e wk dat passed...

Wanted to post this entry yesterday but ended up playing game the WHOLE day... yep the WHOLE day from like 11am till about 9pm @ nite save for toilet & meal break!!! Haha... yeah i can be q a game addict but not those war or shooting games lah... they'll give me a terrible headache. Prefer to shoot bubbles or serve food to diners or build houses like I did yesterday.

Anyways... thot that I wld haf a LOT to complain about last wk coz I was doing cash but thankfully everything went on smoothly. The machines didn't play pranks on me and perhaps due to the ASEAN summit, there weren't that many cx so I could do my work and override for my colleagues without feeling too haressed. :P However there were a couple of complaints against staff; some of which I thot was rather unreasonable. Added to that, have heard LOTSA complaints that the hotline is really hard to get through and thus cx come to the branch thnking dat we have some magic numbers to call. We do (which was only given to us recently) but NO ONE ever picks up the phone so we end up calling the hotline as well. And then we gota pass the phone back to the cx coz they can't reveal account details to us... what a waste of time! Adding to that, they recently implemented the 2FA for Biz Internet users and a lot of cx cannot access and so they also call up or come to the counter to seek our help. sigh sigh...

Other that that, was a really smooth week coz my boss also helped me to solve some prob and we finished work early almost everyday... thanks to my efficiency (haha). Have been feeling v... peaceful... shd I say ever since I went to the temple 2 Sat ago. I m definitely not a religious person... though the temple is so near my workplace, I hardly ever go there. Decided to go coz I have been meaning to go for q a while and also coz I wanted to take the 福 for Dar & myself. Sometimes this kinda thng is v "xuan"; coz Dar's biz has not been v gd lately, so I prayed that he wld haf gd biz soon and wadda ya know? He got a call that afternoon re some biz deal!!! Oh well it wasn't successful but for the next couple of days he had q a number of calls... maybe it is coincidence... maybe it is not... who knows? :)

Also went for Shanster's Hen Nite on Sat nite. This was a really really tame Hen's Nite where we juz have dinner and subsequently they stayed on for drinks but Kelly n I made a move. I was rather surprised her frenz didn't make her do silly things or ask her to wear funny hats or badges; a total contrast to Mdm Tan's Hen's Nite where we watched raunchy dancers @ Goutham's Penthouse!!! In fact, Shanster's guy fren who joined us for drinks was asking how come we were not @ Goutham's!!! hahaha!!! But honestly, though everything is in the name of fun, it wld be nice to b just able to sit dwn w close frenz and reminisce about the good old daes isnt it? :))

Now I know

Hmm... I actually went for an interview of sorts @ a headhunting company couple of weeks ago. The gal actually called me about 2 months back but I was bz n thus missed the call. Was fretting about it until she called me back about a month later. Was intially thinking the same reaction as Dar "wah... got headhunter call u ah..." n floating ard then I realised that I m not that good aftall :P

Was actually finding it rather strange coz the gal told me "I've heard so much about it so someone muz have put in a v gd word for u..." n I was telling Dar that if it was really my fren, how come they didn't give my hp number??? So i did ask the guy who interviewed me (who thot i was rather "plasticine" but then hey, I barely know u, cant expect me 2 tok 2 u like my best fren rites??? :P) n he gave some excuses. I told him of my intention to go into department rather than stay on in branches n was thus rather disappointed when he said that he felt that I m more suitable for branches n dat i prolly can't survive if I go into deparmental work. But I seriously do NOT wana be in branches forever!!! Much as I like to meet people (@ times! haha), it would also be fine if I juz do a mundane job as well hee hee :P Some friends have been giving me some lobangs as well... thnx folks, but have kinda decided not to find a job till next year... get bonus first n also to settle the wedding :)

Then I found out that 1 of my colleagues who just left was also approached by a headhunter as well so I thot she was e one dat gave my name to the headhunter but she said she didnt! Bumped into my fren over e wkend n she told me dat another local bank is very aggressive in recruiting ops staff fr my bank n dat both she n her boss were also called up by the headhunting company!!! So now I know!!! Dashed my hopes of thnking i was really THAT good! Haiz but shd haf known beta lah... :P

Disappointed

My kids haf gotten back their results and I must say overall i m very disappointed and wonder if I shd still teach them anymore :( 2 of my kids got "demoted" to NA stream (oh well technically 1 coz the other 1 was already NA n he cldnt cope w Express Maths this year so drop back), Dar's niece n nephew didnt do well either n even my best kid only got B3 for her Maths (disappointed coz i was expecting her to get @ least an A2).

Though I oughta say that a lot of effort should come from the student themselves, i m wondering if I haf done enough for them. Take Dar's niece n nephew, I thot I have gotten them pretty well prepared but still it turned out like that... wonder if it is their own carelessness or that they have forgotten the important points I have pointed out.

Haiks... hope that they all will buck up next year and they will all score beta next year!!! Thnk this is e 1st year dat my students have done sooooooooo badly... sigh sigh sigh... but yet i m not looking forward to starting lessons as yet... or maybe... who knows the parents will decide to change a tutor heh!