Bye

I imported all the posts from my wordpress into the other blog so officially, the other blog has more posts than this blog even though this blog is the oldest one. Lol..

We were chatting last night about first jobs and being grateful of crappy things that happen to us. I do appreciate having a first job in an insurance industry. Probably is the best thing that happen to me. I think, without it, I wouldn't be able start off in such a nice office job.

I haven't really found a job in anything that I want to be in just because most employers want experience. I did complain that without the first job experience, I will never find it.

Recently, I have been given the opportunity to do a project-based work. With this experience, I am hoping that I can go elsewhere for a better pay job. I will explain why I said better pay job later. I do hope that I can stay on permanently in this new role but it really depends on where there is a vacancy or not.

Better pay job? I need to save more money for upcoming expensive holidays which I want to go. We have been saving hard for ourselves, for a new house, holidays and savings. But I don't think it is enough so I need to equip myself with experience so I can move on to a higher pay job = save more money.

Lol I talk too much. Need to get ready for church soon.

-_-

I was just browsing through jobs when I saw:

CSO (Mandarin & Cantonese speaking) at ASB.

I thought, Yes, maybe I can apply but stop short at the cantonese speaking. Wait, I can't speak cantonese. Shit, I can't apply. I would have less competition if I could apply considering that I am working in the insurance and financial industry.

Lousy as. -_-

=)

I did not forget about this blog. Just that I have been quite busy with school work. Hmm.. you could say friends too. I went to friends' house yesterday to make 'kaya'. Kaya is a coconut spread which most Malaysians would know what it is. Anyway, this kaya is for International Food Fair which is tomorrow. My friends and I are selling food. Menu such as toasted bread with kaya, banana fritters with ice creams, butter chicken soup and most probably German meatballs. One member of ICF said that she wants to make German meatballs.

It's great as we are going to raise funds for ICF sister club in Fiji. It is an experience as there are a lot of things to be organized. I don't know about the others but this is like my first time handling this kind of event. I am definitely going to take photos and upload them so be patient.

Did I mention that I am going to ICF/CU conference? The theme of the conference is about love, sex and marriages. It is definitely interesting so I will be taking down lots of notes of whatever they are talking about. I will definitely share the notes here. Just give me time to put in words. The conference is this Friday night. I have 2 assigments to hand in and a test on Thursday so wish me luck. I just took a break from my assignments.

Got this from accounting careers fair.

These ones too. Hehehe, free pens from those companies. There were quite a number of internships they have for students but some require you to go to Wellington or Auckland. It is good but then if you already have a room in Christchurch, you wouldn't want to go to other places, right? Well, this is for my flatmate. Not for me. Science & engineering careers fair is in May so I will have to wait till then. Maybe I can get more free stuff like the pens above. Hehehe.. =)

More opportunites

Before I moved overseas to further my study, I think I do ever think how it feels like to work overseas. I thought of working in Australia because I kept hearing people who study overseas eventually graduated and stay on to work, instead of coming back home to work. One of my cousin used to study in Australia but did not choose to stay back there to work. Now, I think it is harder for him to find work there, so I think I should suggest him to browse for jobs on jobs.com.au. They post daily news, articles that is related to jobs, trainings, etc on multiple industries in Australia. Never know if he could find one and end up going there.

Jobs

Scary

I got to say something. You know how I quit my job? I told my boss that I will be studying for exams. But that Monday, it was Labour Day and my friends and I went to the mall to check out the sales. And, my flatmate and I saw our boss and her son there. She was pointing at us and saying that, I thought you guys wanted to study. My flatmate quickly gestured me to walk away from there while smiling. She thought it was scary but I think it’s alright. Anyway, what right does the boss have to say if we don’t want to work?

Jobs

Now I really understand the real working. Well, I never expect to be working perfectly and never do mistake. I am still not going to give up working even if I am making mistake.
Note that I am not quitting my work just because of miscalculation.

Anyway, it's not my fault because missing $10 because I know I did count and take money from customers properly. I was never told to check how much was the change in the cash register before I started. It could be the boss making mistake also. Why must it be me.
Anyway, forget about it.
I am glad that I have had an experience of waitress.
I think I have enough of waitressing job. I think I should concentrate on study from now on.
I want to stop working also because I wanted to spend my time for study.
At least I can have some peace and time for myself and also study.
As long as everyone is happy, I don't mind doing this.
Ok, back to study for my test.

:)

I can finally relax these few days. Just finish two assignments this week but there's another one due the week after so it should be ok. So, for now, I can relax for a bit.
This semester is full of assignments. Sigh.. but it's good cos I don't have mid term test.

Work was good so far. Just got off from work and guess who I saw. Two friends whom I never expect to see appear at work. Well, don't really know them very well but I guess they are ok. I meant one of them though. Yea, it's nice to see them as well. I think they were sort of very surprised to see us working there. Hahaha.. funny huh..
A few friends also came to eat. It's a nice feeling to have friends going over to work to see us and also eating there. Let me serve them. Muahaha..

Dinner

Working on a job is not easy. Who ever said it was easy. No matter what kind of job you are working as, it is going to be hard. I was working on Monday night, I thought it was going to be one of the quiet nights and I have brought a book along. But there was a table of 29 people booked that night, another girl called Kim was also working that night. We both brought out food for the tourists. It was a group of tourists from Thailand.

Many times when I served them, they spoke to me in Thai which I have no idea what they were talking about. I heard Japanese, Korean and China word. I assume they were trying to guess where I am from. So I answered, I am from Malaysia. Then, they went, aaa.. Malaysia..

