Alright, as a response to peishan's calling for us to update my boring life, here it is.
Well, holidays mean training, so xt and I train every morning except sunday. Erm, I'll try to be more hardworking and go for a few evening trainings for gym etc soon, haha. The exam season is over, which means my tuition has no business recently, until the kid's mum's kiasuism kicks in again so I'll have $$$ again.
Oh, actually last week xt and I went to apply for some Starhub promoter thingy, attracted by the short and flexible hours (2 weekdays, 1 sat/sun, 3 hrs each time) we even went for the 3 hour training (the team leader telling us about the promotions) but we realised that sales is really not our thing after one work session, so we quit.
As the job is purely commission-based, we didn't get a single cent for the 3 hours standing at the traffic crossing of bugis village and the kuan yin temple side, but it was quite a good experience. For one, we came across old people who already have maxonline and cable tv and came up to us purely to chat about how cable tv is good, the programmes are very nice, singapore politics taxi-driver complaining style, phone bills are unreasonably high (some ah pek was haolian-ing about how he has 3 phones but uses only 1 and how pre-paid card is enough and worth it cos he claims he hardly uses hp but the bills are very high- pulling out bill after bill to demonstrate his point.. but going by his longwindedness.. hm it's kinda likely he forgets the time when he chatters on the phone?) We were trapped there smiling until our faces were gonna cramp, nodding and yah-ing but they were super engrossed in their talk, oblivious to our increasingly blatant hints of disinterest and us shooting desperate looks of "HELP!" to our team leader and they showed absolutely no intention of letting us go. Our team leader, after seeing us being tormented for a long time finally took pity on us and took over handling them. He commented, "aiya, these old people got no one to talk to at home lah, that's why they resort to this." *For an even more realistic and interesting version, visit xt's blog*
Sigh, I hope I don't ever become like them when I grow old! I was sufficiently surprised by them to describe the above to my parents in detail to warn them never to become like that. They had a good laugh until I said they were showing early signs of becoming like that.. hahaha. Anyway, I don't think I'll be getting a job other than maybe another tuition assignment cos it's really not easy to commit if we wanna train.
Went back with xt, val and cherlynn to NJ today for the Yong Tau Foo. Sadly, the owners have changed and the new food is Not Nice At All, we should have listened to Wanda). Stupid Sean Chua told Weili that the YTF auntie died of leaukemia, scared us lah, when she simply retired to enjoy life as a grandma. After eating, we decided we really needed air-con. On val's suggestion, we went to Mark Lo's office. Haha it's really fun going back to visit man. We were making a lot of noise, talking rubbish, messing around with his office decorations but he was not at all annoyed at us and even seemed amused, and treated us to swiss chocolates. haha Van, are you jealous? :p
Anyway, I should be free to meet up on 26/27 may, but please try to keep costs low as no work = no money lah, I am a poor girl now. :(
Love,
Shumin
