You can't possibly imagine my elation and happiness and gratitude and all that. (': Haha I FINALLY received the reply from the admission tutor's colleague and when I saw that I got the offer I seriously wanted to jump up and scream. I was, however, with my supervisors at the time and couldn't possibly do so. ~_~

Waiting to hear from all the rest; Warwick SHOULD get back to me by the end of the week or by next week or smth, so yes. I'm left with Queen Mary and York, the former of which I've already emailed to check since they asked me if I took all H2s before. ._. York has given me naught. Which is fine enough I suppose, since it's the least prestigious of the 4 I think. ._.

Anyway. I'm probably going to be taking the Manchester offer, I mean I like their course the most and they ALSO happen to be the most prestigious of the 4. According to Time and QS world university rankings for 2011-2012 at least. :P All I have to do now is to make sure my parents let me go and stop trying to egg me into going to FASS. FOR THE LOVE OF... Seriously, people. -_-

I've finally ended working at that TFWA convention. Haha thus ends the brain rotting where I held a sign and did nothing. Sigh but I've got to work at my regular job tomorrow evening. -_- Which I've been angsting a lot about of late because the management is so damn fucked up. No, I'm not unnecessarily being vulgar, I really think the management is bloody fucked up. I shall rant about it here since I've never mentioned the place I'm working at. Brace yourselves, because here comes a rant. Feel free to skip it, if you'd like.

AS I WAS SAYING. I have numerous peeves with regard to this place. Let's start off with the first issue that ticked me off the most. THEY ARE SO INFLEXIBLE. Seriously. Everything has to be measured precisely and dispensed accordingly. If it's (being the food product being sold) even A LITTLE TOO HEAVY then it has to be redone so less is given. I mean COME ON. I understand that if this is accumulated then you stand to earn a little less. But one time it happens and my supervisor FREAKS THE HELL OUT. "NO, NO, NO. THIS IS TOO MUCH. PUT IT BACK. POUR AGAIN." I'm really just like...

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Seriously? I mean ok, fine whatever. But why must you freak out so much?!?! And another time someone (who admittedly wasn't a customer) came and asked me VERY NICELY if he could have a disposable plastic spoon. Which I gladly gave. After which I got a scolding. -________- Really?? REALLY?!?!?!?! Seriously... that and my supervisor is bloody ridiculous. She always says 'No, no, no, you're doing it wrong' or asks me 'Have you done this? Have you???' when I've done the work totally fine. Just because my methods differ just a little from yours DOESN'T MAKE IT WRONG. I mean the end product is correct; it looks nice and it is just the right weight. So why do you mind if I'm doing it slightly differently???? Bloody stupid. -_-

My second peeve is this shop's ludicrous lack of a proper concept and or business model. Hell I don't even take business/econs/wtv the heck, and I can tell that this damn business has absolutely no concept, sense of organisation and is terribly inefficient. Let's start off with the fact that the dispensers are out in the open, and yet is not meant to be self service. I mean, if I weren't working there, I TOO WOULD THINK THAT IT'S SELF SERVICE. As is, you waste precious selling seconds explaining and stopping people who try to help themselves. That and people actually walk in asking 'What exactly is this?' and 'How do I go about ordering?' THERE YOU GO. How can you have such an ambiguous store concept? People should not have to ASK what's going on. You waste time and the hassle to ask scares away potential customers. WHERE IS THE CONCEPT? How can it be so ambiguous??

Worse still, the fact that since it's not an over the counter kinda thing, you waste even more time walking from the dispensers to the cash register. There is no flow of work at all. Staff are moving around, maneuvering around stupid counters trying to settle simple things and thus WASTING TIME and coming across as messy. That and this causes absolutely no proper flow of customers. People will walk in expecting to be served immediately because there isn't a queue or any other kind of organisation whatsoever. And when a MAXIMUM of 3 staff are working at any point in time, this is obviously not going to be good. You are, once again wasting time and infuriating customers who won't be served and are standing dumbly there waiting to be served. They could easily say 'Why aren't you serving me? There's no queue, I expect to be served immediately.' and you can't do anything. AND HERE'S THE DUMB SHIT THING. My supervisor tells me 'go serve the other people if they walk in even if you're serving someone else. It's ok, they can wait.'

