Saturday, April 08, 2006

Posted by maei at 4:20 AM

night solo

nope, not as in the fun kind of night solo you get on ubin... yes, as in the kind of night solo you do when you're on duty alone in a hotel as a telephone operator >_< which is why i'm like, blogging now. haha.

good for me! my first night solo, and there are relatively few wake up calls... hm... we usually get like, 3.5 pages of calls to monitor, and with especially many at HOT times like... 0600hrs, 0630hrs and 0700hrs. the rest of the times are beyond my duty. BUT! for today, i've got a grand total of *whips velvet off table* TWO pages!!! more like 1.5 pages, considering half of the space is taken up by the formatting. woo~

can't believe my luck. haha. how to say, night shift is good, coz you get a lot of peace and quiet. and when you have little to do, it's pretty relaxing. *prays fervently remaining nights would be good too* and wake-up calls can be pretty straightforward if no idiots refuse to pick them up. and while you've gotten all your calls printed out, and waiting for the phones to start ringing in the rooms, you draw lines and make sure all calls are properly recorded, which should be the way if everyone is doing what they're being paid to do.

*nods reverently*

all in all, it's a good shift to do.

discussed with shieh yuan about hostel accomodation. and considering all the costs and everything, we gathered that hostel staying is actually a pretty attractive idea.

spoke to mummy and daddy separately about it, and they seem okay with the idea, so may be giving it a shot when my application goes through. more or less settled on NTU le. when i mentioned i'll be taking engineering, most people told me go NTU coz it has a better school of engineering. and i always wondered why. jianda told me, when we went out for dinner, that NUS's school of engineering is only ONE year old.

O_o boggles o_O

WHAT?!

lol. hard to believe right? plus, MSaE is supposed to be this really really cheena-fied course, at least in NUS, coz most of the students and staff are cheena. AND! a plus point in NTU's favour is that JD said that the staff present at the NTU tea reception for the MSaE school were very "welfare welfare" people, which sounds really good. JD even said that was what got him like, seriously thinking about taking up MSaE. too bad the courses he applied for in NTU were firstly aeronautical engineering, then MSaE.

haiz...

don't really know what more to say liaos. i wrote like, 3 full pages of thoughts 2 nights ago, when i was on the 6pm to 2am shift with geraldine doing late shift. zzz. lol. 5 whole hours of silence... near silence anyway.

tonight was better. we didn't speak, as per normal. BUT! i asked questions that didn't irritate her. i wonder why she's always so irritated with me. just like the last time i did graveyard shift, norman came in and asked how it went, and i said, i liked it, coz it was a comfortable shift. and you what she told me? never, EVER, say a shift is comfortable. with the way she would take off her specs, and look at you with that crooked smirk. i mean, seriously! what's wrong with saying you're comfortable with a shift? if your boss asks, you'd want to give an honest answer, right? if you think that by saying i'm feeling comfortable, i make you feel weak, or look weak in front of the boss, then i guess, i'm sorry, you ARE weak. haiz, this is the one thing that i've been keeping with me for the longest time, with nowhere to complain. i just hope she knows little enough about the internet to access this site.

and you know what, it's really sweet. when i opened up my F10 (that's my notepad in the hotel's system),i found this message inside:

"Never log out ahhh!!!hahahaha...see,now i am writing rubbish in your F10...muahahahhaa.....ok see ya!"

signed *anonymous*

(i've actually a good idea in mind who did this.)

haha, feels good to know people here actually play pranks like this. friendliness? haha, if i'd typed in what i wrote earlier on, you'd realise i don't expect to make any friends that would last out of work. but it's still nice to know people are actually being nice to you, and you've tried, and will try to be nice to them; at least while you're at work, you'll have people who will really smile, and joke with you. i guess most of them do, those around my age at least, who are not so jaded by this rather sucky environment.

peace.

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