This marks a start of another depressing day. You know about what you read in the papers about depression caused by unemployment? It's really true. Slacking at home is fun when you are not supposed to. I started the day realising that almost all the resumes that I've sent for the past week are all wrong! Wrong FORMAT! What a total waste of effort! Look at what I've gotten back:

Hi Sabrina, You have not written a proper standard resume. Your resume should include:- Name, Address, Nationality, Age, Qualifications, PC knowledge, working experience, period that you can temp, and how much you expect per hour. By the way, we are not starhub. We are an employment agency.

TOTAL HUMILIATION!!! Now I don't even feel like writing another one. About the Starhub thing, I assumed that since her email address is xxxxx@starhub.net.sg, I thought she was from Starhub. I've never heard of anyone having a starhub email account?!

I remember the teacher telling us during Contact Time this year that our CV should include your achievements, highest education level attained and the schools you attended right? Aiyo, I got no work experience and therefore, I do not have a glowing CV. but if nobody is willing to hire me, then how do I get the experience?

Now, I can only hope that recruitexpress find me a job soon (and I'm counting on Francis), haha. During the interview, I remembered sneaking a peek at his left hand to see if he is married! Haha!!! THERE WERE NO RINGS!!! What am I thinking about?

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5 reasons why I cannot become a tutor

1) I do not have enough patience
2) I tend to show favouritism
3) It's too stressful especially when unable to solve the problem
4) I cannot communicate well
5) I have no confidence in myself

For some reason, I feel quite lonely. Aside from going for interviews (shall elaborate more later), sending my resumes, daydreaming, playing computer games, eating thinking constantly of pizza hut and Jack's place, reading and envying people who are deeply in love, I've been sleeping for the rest of the time during this rainy season.

I went for this interview yesterday and the interviewer (his name is Francis) is real handsome. I am certain that my heart skipped a beat when I shaked his firm hands. He was so professional and pleasant! I felt rather uneasy and I was tongue tied. Too bad he's old for me (early twenties is considered old under my standards- especially when a student on vacation is dating a working adult! Just imagine...). Hopefully I can start work next year and work with Francis haha, when my bro goes to school and my parents go to work, then I wouldn't feel lonely anymore. My friend called to offer me this accounting job and I rejected the offer as it is only for 3 weeks. Now I'm beginning to regret because I've yet to find a 3-6 months kind of job.

There are many things that I wanna do with my first paycheck- I want to :
-shop for shoes and more bottoms
-shop for more clothes
-give my mother part of the money for shopping
-give some people a treat/spend on good food
-learn ice skating?
-buy rollerblades?
-Digicam
-SAVE!

I want to watch a movie tomorrow. I dare say that for the whole of this year, I watched only 1 movie and that was Memoirs of a geisha (which was in Jan). Go ahead and laugh! I feel like watching Borat and hanging out with my classmates. But I know its going to be difficult once we start working.

I've started watching the simple life. I like Paris Hilton better. The show is downright hilarious. Too bad it's only for half an hour.

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Bangkok

'Triumph in the skies' has given me greater confidence in the pilots and have put me at ease while onboard the plane. I was able to identify and differentiate between the Captain and the cond officers from their stripes. All thanks to the show. Reached Bangkok (BKK) in the late afternoon. I experienced a major culture shock there. It was really humid and hot in Bangkok. The air was rather polluted from the traffic, resulting in dirt accumulating in my nose frequently. BKK is one hour behind us. However, they have longer nights than ours. At only 6pm, the sky starts to darken and by 7pm, its really dark. Comparable to 8pm of SGP time.

The food there didn't sit well with my stomach initially for the first two days. But the KFC there exceeded expectations. I missed Singapore food but had my fair share of sampling Thai food from the roadside stalls that I will not find here. We walked a lot until I felt like my legs could break. Spotted some exotic stuffs from the roadside stalls like fried maggots and cockroaches. Their OJ is not the conventional type which you usually find in supermarkets in Singapore. It wasn't sour but was refreshing. It didn't really taste like OJ. The egg omelette was superb. Very crispy and not very oily. There is beansprouts in the egg omelette. The chilli is not sour but kinda sweet and thick. Like the chilli that goes for your huge triangular curry puff, except thet it is thicker. We had wantan mee and egg omelette almost every night from the road side stall. I learned a different way of eating wantan mee at BKK. The chilli used for the dry wantan noodles was very much the same as you would use as the chilli for pasta at pizza hut or pasta mania. Its the dried kind. Crushed peanuts in powder form is also added inside. You can choose to add soy sauce in. And I have to say this about the wantan soup. The wantan soup was HEAVENLY. I've never tasted anything better than that. Our whole family could not stop drinking the wantan soup (which explains why we went back to the same stall every night) and the lady was really kind to give us extra bowls of soup. Eating at that roadside stall was a different experience and it dawned onto me that their service there is way much better than the hawkers in Singapore. We got a free cup of water for every bowl that we odered. And it wasn't only us, others were entitled also. The Thais are friendly. While walking to a supermarket, a Thai just started talking to us and asked us where we were going. I was freaked out at first because I wasn't used to this.
There's a Chester's grill at MBK (a humongous shopping centre) and the food there was fantastic and cheap. The grilled black pepper chicken was worth waiting for (took 30 mins). Hopefully I can find one in Singapore too. Tom Yum soup there is very spicy and finally, I'm proud to say that it exceeds Myojo's Tom Yum soup.

As mentioned earlier, the shopping malls there are huge. There are many shops selling the same things side by side somemore with varying prices. There are easily more than 10 electronic shops in the whole shopping centre. One shop can sell a pair of shoes at 390 baht and you can find the exact same pair a few levels down at 290 baht. See the huge difference? I wasn't big on bargaining/haggling as I held a firm belief that they needed to earn a living. After that, my perception changed. I was surprised when my father was able to bargain for 400 baht for some item when the original price was 850 baht. There was a lot to see at the shopping mall but not a lot to buy. Oh ya, I must mention that I saw Clarence at the discovery centre (another shopping mall) ! Such a small world huh? I was looking at the magician performing his tricks and when I turned, he was just standing behind me.

StarMovie rocks. Watched a lot of shows such as Mr and mrs Smith, some winn dixie show, the lord of war, Home Alone etc etc to pass time in the hotel. At this time, I would be watching the tv in the hotel. Time to shed the extra pounds from all the eating (esp the 6 days breakfast buffet) and to look for a job.

Kob-Kun Ka

Going off

I'm at Changi Airpot now. Using the free internet service. Such a nice feeling just being at the airpot. But we shouldn't leave today. Coz I'll miss 2 episodes of PrisonBreak and so many 9pm shows.. Will upload the prom pics as soon as I come back.

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