Company D&D 2023

The traditional dinner and dance event is here again for the year 2023. Compared to the previous years where D&D was held in April. This year would be slightly one month later, and it would mark the 12th year I stayed in the company.

I have opt to attend the event a month ago , only to find out that this year dinner would be a buffet style. Buffet style means all meals would be cooked in house , although there are meals label vegetarian, but some of them contain cheese , onion or garlic. Not exactly vegetarian, but more rather than just vegetables instead. Since I had say yes in the first place , it would not be good to back out in the last minute, after all it might be my last D&D in the company.

The event costume is set to be a tropical scene, since I don’t really have friends to discuss on type of costume to wear , I should just wear plainly t-shirt and jeans .

On the Friday, we were allowed to knock off on mid day . I went home and catch a sleep before going to the hotel at suntec City. I reached the venue at around 1750, and was to be seated at table 9 . The venue was relatively small, and there were no dedicated place to take photo or play small games. Most of my colleagues dress rather casually , except a few turn up in air filled dinosaur costumes. Since it is a buffet dinner , most of the people didnt sit in their allocated seats, I don’t really have much opportunity to mingle with most of my colleagues

The meals have mostly placed outside the ballroom, and we can start eating slightly before 7pm. The food meant for vegetarian were rather few, but as long as I could fill up my stomach, it’s OK

The night is still interesting as the female host ( fei fei ) was very experienced in different language and dances. Later comes the lucky draw with 15 prizes to be won. I wasn’t lucky enough to get any prize

The event ended at around 1030 pm. I heard from some of the colleagues stating that they would be going for 2nd round (karaoke). Since no one actually invited me, it’s best for me not to go with them ( 毛遂自荐)。I left for home at 11pm.

Personally wise , I have spent rather a bit on extending road tax and insurance for my car. And thanks to yihui for helping me over the month. Next month , I would need to service my car again. Home wise , my mother recently brought a foot reflex machine ( probably cost 1000 plus ) . since my mother likes it, is ok to pay half the price , I think.

Job finding wise , after the failed interview at nutek . I need to rethink if I still need to apply for pure draftmens post. Or do I have a choice afterall?

Looking forward , I could only take a step at a time , this weekend would be the videography lessons . Just hope I could make a few meaningful friends, and maybe I could be able to do something different altogether

写到这里，一个人也可以很开心

GOD bless all the time , 慧台

First interview for a better tomorrow

It has been a month since I started finding a new job. Thru the jobsteet app , I managed to apply for a couple of openings. Most of the job I applied are drafting related positions, although there are a few openings for engineers or assistant engineers, but the chances of success were pretty slim .

Last week , I mananged to get a first call for interview from NUTEK ( a manufacturing firm in JOO koon area. From then I realized that the contact number wriiten in the resume posted were outdated . I have to go online to do some amendment .

Then I made an effort to go for the interview last Friday . on Friday , I managed to take an afternoon leave , so I am able to find time for the interview . I took quite a while to find all the certificate hidden most of the time in the cupboard, but I still cant find my certificate for my japanese studies . since it wasn;t a Japanese company , I guess the cert wouldn’t be useful for now . I took an mrt to joo koon station , where I changed into a bus 252. The journey took 5 mins or so , and land me infront of the huge building. It seems to me a quite a big mnc company with a lot of employee . I changes pass and when to the office for interview .

The interview started around 1520, and two staff ( one male staff believed to be the manager) came to interview me . firstly , I was to speak about myself,. Since it is my first interview ,in twelve years , I struggled quite a bit on trying to explain my strength and the reason for leaving the present job , and I don’t think is anyway convincing . afterwards, the male manager briefly talked about my future job scope. It is 100 percent 2D drafting job , very much similar to the jobs I am doing now , just kinda a little boring and manual work intensive job.

furthermore, the manager specifically mentioned twice on the need for overtime . since the manager didn’t managed to convinced me on the prospect of this job , I could not bring myself to say yes to such position . in the end , I rejected the post on the spot. For a thought, I told myself, even how much I would want to change a new job , I should not compromised my expectation for a better environment . afterall , the learning curve would have to be a higher consideration in any new job offers that come in the way. I than ked the staff there and left for home

looking forward, I would still try to sent out emails for new posting , in the event if I still cant find a job , would I need to quit before finding a new one ? this would be a very difficult option , I would ponder deeply for the next few months

for the month of jun, I managed to enrol for a 2 day course on camera videography. I do not know what I really can benefit from such courses ( apporx 500 dollars ) . since it is fully paid by skill future credits , I should go and upgrade my self and hope to be able to make some new friends in the way

holiday wise , I starting to imagine going for a holiday as far as united states . at least , I would have the experience ( before I get too old ) of flying more than 12 hours , or 15 hours to be exact if I see myself to going west coast of united states, (san fransico ) , the ticket isn’t too expensive , with one way ticket probably cost a little more than 1000 dollars

写到这里，和自己说。不会谈恋爱的， 一个人也可以很开心

GOD bless all the time 慧台