Looking for a job

So this week, I went on a quest to look for a job.
I am willing to those almost anything. But still, I cant find one.

So after sending a few resume, a restaurant asked me down for an interview for a waiter position. I definitely can take the standing and hardship and I can speak 3 fluent languages. I thought the interview is going to be easy.

But there is no interview....instead, there is a test.
Personality, maths, english and chinese were all tested.

Well, my heart started to beat faster as I heard that they were going to give me a test. But I dont think a waiter test is going to be that difficult.....

I started to panic when I flipped through the questions. They were all written in chinese. Long maths questions in chinese. Personality test in chinese.

The english test......they gave me a chinese sentence and then in the middle of the sentence is a english word. I am supposed to replace that english word with a chinese word to complete the sentence. Althought it is multiple choice, I still find it difficult.

And so, I took too much time reading the traditional chinese questions ( I think I took more time than the time allocated for the test because the manager kept coming back to see if I had finished).
I didnt expect them to call me to hire me after the test.
But at least this is a wake up call for me.
I need to improve my chinese and start reading traditional chinese books if I want my future to be in HK.

What if the next time I apply for a chemical engineering job and they give me a thermodynamic test in chinese?!!

uncertainty.

My favourite quote comes from the PS game FF9, which is "The only dependable thing about the future is uncertainty."

People are uncertain about the future because the future has not been set yet. It can still be changed as long as we move towards the direction we want it go. And I believe this is the reason why many people always try to overcome their problems. Because we know that man can change the future.

Give up and the future will be set. Continue and think of a way to solve the problem you have in hand and act towards it. Remember, thinking alone dosent change the future, you have to execute your plans.

We are all part of the future and creating it as time passes.

Book fair.

So HK is now having a book fair. I didnt intent to go actually because I still have 4 unread books but due to unforseen circumstances, I went anyway. I am not sure when it is ending.

There are so many people going to the fair that there is a long queue outside the exhibition hall.

According to my estimation, this is only 1/10 of the whole queue.

And the queue continues......................

However, I must say that it is a rather smooth queue because the crowd is moving constantly with very occasional stops (Only about 5 minutes or less).

So you will need a 10HKD ticket to enter.....

This is Hall 1 if I remember correctly. There are....lots of books and more books, both in chinese and english. There is also a area for christian books and another area for buddhist books. There are even booths that sells pictures of pop stars, snacks, stamps, souvenirs.....

I spent about 2 hours in Hall 1.

Hall 2. This Hall is less books, more stationaries and some other office equipments. I spent about 1 hour inside here.

Overall I would say if you are a love chinese books, the book fair would be quite an exciting trip. There are also alot of english books but I feel that it is not enough.

Problem.

This is bad.....
The current money I have in hand can only last me for another 7 more days. But since rt is coming next week and wk wants to watch imax batman, I think I will have to tap into my reserves........................................

Those money that I had been saving all these years..........
I will be using it finally............
And once I finish spending those...........
I will starve to death.................

So I better settle my university stuff by next week and get a job quickly.

A Walk to Buddha.

The Big Buddha is a tourist attraction in HK. Although it is just a big bronze Buddha statue sitting down, there are also lots of stuff you can do on the way.

If you are taking the train, you will stop at the Tung Chung station if I am not wrong. Near the station, there is a shopping mall with all the warehouse sales. But please shop after you have visited the Buddha. You will have the time after the seeing the triple B, Big Bronze Buddha.

So after reaching the station, get to the cable car station to take the ngong ping 360 cable car. I would recommend the 145 HKD package which includes many things there ( cant remember the package already).

This is just the beginning............

The good thing about going to the Buddha is you can enjoy good air. In my opinion, the air in HK is quite polluted compared to Singapore.

This is what you see when you arrive.

This is the stairs leading to the Buddha. Before this, there are many shops for people to buy some souvenirs. If you have bought the 145HKD package or if you have the tickets for the Walking with Buddha show, go watch it. Pretty Good. There is also a 7-11 there which sells alcohol too...although I dont know if the Shaolin 18 Bronze man would appear and beat the shit out of you if you try to bring them up the stairs.

Say Hi!!
Lastly....

You don't Mess with the Buddha.

Embarrassing

Its a damn tiring day today.

Walked the whole damn day.

Drank lots of shit the whole damn day.

So there is this sushi shop that is on half price if you eat after 10pm.

And so being a cheapo (myself only), wk and I decided to walk until 10pm.

Sad to say, both our legs cannot take it.

So we just settle down in a random shop to eat.

I ate curry chicken rice and drank honey red tea.

I must say that shop is one of the best I have eaten in HK so far.

Anyway after that, we went to wellcome to buy another drink.

And while paying, I took out my park n shop card.....................
(there are two well known supermarkets in HK, wellcome and park n shop, much like shop n shave [its supoose to be save, but I always laugh at that so I prefer calling it that] and fairprice.)

without knowing that I had entered wellcome.................

the cashier only took my money....................

and didnt take my card..............

I thought she forgotten about it..........

and so I just walk out of the shop..................

and then wk realize that it was wellcome............

lucky I didnt ask why didnt she take my card................

I am never going there again.

Okay back to Miss HK 2008.

Internet

Finally got my internet up in HK.

Now I just need a new mouse and a keyboard to start gaming.

But I better start settling my university application.

The deadline is coming soon.

Previos Post.

So yesterday I was trying to blog about my days in HK.

I am still enjoying my days here as some of my friends are still in HK.

But after this week, I will be alone here with only wk as my only friend in HK.

So I got to start establishing new contacts and make new friends in HK.

And of course, get a job in HK.

