(Google-translated the title...havent learnt that much, only know "premier" heh heh)

Another week has gone by..so let's see what has happened this week.

Monday morning, as usual planned to wake up for breakfast, but switched off alarm at 8-ish and went back to sleep as usual. Thankfully, because I woke up once already, wasn't really deep asleep so was easily woken up by a phone call at 9am.

Turns out it was a phone call to invite me for my first ever job interview =.=

"I am calling from LTA...."

LTA? *wide awake*

Put on my most energetic-sounding voice, think I still sound sleepy though haha. Lady asked me to come down for an interview on Thursday. Even in my half-awake state, I didn't forget that Thursday was my busiest day of the week so I asked if I could reschedule it. She said she will try to make arrangements and call me back later. (Afterthought: maybe that wasnt a very smart move, considering I can try to shift my classes and make up for them).

Hung up, lie on my bed thinking for a while, then I actually fell asleep again. And dreamt that she called me a second time confirming the interview and after i hung up, i panicked because I forgot to ask her when is the interview. =.=

Anyway she did call back (just nice when I was coming back from my morning routines in the toilet, then I was thinking maybe I should start carrying my phone everywhere, even when I am bathing just in case a future boss call me). Interview time and date confirmed. Just that I didnt know what post I was interviewing for. =.=

I know, the whole thing sounded really messy and full of =.='s. I thought she called up after I left my résumé with them during career fair. And found out that she is from the Rail Group in LTA after reading her follow-up email. My classmate told me it was probably going to be a geotech related post (which I wasnt very keen on). But I didnt speculate much and just prepared for the general questions in the end. And it was a bit last minute too because I usually reserve the beginning of weeks to prepare for my mid-week FYP meetings (which was 风平浪静 by the way, but I got a feeling I had to do much more to impress him next week). And last-minute shopping for formal wear too coz Ryan inspected my wardrobe immediately after I told him I got shortlisted for an interview and declared my stock of formal wear as "not formal enough".

Went for my first interview not knowing what to expect (and cursing inside because I hoped to have some practice before going for an interview at one of the companies I am targeting). The admin lady who spoke to me on phone was very friendly, had a chat with her first because there was another candidate in the interview room when I came, and she told me she got very confused when she saw the combination of "Malaysian", Sg A Level cert and Brunei O Level cert. Even talked a bit about my skin problem. And she told me I was interviewing for the post of "Project Engineer" at one of the MRT lines under construction, either Downtown, Tuas extension or Thomson. Which was another post I wasnt very enthu about (not that I totally reject the idea) because it will be site-based.

Lost my confidence a bit when I saw the aforementioned candidate coming out, turns out it was a classmate of mine, and was on the university's Chinese debate team, and I knew what she was capable of, having worked with her on a project last sem too. As for the interview itself, to my surprise the standard predictable questions came out (tell me abt yourself, strengths and weaknesses etc) but I think I didnt do very well either..Oh well. Practice maybe? Considering I supposedly can still get called up by the other groups within LTA for other posts which I am more keen on. Gonna have to send in more applications during recess week too! A friend of mine was like "Oh no, it's recess week and I am still jobless!" and I was thinking "omg I havent even started sending in applications proper other than those during career fair". A bit too laid back already!

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CE Day on Friday afternoon, the main attraction that drew me there was the lucky draw where the only non-Coop Cash Voucher-prize was an iPad 2. Joined the sculpture building competition (still beats me why it is named "sculpture-building"...you would think that you need to sculpt something which wasnt the case) with ML, Chris and Winnie (randomly decided upon it one day when we were lunching). Ended up being the only Final Year team competing among the first and second year undergrads and maybe some grad students, which turned out to be an advantage because the other FYs who came for the event were endlessly supplying us with ideas and helping out with the building lol. We were given random materials,such as wires, tennis ball cans, aluminium strips, barbed wires, satay sticks etc and we had to build the tallest structure possible. Apparently the prize was decided by votes (in which we got a helping hand too heh heh) and we ended up winning the first prize of $200 Coop Vouchers. Lol. After distributing it to everybody who helped out (rather than among us four) ended up with $30. Haha!

Didnt win the iPad though. The winning ticket was drew and the emcee narrowed it down to four people and I was among the 4! Went to Tze Yuen in the end. Lucky girl who nearly went off for her 6pm class but decided to stay for a while just in case!

Rather fun and interesting last CE day in uni though. :)

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So I finally dragged myself to UHC to get a referral letter for a skin specialist.

Turns out Dr Patrick Tan is actually a skin specialist. Always thought he was a sports injury specialist. Because i told registration counter that i wanted a referral letter for skin specialist..they arrange for me to consult with him first.

Hearing "yeah, its very serious", even though I know it very well, causes the heart to sink all the same.

"what happened to you? the last time i saw you, you still look ok".

He probably din observe closely/properly/forgot how i look like alr.

Anyway he said it may be treatable by cream alone. "At least its not big patches, just many circular red patches." Or go for UV treatment which might cost a bomb. Sigh. "Yeah...quite serious..should go..can no longer be handled at outpatient level".

Fixed up an appointment with NUH in the end, told him Skin Centre is a bit far for my liking..and he did say even though he thinks Skin Centre is the best, NUH is "okay too". The appointment was for next month because its the earliest available date (to which I flashed back to two years ago when the GP wrote a comment "consult specialist immediately" and the admin staff fixed up an appointment for the following week..so this time its not urgent enough?).

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Recess week this week, other than job hunting, there is the TIFS (Transport Industry Forum of Singapore) seminar I signed up for, OCBC Cycle Singapore briefing (possibly my last ever volunteering job), FYP meeting, and for the first time since Year 1, Midterms! MCQ Accounting midterms and written, listening and oral tests for French. Eeks. And to think before the semester started I was thinking if I could afford a getaway to either KL or Malacca during recess week...

Labels: career, NUS, skin