I would not tell any lies then. Honestly, when I choose a career, I automatically think of $$$. Now tell me, whoever in this world doesn't work for the sake of money? Okay, a minor minor minority would declare proudly :"I work not for money, I work because I'm interested in my job!" Well, if you were born in an average family like me, who worry over financial plight and economic crisis, you wouldn't have not worry about money problem. (Man, how many times have I gone off-topic in my last few posts? Never mind, I bet this would not be the last time... And I swear, this off-topic thingy was not planned, at all! It's just that, before I start a topic, I should start a well, pre-topic first, but I can't control from crapping, terribly.. Since I'm half way through, I might as well continue)
So... I heard that the 2 careers I've had in mind can let you earn big money, well, provided that you are a member of the ACCA if you were to choose accountancy. So I cracked up my mind to make an option, but to no avail obviously, until now. My chemical engineer cousin sister told me that if I wanna earn big money, engineer is not the way, and one of Jing Mei's aunty also told me that it has always been a custom for arts stream students to make more money than science stream ones, except doctors of course. So.... Here I am! Signed up for accountancy in Tar College, which brings us to today's topic, I'm officially a Tarcian!
TarC is a pretty good place to study in, I would admit. And I've got a full tuition fee waiver, that means I do not have to pay a cent! Well, except registration fees etc etc... haha, not trying to boast here. It has the facilities alright. An Olympic-sized swimming pool, not that I'll swim there anyway, I'm too afraid of exposing my fats in public, hahaha! I had actually thought of entering Sunway University instead before entering TarC, because I heard that its ACCA papers are more, like, original. But only overseas companies will look so deeply into these stuffs, and since both TarC and Sunway are the Platinum Award holders for accountancy, they're both good. PLUS, I am not financially eligible into Sunway, lol, I just simply do not have enough $$$. And the food there are so expensive, as told by Guan Rou (a student there), and do you know that you can have a meal in Tarc at only RM1.90?? Lol, I can save up so many bucks by just studying in TarC.
I'll be starting lectures classes this week. Last week's orientation was okay. I didn't attend the Human Monopoly Game, and I heard that it was very fun, sigh, missed it. Hope I can catch up with the accounting syllabus, as I did not take this subject in my secondary education, except a little during Kemahiran Hidup in Form 3. But almost half of the accounting students in TarC have no base too, so I guess it's okay. And you know what, just accounting itself has already got a total of approximately 800 students! Can you imagine! It takes up about 60% to 70% of the School Of Business Studies! Just like the PR course takes up about 70% of the School of Social Science and Humanities. Lol, I've heard that there are lots and plentiful of accountants in this world, but that's not my aim. My aim is to pass all the ACCA papers and be the official member of the Association of Certified Charted Accountants! Even the name is so grand, hahaha!
Okay, I think that's all, although I rarely write in my blog, but I sure write A LOT whenever I've got the chance, so, watch out for more!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
My JPA interview experience (2009)
My interview was due Friday, 03/04/2009 (the last day of JPA interviews), 8.00 a.m in Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC). I departed at 6.30 a.m from my house in Kepong and reached the place at about 7.20 a.m. By the way, before I enter my main point, I would like to describe a little (not really) about the scenery in Putajaya. First, it is HUGE, everything in it is prodigious, even its road is broader than the normal ones we see in our neighbourhood (despite those living in Putrajaya of course). Its a pretty good place to drive around, haha, but honestly, without the sign boards, I'll surely lost my way. Second, its beautiful (duh~), even the traffic lights are decorated beautifully, they're all spoilt, though, but there's not much to worry about, 'cause there are only a little cars there. And the road lamps are built with patterns too. Then the residential areas, the banglos are enormous and SOO grand and beautiful (lol, how many times have I repeated this word?). I would really like to know the millionare's son living in those banglos (Chinese of course)! Then I will not need this JPA scholarship to further my studies, haha! Forive me, I like to day dream. Oh ya, I even saw our Prime Minister's and Deputy's banglos, grand and alone and massive and beautiful(again, lol, I'm starting to wonder about my vocabs), standing there on the hill, richly surrounded with trees and plants. Well, all the interviewees who went there would have seen it, they're beautiful, aren't they? Then the PICC building, haha, I've heard 2 different comments about it, Jing Mei's parents said that it looks like a graduate's hat, and my dad said that it looks like a gigantic space craft. Well, I just think it's huge, and well, different from the buildings I've seen in KL. Entering Putrajaya gave me a really different feeling, well, maybe it was my nervousness which overwhelmed me, but it really gave me a different kind of inexplicable feeling. Okay, I'm done (finally) with my description of Putrajaya, and now I'll proceed to the main topic today, my JPA interview experience.
