Working Life...

Today is Singapore's National Day, and it is also my first holiday since I started working last week :)....

I am actually now training to be a Customer Service Officer in the customer service centre...basically we have to receive and deal with customer calls and enquiries...as my company is actually a service centre outsourced by a bank based in Singapore, we get to enjoy Singapore holidays instead of Malaysian ones :P...but we are not paid in Sinsgapore dollars though (that's the whole point of them outsourcing, to save cost:P)

So how is working life so far? Well, so so I guess....I am not exactly working yet, still undergoing training for one month on all sorts of services that the bank provides in order to be able to answer the customer's queries...mostly I am learning about credit cards and such, and yesterday we learned how the bank calculates the credit card interest charges...all I can say is the bank makes a great great deal of money whenever the customers don't make full payment haha:P (in the words of James, a Taiwan guy we met in Venice on our Europe trip :"That's CRAZY!!!":P)

It's kind of hard to imagine me, of all people, to be well versed in credit cards and all that :P but really so far it has been quite fun and ok :) I guess one of the reason is my trainer is a pretty lively and funny person so I do enjoy her training, even though it has been years since I have done any calculation hehe...and my fellow recruits are all fun people and we get along pretty well...so...so far so good :)

But still, it is all part of the temporary permanence...last week I just received an offer letter from L'Oreal...an offer that left me so flabbergasted that it practically left me in tears (Seriously!!!) so...even though everything is going well and fine, I have a feeling it won't be long til my life will be turned upside down again by inevitable changes and new experiences....

...but for now, I am just living and enjoying the routineness of life:P I take a 1 hour bus ride from Taman Universiti to City Square where my office is located everyday, and though a lot of people might think it is very troublesome or ma fan, I am still thankful that my office is located at such a strategic position as I don't have to walk far from the bus stop in JB, and the buses that goes to and from JB to Taman Universiti are pretty frequent...in the morning I will sleep the whole trip (to compensate for waking up at 6am haha:P), and in the evening when I get back, I will look at the sunset over Pantai Lido :).... I love how the skies and high tide and palm trees along the road look like on the way home...I have never met anyone who can compliment JB as being a beautiful city, but on my evening rides back I can't help but appreciate that JB has its own little charm :P... and I like that the bus uses the little roads to get out of JB city before going to the highway when I get back....whenever I pass those roads I feel that THIS is the real JB, the JB that has all the little shops and rickety government quarters and restaurants with names like "Restoran Mama Ashley's" hehe:p....it is definitely less superficial than anything that City Square or Pelangi Plaza can offer :)...

So yup, that's how working life has been so far...routine...but that's not necessarily a bad thing ;)...