I’ve recovered ‘cept for my voice. So now I have a husky sexy manly voice. I can’t stop getting remarks from people that my voice has changed and how macho I sound. Well, I’m freaking out ‘cos I’m breaking my voice now! Haha. Puberty finally?
I’m no longer an authorized personnel to walk through that door. That’s kinda sad. Oh wells.
Reported for work for the first time last Friday and took leave today, ie Monday. I dread going to work now. It’s the most boring piece of shit I’ve ever done. Even more boring than looking at shoppers walking by without acknowledging your shop’s presence.
Anyway, I didn’t take leave for no good reason. I was down for SMU’s interview at School of Information Systems. I went to the interview barely knowing what’s SIS all about. I knew more about SIS hearing what other interviewees said. I must say that at a point of time, I was actually enjoying the interview.
The reporting time was 8.10am at SIS. I was a little late but that didn’t affect the interview at all. Along with 5 other interviewees, we were led into a room to prepare ourselves for the interview. We read posters and articles, watched a video, read a specific poster and filled up a questionnaire.
(There were 3 girls and 3 guys. One of the guys’ zipper was undone. I was contemplating to tell him or not and I didn’t. Was laughing at his carelessness secretly when my stomach rumbled in the very quiet meeting room. Dang, I could have buried my whole head under the carpets.)
There was this ‘test’ during the interview. In the preparation room, we were asked to read a poster. It was an estimation of how many piano tuners are there in NYC. So the poster analyses how to obtain an estimation of the number of piano tuners in NYC. During the interview, we were posed the following question:
How many TATA Nano cars will be sold in India in 2009? (not sure if I can reveal any details but heck la. At least I ain’t saying which question number this is).
So the first step is to estimate India’s population. I guess none of us was guessing confidently. We had guesses like 2 billion(the only one guess I remember) and I guessed 10 million. OMG. It’s 1.13billion. I killed millions of Indians this morning. Hahha. I made such a stupid guess!
The above was a short part of the interview. We talked about leadership and stuff. Each 6 of us took turns voluntarily to speak up. I mentioned about being a volleyball captain and a projectwork group leader. The funnier interviewer asked what was it like being a leader (I was supposed to discuss the article I read which was about managing communities). And I talked cock a bit naturally; I said you can’t control them too much if not they will resist you like how we would resist teachers. He asked, “so you resist teachers huh?”, I said no of course. And since then on, ‘control’ became a sensitive word throughout the rest of the interview ‘cos he WANTED to perceive me as a control freak. He then said that should I be with SMU at the end of the day, he would share with me the secret of being a good leader.
There was this China girl who sat next to me. The interviewers asked each of us to talk more about ourselves, something beyond studies. So this girl talked about her passion for photography. Interviewer asked her what type of photography is she keen on and she explained she takes pictures of people. The next thing he asked her was if she would take a picture of me. -.- She said, “yes ‘cos she’s beautiful.” Like WHAT?! And he continued to probe, which profile of me would she take of me, side or front. She said side profile and he made a rhetorical question, “so she’s beautiful from her side but not beautiful upfront?” How many times in your lifetime can you hear such humorous yet mocking(at her and me) remarks from your interviewer? I enjoyed the interview due to his humour.
As the interview approached the end, he asked if we have any questions to ask them. Nobody made a move so I thought it might be interesting to ask him tell me the secret of being a good leader. He said, “see? Being pushy huh.” Hahaha! WTH. An interviewer calling an interviewee pushy.
Can’t remember anything else much ‘cept that my voice was so hoarse, I’m worried that it will demerit my performance ‘cos I was practically a transexual who had forgotten to change his vocal cords. I’m pretty much impressed in the amount of effort SIS put in for the interview. They bothered to make it an important affair. Had a friend who went down to SMU School of Social Sciences for a somewhat simple interview. Thumbs up for SIS. 
Been addicted to Gossip Girl these days. A great show for any girl to watch. Certainly not what a guy will like and if you happen to fall into this category, don’t worry, no one will judge you *gulp*.
Blake Lively looking HOT in Gossip Girl.
“XOXO, Gossip Girl.”
