Sunday, July 31, 2005

Don't really know what to blog about, but I don't feel like sleeping yet, and Thos took over my computer as well. Its been an uneventful week. I don't recall anything out of the ordinary happening. No aching body from training (cuz I haven't been :p) and no fires in my bedroom. This week has just been sleep, eat, WoW and work. Nothing new there I suppose.

I did sorta get a few things done though. I've scheduled my carpet to be fixed next wednesday (its been more than a month already!) and its gonna set me back $400 :'( It took a while cuz I couldn't really find a proper replacement for the carpet. Landlord ok'ed the sample that we'r gonna use, so thats fine by me. As for whether I'll be compensated by the company which makes the heater, I don't know yet. They should have gotten in touch with me by now, and I tried following up the matter with an email, but no reply. I'll see how that goes next week.

Ermmm.. other news. I might be FINALLY starting work behind the bar next week o_O As long as the manager didn't forget about it. I'm gonna remind him about it when I go n pick up my pay. I'm still rostered on the floor for next week, so dunno whats the story. I think I might just be getting an hour or so to become familiar with the till, b4 I actually start out. Ah well.

Hmmm.. didn't realise that its Sunday now. Thought it was a Monday. My sense of time is a little off now, cuz I've been working Saturdays for the past 2 months but I didn't get a shift today, errr, yesterday. Which means I won't be able to use my own computer tonight. Bah! Guess I'll hit the sack early today.

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

didn't really feel like playing WoW today, so just read a couple of blogs. Found face analyzer from one of them. Spent a little time mucking around with that. This is my fav profile :)

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I likeee :)

Nice profile yeah? Obviously not super accurate since i'm neither japanese/korean. And not highly sociable. But the rest of the stuff hits the mark ^_^ Heheheh. I wanted to try getting my promiscuity score up, but the site wouldn't let after i tried it a couple of times. Guess you can only do it a couple of times in a day.

Oh! Elaine passed me a website for doing IQ tests yesterday. I tried out the culture fair one. I think its either 20 or 25 questions, doesn't seem to be a time limit. I only did about 15 plus questions and then I got lazy liao, so didn't bother answering the rest of the questions. I still got a score of 106 though. Not a bad score, considering i skipped a quarter of the test ^_^ I don't think they'r a great judge on a person's intelligence, since you can actually study how to do these tests. Its mostly pattern recognition, but nevertheless fun to do. I might try it again later on when I've got time. It ought to pull questions randomly from a test bank, but dunno if thats true or not. Haven't tried it out.

Sunday, July 24, 2005

i haven't been putting pictures up on my blog lately. the last few posts look so spartan. but its sorta troublesome to put up pictures, cuz i have to upload them to the computer, and then resize it, and then upload them to photobucket.com and then copy/paste the html over here. so many steps involved. don't really have another way around it though, apart from writing my own blog site from scratch. which i am sorta lazy to do now.

i feel so relaxed today. mainly cuz i don't have to work tonight. i've been working sunday nights for the past month i think, so it feels like a nice break. I managed to get my 8 hours worth of sleep. so nice :) can just loll around in bed, instead of having to wake up earlier so that I have more time in the day to do stuff. I was thinking of playing WoW (duh? what else I do at home) but Thos beat me to it. bahger... i usually play at this time during the weekends cuz he is usually spazzed out in bed. but he slept early last night so he could wake up earlier today. he gave me a lift from work yesterday la (and the past few weekends ^_^) so nvm la... let him play :p

Friday, July 22, 2005

I learnt about a neat 'toy' yesterday. Google Earth! Its basically a satellite imagery of the whole planet. Pretty cool, obviously not updated real time la. But you get to check out the whole planet. I tried looking for my home in KL, but I couldn't make out where it was. I did find where I used to stay in Melbourne though. So cool!

and I just found my current apartments too! hahaha. its kinda fun ^_^ Its a fixed texture la, so you can't zoom in all the way (so you can't see people or cars :p) but you can make out buildings relatively easily. Try it out if you've got broadband. I'm gonna check out Singapore and Japan later ^_^

Thursday, July 21, 2005

my interview with HP was today! bloody ordeal... well, actually it was kinda easy in a way la. just felt like a long day. The whole sessions starts at 12.45pm, but I woke up at 9 to get ready and find out how to get there. I had to take a bus down to Central station, take a train to Chatswood and then another bus to the company. I think it would take about 1 1/2 hours average to get there. just that I took extra long today cuz I couldn't figure out where to go. Alot more convenient than Favco, cuz the bus drops me off right in front of the business park, and its fairly close to Chatswood as well. Roughly 10 minute drive.

