Leave
I am really looking forward to a good rest next month.
I will give up my work and friends.
I intend to stay home and watch dvds from day to night to day.
I can’t wait for it to be here.
Hair
Went to my hairdresser today and wanted to colour my hair Ash Brown coz its so in lately. But my hair simply refuse to change its colour. The colour technician dyed it twice but my hair is still reddish. Ended up dying a darker shade of brown and it looks neither here nor there now. Sighs.. Plus my scalp is feeling kinda numb from all the dying.
Hairdresser says got to slowly change the colour like long long ago when my hair was previously Red and they took about six months to get it to Brown. To which I commented, by the time my hair colour is Ash Brown, Red will be the hotter colour again.
When I asked how the celebrities change their hair colour so swiftly and easily like Quan Yifeng’s hair is now Brown, their reason was celebrities use semi-permanent hair colour which do not stick to hair so tightly and will usually fade after ten washes. I should consider doing that instead, less damaging to my hair, since I colour my hair every four weeks due to my irritating white hairs.
I want Ash Brown hair!
Don’t Understand
I am still upset over what had happened to that friend. Honestly, if it happens to me, I may not be as upset. But this friend totally do not deserve to be treated by the company this way.
Actually I really wonder why we must retrench. Everyone knows we must save for a rainy day. We tell people to save for a rainy day. But did we not save for the rainy day that is here? We had a few good years and last year, we had the most spectacular profits, the best since our company was incorporated.
So shouldn’t we have enough savings to ride this out. Or maybe not retrenched so soon. The government just declared we are in a technical recession. It was the first quarter profits which declined. Why can’t we wait till we have failing profits for few quarters, depleting our savings or something before we do anything drastic. Its do feels like the economy downturn is an excuse to get rid of staff at the first opportunity.
The company really sucks.
Illogical
Its a black Thursday. I am feeling very sad and very angry for a friend. It wasn’t fair at all. How can management have no say.
Saturday
Its finally Saturday - my favourite day of the week where you don’t have to think about waking up early for work the next day. Have been idling the whole day and getting ready to go for a colleague’s wedding now. I’m hoping Tang Yuan will be the dessert tonight. I’ve been served Yam Paste for the last four weddings and I hate Yam.
There was a lot of excitement about the announced retrenchment yesterday. My recently adopted life’s philosophy - I die when I die and not before. Though I think I will not be one of them, but who knows? It may not be bad news to me at all even if so. 
And I wonder if anyone I know will be given the letter..
Measurement
Its the time of the year to measure work performance and I’m feeling super pissed, irritated, frustrated, angry and cheated even.
Aren’t sales folks primarily measured by their sales target? If this sales person achieve an average of 180% of sales target, shouldn’t this person be at least be minimally in band 3 category out of 5 (say band 1 is the best)? And if the person has great attitude, correct mindset, exhibit leadership, welcome change etc etc push the person into the band 1 or 2 categories?
WHY THE HELL AM I IN BAND 4?!?!?!
*. That will be in the past so its used to.
Now, I will sit there, not make a single sound and agree with everything you say so you cannot say I don’t adapt to changes.
KAOS, to think about it, the big change recently was to cut my comm by 90% and you expect me to sit there and KEEP QUIET?!? And other changes about forms, procedures, I will need to give our inputs coz we are the ones doing right? *.
Wa lau, I am really angry and cannot get over it. I’ve never been in band 4 can!
ETA 6-Nov: Edited * for safety coz I kiasee.
Weddings
I’ve attended quite a number of weddings within a short span of time. I guessed its the age where its time for everyone to settle down. So far all the weddings feel very deja vu - nothing interesting, fun, outstanding, memorable or special.
Standard boring drill:
- Reach venue, see the newly weds, say “Congratulations”.
- Go to the reception desk, drop your red packet into the box and get table number.
- Find table, sit down and catch up with friends about life.
- Watch video montage of the newly weds from baby to their wedding photos
- First march-in with flower boy(s) and girl(s) followed by the newly weds. Aisle tables will throw flower petals or confetti. Then cake cutting ceremony.
- First dish presentation.
