Oh what a week...

sometime in March in 2005...

This has been one of the most tiring week in my life! Work's been challenging... All the OTPs, LOs, Mortgage, Transfers, completions, dates, Mmon, internal memos, cheque/cash/cash order payments and reciepts...lawyers, secretaries, buyers, sellers, agents, clients, HDB officers.... Was just wham-slammed with conveyancing jargon and thousand and one procedures.

Everyone was telling me that it's an easy job when I first started on Monday. And I can see why they say that... it is easy after you're used to it. But being a new comer with no background of WTH is going on... it's kinda frustrating... I think they should at least give 1 day briefing to what should be done before putting the person on the job... especially if she has absolutely no idea or inkling what goes on in the conveyancing process.

But I heard that that's just the way things are done over there. Newbies come in and are thrown in the deep end of the ocean and you just simply have to ask for tips to swim if you don't know how to. Oh well, I guess I'm starting to adpat to it, just that on top of tuition and looking for a perm job and going for interviews, this is definitely draining. The turn over rate for work procedures is super high. Every other minute I have to answer calls... call up files, call up secretaries to check files... now I know why I hate an administrative, desk bound job....

NOT to mention... the money's no good....

Hahha but there are perks I suppose. You get to meet all sorts of people. Just came across the most interesting couple today. What we usually do during appointments is to obtain their SingPass password from them so as to retrieve their updated CPF account statement.And most clients, usually give us their password as we are their acting law firm, which means we're acting in their interest and therefore, there is that level of trust to a certain extent. However, this particular pair of couple, were quite against the idea of providing us with the password as it is "private", which is totally understandable. So I suggested that they come with me to the computer terminal to key in their password. BUT guess what, after they keyed in their password, they insisted on staying there to watch and see what statements I'll retrieve and they only went back to their seats after I'm done with them. First encounter with such insecure people.

That was not all...according to the lawyer, they had to give a cashier's order to make up the cash payment for the cash component of the deposit. What is usually practiced is that the cashier's order is usually paid to the law firm, and the law firm will issue a cheque addressed to the HDB because we are ACTING IN their interest. But the clients simply refused and came up with all sorts of excuses such as the lawyer running off with the money (which was only about $9,000... and we see cheques and CO's for tens of thousands everyday), law firm closing down and the clients cannot get back their money etc etc. Even their agent was trying to tell them that it is the common practice... Anyway, I heard cuz I was trying to search for some files near their table. I just can't believe that they were so insecure and I did not know whether to snigger, or to make some snide comments... But I did neither lar... just walked away....

Anyway.... it hasn't been too bad yet. Just hoping and keeping my fingers crossed that I won't make any major mistakes before I leave. They asked me to go back to work alternate saturdays but NO WAY am I going to do that... not because of the job that I have to do, but based on the opportunity costs, it's simply not worth for me to....But I hate rejecting people, but I guess this time I got to do it... I need time for myself, and to look for a job I guess... My body's so tired and aching! Never felt this drained for a long time.....

*hanging on...*

Highlight of the week: 2 Interviews and a coffee cake.

P.S. Went for Interview at The Event Company and met Kelly, one of my Theatre Studies accquaintance there. She's been working there for over 2 years already... most interesting... and met my ex-manager from Fiddle Heads, Steve, in the lift lobby when I went to Frontech building for interview... small world.... Hee....

Madness...

I'm so darn tired! Shack! Worn out... and whatever else that you can use or say to describe someone who's devoid of energy and feels overworked.

This week has been crazy. Haha... I'm so tired that my body aches, I lack sleep. I need rest! Which is why as much as I would like to update as much as possible, it's almost impossible to. Haha...

Shall update tomorrow during lunch at work. This has yet been one of the more exciting times... which may turn out to be unexciting or otherwise... Wish me loads of luck people! :)

Off to bed now... can't take it ANYMORE! hee...

Blading!

Went with my cuz to buy a pair of blades for himself on Saturday. Not too bad a deal I think... Looks rather sleek, rather nice, Rollerblade brand... and going for only $239. (Okay, keep it to yourself if there's a better deal elsewhere.)

