Showing posts with label pressure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pressure. Show all posts

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Off Day

Was called by my boss last night, and was informed that all four of us OJTs were getting offs! But it does not mean that it is all play and no work, because we have to present all 12 scripts to her by Monday! Luckily I am in token 3, because the token 1 feeders actually have 18 scripts. So that makes me pretty fortunate to be in token 3.

Well, the past few days on the zoo has been rather fruitful. I got to meet more colourful personalities. And also watch how the presentors worked under pressure when there was no soundman and when they slipped wrong information of the animals.

I don't know about the rest, but the shows have been making my days more and more sian. I'm not saying the shows are sian, but watching them over and over again, makes everything so... expected. But I must applaud the presentors who made the shows possible. I mean I've been working for less than two weeks, and I'm pretty bored by the usual routine already. And yet, they who have been working for many many years, always show up and present with so much magnificence, and twinkles in their eyes, never failing to grab the attention of the audience.




Well, I am sure that it's pretty boring for me to rattle on and on about my work in the Zoo right? So, I'll end this post with a short quiz that I got tagged. I love quizzes not only because they help to take up time, but also because they let you think of things that you often never question yourself about. So here goes:



Tagged by: MUS-FI-RAWR!

1) What's your 10 most Favourite Foods.
· Sushi
·
Lasagne
· I know it sounds gross, but I love Escargots (Tried it at a French Restaurant in Malaysia. Hahah)
· Tacos (I do miss Taco Bell Alot)
· Takoyaki (I'm addicted to the ones sold near my home, at Admiratly MRT station)
· Terikyaki Chicken (I like the ones sold at TakaShimaya)
· Cream Puffs from Papa Beard
· Cheesecake from DeliFrance
· StingRay Sambal Goreng from Changi Village
· Are chocolates counted?


2) 10 things I love Doing.
· Carrying my dog around the house like a baby
· Nudging my brother's head (the one with the dread locks)
· Reading books by Mitch Albom and other famous people's autobiographies
· Making fun of my mum when she mispronounces words and does funny actions
· Laughing at the exaggerated Indian Films
· Watching the Noose and America's Funniest Home videos
· Laughing, ALOT
· Creating random conversations of people (Whom I do not know) who are talking
· Heading Outdoors
· Sitting in my school's canteen(back then) and do nothing but eat Apollo and crap with the staggerized people.

3) 5 things I love doing when I'm EMO.
· Being near the sea, watching and listening to the waves and breeze. It's really soothing.
· Sleeping
· Zoning Out
· Pull a long face
· Drawing


4) 5 things I love doing when I'm happy.
· Laughing a lot, and sometimes for no apparent reason
· Creating Lame jokes and stuff to do
· Smile to myself as I recall the stuff that made me happy
· Heading outdoors or engage in sports
·Sing to myself, in my room. Hahah

5) 5 things I wish to happen
· For my mum to stop worrying about us kids
· All 3 of us kids help in supporting the family, so that we enjoy and bond as one
· All the killings and cruel abuses of animals to stop. I want to start an Animal Home.
· I want to start an Orphanage for kids too
· Lastly, I want to have decent grades for my O'levels


6) 5 types of a person of another gender I adore

I don't adore anyone right now. So I'll just give the things I observe and like, in a guy whom I don't know yet. It's like a first impressions?

· I have this nasty habit of looking at three things when I look at a guy. The first is his hair.
· The second is his clothes
· And the last is his shoes
· But all that's not important because I'd prefer someone who can talk and listen, someone who is active.
· Someone who really knows how to impress a girl, and that's definitely not by the expensive treats.

7) My 5 most addicted playlist

· Nightwish
· Metallica
· Avenged Sevenfold
· Colbie Caillat
· Matisyahu


8) 5 Person I wish to tag.
· Yiling
· Lena
· Shera
· Syuh
· Raudah





Loves.

Friday, November 21, 2008

3rd Day At The Zoo

No words cam describe the state of exhaustion that I am in.


For the past three days:

  • I got lost on my way to the reporting office on my second day.
  • I got lost twice in the zoo.
  • Because of the above mentioned, I walked around the entire zoo just to find the places, which were in fact side by side
  • I have to memorize 7-8 pages of script. But I'm being selective, so I'm down with two, and maybe two more?
  • I feel dehydrated because I have not been hydrating myself with enough fluid
  • I have done the cleanings of Lemurs and Rabbits.
  • I realized that Rabbit's poo actually looks like the daily morning Milo cereals that I eat everyday.
  • I got a chance to be Terminator, because I got to clean the dens with jet sprays.
  • Made a fool out of myself many times.
  • Watched all the shows in the zoo for at least 5 times.
  • Made many great friends
  • I got a chance to try to spot the different animals with their names, but they all still looked the same to me. Except the show elephants.
  • I have been walking around the zoo from 8pm to 4.45pm everyday, with breaks in between.
  • I have been having some ups and downs, but everyday brings new surprises.

I am dead beat, but am still looking forward to the evaluation day which would be next Tuesday. Then, I'll be a confirmed Part-Time staff!


And if you're curious, I actually prefer cleaning the dens! But they said that I am a slow cleaner. :(

Want perfect dens must take longer mah, right? Unless I get to be Terminator again! Hahaha.




Loves.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Live Your Life

Have you ever been in a situation where you didn't want to lie, yet couldn't tell the truth?

Have you ever been in a situation where you said something but never meant it?

Have you ever been in a situation where you were so afraid of what others thought about you that you had to lie, in order to be noticed?

Have you ever tried being noticed or successful by doing something that you knew was wrong?

Have you ever feared whether others hated you?

Have you ever had doubts in yourself?





I admit that I agree to some of the things mentioned above. I did things, many stupid things just because I was bored, or because my friends did them.

I used to doubt myself and was worried about what others thought about me. I tried my best to change myself, to please the others. But I failed to do one thing, the very one thing that means the most to us; to please myself with who I was. I did not like who I was, and so I slowly pulled away from them, and be who I wanted myself to be.


The past few years, especially in Secondary School, had put me in many situations where I was in a dilemma, to whether or not lie, or tell the truth. Sometimes I chose to lie, sometimes I told the truth. Both ways, I gained and lost friends. But I was sick of it.


Some people think that lying is the greatest sin of all, and that liars, are not good enough to have friends. Well, I'd say that's just some made up crap. Everyone lies. I lie not because I want to, or because I did something bad. But it's because of protecting someone or something. But again, I'm sick of it all.



That is why, I am sort of glad to leave secondary school life, leaving all the bad incidents behind. And just living my Life.





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