i'll haf employed myself...

for my sincerity....
for goodness sake i walked for 30-40 min under ther afternoon hot sun in jeans! who knows there's 2 DSO there....??

on street directory i saw DSO opposite MP Biomedicals... i intended to take a public bus straight to that place to hand in job applications de... end up took a shuttle bus from biopolis to NUH, coz "DSO" is juz next to sci canteen....

argh!! they're not the same DSO.... based on my instinct....i walked to near AYE, then bouna vista flyover... alongside PGP.... and overshot Sci Park Dr.... and into the correct road.... and then it's another 3 bus stops to the end of the road where the company's at......

if im the employer... i'll employ me..... f**k the interview....

IBN

Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

had a 45 min chit chat with them....ok lah hor?

at 1st not so bad de.... like quite enjoy talking to them....
one of them quite friendly... she's the head of the team... she told me abt wad they do... general working sys they employ... the other is a senior HR....the snr HR is more critical....

the FAQs really came out....haha....
"tell me ya strength and weaknesses"
"so....why shld we hire u?"

i dun like "why shld we hire u..." like i gotta sell myself so much like tat... i dun like....

they say got 2nd round of interview, and will be informed if im shortlisted... and in that interview i need to be more energetic and enthusiastic.... eh.... haha... if i so enthu i'll haf gone apply for phD loh.....

i wish GSK's job vacancy quickly open!!

interview and proj initiation

1stly... wassup with having a discussion in my comment section....?
haa... but i dun mind... keep them coming! i'll love to listen to your b*tchings....

sop: yup like i told u... juz go with the flow... try to help the situation in that particular direction that the tribe has chosen... im sure u r mature enough to handle it? unless u wanna quit?? oh and if u wanna make a change.... try be the SPO again!! FOOT Comm 2007!! wahaha.... lao bu si de...

oh i got called up yesterday evening for an interview! it's this fri, with the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.... but im kinda in a dilemma... my 1st choice will be staying here in GSK of course... since i've already gotten so used to the working style and environment here... and i like it here.... the team system that they employ... the ppl here are fun-loving and funny... the environment is stimulating.... but for now i cant be guaranteed a position here. i've heard that there'll be an opening soon, but dunno when...even if i applied i might not even get it ya? but like wad Sung told me, my chances r high.... im now opening my eyes big big for a TAP programme with GSK.... hehehh....

juz got the schedule for the starting of my proj yesterday... phew~... it's full 2 weeks of surgury and tissue collection/processing... 30 animals.... time's gonna be real tight... i wonder if i can find some time out for some freelance job anot.... there're vacancies for camp instructors for a 2 day camp in Senai!! i wan lehz.... *thinking of a plot*

had supper last nite at bedok centre hawker centre.... not nice!! not nice at all!! had hokkien mee....the healthiest one i even had....white white one... and rubbery thick beehoon.... yucks... had fried oyster too.... the "kuay" tasteless de..... XP
boycott!

SACPS, T15 and K750i

been a bz... or rather, a fulfilling week... spent mon to wed on this course in animal handling where we learnt how to handle small lab animals, and perform some common procedures on them... things like injections.. blood sampling... and of course... euthanasia... and no worries.. all done fast and humanely... might think it's cruel... but that's precisely why we need to learn and practise ya...? Refinement....

and now im certified!! woohoo~~ *updates resume*

from thurs till sat i went for a p5 camp as camp instructor again... with whiz.. a last min job coz someone pulled out at the 11th hour.... hehe... i think this is my best of the 3 camps i went so far... at least i feel that im progressing.... but of course i also know that partly it's coz the (campers) girls were responding well.... they cheered, sang, responds to our calls... they din show much attitude like those from sec sch... oh and they were so cute! hah!! bed time they were all slping in the main hall so we haf a cluster of 300 p5 girls all had they slping bags covering the whole of the hall.... they were in their home PJs too... and with their hug toys!! haa....got heart-shaped pillows... cow cushions... some were in over-sized one-piece pj that goes all the way down to their ankles.... haha.... anyway, come back to it.... i think im progressing la.... hahaa....

