Wednesday, December 13, 2006
With the "O", "N", "A" Levels over, students are job-seeking all over. Yup, not forgetting, Christmas and all the festives coming too. A very significant year indeed, last year.
Students, now at the age of 16 looking for jobs after their exams, when my group of buddies and I, then, 3years ago, were still playing our hearts out. We hung around at each other's house, playing board games, badminton, just simply hanging around (people called that bumming). None of us worked. Come on, after major exams everyone deserves (a) break(s) right. Geez.
My sis was working for some weeks after her "O", age 16, and I was recalling to myself that my first job was at 18, officially, I've worked for one year, aprroximate exact I supposed. Via the job-hunting agency (easy way out), I found my first job for the Christmas season, and then, known the barkery manager who got me and some of my friends, my second job for the Chinese New Year. Trust me in saying this, the seasonal (festive) assignments are the fastest way to earn a very reasonable wage. Money. Significantly, I had to work till 12am on one of that days and I had my birthday spent like that, with lots of surprises too, from Ching Har and Eileen and someone else, and of course, not forgetting receiving a call singing happy birthday, the following day with Corrine May's birthday song played for me on the phone. After that I took a very long break, months, before some other jobs, like at my uncle's store. That was all then till now.
Geez, I'm a little slack like what some'd say. I just want to do stuff that I like now, really, regardless of the pay. When it's still possible for me to do so. I'd say, so far, I am enjoying myself, a lot. I've known and seen many types of people, and believe me when I say my temper's so much in control. Changed.
When I told my friends that I'm working they are like, "Again?" meaning to repeat. One was like, "Can you believe that this girl work?" Another was like, "You're sure that you work?" Someone went, "Thought you only know how to shop, to spend."
Really. I've always thought I don't look like someone who splurges, not waste money on unnecessary stuff. Well, I really don't. Misconception. People, misconception. Miow's dad doesn't own a bank or company and her mum doesn't sit at home and print money, and neither does she.
Ohh, another interesting thing. One of my uni-friend commented that I was and looked dao, hopefully not am. Dao, meaning arrogrant. Hmmmm, do I? It's not the first time I got this comment already. In upper primary and college days there were people (now friends) who told me that too. Well, I mean you don't go smiling at everyone along the corridor nor do you just simply tap the unknown person in front and smile, on the first day of school. It's okie I guessed. I am not dao lah. It's just me being me, miow being meow-ish.
Hmmmm, that's all for now.
Till then.
Time flies.
