adsum: The Moment

The night is so silent at this moment, it makes me feel a very deep loneliness…

It has been almost a year since I last posted a new blog on the internet. I keep telling myself to write an updated blog when I have free time, but laziness had kept me delaying. I remember last year this time I was in dilemma deciding my new direction after I finished my diploma…

Everything just happens so fast, and all the views are still playing in my mind until now clearly. Yup, that is it, my working experience in Singapore. To lighten up my dad’s heavy burden, 19 years old playful boy had gone to a total stranger country, Singapore, to work. Talking about my first job, I had worked in a moderate private limited industries company. My job title was as a lab technician. (Something liked QA). I felt so excited to be employed into this company since what I studied was related to it. I got trained in this company, to plate or to passivate an aluminum, stainless steel, steel, etc…There were many things that I needed to handle when I was working there, such as attending training, briefing, meetings, preparing reports, doing testing on new materials, and so on. Although I felt very stressful sometimes, but it was a great experience for me to learn many new and interest things since I had no experience in this field at all. I had learned many skills such as how to communicate well with the colleagues from other departments, to troubleshoot on quality issue products, to do research, and so on.

Besides working, I had known a lot of new friends and colleagues. Kuang, Siew, Ling, Rose, Grace, Gemma, Yong, and Ping, thanks for guiding me in so many things when I was in trouble. Working with you all was pleasant and enjoyable. And please do forgive my childishness when I was playing fool with you guys during work. I would never forget the moment when we went to sing k, eat lunch at Gao Yuan, play bowling, eat crabs at Siew’s house, eat buffet at Sakura, shop at Bugis and etc…Even though I was far away from home, but all of you had given me the feeling of being at home always. And the most important matter was, you guys celebrated my 20 years old birthday at Genting. : ) Thanks to you all so so so so much! Love ya all…

I would like to thank those people who had been so selfish and hurt me so much in this company too, because of you all, I had grown up to be a more confidence and matured person, and a brand new Eric was born. The old Eric is dead and gone now… After that, I had changed another new job as a handphone sales executive. It was the second place in Singapore where I strengthened up my communication skills again. I had learned how to persuade customers by calling them to buy handphone, to apply for a telco line, to apply for a broadband and so on. Well, being in a customer service sector in Singapore was not as easy as I thought. It was always challenging and attention was needed all the time, and I always need to focus to know what the customer’s needs were. Working in this company had helped me to put away my self-esteem to listen to other people and senior’s advises to get improvement. The job routine was same everyday in this company compared to last company. But, what I felt was still the same. The feeling of stress, fear of making mistakes, strives for the sales targets and etc. Although I found myself talkative, but this job had proven that I was wrong and I needed to get improvement to correct my mistake.

Thanks Calvin, for being a good and caring superior. Thanks Evonne, for teaching me so many techniques to improve my sales skills and to be an “admin clerk” in shop. So sorry for disappointing you for the reason that I left Raffles. Thanks to Eric Chiang, for being a good manager, at the same time taught me so many things too. Thanks to Ling, for being a good colleague, a good listener and a cute character in our company. And at last, thanks to Kelvin Lee, for being a good boss. Although I only worked for 4 months, but I believe what I gained was more than that and was worth it. I would miss the days we danced crazily in double o! ~ ^^

As conclusion, I found that study is still the best. I promise you all that I will do my best to graduate and get my bachelor’s degree and become a successful dietician one day. Thanks to everyone that I had known in Singapore, and thanks to all of the encouragement that you all had given me.

p/s: Special thanks to Charlie, Vivian, Jenifer; best sister, and my lovely elder sister; Jenny. For the moment we had suffered together, and for the moment we will success. All the best to all of you.

Best regards,

E r i C F a N May'09