some thoughts

I just tot of something, vegetarians said that they dun eat meats because they dun wan to support killing of animals.. But I think they are worse off than us.. They are competing for the food that the animals are eating too.. PLANTS.... this makes the animals have less food and in the end it will become a dog eat dog world...

EOY

End of Year sucks.. boredom in office. wasting of time.. I just want to sleep!!!!!!

ICT over

Went for my ICT on 10/12/07.. It was damn hectic all day all night, the moment I get to in pro, I was called up to cut my hair as they were long and untidy.. $5 gone~.. In Pro and went to my company line, check my duffel bag for contraband items and then went to draw arms.. and went for commanders training for the rest of the day. At night need to settle stores for the platoon as I was the stand in PS as Sharin the idiot is not coming for this ICT..

Tuesday, went for commanders navigation in Marsiling and then were caught in the rain when we were reaching the objective.. whole body was wet and was demoralised already as I do not like to be wet unless I am in the rain all day.. Went back and settle stores again for the platoon battle course.. Haiz.. Called sharin up and fuck him upside down.. that became the release channel for anger and fustration for me... HAHAHA.. Then the OC says that as our company has very little officers and specialists around for this ICT and we are on a high key ICT which meant that there will be a battalion exercise at the end of the ICT, it meant that we need to split one platoon to join with the other 2 platoon.. Ended up, jimmy became the PC and I became the PS for platoon 7.5. Tang became the PS for platoon 9. He cursed as he has become the PS for platoon 8 in the last ICT and now taking on the PS role again...

Wednesday, FIBUA training, the only time and last time I fired 2 shots.

Thursday, platoon battle course easy shit..

Friday, company mission exercise walked all the way to the FUP ended up, it rained damn heavily.. and the trainers says we need to go to the training shed for shelter.. WTF! everyone in the company cursed and swear.. we walked to the objective for only 2 km and to the shelter needed an extra 4 km. by the time we reached the training shed, the rain is already going to stop.. everyone was saying that, "does it meant that in war time and it rains, the war is not going to continue? Singapore Army is going to suffer if everytime rain comes when it is in war as we soldiers are already not trained to fight in the rain.." HAHAHA.. Next time, rain no need to fight war again.. SAF rocks!..

Saturday, Day off

Sunday, afternoon move off for the hasty defence.. everyone was already very tired by the time we started digging as the day was really very hot.. at night everyone just fall asleep and waited for the other reservist unit to attack us..

Monday, no one attacked us and enemy was simulated by our 84 team and it was very funny was platoon 9 PC called on the platoon to charge at the enemy and also called them to retreat so that he could give them water.. HAHAHA... then waited to clear the stores and I had to go up and down to make sure that everything was returned. Then everyone loaded the tonner and troop lift to our concentration area for our dawn attack, the moment we got there it started to rain and worse still we had to get our fresh ration and some were wondering are we going to eat rice or porridge with this kind of weather... sent some men to collect the ration and they came back telling us that other companies were in the tonners taking shelter and we were the only ones out in the rain.. everyone cursed the OC with this type of welfare and then by the time we were allowed to get into the tonner all was too late as what done has been done.. we were not going to forgive our OC with this type of treatment given to us... Night came and we started to move off from the start line...

Tuesday, the way we are walking, walking for 10m and stopping for 15 mins was very atrocious as it is just a 5km walk and we needed 6 hours to walk???? it is simply outrageous.. upon hearing that the OC had break contact with the scouts, the men were even more fustrated as this means that it will be another long wait, what the men want are that they just want to walk finished and reach near the FUP and had a longer rest for them to have a good fight.. Reached the FUP at last after much delay, H hour reached and we started attacking.. WTF!!! NO ENEMY AT OUR OBJECTIVE.. haiz.. thats the end of our BME.. stupid exercise.. no rounds expended again...

Wednesday, did survey, listened to CO TCSS.. OUT PRO.. End of ICT!

Mike Low Whisky High

Going for ICT/Reservist tomolo till next wednesday.. morale is quite low as it has been raining these few days and I really hate rainy days when I am out in the field. First, I am having foot rot, with these rainy days ahead, my foot will get worse.. 2nd abrasion easily I will get when it is damp and i am not dry.. damn sad..

Hopefully meeting up with all the friends again will cheer me up as the last time we met was like in july when I just came back from aussie and after that everyone is busy till this ICT.. Will be away these few days, hopefully the stocks i bought will keep on rising and I will have nothing to worry about... byebye

painting and some changes..

Repainted my whole room last weekend with the help from candy.. hahah took us 1 and a half days to finish painting the whole room, new bed frame arrived today... nice~~

a look at my desk

Logistics, courier, mailroom.. anything but marketing...

