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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

8:08 PM

Alright! Long long update coming.

First, the big news on Monday: I spent the whole day (well, fine, the whole afternoon) with qfnn searching for jobs! Yeah. We saw this advert at MOS when we were studying for exams so we were talking about we'll get jobs in the holidays. So here we are, staring at the poster again and stoning and laughing nervously deciding who should go ask outside the branch.

In the end, qfnn managed to Confund me and convince me that I should go because I am the one who is supposedly good at linguistic skills. (Don't believe a word he says. He's just saying that so that he wouldn't have to ask. The usual ego him would answer otherwise. Hmm! Nah joking. I am the master at linguistics anyway muhahaha. Which brings us back to the point that how on earth has that got to do with asking "Are you hiring?" to the grouchy old lady at the counter.)

So after summoning my courage from every region on my body and squashing the butterflies in my digestive tracts, I finally went up and ask my first:

"Are you hiring?"

It wasn't too bad. The grouchy old lady was kind of expecting me to order a teriyaki set or something so she was like, how old?

qfnn and I chorused: fourteen!

she: O levels ar? what secondary?

qfnn and I exchanged a look. Apparently your ability to count deteriorates as you get older.

"Erms. Sec 2,"I said.

"Sec 3 next year," qfnn added hopefully.

"The manager is coming back at 4 o' clock. Come back then," she dismissed as she beckoned for the next customer to order his teriyaki burger.

Well, that went well. qfnn and I decided that we should just try out different places first. So we took a nice roundabout around J8, AMK hub and northpoint (I protested greatly because hello, that's uber far from my house. qfnn countered that J8 is far from his.)

Well, results:
1) 3 application forms filled: MOS, KFC, Yoshinoya

2) Yoshinoya should be the most possible one since the manager, chito (don't ask me what kind of name it is. Possible to be Japanese.) talked to us for a long long time. But he also wanted us to work after the hols end, and qfnn's mum wouldn't allow, and I don't think I want to hinder my studies. Yeah. Such a pity eh. He seemed like a real amiable dude.

3) One of the most important things that I learnt is that if you're under sixteen, the chance of working is hoho. LOWLOWLOW. Out of the many shops we went to, 90% switched off after we told them our age. It's so cliche that qfnn and I have combined our experiences into the typical conversation when asking for jobs:

Us: Are you hiring? (Often repeated, with their look of incredulity)
Them: (asks boss) Are we hiring? Oh. No. (smiles at the memory of their own employment and the thought that their jobs are a little more secure)

OR

Us: Are you hiring?
Them: We are hiring! (usually on a poster, hung gaudily outside the shop, like the case with Polar Puffs and Cakes.)
Them: How old?
Us: 14
Them: 16
Us: Oh, thank you. (Walk away smilingly and muttering under our breath, "Bitch,")

Yeah the list of places we went. My memory is failing me as usual, so it should be longer/shorter:

-Swensens -LJS -KFC -MOS -BK -Sweet Secrets -Polar Puffs and Cakes -random shops like the bubbletea shop we nearly went to before common sense stopped us.

But it's pretty fun. Yeah. Waiting for calls, then.

Band today was terrible with all the stupid notes I can't play because my lips are pronounced dead. I can't even play a tuning note for 4 beats straight. But outdoors was slacky because we had indoors outdoors and we played some weird piece which is very very hard. Hoho.

Well. Mrs. Chan said I looked different after camp! Must be that I cut my hair and lost my specs at the terraces.

Oh yeah I lost my specs. I forgot where I put it and couldn't find it. So the irony of needing your specs to find your specs surfaces. Oh well.

Anyway, some songs. I like "Just So You Know". McCartney's pretty hot. According to his fans.

note:some weird plot behind it. be warned. and of course, the song of the season:

signed, jiasheng

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