About the whole assessment thing. There was about ermm....13 other people in my session. Mix and match group... most of them still studying though. I think i'm the oldest graduate there (/paiseh). There was a presentation at first. Some guy gave a briefing of the interview process, and just some background knowledge regarding HP. Then they had some '05 graduates come up and talk a little about their experience. After that was a group assessment thingie. They divided us into groups of 4 (well..5,4,4 to be exact) and gave us a relatively simple management scenario. It was basically a list of 6 employees that you have to meet during the day and the question asks you in what order you will see them and why. Relatively easy question la...do you see a guy that has cancer first? or a guy that you need to fire? or someone that you need to promote? etc etc. stuff like that

After that was a individual written assessment. Kinda easy as well. Its nothing technical, but more to assess you on your ability to communicate. E.g. your client is getting his panties in a bunch and started hassling you. Write an email to him explaining blah blah blah. Pretty simple...the hardest part for me was having to write it out using a pen o_O My handwriting seems to have gotten worse than it originally is...and i think i wrote at a 30 degree angle. Hmmmmm...

There was coffee break after that...and then the interviews started *doom* Wasn't too bad though. We had to do 2 interviews. One with HR and another with one of the business managers. The HR interview is fairly simple, and the girl that interviewed me was bright and chirpy. So could relax a little more. Questions are more general in a sense, easy enough to draw on my own experiences, and I've been to enough interviews to kinda know what to expect :p

The business interview went ok as well. The manager looked kinda slack too, so I wasn't too nervous during the interview *note: making small chat b4 getting to the interview helps* I was asked some software/programming related questions as well, but I could answer most of them. So no biggie. I only missed out on what SOA was. It stands for Service Oriented Architecture btw, not that most of you guys would need to care :p

Anyway, if I did well enough, I'll get a call within 1-3 weeks. If not...no biggie :'( Incidently, just some statistics

4,952 people applied for the HP grad programme
801 people got a phone interview
164 (or thereabouts) got invited to the assessment centre (what i did today)
and only 52 will get a job.

Nice to know that I'm in the top 3% of the mass of applicants ^_^

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

its been about 2 months since i've started working at Shark/Space. But i'm still working as a glassie. It isn't so bad cuz I don't mind the work, but a waste of time for me la. I'm gonna speak the with manager this week and request that I start behind the bar next week or something. If not, I'm gonna start looking for work at another bar liao (well..i'm not gonna say that bit to him la)

But first up, I'm gonna have my interview with HP on Thursday. I still don't know how to get to their assessment centre. Have to catch a bus, then a train, and maybe another bus or cab. Its actally kinda far from home actually. I'm hoping thats not going to be where I'll be working if I get the job. Sucks if I have to commute so much. I've had enough of that during my Favco time.

I don't quite know how to prepare for my interview, and honestly... I'm pretty damned lazy to do it as well. It all seems like a waste of time. Mainly cuz I'm not a 100% on what I want. I'll blog more on this nex time la. Need to organise my thoughts, hard to do it when I'm just thinking about getting my next rank in WoW ^_^

Oh! and my mom sent over 2 charms for me as well. I'm gonna have to burn it...and then drink it o_O Not the ashes la...but the water. Then sprinkle over myself or something like that. Its supposed to dispel the bad luck I've been having. I don't think my lucks been THAT bad. Well..my bed did get burnt down and stuff. And I haven't been able to secure a job. But still. I'm alive and well...sort of. Every little bit helps I suppose.

Saturday, July 16, 2005

i worked from 4pm till 4am yesterday. nice! should have been till 5-6 in the morn la, but Space was pretty dead was night. not a whole lot of people compared to the usual. The whole thing started dying down by 2.30-3 in the morning. I think even Shark had more people at that time. I think it will be busy tonight though, but I'm not working in the club tonight so thats ok.

I just made myself a craptastic lunch... i'm starting to feel sick already. Originally wanted to just cook some pasta and add some tuna to it, but then I decided to steal a can of corn beef from Thos. Disgusting stuff, it really reminded me of dog food when I was cooking it. I think it might be expired... but I couldn't find an expiry date on the can o_O Can't believe I actually ate it, but beggars can't be choosers. Haven't been grocery shopping in what? 3 weeks+ maybe? And Thos probably played WoW till 5 in the morn...so he wouldn't wake up till uhhh...4-5 in the afternoon.

I've been meaning to write up on my experience in working at a night club, but feel kinda lazy. Rather dedicate some time to playing WoW and watching anime. Heheheh. Maybe later when I decide to lay off WoW again la. Been going at the game like a crazy fool lately. I'm back to playing 6 hours+ each day since the patch :p Which means I'm off to play again... until I need to leave for work.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

i've got nothing to blog about. 'cept for the fact that i've caught a cold and a sore throat. bloody uncomfortable. i need to start stocking up on cold medicine at home. i'm just popping my painkillers and telfast. Telfast isn't good enough for colds, I think theres no pseudoephedrine in it (helps clears blocked nose).

