砂漠のJeffire

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Thursday, July 07, 2005

YAWNZZZZZZ...I just had 3.5hrs of sleep and now I'm still at the office, waiting for time to pass as we have a big client in the office and I'm required to help fill the tables. It leaves a better impression I guess.

Yesterday's discussion with Wing Tai was a disaster that I did not manage to witness. This was due to the stupid, inconsiderate people of NUS. I mean, even there was no space for me to sit in at the meeting, why can't they just call me and tell me (i can see them from my seat anyway) and I could have gone for a shopping session at Kinokuniya or somewhere instead of wasting my time trying to find out where the hell they are seated (first time meeting the NUS / NTU reps). They were dressed pretty casually, and it seemed like they were not very sure about the whole discount program...arghz. If we get Wingtai in the scheme I'm sure many people will definitely know our discount scheme and will use the discounts we have fought so hard to get for them...G2000, U2, Topshop, Yoshinoya, Fox.. all these brands I'm sure all of you will like to have some discounts rite...They dialled me after the discussion and I was very unhappy with them. I was already very unhappy with NTU in the first case, and the incident did nothing to improve my impression of them. How unprofessional they can get!

Today at work, apart from being asked to stay back to fill the gaps (i dun mind, actually), my boss brought me to Jurong Country Club to see the golf manager and the golfing concierge. Apart from them, I also met the GM of the club! Wow. Theygave us their namecards, even though my other colleague and I were just employees of the company. Nice rite? I had to write on mine because it was printed blank in the name, designation section. I wonder if there will be a way to do a direct printing onto the card without doing all the cutting and sticking. Maybe I will get a sticker print to do so. I ought to have brought my SMU namecard too, and perhaps I could have gotten more lobangs.. haha. I'm just so inexperienced when it comes to such business, high-life kinda stuff.

My boss's birthday is coming this Sun but he's giving us a treat at Laguna National Golf and Country Club! Haha. The dinner is on Sat evening, but I have to go to my grandpa's birthday celebration dinner at PSA Building too. So I will only be able to join them for ktv.. sigh. In any case, I will get to eat quite alot since it's gonna be at the restaurants and this mean, yeah, bad news for my plans. Maybe I won't be able to succeed in transforming into a totally new person but I guess I will change slowly during this half of the year. A new school, an increased job scope at work and CCA and new responsibilities (maintaining Uni+Vantage, running MIC stuff, table tennis admin, etc) are new challenges I look forward to, and whether it's a new me, or an old me, I still will need to deal with them accordingly.

Monday I had a meeting in school with Eric Yap, the director of Echo Music. The local music scene seems to be quite vibrant nowadays, with music schools and publishers sprouting. Who would have heard of Play Music if there wasn't Ocean, Joi..? Who would have know the Lee brothers if there wasn't Stefanie Sun, likewise for Ocean Butterfly (Ah-Du) and the many other music companies. I was briefly inside the industry during my stint with Canyon Music, as a vocal trainee. Eventually what happened to the company I had no idea but they were embroiled in a commercial case and it caused me to cease my relations with the industry. Oh well, Echo Music has a few interesting courses available and I'm kinda tempted to join them, for example the song writing course (with a basic keyboarding course inside). I can easily swirl and twirl new tunes but I have really no idea how to put them into notes and chords for others to reproduce or to use... haha. I think i'm pretty good at writing lyrics too, as Joyce and Siaoying will know, given my frequent mockery of some songs.. haha. oOPS.

How I hope everyday will be less troublesome... but looking at the results it makes me happy that i'm doing something that not every business student in any of the 3 universities can do. I'm a golfing concierge, a customer service officer, a sponsorship manager, an operations officer, an administrator, a butler and yes a student. Many people will think that I'm pretty mad to give school a lower priority but guess what, i already found a job and a long lasting one. Why would I want to study hard and start again in another company in 4 yrs time? I'm not sure what will I become in the future, I may be still here, or could be elsewhere, but I know this is the way to go. I will get to know more and more people, learn more and more things, experience more and more happenings, and this is what I think will bring me nearer to the dreams I hold.

Don't be shocked if you read Forbes magazine in 2015 and find my name in the world rich and young list! hahaha. (fat hope rite..) But just one thing, every dream is worth working hard for, and it's the journey that counts, not the results. Yes, and everyone of you reading this will also be just as successful or even more if you understand these.

Warmest Regards
Jeffire

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