I entered the building with my dad with a major nervous and uncomfortable feeling, the former because, well, it's normal to be nervous right? The latter because my high heels was VERY loose. It was my sister's long-time-ago heels and was also the only formal shoes I can find in my house, so I had to bear with it, but it was difficult to catch up with my Dad's speed. Wow, tell you what, I've found a new ability of mine, which is I'm REALLY good in crapping, my God, I really sound like an old granny after going through my second paragraph! Anyway I reached the well, was that the lobby? to find a large crowd gathering in front of the many boards there, with plenty of A4 papers sticked on the them. I searched for my panel room (panel 14, which I knew already because Guan Rou saw it on her interview day). I was numbered 11, which would mean I'm the 1st candidate of the 3rd batch. I met Wan Ling on my way to the panels room and went in with her, hers was panel 13, we were arranged according to our birthdates, and I heard a Malay lady saying it was because with the same birth dates, we were then supposed to have the same maturity, well, even a slight difference counts I guess.
We went in front of our panels' room to pass up our photostated documents. I met Yuen Shue (one of my primary school's classmates) who had the same panel as me. I sat on one of the many chairs and chatted nervously with one of the candidates there, he said he just came to gain experience as he had already plan to start Form 6. Anyway, after the 1st batch (with Yuen Shue inside) went in, my name was called up for the second batch. Some of the candidates didn't come, so I were to replace their places. I was the 4th one of the 2nd batch. There were 1 Indian guy, 1 Malay guy and 2 Malay ladies in my group. Luckily there was still time for me to know the guys (well, the girls sat far away from us) before our time came. The waiting period really set butterflies flying furiously in my stomach but I tried to stay calm. After approxiamtely an hour, the 1st batch session ended and we entered the room. There were 3 panels, an Indian sir, a Chinese lady and a Malay lady.
They then asked us to introduce ourselves according to our numbers. I was VERY lucky to have panels who didn't mind about our language ( I mean we were free to speak in either Malay or English, but we spoke in English throughout the interview, except one Malay candidate who asked permission to speak in Malay). But one thing i'm really angry at myself, when it was my time to speak, I spoke and things went smoothly until the time where I stuttered:" I was the Head of Bulletin Board of... um... (pause), I was the Head of Bulletin Board of, erm... (pause) KH Club..." GOD!! How could I possibly forgot that it was the Interact Club, I stared blankly for about 10 seconds, with all the panels looking at me stuttering!!! God, that was the worst part of my interview.
Aftet the introduction session, we were given a discussion title :"Do you agree that Malaysia's education system which is exam-oriented make students less creative in their thinkings?" Well, I personally think that it was not a very tough question. All of us agreed of course, with points like most of the students just memorize from text books without understanding bla bla bla... I gave reasons like there are no practical exams like lab experiment exams for science subjects, students just memorized word to word for Paper 3 (written practical exams). After that, they asked questions like what do you think we should do? One of the candidates gave his opinion and then the problem came again,I raised my hand to answer and the Malay interview forgot that I had already spoken for the former question and she told me :"You haven't get a chance to speak just now, do speak now.(something like that)" I was taken aback because I had spoken just now but she forgot and that surely will pull down my marks. But anyway I stated my opinion for the 2nd question. But its really frustrating to think that I answered but she forgot, I hope the other 2 interviewers did not.
Then we were asked one-to-one (well, 3 to 1) about our preferred course and country and why bla bla bla. I was the only one there who applied for a local scholarship. Well, the whole interview was actually for those who wanted to go overseas but, when I applied online, I remember choosing the local one, but I was suprisingly shortlisted as one of the overseas candidates, so I went anyway. Because I was applying for a local one, one of the interviewers asked me :"What can you serve for the government if we were to give you this scholarship?" I practically answered what a chemical engineer (that's my preferred course) can do for that question, I recited my answer to one of my friend after the interview and she said I wasn't off-topic, so, well, I hope not. Then we were asked to ask them questions, any questions about JPA. And our interview session ended. Then I made my 2nd mistake, I got up and turned to leave, until I saw all of the candidates went in front to shook hands with the interviewers. I was like, shoot! My impression mark is surely to be near to 0! and went quickly to shake hands and mumble my thanks to them. It was a relieve to leave the room. I made brief details of my interview experience with some of my friends there and left the place.
