was doing Cult promoting(current job: promoting new Cult energy drink from Germany-$7/hr) the other day at Ikea. this guy came to try the drink, then asked me a hell out of questions about the drink. was getting irritated, i must say, but he bought quite a few cans. anyway, that's not the point, he then contacted my colleague-whom is also working for him-and offered me a job(sell Pinnacle computer stuff-$8/hr+comm). whao, it's the best job offer that i've ever had.
went to Concourse for the job training course. thoroughly boring. 3 whole hours on computing stuff, a whole room of executives, uncles, 1 angmoh, 3 trainees(including me). here's a big YAWN for it. anyway, for the money i'm gona be paid, well, i'm glad i pulled through! hee. nevertheless, i understand..like almost nothing more than i already knew about the product-it's a movie-making soft+hardware and..it's by Pinnacle? yeah. and i thought i was the only one getting bored. we were told to pass this weird thing around for.. um, individual inspection?(can't rmb exavtly what it's for). so, i took some "interesting" moments to look at the piece of-ok,chunk of metal-then tried to pass it on to the guy beside me, but guess what? right next to me, sits a guy in a well-tailored suit, comfortably sleeping away, with his shoes taken off! well, the things people do to get away from work!(not to mention what weiming told me about what his dad does during working hours)
ok, the best part of the day is that the guy-he's Gary, a product manager, treated us to lunch at a nice japanese restuarant. oh yes, and zhao wei happened to be one of the 2 other trainees.
oh, and today's the first day since quite some time i stayed home longer then usual. got home after the training and slept like a log. maybe i should do this more often, no, not the sleeping part, but the staying at home part. cos mom was so happy, she bought me a Burberry wallet. *sniggers* actually, more of like, it feels quite nice to stay at home after all.
i was out last night with my parents and brother. went down to chinatown to walk around. saw this crippled man, wearing all red-some traditional cheongsum thingy-looks quite cute actually. but to think about it, my heart really goes out for him. it's nearing chinese new year, and everyone's happily shopping, busy with their own affairs, but there he was sitting there in that hot costume, playing er hu to earn some money. where are his children, grandchildren.. family? and he's not the only one anyway, that blind guy at the underpass at orchard mrt, is always there plus a countless lot all over the world. people pass by them, some compassionate ones who threw in some money-who ever gives them a second thought, wonder about their life? i can't help but think, they're probably just gona be people who simply vanish one day..their stories unknown to others. and perhaps even, no one will wonder or notice their absence..
or maybe again, i've wondered too much. perhaps they just love what they're doing, they do have alot of friends and returns home to a warm family..? hmm...
this doubt is screaming in my face
in this familiar place,
sheltered and concealed
and if this night won't let me rest
don't let me second guess
what i know to be real put away
all i know for tonight and maybe i just might learn
to let it go take my security from me
and maybe finally i won't have to know everything
i am falling into grace to the unknown to where you are
and faith makes everybody scared it's the unknown,
the don't-know that keeps me hanging on
to you i got nothing left to defend
i cannot pretend that everything makes sense
but does it really matter now if i do not know how
to figure this thing out
i am against myself again trying to fit
these pieces in walking on a cloud of dust to get to you