It's the end of the month. Yet July is a month that i have to say which is my roller coaster month. Yes, it's my birthday month but i have learn other work-related experience & life lessons.
I have a Thai customer who bought our product but was held up at the FDA. It took about 3 whole weeks to get things settled. My oh my, these 3 gruelling weeks were made worse by the India shipment which was changed at the last minute because of the terms and condition in the LC. They should have advise us when they have consulted their bank for confirmation! Negotiation with their appointed forwarder, ai yo..he's an MCP and a typical Sporean. Maybe i am still young and naive that when i see such behaviour and work ethics that one should have differs from what i thought it should be!
Now i may be transfered to another department to take over procurement. That is the tentative arrangement. I am not particularly excited cos i have not interest in that. Yes, purchasing and importing can be fun but stressful as well. I have to monitor the stock level, this and that. If the time comes and i am asked to do so temporary, so be it. One have to undergo challenges and experience or find out his limit. How far i can go. I have to believe in myself and sought advice and help from colleagues and they are really helpful. Maybe cos i m still a freshie or...on account of..mm.. some should know what i am talking about here.
Now that thailand problem has been solved and i am going to handle the japan and india thingy, i hope everything goes well.
I have started my part time course. The lecturer for the organisation behaviour and sociology is fantastic,he's innovative and funny. He really put all of us into our thinking cap, question ourself why are we taking this course and exam is only a small thing. Once you grasp the theory and put into use or etched into your brain by the smart way, the exam is definitely a breeze. though he has his own observation and theories but i think it's good. Anyway, theories are not really factual though they undergo many scientific observations this and that, but theories can change!
today is the last day of the LCCI call centre course and i will be having my exam on this course around end august. Hahha...the most impt thing is thati get to take pic with this charming guy who is a staff there...my god..when i first saw him, i m like....you know! hahah...i m definitely having a serious infatuation on him! haiz...i don look photogenic leh! umm...
Haiz...did not expect problems to crop up again! stupid FDA..does that equipment looks like a medical device? so what if the consignee bought 3 sets of the fitness equipment? they are for personal use! it's not that i do not want to help my customers but what happen at the thai custom and FDA is beyond my control. i got my forwarder to help, his thai agent to help but the boss who bought our products is kinda impatient,he told his secretary that he will ask for a refund if we did not pass the FDA progress. Moreover, the secretary said that their reputation is ruined...what reputation?! i understand that the boss is giving those equipment as gifts to his friend..but i think his friends should be understanding. since 4 july, things have not been going smoothly.
i also hope that things can settle asap. now, i m worried about the refund possibilites and even if the things pass thru but what if the equipment breaks down and i have to find ways and means to fly over to thailand to repair them, is it? what the...i m feelin vexed as ever.
Next, do not have enough stock for export. had promised the customer to give them the colour that they wanted but guess it will make the customer feel that 'why change here and there?'
though i kinda like export nature but i don like when prob crops up. However, i will take it as a challenge. At least i learn something.
We should always learn.
I was quite impressed with MDIS yesterday, during the orientation talk but the thot of the classmates that i may be meeting had made me a bit upset cos i do not know if i can click with them...they are mature working adults..me..just step into adulthood and still trying to adjust.
i should lower my expectations.
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MDIS may become Singapore fifth university or Asian university as it has students from 40 countries and intends to promote in another 20 markets around the world, including Middle east and Africa. Moreover, $$$ is set aside for scholarship!A new Asian scholarship which will be given out later this year to 50 top students from the region, including Singapore!
The above news excite me as thought i am going to a real uni! though it may realise only a few years later, at least i did not choose other private education provider, not to say SIM. I am going for the orientation talk today from 7 to 9 pm. It's kinda late! but i am still curious and i wanna check out the unicampus and the students, lecturers and hoe bradford works.
Celebrated my 19th birthday 0n 11 July 2006.
I was on a call handling course and i am so touched by my course mates' action. They surprised me with a lovely cake though we have known one another for less than 2 weeks.
thereafter, met my colleagues for dinner @ ajisen dining then to starbucks.though it's nothing spectacular but i treasure every moment.
went out with M3 on 10/7. First to breko then to eski bar..haha..then to essential brew. not very satisfied with the last 2 venues cos it just feel weird but i enjoy their company. funny sisters. reminisce the good old times b4 we graduated and hope to stay that way!
However, i still feel that i miss out something and i have a regretful feeling......
i just feel kinda lost in work and my education. i just seem to foresee some uneasiness...
one colleague has left the company and the other kena chicken pox.
job scope is kinda undefined. i dunno what i will be delegated to. will i be in the finance dept or remain in the customer relations team to continue my export scope? or will i be doing loyalty programme? i am fine with any arrangement but i still like my current scope. i wanna remain but i wanna try something new that is why i put off taking part time shipping course. actually, if u wanna do some temp job, a shipping cert is useful. they are in the ads everywhere! i wanna enhance my skills in microsoft office, i wanna be bilingual...i feel that i am not up to standard yet. i wanna learn calligraphy, i wanna learn diving, i wanna learn japanese/korean, i wanna pursue an MBA, i wanna go overseas for holidays, i wanna take up diploma in psychology, i wanna take up diploma in IT..i feel that i love to enrich myself. i do...
my peers are going to start their traditional uni life through their orientation which i wanna exp.
i wanna go to china to study but not easy..my chinese proficiency is not up to their standard, moreover i hate reading in chinese unless i am forced to!
my colleague is having chicken pox & another colleague is leaving the company due to her family commitments.
i am not feeling very good emotionally. i dunno why. although it's relaxing to attend courses on call centre during the 1st two days but i can't help feeling how different i am from the rest of my peers who are going to local uni, whether it's NUS, NTU, SMU,SIM.
i am working!! and have to study pt-time at this institution that not many agrees.
hai...there i am again. not satisfied that i have to land myself in a not prestigious kind of institution.
i have paid the 1st six months school fees yesterday. Kinda excited that i will be studying soon although it's pt time for the 1st yr. However, even b4 i reached the office, the students that i saw were kinda...it's like...we can't make friends at all! i m like an old-fashion nerd while they were the fashion geeks! oh my...when i make my way to the toilet, i finally saw how the classroom is like and the students in some of the classes were working adults. did i choose the right institution? haiz...shouldn't judge ppl by its cover. i shall unfold all the skeptism that i had in them. i wonder how my classmates were like, the lecturer, the classroom environment and lots...
i took home some MBA course brochure. kinda interested in taking up MBA but wonder if nus do accept it or should i go overseas and pursue it? $$$$$$$$ ah...
now,it irks me when i hear ppl talking abt how great their uni life going to be...i always had this inferiority in me that i am not able to get into the uni that i wanted. i m afraid of losing out hence my goal is to get FIRST CLASS HONOURS. My path is entirely different now. I don like going back to school and tutors will ask which uni i am in and if i told them i m in this and not that, how will they think? they will think that i am INCAPABLE! that is always the 1st impression! that's reality. This transistion period is kinda too much for me..i have been mulling over and over again.
i need help