Well, I think I did average, not too good nor the opposite. I was told a local scholarship is easy to get, and now I regretted a little for not applying for an overseas one. But anyway, I hope my experience can help those who will attend their interviews next year. Good luck and all the best to those. The tips are:
1. Wear formal clothes or baju kurung, I heard some were kicked out form the room for wearing t-shirt and jeans.
2. Speak confidently however you can even if you're shaking like hell inside.
3. Remember to shake hands before and after you're being interviewed.(Don't make the same mistakes as me!!) Take the initiative to do so if your group members didn't.
4. Do not slouch or cross your legs.
5. Prepare answers for those questions which will surely be asked, like, why do you choose this course/country? and also answers for the introduction, both English and Malay, you never know what language they'll ask you to speak.
6. Double check your documents before you leave your house. And after the interview, remember to check your original copy of documents (inside the clear folder) too to check whether did they take your Borang Pengesahan, one of my friend didn't have hers taken and was considered (maybe) not qualified.
7. Get to know some of your group members before entering the interview room, to prevent awkwardness in the interview room and also to get you throat working.
That's about all I can give. Good luck again.
I entered the building with my dad with a major nervous and uncomfortable feeling, the former because, well, it's normal to be nervous right? The latter because my high heels was VERY loose. It was my sister's long-time-ago heels and was also the only formal shoes I can find in my house, so I had to bear with it, but it was difficult to catch up with my Dad's speed. Wow, tell you what, I've found a new ability of mine, which is I'm REALLY good in crapping, my God, I really sound like an old granny after going through my second paragraph! Anyway I reached the well, was that the lobby? to find a large crowd gathering in front of the many boards there, with plenty of A4 papers sticked on the them. I searched for my panel room (panel 14, which I knew already because Guan Rou saw it on her interview day). I was numbered 11, which would mean I'm the 1st candidate of the 3rd batch. I met Wan Ling on my way to the panels room and went in with her, hers was panel 13, we were arranged according to our birthdates, and I heard a Malay lady saying it was because with the same birth dates, we were then supposed to have the same maturity, well, even a slight difference counts I guess.
We went in front of our panels' room to pass up our photostated documents. I met Yuen Shue (one of my primary school's classmates) who had the same panel as me. I sat on one of the many chairs and chatted nervously with one of the candidates there, he said he just came to gain experience as he had already plan to start Form 6. Anyway, after the 1st batch (with Yuen Shue inside) went in, my name was called up for the second batch. Some of the candidates didn't come, so I were to replace their places. I was the 4th one of the 2nd batch. There were 1 Indian guy, 1 Malay guy and 2 Malay ladies in my group. Luckily there was still time for me to know the guys (well, the girls sat far away from us) before our time came. The waiting period really set butterflies flying furiously in my stomach but I tried to stay calm. After approxiamtely an hour, the 1st batch session ended and we entered the room. There were 3 panels, an Indian sir, a Chinese lady and a Malay lady.
They then asked us to introduce ourselves according to our numbers. I was VERY lucky to have panels who didn't mind about our language ( I mean we were free to speak in either Malay or English, but we spoke in English throughout the interview, except one Malay candidate who asked permission to speak in Malay). But one thing i'm really angry at myself, when it was my time to speak, I spoke and things went smoothly until the time where I stuttered:" I was the Head of Bulletin Board of... um... (pause), I was the Head of Bulletin Board of, erm... (pause) KH Club..." GOD!! How could I possibly forgot that it was the Interact Club, I stared blankly for about 10 seconds, with all the panels looking at me stuttering!!! God, that was the worst part of my interview.
Aftet the introduction session, we were given a discussion title :"Do you agree that Malaysia's education system which is exam-oriented make students less creative in their thinkings?" Well, I personally think that it was not a very tough question. All of us agreed of course, with points like most of the students just memorize from text books without understanding bla bla bla... I gave reasons like there are no practical exams like lab experiment exams for science subjects, students just memorized word to word for Paper 3 (written practical exams). After that, they asked questions like what do you think we should do? One of the candidates gave his opinion and then the problem came again,I raised my hand to answer and the Malay interview forgot that I had already spoken for the former question and she told me :"You haven't get a chance to speak just now, do speak now.(something like that)" I was taken aback because I had spoken just now but she forgot and that surely will pull down my marks. But anyway I stated my opinion for the 2nd question. But its really frustrating to think that I answered but she forgot, I hope the other 2 interviewers did not.
