Author Archives: groove

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jobs jobs jobs !

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i must have send out 50-80 resumes !
that’s why i stop blogging!!
my day was like go to work, hand-over, look for jobs, send out resume, go home dinner & bath, send out more resume.

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my FIRST interview was with xx company.
the night before, goggled all the common-ask-interview-questions, practise with kervin !

on the day of the interview, the nice HR manager welcome me and took me to a room. she checked my papers and told me to wait for 4 interviewers. oh boy !! i haven’t been to a interview for ages and i have to ‘sell’ myself not only once but 4 times, to 4 ladies. that’s tough.

its a short 20 mins interview.

I GOT THE JOB ! :):)

my SECOND interview was with xx company.
after talking to the recruitment agent, pumpkin asked ‘are you sure abt tobacco company?’ i asked ‘why you say that?’ pumpkin ‘i know you have your principles’

I decided to go ahead with the interview.
I don’t like the reporting manager; cant be bother to impress them. haha !
yup, as expected, i didnt hear from the tobacco company.

its fun checking out my competitors though !
omg, there’s a candidate who arrived 1 hour before her schedule time.
she was wearing slippers,  she changed into her formal shoes at the reception area. tsk tsk tsk ! at least I changed mine in the cab. 🙂

the other 2 candidates was super casual. i know the company is located at a industrial area but still…

my THIRD interview was with a school.
totally dig the school environment & work scope.

sigh.. what a disappointment!
the school dean called me & did a phone interview. I nail the interview and he told me I will be hearing from the HR manager shortly. the HR manager called me and asked some qns. she promise to call me back within 2-3 days with the ‘package’

instead I received a rejection email!
i called the HR manager immediately, wanting to know what’s going on.
long story short, their recruitment process sucks ! The Dean and HR gave their green light but there’s another guy who say no to my application. Come on, shouldn’t the HR call me AFTER getting everyone’s approval?
the nice HR lady told me to try for other position, drop her an email and she will try to help me. all I can say is ‘once bitten, twice shy’

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my new job will be starting 1st Aug.

will do a little part time job but mostly stay home and shake leg

– G

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let go

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i never knew quitting has sucha huge impact in my life.

1st week –
still in denial. cant believe i have resigned.
AFTER 10 years.
its like leaving my second family.

2nd week –
emotionally more settled, started on handover documents

3rd week –
a struggle.
i get super upset when i felt my colleagues either treat me as non-existent or pple taking over me make stupid mistakes.
it really really get to me.

another colleague of mine sum it up pretty well ‘after 10 years, you still committed to your job. pei fu. most pple here start to slack liao. but you dont.’

lets be fair, everyone slack, so do i. my rules is – i am being paid, i should work.
it might be not within my job scope but that’s life isnt it.

anyway, i told myself to let go. i have resigned and my job is to do a proper handover. i can’t expect everyone to be like me, to do things in exactly the same manner as i do.

4th week –
i’m at the final leg of the month long notice.
in fact, today is the last day.
how do i feel? actually, okie.
none of us want this to happened, what can we do?
part & parcel of life.

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saying goodbye to some of my colleagues is really painful..
ordered the following from Jen:

*for one of my boss

*my favorite sales !

*the world best & nicest manager 🙂

*lili farewell

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i’ll miss the good old days with the ops team.
the laughter, the jokes, paste stickers together at warehouse, working late, coming in early, my dear lady boss, my desk,  the people.
xoxo

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18th June: insomnia

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im all tucked in but sleep refuse to come.
stay awake thinking of NE.

i belong to NE.
how does it feel to stop working?
how about my work?
how about my sales director? who is gotta assist him?
what about warehouse?
what should i get for warehouse?
how to inform my favourite pple that i am no longer with NE?
how to say goodbye to my second family?

i dunno.

*tears

(written on 19th June)

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new office !

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saying goodbye to the old office:

🙂

 hello to new office:

*my desk !

*mktg area

*the pantry !

*my bosses office

*my desk !

– G

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lets play catch up.. May to June

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wave wave!
here’s what happened in the mth of May to June:

*dual fried rice from pumpkin !

Breakfast for kervin & i 🙂

*egg and bread !

*flip !

*ready for my tummy

Storeroom Rack

*finally ! store room rack from Ikea !

*DIY

*the old storeroom

*the old storeroom(1)

*its empty !

*all done !

Move Office

*my old desk at PP

*my old desk(1)

*after 1st round of packing !

*so empty !

*all my barang barang + office stuff

*all of us shift to ‘temp’ space !

*its a mess !

Surprise for Jen !

met her on one of the weekend, 1st plan of the plan..

*i checked into Studio M …

*tour of the room by myself ..

*and left the key at the hotel reception. Jen’s bf pick it up hours later.

i met her, took her to a massage and dinner.
bring her back to studio m, open the door and she was surprise to see her bf lying in the bed watching tv ! hahaha
she was totally impressed with me ! yay !
Mee Siam

*cook mee siam for jen & pumpkin ! 🙂

– G

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10 June: the day i quit

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its been a tough tough 2 weeks.

first came the news.. 2 out of 3 pple in my department are leaving, 1 immediate, 1 will serve a month notice and i am the ‘leftover’ !
its tough being the leftover.
i rejected the extra money. come on, who would accept sucha increment!! it just felt so so wrong to me.

i been in a bad mood at home; broke down in tears over the weekend.
unhappy, lost, sad. what-if.. what-if.. future.. jobless..
all unknown.

after careful consideration..  i decided to resigned.
i will miss the good old days with my team and my dear lady boss.

a fresh start awaits me.

(written on 10th June)