miscellaneous
when?
When do people actually start looking for a job ya? A year before the graduation day? During their last semester? After graduating from uni? Well, big companies here do save their presence from extinction by hiring STUDENTS, despite that these STUDENTS still have one more year to go before officially being "free". That way, they’re securing whom they currently see as potential great leaders. That’s completely making sense, I guess…because if they reckon that these STUDENTS are so damn…great, they won’t (and shouldn’t) fail their last 8 (at least) subjects, rite? Whereas in Indo, I know that some big companies simply do not have any policy re processing applications while the applicants are still somewhere outside Indo, not to mention if they are still studying. Okay… life’s hard… full of competition… first comes, first served… and some people are just very lucky (if I may say so) that they seem to get so many great things with minimum efforts.
first vs. second
Do you believe in love at first sight? Do you believe that there’s a second chance? My answer is yes, and yes. But if the first is true, which I have no doubt about, shouldn’t it eliminate the latter? Ermmm…may be not. I’m more than grateful to have been given that second chance for many times. Two times that I clearly remember. I thought Aug 2004 would be the last time I used my swipe card at the office. Yet I had a second chance to "finish" the unfinished when I was back to work in the last 2 months before I got here. I thought I’d already missed the chance to experience the school life abroad (as in the movie!! :p) and do things differently when I was turning 21 and graduated from uni. Yet I’m here, despite that I’m still complaining about assignments and exams and uneasiness even in weekends. Last month I was kinda trying my "luck". I was asking God and myself whether I would have a second chance to stay here for another year. And the answer is "No", well, at least for the near term. Hundreds of theories to explain that, but perhaps the most valid one is that I simply cannot stay here if my purpose is to avoid or delay the eventuality. It would be a justification for running away from reality if I were to have that chance.
guys’ thoughts
I officially received the rejecting letter last week. It wasn’t a surprise for me as I’d already knew it. It’s just that it’s not official yet when it’s not official. You know what I mean? (–>to be pronounced the way Oz girls talking, he he). My sis and k were, as usual, on the list of the first to know. k said, "Silly man (as if I were a bloke, ughhh). You can always live anywhere you want." Yup, may be that’s they way I should think. Decide first where I wanna live, then start to worry about what kind of job I can get there, whom I’m gonna marry there, etc. etc. You think so? Also last week, one of my bule friend asked me whether I’d already heard something from the company he knew I was applying to. So I said, "Erm yea, I finally got the letter." And he lightly responded in a split second, "O I got lots of them too (yea, yea, it’s easy for him to say that then as he’s already got a well-paying job). May be we should make a collection of those letters." It came to my surprise to hear him saying that, though. He indeed got those letters, I suppose, more than a few. Then I was thinking, how can an HR person/team or a future boss tell the different between an applicant who’s being genuinely good and those who are being used to tests and interviews and assessment centres as they’ve done it so… many times (so that they know what kind of assessment to expect) and end up with a rejecting letter? Does it mean that we have to get couple, if not lots, of those letters first before we’re eligible to be part of a company?
skipping reading
I chatted with k yesterday. I didn’t expect him to pick up the phone. I was just avoiding reading what I have to read, and so I did something, which was talking to someone. The minute I heard his voice, I called him loudly, hehehe… It really felt like home. His voice always feels like home to me that I sometimes wonder whether he’s wearing a daster like my mom at home. Wouldn’t it be funny?!?! Hahaha…can’t imagine. But that’s what I told him!! =) Yea, I miss him, my family, and my friends. To be precise, may be the one that I actually miss is the sense of security and comfort when being surrounded by people I know. We ended up talking about nothing, laughing at stupid things. But I like it, that’s not the normal type of conversation we would have with people we’ve just met, rite? We even cannot act (we tend not to be) silly in front of people that we only meet every now and then, can we? Yeah, that’s k =)
