Why Must We Work

A 6-month contract became a 1-year contract.
Now a 1-year contract’s gonna become a 1.16666666667 year contract… as far as I know.
Ok. I mean 1 year & 2 months++.. and then? VA-MOOSE.

I used to dream about how nice it’ll be if I could just stay here for good…

If only…
I can work here for the rest of my life, until one day when I can finally be a tai-tai and kiao kar at home.. woohoo!!
Then no need to update my stoopid resume…
no need to work on my lousy PR skills…
no need to por2 employers until their heads swell, or try so hard to convince them how desirable a worker I am… hello?
and no need to beg on my knees about how much I need them to gimme a job..blah blah blah.
As if they are the one to tell me how much I am worth lor?! Please!

If only…
I can stay, and I will be spared from all these stupid nonsense! YAY!!!

If only…
If only……

Hai… how often does reality ever go my way anyway?
So, I am not going to stay. Not even for another year. I’m gonna be outa here in less than 6 months..
In short, I am UNWANTED.
And this is the message I’m getting in my face: “You are no longer needed so Pls-Get-Out.”
Ghee. How kind of you.

Fine, I thought about it already.. Hm I shall try to salvage the situation by attempting to make it look like I chose to leave on my own accord rather than they telling me to. Yea~~
And I pray that lady luck will bless me with a right opportunity at the right time..pleassssse?
But maybe it’s time too I start doing something about it ‘stead of waiting for somethin to drop from the sky. I wish.

Maybe I should go work in a bank.. I’m an Economics major so this seems just the right place to go. Good money, leave, incentives.. “good” working hours too…
But deep down I think it’s the last place I would choose to be in for 5 days a week and at least 8 hours a day…NNOOOOOO….

Well, a wedding planner looks like a nice job to be in after I watched Jacelyn Tay in her last drama serial.. but on second thought I think there’s a higher chance that I ruin people’s big day than make it and I will just freeeak out.

Actually my requirements are really simple you know, I can just list them out here.
If an agent asks me what I’m looking for, can I tell her, “Fairly decent pay (my expectations are not that high), fixed working hours, no need to OT too often, and no need to work on weekends” ?

Coffee And Life

Sometimes I have thoughts that I would like to share… but I have so much trouble putting
them down in words.. L-I-K-E T-H-I-S.
So I’m not too good at expressing myself, this I know it too well. And in english, trust me, it
can get pretty frustrating for me at times.
No matter how hard I try to twist and turn the words around or tear them all up into pieces..
it’s just not what I want to put across!
But now I’m glad to have found a good solution to it.

Why don’t I let someone else do the story-telling instead? *PHEW*

I got this from an email that a friend sent to me :) And I kinda like the story.
So I’ll leave you now to read on what this guy has to tell you...
(It’s a short one, but it’s really sweet as well. Enjoy!)

“
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old
university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work
and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned
with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal,
some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves
to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed,
all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of
your problems and stress.

“What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the
best cups and were eyeing each other's cups. "Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money
and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the
quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to
enjoy the coffee in it."

So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead!
“