Nyl and I went to Hippo&Friends' birthday party and holy cow, the cake is humongous!
So enormous it can possibly feed my family of 11 for 3 weeks if we had cake for breakfast dinner and lunch.!
On second thoughts it will not last so long as our appetite is expandable to fit the amount of food available.
The family policy on food is never leave any food unfinished.
Nyl and I were very redundant and blocking the human traffic flow mainly because Ivan was a very busy host and we were strangers to his friends except some chinese drama people.
Would you throw a birthday party because its such a big deal to be 21 years old?
I mean, it happens once in a lifetime!(like all other days, but thats not the point)
I'd love to have one if all my friends know each other and all I have to do is shake leg while someone organises it for me.
Nontheless I understand that it is kind of hard to have a party when the celebrated has only 10 friends.
I'm not complaining actually, its quality, not quantity that counts.
I met one of my quality friends, Nat to go to queensway for new boots on Saturday after her NTU interview.
Sometimes I get really envious of these eloquent people who won't know how its like to lose sleep nights before an important interview.
To be fair I think some of them will lose sleep over the interview because they're so hyped up that there's an interview.
Interview? Oh yeah baby, I'm going to trash those losers with my super long resume and fluent delivery of speech to the interviewers.
That's how they're like, punching their fists into the air triumphantly when they get the call for interviews.
I've got 2 interviews waiting for me when I come back from HongKong.
Wish me good luck!
And give me tips if you know anything about dentistry tests and interviews.
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I have a new colleague whom I have been covering for 3 months already.
She is really slack.
Slacker than me.
I'm annoyed by her because she tries so hard to not answer the phone.
Whatever ok.
I started answering the phone within half an hour I settled into the office.
She's getting really good at pretending that things are not happening.
Eg when the phone rings, she concentrates so hard at my pile of paper reading nothing.
I wonder how she blocks out the shrill ceaseless ringing sound which makes me want to smash the phone on the floor.
When people are standing at the information counter she will bend her head low, keeping her eyes fixated on the wooden table, trying to make out the grain of the wood.
So even though we have an extra pair of hands the workload is basically still the same for everyone else.
She tries so hard to keep herself unoccupied so that she can stare into blank space.
Even though I know that I am not anyone's slave, I try to do everything that is asked of me because the workscope is not clear.
It gets on my nerves that some teachers keep on treating me like their personal maid, doing things that they can very well do themselves.
Even though it is errands like returning the posters they borrowed or compiling entire New South Wales lists for P3, 4, 5, it makes me lose respect for them.
What does it say about their sense of responsibility when they are pushing entire projects on to the laps of clerks and washing their hands off it.?
Not only that, these people don't follow up to see how's the progress machiam its enough that they've given instructions.
Should we take their pay too now that we're doing their jobs?
I thought I deserved to be burdened with so much work until I saw how the other HODs work.
I like the PE, Maths, English, GEP and Students Welfare HOD.
When they ask me to do work, I don't get the feeling that they want to be rid of these annoying projects.
They will sit down and do the exact same thing as they asked me to do, not as if they're too high and mighty(I think there's no such word. I made it up) to be doing these manual work.
I think I know, it is the pride in their work that makes them glow and differentiates themselves from their peers.
Anyway, whenever I see these teachers coming to ask me to do work I do it gladly, knowing that they need my co-operation or they would do it themselves.
Today I helped Christine do her English Oral stuff willingly and she was so thankful to me she couldn't find the right words to say.
'Angel , thank you so much.. You're so .. clever..!'
That totally made my day.
I'd do anything for you Christine. [Only for today.]
This is something to keep in mind when I start working in the future.
That is never to shirk responsibility and have pride in my work so as to win respect of others.
When people respect you, everything will go so much smoother.
♥Bid Farewell
