I’m a little pissed off due to some insensitive remarks by insensitive people just because they themselves do not encounter the same situation as me. It is so f**king easy for them to say that. I’m not getting younger, I don’t think my body have the time to wait for it. I don’t even think they will UNDERSTAND HOW I FEEL. What for?! Coz they are not even in my shoes!
Ever since I’ve started working in town, my expenses actually went up. Previously at my old workplace, I can get the cheapest $2 chicken rice, or at most a $3 bowl of noodles. But now, my lunch sometimes exceed more than $5. Not only that, I also took bus/MRT to other places for lunch. Just last week, I spent almost $30 on lunches + trips for the whole week. My manager sometimes wanna eat fast food or places with lesser crowd, for eg, Delifrance. I have the habit of buying a cup of tea before I go to my office, and that’s 90 cents per cup. I’ve calculated: if I continue to spend an average of $25 per week, I will spend about $100 on food! Looks like the increment from my previous job’s pay to my current job’s pay is not enough to cover this… 
Yesterday was my first ever Malay wedding I’ve attended. It was Paris’ wedding, one of my poly buddies. Oh boy, she looked like a queen when she finished her make-up and everyone was eager to take pics together with her. Look how beautiful she is!
Congratulations to Paris and her hubby!
Off topic. I had too much fattening food this whole weekend. It was roast duck on Sat, Malay food + Curry Mee + Durians on Sun．Ｉ ｂｅｔ Ｉ ｇａｉｎｅｄ ａｔ ｌｅａｓｔ １ｋｇ．Ｔｈｉｓ ｗｅｅｋ，I gotta eat light!
I’m starting to wonder if marketing is for me or not. I’m really having doubts on my ability. Today, my mgr asked me to find contacts through association so I can use their member database to offer them our promo bundle to them. At first my mgr wanted to let me do from scratch so I can learn. But then, she eventually gave me some association names to call up since we do not really have time for me to go and ponder over it. Before I started calling, I need to get my facts straight before I could tell the person. I only called the ones my mgr provided and I didn’t make the effort to find out more associations. Reason being, I am so clueless about what am I doing and I do not know if I’m doing correctly. In the end, there’s nobody keen to have a meeting with me which I’m supposed to set up one if possible, to let them broadcast to their members. Seriously, I don’t know how all these stuff works and I suck at doing research for this kinda thing. Yes, I am damn ignorant and I hate myself for it. I do not have the ‘can-do’ attitude at all. I have to submit my findings to my mgr tomorrow but I think I’m going to tell her verbally and get myself prepared for a scolding. Sigh.
It has been a whole new experience for me in my new job now. On the first day itself, alot of things are very overwhelming as I am truly very new and inexperienced in marketing. I’m a little worried if I can pick up those skills fast coz at the moment, my dept is pretty overloaded with events. I hope I can learn fast enough and be tactful in doing things.
There are a few things that I need to adapt coz there are a few different things as compared to my previous job:
i) Company strength
At the moment, my new coy has about 30+ employees. My previous one has only 2 employees. Isn’t that a great contrast already? But I find it weird that the people in different dept do not talk much to each other, which is totally different from what I had expected. This is something I hope they can improve. Other than that, I have more colls to handle now. A little overwhelming I must say, from a jump of 2 to 30+…
ii) Security
In the past, I hold the keys to the office main shutter and door. Now I only need one door access card. But I need to get used to tapping the card when I get in or out of office.
iii) Appearance
Now that I’m doing marketing and sometimes need to meet people, I had to dress in office wear and do my make up. In the past, I wore office wear for Mon & Tues and the rest of the week, I would wear casually, and with no make up throughout my working time there. Now, my only dress down day is Friday. I have to wake up early to do my make up, and needs at least 20 mins to do, meaning I had to sacrifice 20 mins of my sleeping time. Sigh.
iv) Food
Generally food around my area is more expensive than my previous one. I used to be able to get $2 chicken rice, or $2 mixed vege rice with one meat and vege. Now it will at least cost me $3. What makes me more exasperating is the cost of the tea. I spent $1.10 on a cup of tea last Tues and I was so shocked. It was 30cts more expensive now! But the only thing that justifty the cost is, the tea tastes so much better than I used to buy.
v) Job scope
This is the most challenging part. My previous job is really a chicken feed although it also needs a certain level of coordination. But here, I need to be an octopus. I see my coll doing things like a octopus coz one moment he could be doing item A, but one instruction from our manager, he would switched to doing item B. And it had to be done fast. Oh dear…can I adapt to my work fast? Now I’m starting to worry.
I’ve finally got my butt moving to upload my holidays pics. You can view them here.
It’s a good thing that I went HK again. Coz 3 years ago, the weather was pretty bad. Everything was…cloudly and hazy. I couldn’t see the magnificient view from the Peak, and the Peak wasn’t even done with its renovation and I didn’t manage to go Madame Tussads. Not only that, the Giant Buddha in Lantau Island, was partially covered with..clouds? Hahaha…just compare the pics here and you’ll get what I mean.
Thank you everyone, for giving me the support which I really need in order for me to go ahead and take that BIG step. It will be my last day tomorrow. I gave my colls and bosses a small gift each, and some of them said, why am I giving them a gift where they should be the one giving me instead. I never thought of getting a present from them, I just want to give them something to remember me by. I even get calls from my customers when I emailed them about my farewell. They wished me all the best though they felt a little sad coz they had a great time working with me. Sigh. At least I am appreciated by them
I have always imagine how happy would I get if I were to get a new job. But it turned out otherwise when I received a piece of good news on a Thurs 2 weeks ago. One company called and offered me a job which I have always wanted to try it out. I was happy, for a while.
I called Dear up to tell him the good news. I told him I will have to hand in my resignation on Friday. Suddenly, this sad feeling overcame me. My tears were already welling up and I was trying damn hard to control my emotions. Very mixed feelings coz after all, I have stayed for more than 2.5 years in this company and my boss has been very good to me. He’s probably the most understanding and patient boss that I’ve ever had. I started to feel that I can’t bear to leave this place, my small little room which I have all the privacy I want and of coz, my comfort zone. But because I really need to think for my career, I had to make this choice.
Throughout my trip in Taipei/HK, my heart was heavy coz I kept thinking, did I make the right choice? Will I be able to cope with the new job scope? Is the environment good and will I get along with my new colleagues? A lot of questions kept popping in my mind. But I will only know the answer when I start on my new job.
My last day at work will be next Friday. A little rush I guess as I only gave 2 weeks’ notice although it is stated in my employment letter. My boss found a new person to replace me but still under trial to see if she likes the job. Somehow I felt a little consoled coz he found a new person for me to handover the job to.
There’s only a handful of people who knew I got a new job before I blogged this down. Many thanks to my friends who kept on encouraging and supporting me. I really really appreciate it lots!
I’m back from my Taipei & Hong Kong trip! This time I went with my Dear and his parents. 8 days long! Pretty exhausting coz we did a lot of shopping than sight-seeing. It was raining every afternoon in Taipei but scorching hot in HK. I had at least 3 different tan lines on my shoulders.
I managed to do or go places which I didn’t have a chance to do so during the previous trips. Like going to teahouse in HK as recommended by my fren , desserts at Sweet Dynasty (HK), have ma la steamboat in Taipei (it’s really damn spicy!!!).
Bought a lot of stuff: clothings, belts, shoes, bags..our luggages were so heavy and I am dead sure that it would have been overweight. So we had to stuff heavy items into backpacks and carry it up to the plane.
So if you are a shopping queen, never go to these 2 places at one time coz your luggage will be damn overweight!