Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Is my life considered boring

I have an interview on Friday and I just realised that I don't know what is my expected salary for a full time job. This interview I'm going for will require me to take some tests so here's hoping that I will not fail primary and lower secondary school sciences + upper sec math.

Hopefully this will be a five day work week and that I'll still be able to take on private tuition. I wouldn't mind doing just private tuition for my job but idk, somehow, it doesn't seem like a legit, real job... but it is a lucrative career.

In the absence of the pressure to seek a "real job", I would just do private tutoring and spend my money and time doing artsy stuff (like maybe going for modern calligraphy?) and signing myself up for yoga or pilates and travel.

I have never envisioned myself doing great things and going really far in my career. I just want to spend my life with no regrets and to try things that I'm interested in - like so far, I've tried
  • cashiering (yes I've always been curious and interested in learning how to operate a cash register) 
  • making soy milk (I applied for the job because I liked the soy milk so I was hoping to get free flow soy milk while working there )
  • giving out free candies (because the shop was tiny and who can resist a tiny shop selling tiny bottles filled with tiny candies)
  • being a sales assistant at a shop selling blogshop clothes (hoping to get staff discount for some of the clothes)
  • being a waitress (that was my first job after O levels? It was low paying but I had a lot of fun working with my friends like how we will spoil orders to get free ice cream)
  • manning a cafe all by myself. Okay Jiayan and I took turns manning the shop on different days. I learnt that it is not easy to serve a perfect scoop of ice cream and that making waffles is fun.
  • being a banquet server (because I heard it pays well but that was not fun at all. The platters were all so heavy and you don't even get to eat the banquet food :( I guess I chose the wrong kind of banquet job but that was just for a day so it was good experience)
  • being a clinic assistant for two months. It was not so much of fun because the clinic is pretty busy so you have to dispense the medicine while reading illegible handwriting and weigh babies and measure their head circumferences etc. but still, I gained some experience
  • being a promotor for an item I have no clue on how to promote. That was during the IT fair and I was supposed to promote speakers? It's difficult to promote some thing that is of really poor quality. The speakers only seem to work well when I play a particular song so I put that song on replay hoping to sell them lololol I remember this uncle asked if I could play The Beatles/Adele, I said I don't have them in my iPod but I just didn't want to play these songs because they would have made the speakers sound really bad
  • doing data entry (that was a follow-up job to compile the pay check for it fair I think?)
  • doing packing stuff for a book fair
  • teaching a class of 40 for 2 weeks (not easy hello~ And especially difficult when I feel so small in comparison to the students)
  • giving private tuition
I think my longest part time job was the one making soy milk. Probably because I was in my favourite mall (Ion) with my favourite mall toilets and.. I got free soy milk.

So yup, I think I have accumulated quite some experience thus far and I definitely hope to be able to learn more from here and that the remaining years of my life will not be restricted to working in a boring and mundane environment.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

How I spent my hazy week

Wednesday
This week, I'm glad that I was able to catch up with some of my friends (specifically, JY and Daph) over Sukiya~ I've been craving for Sukiya so this lunch was a timely one hahahah and I got the best of both worlds - my hotpot and my friends. We were so full after that and I tried postponing tuition to a later time (like 1 hour later?) because I wanted to shop (oops). Then something even better happened, my tuition got cancelled hahahahhahaha I was so happy when I received that message in the changing room so yep my tuition was postponed to Friday and that's great because I can still meet Justin after tuition on Friday. JY left after awhile so I was just roaming around town with Daph. Actually, I think that was my first time being with just Daph and not Daph + Jiayan or Daph + Kelz or Daph + the rest of the usual peeps. It was fine actually. We were really just walking about everywhere and I honestly didn't expect Daphne to be able to walk that much HAHA We walked from Dhoby to Ion then to Paragon then Scape then 313 then back to Ion. Justin wouldn't do that. We stopped at 313 for a break because I was craving for tea-time stuff but I couldn't decide on what I want - the pudding at Muji + hot matcha or carrot cake at Cedele and then more options came into my head so we left Paragon in search of tea-time food/drink. Eventually, we stopped at Dolce Tokyo and I got myself hot azuki. Daphne asked if I was really thirsty because she saw steam still coming out of my drink when I was almost already done with it hahahaha (but I was not thirsty).

