[Updated] Ok, woke up really early today to get to Tanjong Pagar for some job interview. I really struggled to get out of bed because I had slept at three and had to be up by eight thirty. In the end I got up at nine instead and made my way to Tanjong Pagar. Was contemplating on whether or not I should take a cab since I was going to be late, but I knew that the others would be late too so I decided not to in the end. And thank goodness I didn’t waste money taking a cab because I ended up being the first to reach the place.
Somehow, there was some message that was supposed to get to Yu Hui and I that didn’t. So the two of us ended waiting at Tanjong Pagar for an hour before Yvonne and Audrey arrived. We went to International Plaza where the job interview was held at. Let me just say that the place has the most complicated lift system I have ever come across in my life. There were like 12 to 18 lifts and we didn’t know that each lift only went to some particular levels only until after we took the first lift we went into and realised that there was no level 33 to choose from but a level 35. So we got out at level 9 and realised that there was no button to press to go up OR down. So we were pretty much stuck on that level until a lift finally stopped at that level so that we could go down to search for the correct lift that would take us to the correct story.
When we finally got there, we filled up this application form. I’ve never really filled up much application forms before so I left quite a lot of the questions blank. In the end, the only jobs available were one as a gift wrapper at Watson and one working as something in retail at Vivo City(I don’t know how to spell the name of the shop ><’’). Both required one to work for 6 days a week and the timings were usually around 8 hours a day. The pay was pretty much quite basic, $4.50 to $5.50 an hour. Deliberated rather long over which job to choose because the one at Vivo paid more but wasn’t confirmed while the one at Watson paid less but was confirmed.
In the end, we left with their name card and headed to Sim Lim Square to check out this job that would be held at Singapore Expo for 4 days. It was a long walk to Sim Lim Square from Little India MRT and we saw this 70 year old drag queen. Haha, it was the strangest sight because from far, the persons back looked like a man while the front looked like a woman. We only found out the persons gender when we walked pass him/her and we heard a really low voice. Haha, the person was either scolding YH for running past or some motorcyclist.
The job at Expo was for selling computers at some exhibit, the pay sucks and it’s like $2 an hour and we get $20 commission for every computer we sell. The thing is that we or I know squat about selling computers so I’ll probably end up standing around looking really stupid and earning my 2 bucks an hour which doesn’t really seem worth it.
So after all that, we went to Vivo to look around for jobs because the place had just opened not too long ago and a lot of the shops there were just getting started. So we were hoping that one shop would be looking to hire and it turned out that quite a few were indeed looking to hire. The only twist to it is that they were looking for long term employees.
It was the first time that YH and I went to Vivo City so of course we were running around cam whoring at the same time. It really puzzles me why Xmas decorations are were up so early in the month of November. I guess that’s why Singaporeans are called Kiasu.
The two whom I'm taking this photo with want to watch this movie.
With the harbourfront view as our backdrop.
There's a snowman at Vivo.
Taken with the snowmen!
We don't enjoy waiting for MRTs (especially if they're crowded) farcical-rants - 12:16 am - Thursday, November 23, 2006
