One week has passed since the advent and leaving of HP6. Time to return to normal and daily goings-on now.
I actually worked my first job ever today. It's something as what my cousin put it, 'camp counsellor' though I don't really see it that way but that would be a good way of summing it up. There were probably about twenty part-timers during the LESCA camp thing at the Sunway Petting Zoo with about 400 plus children aged 7 to 10, I suppose. Let me just say that I never expected the task to be that daunting and scary as I made it out to be. I thought it would be quite a breeze or maybe a zephyr in the park but not so much as a hurricane or a storm as I experienced first-hand today. I guess my perspective of children has been distorted somewhat and have just been put off from getting ideas of adopting kids or having kids or anything like that, God forbid.
The most difficult part of it all was trying to get them to just sit down and listen calmly and attentively to the two main instructors on the stage entertaining them. Children do not go well with 'calm' and 'attentively' at all. They can't even coexist in the same sentence together. Another damper to my ego was that the majority of the kids was Mandarin-speaking children so I had no idea what they were trying to tell me most of the time when I tried my hardest to help them with moulding their plaster of paris into some corrigible shape without messing their hands. So, I just tried to stick with the BM-speaking kids as they turned out to be a bit better behaved than the other little monsters. Their screams and cries of calling out for you when you try to distribute materials as nicely and orderly as possible still rings in my head. Plus with the horrible arrangement of chairs and tables in the open-air cafeteria place and lack of air circulation within the compound, probably added even more annoyance and irritance to an already frustrated me.
At the end of the day at 5 pm, packed up and ready to leave, we got sixty ringgit for the hard day's work. Thank goodness for the relatively good pay or not I'd've quit two hours into it already. I just hope the next job won't be as hectic and chaotic as this one was. 400 is too much. 20 would be just right.
Just feeling really quite tired and exhausted now after a rather larger dinner ending with an equally large dessert. Yikes. Oh, and I'm relishing in my acquiring of the Nip/Tuck DVDs as of now. I'm feeling so thankful for professional pirating and excellent DVD quality considering it's actually not legal here but they do come with cool deleted scenes from the original episodes on TV, so no complaints here.
Oh, go watch 'Batman Begins' if you haven't. Honestly, I think it's definitely the better if not best Bats movie made yet. Just thinking and watching the previous Batman movies with Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, and George Clooney just makes me reel with slight nausea now. Bale may not be the best looking guy ever but at least he portrays the most accurate Bruce Wayne I've ever seen so far. Not including the animated Batman of course. Kevin Conroy, who voices the animated Batman just does it so flawlessly it's almost impossible to think who else could fill his wings when he can't do it anymore. My only peeve I have is that whole voice-changing thing he does whenever he switches into Batman. It's just too creepy for me to fathom how anyone would want to do that. And Sirius, oops, I mean Gary Oldman, plays a very good Gordon too. Now I just can't wait for the next Bale as Batman movie with the Joker as the main villain this time. And hopefully they'll throw in Harlequinn for good measure and fun too. A solid 8.8 out of 10.
Did I mention how much I am this close to sending Microsoft a potentially lethal virus to shut down their entire megaglomerate corporation and putting Bill Gates on the streets for creating such a pissy Excel application. If I can't even work out how a simple division function can give me stupid answers that even a 10-year-old could work out correctly for the simplest accounting equation, think how insane businessmen would be when they're trying to figure out even more complicated formulas. If Mozilla actually came up with a freeware application such as Excel I'd use it in a flash and dump MS like it was poisoned. Oh wait, it already is.
but i think Excel is one very sophisticated app. :/
had this to say at 03 August, 2005 04:30
