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.