Uhm excuse me? Are you a blooming idiot? What kind of service industry do you think you're working in? HELLO??? Where is your courtesy and sense of anything at all?? HOW CAN YOU SERVE SOMEONE HALFWAY AND RUN OFF TO SERVE SOMEONE ELSE???? It is so stupid, I can't even.

Obviously I'm very reluctant to follow orders, but when it's crowded I've no choice. THEN she comes up and scolds me for being inefficient. Woman. What in the actual fuck is wrong with you??

My frustration with the management doesn't end there, of course. Oh no... there is another problem and that is a shortage of manpower. Which is beyond understanding. We are obviously short on people, and yet they don't want to hire anyone else. It's not as if you're going to be paying more; it's still a certain amount per hour. And it's not as if you're expecting more people to work at any point in time. It just gives you more leeway to go about arranging work schedules, which is good for everyone since most of the part timers are so damn hard to schedule and my supervisor keeps complaining about being overworked. IT'S YOUR OWN FAULT YOU DUMB BITCH.

Let me give you the low down. There are a total of 5 part timers, myself included. Of the part timers, there is one girl who isn't scheduled to work at all and only comes down when my supervisor can't get anyone else to work. And such situations are often DAMN LAST MINUTE, so it's quite useless because the last minute nature renders it almost impossible to get her to come down. There is another girl who can only work on either Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays; one shift at a time. Of these three days, she's only allowed to work twice a week. So while I'm not hating on her, I really honestly don't see any point in hiring her at all since she can barely work in the first place. The third girl is a friend of the big boss and only comes down to help every now and then, and doesn't work weekends. The fourth girl is a poly girl who can only work on Thursdays and weekends, but because she's still in school she often cancels last minute and is unavailable during exam season. The last girl is obviously myself. YOU SEE??? How can you possibly rely on such a small pool of availability? So if I cancel last minute on a weekend because I'm sick, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET ANOTHER PERSON WHEN YOUR POOL IS SO SMALL? You should always have a BACK UP case, because anything can happen! Someone can fall sick, have an accident or whatever. Then what? You're gonna close shop because you don't have the manpower? Obviously not!! SO FUCKING STUPID. -_- So because of this I always get last minute calls where my supervisor asks me to come down to work and if I cannot, she shows me a black face. Can't you be a little more reasonable? You say you hire me because I am more available but come on lah can't you be a little more fair? These other girls cancel on you all the damn time, have such tight work schedules and you expect me alone to compensate for ALL FOUR OF THEM?? FUCK YOU.

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I swear I am so pissed with the management here. I legitimately don't give a shit about the work itself, I mean it's bloody easy you know? But my frustration with the way this place works is BEYOND comprehension. I hate my supervisor and I hate the way this place operates so inefficiently. I'm actually pretty tempted to quit just to fuck them over. Of course, it helps that I feel like I ought to treasure my last 3 or 4 months of freedom before hectic uni. And I will prolly miss Singapore, my family and all my friends. ):

We'll see how.

When I quit (I imagine I will keel over in frustration at some point) I will be sure to write them a long ass letter informing them of the inadequacy of this company and how they ought to tidy up their shit. So what if you have a good product? It is completely marred by your disorganized management.

OK it feels good to let off all that steam. I hate that I have to go back to that damn place tomorrow. ~_~</span>

Okokokokokok I need to calm down and just... calm the hell down. Yes. Ok I can't. ._. I HOPE I GET IN I REALLY DO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEAAAASSSEEEEE~~

Ok lemme just take a breather for a second over here.

Alrightie then. Uh, life... life... yes of course. Shopping and strictly pancakes on Tuesday was good!! ^^ Haha I bought a lot of stuff oh my. ~_~ Also, tomorrow is the juniors' FINALLLLSSSSS~~ I is excite. I REALLY THINK THEY CAN BAG THE GOLD THIS TIME. After so many years... Gonna go down to watch. :> LET'S GO RAFFLES!!!

I think that people are difficult to understand. I wish I could know how people felt and thought. That would make me a Charles Xavier, but you know... it'll make things easier. I wish we could make our intentions clear from the get go but obviously life is not so simple. Le sigh. If only we all followed John Mayer's advice. *hint go see my last post*

Cause life is just too short to keep playing the game. Cause if you really want somebody, you'll figure it out later.