I've no leave and i still have to go through the 3 months probation. It may seem nothing to Sam to just continue the probation but i'm very disappointed. It seems to me that the last 14 months of being neither in CCS nor WIS and slogging away at T3 is not recognised by him or the company. Neither was the fact that i took no leave due to shortage of staff and all the building events.
I first applied under WIS. Later, i was told i'll be on CCS payroll. But while at T3, i didn't feel like a CCS staff because CCS HQ views all staff at 3A as a sub-con. But neither did WIS view me as their staff cos i'm not on their payroll. Now that WIS had pulled out from 3A, i joined them and even that took so long to be confirmed. I remember being nagged by S8 to get the letter and it was as late as the last week of Feb that i had confirmation i was to go to WIS HQ, and even that was verbally conveyed. As for the appointment letter? It was only given to me in mid Mar.
I guess it all wouldn't matter if Sam had just agreed that the probation will be waived off, but he said to go through the probation. And that, as i told dear, is what makes me sore. That my past service at 3A means nothing.
I think i have made up my mind to complete and to submit the application for the post i saw last week. Would i get it? I can only hope so.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Third person
Well, its not a floater. Instead, its a car accident. Quite horizontal still, isn't it?
I'm beginning to wonder if its a sign of some sort. 3 dead since i started? And all from the same school? The school where the 3 came from is just opposite the current site office. I'm beginning to wonder and dread. Its quite alarming and frankly, i'm not that brave a person to just shrug such things off.
Is it a sign i wonder...
I'm beginning to wonder if its a sign of some sort. 3 dead since i started? And all from the same school? The school where the 3 came from is just opposite the current site office. I'm beginning to wonder and dread. Its quite alarming and frankly, i'm not that brave a person to just shrug such things off.
Is it a sign i wonder...
Friday, March 27, 2009
Calla lily
Looking at calla lily pictures and realized that for this simple and innocent looking flower, there were some very phallic-looking shots taken...
Anyway, i still think its pretty. :)
Anyway, i still think its pretty. :)
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Vacancy
I'm receiving updates from one of the job agencies via email. Recently i saw that the institution where i was working as a contractor is now hiring. It is much nearer to my home -- direct bus, 15 mins! -- and best of all, its a confirm plus stamp plus guaranteed civil service.
Should i apply? Bearing in mind that my boss hired me straight from the other site? But its a contract term, so there's no guarantee that i'll have a job after the contract ends. I'm only tempted cos of the location, the fact that its civil service, and its civil service! But i'll feel bad leaving my boss and its really really bad of me to just leave now, even assuming i do get the post.
How? sigh... The closing date ends on 31 March!
Should i apply? Bearing in mind that my boss hired me straight from the other site? But its a contract term, so there's no guarantee that i'll have a job after the contract ends. I'm only tempted cos of the location, the fact that its civil service, and its civil service! But i'll feel bad leaving my boss and its really really bad of me to just leave now, even assuming i do get the post.
How? sigh... The closing date ends on 31 March!
Morbid speculation
The institute took part in the Chingay parade this year and now the float is on display outside the auditorium.
The supervisor told me that the speculation -- or rumour -- going around is that the next person would be found floating. Seems that its started from the staff of the institution! I was puzzled when she told me that one of the dragons is for the hung, one for the fall and so the next is for the float. Then i realized that they were referring to the position of the dragon heads! So the dragon looking up is for the one who hung himself, the one looking down is for the one who jumped, while the one looking straight ahead is speculated for the mysterious third person who would be found floating.
I told big seed about this and she told me that there is a lake on the institution grounds. No wonder it could be linked in such a manner...
I think its quite a morbid speculation! Then again, i've been told to cheer up lest my down moods attract negative influences that will make me do something that i normally and rationally wouldn't do.
Is that a sign? That if i'm found floating its due to depression... not to worry, cos i've no bloody idea where the Nanyang lake is. Then again, i guess the staff would know...
The supervisor told me that the speculation -- or rumour -- going around is that the next person would be found floating. Seems that its started from the staff of the institution! I was puzzled when she told me that one of the dragons is for the hung, one for the fall and so the next is for the float. Then i realized that they were referring to the position of the dragon heads! So the dragon looking up is for the one who hung himself, the one looking down is for the one who jumped, while the one looking straight ahead is speculated for the mysterious third person who would be found floating.