Then we were asked one-to-one (well, 3 to 1) about our preferred course and country and why bla bla bla. I was the only one there who applied for a local scholarship. Well, the whole interview was actually for those who wanted to go overseas but, when I applied online, I remember choosing the local one, but I was suprisingly shortlisted as one of the overseas candidates, so I went anyway. Because I was applying for a local one, one of the interviewers asked me :"What can you serve for the government if we were to give you this scholarship?" I practically answered what a chemical engineer (that's my preferred course) can do for that question, I recited my answer to one of my friend after the interview and she said I wasn't off-topic, so, well, I hope not. Then we were asked to ask them questions, any questions about JPA. And our interview session ended. Then I made my 2nd mistake, I got up and turned to leave, until I saw all of the candidates went in front to shook hands with the interviewers. I was like, shoot! My impression mark is surely to be near to 0! and went quickly to shake hands and mumble my thanks to them. It was a relieve to leave the room. I made brief details of my interview experience with some of my friends there and left the place.
Well, I think I did average, not too good nor the opposite. I was told a local scholarship is easy to get, and now I regretted a little for not applying for an overseas one. But anyway, I hope my experience can help those who will attend their interviews next year. Good luck and all the best to those. The tips are:
1. Wear formal clothes or baju kurung, I heard some were kicked out form the room for wearing t-shirt and jeans.
2. Speak confidently however you can even if you're shaking like hell inside.
3. Remember to shake hands before and after you're being interviewed.(Don't make the same mistakes as me!!) Take the initiative to do so if your group members didn't.
4. Do not slouch or cross your legs.
5. Prepare answers for those questions which will surely be asked, like, why do you choose this course/country? and also answers for the introduction, both English and Malay, you never know what language they'll ask you to speak.
6. Double check your documents before you leave your house. And after the interview, remember to check your original copy of documents (inside the clear folder) too to check whether did they take your Borang Pengesahan, one of my friend didn't have hers taken and was considered (maybe) not qualified.
7. Get to know some of your group members before entering the interview room, to prevent awkwardness in the interview room and also to get you throat working.
That's about all I can give. Good luck again.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
SnJ 2009 annual dinner (6th/7th/8th anniversary, lol, I'm not so sure... XP)
Just came back from SnJ annual dinner an hour ago, but the groggy feeling that's supposed to visit me hasn't come yet, indicating the door to Slumberland has not been opened for me yet, so, lol, I've still got some time to write in here...
In case many of you haven't know yet, my working place (SnJ) has 2 bosses, well, at least that's what I'm told, and they're Sam and Jeff, which, I think, makes out the name of their shop -- SnJ. Today, well, since it's 1.00 a.m in the morning, it's yesterday (17th Feb), was the shop's anniversary. We took off to Crystal Hotel around 4 something after working from 10 to 3.30 p.m in 1U, the dinner was supposed to start at 5 p.m, and we're supposed to stop working at 2 something and depart at 3 p.m, but the managment staffs of 1U disallowed our shop to close at 2 something, hence we have no choice but to leave only at 4 p.m. Anyway, these are insignificant craps. SnJ has a total of 15 francais, and we were to perform during the annual dinner, well, more like, compete, as the best 3 performaces francais will get cash money as gifts. We -- 1U staffs made a singing performance, with 2 couple dancers (me being one of them) behind the 2 main singers -- Sze Mei and Stephanie. Each and every one of us wore SnJ products with its functions opposed to its original ones, for instance, handphone accesories as ear-rings, paper ribbons as hair clips or scarfs etc... To reiterate the slogan of SnJ -- Always full of surprises... There were a total of 4 judges, each carrying 10 marks, and we got 29 out of 40, placing us far behind in no. 6th or 7th... Well, the first prize was RM500 cash, which we had to sadly wave it goodbye.
Warehouse got the 1st prize, with the highest score of 36. Losing to them is acceptable, because they made 3 performances, a brief magic show, an Indian dance, and a song with its lyrics changed into those connected to SnJ. It was obvious that they prepared really well, far better then us, frankly speaking, we -- the dancers, in this case, only practised for an hour before we actually performed in front of a crowd of almost 200 audiences. But anyhow, my main point for today is not this, but beofre proceeding to that, I'd like to say that I actually enjoyed the whole session. Although the food were not really very scrumptious and despite the just average quality of the hotel (will I get spankings from the hotel manager and SnJ bosses for writing this??), I really did enjoy the dinner, and I get to know more about the other francais, and the supervisors (who were all really very young indeed, I thought Enna's considerably young for her age, but the other supervisors in the other francais were mostly all very young, well, look young, at least, in about their mid-twenties.) and many more.
