Bitchin' couple of weeks!

If someone had told me that the job (in)security for about eight months was going to boil down to what happened in the last couple of weeks, I did have taken it.Fantastic. Got the full-time thingy at Standard Chartered Bank, mundane library job with nice people and office view, and then the mother-of-all investment banking jobs - a Barclays Capital Summer Internship! Woohoo!

And to top it off, my results were released as well, and I did suprisingly well for my thesis - escaped with a B - a much higher than anticipated grade and since I had A's in the rest of the three, I comfortably made it through with my 2nd upper with a B. Soc. Sci (Hons.) with a Minor in Technopreneurship.

Of course, all this work (Barclays from 5th June to 28th July) and then Stan Chart on 1st August means that I have no time to go to Colombo! :( But my bro should come down in July, second week, for graduation, and then I could get mum and dad down in December to take them around - so it seems to be all set!

Also, it has not been all work - I did manage to get out a lot - in the third week of May, I went to couple of late-nighters at mosque, and on Friday in that week, we celebrated Meera's belated birthday in Marina Square. (pictures later!) Then Saturday, was house hunting (pathetic!) and a treat for Shev at Banana Leaf and on Sunday was Da Vinci Code (erm... nevermind!) with Madhu and dinner at Pasta Mania!

Of course, the lull in the boring fourth week was broken by me falling ill - cold and hi-fever and being knocked out for a couple of days. Came back through the miracle medicene - Samahan (Sri Lankan herbal stuff). Finally, Saturday, met up with Emarson for a good lunch at Sim Lim Sq. Food Court - Indian Cuisine!

And today, Sunday, I am leaving to JB in a bit with Rajen to get some light shopping done.Also, it looks like I will be doing a lot of jalan jalan (walking) in JB (hope I used that correctly!) and if I can't find what I am looking for, I will then proceed to looking for bargains in the Great Singapore Sale - need full-sleeve shirts!

Well, I will be back in a day so maybe an entry later tonight! Moving in with Jadu into a double-room - E211 at Old KR. Moving stuff again - should be easy for the best part of it :)

Woohoo! Whee! And a BITCH!

Finally, I can relax a little. I have been accepted into Standard Chartered Bank for their Graduate Recruitment Programme in Finance. This is perfect since I am keen to get back onto the Finance track and as such this programme is bound to be exciting!

That said, I also landed a full time job at ISEAS. Boring work really - but the people are nice, I have my own office and an awsome view. Will post some pics soon. The plan is to use that money to do some traveling before starting in August.

While this has been all good, I have finally had it with another "friend". Toast. Another friendship. Of course, this is probably my fault since I lose so many friends but I am glad that we are toast actually. What a bitch man... Jesus... I do not understand how people like this survive. I could bore you by listing down how and why she pissed me down - but I am wondering how to put it into words since I am still simmering from the latest incident.

Ok, here is why I am pissed:

1. Sounded like she needed help. Went to help. Rejected at door with ridiculous excuse.

2. If I recall correctly, never once has she really offered anything. At all. Nothing. Zip.

3. Has other issues - I will not state this explicitly because it becomes too obvious.

Anyways, I fucking hate to have "friendships" with such people 'cos I burn too much energy on these freaks. Anyways, I need to save some energy since the next few months seem very promising!

Went to mosque today. Ha. Home away from home, my bohri peeps!

Oh! and I attach a lot of things to "karma" - about how I do something "not-good" and it hits me back. I am going to talk to a couple of my close buds about this - talking about close buds, Shev, looks like he is gonna make it! God bless and Good Luck! And the bitch I am talking about is "**deline". He is not smart but he should be able to figure it out.

Ha... 18th May - Work, Mosque... and maybe one other exciting thing tomorrow! Whee!

Friday looks good too - really good! SUPRISE!... and looks like we have a CNM BBQ for the Honours people... I think I can make it =)

Sat - Looking for house and chilling

Sun - Chill?

OK... Kinda frozen brain now... Later!

Oh - and got loads of congralutory messages - all good. Will mention them here later!

Cheers!

Cricket, Entertainment and the Blues

Well, this has been my last 10 days.

I crowned off the glory of my not-important final exams by completing an amazing run of watching season 1 and 2 of LOST... And keeping on going with Prison Break, Desperate Housewives, and Movies... Shucks! I did not even apply for jobs properly but will start again tomorrow morning with the Recruit and the 2 e-Career Fairs... and also get in touch with some of my leads... I have been sitting on this and I do not think anyone is going to help unless I help myself!

Anyways, its good to know that I have many friends at my side - I particularly suck at keeping freindships 'cos I typically let relationships slide but the past year has been good - and I am gradually improving myself - I can't win them all though...

Anyways, here is my space to wish Meera - Happy Birthday on the 10th of May! She has been a fantastically good freind and been part of my small troupe in the CNM Department - gosh! I am actually going to miss University and the friends!

Apart from that played a bit of cricket and also some leather cricket after - gosh ... 4 years? And I did good - got 4 bowled victims in my first four overs and had some good fun even though the sun sapped all my energy.

I tend to want to do so much more than I actually do - I really need to step it up and really get my lazy ass moving...

And the blues - because I am still freaking unemployed!

Cheers!

Life is unfair.

Yep, at this point in time, everything looks so fucked-up. The "job" seems so elusive. I sometimes wonder what is missing - but maybe I don't do enough - maybe I need more of something.

Well, yeah and everything looks horrible from this end because nothing seems to be working out. I have given up on my only glimmer - which was standard chartered bank. Think the application is toast by now - was so hoping that I would get in because it was a good programme.

Haiz! So many well-wishers out there who think I would not have an issue getting a job. Well, sorry to freaking dissapoint.

Watched like a million episodes of scrubs and deleted a lot of programs for my computer to make room for Lost and other random movies.

I have got back into sending applications for all the jobs I can lay my hands on.

Life is unfair - but it works both ways cos sometimes things work for the better or the worst. I try and attribute my lack of a job to the bad karma or all the "bad" things that I have done and sort of tell myself - "I brought this on myself becuase I did ... ... ...."

Well, in either case, I am so screwed. Waiting for some company to think I am good enough to be given a shot...

Also, a certain person that I seem to detest even more over a couple of relatively minor issues - I have this issue of not being able to let go as well.

Well, loads of things to ponder on while I just lay around doing nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Check this - I am screwed!

Alright - so four years of Uni - and its 2.39 a.m. Final exam in my university life (hopefully) is at 9 a.m.

So I need at least a 3.3 SAP to maintain my second-upper. I am not sure what is going to happen due to the under-cooked thesis.

Anyways, I am gunning that all my other modules will be A's and that I will pull through - who know what is going to happen. Will update here once the results are out in late May.


The real issue is the dearth of jobs - I am sick and tired of waiting and feel relatively helpless. I have some plans for my holidays - but NOW I am going to watch Scary Movie 4. Then read a little, then go to that 9 a.m. exam, nail it, and then come back and watch LOST or any americanised content I can lay my hands on.

AND this blog is going to be updated as long as I remain super jobless - so if you see a lot of entries, then you guessed right!

Cheers!