I am Sof.

…at Woburn doing something involving knowledge. I honestly couldn’t care less about calculus and I don’t know when I developed this habit of deprecating myself with it. It’s not a really good thing. I know I can do it, I just need to learn and study; but whenever I try to bring myself up to doing something with calculus, I just can’t do it. Even if it means studying for the final exam.

I didn’t do that badly on the exam, considering I didn’t really study… shamelessly I admit, I’m happy if I don’t fail (by fail I don’t mean Asian fail). And even if I do fail, I still have an extra gr.12 credit to make my way through graduating. Calculus is fun, but just not for my gr.12 year.

So school is out eh. Doesn’t feel like anything.

I left school at about 10:30am for 2 job interviews (well… they weren’t exactly interviews) and I must say, it had been quite an adventure. Much happened but I’m too lazy to type them. My conclusion, though, is that I’ll probably not going to work at the first place I went to because as I researched online, it might be a scam thing - a company owns a product and they are constantly recruiting members to join; but they gain money from recruiting more than from selling the actual product, and each member usual sells on his/her own. It was crazy how the workers there presented their company history and personal experience during a short seminar thing they threw us, they were glibly talking at the rate of about 7 Chinese charaters/second that I actually could not understand one of them, at all - and it sounded so much like they prepared for a draft and memorized it well and practised over and over. More over, they all sounded pretty much the same. I thought they were presenting PERSONAL experience rather than unified computerized experience. Also, whenever they were finished on their testimony on using the product, they’d raise their voice so high and shout out: thank you ****(company name)!!! I was like… o..kay… wow.. we know you thank them… It all sounded like a big propaganda. Right after they gave us the seminar thing, we were sent to little tables and were asked to pay $380 for a certificate of some sort and that’s where it became a question mark for me. I don’t think I have enough time to sell a product even if it’s really good, I’d rather be practising or doing things I like. So I told them I didn’t have $380, they said you can just deposit some cash and I said no I didn’t have any (which wasn’t true) and they kept on asking are you serious about this and I said yes beacuse I figured why don’t I just come back home and discuss with my parents and such.. and they wouldn’t let me go unless I tell them I’m not serious. So I told them, and they pretended they didn’t hear, and kept on asking me about money. Then again I told them I didn’t have any, then they asked me to open my purse to show them. This was the part that pissed me off the most. Who the hell do they think they are? They can just sit around asking people to see their private possessions? Anyways. Eventually I left, but I was led out by a guy who’s also quite young, York U 1st year I believe, and he was probably the most humanly person I met there among all those living-deads. He asked me if there’s anything I didn’t qutie understand and actually explained some stuff that I understood. Other workers also led out a few applicants who decided to leave and after they led them out, they started talking to them just like the York guy was talking to me, obviouly persuading them to go back -meanwhile telling them: we are a big company, we won’t persuade anyone to join us because there’s no need. What a contradiction. It was so ridiculously hilarious, Chinese business people can make a living hell out of you or making a living pathetic entertainer out of themselves. The York guy was extremely nice, he left me a phone number just in case I change my mind - which I’m pretty sure none of the other workers did. During the time we were talking, another worker came out, a guy who explained, in the earlier mentioned seminar that he used to work in the supermarkets doing labour works, super skinny and died yellow hair, fobby looking, moronic image. “Just ask her if she’s serious (to the York guy). Are you serious? (to me)” I almost blew up in his face - just shut up, I’ve heard that question so many times I’m about to explode; thanks. So, my first excuse of not working with/for them is that most of them are annoying arrogant ignorant idiots which I have no respect for whatsoever. Second excuse is, as I said before, it might be a scam. Well actually I think for this kind of job, you can gain a lot of money, just that you have to know how to bug people and lie.

Wow, I said I’m too lazy to type and see how much I typed.. Blog helps me to vent.

Second place I went to was in the Cederbrae Mall. It was okay, they said they’ll give me a call when they decide. I’m proud of myself that the manager there spoke to me in Cantonese and I actually understood but replied, however, in Mandarin. Afterwards, I saw a good quality, right sized turtle neck at Smart Set, priced down to $14 something from the original $30 something. So I tried it on, liked it a lot, and while I was paying it, they told me I get another 50% off which was $8.2 including tax. =D

Job hunting feels weird. I hate 9 to 5 jobs.

Moving soon. Yes.