Resurrection

since 19th august? that's about 2 weeks?

where did i go to?

nowhere actually. just no freaking computer for me to do any blogging. i mean, yeah, i use the computer at work EVERYDAY, but it's in freaking DOS mode. black and white EVERYDAY. and the pc at home is always hogged. not like i can blog at work anyway.

so many things have happened within these 2 weeks. man, i don't know where to start.

i signed up for classes at YMCA. fitness classes. it's like some sorta package thing.. and there are limitless classes that i can go for. decided to go for it cos they got pilates and it's supposedly to be good for my creaky back. want to go back to archery and to do so.. i gotta do something about my back.

i almost died in the first lesson. how in the world do i know BODYPUMP involves weights and bars. a torturous one hour of struggling with damn weights. oh, the lightest ones.

man, how unfit i am right now.

the subsequent lesson after bodypump was pilates. and it's supposed to be 'manageable'. like, stretching and working on your back muscles. how difficult can that be right? ya right. anything after that damn bodypump IS like bodypump second round. struggle struggle.

i woke up the next day like a big fat brick. i'm aching everywhere and in places that i never knew had muscles. and i was contemplating whether i should go for that day's lessons. afterall, they're slow and stretching classes; they can help alleviate my pain.

the next day, i woke up a bigger and fatter brick.

anyway. at work, someone quitted at my department. very good. that leaves, what? only 4 of us to struggle (yes, struggle again) with e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. picking up calls, serving clients, preparation of documents, lodging information to the authorities, updating databases.. and how great. one of the 4 remaining is going off in 2 months for her maternity leave. woo! that leaves me, what? one of the most experienced person in that department. when i'm only barely into this for 4 freaking months?

i'm flipping through classifieds again.

damn it.

but recession is going to set in again, i heard. difficult to get jobs. at least i won't want to risk being jobless. to slog is better to idle.. isn't it? sometimes i don't feel that way. but ya, at least i'm getting that little peanuts into my account.

and then.. there's this big hoo-ha thing about service in singapore. that got the boss going on and on and on and on and on......... about our service standards. HELLO? we'll provide service, IF we got the freaking time in our hands!!! you pushed us this far, we get impatient at every little damn thing. listen to someone complain when we've another irritated person (and getting more irritated at each passing second) in line to complain? oh, we all smile to clients, very good. but we smile fakely? huh? now you're telling us to smile genuinely. ooooh... i'm so happy, it's the start of the month, and wow, it's also the start of the week, and there are countless clients streaming in! come in come in!! i'm so happy!

don't the employers in singapore understand, that in order for service standards in singapore to be good, they have to treat us good!? only then we can be happy to do our work! what are the frekaing conditions at work in singapore? is there welfare? if welfare comes in the form of having meetings every other day and providing us meals, no thank you, i rather have time on my own.

they say singaporeans are not humble enough. and employers blame their employees. come on, bosses in singapore, please wake up. not all singaporeans are proud and unapproachable. in the first place, who are the people you are approaching only? the people who are trying to get your attention, you don't bother, but you haggle after those who are really 'up there'.

and employ foreign workers, for plushy cushioned positions and also for the labourious and menial work. yes, maybe singaporeans pick their jobs, and they don't fancy sweeping the streets of singapore, or sitting outside toilets facing the stench wafting out from their left and right every other day. do, in the first place, do singapore employers have faith in the people from their own country to help them in their business?

it's singaporeans' mentality that anything foreign is good. either cheap labour, or that they're superior. how do you serve people well who looked down on you because you're serving them?