Sunday, August 30, 2009

END of my JTC journey

Yesterday marks the last day of my JTC Era,the company that I worked the longest:3 months Full time.

Plenty of emotions,first day there,was expecting a "cultural shock" as mentioned by the interviewer..however it wasnt meant to be.Ushered into the Human Resource(HR) dept,this was 1 place that would teach me tons of things in time to come.

Registry,a room where multiple of compactors filled the room thronged by millions of files,my job was to bundle them,to make the moving of these files to a new level smoother.Yet,on the very 1st day,we worked our guts out moving boxes of after boxes laden with paper inside,little did we knew that that day was coincidentally the disposal day where unwanted papers and boxes are thrown.

There was the ocassional chat with the HR staff,an office isnt complete without it's people,as the saying goes.Nice friendly people who justify the reason for their existence in this dept.There was Haslindal,our "manager" one who at times muddle headed but who would break in to a thunder of laughter,often infecting others around her.There was Our interviewer as well who almost or should I say recruited my friend as her godson.A lady who keep up with times and could follow up on our crappy and nosensical words..through her,presented an image that could at times be crappy and at times be no nosense and serious.Lastly,it was our real manager,our supervisor,a tall lady who despite holding a senior post lingers no air around her.She brings a friendly and cheerful disposition into
the office,often enquiring on whether we wan anything to eat or drink.She has the charisma that make u feel regretful for lazing on the job.Despite all her stresses, her face never fails to have a smiley face.That manager leaves a rather deep trail in my working life.

Buffet treats were a common esp,during training days,where we could save up on lunch,haha Courtesy of Dennis and gang.Including the cleaning auntie we would indulge in this feast which were nice foodies.

Work began to get tough,there were discussions on how to bundle and number the files,deadlines came and storage space issue came into play.These were solved pretty easily with a little help frm our Dy Dir.

Soon came the day of moving up,we were popular at least for that period of time where almost everyone in the Dept required our assistance in moving,packing or loading/unloading.
They were so thankful that they hosted a morning buffet for the both of us on our last day.
Unpacking were a chore,arranging,rearranging followed by more rearranging,largely attributed to the absence of a laptop where our bundle could be checked by file numbers.We managed to conquered it all.

Who could also forget the lunch hour, where a large whole gang of ard 9-10 pple would
gather at the lobby,walking to the food center,occupying the zhi char table with 1 or 2 ordering from the zhi char store.

JTC taught me skills which were invaluable and it's people inside made it concrete.
Most importantly,the pay allows me to render half of my school fees..haha..

Alrite shld write till here.

take care

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Stumble

When would you be be most likely to stumble when you talk? Has anyone posed this qn to u before?

I did tonight,she wasnt really pretty,yet she had a special aura around her.Her carefree mood,the righteousness to stand out for wat's right and her presence itself.
She could have choosed to ignore yet she asked,and this only serves to further increase my admiration for her.

Clearly my obstacle's still there,but 1 day I am sure I get rid of tat.1 day.

Take Care.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Uber Uber Long

Long long time since I last update on this blog.

Pretty monotonous,working at JTC + Lifeguard duties on weekends,nothing surprising..Cept tat getting to know the China Lifeguards pple view towards topics be it religion,education or history.They have an immense understanding of their long history and able to explicitly voice out the dates,their morale and in which state.

Mahjong with the usual primary sch clicks,lost $6,pretty much a lesson save for the fact tat when I had 3 tai and was waiting for the "one" when somehow,i could/managed to leak 1 tile away and could not hu/win...argh,haha..

Went NIte cycling with the ODAC gang and for the 1st time,I was involved in the OG not as a participant but as a sweeper,whose role consist of riding behind the last man of ur OG..Pretty fun and our OG was united and tat made the cycling even at the wee hours of the day fun,50 km of cycling!!

On a closer side,Resentment starts to arise towards my aunties,who prefer to treat my house as their own place.Bringing in my grandma or grandfather 1 by 1,week by week...and mind you,they have lots of places to go to and they ultimately still choose our already cramped place.Lucky for me,they have since bought a place and would be moving out by the end of the year.The thing is tat I dont have any ill feelings towards my aunties or grandparents but it just kinda make you sort of uncomfortable,tat kind of nt ur home tat kind of feeling,and I loathe that..a lot.

AHM gonna arrives this week and man,my longest distance ran for now is only 12 km...hopefully to complete it within 2hrs 10 mins...my ultimate aim

Tat's all for now.

Take care