But what really did make the dinner really good was that I get a chance to look at Jeff more then usual, without him knowing, too! Haha! Lol, I haven't mention this yet, Jeff, the younger brother of SnJ, looks really cute and handsome! Honestly! He didn't need a really fashionable haircut, just a decent one would do. But nevertheless, he looks awesomely great and woderfully cute, lol. His elder brother, Sam, is taller and a little more muscular than him, with long, golden-brown hair, cutted according to fashion. Sam honestly looks younger than Jeff, Jeff's more like, mature-looking., and he always wear more mature-looking attire, unlike Sam. The staffs in 1U misunderstood that Jeff's the eldest one at first, but after hearing him calling "Da Ge ler? (meaning, where's my eldest brother?) last night in the dinner, we were all pretty sure Sam's the big one, after all.
But however it is, Jeff's still adorable. Haha, he's got a girlfriend already actually (not that I've got a chance!! He's too old for me anyway), the name's Stephanie, if I didn't remember wrongly, and she's holding a high post in Zara in Mid Valley, haha, that's all I know from my colleagues in SnJ. I realy do hope that Jeff's not here to see my blog, or I'll be dead meat I guess. But better still, I hope Stephanie will not see too, or else, besides being dead meat, I'll suffer from various kinds of sufferings before that, hahahaha. But Jeff's good looks is undeniable. But most of the staffs in SnJ 1U are crazy about Sam, but I personally think Jeff looks much more better.
I'm glad I've such a good-looking boss, haha, I'll continue next time I guess, tireness is sweeping over me now and my eyes are drooping madly, plus the neurones in my body seemed to be working slower than usual, causing my brain to work slower too... Which means that, the Land of Nod is welcoming me now... So, good night!
In case many of you haven't know yet, my working place (SnJ) has 2 bosses, well, at least that's what I'm told, and they're Sam and Jeff, which, I think, makes out the name of their shop -- SnJ. Today, well, since it's 1.00 a.m in the morning, it's yesterday (17th Feb), was the shop's anniversary. We took off to Crystal Hotel around 4 something after working from 10 to 3.30 p.m in 1U, the dinner was supposed to start at 5 p.m, and we're supposed to stop working at 2 something and depart at 3 p.m, but the managment staffs of 1U disallowed our shop to close at 2 something, hence we have no choice but to leave only at 4 p.m. Anyway, these are insignificant craps. SnJ has a total of 15 francais, and we were to perform during the annual dinner, well, more like, compete, as the best 3 performaces francais will get cash money as gifts. We -- 1U staffs made a singing performance, with 2 couple dancers (me being one of them) behind the 2 main singers -- Sze Mei and Stephanie. Each and every one of us wore SnJ products with its functions opposed to its original ones, for instance, handphone accesories as ear-rings, paper ribbons as hair clips or scarfs etc... To reiterate the slogan of SnJ -- Always full of surprises... There were a total of 4 judges, each carrying 10 marks, and we got 29 out of 40, placing us far behind in no. 6th or 7th... Well, the first prize was RM500 cash, which we had to sadly wave it goodbye.
Warehouse got the 1st prize, with the highest score of 36. Losing to them is acceptable, because they made 3 performances, a brief magic show, an Indian dance, and a song with its lyrics changed into those connected to SnJ. It was obvious that they prepared really well, far better then us, frankly speaking, we -- the dancers, in this case, only practised for an hour before we actually performed in front of a crowd of almost 200 audiences. But anyhow, my main point for today is not this, but beofre proceeding to that, I'd like to say that I actually enjoyed the whole session. Although the food were not really very scrumptious and despite the just average quality of the hotel (will I get spankings from the hotel manager and SnJ bosses for writing this??), I really did enjoy the dinner, and I get to know more about the other francais, and the supervisors (who were all really very young indeed, I thought Enna's considerably young for her age, but the other supervisors in the other francais were mostly all very young, well, look young, at least, in about their mid-twenties.) and many more.
But what really did make the dinner really good was that I get a chance to look at Jeff more then usual, without him knowing, too! Haha! Lol, I haven't mention this yet, Jeff, the younger brother of SnJ, looks really cute and handsome! Honestly! He didn't need a really fashionable haircut, just a decent one would do. But nevertheless, he looks awesomely great and woderfully cute, lol. His elder brother, Sam, is taller and a little more muscular than him, with long, golden-brown hair, cutted according to fashion. Sam honestly looks younger than Jeff, Jeff's more like, mature-looking., and he always wear more mature-looking attire, unlike Sam. The staffs in 1U misunderstood that Jeff's the eldest one at first, but after hearing him calling "Da Ge ler? (meaning, where's my eldest brother?) last night in the dinner, we were all pretty sure Sam's the big one, after all.
