So fast one week over liao

Its weekend again. The feeling is so good. Finally I know why everyone's always looking forward to weekends. Working is so tiring, though I only work for one week plus. LOL.

The only problem that I have with the job now is that I have to put on a tie. I don;t like that, so troublesome. But other than that, everything's fine. Nice colleagues and boss. Can get over with them quite well.

Well this whole week I have been looking at workflows, program codes, database tables of current systems of the bank. I wrote a little program to try out the multi-tier environment as well. INstead of using ODBC directly, I have to used DLL and COM+ classes.

OK lah, thats all for this week...

Next week, wooolala. Monday work, tuesday holiday, wednesday work, thursday holiday, friday work. TMD, how come the holidays don;t come together one. Fun huh, one day work one day holiday like tat. LOL. OK lah, 3 days to work only, not bad lah. keke

Moving on to the next phase of life....

Been very busy this week. Guess you know why already. I got a job. Hurray!!!! I accepted the bank job and I am now working at a Japanese bank call Mizuho Corp. Bank. First 3 days of the job was ok, kinda boring cause got not much to do. But thats more to come hehe..

Just cut my birthday cake with my family. Yesterday was my birthday, but didnt have time yesterday because I went out with my friends, so celebrated today. Actually also never celebrate what lah. Just blow candle cut cake only.

Sian, my office no internet access, so I guess you wont see me online so often bah.

Banking sector or Medical sector

Havent been blogging for a while because this week is a really busy week. Finally, I know how come I couldnt get a job liao. Its because of the expected salary that I wrote on the job application forms. After going thru so many interviews, roughly I could gauge which co. will hire me and which won't. But when even those you expect them to hire you didnt, means something else liao right.

This week, I went to many interviews, putting in a more "fresh-grad" amount for my expected salary. Guess what, I got 2 job offers. The problem is I dunno which one I should go for. Both co. offer same amount for the pay, and the pay isn't the great amount also. But one is in banking sector and is a 12-mth contract job. the other is a job at Raffles Medical grp, and is a perm pos. Both jobs have similar job scope. So which one should i choose? Some tell me banking sector will be better. Hmmz, quite true also. But medical sector also not bad.

I have to give my response by Monday which is tomorrow. I think most likely i will take on the banking job. Experience is more important that the salary i guess. Somemore what more can i expect as a fresh grad with zero experience? Its a japanese corp bank, so i guess i will be able to get quite a good exp from it.

DSTA vs NCC

The interview last friday at DTSA was a major screw-up.

Why?
- Security screwed up the interviewee lists. Mixed up my NRIC no with other people names, preventing me from going up to the HR depart. on time.
- Stupid interviewers: brainless comments about my education background, say my skills set don't meet their requirement. Interview was less than 15mins. When they ask me if I have any qns, I didnt even bother to ask them anything, not even about the job.

Just wasting my time, I wouldn't want to work with brainless people. Imagine they even asked me why I choose Melbourne Uni and commented that most people would go to Perth to study instead. You can see how stupid these people can be.

However, the interview at NCC was much better. Nice interviewers, and I say the right things and ask the right questions. There was a test before the interview and I could do all of the qns. Hope I can get the job, although there are 3 other applicants as well.

P.S. DSTA's working style is too similar to the SAF, really cannot take it. I guess I chose the wrong org.