Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The aftermath...

Okay, just woke up from my little nap, courtesy of my nephew's cries.

Hmm, today's interview was okay. A total of 11 people competing for 5 to 6 places. Well, there are 4 department requiring temporary staff. One was this Research department. Mainly doing data entry, verifying hardcopy data with the soft copy one and rectifying is there is any mismatch. Than do some research on drugs. Ya. Drugs. How? By looking out and cutting out drug-related articles from newspaper and also through the Internet.

The other 2 departments are quite similar to the first one, except one is dealing with data entry(again!) and shipping stuff. Um, From the interviewer's description, the rough idea is doing filing for shipping companies. I don't know why CNB is involved in shipping, but ya, that is the rough idea i got. The other one is PURELY data entry. Full stop.

Now the last one is special. No data entry. No filing for any shipping companies.

Um, let see whether you can guess what department it is. It holds activites reguarly for the public, mostly students. Activites include dance competition, banner designing competition. The theme behind all these competition is "A drug -free Singapore". This department also conduct roadshows teaching the public about how harmful drugs is and why we should avoid it and the penalties of having drugs with you.

Got it got it?

Yes, it is the Preventive Education Department.

So ya, here goes some details of the interview. Oh, did i mention about the gruelling time i had?

Imagine, i am the tenth person to be interviewed. But the wait is VERY long. VERY LONG. There was this anixety and fear of the unknown. Butterflies in your stomach is not enough to describe the fear as more and more people complete the interview. Shall stop here before i start to come up with more horrible description. But the bottomline is that the wait is nerve-wrecking.

Finally, it is my turn. Okay, i was interviewed by a panel. "Damm" i thought to myself. I hate panel of interviewers. Cause the last time i encountered a panel for a interview, i failed it. And guess what, it is for the Youth Flying Club, the club i desperately wanted to get in.

Anyway, i still have to face the panel. Whether i like it or not. So ya, the interview go on, they asked me questions and i answered to the best i can(hopefully). The panel consist of 5 women. Horrible. Kind of make me feel that i am facing 5 teachers. Lolz.

But, on the bright side, the person in charge of the Preventive Education was kind of beautiful. Heez.

Oh, just remembered, i will be staying over at my friend's house for the night. He is going back to China tomorrow, morning flight. So a little gathering i guess before sending him off.