But however it is, Jeff's still adorable. Haha, he's got a girlfriend already actually (not that I've got a chance!! He's too old for me anyway), the name's Stephanie, if I didn't remember wrongly, and she's holding a high post in Zara in Mid Valley, haha, that's all I know from my colleagues in SnJ. I realy do hope that Jeff's not here to see my blog, or I'll be dead meat I guess. But better still, I hope Stephanie will not see too, or else, besides being dead meat, I'll suffer from various kinds of sufferings before that, hahahaha. But Jeff's good looks is undeniable. But most of the staffs in SnJ 1U are crazy about Sam, but I personally think Jeff looks much more better.
I'm glad I've such a good-looking boss, haha, I'll continue next time I guess, tireness is sweeping over me now and my eyes are drooping madly, plus the neurones in my body seemed to be working slower than usual, causing my brain to work slower too... Which means that, the Land of Nod is welcoming me now... So, good night!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Life is never easy
So many things had happened ever since the last time I'd written in my blog...
Well, since I've limited time to write in my blog, as I'm currently busy working + learning driving + following drama series + playing computer games and after the release of my SPM results, I bet I'd then be pretty busy preparing for my college things + attending scholarship interviews + packing my stuffs for hostel (maybe)... Thus, I think I'll write things that are a little more significant first, then only I'll write other stuffs, so... my blog will not be arranged chronologically, haha, this, too, indirectly shows an example of the insystematic personality of mine...
Okay, what I want to talk about, erm, I mean, write about today is about the black side o society after school life...
Almost all my, um, friends(??) in SnJ had left, in search for another job, or just simply to have fun in their hols, I don't know, but anyway, before they left, in fact, just a few days before they said their goodbyes, my nightmare in SnJ had begun...
First, there are commisions for every workers in SnJ, as long as you're working more than 100 hours a month. For a part-timer like me, we get a 0.125% of the whole shop sales if we achieve our targets (Erm... I think i mentioned dat in my last blog, right? Can't remember and lazy 2 check) Anyway, everyone tried their best to get good commision, then some misunderstandings occured between Vivian and me, making her thought I was actually taking her customers away from her, which I certainly DID NOT! I am absolutely SURE about that, because I never did like arguments, neither minor ones or major ones. But unfortunately, the news was immediately spreaded to Yip Yeng, then Sue Sim, who were good friends of theirs, then Amanda, who were more than acquaintance to them, then all of a sudden, in a speed faster then speed of light, or faster than Clark Kent's superhuman speed, I became the bad guy, like villians in superhero movies, I became the Lex Luthor in Superman, Joker in Batman, Green Goblin in Spiderman... The worst part of it is, at least these villians are happy to be bad, but I'm certainly NOT! Because I'm not even bad! I was still kind of shocked and taken aback at their sudden change of attitude towards me, and to Jing Mei too, who happens to be my best friend, and was innocently involved in our little many-to-one war.
Those who are not involved would not know my feelings, but I'm pretty sure those (who're innocent, in this case) whose work has something to do with getting high posts or good commisions or anything to do if these kind of things would understand how I felt, how I truly felt. If they were just showing some ugly and annoying faces to me, it's ok, fine, I'm pretty good in ignoring people and act like nothing happens. But they became more and more ignorant andirritating, and up to some levels, scarily malicious. First, they blatantly "steal" my customers, like, for instance, when I was obviously following a customer, ready to serve him, the whole lot of them deliberately stood in front of me, taking my customers on purpose. Then, they started back-stabbing me, which then turned into front-stabbing me. I remembered clearly how they repeated the word "Bitch" for God knows how many times in front of me, and it was not just one of them, it's the whole lot of them, saying that word again and again, apparently trying to humiliate me, but which I think was more like embarassing themselves. And when I successfully had some customers buy many things from the shop, some of them (well, frankly, I've only seen one of them angry, but it's not really good writing her name here) get really pissed of.
Sigh, my patience was way beyond the limit that time, the hot flame licking me in the pit of my stomach was way beyond ready to swarm up anytime to release my long-awaited anger. But I still remained casual in the shop as I knew, Jing Mei and I knew, they were leaving in just another 3 or 4 days, thus we did not want to cause any more unnecessary squabbles, the current World War 3 was enough to make us stressed like anything in the world. Believe me, my feelings before starting work those few days were exactly like the feeling when tomorrow's the day the results of major exams like PMR etc are released. Terrified would be an appropriate word.
