Yesterday was our off-day.
Today worked at the Parkway outlet. Smaller place. A little not used to it since in Bugis, if you’re cashier, you’re solely cashier. Here in Parkway, have to do some other things yourself.
Tomorrow, staff meeting. Thursday, off-day. Friday, work. Saturday, off-day again. Sunday and Monday at TM. How come so many off-days? Coz Parkway outlet need not have too many staff there so to even out, we are given more time off till the TM outlet is open.
A little tired.
Maybe I’m just a little too paranoid or maybe I’m too much of a perfectionist. Either way, it increases the stress I put upon myself.
I was allowed to do cashier-ing today for 2 hours. Of which I made a few mistakes. Luckily the customers were nice and quite forgiving. Most of the time, the aunties and managers tell us to be careful of the soup and hot drinks, careful not to spill and hurt ourselves. But I’m not afraid of burning myself, I’m afraid of spilling and wasting the drink and then probably get a scolding for that. Actually I just burnt my hand today when I accidentally hit the hot coffee cup and a bit of the coffee spilled out on my hand. So that’s no big deal.
I spilled a bit of coke too. Yew Seng, one of the managers (the nicer one) just told me nicely to be careful. I don’t think he minded that I spilled the coke. But inwardly I was scolding myself for making that stupid mistake.
In my previous jobs, I learnt that not everyone can be trusted. People may be nice to you but behind your back, they may be saying all the bad stuff about you. That’s what I think of a certain 2 managers. I know it isn’t nice to go around suspecting people and I wish I didn’t have to feel this way. One seems to have a problem with my hair. First time he says I should tie lower so my hair doesn’t swish to the front when I turn. Fine. Today he says that I have to change my scrunchie to either a dark blue or black one. I was using a lighter blue one by the way. The next moment I glanced to the other side and I saw one of the crew used a pink band to tie her hair. It made me feel like taking a pair of scissors and just snip of my long hair right in front of him. Yes, I told Sis to stop playing with my hair before and warned her if she kept doing that, I’ll snip off my hair so she can’t play with it anymore. Don’t think I’m the kind who will cry if I have to cut off my long hair.
The other one just seems to suspect everything Sis and I do. And he doesn’t seem nice. Fullstop.
So the manager (who has a problem with my hair) was kinda angry today. Not sure over what. Maybe a customer scolded him about something. Not sure. But immediately I started to get scared whether it was my fault. Maybe I got a customer’s order wrong and he scolded the manager. Maybe I did something wrong. Maybe my fault…maybe my fault…maybe my fault…
I’m hoping I can bare with all this a little longer…already I’m starting to dread it and it ain’t good. I still think I prefer to do office/admin jobs.
So I started work yesterday. Training to be exact. Nothing much. Just preparing drinks. Hate the milk shake mixer coz if you don’t get the hang of it, you tend to splash a little.
Today, still doing drinks but learnt how to do cashier-ing at the end of the day. A bit harder. I hope customers will be more patient coz I can’t find the buttons on the cash register. I’m sure as time goes by it’ll be better but for now, still quite nervous.
Hmmm…I kinda prefer office/admin jobs. You don’t need to face customers…even if you have to, it’s once in a while and not every moment. Luckily it’s just a part-time job, so 4 hours a day. I’m trying to psycho myself that at least there’s Sis with me and that I’ll be doing till the end of the year. So just tahan a bit for now… Besides, the other crew and manager are quite friendly so it’s not too bad.
Happy Deepavali! And…Happy Birthday, CJ! Hope you are having a fun one despite all the mugging for your exams.
Tomorrow will be my last day of work. Free from the boring net-less computer, the chance of bumping into Mr Snake-y in the toilet and letting my eyes see some gruesome murder *aka a squashed toad*.
Not that I did bump into a snake in the toilet anyway. But I did see one outside the office, near the drain. It was black…and it was a cobra. Iqbal saw it first since he was going out. And the rest of us just kaypoh-ed. To which the cobra decided to make a quick escape via the drain pipe outlet. Smart move. Else he’ll probably end up…dead.
Second time I’ve seen a snake other than in the zoo. The first being a rather small one trying to cross the road just outside PS and ended up flapping in the wind after some car rolled over it.
