sporadic ramblings

So finally, after months of job hunting and general idleness, the uninteresting life of the unemployed is over for me. Here's the rather interesting story of my employment - it's rather unorthodox but hey, it's funny what life dishes out at us.

1. I applied a for job at company A. I went for a grueling 1.5 hr interview. I get a phone call the very next day saying I didn't get the job, but was 2nd out of 70 applicants and just missed out. (That didn't exactly make me feel better. It made me feel worse.)
   
   
2. 2 weeks later, I get a phone call from company B, an IT company I've never heard of, and I remember not sounding very interested, thinking it was some dude conducting a market survey of sorts. Turns out they are next door to company A and were looking for someone. Company A decided to "recommend" me over there.
   
   
3. Without knowing anything about the position, I did some research on the company and went for an interview. They threw me questions I should have known (but didn't), so I thought I bummed out on that one entirely.
   
   
4. I get a call in a few days saying they want me in for a 2nd interview. I'm pleasantly surprised but slightly bothered by the fact that they wanted me to send them source code of my Java work I talked about in the first interview, work I did 2 years ago. Not only that, I had to go into the office and do a little demo/presentation/code walk-through with them. I couldn't even remember what a classpath was, and here I was having to do a code walk-through with them. Oh the pain.
   
   
5. I went for that 2nd interview this afternoon. The presentation was fine. They had already decided to hire me, but the bosses wanted me to do that presentation anyway. Talk about unnecessary stress.
   

I start this coming Monday. YAY!

Ahhh nothing beats a good laugh. Alicia provides me with a healthy dose of that once in awhile, and I always welcome it. Tonight we decided to get my "watermelon snow" bubble tea fix. So naturally we went to the most accessible place, just a few minutes from home. But what do you know, their blender was broken. STILL broken, from last week! With the majority of their customers buying snows and smoothies, you would think they would have a spare out the back. But no, we decided we weren't going to settle for something else, so we went off to Bentley. A 15 minute drive took us there, only to find them closing up for the night - it was only 9pm! ARGH! Determination then took us all the way down town, with me in my bright pink PJ bottoms left to look like I was out gallivanting the streets of Northbridge, because she drove and parking isn't flash on a Saturday night.

We also got takeaway for the poor girl's dinner, and ended up in King's Park, overlooking the city and enjoying our drinks and chats. I was telling her a story about a friend's bubbletea accident, and squeezed my cup to illustrate, only to find Alicia with a look of horror on her face. Not knowing what happened, I looked innocently at her and said "what?!", to which she replied "I think a bird shat on me." (We were still in her car.) I laughed until my eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, because we realised that I squeezed the cup a little too hard and one of the sago thingies shot out of the straw and landed on her head, rolled onto her leg, and ended up on her car seat.

Aww it's not that funny now that I'm re-telling the story. You had to be there. You crack me up, lish!!!

Moral of the story - Never, EVER squeeze your bubble tea cup.

Oh, and comments are finally working. My ISP took 2 weeks to get back to me about write permissions. Talk about efficiency. Hmm.

I'm officially addicted to beads. Czech glass, Swarovski crystals, pearls...they're too pretty. I've been spending too much time (and money) at bead shops, but they're so addictive! I've been making earrings for friends, sisters and myself, although I do admit I have too many earrings for my own good. I'll take a picture of my earring wall one day. Tee hee.

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