But deep in my heart, I know, many such things will happen in life, that's what make life difficult, isn't it? We can't always make things go on our way, it's just like when God created this world, He can't always make sure everything is peaceful and harmonious, He had not the power to ensure that nobody is in poverty and everyone are happily enjoying lifes. Nope. Not even God had the faculty to make things run smoothly like direct current in circuits. Hence, we should not give up at times of troubles but to do our best to make the best out of everything. Like the saying goes, "Success is not in never falling, but to get up everytime we fall (well, it sounds more or less like this, I can't remember the whole thing)
So, everyone out there who're struggling in lifes, I wish the best of luck to all of you, strive hard for your own futures and live your lifes to the fullest.
But anyway, after working in SnJ, especially after that incident, I understood how scary misunderstandings could be, how powerful it is, that it is able to totally destroy relationships in just a blink of an eye, and I honestly hope that my future career would not be so... complicated, one lesson I learnt in SnJ: Better to make friends than make money... Now that's it's february, I hope to build up a different image in front of them, a positive one of course, they can have their customers and commisions, it's better to work happily rather then get stressed up but enjoy an extra 100 bucks... It's tempting to have commision of course, but if it's gonna cause me sickening trouble, no thanks, I'd rather not want that money...
Yawn, I'm working in morning shift tomorrow, and its 2.45am now, guess I'll need a boost of fresh-brewed Old Town White Coffee tomorrow to start my day with! Tata!
Well, since I've limited time to write in my blog, as I'm currently busy working + learning driving + following drama series + playing computer games and after the release of my SPM results, I bet I'd then be pretty busy preparing for my college things + attending scholarship interviews + packing my stuffs for hostel (maybe)... Thus, I think I'll write things that are a little more significant first, then only I'll write other stuffs, so... my blog will not be arranged chronologically, haha, this, too, indirectly shows an example of the insystematic personality of mine...
Okay, what I want to talk about, erm, I mean, write about today is about the black side o society after school life...
Almost all my, um, friends(??) in SnJ had left, in search for another job, or just simply to have fun in their hols, I don't know, but anyway, before they left, in fact, just a few days before they said their goodbyes, my nightmare in SnJ had begun...
First, there are commisions for every workers in SnJ, as long as you're working more than 100 hours a month. For a part-timer like me, we get a 0.125% of the whole shop sales if we achieve our targets (Erm... I think i mentioned dat in my last blog, right? Can't remember and lazy 2 check) Anyway, everyone tried their best to get good commision, then some misunderstandings occured between Vivian and me, making her thought I was actually taking her customers away from her, which I certainly DID NOT! I am absolutely SURE about that, because I never did like arguments, neither minor ones or major ones. But unfortunately, the news was immediately spreaded to Yip Yeng, then Sue Sim, who were good friends of theirs, then Amanda, who were more than acquaintance to them, then all of a sudden, in a speed faster then speed of light, or faster than Clark Kent's superhuman speed, I became the bad guy, like villians in superhero movies, I became the Lex Luthor in Superman, Joker in Batman, Green Goblin in Spiderman... The worst part of it is, at least these villians are happy to be bad, but I'm certainly NOT! Because I'm not even bad! I was still kind of shocked and taken aback at their sudden change of attitude towards me, and to Jing Mei too, who happens to be my best friend, and was innocently involved in our little many-to-one war.
Those who are not involved would not know my feelings, but I'm pretty sure those (who're innocent, in this case) whose work has something to do with getting high posts or good commisions or anything to do if these kind of things would understand how I felt, how I truly felt. If they were just showing some ugly and annoying faces to me, it's ok, fine, I'm pretty good in ignoring people and act like nothing happens. But they became more and more ignorant andirritating, and up to some levels, scarily malicious. First, they blatantly "steal" my customers, like, for instance, when I was obviously following a customer, ready to serve him, the whole lot of them deliberately stood in front of me, taking my customers on purpose. Then, they started back-stabbing me, which then turned into front-stabbing me. I remembered clearly how they repeated the word "Bitch" for God knows how many times in front of me, and it was not just one of them, it's the whole lot of them, saying that word again and again, apparently trying to humiliate me, but which I think was more like embarassing themselves. And when I successfully had some customers buy many things from the shop, some of them (well, frankly, I've only seen one of them angry, but it's not really good writing her name here) get really pissed of.