nothin went on much on sat... im juz staying indoors to take some rest... tired.... and taking some rest preparing for next day's trail ride!! yea~

met up with chel early in the morning juz after daybreak for a slow ride to meet dw... it's been quite some time since i went for trail rides le.... the trail (t15) was wet... from previous days rain so it was quite slippery... actually i dun fancy a challenging trail tat much.... come to think of it...i'll prefer a laid-back ride in malaysia... juz crusing along some grassland... with the sun setting in the horizon and breeze on my face.....waahh.....
actualli that was the scene when i was cycling in desaru last yr....one of my most enjoyed ride....
anyway sunday's ride ended with my bike wash as usual after some offroad riding.... haben been cucling offroad for some time so it kinda slipped my mind for bike maintenence.... and i found rust on my chain!! and no wonder there's been some grinding noise coming from the drivetrain... it's bone-dry.... damn.

considering to get a phone soon, nope, i'll get a phone soon... moto L7 has been on my mind for quite some time now... shld i juz go for it? the features it has r rather basic...not really basic actually... vga cam (pic and vid)... mp3 player...erm.. wad else...no radio...
how ah how ah.... urgh....
yb juz bought K750i yesterday... mp3 player, 1.3M pix cam, with light/flash, radio...









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a journey of a thousand miles

did a 3D2N camp with manjusri sec 3 students over the last 3 days... it was great... did a lot of self discovery for myself....

1 of my weaknesses, especially in such camps, is to handle groups on my own.. coz im not complete..hehe... cheem eh.... no lah wad i meant was i usually need someone to complement me. i know my strength in facilitating activities like climbing, belaying, kayak so on and so forth... however i suck at hyping up groups... im not one of those who can hype up the spirit of a group of trainees kind... however, i think i can do better next time... althou i feel bad that im unable to make the camp a better one for this group of mine (hope that they'll be able to contact me), i'll do so with the next one i'll be handling next time round...

but lucky for me i've got quite a great group of students with me, most of them are very mentally prepared for such camps so there isn't much complains abt anything. they're very self-initiative too... thou it's a camp of only 3 days (actually strictly only 2), i got this gift of able to see ppl.... (haa!! nah.. juz some small observations only)... there're ppl with ideas, creativity, knowledge, enthusiasm, leadership (only a couple of them).... but one thing that's lacking in most is the ability to stand out to lead, to share, to dictate... it's nothin difficult actually... juz need that very 1st step... and the rest will follow thru... with all the good qualities i see in them...

it's like wad we always hear... a journey of a thousand miles begins with the very 1st step... if u r unable to make that 1st step, u'll always be where u r... the same goes for myself...

i not stupid 2

when u point a finger at a person, u r pointing 4 at yourself.... hear this b4...?

not a very closely related analogy but close enough... as an after-viewing thought to Jack Neo's new movie...

"I not Stupid too" talks abt a couple of teenage boys from a Normal Technical class in secondary school. Generally students from Normal Stream were labelled... and when u say "labelled" of coz they're bad labels.... and how working parents handle family matters...

"Look more on their good points, less on the bad points"....
i think this is my take home message from the movie... to highlight and try to bring out a person's good points/talents... and "bad point" is subjective....

I've come to realised this actually abt a yr ago, when my parents asked me to attend a parent-teacher meeting on their behalf while both of them were at work. I've come to see how teacher can bad-mouth students (my brother, he's from normal stream too), not realli bad-mouth, but the words and comments that come out from her mouth, wahlau-eh...

perhaps that was juz an isolated case bah.... i've seen some of my brother's teachers when he was younger...they're much more patient and they realli spot a student's strength...

but then again if u put this same teacher into a rowdy classroom for 5 yrs, would she be the same still??

she has to be...she's a teacher...

"when was the last time u praised someone?"