But yea…sensei, I guess this would come close to “exciting wildlife” since I replied that there weren’t any monkeys in Botanic Gardens. Haha…
Mum told me that there are pythons around too. She said the last time they caught one around my office area too. But by the time she went to kaypoh, the poor snake was already chopped up into pieces, ready to be brought home to be cooked. And yes, the chinese do eat every darn thing. *A general statement. I’m definitely not included since I’m darn picky when it comes to food.* Snake soup is supposed to be full of nutrients or something.
It’s only my first day at NParks and I’m ready to ask for a transfer. I’m stuck in this ultra ulu area called the Potting Yard. Which is quite far from the visitor’s centre. You have to walk through this path through the forest…it’s only for about 1-2 minutes before you reach the area.
The toilet is not in the same building/shed. You gotta walk to over to it and there’s no shelter on the way so if it rains, you gotta have an umbrella to shelter you to the toilet. Imagine the shock I had. Only one cubicle. Squatting toilet. Well, it is clean except it’s wet all over. But I can’t do with squatting toilets. *wails* Especially when it comes to big business. It is also a huge inconvenience when the time for bleeding begins again.
Toilet issues aside, I spent much of the day in my cubicle…pah bung. Literally… I got a little work to do. Nothing much, spent the rest of the time reading comics. Mind you, I was hoping for a better computer but no…I got a pentium II running on Windows 95 with no internet connection. Anyway, where there are plants, there are mosquitoes. My timely arrival probably was like throwing a banquet for them.
Discussed it with Mum. She’ll inform HR to transfer me to somewhere else. Hopefully within HQ else PRC is ok too. Although PRC is also another mosquito infested area but there’s Mr Koh there.
Thought about giving up the NCS job again. But if I had taken up that job, it would probably be programming and database stuff. No-no stuff for me. And giving up on working completely is not an option either. I’m getting my mp3 player and webspace which leaves me with very little cash so I need the month’s earnings.
Listening to Hilary Duff’s new self-titled album. A little different from the first album. Not so much bubblegum pop? But it’s always like that. Somehow artistes mature by their 2nd album.
I got Hikki’s new album “Exodus” as well.
Last day of SIP today. Some of my colleagues bought me lunch. *sobz* So touched. I mean considering I’m just a SIP student, I don’t even expect such treatment.
I thought I would be full of complains by the time I reached the end. Ok…alright, I still have to complain about the lousy computer I got. Really…they should consider trashing it.
No…I didn’t get all teary-eyed. But somehow I had this feeling that I was leaving something behind. The people…my little cubicle. I admit I don’t really warm up to people I don’t know straightaway. So I tend to be a little more quiet…some sort like a little wary??? Most of the time it’s people who talk to me and seem friendly then I start to open up a little more. Maybe it was a little too late. Didn’t get to know everyone a little more.
In the beginning, I was sure that I was going to die coz I’m going to some super duper IT place where there’s database and programming…stuff that I ain’t good at.
And as time went by, I got to do other stuff. No programming stuff. But I just felt that I wasn’t confident enough. Flipped through the papers every morning, seeing those ads for universities. Then it dawned to me that I didn’t know what I wanted. I’m not even sure this is the path I want to continue. Like I said before, I’m not fabulous. Just average. I’m interested in web design but I don’t have flair. And Cas once pointed out that you can pick these things up yourself. Yea…kinda true.
I don’t even know what I’m absolutely good at. Everything is just average this average that. Haha…maybe I’m good at slacking. Slackers.com…my future company. Ah…what rot.
So I’m 19 and aimless. Good combination huh. Ok…going along the line of crapz now.
Singapore Idol is full of crapz nowadays. Ever since Jessea got voted out. I don’t even know why that Chris-sy-pooh-topher and Jerry Ong still remain.
Wahahahahaha…one of my now-ex-colleagues, Vince said he’s going to vote for Jerry Ong. So if Jerry wins, he can go malu himself in World Idol. Not a bad idea… But thinking again, that would mean malu-ing Singapore as well right? Uh oh…
Wow…and that means it gives Taiwan the chance to insult us further? So what if that minister of theirs apologised. It looked like a half-hearted one. If you ain’t sincere then just forget about it.
And news just gets more depressing each day. People killing each other. Really, where is the love?
