i re-pierced my ears on sunday, based purely on a whim. and unlike most other times, where i often choose my favourite amethyst studs, i chose a pink pair of studs to shoot myself with. It’s been so long since those holes have sealed up, and since i have last re-pierced it. would it stay open? would it be used? stay tune ^_^

meanwhile, i am sitting here feeling just a little unsatisfied with life. don’t ask me why, maybe it’s just the hot weather. i am tired of being a student, tired of temping somewhere so i can get some money through school. i am just wondering… how hard is it for a singaporean to get shitty work visas in united states? like, a work visa to work in… restaurants? not just waitressing, but anything… just anything!

Currently, my entire weeks are filled with work. when i am not working, i am too tired from work to do anything else other than lazed around the house. let me just emphasize on this: i am still drained from work AFTER resting. so i need a life, outside of work. or maybe, i just need to move on with my life, and find something new.

i did do some different stuff though, no matter how minor or how insignificant. i stop being the grouch i was, and started interacting with my “new friends” on the new server in WoW more. they are not crazy, i tell you. they are MAD ^_______^

i started reading more mangas and comics, although they do leave me in tears - DAMN CLIFFHANGERS!

Genbu Kaiden 7 was released ^_^ so i am a happy camper, until i read to the end and discovered another massive cliffhanger. it’s been what, a year since her last book came out (at least) so i sincerely hope she wouldn’t kill me with suspense =_=;; it’s extremely unsettling.

I discovered loveless because of… Ebay! i needed cat ears to transform the headset (ahem, i know i meant to do it since, zomg, at least a year ago!). while i have yet to find a satisfactory nekomimi for my headset (just ordered a moonphase version from ebay), i decided to read Loveless to find out what’s it about.

It’s yaoi.

It doesn’t disgust me or anything, but for some reason, i have always equate yaoi manga to fetish manga to… hentai manga. which, for some reason again, i have often associate it as SHALLOW storylines behind all of them. Loveless just proved me wrong, and i will tell you, i am still breathlessly awaiting the next book to find out MORE. What’s happening?!?! why’s septimal moon trying to kill Seimei?!!? Whyyy and howw did Ritsuka lost his memories? *pant pant*

On another note, i have decided to mod my DS. soon, it will become similar to a palm top, hehe, just better AND PINK! ^^

p.s i know i am rambling randomly. don’t worry.

for those of you who were interested, i thought i should update you guys on the situation. it’s nothing serious, just something i found fairly amusing.

After i posted up that blog post, whereby i thought that was the end of it, i was suddenly sent a barrage of mails. Why did i respond? personally, i felt sorry for him, secondly, he’s still a customer to me.

him: you are not who i thought you were. farewell (funny that, he just said goodbye 2 times now)

me: lol, who did you think i am? i am just an ordinary girl who wants to work for what she wants

him: nvm. it doesn’t matter now. i was going to tell you a little more about my background tonight, which you would have been surprised at. but it doesn’t matter now. (sounds like a bait to me)

me: lol. why would it have surprised me? (to be honest, i was curious what he saw me as. a whore? a leech? an opportunist? geez)

him: delete me off your phonebook please. i will never bother you again, nor want to see you anyways (how presumptuous. maybe he doesn’t know that you don’t need a phonebook to email or send text messages or mail out to people. waitresses have note pads, duh) goodbye (!!! 3 times!)
me: *silence* i have decided this guy is so crazy and delusional. not worth replying to, of course, now i was curious about what he think i was AND what his background was. erm, being the geek i was though, i was half worried by then that one of my Lineage 2 ex-enemies have found me irl!! stupid eh… LOL!!!

him: AND i don’t understand why there’s a need for “lol”. i see nothing funny in any of these. this is not funny or humorous. goodbye

LOL!!! and i will tell you why i was laughing. first off, basic waitress instinct, laugh things off. secondly, basic panda/anivyl instinct, LAUGH THINGS OFF. thirdly, breaking your mental penis and hearing you sound so butthurt about it awaken my e-persona. in simple english, you acting butthurt made me laugh. why? am i heartless? cruel?

