Letters to my future self

20071231

Letters to my future self

29th dec - time stop

it was as if for 3 seconds, the earth stopped spinning, and everything around us come to a momentarily rest. all i could hear, is my own heartbeat.

20071212

Letters to my future self

12th dec - a xmas treat

when recently i found out that they were screening 5cm/sec in singapore at the animenation fest and it was all sold out (it was the only show that had an additional screening and it sold out for both shows too!), i was abit disappointed. i really wanted to catch it on the big screen.

been heading to several cd shops lately to try and see if i can find the dvd locally, but efforts have been futile. was surfing randomly on the internet today when i decided to try ebay. with some luck, i managed to find a hongkong vendor which carries the title, with the english subs which i'm looking for. costs abt 35 sg? (20usd) shipping inclusive, which i feel is a rather reasonable price to pay.

the biggest surprise is really when i tried to pay for the item with paypal. as it turns out, i actually still had funds in my acct, money which i didnt know i had. so in addition to my purchase of the dvd, i now know that i have some money floating around in cyberspace, it isnt much, but money is money after all, especially since i thought i had emptied that acct long ago.

hopefully it arrives soon, to inject some hope into this miserable holiday season.

-out-

20071208

Letters to my future self

8th dec - life of an underpaid FnB worker

ok, so..... i'm back. unfortunately, i'm not as quite enjoying the holidays this time round. one, i'm plagued by financial woes again (which is the indirect effect of the next point i'm going to make) and... that i have to find a job in a 'relevant industry' to clock in 250 hrs of 'industry experience' as a graduation requirement.

the defination of 'relevant' here is pretty vague, but we were told 'hospitality' or 'FnB'. so retail is out, and my work experience with mart doesnt count. fortunately (and unfortunately) i've managed to find myself a job in one of the japanese restaurant chains (name omitted, lessons learnt from the ns incident) here in singapore. which is really a terrible terrible idea for many reasons.

1) this is the worst period to work in this industry
2) its a chain located in a heavily frequented shopping centre IN TOWN

and other small details which add to the overall amount of work that needs to be done over similar jobs in industry.

... and it pays peanuts. and i'm not talking abt nkf golden peanuts here. more like... 'lol5.5/hrlol' peanuts.

no benefits apart from the promise that i get to work 5 days a week minimum, and that the pay doubles on a public holiday (public holiday eves dont count)

which basically means that i'll be spending my xmas eve, xmas, new yr eve and new yr working. *sigh*

i cant say the work is extremely unbearable, my biggest complains is no doubt the weekends, where i feel that pay is unjustified for the amount for work that needs to be done and despite having my shift end at 10, more often then not, i'm only leaving the joint at 11pm on the really bad days.

in contrast to many jobs that i have taken before, this is by far, the one that pays the least for the most amount of energy put into.

only 1 good thing has actually come out of taking on this job - i'm actually more conscious of the money i'm spending right now, since i tend to relate the amt i spend to the amt time i have to spend to recover that money.

take for example, my trips to work there an back daily is ~$4 (damn u, transport companies) which means that per day that i'm working, i'm working the 1st 43mins jus to cover back my transport costs.

and that my carls jr dinner tonight offset todays takings by nearly 3 hrs.

at this point however, i cant decide which is better, to earn more and spend without thought, or earn peanuts and spend more conservatively...

*sigh*
-out-