A Series of Unfortunate Events

Sitting in the macdonalds below the music sch now using the internet. Have been pretty much doing that for the past few days.

Just had my interview this morning. Today is really a really bad day. Its like the book: A Series of Unfortunate Events.

First I woke up in e morning and everything was fine of cos. With a few ppl giving me extra alarms, thou one failed terribly. Ha. Den left the house and the moment I stepped out, it started raining, almost like to signal the start of a really bad day.

I had to go to sch first to print my resume out(justincase) so I decided to take a cab cause if it was raining at city hall, I couldn’t get to sch from the mrt either. And theres noone in sch who can fetch me. So yea, despite the big hole in my pocket I decided to hail a cab. But there was no cab. So I decided to take a bus to the interchange to take a cab. Which is like really stupid cause im like spending extra money for no reason. Ok. This aint that bad la. It was just wasting money.

Den I reached sch. Printed the resume, read thro the website a lil, composed myself and chatted with preggz for a while before leaving for the company. after some discussion with preggz, decided that taking a cab there would be good because the weather suddenly became really hot and humid. Its like that kind will perspire like siao kind. Despite it being damn damn near, which is like for ppl who know like my sch is at Stamford road, the company is at Purvis. But anyway yea.

So the uncle dropped me at Purvis. And I started to find the company. but after walking one entire round around the whole Purvis street which is kinda like linked to the street beside it called amoy street. And I couldn’t find the mentioned add at all. After asking 3 ppl, and walking another 1.5 rounds around Purvis, and of cos perspiring like mad and teetering on my heels, I finally found the address. Heaving a sigh of relief, I trudged up the two flights of steep stairs and pressed the button, which meant someone was coming down to fetch me or the door would auto open? But no one came. Which was quite weird. And in that claustrophobic airless staircase, I was perspiring like mad.

A lady opened the door for me, and said “oh I din know u were here! I tot u were at the lift.” Which got me really confused cause I was like, theres a lift??? Where??? Like f*** I just climbed two flights of stairs for nothing. Putting on a smile for the lady who opened the door, I looked up. There were 3 more flights of STEEP staircases. At the end of the staircases, there was another woman staring down at me, with the other behind me. Putting on a smile, I trudged up the stairs as fast as I could, I mean like theres one behind me, theres on in front of me. How can take my time and walk right. And because somehow I seemed to have lost weight, my pants were slipping down as I walked. So it was really uncomfy. But ok nm. At the end, I was panting like mad. But of cos no one could hear that this super unfit intern cant climb FIVE FLIGHT OF STEEP STAIRCASES. Right.

Den another lady greeted me with “Hi, I tot u were scheduled for 12?” confusion hit me and I was like NOOOO ITS 11. I would love it to be 12 lor. But I politely smiled and replied that it was eleven. She then ushered me to a room, and told me to sit down. Inside me I was like “HENG, GOT TIME TO BREATHE AND COMPOSE FIRST.” Remember that by now, im not only full of perspiration, my forehead glistening with beads of sweat which is thus DAMN OBVIOUS, my legs aching like mad, and I had no breath. In less than a min, two of them walked in decided to start the interview. Like, CONGRATULATIONS MINSI. Now u cant even talk properly cause u cant even catch ur bloody breath. But of cos miss act very strong u can do it minsi decided to answer all her questions as though shes very chang qi. And mind u the questions were all like short and sweet, like “tell me more about yourself.” “so how do u think u can add value to the company?” “so can u give me a few examples of some training sessions u are involved in?”. i.e. GIVING ME NO TIME TO BREATHE. I really had to regulate my breathing else I think I would have choked. And that’s the end of the tumultuous interview.

Just in case u think that’s the end of Minsi’s Series of Unfortunate Events. Nope. So minsi trudged off and away from scary Purvis street in a daze. And decided to go settle her fixed deposit thing. A quick call confirmed that the nearest hong leong was at north bridge road. Very near. So minsi with aching legs and sticky body and blur walked there. A quick check with a security guard directed minsi the direction of hong leong. So minsi walked. She walked and she walked. But she never found hong leong. Refusing to give up. She walked one more round ard the whole building and street. But she still cldnt find hong leong. In exasperation, she went back to the same security guard and asked him again. And he kindly pointed out. It was RIGHT BESIDE A BIG YELLOW CHEERS WITH A BIG HONG LEONG FINANCE SIGN. And minsi walked past the BIG door two times. T-W-O TIMES. And btw, minsi has pretty big eyes. Hows that possible. Ok nm.

So minsi is very tired now. Minsi walks to bugis and HAD to call someone to rant. And luckily her good friend lian returned her call. And she happily ranted every single shit out. And met her other two good friends jon and yang for lunch. As she sat there and thought bout the next interview, her tired legs, her stupid brain, she felt very very very sian and cranky. No more appetite minsi went off for lunch and drank a not very nice lime juice. And while drinkin the not very nice lime juice, one of her favourite red rose earrings dropped. and now she was only left with one usable earring. But its ok. Cause can stick back using super glue. But she was still gloomy. And so was her friend mehmehyang. So add gloominess together, u get double the gloominess. And since misery always finds company, jon soon became a bit miserable too. But that’s all all right.

Jon decided that we shld have some dessert. So off we went to a nice dessert place. And at this moment, minsi received a phone call from M1. the second company that she just applied for last night. To give all non SMU readers a brief intro, on the SMU online internship website, every single time, we can only apply for 2 companies. If one hasn’t rejected u, u canot apply for another one. so when minsi had to apply last night she had to choose only 1 out of the 4 companies to apply to as all 4 applications were closing yesterday. She had faith in M1, and picked M1. and guess wad. M1 called and said, there were no more HR positions left and whether minsi would be interested in other available positions. And the available positions were telemarketing, which as explained by her was. Calling existing customers and asking them to upgrade their phone sets and all. I.E.THIS IS A SCAM. Because telemarketing is a stupid job. And useless, and I wouldn’t need to intern to learn more about telemarketing. AND SHE BASICALLY WASTED HER ONE OUT OF TWO SPACES ON THE SYSTEM FOR THIS BULLSHIT.

Juts when u think things cant get any worse, her phone had to die on her. i.e. whenever she clicked on the SMS function, it hanged. True she might have smsed a lot the whole day. But WHY DIE ON HER TODAY U STUPID MOTOROLA. I just repaired you bout 2 mths ago. How many times u want me to send u for repair in less than a year! And she so needed to sms to rant. Why why why.

And rem her nice rose earring? She bought superglue to repair it and hey! She glued it indeed. But because STUPID GONG MINSI forgot to remove the stopper in the earring, she glued the bloody stopper to the earring, resulting in the earring now being totally
U-S-E-L-E-S-S.

Ok minsi is really done ranting now. Thanks to short smses from michelle and simon to take my mind off things for a while. Thanks to lian for allowing me to rant incessantly. And thanks to yang who shared my misery. Thanks to jon too for enduring two miserable souls. And thanks to you people who actually endured this whole whiny post.

And im really very whiny today. Whiny. Gloomy. Cranky. Jon even mentioned that im less irritating when im whiny. ARE U SURE OR NOT. And I forgot to bring clothes to change into. So im now stuck in pants a long shirt heels for the whole day. Minsi is sad. =(