Thursday
was a public holiday but it was so hazy so I left house only for tuition. I had 4 hours of tuition with A that day. Justin says most of my revenue come from tutoring A since I see him so often and for long hours. I'm glad that my tutee is doing rather well in math now though! He told me he got 92 for his CA2 when he previously got about 50+. I spent thursday night painting because I had this random desire to paint Justin something so I stayed up till 3 and I completed this tiny book with reasons for why I love my boyfriend. Hey, I'm not cheesy. I just think that we all need tiny surprises along the way to motivate and remind us how loved we are. Also, who wouldn't appreciate gifts from their significant other.

Friday
I had tuition with the P6 girl. Because it's nearing PSLE, her mum asked for me to stay for 2 hours per lesson instead so I did just that for this week. It wasn't that bad because we were just spamming questions from some PSLE past year papers. Then I met Justin after tuition and we had our collagen pot for dinner. The broth was really nice and we were really kiasu about it when the waitress offered a refill. We thought that they were going to refill our entire pot so Justin was like "eh drink more soup first" then I said "Why don't you take out the chicken and stuff too so they can add more" but no, it was a fixed portion LOL And they only served our noodles after the refill so our noodles had little soup to soak in :( I was already full before the refill though but yep that was a satisfying meal hehe We finally tried this collagen pot after talking about it for so long.

Something to look forward to in the upcoming week :
I finally brought my disposable camera to the film shop so I'll be expecting some photos next week. It's been so long that I don't even remember what I took with that camera. That's pretty exciting right?
I am finally getting my new phone next week and it'll be delivered to my place so yay to fuss-free transactions. Actually it was not fuss-free, my phone was out of stocks for a few weeks so I guess I'm just lucky this time and I got to purchase it online with an additional discount so that was great but I was late for tuition while settling this transaction with the online chat agent. Meh.

But overall, everything's good so here's to better days.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

I'm not even prepared for adulthood.

I have disappeared for way too long, haven't I?

You know what, I don't even remember what I have been doing these days. I fell sick recently - not terribly sick but still sick enough to feel uncomfortable. There was this day when I was even hesitant about going to town (shows how sick I am) but I went out anyway to have lunch with Justin. I met Kelz just that day and we went shopping at Watsons. I told her this is how I know we are old because we can spend our time just browsing in Watsons and chatting with the promoter. I got myself this tiny kit containing a tiny cleanser, moisturiser and some serum from Eucerin; hoping to improve on my current complexion (my complexion sucks). In addition to that, I got the Palmer's cocoa butter oil therapy for skin because I hate the stretch marks I have on my body. I don't even know how I got them because I don't remember ever being fat or growing much.. since I'm still this tiny. Er anyway, so yeah small steps in an attempt to be closer to attaining ~perfection~ (Nobody is perfect yada yada yada but we all want to be as near to perfection as we can, don't we)

Recently I heard of this other friend planning to BTO next year and I feel like.. I'm nowhere near that LOL Not that I feel pressured to get married asap (actually getting married early is more of a want for me because I prefer it to having my wedding when I'm 30+. What if I'm wrinkly by then..... I don't want to look bad in my wedding portraits) but then I think about how I actually don't have that much savings (lolololol say goodbye to early weddings) so I decide to stop thinking about getting married and having a house altogether. I think I only want these things (as of now) just for pretty wedding photos, fun honeymoon vacation and frequent furniture shopping/DIY-ing crafts for a place I can call my own. That's it. I'm just excited for that part hahahahhaha but not the part where I need to pay bills and all. I know I am not prepared for this but we can all have our occasional daydreams right~~~~~

This is how I'd like my wedding to be : http://theknottybride.com/28233
Not so much of the mint dresses unless my bridesmaids fancy that. Be prepared for many trunk/wood slices and bouquets of baby breaths (and then we can throw bouquets of baby breaths in the air. HOW FUN IS THAT)

Okay I know my blog has lousy content but I'm sure I have kept some people entertained for 5 minutes hehe