求簽

話說最近霉事連連...

尤其是破財。

然后前晚修風扇，不知道為何短路；

連安全電路也壞了，結果維修費耗了$90。

話說家附近有一所蔡厝港聯合廟

前天正是主廟誕，搬來一個月多，卻也不曾拜候。

說起來也說不過去，實在是失了禮數。

恰好家里第六人也湊齊了，于是昨天早上才匆匆到廟里合十，

正式通報姓名住處。

回到家后，來了電話，叫我去面試。

在朋友推薦下，今天也跑去了武吉士的觀音廟。

不是很懂得如何拜拜的我，于是決定只是拜正殿。

隨后突然想不如求支簽也好。

在廟祝指導下，

先通報姓名住處和所問，

然后求簽，

得簽后只要杯一次，

如果連續三次還是不得杯，則放回簽再求。

我拿著簽筒搖了搖，

搖了搖....

搖了搖....

心想：“天哪，這到天亮都沒有東西掉出來咯...”

再搖了好一陣子，才終于有一把開始離開筒...

最后，“篤！”一聲落地。

我隨即把勝杯搖了搖，居然一把就勝杯了。

八六。

拿著簽筒給回了廟祝，

得到了簽文：

春來花發映陽臺 萬里車來進寶財

欲得禹門三汲浪 恰如平地一聲雷

是一只好簽哦 =D

居然還有英文

Myraids of flowers bloom to fill the house.

From 10,000 li becomes gold for you.

a carp jumps through three Dragon gate to become a Dragon.

A sudden burst of good men issue from the earth.

INTERPRETATION: GOOD

The king bestows one with honour. a very poor person receives a priceless treasure.

Be content, this is indeed a good prediction.

廟外有許多攤子解簽的，都被我婉拒了。

以來口袋只剩下4塊。還要吃飯用。

二來簽文怎么看都很白，還要問嗎？

詳細出處，古人典故回家Google好了。

希望好運快來吧！ =D

也終于漸漸領會了老媽老爸以前常說的，

求神拜佛有時也是一種精神寄托。

家务悬赏制度

目的：

1）确保家里事事有人做

2）为五个负资产提供金钱管道。

3）为这个空置已久，荒芜鸟不生蛋的部落格灌水。

形式：

1）每周悬挂悬赏单于冰箱门外。

例如：

A）赏金：$50，每隔两日倒垃圾一次，并换上新的垃圾袋。

B）赏金：$20，本周抹地两次。

C）赏金：$10，购买日用品：廁纸、洗碗液、Tissue Paper。

2）悬赏金又家里每位成员联合支出。

3）有打算找外快的Housemate每周一可以“揭皇榜”，把工作拿下。

4）如果遇上同时遇上两个人抢同一份工作，则要进行Bidding，Quotation低者得。

5）为了确保工作的质量。另外设立Customer Feedback，

周末由另外几位Housemate进行评估，表现Unsatisfactory者两周内不得再接下类似工作。

6）假如工作没有人接下，就Outsource。

When I was just a little boy

Do you ever wear...

Kikilala, KiKo, Rocky One...

You bring a school bag

with the brand SWAN?

you had a pencil box, made by plastic,

have multiple compartment, alot of gadgets..

your bottle is attached with the tupperwear.

or your bottle got a switch on it, once you tab it,

the machanism sprung up the straw for you.

somehow you fond of the pizza hut's watches,

which allows you to snap it onto your arms,

the streched wristband will hence roll itself.

yet still remember the white rubbers teaching you abc,

with thin green color top.

you play soccer using them, with your finger kicking it.

sometimes you draw picture on it, acting they are tanks.

fliping them over on the table, while the one on top wins.

you know, there is a product ever called ink rubber,

where ball pen used to have different favours.

you used the Swan's color pencil, Buncho's crayon and poster colors,

Panda's water color, and later on Fable Castle comes up with a water color pencil.

you played with NES, where you always blowing the catridge when it get hots,

remember Contra, Ice Climbers, Circus...

you drew every pages' corners of your text books,

with continuos actions, making your own anime.

Well, I guess so far what I had written is just that little bit of our ages.

While days were young. =)

學問負資產階級

傳統上我們認知的資本主義社會階級分為

資產階級和勞工階級。

趨向現代，勞工階級和資產階級變得不那么明顯的年代

我們又有稱作中產、小資產、無資產...

藍領、粉領、白領...

中上階層、中下階層....

