Friday, March 30, 2007

i just had the weirdest phone call ever.. this guy called me and said congratulations you have shortlisted for some job or something to that effect.. i cant remember how the sentence went, cos when i heard the word congratulations my brain went: hoax hoax scam scam scam! and i was like, err... so apparently theres this company, if im not wrong he said its like vj something, i cant remember what.. thats expanding thats looking for like tertiary students to help or sth.. somehow the name made me feel kinda reassured, like cos in sec two i think i nearly went for this job with this really really small publishing company called vj something or other, which was really dumb cos actually theyre in a way making use of you to get your contacts to sell their books.. cos its a telemarketing job, and they "test" you by seeing how many friends you can sell to and from there project your salary.. yes that was me in sec one or sec two.. i couldnt get why my parents said going for it was a bad idea until a while later.. anyways, the book they were promoting was kinda uhh, i mean its the kind i wouldnt even bat an eyelid over, even at that age.. yesyes i know, never judge a book by its cover and all.. but i have this i dunno, dislike.. for books which are thinner than a certain thickness.. i have no idea why also.. maybe its because it ends before youre really started.. anyways, so then he went blahblahblah, and threw in the word NASA with some chim forgetable program name, which was totally the clincher.. when i heard NASA i was like omgomg, all ears and everything, and started thinking this whole thing was cool.. cos last time when i was younger i wanted to work at NASA.. not as an astronaut, i knew that somehow i wouldnt make the cut, but one of the ground crew or anything. im pretty sure theres lots of stuff to do, and i just wanted to be in on it, there, helping to make history happen.. but then i went and checked it out and realised that they only took US citizens and experts in the various fields and i was like OH. 1) its like kinda retarded if you go all the trouble to become a US citizen just for a coveted job at NASA, not knowing if they will eventually take you in or not.. and 2) how on earth do you go about becoming an expert in a field which NASA would headhunt for? and so i guess it died there.. anyways, now thinking about it, he might now even have said my name.. he just called and introduced himself.. you know this kind of thing, when carefully chosen words, and of course not forgetting the deliberately unspoken words somehow when said correctly give the impression of something which is not said, but such a strong impression its as good as said.. like putting words in your head or something like that.. putting ideas there that might not even exist.. i just have this nagging feeling that he didnt say my name.. haha not that im super in love with my name or anything.. oh and he was like what course are you in and blahblah.. then when he heard im in ac, he was like oh youre not in *i cant remember the name* poly? never been to *cant remember the name* poly? let me update my database.. im very certain he said the poly thing at least twice, and the "database" word too.. but the poly thing more than the database thing.. the database thing has a very reassuring effect, like its all official and stuff.. cos when i was looking for a job i kinda left my name anywhere and everywhere i could.. but which company will do their stuff like around ten at night? and you know what the address he gave is like the MDIS headquarters address and like ...? yeah anyways, i cant remember what exactly my point was when i started typing this whole thing so yeah..
anyways, i was telling people about this book i was reading, with this gay guy whos lover comitted suicide and all that.. and i could tell i kinda lost them halfway, like the way i tend to lose people when i start telling them about the wheel of time or i dunno, whatever fantasy stuff im reading at that time.. oh yes, the whole wheel of time collection is still firmly on my want list.. maybe cos 1) im not that much of a story teller.. 