砂漠のJeffire

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Monday, May 16, 2005

Excluding the previous post I had, it's time for a new and proper post...shall break it into 3 parts (hint: think it will be long-winded), firsly, events in life, secondly, my dream or nitemare and finally thoughts of the day...

Events in life
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Friday marked the day when I became a boss' son! Well we were at ACRA for the registration of my father's business (he's now self-employed! but still on the left side of Kiyosaki's 4 quadrants). I had a big hand in doing the registration, thereby gaining first hand experience in setting up the business. It certainly will be very useful when I register my own business, which I presume will be either in the travel industry or the FnB. Of course I will be helping out my father as much as possible to apply all the knowledge I have gained from my working experience plus my school work. This sounds good isn't it? Yet deep down I know we must always be prepared for the worst because doing a business still constitutes risk. I had done all the risk calculating (although not in a precise, mathematical format) and I think we will be able to make it a success. My second role in helping my father was to negotiate with his first employee, Basker, a deaf/mute Indian who was an athlete! Outstanding in both swimming and soccer (wow..). We had a great time at his home negotiating with him and his wife. I believe my HR knowledge came in here, and my second task is to prepare the appointment letter for him. Should I charge my father some fees for all the administration work I have done for him (and this month no allowance wor...haha)? Anyway, will take it as a good lesson learn and like Kenneth who wants to franchise his father's fruit stall business, I will endeavour to expand the business as well as possible.

Yesterday was a very memorable day as I bid farewell to my colleagues in the call centre. Bought some chocolate for them and luckily there were enough to be given out. It has been an interesting 5 months (exactly) at the call centre when I was totally an idiot about buying airline tickets (cos I have never taken a plane before) to now an inside view on the budget airline industry. Looking back on the 5 months, I had really learnt alot on emergency handling, complaints handling, and most lmportantly, I took away all that I wanted when I first started the job. It was certainly a fulfilling experience despite the burnt weekends. Will always recommend my friends to catch a post there if possible. A nice part-time job to have.

After my farewell, I took a bus down to Downtown East for a chalet organised by Youyi, and ran by Aston, Yongqing and Zhihao. This group of friends were my colleagues in my one month stint at the airport. I really felt that it was rare to be still in contact despite only spending a month together. Moreover they weren't in my team though we were all based at Terminal 1 of the airport. It was nice meeting Aston and Yongqing again for they are people who I termed 'soccer gurus'! We always discuss very deeply about soccer stuff and had a great game playing WE. Din know I was able to talk to girls well as I had a chat with another female colleague whose name I can't recall now haha while the bbq fire died out. Looking back at the former me in secondary school and junior college, I guess my stint at the call centre helped alot in my talking..heh. After Youyi made Yongqing go with him across Singapore twice (Pasir Ris to Jurong) just to fetch Peishan, we had a ridiculous time playing Heart Attack, Red Indian, and saying ghost stories and also about the movie House of Wax which I felt was excessively gory. Overall it was not too bad a one night we had together. However I also felt the chalet was pretty expensive and pointless in a business-monetary view because each person had to fork out $26 (and some people like Aston, Qing and Zhihao had to fork out plenty of effort as well). Eventually I told them that next time we should organise something simpler like an outing to JB,etc.

Then we left in the wee hours (Aston, Yongqing) and had an early breakfast at Chong Pang market after spinning rounds trying to find Roti Prata. It was a disappointment as none of the stalls we approached had their dough supply arriving anytime soon. Yongqing joked that they must had collectively got their supply from a common factory dubbed 'Chong Pang dough' Hahaha. We bidded each other goodbye after breakfast, in which they will be going Melbourne for a study-relax trip. Good idea hor? I reached home drenched as a sudden downpour hit... haha, how unlucky I can get.

An Endless Dream / Nitemare
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Foreword: Usually I try to stay in my dream as much as possible (only to be woken up by my mother's shrilling) and reversely, I know how I can get myself out of a nitemare by forcing myself to wake up.

Yet this time this dream was endless! Time after time, after each separate event I ended up going to a new venue in my dreams... i can't recall entirely about the dream but I went to a gigantic eating house at blk 854 (the block beside me which is entirely residential) only to encounter a troublesome girl which in my dream I tot was Jason's gf, and then trying to get out of the place only to end up in a neighbourhood environment trying to run away from people who wanted to take something from me. Then I gave up eventually because I couldn't get out of this nitemare, so I went around trying to exact revenge. Tried to hire a killer, but his advice to me was 'look behind' and ya, a threatening figure appeared. Tried to throw things at someone I saw at the void deck, but instead was spotted and had to dodge the counterattacks... this time i was saved by my mother from this endless, unnecessary nitemare as the sound of the door opening woke me up.. phew. When can I ever have a sweet dream again!!? The last one I dreamt that I won money in soccer betting, and I really did in the morning as my brother told me I won. Hahahaha...

Thoughts of the Day
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You can see that I had a long day, 9am woke up to prepare for negotiations till sleeping at 7am the next morning. In between, I manage to find some time during the bus rides to ponder on the stuff in life, and here is a question I have, and it's about love and relationship, 'Why some people never give up while others give up at any information of a potential rival'.

Of course I am in no stand to talk about others because I had never been in a boy-girl relationship before. In my secondary school days I blamed it on the lack of opportunities to interact with girls, so ended up IRCing around. In my JC days, I felt I blamed it on the impending NS because heard of stories of girls finding new boyfriends when they progressed to university while the guys were all cooped inside camps... training for the future of the country. It was of course all an excuse. As we cleared NS, and returned to civilian life, and that many of my buddies found someone to really care and love for, I thought maybe I should instead work on my future than to dilly-dally around like nobody's business. In this sense, why do I still bother about this question since BGR seems to be unrelated to a beautiful future?

I guess it's because we all envision the future to be a better one. What constitutes a better future? To us, young adults, it would be a good income as we become financially independent, we are able to choose our actions and also to help lighten our parents' workload. Then it would be a happy family, to us guys, a good wife/girlfriend, and possibly a kid or two, as we all want to have a socially accepted family unit. And of course a family without kids seems boring...(to me at least, unless the couple is super rich to jet off in and out of Singapore when they are very free) And perhaps we also look forward to owning our own cosy homes, as we didn't have much say in the design and decorating of our current homes. As young, indivudualistic adults, we look forward to stand out in the big crowd out there, we look forward to being recognised as one responsible and capable person.

It is then, I realised, if I never did all those, I would have to suffer social stigmatisation and live unhappily forever and ever. Therefore from today onwards, besides working towards a better future, I should also endeavour on making others see their better future... yes the conclusion is I will try to matchmake others as much as possible. Diaoz rite?

Haha, do you find this ending absolutely ridiculous? Anyway I shall repeat again, fate will find me the person I was designed to lived for.

My sincerest appreciation to all who endured this super long post.

Regards
Jeffire

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