97金融風暴以后，坊間多了一種叫做“負資產階級”的東西。

如果不知道什么叫負資產，請自行維基百科。

（其實是因為筆者自己也不知道什么是負資產，不敢亂寫誤導群眾）

雖然筆者現在也無法確定自己是否屬于"負資產"階級

因為實在處于一個在于“無資產”，但卻又穩定地流失資金的局面。

我明明也沒有東西按押，因此絕不可能發生該物產已經低于市值的局面。

那到底是什么情況呢？

這就要從新加坡升學談起，

四年前為了要繼續升大學，我就到了新加坡，

一來學費部分由新加坡政府資助（Tuition Grant），因此相較之下，比之其它國家低。

作為代價，必須找新加坡注冊的一家公司工作三年。

許多人誤會了這一點，以為新加坡政府必定會為這些大學生們找一份工作，

在此更正一下，以人才作為最大資產的新加坡，是不可能這樣地干預勞動力的自由市場的。

換言之，畢業大學生們應該以自己的能力，把此作為自己的責任完成合約。

另外也借貸了TFL（Tuition Fee Loan），Study Loan，Laptop ownership scheme

以腦力、組織能力、分辨、分析作為吸引聘用的我們，

我想沒有人會反對我把知識比做我們無形的資產。

那么四年前我做的這一些可以想象成我正在把我自己抵押給新加坡政府，

然后借貸出一筆錢，作為投資在高等教育這份資產上的合約。

而四年后的今天，我們不巧遇上了美國次級房貸的連鎖反應，隨之而上的是甲型流感風波。

我必須在此認同，新加坡政府對于這個經濟危機的處理，快速、果斷、有效。

甚至到部分新加坡國人自己也懷疑這一連串的打擊，對新加坡經濟到底有什么沖擊。

然而在許多外國畢業于新加坡大學的學生來說，卻非常明瞭自半年前開始尋找工作以來，

開放給外國人的名額到底有多少限制。 不過這幾個月似乎漸漸有了一點轉機。

一下子招聘啟事上多了非常多即使非政府，軍方機構，要求應聘者非得新公民/永久居民的條件。

而甚至不在PR Invitation的我，就更加下一個層次了。

我突然變成了無法賣出的殘品。 如果讀過經濟學的話，就知道需求量和價格成正比的定律。于是當需求量降低，甚至趨近到零的時候，我開始假設我的大學知識已經售價接近零。

許多人于是開始抨擊我，說我應該降低身份，非常時期就不要索價太高；然而事實上是即使退而求其次，找尋一些薪水較低的工作時，迎面而來的卻是多數在招聘技術人員，尋求Nitec，Poly，Diploma等文憑資格的找工者。 這點上非常有趣，大學畢業的我絕不可能在技術上比他們還要嫻熟，那么我又怎么和他們競爭呢？而中學畢業的工，更多又在尋求已經熟練的人員。 臨時的工作，卻又偏偏Student Pass被要求終止，非常時期也沒有人愿意在這個時候幫你申請EP、甚至Work Permit。這些工作，相較高薪工作，對PR/新公民的需求，更沒有降低。

賣不出我的服務的我，暫時可以看作是一個比當初面值要低的資產，換之還要背負一筆債務。幸而之前的貸款沒有被要求立刻開始償還，否則現在我就可以把自己比作低于借貸值之余，即使醬自己賣回出去，卻仍然填補不了數額的狀況，否則我真的是負資產--學問負資產。

這篇出去，大概許多人要罵我嚇到Junior們想要立刻回去了。

正面的話還是要說，其實比起半年前完全無人問津的狀況，現在已經略為好轉，希望再多一些時候，我就可以從負資產轉回零資產。

加油吧！ 特此獻給和我一樣在找工的人們。

Job Seeking

Had been job seeking for 1 month, somehow only earn interview opportunities twice.

While when talking with many friends, they comment that they have seen many vacancies for mechanical Engineer.

May be, Somehow this is what I had been seeing in jobstreet, jobsdb, brightminds...etc

Mid June 2009

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform direct on site customer support including quotation, production application, technical presentation, root cause failure analysis for customers
• Provide customer with proper documentation for all root cause failure analysis.
• Conduct training or product presentation to key customers as and when necessary.
• Any other related tasks as assigned by your superior.

Requirements:

• Diploma/ Degree in Mechanical engineering or Related Field.
• Minimum 2 years related work experience.
• Ability to work independently.
• Working Hour: 5 Day work Week
• Only Singaporean & PR Need Apply

=====================================================

Beginning July 2009

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform direct on site customer support including quotation, production application, technical presentation, root cause failure analysis for customers
• Provide customer with proper documentation for all root cause failure analysis.
• Conduct training or product presentation to key customers as and when necessary.
• Any other related tasks as assigned by your superior.