Anyway, after he bought his blades, I ventured to start teaching him how to. Step by step... at a multi-storey carpark near his place. Hey! Ain't too bad I would say. By the end of the 'lesson', he was able to take steps and semi-glide... heheh... with the right posture too! So proud... of my cousin... (And of course of myself for being such a capable teacher... lol...)

Some news, going to start working temp tomorrow at WLAW. My cuz-in-law got me in... kinda last minute because I thought that I was able to start work on Wednesday.... (I have a 'interview' of sorts on tuesday... So thought it's better if I confirm whether I wanna work temp or not after the interview...) But cuzzie told me to start work tom... Oh wells... A little exciting, a little disappointing...Cuz I thought that I would have at least 2 more days to NUAH! Hehe.... But like what my aunt was telling me, a dollar earned is better then none... and ten dollars earned a day, means savings after five dollars spent at the end of the day. MAKES sense I suppose....

Anyway, it was just a dilemma between the opportunity cost of leisure time when I officially not working, VS tiring myself out before I start work proper (where ever that may be).

OH wells... There goes leisure... Just when my lifestyle of a lady of leisure is rather becoming.. Lol....

Will update more again... about what happens tomorrow! Ta for now...

My Embroidery Projects so far!!

Mentioned earlier that I started some sewing projects when I stopped working? Decided to post up the pics so that I have a copy of them online... In case my laptop crashed... Which coincidentally, was what happened to my desktop... Grrr....

Anyway, here are some of those that I designed and sewed myself... some others that I just added beads and sequins on designs that are already on the tops, aren't included here...

Slept at 6am last night doing this.... plan to send this over the California to RL as a very belated birthday present!


My most recent accomplishment...


What I wore for CNY 2005!


My Pink flower...


What I did for Mamio...

How to teach English?

Came home yesterday after tuition pondering on this question:
How does one teach English?

English's definitely not something that can be learnt over night. And to have a proper grasp of the language, it takes time to build a strong foundation... before constructing on it.

Seeing my student struggle with the language, sometimes I get lost. Lost because I lose sense of where to start, how to start teaching her. She's 17 but her english is probably the standard of one who's primary 3/4. BUT the problem is, for students who have been brought up in singapore, by the time they reach primary 3 or primary 4, they would have a set of language knowledge of sorts, even if they can't grasp everything completely. But for my kid, there seem to be parts and parcels missing..... Gaps to be filled in....

Well, figured that I really do need to sit down and think about how I can carry out the lessons in a more structure manner that best benefits my kid. Doesn't help that lessons keep getting interrupted because she has stuff from school that she needs help with.

I need advice... Shall go talk to jean jie.... :)

Noted....

Hahha.. was reading the U.S. version of Cosmopolitan when I came across this.. Simply got to note it down!

Senseless Studs: There's a reason why guys are so illiterate when it comes to reading body language: biology. Men don't have as many active sensory centers as women do, so they don't pick up on many of the visual clues.

Hrrrrrmmm.... now I know why.....

Blog more later!

I went to the Doctor's...

Sigh... woke up with runny nose, blocked nose, irritated throat and a slight cough all at once. Tried to clear the blocked passages and realised that I've got tonnes of flam.... EUKS...

Decided to go see a doc because my parents have been nagging at me ever since I had my cough last October... Seen the doc 3 times since... and din recover. Sigh... I mean there were times when it seems to have gotten better but it's always recurrent! Most irritated...

Anyway, the doctor was kinda over friendly today. Hahaha.. Not that it wasn't good. I mean he started talking to me about financial planning and the importance of it, and how he feels that cash flow and financial planning should be something that is taught from young, like primary school.

I TOTALLY agree! I mean I've encountered peers my age who are totally ignorant and boh chup about financial planning. Well, to be honest, if not for my own experience in Prudential, I might be ignorant and boh chup about it too. But then again, in retrospect, given my family background, it would be difficult to be boh chup.

Anyway, what he said gave me an idea... But I'm lazy to go think about it. Let me ponder about it... then tell you more.. Hehehe... Okies, I gtg do marking. TTYL!