This has gone awfully long again. And I’m just rambling non-stop all over the place. Bouncing from one topic to another.
Kinda free now since my other colleagues have gone for the meeting regarding the task which we’ve been rushing since last Friday. So glad there’s no more overtime for me. For the past few days have been staying back till 9+pm. And end up having dinner at around 10pm.
Yesterday, met up with Nad for extremely late dinner at PS’s Long John’s. She had to wait quite some time for me coz I was still stuck in the office trying to get things done.
Hmmm…PS’s Long John’s closes quite late. I was afraid that they’ll close around 9.30pm and I was arriving later than that.
My supervisor did ask me whether I could stay on after SIP ends *which is this Friday*. Of course that means I get more than $500 a month. But I turned down the offer since Mum already got me a job at NParks. I didn’t ask my supervisor how much he was willing to pay. Even if the pay’s higher, I don’t think I want to take up the job. That is after quite a bit of consideration so don’t come telling me I missed a golden opportunity.
Oh…and tomorrow I don’t need to go to work. Supervisor giving me time off since I came back on Saturday to work. Yay! I have some stuff I want to do for them before I leave NCS.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS! I finally managed to park the damn car after 5 minutes 44 seconds and numerous knocks on the other cars. This is also my successful attempt after many failed tries. I think I’m not fated to drive. No…I didn’t drive a real car. Just this flash thingy my ex-colleague sent me. And I can see some of you guys gloating over the fact that you guys managed to park the car in a shorter time on the first attempt. Blah ah…
2-3 days of SIP left. Today will probably be the last day I have to work overtime. I can feel the dull ache and the eye bags already.
*shrugs*
Anyway, Mum got me a temporary job at NParks again. Will be starting there as soon as SIP ends.
Been thinking. I feel I want to say lots of things out…how I feel…how things are. But yet I don’t want to. Coz people might say I’m judging other people and I don’t want to. I feel like being my old self. But yet I don’t want to hurt people. I’ve changed. It sucks being so emotional sometimes.
Recently in the news, some Taiwanese burnt our country’s flag. That was after some Taiwanese minister referred to Singapore as a booger…yea right, talking about the size of Singapore. I’m so glad Singapore isn’t stooping to their level. So those Taiwanese had better reflect on their actions.
Sure…Singapore isn’t as big a country as Taiwan. That we are just a small red dot on the map. But I think we’re surviving better than you guys. Uh uh…before you rebut my statement, think about it. You guys are stuck in a position with China that can blow up any minute. Are we?
Still in the office. Waiting for my colleagues to finish discussing some stuff so they can come check my work.
Strangely, I don’t really feel hungry. Ok…a little…
Feeling quite tired since I slept a little late last night. In the afternoon, started to feel a little cranky. Just going mad with all the work. Quick run to the toilet to sort out my thoughts as well.
I just don’t know…
Thus my weekend is pretty much gone. *sings ala Justin Timberlake style* GONE~~~GONE~~~GONE~~~
I went back to work on Saturday. They had stuff to rush and required my help. I wonder whether it was coz I kept thinking that I have nothing to do in the beginning that they have decided to pile me with work. Or maybe coz I’m leaving soon and they really need my assistance. *shrugs*
Well…it has always been like that. When there’s little/no work, there really is nothing to do and you can be bored to tears. When there’s work to do, it’s really A LOT.
Oh manz…and tell me about it when I say some people can be awfully picky/fickle-minded. It is only a freakin’ demo. I don’t think people will actually scrutinise the size of something. Especially when the pic’s height is short of 7 pixels. C’mon…be realistic manz. You only got so many days to work with. No doubt you must get it up and running by hook or by crook. But I guess you gotta weigh which stuff is more important.
I now understand how someone feels when other people start passing little remarks. The effort that goes behind working on something no matter how small the task is. All the while when I heard those remarks, I was seriously going -_-||| and I could feel a certain person getting a little irritated by the remarks as well.
At that moment, I really felt like telling that person to just shut up manz. You think it’s so damn easy? Why don’t you try doing it as well instead of sitting there and directing people around.
Yea…I do believe in Dogbert and his management tips. Be a manager.
And well…should anybody stumble upon my blog. I shall say what Pwen said before. I’m not pin-pointing anyone in particular. So you can sleep in peace tonight.