Requirements:

• Diploma/ Degree in Mechanical engineering or Related Field.
• Minimum 2 years related work experience.
• Ability to work independently.
• Working Hour: 5 Day work Week
• Only Singaporean & PR Need Apply

======================================================

1st week of July

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform direct on site customer support including quotation, production application, technical presentation, root cause failure analysis for customers
• Provide customer with proper documentation for all root cause failure analysis.
• Conduct training or product presentation to key customers as and when necessary.
• Any other related tasks as assigned by your superior.

Requirements:

• Diploma/ Degree in Mechanical engineering or Related Field.
• Minimum 2 years related work experience.
• Ability to work independently.
• Working Hour: 5 Day work Week
• Only Singaporean & PR Need Apply

==================================================

2nd week of July

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform direct on site customer support including quotation, production application, technical presentation, root cause failure analysis for customers
• Provide customer with proper documentation for all root cause failure analysis.
• Conduct training or product presentation to key customers as and when necessary.
• Any other related tasks as assigned by your superior.

Requirements:

• Diploma/ Degree in Mechanical engineering or Related Field.
• Minimum 2 years related work experience.
• Only Singaporean & PR Need Apply
• Ability to work independently.
• Working Hour: 5 Day work Week

===================================================

3rd week of July

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform direct on site customer support including quotation, production application, technical presentation, root cause failure analysis for customers
• Provide customer with proper documentation for all root cause failure analysis.
• Conduct training or product presentation to key customers as and when necessary.
• Any other related tasks as assigned by your superior.

Requirements:

• Only Singaporean & PR Need Apply!!!!
• Diploma/ Degree in Mechanical engineering or Related Field.
• Minimum 2 years related work experience.
• Ability to work independently.
• Working Hour: 5 Day work Week

=========================================

well... I guess the market is not yet ready for a mere pass degree, foreign NUS mechanical engineering graduate.

I just hope the next advertisement is not something like this:

====================================================

Singaporean/PR Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform direct on site customer support including quotation, production application, technical presentation, root cause failure analysis for customers
• Provide customer with proper documentation for all root cause failure analysis.
• Conduct training or product presentation to key customers as and when necessary.
• Any other related tasks as assigned by your superior.

Requirements:

• Only Singaporean & PR Need Apply!!!!
• Diploma/ Degree in Mechanical engineering or Related Field.
• Minimum 2 years related work experience.
• Ability to work independently.
• Working Hour: 5 Day work Week

=====================================================

hope will get a job soon... =)

老鳥新鮮人

不曾記得牙牙學語的時期。

記憶開始于幼稚園，媽媽帶著我的手到了臨近住家式的“陽光幼稚園”

再從小一，到小六；

初一，到高三。

校園里的小弟慢慢長大，變成叱咤風云的大哥大姐。

再又變成大學新生營里目光呆滯，傻傻跟著學長姐的學弟妹。

學長姐又漸漸地一個個畢業。

轉眼成了大四的老人。

又再從老人，突然變成了初入社會的菜鳥。

于是，校園老鳥們，踏入了新的環境，從菜鳥開始做起。

這一趟，菜鳥沒有人在前面告訴你，下一步該做什么。

長大了。

男人就要能夠自己承擔自己錯誤的后果。

與世隔絕的十天

有好一陣子沒有更新這里。

這一陣子說實在的也沒有很忙碌。

搬了家也快要兩個禮拜了。

以前在NUS也常搬家，但沒有那么累。

租約，水電易名，寬頻網路，搬家公司...

其實也沒有很復雜麻煩，

只是當這些瑣碎事情多起來，還真的會忘東忘西的。

到今天居然還沒有打鎖匙，也還沒有買家私。

（當然，一個主要原因是因為我太窮了）

上個禮拜難得的有了兩次面試的機會。

第一個其實是靠人事的，沒辦法，沒本事只好靠人事。

但結果看來話不投機。

第二個也沒了下文。

下來這個禮拜就完全沒有發市了。

這個禮拜主要的活動是出席畢業典禮和吃免費餐。

一直到昨天，家里的寬頻網路才真正鏈接上了。

雖然這些天的鍛煉后，總算沒有以前念書時那么依賴網路，

但在這個時候，沒有網路真的很不方便，

找工作，甚至面試前該做的功課，也沒有什么時間做。

只好隨便就上場了。

好空啊。

快點找工。