destitute: been busy these days...

with work and being sick. hai... it's the second time this month that i'm down with sore throat, and this time, fever as well. :( wonder if it's detrimental to take two courses of antibiotics withing a month.. haha! but i think i don't have much of a choice cuz i've got to work this weekend again. this time, still at suntec convention centre but it's a corporate IT fair by SAP. the pay's quite good but sadly, i'm only working for 2 days. eight per hour plus 1.5x per hour after the first eight hours. cool! probably will earn over a hundred bucks in two days :) but seriously, i'm definitely more keen on office jobs cuz they're less challenging physically. heh!

been talking to people more nowadays, at work and at home. it's nice hearing events and thoughts from different people's point of view, about events that i've never been through. like the australian private plane that entered our airspace without an approved flight plan, it's different when you hear it from a person working in the SAF; how a person's job requires her to test bacteria in food and to taste airline food in a pressured room, it's a job that i've never thought of before.

the job stint at career expo introduced me to four people at very different stages of their lives, all of which i'll never be able to experience. eileen started working after her O Levels, being an air stewardess and now in the sales department at JobsDB; ayie's from Philippines, studied computer science and is now in the marketing department at JobsDB. they've taken a very different path from mine but are both doing well enough in their fields. kind of admire them, for their ability to get decent jobs although they're not university graduates. it's tough in singapore if you don't have a university certificate, i think, but these two individuals managed it rather well, in their own ways. it just made me realise that the world is so big with opportunities, there must be something for me, as long as i'm game enough to take up challenges even if it means to work from the very bottom. it made me feel less hopeless about my life after the A's or even University.

weiqiang graduated from nus after doing his diploma in SP; vincent's waiting to enter university after his NS. both have a rather clear goal in life, and are pretty determined to fulfil their dreams. quite impressed by weiqiang's courage to want to be an entrepreneur, and he's been reading a lot about many things, i think. i've never thought of entrepreneurship, not enough courage, not enough knowledge..haha! vincent's going into business in university, kind of envious of his strong will and decisiveness. till now, i'm still unable to make up my mind. ;(

actually it's been fun working at career expo because of the nice people i met there. but it's sad cuz just when we're getting to know more about one another, it's time to leave. a friend once told me that she tends to become too attached to places and people that don't last, and i agree totally with that. maybe i'm just too emotional, typical of pink hormones isn't it?

Career Expo Hall 403