2) like a story about this gay magician guy? you read this for fun? *raise eyebrows* 3) there wasnt very much of a plot to begin with.. this writer isnt too great at writing fantasy, amazingly she has a fan club.. omg? yeah so it got me thinking about how i got to be interested in all this stuff anyways.. the whole fantasy thing, it was sort of a gradual shift.. i mean, i always did like reading, its sort of an escape from reality, okay not that my life sucks real bad or anything.. but i guess ive always been sort of a dreamer, and in more recent years quite an escapist.. haha oh if im not wrong i started falling asleep in class in p3 so me continuing to do so now doesnt surprise me all that much.. not that its an excuse to do so lah, but as i was saying, books were a separate world.. i used to pretend to be doing work but actually i was reading and when my parents came in i would like hide the book somwhere.. oh yes i thought of many imaginative ways of sneaking books into the toilet.. if you ask anyone at home theyll tell you that i take very, very long in the toilet.. so i was starting to migrate more towards fantasy instead on real-life sort of fiction.. cos before that i was reading more of stuff like bubble boy and stuff that was way more possible in real life.. and before before that was nancy drew.. i loved nancy drew to bits when i was in p3.. my first book was because i randomly chanced upon one in my class library, one of those small bookshelfy things which you can hardly call a library.. that led me to nancy drew and hardy boys, then hardy boys, then i grew out of it about a year later.. and so on.. but what really got me started on the whole omg fantasy is really my thing was believe it or not, my cousin.. one day while visiting, he started telling me about the wheel of time, cos we were always sorta the readers in the family, and besides my sis, all the rest of the cousins are way to young.. it was kind awkward, cos like as we grew up we grew apart, not that we were very close to begin with.. but its like you have memories of you guys playing together when youre younger and suddenly everybodys kinda grown up from what you last remembered and somehow little games dont seem to pass the time any longer.. so anyways, once he started telling me about it, i was hooked. i wouldnt say for life, but seeing as i still havent finished it off, and i still have this need to, yeah im pretty much hooked.. robert jordan has this ability to weave multiple storylines at the same time.. so to keep track of things is quite tough.. so if i want to finish it off i have to start from book one again or ill get lost.. as a result book one is a bit sian now cos i keep on rereading it but keep on getting lost along the way.. the furthest ive ever gotten was book five or six.. and there are twelve books in total.. crazy right? that guy has an amazing imagination.. i mean, trilogies yeah.. but twelve?? *faints* and im only like halfway.. :( anyways, so theres the fantasy part.. i cant remember a specific time when i started reading books which were like.. not-so-right.. but i remember a (now) funny incident when i was in sec one.. it was another of those books which i got off from the mini fair at ridiculously low prices.. the titles something like the man who stole other mens wives.. this sounds super not-right, but the gist of it is right lah.. i still have an impression of the cover.. a picture of this guy's front with womens hands like unbuttoning his white shirt, with the title and stuff in gold.. so i was kinda like finding the whole book superbly funny and decided to like share the joy a little.. obviously my friends were like what on earth hahaha? and then nat lim (yeah she was our form teacher then) and she came over and was like what is that??? and she was like so i dunno how to call it, but she decided to confiscate it and throw it away.. awww, before anyone else could get a chance at it.. i was funny.. i dont know if she actually threw it away in the end.. haha maybe she read it first.. but anyways, it was about this guy who got disowned by his uber-rich dad, and cos hes spoilt rotten and has no idea what on earth work is.. his friends decide that he should put his good looks to good use.. so tralala the story goes along, and in the end he helps those tai-tai kinda women make their husbands come back to them by making them jealous and pretending to have affairs and all.. of course, the rest is up to your imagination.. anyways, so i guess what im reading now isnt all that bad after all, considering what i read when i was younger.. although (sorry i keep on harping on him but.. ) robert jordan set the bar real high for other fantasy in terms of imagination-wise.. although i havent read LOTR.. thats like crazy right, how can i not.. but its so thick and the words so small (yes, even for me) and gives me such a feeling of lorh-sorhdness that i didnt even try.. besides, i watched the movies already, and that kinda spoils everything doesnt it..
anyways, this week has been a very uhh, eventful week and i daresay im looking forward to the weekend lots.. *begins the celebrating* but its bad lah, i think, if i look forward to the weekend so much each and every week.. ill be like so concentrating on simply getting through that i dont actually get anything much done.. oh wells..
ah, what a nice long thingy today.. my fingers feel liberated.. *fingers do a tribal dance*

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Friday, March 30, 2007

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