been a while since i was here, but i think quite a lot of stuff have happened!
1) FINALLY got the call and an offer for a job. i was SOOOOO happy cos it's my first choice (not that i have a lot of choices actually) in terms of culture. remuneration is not bad too. but the problem now is that i'm not getting a return call even though the hr person said she will. i'm still keeping my fingers crossed. i hope nothing will go wrong before and after i sign the contract! i'm just so damn relieved cos the other companies aren't calling me back...
2) CP: had our second meeting at the company's office and i think it went quite badly...=( like somehow their expectations of us seem REALLY high and they expect us to know everything! i mean it's also our fault that we didn't exactly prepare THAT much, but i think it's crazy to expect so much. i mean they are the experts at doing such research, and there are REALLY some info that we can't get online. and not helping that one of our group members just vanished into thin air! msged, called, emailed, fb-ed didn't help. i have absolutely no idea what happened. and it has never happened before. ah well, lets hope things get better in the next few phases.
3) i found more companions for grad trip!
4) ho chi minh: 6D5N there is really quite crazy. went for two day tours which brought us out of the city, and the rest of the days we just walked around the city area. had a lot of coffee which were all damn good, and met a local who introduced us to damn good food (we were having quite a lot of beef pho over there before we met him). the traffic is crazy! but we got the hang of crossing roads after a few days. but i'm slightly disappointed with the shopping. ben thanh market has a lot of stuff but all require bargaining, which i really dun like. so i ended up not buying anything from the market, which is really a miracle.
i guess the best thing about hcm is that everything is so cheap compared to s'pore. taxi rides, food (and we honestly ate at quite reputable restaurants), massages (one good one bad), manicure and pedicure (did it for the first time and i must say it's quite shiok!). but i love the company even more! just think the trip would have been A LOT more boring without them. and i like the fact that they are neither too budget nor too atas, so we spend money when we should!
5) lasik: going for lasik test and MAYBE the surgery tmr! it's quite amazing how efficient the clinic is. i called on monday, and since i cannot wear contacts for at least three days before the test, they gave me an appointment for sat and the surgery is pre-booked on that day itself! everything is like settled within a week. hopefully all goes well and i can do my surgery tmr. i'm quite sick of contacts and specs. i've been wearing specs out the last few days and i really hate it. but oh well, going to be over soon i hope!!
6) ear infection: my ear was blocked for the most of this week. thought it was too much ear wax, but i went to see a doctor the day before and he said it's ear infection. like it's swollen until it's blocking the ear canal. and the scarier thing is that when i woke up the next morning, i found a small pool of blood on my pillow and my ear was covered with dried blood!
hmm i think it's time i finish this post and restart my research. hope the rest of the holiday will be better....