Anyway, I've ordered pizza for dinner again. Did the same thing yesterday. Absolutely nothing left to eat at home. Need to go grocery shopping this weekend or something. Maybe I'll go by myself tomorrow, but feelin lazy. I wanna get out of the house, but its been bloody cold lately. Makes me feel like just staying at home and playing WoW all day, which is what I did. I played for 9 hours today o_O Haven't played so much in a day for quite a while, but today was special, cuz WoW got some new content today. And theres a number of changes to the warlock (my character), so I mucked around more than usual today.

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

i got my new bed. yay! it cost me $390. not so yay...

Monday, July 11, 2005

gonna go out to window shop for a bed again. I went last Friday as well. Hard to make up my mind. I found one for $300, and another one for $380 (both doubles). Its just the mattress, the base would be another $180 thereabouts. Can't make up my mind as to which one I want. The $300 one looks pretty ugly, covered in some sort of pattern. Plus I didn't really like the sales guy. He seemed kinda pushy.

I'm gonna go to another bedding store now. Its about a 20 minutes walk down the street. I still can't start Tho's bike. I gave up after the pedal ripped out a chunk of my foot when I was kick starting it. The pedals all rusty n stuff... so I hope I don't get tetanus from it o_O I don't know if I'm vaccinated...hmmm

Anyway...got to go already. Need to head to work later as well, so don't really have much time. Laterz

Friday, July 08, 2005

Some good news for once, I've recently got through to the 2nd stage of 2 job interviews. Ermm, job assessments to be more exact. I applied for a position at www.sandstone-tech.com.au about 1-2 weeks ago? Don't even remember what it was, I think it was a graduate software developer position :p But neway, they sent back a questionaire for me to fill out. Did that...and then yesterday they came back to me and asked me to do an online assessment. Pretty neat. First timeI had to do an IQ test for a job interview. Its just pattern recognition la, quite fun. I like those type of questions. Its just like solving puzzles, and I'm reasonably good at it ^_^

I use to think that every1 should be able to do those questions pretty easily. Cuz I don't really see whats so difficult about them (well..most of the questions anyway). But Jacq did it once and I remember she couldn't really do those pattern questions well. oh well.

Anyway, I also got a 2nd interview with HP as well. Position of associate consultant, but this is a 2006 graduate role. AGES away. Thats on the 21st this month, so with me luck then! Guess I really should start preparing for interviews huh? I know I still do pretty crappy at them...

Thats that then... I'm not gonna count my chickens b4 they hatch (ooooo...i used a proverb ^_^) so just gonna take things as they come. No expectations = no dissapointment :p

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

I don't have any real work to do till Friday, so i'm gonna try get a couple of things done this week. First item would be to get my carpet fixed and get a new bed. The landlord came by with a couple of carpet samples today, but none of them matched well enough. He saw one at the carpet store that he thought would match well but when he brought it over, it was too dark. I'm kinda glad...cuz that one would have set me back almost $800!! fuck! i am gonna be so absofuckinglutely broke...

neway. i didn't really get to much today. i had lunch in the city with Lia and then did some shopping! Well...not really shopping. I bought some cheapo $2 socks, some drugs and candy. Feels kinda nice to buy stuff. It feels like I haven't done that in ages. I need to go clothes shopping too. Feels like i'm running out of stuff to wear. I only have 1 pair of jeans left. The rest got destroyed one way or the other... and never got around to replacing them.

Sposed to start kickboxing again tonight, but i'm feeling lazy. Don't really have the mood for it la. Especially when I think about how i'll feel after waking up tomorrow morning after roughly 2 months of slacking. Plus I don't have a comfy bed to sleep on. Aihs...

oh! that reminds me. I finally got to try the Tonkotsu ramen at Ichiban-boshi today! Its not too bad la. Tasty... but its not like its a huge step over the rest of their noodles to warrant just 15 bowls per day.

Monday, July 04, 2005

i intended to go out and look for a new bed today. i'm sorta used to sleeping on the floor now. i don't wake up feeling sore left, right and centre any more. but i don't think i'm getting a decent rest. i just feel sleepy all the time. so yes... i really need a bed now. besides... not having something nice and soft to crawl into after a long day kinda sucks :p

theres 1 or 2 bedding stores pretty close by, so i wanted to take Tho's bike out. but I can't friggin get it to start. stupid kick start bike :p tried to start it up for a good 15 minutes... ppl shouldn't have to sweat when starting a bike o_O Its partly Thos fault too. never use his bike for about a month :p

so neway...i decided to stay home after that episode. hehehe. i'm a lazy ass. i'm just gonna buy some lunch from downstairs, eat..and then catch up on a couple hours sleep b4 heading off to work later at night.