Sigh, my patience was way beyond the limit that time, the hot flame licking me in the pit of my stomach was way beyond ready to swarm up anytime to release my long-awaited anger. But I still remained casual in the shop as I knew, Jing Mei and I knew, they were leaving in just another 3 or 4 days, thus we did not want to cause any more unnecessary squabbles, the current World War 3 was enough to make us stressed like anything in the world. Believe me, my feelings before starting work those few days were exactly like the feeling when tomorrow's the day the results of major exams like PMR etc are released. Terrified would be an appropriate word.
But deep in my heart, I know, many such things will happen in life, that's what make life difficult, isn't it? We can't always make things go on our way, it's just like when God created this world, He can't always make sure everything is peaceful and harmonious, He had not the power to ensure that nobody is in poverty and everyone are happily enjoying lifes. Nope. Not even God had the faculty to make things run smoothly like direct current in circuits. Hence, we should not give up at times of troubles but to do our best to make the best out of everything. Like the saying goes, "Success is not in never falling, but to get up everytime we fall (well, it sounds more or less like this, I can't remember the whole thing)
So, everyone out there who're struggling in lifes, I wish the best of luck to all of you, strive hard for your own futures and live your lifes to the fullest.
But anyway, after working in SnJ, especially after that incident, I understood how scary misunderstandings could be, how powerful it is, that it is able to totally destroy relationships in just a blink of an eye, and I honestly hope that my future career would not be so... complicated, one lesson I learnt in SnJ: Better to make friends than make money... Now that's it's february, I hope to build up a different image in front of them, a positive one of course, they can have their customers and commisions, it's better to work happily rather then get stressed up but enjoy an extra 100 bucks... It's tempting to have commision of course, but if it's gonna cause me sickening trouble, no thanks, I'd rather not want that money...
Yawn, I'm working in morning shift tomorrow, and its 2.45am now, guess I'll need a boost of fresh-brewed Old Town White Coffee tomorrow to start my day with! Tata!
Monday, January 12, 2009
My new (and 1st) job
I've started working now... As a part-timer in S&J, a branch in 1 Utama... It was ok, I've been there a week now, today's my off... I'm working there with Jing Mei, so I can overcome my boredom when there're no customers, you see... But anyway, I met new friends... Vivian, Amanda, Yip Yeng & a lot more... It's true when the saying says, you rely on your family when you're home, but on friends when you're outside... They helped me a lot, being a novice, there are loads of things I didn't know, like, where are the stocks located, how do we check stocks... etc etc..
There are targets to be hitted for every employees, as Jing Mei and I are still new, ours are $$6k per month, most of all the others are $$7k, Sue Sim and Mei Gi said our targets (6k) is damn easy... well, for them, maybe, for me, hehe, we'll see... The supervisor there, Ms Enna's nice and friendly, well, anyhow, I'm lucky to have been employed, as Enna agreed to arrange Jing Mei's and my shifts to be the same, and we get the same off days too! And although tete-a-tete are not encouraged, it's not forbidden, thus, in conclusion, we've found ourselves an average-paid job as well as a way to past our holidays effeciently...
The salary is calculated as 5 bucks per hour, so it's adequate, I think, I've heard of higher and lower payments, so... that puts mine in the middle, right? Furthermore, we've got triple pay during Chinese New Year Eve and Day 3 of CNY, though I'm not working during Day 3...
Well, I'm done writing here, I've still got another piece of utmost important news to write, but that's going to be in my next (and third) blog... So, watch out for more...
There are targets to be hitted for every employees, as Jing Mei and I are still new, ours are $$6k per month, most of all the others are $$7k, Sue Sim and Mei Gi said our targets (6k) is damn easy... well, for them, maybe, for me, hehe, we'll see... The supervisor there, Ms Enna's nice and friendly, well, anyhow, I'm lucky to have been employed, as Enna agreed to arrange Jing Mei's and my shifts to be the same, and we get the same off days too! And although tete-a-tete are not encouraged, it's not forbidden, thus, in conclusion, we've found ourselves an average-paid job as well as a way to past our holidays effeciently...
The salary is calculated as 5 bucks per hour, so it's adequate, I think, I've heard of higher and lower payments, so... that puts mine in the middle, right? Furthermore, we've got triple pay during Chinese New Year Eve and Day 3 of CNY, though I'm not working during Day 3...
Well, I'm done writing here, I've still got another piece of utmost important news to write, but that's going to be in my next (and third) blog... So, watch out for more...
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