Yesterday and today have been very tiring, settling issues with the calendars and cards and also delivering the cards and calendars to the various departments. Some things that I learnt in my uni days started to come back... satisfying internal customers have been hard... But I had learnt it the hard way with some colleagues reflecting on the distribution for the calendars and cards that I am in charge of... Which is a good lesson for me...

I could really say that I am the internal mailroom for my department officially.. Yesterday, mailroom called one of my colleague who is situated at 2nd floor to get some stuffs, instead of getting the other temp girl who is nearer to him, he told the mailroom to call me instead.. HAHA in the end it was just a filmsy paper which anyone can handle..

I can also say that I am doing logistic in the department also as I am now currently consolidating, organising of 3 orders for our branch... There is also one pending project for me but I still need to wait for instructions before I send out instructions to the various departments...

I am happy working at my level but is quite demoralised with the fact that I could not get a permanent job at all.. Looking forward to this weekend as I am going to paint my room and giving it a overall makeover..

yet another week...

Story that I wrote to my colleague:

HAHA long story...

The calendars order, 1000 (500 bilingual, 500 normal) of them are for charity. Then I send them an email (9.11.2007) that time to update the order as starting it was 1000 with normal logo. Then the printer din notice about the update and print 1000 normal logo and then somemore they based the printing not from the email but from the distribution list (16.11.2007) which I gave them, so they printed it wrongly as my list did not state the quantity for the different logos under the charity column then they tell me that they did the printing wrongly. To cover up for my mistakes and her mistakes, I email HK side to ask them whether they can take in the normal ones so that they don't have to reprint. Lucky they accept it, so end up we cover our backsides.. Phew~

Friday...

Calendars orders are here.. a whole lorry of calendars and it is 6.00pm everyone is going home.. The deliverymen and I were doing the delivering to the various departments, lucky some of them are still in the office, lucky that I knew where some of them sits which makes the handing over easier and therefore we are able to get the things done within 2 hours with like ??700?? over boxes placed in where they should be.. worse thing is that, I dunno why my mailroom knows that they should call me when the orders came, I think I have become the next mailroom to their mailroom when they need to handle big bulk of stuffs... I am.. the marketing internal mailroom cum logistic cum courier.. My job is no more just an admin staff.. HAHA is that good or bad for a marketing graduate? I wonder why some get to have good job and good pay when they come out yet I got only a temp position in a company... Am I that inferior to them?? Is that really meritocracy all about? study hard hard get good job, study not good you get cert also no one wants you.. WTF~.. That might be what luck, fate, destiny are all about?? it really sucks to the core...

Singapore economy is bluffing us all along... I have not get a permanent job yet and the papers are still reporting that fresh graduates are not meeting the demand.. _|_ sg papers..

Internal mail man..

I dunno about other departments but I think mine is a pai kia department.. Yesterday we were supposed to be in a fire drill yet everyone in our department were like in holiday mood as we are going to celebrate one of our colleague's birthday.. We went to a jap restaurant in suntec.. Shin (dunno what) and then waited for her just before the fire drill.. (and thus escaped the "fire") then my other colleague dragged her and she was stunned when she sees everyone of us waiting for her.... HAHA.. over with that.... Now my job in the department becomes the internal marketing courier guy.. always making delivery between the 2nd and 5th floor... then I am also the logistic guy in the department and worse yet I have become the APAC logistic guy as I have been helping the APAC department to deliver stuffs and making sure that the deliveries came in and arrange for DHL and making sure that everything were in place.. HAHAHA got to go... sending candy to our friend's place.. she is having her wedding today.. good luck guys and girls.

PDA phone!

HAHA candy and I both got ourselves a pda phone!!

Weekend again!!!

Weekend is here again.. sooo fast.. hectic week for me, we were having an event overseas and yet we had only 2 persons coordinating the event over there.. our dept therefore had to assist them here in any ways we could... sometimes i wonder why some vendors or supplier are so reluctant to see us, we wanted to give them $$ yet they keep pushing us away.. -.-" Singapore sees the lowest unemployment rate ever.. yar yar yar.. lotsa jobs no ppl to fill up... why I still cannot find a permanent job yet? unemployment rate is low but what I think is that unhappiness in the job rate is damn high among lotsa employees.

contradicting notice

Today, I just saw a notice in my pantry that says "Protect the earth, use less paper cup" then to my surprise, we do not have paper cups. We have styrofoam cups... Erm... Is the styrofoam cups more hurting to the earth or the paper cups? To what I know styrofoam cups are non biodegradable but paper cup could be biodegradable.. Perhaps the company thinks that paper cups are hurting the earth so they use styrofoam cups that "would not" hurt the earth?? Hmm.. who knows..