For my friends in Singapore, enjoy too.

Bad.

Shit. I typed so much and then gone.

Shit.

Update again soon.

9th July 2008.

Today, I should be enlisted into the army.
I should be meeting a new group of friends, eat some canteen food, clean my bunk.

But here I am in Hong Kong....shopping, and eating buffet with my friends.

No, I am not trying to be funny here. I may seem to be enjoying myself, but choosing a different path just means that I have a new set of problems. Just that they are problems I do not want to dicuss it on a public blog.

The life here is already different. I am on my own now. In the past when I was in Hong Kong or Singapore, I might be living independently, but I was still financially dependent on my parents.

Now its different. Now, I have to earn what I had spent myself.

Life is going to be tougher.
But I am going to be tougher than that.

7th July 2008.

I have been meeting out with lots of friends these 2 days.

But sad to say, there are still many people whom I didnt get to meet up before I leave Singapore.

So I have been quite emo for these 2 days too.
So emo I cant tell a good joke.

Thanks for everybody's concern.

And the reason why I decline some offers to send me off because I dont want so many people to see me become a crying pussy in the airport later on.

I remember the day I left Hong Kong for Singapore 14 years ago. I cried and struggle on somebody's shoulders while he/she is carrying me (cant remember who but most probably my father).

Before this, I was very determined to leave this country.
At this moment now, I cant really choose where I want to be already.

SG

I spent 14 years in Singapore, almost 15 now.

And my opinion is...this is a great country.
For the past 14 years, the government has been stable and had done alot in improving the people's standard of living.

The environment is nice, with trees, playgrounds, recreactional parks in many neighbourhoods.

Education system that allow students to learn fundamental and important subjects.

Laksa, Roti prata, Hokkien mee, Kway teow....

And there are many more good things about this country.
Many people thinks that I dont like this country because of some of the things I say.
Thats not really true.
It is just that I have came to realize that although other countries may not be doing as well as SG in terms of economy, there are still many things I can learn from them.
There are still things that I can appreciate.
There are things that that this place dosent have.
There are things I want to experience and see.

Therefore, I am leaving.

Poly.

If secondary school is weird, my poly life in singapore is crazy.

Getting into ad15 is both fun and sad. I will not talk about the sad part.

This is a class filled with the craziest and funniest ideas.

Pranks can be played in any places. From classrooms to lecture halls and the toilet too.

Jokes are told everywhere.

There wasnt a single school day I wasnt laughing my ass off and rolling on floor laughing.

Too bad, it only lasted 3 years.

I got to thank my classmates for letting me laugh my way through the three years of poly life.
I got to continue apologizing for giving the CPTC group many troubles and at the same time thank them for letting me some of the most important lessons in life.
I got to thank the people in year 3 tutorial group for helping in projects and my studies.
I got to thank many lecturers for tolerating my crap in class and at the same time not showing much biasness. Although the remaining few I would like to curse them =). But I am not going to because I don blame any of them for aiming me.

Okay maybe I lied in the previous sentence.

Secondary School

Secondary school is weird.

I typed one long wall of text and I realized that there are just too much to say and so many people to mention.

But here is what I found out...

• I got to know ty much better in secondary school although he is not from prss.
• I got to know rr, wk and many others who were not from my secondary school earlier than my classmates. Maybe thats why I wasnt really close to the sec 1 and 2 bunch....
• I never thought that I could make any good friends from 3e1/4e1...but i did.
• Too much things happened in secondary school, too much friends to mention.
• I have to thank everyone I've met for that 4 years.

Primary school

CAUTION: WALL OF BORING TEXT!!!!!

I started living in Singapore when I was K2. At that time, I stayed at Bedok and the friends that I hang around with was the HK kids in that neighbourhood.

When I was primary one, I moved to Tampines.

But during primary 1 and primary 2, I still hang out with the usual "HK gang" in the old neighbourhood.

Because of geological factors, I didnt get to play with those HK people as often as I can when I was in primary 3. However, there were still occassional swimming meet ups.

And I started to make more friends from church and in school.

Here there are three seniors which I want to mention and thank. I dont really know their names in english so I shall just call them C, D and L.

C and L were the first ones that I met. I knew D at the church. At that time, I was already the naughthy bastard and my results were way below any of the HK people I knew at that time....and even until now I am still the worst. But these three seniors who were way smarter and well behaved than me became the first few good friends that I had. Though I had already lost contact with all of them. I thank them for teaching me valuable lessons in life (L taught me how to cycle, I continue swimming because it was fun playing catching with D after swimming and C taught me how to be street smart).

Soon it was primary 4. I got to know the playground gang more. (WF, daniel, wei qiang, etc....sorry if I missed out many names xD). Those were the times we used to call home telling my mother there was a project....and instead we went to the playground to play.

Then primary 5 and 6 I got to know the people who played the playstation and marbles with me (Jeremy, Chee Hong, Rainer and Joel if I remember correctly).

I thank all these people that made my primary school life intresting and fun.

Not to mention Mrs Tan and Mrs Lee who were good teachers I met in SHPS at that time.

Pack.

I already started packing 2 weeks ago.
Throwing away my CDs, DVDs, games, old computer parts, stationaries, etc.

My room is no longer messy because there is almost nothing left already.
And i even threw away my trophies and medals.
Because I feel that they are not something that are really valuable to me and I am too lazy to bring them back to HK.

My father said that I am going to regret it in the future.
I didnt care much and threw them away.

So on that night when I was sleeping, I had a dream.
Somebody picked my trophies and medals up.
He polished them until they look like new ones.
And he was putting them in his house.

Lol. I don give a shit still.