Job Advertisements - What I hate and laugh at most

Jobs that are published online have very peculiar way of putting job requirements. For one thing they like to add things that are very hard to define as a job requirement. Below are some examples in which I have encountered rather odd and funny at times to.


- take pride in personal appearance (wow interesting factor, a Secretary role but do wonder are people that sloppy if they are required to attend important meetings? or do you want someone to be fashionable? Isn't someone who can perform more important then appearance? You need to go buy a vase is more like it)


- General Admin Duties & General Secretarial Duties (that is vague... you need to define clearly what is required. This doesn't cover the what I can do and what I can't do)

- be able to translate Chinese to English (as my Chinese totally not good, I don't think this is for me either. But it sounds like the person need more of a 'Translator' then a 'Secretary'. They need a person who is very good in Chinese but I doubt they can find out good in English then. Definitely wouldn't be able to find a suitable candidate - so I was also right that the advertisement was placed over and over again)

- to able to dictate. ( How many people still doing that? That is tough. Definitely wouldn't be able to find a suitable candidate - so I was also right that the advertisement was placed over and over again)

These are only a few that I come accross.

Target Board

Sorry I am not a TARGET BOARD !

Yesterday was a real bad day for me at the place I work. Monday morning meeting and I get shoot with additional workload. No Thanks to my boss I report to who try to fight ... if you call blah blah his way .. as fighting for me...

In end, like always, loose again! He may like being the target board who always let all these people push him around, that is pretty fine with me but I am not one who like to be one like him. Hey... keep me out of it!

I wasn't really up to fighting for myself this time. A person can only take so much of your CRAB before they start to BLOW! And then someone approach me and ask me how he can solve the issue of the Invoice.. I almost wanted to say... 'THROW IT AWAY!' I don't CARE! NOT MY PROBLEM ... Go blow yourself away from me [YELLING]! No more HELPFULNESS from me as of TODAY and any and every other DAYS to come

Silver Cab

Sick again and went for some event. After which I catch a cab back home. Hailing for a cab .. and a cab did stop.. guess what.. 'Silver Cab'. Wanted to say NO WAY! But hop on instead as the clock shows it is 5:00pm and I gotta get back home to do some stuff before my two monster come back home.

For one, to update this blog with "WHY I DO NOT TAKE SLIVER CAB". Hhhmmmm.. customer service, they aren't the exceptionally good type. Needless to say they are any of the chatty type at all. Greet Customers when they enter the cab, NOT EVEN CLOSE! What's more they hardly got initiative nor do they know their way around Singapore. The worst part is not all this. It is that they drive dangerously, that is the WORST! I am not exagerrating! You can see them speed up just to catch me first to hop onto their cab, that would mean dangerously. So, if you are alone, taking a Silver Cab, try to seat on the driver side coz it is going to be a B U M P Y ride!

There goes another shoe

And I wear this shoe out today to go for some event... Sssshhh can't tell you .. afraid someone would look at my Blog. Haven't been wearing this for a year because I was pregnant. So I thought I wear it today as I am running out of shoes to wear for events.

Look quite alright, right? Wrong! There is something wrong with this shoe. You can't really see it coz its black... hahhhhahha





YIKES! Notice that white spot? Well, that is a crack and the skin of the shoe has peel off! Ai yo.. I checked it before I leave the house and now I have to get stuck with it looking like that. Hope no one notice my shoe has cracked. Second time in life I have not notice the condition of my shoe before leaving the house.

Next time, don't just look under a light. Go to the broad day 'light' to look clearly first. So embarassing.

Call my name Correctly!

My mother gave me this name. Although it ain't some fancy name but it is a name I have learn to accept it. However, someone think that he is funny by calling me another similar name. The difference is one ends with an 'a' and the other ends with an 'e'. Despite I corrected him, he still try it again. It is so NOT FUNNY! Three times he pull this. If he tries again tomorrow, no more professionalism since he doesn't have any to begin with anyway. I will SCREW him up! How would you feel if I call you PIG or even JERK! Still, what annoy me again is that he was late. Why auditors have no watch to keep time meh? I have a life! Mind you! If you haven't got any, go get one. I am in a rush to get home, YOU JERK! Anyway, to add this, he calls himself an AUDITOR.

Still, another auditor, tell me she page this guy and couldn't get him. Then I look at her, what you want me to do? I can't really help you if he doesn't return your call. She keeps bugging me with who sits where. Where the HELL is the SOX Manager? He not doing is work? Hmmm... He has been taking a lot of leave these days... wondering is he also hunting for a job? Hhhhahahhha..

Talking about auditors, I really wonder how some people represents their company. They mess up with people's documents and place. Besides that, you think auditors from reputable company would know how to clean up after themselves but NO! They leave some stuff for you to clean up. That is rather sad at how they portrait their company image in another's company while doing audit.

Argh ... I need to get out of here soon! I am becoming to be a R U D E person!

P1 Oritentation

Waited for this day to come and finally it did. There was a lot of people this very day. Went there just in time - not a good idea, as there was many people to sign up too last minute too

Ok... went for the Oritentation Speech by the Principal followed by some other teachers. Then it was time to go down to que for books before the que gets longer after the speech. Hey .. this is Singapore... you think I KIA SOO ... wait you see .. I NOT ALONE!

