Saturday, October 23, 2004 . 7:21 PM
+ Agitated mood +
I've tried updating my blog more but i was simple too tired lar. Every nite this week was spent trying to force my eyes open.
ANyway, alot of things happened and alot of things were going thur my mind this week. Basically, i don understand how the world works. I really don lor. MY colleague keith was talking to me abt how gd it is to go into teaching and suddenly i saw how damn gd it really is to b a teacher. Juz the bloody pay alone makes mi wanna change my mind abt being a stupid lab officer who's worth onli 1.8k. WHY??!! Does it mean that if i wan to do something that i'm interested in i have to go eat grass? But if i give that up, i would have lots of money, support a car and my family easier. Y is the world like that......all that rubbish abt how life sciences is gd..how this field is developing and blooming..my ass. Got nothing to do with me..my pay is still 1.8k..peanuts. Then.. really..i'm thinking y the hell am i torturing myself staying in this stupid field for....hai...
Monday i went to N*S 's HR and met the HR officer to brief mi abt the employment. And i've failed to negotiate for a higher pay becos she insisted that i've got no experience watsoever. N*S has also adjusted the pay they give the freshgrads. If it were last yr it would b 2k, this yr is 1.8k. Huge difference lor. After CPF, i'll b getting 1.4k onli.....so ok...that leads me to another pt. It seems like being a degree holder nowadays is worth nothing but grass. It's even worse than being a dip holder hai. Ok i may b having a higher pay than a dip but it's not like much difference..and degree holders since they are paid more their OT is not paid. SO dip holders are paid for their OT and they actually could earn more than i do. I'm not saying all dip holders' OT are paid for...but i'm saying some jobs out there do pay for that. I'm really very irritated. Considering the amt we paid for our uni fees and dip's ...y are we onli getting so little in pay?? 1.4k.. that means i would b sharing hay with my rabbit...i go eat grass aldy after supporting my family liao lor. so happening..
So talking abt supporting my family..it's pretty impossible to totally support them. My mom has juz started working in a shop selling wholesale clothes in clementi central. To earn some extra cash. I find it quite a gd arrangement cos she starts work at 4pm to 10 pm so that means she could still look after my dad in the morning..
These 2 weeks i've been busy looking ard some insurances policies..as u know im working in AIA wat..and of cos i come across all these policies. 1 yr ago i was approached at an AIA roadshow..regarding a medical insurance called healthshield. I bought it. But the whole thing didn't get processed for some reason..think my application got lost. So i went to tok to an agent introduced by my colleague and discussed abt it...so decided to buy it again. It's actually one that increases ur coverage of ur medishield. $95 per yr from ur cpf. I think it's quite gd. And got another one Pink of health that covers hospitalisation etc..very gd. I even met up with a prudential lady who has been bugging mi for a yr to tok abt some saving plan called PruCash. The thing is like sooo too gd to be true. I donoe if there's any catch in it so i'm not buying yet. So been busy with all these lar...and might invest in some investment scheme too. Cos the risk is low..and u get to earn some money juz sitting there. So see how...
And N*S HR gave mi 5 days from mon to think abt accepting the job. It's a yr contract but i don need to sign anything juz give a mth's notice if i wanna leave .I tot abt it for days bcos i was super unhappy abt the pay. But seems like i don have a choice. I decided to accept it and gain some experience b4 i jump ship. The reason y i would wan to stay is that i wanna know how i can take my masters there...see if the prof can help mi or anything. I'm afraid if i go else where to work i might b depriving myself the chance. But anyway, it's to gain experience and frm there i can move on and get a betta pay and job opportunity elsewhere.
So i went to hand in the acceptance form and my staff card form yesterday(fri) at N*S HR after half day of work. And i had to do medical checkup at YIH too..it's in nus lar. BUt u know wat! ON-site xray is onli done on mon and thurs! So i had to do all the checkup and then proceed to NUH to do the xray. Wah lau. I waited for 1 hr at YIH. Waited for 1 and a half at NUH. Faint. ANd i was all alone. Gd thing my new hp is so entertaining i cld play with it all day. I even had to change into the patient gown at NUH. And went braless for those 1 and a half hrs infront of so many pple. Felt so darn uncomfortable...............the checkup at YIH is also quite weird. Even had to check ur breast? * roll eyes..* Female doc lar! wat u thinking!
Anyway after NUH i went to find an engine fren who's doing his 4th yr. Then also met another engine fren who happened to b there. SO had a gd chat with them and a gd time suaning them for studying when i'm earning money woohoo..hee
ANyway these are some photos i took with my hp. Very clear huh. 7610!!!!!
Took this one the day i got my 7610. Taka's MOS burger.
Big Fat angel!!! The pic is abit blurred cos used night vision to take so it's not that clear.
Our wonderful cramped storeroom office for the temps. We have been forced to moved into this crap space bcos the higher levels has selfishly taken our big space out of jealousy (:p)
My M1 line has been merged with my starhub line. So now even if u call my old no it would get thru to my new one. I sent an sms to almost every person on my hp abt updating my number and many of these pple i've not spoke to or contacted for some time, some even yrs. In fact, i was hoping pple won't msg mi back cos i didn't wan to b chatting over sms even tho i got 1000 smses but that's not the pt i juz wan to b anti social. BUT there was this idiot who even called mi back and asked , " er hallo, my friend wans to know who msged her juz now?" and i was thinking r u trying to b funnie? In my msg i aldy put my bloody big name down??????! SO i replied feeling like an idiot myself, " JIayann....." ANd i heard her talk to her fren," she says she's jiayann.." Her fren's puzzling reply," jiayann? i donoe jiayann." So i asked her fren wat's her name and her fren told me it's jessene. So i told her i think i msged the wrong no. Put down the hp and i regretted being so damn polite to them. I shd have cursed her or something. WAT'S UR PROB?! U DONOE ANY JIAYANN THEN JUZ IGNORE MY MSG WOULD U?! Y WASTE MY HP BILL TRYING TO ASK MI A STUPID Q?! ASK UR DAMN OPERATOR IF THEY GAVE U AN OLD NUMBER LAR!!!!! pissed.
But there were old old frens who msged back asking how am i etc...pretty touched. aww..warming. great to chat with them again. Would meet them up when i start working in nus. Cos most of them are doing their honours in sch.
That's all. Wanna cut my hair soon. Byes
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