2008...in a few words...and 2009

2008 is a year with a lot of swings...the problem though is that each swing happened to occur on a different magnitude such that it takes anyone a much harder and longer time to fully feel the impact of each swing before another comes along...

But still, as it is, and as of the end of 2008 - I have come henceforth...in the midst of celebrating the passing of another year - at home, yes...here comes my few moments of 2008...if any at all...

- Hunting for jobs...and the job search: This is probably the most significant thing that has taken me, both physically and emotionally. Not sleeping cos of the need to read up for interviews, and then read on the train....before it...And of course trying to ride it out, hoping for the best results... Or even the basic effort of looking for jobs everywhere, sending resumes, making calls etc... I truly confess that my own emotional moods had been severely affected by it. Some people do not truly appreciate the fact that they are in a job in these bad times, and still grouse, and want to jump... others just want to show off and shove it in your face. I myself had to experience the ups and downs of being out and in the job market as I left my first, in the hunt for another...

Therefore, the moral of the story is this: one must create his own chances...that means...prepare for possible interview tests, resumes etc... and be really patient.

- Commencement: Although I did not post up any pictures here, but then I already did in facebook (which reminds me that I have not visited for a long long while), it is truly the best thing that any graduate can have. That short moment of glory, with your certificate - is a hallmark in every sense of the word - not just getting a basic degree - but to me, also the end of my academic exploits... but if this is the way to end it, then it is a heck of a ride...

As I have pointed out previously that my time in NUS is a lot more eventful than I would have wanted, I still appreciated the time I was there...taught me a lot of lessons that have readied me for the working world as best as I could...

As it is, these 2 issues have dominated most of my thinking time...so let's get on with my own resolutions...

1 - To lose weight and pass my fitness tests in a few months time...if I can lose 10kgs it wld be a gd thing...

2 - To consolidate in my new appointment and excel in it hopefully - although I will have to get used to the time of travelling - can't be helped I guess...

3 - Helping fulfil family obligations...

4 - Romance here would take a back seat here, but still my goal of getting a gf - and a good one wld still occupuy my main resolutions...

5 - Stay in contact with good pals like you guys - =) Thanks for everything in 2008 - and long may it continue in 2009.

6 - Anything else is a bonus. =D

Finally...it's over...the end of the abyss

Always I ask myself what happens what I would do when I eventually come to the end of the abyss that is my state of disillusionment...

I never knew that I could be that lucky when I had 2 on the table when I made changes to my interview skills, and various tests that I had to overcome...but eventually I had to choose one. And choose I did.

Of course, on record, I will not like to declare my incoming appointment because I do not sense the need to boast - but I will like to take the opportunity here to thank a select group of friends who helped me through this storm...and hence I have them to thank as much as the blessings of the gods as well in getting this one.

To Parvin, Kelvin and Thomas - thanks to all of you =D

This new appointment that I am taking - lands me up in an environment which I totally do not expect myself to be in. But it is a new challenge and all that I want to do now is to settle in and excel in it so that I will have other chanves of climbing up the ladder in this ministry.

In short though, this is the best Christmas present of 2008. And I am damn happy to get it =P

Next up - a review of things 2008, and resolutions Part 3 (of course after 06 and 07 editions...)

A very belated one...so many things...from a tunnel to light to a tunnel again (Part II)

So continuing from where i left off...I eventually got a job after commencement...

But that's where things did not improve as I thought...it came to my brutal realisation that this job that I did needed people with a lot of mental steel, tenacity and ruthlessness to withstand the ups and downs of it..

The nature of it being one that is so hinged on KPIs that affect my rice bowl, developments that happened from September nowards were catastrophic - bad until even for an MNC like my company, profits fell by a full 75%... And of no doubt my own revenue sank to new lows - such that I dare not even mention it to my friends whom I met up at times. I fully realised the despised looks that I so 'rightly' deserved for such a job - save for a few who really cared about what I felt when Idid what I chose to.

So I left sometime later, and I am now back in the tunnel again - getting more rejetions after deciding that eventually a place in the corporate might not be what I can be mentally ready for - I most definitely needed a job with a stable pay pocket, bar the uncertainties - and then ride it out...

Continually, I have more interviews and more rejections simultaneously - so as you mighy think, well, I am in this tunnel of seeking a way out of what I chose for myself - an ideal job alternate to the one I rejected before commencement...

I now only seek the blessings of the gods in getting a stable job - then which I will know what best to do when eventually, I land my hands on it.