Well, the book shop was slow as usual in getting the selling to textbooks. When it finally start selling, I was so happy in getting all the textbooks and whenever got time start wrapping them to up to keep them new. However, to my

the woman who gave me the books didn't even tell me what don't have but charge me the money for it. What the HELL! The worst part is I didn't even checked till I come home (when I free and was about to take a look at it) until it was too late - Bookshop close. So I called the bookshop, they say is ok ask me Monday to go back and 'get from them' - that is hopefully I do get it from them! Was so ANGRY and spoil my day! Another thing that will worry me for next 1 day until Monday arrives! Argh ... white hair poping out again!

STUPID of me not to check ! DAMN! NOW I BLAME MYSELF !

Online Feedback Forms

As a company, it is always good to have a website that introduces your company on what kind of business you are doing and the kind of service and products your provide. From there you can actually invite customers to come and enquire more.

Still, including a feedback/enquiry form to your website will help to increase your business revenue. This will be good to those who do not like using the phone to make that call and have themselves stuck with the sales person. However, when comes to the feedback/enquiry form on website, it is only good if the feedback form works and you reply to your customers promptly. Many times I have encountered dead feedback forms to quite a few websites and I do mean these websites are business that are from big corporation. Few weeks ago I send an enquiry through the feedback form to a Chinese Association asking about certain Chinese Course and until now, I am still waiting for a reply. Then again, I send another enquiry to a slimming centre, 2 times leaving first an e-mail address and second my contact number. Still, no one call or return an e-mail to my enquiry.

So ... I do wonder .. is the feedback form not working or there isn't anyone getting to those incoming feedbacks? With these I leave you with, what kind of Service Level does Singapore have these days? You think would the customer be interested returning to your website again if it doesn't work?

Baby Shoe

Finally manage the finish this! With all the busy schedule doing other things, hardly got the time to get this.

This pattern was provided by Heather Bailey. Pretty cute shoe for a New Born Baby from 0-3 months.

Need some embalishment though but haven't thought out any yet.

Notice the picture is much clearer? Heee.. I took this with my new Mobile phone.

New Mobile Phone

I am so happy that I finally got a new mobile phone. Sony Ericsson K530i. It has quite a few feature I have been looking for. For one thing, the incoming SMS tone, now I can change the tone to something that is out of the common ones given from the phone. At least I would be able to tell if it was SMS coming from my phone. Always have that problem with the SMS tone when I hear someone's incoming SMS with the same selection as mine, I will pick to check is it my phone beeping for incoming SMS.

What's more about this SE K530i is the expansion slot. Although it doesn't really come with the M2 memory card but it is good to have the expansion slot. This would mean that I can have quite a few MP3s songs carried on my mobile phone so when I am on a MRT trip to somewhere, I can pick up my earphone to listen to music and enjoy the ride to wherever I am heading. How cool is that!

Not forgeting the 2 Megapixel Camera. Something way much better then the current mobile phone I am having. Now I can grab good shots!

A fruitful Leave Day

Yeah another day of taking Leave away from work. Have been very low morale working in this current environment. Why you may ask! Well, bosses are getting on my nerves and rather rude to me lately - in fact all the time in which I am sick off now. Anyway, Leave also to do some errands I have not get to yet.

For one thing, I promised my girl to bring her on a Double Decker Bus ride. So I took this time to bring her for the bus ride. Look she is enjoying her ride up the front seat of the Double Decker Bus and enjoying the high view outside.

Hey look, the traffic outside at Seletar Expressway looks so clear. That is one reason why I like going out on leave day coz it is P E A C E F U L and no agitation followed by frastration.

Hey this Double Decker Bus pass by the Giant at Tampines. Drop by to do some shopping with my girl. Grab some small stuff and head back home.

Then drop by the Post Office to send out the package to a friend from Malaysia under registered mail as she recently just gave birth. The service level here was great as I mentioned to the counter lady who serve me that I want to purchase everything like the stamp and box and have it send out later. She then ask me why not send out now. When I told her that I do not have a marker and maskin tape to pack the package properly, she immediately say, I can lend you. Don't bring home to do. This is what I call good service level. Offer suggestions and provide with a smile.

Afterwhich I also get to go to my library to return the books I borrowed but some how ending up frastrated as the Woodland Branch Library is always messy with arranging the books. Can't find the book on the shelve and again end up with some other book which didn't quite give me what I need. Sigh .. still talk about service level, P O O R! I approach the customer service but she just shoo me away with 'go check out the aile that says []' . Wow .. what kind of service is THAT!

All in all, I manage to satisfy my young girl and run what I need to do so that the leave taken is a fruitful one and not a waste of time.

Stuffed Dog

I took the picture on the left with my mobile phone camera.

As you can see, I desparately need to change that phone camera. Not a very clear picture taken but was too lazy to get the digital camera and have it transferred to my computer. A phone would be faster thanks to BLUETOOTH ;)!

Thanks to the Blog ALLSORTS for sharing this pattern. I took this pattern from there and made one myself. Haven't got the time to get a nice button to sew the to this dog. But it looks pretty cute.