Seeing the recipient of the most prestigious scholarship in Singapore makes me wonder, has the scholarship transformed into an avenue to attract foreign talent to stay put in Singapore? I'm pretty sure there are tons of locals who are as capable and definitely more patriotic than her.
I also wonder, will she still renounce her citizenship if she does not get any scholarship? Haha I guess only she will know..
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Saturday, August 06, 2011
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This week has been a moody week for me. If not for my younger sis who told me that her orientation camp has leftover sponsored track shoes and she will be giving me one pair, I guess I won't be feeling ok now.
Several incidents happened over the week, and I felt that I should just say it out to make myself forget the unhappy stuff. Stocks aside (yes I've lost a great pile, thanks to the americans), I was really disappointed with some people, including myself.
Incident 1 (mild case)
I went out with two groups of close friends last Mon and Tues. In my previous entry, I was already determined not to gossip about anyone, but I still could not control myself. I was quite disappointed with myself that after attending religious class for so long, I would still forget about the bad karma that will result if I were to speak ill of people. Sigh, I always promise myself that I will not repeat the same mistake in the next outing, but I will not keep to it everytime when I see friends who want to share gossips with me. This might sound trivial to you guys, but it was not for me since I know the consequences of it. Guess I really need to stay with my religious friends more often to kick this habit.
On the happy side, it was a great dinner outing with the ones on Tues, since my friend wj treated us after he got his first month pay! We went to Lao Beijing at Novena and had a feast. Haha the other guy wx and I were so pai seh that we promised him we'll reciprocate the favour after we got ours. Swensens from wx next month! :) Other than the treat, wx gave us souvenirs that he bought from Amsterdam, and wj and I really got a shock!
PLEASE DON'T JUDGE ME FOR POSTING THIS. I thought it was really funny as souvenirs, so I decided to let you guys see why we were shocked to receive them!
Several incidents happened over the week, and I felt that I should just say it out to make myself forget the unhappy stuff. Stocks aside (yes I've lost a great pile, thanks to the americans), I was really disappointed with some people, including myself.
Incident 1 (mild case)
I went out with two groups of close friends last Mon and Tues. In my previous entry, I was already determined not to gossip about anyone, but I still could not control myself. I was quite disappointed with myself that after attending religious class for so long, I would still forget about the bad karma that will result if I were to speak ill of people. Sigh, I always promise myself that I will not repeat the same mistake in the next outing, but I will not keep to it everytime when I see friends who want to share gossips with me. This might sound trivial to you guys, but it was not for me since I know the consequences of it. Guess I really need to stay with my religious friends more often to kick this habit.
On the happy side, it was a great dinner outing with the ones on Tues, since my friend wj treated us after he got his first month pay! We went to Lao Beijing at Novena and had a feast. Haha the other guy wx and I were so pai seh that we promised him we'll reciprocate the favour after we got ours. Swensens from wx next month! :) Other than the treat, wx gave us souvenirs that he bought from Amsterdam, and wj and I really got a shock!
PLEASE DON'T JUDGE ME FOR POSTING THIS. I thought it was really funny as souvenirs, so I decided to let you guys see why we were shocked to receive them!
And guess what, they are BATH GELS. According to wx, the gel is of good quality LOL. Seriously, only wx can think of such gifts. He still asked us to treat it with care cos these bath gels cannot be bought from other countries besides Amsterdam. Haha I took the bottom one in the end, and wj took the top middle one, cos they look more normal than others!
Incident 2
Went out with two NOC girls (one from my batch and one from the junior batch which just came back from Shanghai) last Thurs. Initially, we chatted heartily over the funny incidents that happened in Shanghai, like unable to throw toilet papers into the toilet bowl cos it will get stuck. It was okay until we talked about one of the unhappy stuff that occurred within our batch. The girl from my batch told our junior about her house search after she quit her previous job, and complained about how unhelpful our batch mates were during that period.
After hearing, I was super pissed. Our house did help her a lot, in terms of house search, and we even allowed her to stay in our house temporarily, and helped her move house! Such stuff are considered unhelpful? Not only that, it happened so long ago, and she still remembered every single detail so clearly. Worse still, she shared this story with an innocent junior, who might spread it to other juniors! GOSH I was so disappointed in her after her sharing. We argued over the entire house search incident, and the junior heard everything. My batch mate concluded that she did not see any practical form of help, even though we did house hunt for her. I told her that we did go to the property agent and helped her see which house was conducive for her stay. I even told her that people were not physically around her during the house hunt period, but it did not mean that they did not help her in the search! I think she just did not dare to say that she was disappointed with my house why no one wanted to spare a space for her. Well, my house already had 6 people, and it was like a 4-room flat. How to add in one more person?!? I remembered explaining to her for months back in Shanghai, and I thought she had gotten over it. Never did I expect her to talk about it again, this time with what she exactly thought of the incident! This outing really revealed her selfish and unforgiving character, and it changed my perception of her totally. Thankfully we did not have her in our house, which was already in a big mess with people of extreme personalities.
I never felt so angry during an outing, and I promised not too meet up with her for small gatherings in future, unless she changes her mindset about her batch mates and gets over what happened in Shanghai. I did not dare to tell my other house mates, for fear that they would judge her from then on. Hence, I wrote here to vent my frustration. Sometimes, it is really hard to OMAK people that have negative feelings about you. I guess I will start off with forgiving her then.
Incident 3
Work was really great. It had been the most fulfilling 3-week holiday ever for me. I was glad that my colleagues were willing to share their experience with me, and even brought me to meetings with clients. My boss even promised me that he will bring into office his friend Mr. EDUARDO SAVERIN, THE CO-FOUNDER OF FACEBOOK! Haha he is actually the investor of the company I'm interning in. Yep, so I'm really looking forward to my last few days of work next week :)
This aside, my job includes cold calling the F&B merchants. Yesterday, I talked to an American guy over the phone, and it was definitely the worst encounter I've ever met throughout my 3 weeks. I started off with the usual sentences, and he was okay initially. As he probed more into the privacy policy of customers (GOSH luckily I heard my boss briefly mention about that before), I knew that he would be a difficult person to handle. And he really was! He insulted our system, and even mentioned that we're a scam company. I couldn't be bothered to be friendly with him, and it eventually turned into a debate on social media. Apparently this guy was tech-savvy and my instinct told me that he just wanted to win me in terms of the knowledge of the social media industry. FINE, I was only there for 3 weeks, what more did you want from me? I wanted to give up and hand over the phone to my colleague, but the American guy did not permit that. I think he's just those nasty people who feels great after outtalking people. According to my American colleague, such people are very common in US. They are too skeptical of everything, and they are determined to make salespeople's lives difficult. Haha thankfully I have no interest in going there at all!
Well, these 3 incidents, together with the drop in share prices, made my entire week moody. I hope that next week will be better!
Hmmmm I kinda dread the start of school though... :(
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