It's interesting that they would even wonder where I am from when they are eating their dinner.

Truth

I am going to be truthful when I described what I am doing on this job.

I just wanted to say something about the job. I was working on Friday, and I have few customers asking me how long the food will be done. It was only my first time working by myself and I just simply estimate. Few of them were impatient. Then, one was about to order but commented, it’s going to take a long time huh? I answered yes. So, this customer showed an angry face and walked away. Well, it’s not my fault there’s so many orders on that day, right? It’s not my fault that the chef has to cook for a lot of people, right? I feel that the customer was being rude. She shouldn’t have showed an angry face. Why should she? It’s not like she was being treated unfairly.

Another customer, after waiting for a long time, demanded his money back. I think I must have misplaced the order and I quickly took in for the chef to cook before I suspect he comes demanding his money. Man.. when he comes in demanding, I was so scared of him. Now, whenever I think about going to work, the image of this angry customer comes into my mind. It kinds of disturbs me and made me want to quit my job. First day on the first job and I am thinking of quitting, what the… I was letting out my feelings to a friend and he/she told me that sooner or later, I will experience it. It’s true but it just scared me out so much. How come I experience some stuff so early? For example, this and another one was when I was getting my driver license. I had a first time accident before I even sat for the practical test. Oh, it’s not my fault, by the way. It was an old man’s fault. I am not telling more.

As for the old man demanding his money, I was told that it’s ok, it’s only my first time. Yea, I was told that even from close friends but I still feel that it creeps me out.

I guess every jobs has its stressness. Hehe.. I enjoy working on this job, just the image of the old man demanding money creeps me out. I am going to quit when I cannot take it anymore. Em will be coming in to work with me so I am hoping at least I can have someone helping me. I think they need more people to work because they don’t have enough people.

Work

Want to know about my work?

It was ok, despite having a few angry and anxious customers. I don't know why I should choose Friday. Friday is a busy day to handle takeaways and dinners. I also have to serve the customers cos there were only me and this other guy working that night. I can tell you that we definitely need more people so I asked my boss that Em wants to work and if it is possible. She said it's ok. So now at least I have someone to bike with me there. Em said to bike by the way. So, what else I did? I took orders for takeaways and did the payment. Both times when Anu came to pick me up, she commented that I smelled tasty and she wanted to eat me the moment I stepped into the car. Haha..

Pissed

Sigh.. I don't know what to say about some people's mind. Where did it go after all the blogging by me? I was only just saying or sharing some news that I was happy enough to share. Since this is separate to the other one, I will just say it here. I just hate the way people thinks at times. Made me so angry and pissed. I mean, I don't mind people thinking about it but why do you have to say it? Make me so embarrassed. Sien..

*Silence*

I have been inspired by a friend who takes intermediate engineering and still manage to balance her school work and work. Apparently, she found some odd jobs from Student Job Search and did earn a few dollars. Good on her. Because of her, I am trying harder.

We decide that we both will look for jobs together and work to find some pocket money. Not that I really needed. I just want the feeling of getting the money after doing some odd jobs. And I want to be able to balance school work and also social life.

I think Em and I seldom spend the time with the boys now. I am wondering what are they doing. Anyway, they are not free so who cares. I should try to get my 'don't care' attitude back. That way, I don't feel down or depressed when I am not doing something with friends. It's not my fault that they are not free, right?

Well, I should try to finish off my assignments. Then, tomorrow, I will be going to interview with my friend. I shall blog about it tomorrow whether or not did I get the job. Interview doesn't mean that I will certainly get the job. Ok, shall update tomorrow.

Hard

It seems so hard to find a good casual job at Student Job Search centre. I went today with a friend and was trying to ask for this particular job. It’s just phone book delivery and after 2 minutes explaining to us, we gave up. We tried looking for more jobs but it doesn’t suit us. How can this be?

I think these people don’t consider student’s schedule. It’s clashing with times. Sigh.. What else? Oh ya, getting a job are also hard especially if you don’t have a car. Apparently, I need a car to be able to baby-sit because I would need to pick up the children from school. Also, if I tried another job, they also require me to have a car. What the… so stupid. Ending up with nothing.

No Summer?

I am planning to work during the summer of NZ. What do you think? It gives me experience and not forgetting the money earned. I am thinking of applying one for the next summer. I surf the internet and found some websites offering summer internships. Not bad, I am going to apply one next year. I just got an email about summer internships. Not getting one this end of the year, I think I will enjoy this coming summer. If I take on the summer internships, I won’t be able to go back to see my parents. But I have to think, this is for myself. I can go back for 3 weeks in February if I really wanted to.

Disappointed

The feeling of waiting is really painful. Then, when the call came, you feel so light and so happy. Anyway, I’m glad they call. Basically, the job is about being on-call and driving cars from the supplier back to the workshop. Sounds easy, right? Just don’t get yourself lost or crash into something on the way back. I like to try the job. But when I told my mum, my sister said she freaked out when she found out there are no insurance to cover. Moreover, after my dad found out, he got stressed about it. Then, I got an email, asking me not to take up the job. Of course I will be disappointed. Who won’t? I mean, I took up the job hoping to gain experience and the money of course. I thought maybe driving the cars would help me to practise and then, I would go for my full licence practical test. Now, my goal to do this has gone. Just like that. I still need to get my full licence, no matter what. None of my friends let me drive their car. I understand them for not letting other people drive. I mean, if it’s my car, I would be like them too. But I can’t help liking cars and like to drive.