I told big seed about this and she told me that there is a lake on the institution grounds. No wonder it could be linked in such a manner...
I think its quite a morbid speculation! Then again, i've been told to cheer up lest my down moods attract negative influences that will make me do something that i normally and rationally wouldn't do.
Is that a sign? That if i'm found floating its due to depression... not to worry, cos i've no bloody idea where the Nanyang lake is. Then again, i guess the staff would know...
Flowers along Pioneer Road
I take the bus from Pioneer MRT to the institution where i'm posted to and i noticed the blooming flowers along the road from Pioneer MRT to the junction before PIE. The flowers early this week were blooming very prettily and is a very contrasting white with yellow centres against the rich green leaves of the trees. In fact, they were blooming so much that when i was seated in the upper deck, i saw some bees and insects busily buzzing around the flowers.
Now however, i guess the bloom cycle is over cos the flowers are now droopily saggy and the seeds/fruits can be seen where the flowers once were. That's so sad.
Its a nice sight to be greeted with pretty flowers early in the morning on the way to work. Its a nice, cheap methos of lifting my spirits while along the stretch of road, though it doesn't lift it much in view of the events happening to me now.
Although its nice to receive flowers, i'd rather admire the flowers where they grow than to have flowers plucked and given to me in a bouquet. Come to think of it, i think i was given a bouquet only once long long long long ago. Doubt dear even realizes that i really really like flowers...
Now however, i guess the bloom cycle is over cos the flowers are now droopily saggy and the seeds/fruits can be seen where the flowers once were. That's so sad.
Its a nice sight to be greeted with pretty flowers early in the morning on the way to work. Its a nice, cheap methos of lifting my spirits while along the stretch of road, though it doesn't lift it much in view of the events happening to me now.
Although its nice to receive flowers, i'd rather admire the flowers where they grow than to have flowers plucked and given to me in a bouquet. Come to think of it, i think i was given a bouquet only once long long long long ago. Doubt dear even realizes that i really really like flowers...
Sunday, March 8, 2009
End of 1st week
Tomorrow is the start of the 2nd week and i'll be at the new place for quite a while. Seeing the set-up at the current contract, i dread to think how my new site office will be like.
The new contract boundary is huge yet it has the same number of staff as my previous one. It means that i'll have to do more walking -- exercise? -- and checks cos there'll be so many more places the staff can twang. Will be walking the new contract areas tomorrow onwards and CK expects it to be for a few days as i need to be familiar with the various buildings and levels. sigh...
Well, bought new shoes! heehee! The basset hound brand opened a new outlet at TBP so i bought a pair of loafers with the entire sole in rubber at 20% discount. I don't mind buying cheap but pretty sandals when i know i won't be walking around much, but after seeing the extent of the boundary i know i will need good walking shoes or at the very least, shoes that won't give me much grief. The salesman said the soles should last 6 months -- i really hope so -- and hopefully it means that my monthly investment of $12.67 will pay off. :)
Not really looking forward to tomorrow... But if i can lose weight, that'll be good, right? ;)
The new contract boundary is huge yet it has the same number of staff as my previous one. It means that i'll have to do more walking -- exercise? -- and checks cos there'll be so many more places the staff can twang. Will be walking the new contract areas tomorrow onwards and CK expects it to be for a few days as i need to be familiar with the various buildings and levels. sigh...
Well, bought new shoes! heehee! The basset hound brand opened a new outlet at TBP so i bought a pair of loafers with the entire sole in rubber at 20% discount. I don't mind buying cheap but pretty sandals when i know i won't be walking around much, but after seeing the extent of the boundary i know i will need good walking shoes or at the very least, shoes that won't give me much grief. The salesman said the soles should last 6 months -- i really hope so -- and hopefully it means that my monthly investment of $12.67 will pay off. :)
Not really looking forward to tomorrow... But if i can lose weight, that'll be good, right? ;)
Imbalance
Many times i wonder, why get married? Is it for the companionship? No guarantee he'll be with you till you die. Is it for the kids? No guarantee you'll have any. Is it for sex? No guarantee you'll like it.
Do we really need the men out there for the frustration they bring to our life? Are they really our companions when we are basically 2 different kinds of people? Are we really complementary or mutually exclusive?