Chair

Hello, I just bought 2 office chairs for my brother and I.. treated it as a birthday present for him.. hahaha.. actually wanted to get a ps3, but then no $$.. fixed the chairs and now I am happily sitting on it with confidence.. HA HA HA $128x2 for ikea chair.. Yesterday went to buy a printer for one of our company event, we were at South Asia computers in Funan (the one you can go into on the outside via the escalator straight) we almost bought one printer from them but when we saw a smaller one we asked them to let us see the other printer (the colleagues going over there wanted a portable one). Attitude of the staff.. -100 seems practically dun bother to sell their products and then ask their staff there they just point you to the direction and then they also dunno the products they are selling (product knowledge - NIL). simply walked out and went to the shop next door to buy from them.. They were professional and recommend several products for you to choose and tells you how to use them, etc..

Moral of the story, when you want to sell things.. KNOW your stuff.

ar!!!!

AR!!! Leng Jie reads my blog!!! haha.. My mum called Brandon - Brenda I type Brandon as Bradon. oops.. sorry for the typo.. edited already.. cheers.

To be sad or not to be?

My temp job in credit suisse just got extended till next year.. one thing i am not happy about is that, my hourly pay did not increase.. damn low morale.. $7 for a graduate then other people out there earning like 2.5 - 3k a month. damn sianz.. But then what I am happy is that credit suisse is a nice company to work for.. everyday got different problems to tackle.. This is because they have so many events going on.. I am wondering why can't they just get an event company and then sort out all the events' stuff through the event company? Today got "scolded" by one of the RMs as their cheque to one of their clients did not get through and they were scolding us for not taking ownership.. hello... if you want to please your client, please take ownership to your cheque and not pass it to the marketing to handle it.. why scold us when the accounts people are slow in their payment? It is not us who are handling payments.. also you should note to us that it is urgent instead of just letting it idle around and when situation arise then come and fuck people..

I am enjoying my Wii at the moment.. my brother is lemming for a ps3 now.. now i just wish that i could get a permanent job instead of temporary assignment when even after you worked for 6 months and start to apply for a job, people will still not consider your temporary job as experience.. life just sucks for now..

i got Wii

I got my Wii at last.. $869 in total.. 2 games 2 free games (Wii Sports and Wii Play) extra nunchuck and Wii Remote and a Wiimote charger.. hmm.. nice nice.. hooked on to mario soccer charged..

back to work

holidays over and i am back to work.. very tired but then heard from my colleagues that it was very very hectic for the days i am not around.. i am lucky.. for now.

Canberra

Canberra is a very small capital town of Australia.. So small that it feels like a NFSC city to me.. Very easy to drive around and you can get from one place to another within half an hour.. nice place for retirement..

Brandon, my nephew

Floriade

Parliament House

roof of Parliament House

Telstra Tower

War Memorial Hall

Parliament house Old and New then War Memorial Hall all in a straight line

Airport view

for now..

graduated

at last I have graduated.. pictures will be up soon..

aussie part 2

yeah.. tomolo im going to aussie for my graduation.. will be back at 6th oct.. working in credit suisse is great.. everyday is a hectic day.. lotsa things learnt in the company.. mainly events management for the clients and stuffs.... observe that everyone in the company seems to get paid very well because almost everyone is wearing soooo glam everyday... everyday is also a tired day for me.. almost from the 1st day of work I have been doing OT.. this is great!! haha.. good luck guys..

Credit Suisse

it has been tiring for the past 2 days.. working at credit suisse as a "officeboy" hahaa.. stuck in the store for like hours?? to pack goodie bags for their upcoming golf event in Jakarta... the stuffs inside the goodie bags are fantastic!.. Nike golf balls, tees, windbreaker.. all are customised with the company's logo.. the company is also a great place to work in.. there are TVs but only CNN channel bloomberg for them to use, fruits.. lots of fruits for employees to take.. at least 3 pantries in the department.. all stocked with tibits, soft drinks, coffee maker.. no wonder it has been voted number 2 bank that graduates would like to work in...

The view is great too.. suntec on ur left, esplanade on ur right... go to toilet and what would you see?? Singapore Flyer, Meritius Mandarin.. hahaha.. damn high class office.. But then the demoralising part is that I have to wake up early and reach home very late..

Woah~~~

Yeah.. My bro just pass out from his BMT today.. Congrats to him to be being a Private now..

Now I am "eagerly anticipating" for my work tomorrow at Credit Suisse.. Hopefully people at the work place are friendly and nice to work with..