no. i just don’t think that a doctor is that great, or that you can force someone to like you. “HEY I AM A DOC, LOVE ME!” you, who just walked in the door and entered my life as a CUSTOMER, is not about to tell me what i should do, or say.  so i will laugh, and i will laugh at you, the way i laugh at life. LOL

p.s wth would he think i would keep his number. LAWL.

ok, so i got bored at work.

anyways, here’s my open letter to potential recruits. this is something i think people should do at interviews and trials, regardless of the job you are applying for.

Dear Potential Recruits:

There are ads everyday to look for people to hire, and i will tell you why. of the 10 or so people that applies, about 8 will be given a training/trial and then only about 2 will go on to be hired. Some of you are outrightly not suitable for the job, be it personality or schedule wise. i am not trying to be a wise-crack - some companies, particularly like ours, have a strict policy on the PERSONALITIES that we hire.

we do occassionally get some that falls through the crack, but stayed on because they push the rest of us along. so, here’s a few things NOT to do. i mean, seriously, during a trial and probation period, the last thing you want to do is to fuck things up, particularly if you want the job. so here’s a list of pet peeves of mine that i was watching in the last 2 weeks.

1) mill around like there’s nothing to do. currently, i have 3-5 experienced staffs on per night, as compared to 5 newbs like you. sure, there’s nothing much to do when all of you are on food and clearing. but… if *I* can find something to do, and i am supposed to delegate my jobs away, SO CAN YOU. please don’t do nothing, it’s a sure sign of “this person doesn’t need a job”.
2) lie to me. seriously, i didn’t hire people to tell me tall tales. i have my mum for that. when i tell you to clean something, CLEAN IT. telling me “everything’s done!” when there’s a blatantly dirty table in front of me is about as impressive as a zit.

3) walk around in groups to talk. hello… again, it’s almost the same as point 1). you are hired to work. if you can talk and do nothing, then the money is better spent coming to me, since i can expand myself over 3 sections as long as i have 1 person as a busser.

4) Lie on your resume. This is slightly different from point 2), and here’s why: Canberra isn’t a big place. seriously, my left foot would have met your great aunt’s best friend’s sister’s cousin’s colleague’s husband. telling us “omg, my boss at my other work place gave me an iphone as a reward for christmas” etc etc, sounds impressive UNTIL we found out your boss is your mum. plus a few other factors… you don’t need the job.

5) don’t think you are indispensable. ya, we hired coz we are short staffed. we aren’t desperate either, which is why i haven’t gone on leave yet. the moment i feel confident, i will. meanwhile, i am more than willing to cover a zillion sections whilst people train up or get fired. so, don’t be too cocky. this is hospitality. NO ONE IS INDISPENSABLE!

6) doing something you have been explicitly told NOT to do. don’t use that computer, don’t leave tables dirty, don’t forget to clean the high-chairs. darlings, these aren’t hollow commands, i need things to run like a clockwork. i need you to queue up behind people, so there’s breathing spaces between meals for the kitchen to cook the food. i don’t like any one of you touching the tills coz i have been losing money. babies are highly sensitive to dirty crap - as customers should be anyways.

i DO check on your jobs, and again, you are hired or fired based on those little minute things. they may mean nothing to you, or seem nothing to you. but little things add up to big impressions for customers. tonight, i have complaints that stemmed more from bad attitude than bad food. people return to places based on their previous experiences there. so, IMPRESS me.

just because your mum hired you, doesn’t mean i will hire you. just because you are great at customer service, but suck at doing any other work, doesn’t mean i will hire you.

i like -

• friendly people

• hardworking people

• honest and trustworthy people

I mean, the world’s not perfect, so i don’t expect you to be. but surely. surely surely, you as a 15 yr old applying for a job, or 17, would understand that if people hire you YOU HAVE TO BE WORKING, RIGHT?!?! good. thanks.

love, sometimes,

shazz