- Eat three dishes - cold dish, soup, prawns.
- Second video montage of the morning’s customary rituals. Standard games played by the ‘jie meis’ like drink the sweet, sour, spicy, bitter concoctions. (For this part, I object strongly to see the groom and his brothers being humiliated by wearing female clothes or undergarments.)
- Second march-in by the couple.
- Champagne popping followed by the yam seng then the newly weds speech.
- Continue eating the rest of the dishes served hurriedly. Service levels usually drops like no more refills for your drinks coz all the waiters and waitresses too busy with all the serving, changing plates, collecting dishes etc.
- Shake hands with family on the way out.
How I wish one of the wedding I am attending (seven more to go) is at least fun. I will love to attend a wedding on a roof top garden with dancing like those Ang Moh wedding or a yacht wedding!
Flower Boy
A relative got married over the weekend and my family ‘bao’ many services:
- Wedding car - S$280
- Wedding car driver - S$168
- Roll bed - S$16
- Open car door for bride - S$40
- Flower boy for dinner ceremony - S$12
Now open for bookings for year 2009- guaranteed timely great service!
Now times are bad but heng got Dar and Regan work so hard to earn back the ang bao. Hee..
And I got new future-in-laws. My future-daugther-in-law very pretty right!!
Housewarming
I really must find some time to furnish my home. Its been slightly more than a year since I moved it and I’ve yet to get stuffs to decorate it. My interior designer once said, furnishing is the part that gives the ‘WOW’ factor. But the nice ones I see at iwannagohome! or Molecule are so expensive!
And for ages before I decided to move, I told myself ‘No matter what, I must have a housewarming for my new place’. But after moving for so long, I still did not organise it. My reason was: I will arrange for one after I furnish my place. So when the above is not done the latter did not happen.
Hais. New place also become old place liao..
Economy Woes
Day in day out all day long, every paper I flipped reports about how bad the situation is, every news channel on tv shows about how bad the situation is and every banking friend I talk to talks about how bad the situation is.
I had dinner supper with two office friends yesterday as we worked really late so walked over to Lau Pat Sat to eat. Throughout the two hours, the topics revolved around the crisis we are going through. I had a drink just now with two banking friends at nearby Rail Mall’s BlooiE (I like the place!). Throughout the two hours, the topics revolved around the crisis we are going through.
Till I finally said “Can we talk about something less depressing?” and started by sharing a joke about a recent fake LV story I heard from Charmaine. And then the mood turned at least less sombre. I hope all my RM friends can snap out of it. I don’t want to see, hear or read any of them in the news for suicide or something. From the way I see, it seems highly possible.
All the investors are blaming RMs for the losses they incur. I mean it is true that there are some rogue RMs selling to the elderly, illiterate and poor folks. But just because maybe it happened to some minority customers doesn’t mean majority RMs are like that. I guess its makes them feel better to simply find someone to blame. That’s so irresponsible!
Wake up lor! If you (highly savvy and sophisticated investor) just do selective listening on what you want to hear such as the high returns, the short tenure, the capital protection, don’t blame other people. When nothing happens and you get back your capital with your returns, you also complain so low, can do something else get more etc etc and never thank the RM. But when something happens and you get back lesser or nothing, you go bersek and start pointing fingers.
I do feel thankful that I’m not a RM now. I could be since Jan this year. There are two persons I will like to thank specifically.
Dear * and *
Once again, I will like to thank you for rejecting me. Else, I am in the same blackhole now. But luckily, I’m happily setting up a Q to open accounts for all the foreigners - welcome to Singapore!
Cheers, Linda
Though I told my close friends whom knew about it that I’m over it but somehow I’m still feeling inferior. I still can’t forget about what happened. The great damage will take a long time or maybe never to heal. I felt happy I’m here already sometime back but the feeling now strengthens to that I must have accumulated some good in my previous life to be doing this job instead of that job. And it might great timing to be going into that job next year, I hope.
Edited 17-Oct: A friend is currently in a sticky position because there was a news article today accusing him making some ‘insensitive’ remarks on selling products so I must be well-behaved! You never know who is lurking and any-o-how sia..
