On Tuesday, _ochre and I went to apply for some customer service job at the airport at some headhunting company. I felt so cheated. The woman told us they've closed the application 'cause they had quite a fair amount of applicants already, translating to mean that they don't need us. But the online advertisement said that the closing date for application was on Tuesday itself. I guess it was wishful thinking on my part that they will let us apply (since application wasn't supposed to be closed yet!) and then pick among everyone who applied. I know my resume isn't superb or anything, but at least give us a chance right? I mean, we went down all the way personally! Tskkkk. So it was first come first serve basis afterall. Kind of dumb, if you ask me.

And the lady who took our resumes (she said she'll let us know if there are other jobs available) told me that I shouldn't go back to my waitressing job because it doesn't do any good for my resume. I didn't feel good about that. In fact, I felt insulted and offended for all waitresses out there (LOL.) and for myself for being a waitress before. What, waitressing jobs not good enough for employers?? Granted, you don't need qualifications or specialization skills to do waitressing. But excuse me, I actually think I learnt quite alot from my job previously at RCCC. It taught me people skills, for one. If it's your first day at work, would you know how to interact with guests and co-workers (especially those older than you so that you don't offend them), how to phrase your sentences and questions so that you sound professional and polite? It also taught me service standards so now I know what's quality service and how it feels to be providing that level of service standard. It's not as easy as it seems. Seriously. Especially when you have bitchy and unreasonable guests. Won't such knowledge be useful in, say, customer service or the F&B/tourism industry? If I want to be more general, that being my first job and RCCC being a big company, I think it widened my perspective of the working world. I mean, you really don't know how much work goes into making an event/function happen, there's so many things to take care of, so many things to coordinate. I never knew that until I started working there and seeing how the AMs and managers becoming kan chiong spiders before events. And since its a big company like I mentioned, you get to see the ugly side of people. The office politics can get a little dramatic (and you'll learn how to avoid them and pretend you don't know anything so people naturally feel like telling you more gossip.hahaha.). Sure, I said I wouldn't go back to that job. Some people have said it as it is, waitressing has no future. Doesn't mean it was a useless part-time job that was only for me to earn money though. I actually took that part-time $6/hr job seriously, FYI. And learnt some pretty interesting stuff. It was fun while it lasted. Everyone should do F&B for at least once in their lifetime, just to know how its like. Maybe it'll teach them to respect the F&B field more.

I know that lady probably said that for my own good, and I do understand where she's coming from. But I firmly believe that every freaking job is useful somehow, it depends on how you look at it. Don't look down on jobs like waitressing just because it doesn't require qualifications. It'll just show how narrow-minded you are.

There, I've gotten it out of my system. I feel better now. (: LOL.

This is not to spite all those who haven't finish their exams, but I am genuinely glad that I've finished mine. It was a nightmare, to be honest.
And the rest of the papers...

22nd April, Tuesday- HL205 Victorian Literature and Culture
I guess this paper was okaaaay too. Meaning, I should be able to pass. Hahaha. Meaning also, this was seriously an alright paper as compared to the horrible nightmare that is HL103. But the questions I chose were like, common questions that many people did. I hope my essays don't pale in comparison. *crosses fingers*

23rd April, Wednesday- HL211 Representations of Asia: Film and Fiction
At first, I thought the paper was alright too. I mean, I watched both films that I chose to do on- Shanghai Knights and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. But after getting back my research essay paper, I'm starting to think maybe the paper wasn't as okay as I thought. 'Cause I got the first B of the semester. ): Fine, I'm not exactly getting As (which is saddening) but at least it was a string of B pluses. They beat my B anytime. So..yeah, guess my essays would be quite general/shallow as compared to other people's. Sigh. And somemore I wrote so little for Shanghai Knights. As it was my second essay, I was like...bored already. LOL. I kept glancing at the clock and counting down to the minutes when I'll be free. Tsk.

I am really dreading my results this time, more so than last semester. So much for saying I'll study harder this semester. Hahaha. Guess I shouldn't have said such stuff. Let's just take it one step at a time now. I'll at least try to be more consistent in my readings next semester. And hope for useful tutorials. Hahaha. 'Cause I realise that I had an easier time with Victorian Lit because I rmbred stuff from my tutorials. Yay for my tutor! (:  And needless to say, the paper that was my shittiest was the one that I had really left readings to the last minute. So yes, even if I fail, I know I deserve it. *slaps self*

On a happier note, I finally managed to find S1 Episode 14 of Gossip Girl! LOL I'm such a tv addict. And such a fail at finding things on the internet. Oh well. At least there's _ochre to go to for all tech problems. Hahaha! Accompanied with stuff like, "NOOB." and "Once a noob, always a noob." Okay random.

We went to remove some stuff from hall today after lunch. Preparing to move out from hall. I'm actually quite happy about it. No more worrying whether my things are in hall or at home! And no more lugging stuff back and forth! No more sharing toilets! *big smile*

But I will miss the freedom that I had when I was in hall. The late night movies with Nat the Roomie. The convenience of it when I want to go for lessons or crash after lessons. I guess everything does has its pros and cons. And one more thing, despite being a resident of Hall 13, I will miss Hall 14/15's Japanese food. Very much.

Anyway, many thanks to Nat for being a great Roomie for these past few months. Because I'm generally a noob at many things, Nat has been very nice to tolerate my nonsense and took good care of me. Hahaha. So yup, THANKS NAT PANG. (:

ALL THE BEST TO THOSE WHO STILL HAVE PAPERS!

Oh, before I forget, its my bi-annual job hunt. Happens whenever I have holidays. Whoever got tuition jobs to recommend, TELL ME PLEASE THANKS I WILL LOVE YOU MORRREEE. HAHAHA.

Something else random too. I was genuinely surprised, shocked, appalled, ... (add in your own suitable adjective) because I found out some people actually don't know who is Kenny Sia?! OMG. I told one of them, that's like saying you don't know what is...Wikipedia...? LOL. At least they know Xiaxue. Or I'm really going into shock (no, not the medical condition) right this minute.

Does anybody have any jobs to introduce? I need a job, ASAP, preferably a tuition job. I feel kind of broke ever since school started. I'm not like super poor or anything; I can still afford meals and a little entertainment every now and then, but I want to spend without having to think about how much I would be left with for the week. It gets a bit annoying sometimes when I wonder where my money has gone to. I'm quite sure my dad will give me more allowance if I asked, but I don't really want to do that, since its my own problem if I want to indulge myself right? So the only solution is a job. Please don't ask me to go back to my banquet job, its okay once in a while, but it gets boring when I keep going back.

Moving on to happier stuff, the week is going to be over! I am so glad that next week's my holiday! (: My assignments and tests are over and done with (except for HL104's abstract, but oh well). Speaking of assignments, today for HW101 writing class, we had to go to the canteen and write down 100 words that we can think of, about the canteen. It is quite dumb. After a while, all of us couldn't think of any more words and we started writing stupid, obvious stuff like "forks", "chopsticks", "tables", "chairs", "water", "plates" and the best, "pillar". After that, we were supposed to write a short paragraph about the canteen using those words. As if we couldn't write about the canteen without that lame exercise. Anyway, I am meeting Serene and the rest, including Angela who's finally back, for dinner tomorrow! YAY. Now if only my crunchyroll video would load, I will be really happy.