Why bother to put your feelings on the line daily when so often he can do what you can't ie he can hurt you and you don't show your feelings, yet when you do something slightest out of line that hurts him, he explodes. So does he love you less than you love him?
WHY BOTHER?????????
Do we really need the men out there for the frustration they bring to our life? Are they really our companions when we are basically 2 different kinds of people? Are we really complementary or mutually exclusive?
Why bother to put your feelings on the line daily when so often he can do what you can't ie he can hurt you and you don't show your feelings, yet when you do something slightest out of line that hurts him, he explodes. So does he love you less than you love him?
WHY BOTHER?????????
Monday, March 2, 2009
Horus!
Look at how Horus sits! Look at where his left forepaw is! Really no xing xiang at all! But he's still my dear smelly cat, regardless of his sitting pose. :)
1st day of work
Started work today. Really no break at all!
Reached the new office at 0815. Well, its not exactly a new office per se, but its a new office to me. :) My boss S introduced me to the HR/Admin Mgr who then introduced me to the rest. Somehow they all ''know'' me. Huh? Either my name is so smelly that they heard about me, or somehow my (in)fame(y) (sic) has spread like a virus. heehee!
Did nothing today. I had already done what i needed to do before i left the last place, so the morning was just spent doing some cosmetic stuff for the reports. I don't even have my own table! Was squatting -- not literally of course -- at a site staff's table so i can't even leave my cup there. Will bring my small water bottle tomorrow, else i'll die of thirst! In the end, to pass time in the afternoon i asked the QEHS staff for the manual & procedures to read, and was teased by F cos apparently no one else has ever voluntarily asked to read such dry manuals! haha!
Lunch was stressful too. The Exec Dir, S and V went out with me to Clementi for lunch, so it was really an uncomfortable feeling, even though i knew them. But the difference was, back then we were sort of peers but now i report to them! And i don't want the office to have the impression that i'm sucking up to the bosses... :(
Well, i heard from S that they intend to place me in charge of 2 contracts at the western most tertiary institution. From the east end to the west! My goodness! And this time round, there isn't any direct MRT to the place, no matter how much i dislike taking the train. sigh.. I'm looking at a possible 80mins journey, one-way. There goes my life... Oh, and its a 5 1/2 day work week, so there goes my Sat early morning shopping... :(
Its not confirmed how soon i'm to report to the new site. Seems it could be as soon as this week, or even next week. I'll probably meet LL there too since she works in the OED (i think). Oh well, i just hope i get to the permanent location soon. In the meantime, i'm going for a site showround tomorrow. :) Wish me luck!
Reached the new office at 0815. Well, its not exactly a new office per se, but its a new office to me. :) My boss S introduced me to the HR/Admin Mgr who then introduced me to the rest. Somehow they all ''know'' me. Huh? Either my name is so smelly that they heard about me, or somehow my (in)fame(y) (sic) has spread like a virus. heehee!
Did nothing today. I had already done what i needed to do before i left the last place, so the morning was just spent doing some cosmetic stuff for the reports. I don't even have my own table! Was squatting -- not literally of course -- at a site staff's table so i can't even leave my cup there. Will bring my small water bottle tomorrow, else i'll die of thirst! In the end, to pass time in the afternoon i asked the QEHS staff for the manual & procedures to read, and was teased by F cos apparently no one else has ever voluntarily asked to read such dry manuals! haha!
Lunch was stressful too. The Exec Dir, S and V went out with me to Clementi for lunch, so it was really an uncomfortable feeling, even though i knew them. But the difference was, back then we were sort of peers but now i report to them! And i don't want the office to have the impression that i'm sucking up to the bosses... :(
Well, i heard from S that they intend to place me in charge of 2 contracts at the western most tertiary institution. From the east end to the west! My goodness! And this time round, there isn't any direct MRT to the place, no matter how much i dislike taking the train. sigh.. I'm looking at a possible 80mins journey, one-way. There goes my life... Oh, and its a 5 1/2 day work week, so there goes my Sat early morning shopping... :(
Its not confirmed how soon i'm to report to the new site. Seems it could be as soon as this week, or even next week. I'll probably meet LL there too since she works in the OED (i think). Oh well, i just hope i get to the permanent location soon. In the meantime, i'm going for a site showround tomorrow. :) Wish me luck!
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