postscripting the life of an average singaporean guy

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

*playing Same Mistake by James Blunt

I titled this post as a full stop. Reason being, I hope this marks the end of my first real job hunt which took an amazingly awesome painstaking heartbreaking depressing clost to 5 months.

I guess by now some of you may already know but March was a really difficult time for me. I was literally in the Depression Annoymous club while putting on my mask of happy face for my friends and family to see. It was as a friend has said, those who are always happy may really be the most troubled person deep down. Well, I guess she was spot on. She was also spot on in suspecting I was actually quite down and I guess there's where I made a new friend.

My life during March was literally at an all time low. Not having a job was one thing, no love, no money, even travel plans for my upcoming convocation was not really ready and when it was, I suddenly had to fork out much much more just because I'm the odd one out of the group. I do not however blame anyone, as a friend mentioned, I try too hard to impress and I think too much which would very much contribute to my depression. I try to look at positive sides sometimes during March, yet everywhere I look, everything else just make me feel more emo. I mean I always believe when you are down on your luck, somewhere else in your life is probably going upwards yet I could not even catch a glimspe of it. It got so bad, that I avoided my grandparents who stayed above me as I do not want them to ask me about my job hunt. I felt so unfilial but yet I really do not wish to be reminded by them should they ask how's my job search.

A talk with a friend on April Fool's day, woke me up and since then April has been quite a good month, I managed to laugh off oppurtunities that did not come knocking, interviews that I performed terribly and always looking forward to impress at the next corporate I go. And so it's almost a month since the talk now and I'm glad to say I have 2 offers on the table and another potential one or two coming on Friday. I'm now in another kind of dilemma, spoilt for choice. It would be nice if I can actually evaluate all of them together but alas one offer is expiring in less than 9 hours time and I really have to decide if I should take a gamble and wait for the potential one on Friday. Should I decide to take up the gamble, I hope luck will really be on my side this time round.

avec le prochain
jh out!~

p.s : The Forbidden Kingdom is a lame monkey god show. Maybe to hollywood it is an interesting concept but to asians who grew up watching journey to the west. It is actually quite lame. But well, if you can look pass the lamest, this show still does warrant a go at the cinemas with 2.7 out of 5 monkeys.

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Not boring not exciting, not lazy not hardworking, not handsome not ugly, not short not thin, not a bad guy not quite mommy's boy either. Regular Singaporean guy who like most guys probably get several different colours of the same shirt, t-shirt, berms, jeans once they fall in love with a particular design. Been through the era of cassette tapes of walkmans to discmans(remember the anti-shock technology) as well as MiniDisc(coming out at a bad time) which obviously lost to the emergence of mp3s and the CD to LD which saw LD losing out to VCDs. Next came the DVDs which 0wned the vcds and try to act smart by having 2 groups, HD DVD and Blu Ray. 2 words BLU.RAY. Loves to reminisce the old days when A&W rootbear float was still around and KFC was still a restaurant complete with waiters serving you Kentucky Fried Chicken. The days where bus fares were 10 cents for students and pizza hut's lunch buffets. Moves/dances to the jumpy music of Ipod Ads and likes to laugh at the Hello I'm a Mac, Hello I'm a PC advertisements!

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