Blogging & Me

I feel the need to address this topic on blogging.  Not that it should matter to anyone but I just don't want to appear so amateurish just becos it's stated that this blog was started only in July 2011. (See?  I am a typical Scorpion - super want face!)  ;p

Reading backwards, it will show that this blog contains posts dating back to 2010; those are some of the posts that I have brought over from another blog which I have now deleted.  In actual fact, I have been blogging since 2005/2006 and I have been somewhat like a "floating" blogger until now (I hope).  

I first started blogging on my Friendster account, then I decided to create an account with MySpace which didn't last beyond one entry and then came my first blogspot account that was semi-permanent.  I maintained  that blogspot account for about 4 years while also blogging on Facebook in between.  I decided to stop posting entries in that blog after my relationship with the fooker came to an end.  Needless to say, most of the entries in that blog was about us; the relationship, my feelings, our past and to stop posting in that blog is part of my effort to 'delete the past'.  I don't want to be reminded of the past every time I post a new entry and so I made the decision to start yet another new blog.  I have not deleted that blog yet though becos I like the way I wrote with that emotionally-driven sense of creativity, and I want to save it for my pleasure reading which could happen someday in future.

And so I had created yet another blogspot account right before this which was around for about a year or so.  The main reason for me to delete that blog was becos of the name - LuluOddball - which was coined by two nicknames given by my frens.  I got stuck to that name for a while and hence the choice for my blog name.  I lurve the name 'Lulu' and I want to permanently use it and create my branding with it so I have decided that 'oddball' has to go.   And taaa-daaaa!!  The birth of 'Lululicious'!  I have been using 'Lululicious' for a while now and I intend to continue doing so and creating this new blog (and deleting the old) is the last part of my move to do away with 'oddball'.

Honestly, I don't think I am odd.  I merely like things that are not attractive to others or I am drawn to less than attractive things (e.g. my curious interest in taking pictures of insects).  Well, I'd like to think that I am a lil different from common folks; be it in a good or bad way.  Anyways, this pretty much sums up my relationship with blogging.  I will blog more regularly now if time permits and of course if I am not feeling too lazy and  when I am inspired by a topic.  Hmmmmm...

**Flashing thought:  Why do we need 'courtesy movement campaigns' to encourage us to be more courteous?  When I see those posters plastered on the walls in MRT stations reminding people to stand on one side of the escalator, it makes me wonder why is it that people can't just have that tad bit of initiative?  And by the way, I don't think the posters are of any use becos the problem has not been resolved; selfish people are still choking up the escalators during peak hours like as if it's their prerogative to do so.  For once I'd have to say that the trashes are not to be blamed; this is a pre-existing Singapore issue.  Haro??  Courtesy campaigns have been ongoing since I was a kid and perhaps even before my time.  But the presence of these trashes have most definitely worsen the situation; they have made us all the more explicitly 'kiasu'.  Waste another 10 years running courtesy campaigns and I am pretty sure the situation will very much remain the same... 

Heaving A Sigh Of Relief (Finally! Yipee!!)

I am excited!  And it's for a very good reason - I am finally taken!  Yea, after searching endlessly for a good eight months I have finally got a new job and am starting next week!  I am totally looking forward to it! :))  (Fingers crossed...)

It's never easy to leave the comfort of familiarity and embark onto a new journey all over again.  It is certainly no simple task to leave the comfort of working with people who knows me and have gotten used to the way I work and perhaps also gotten used to the eccentric side of me that comes visiting every once in a while.  From Monday onwards, I can't be late for work anymore!  And it will be a total new environment with a new working culture to learn from and adapt to.

But I see this change as a new learning point and I look forward to the challenge.  Well, it has not been easy for me to get hired considering the fact that I am older than many of the local fresh graduates and more expensive in comparison to the foreign talents (trash).  Armed with nil experience in the field that I want to venture into, I have half the chances and have to face double the challenges.  And in this course of searching for new employment, I have went from all excited to all disheartened to all desperation when my applications garnered few responses and even fewer interviews; the ratio was approximately 20:5:1.  I had even experienced that sense of regret for doing my degree when the end results of all my hard work is far from what I have expected.  But such a thought is definitely no surprise.  After all, I don't have a filthy rich father to sponsor my studies and I had to hold down two jobs while studying just so that I can manage the loan.  

So you can imagine the kind of relief I felt when I was told that I have secured the job after two rounds of interviews. Interestingly, the 2nd round of interview was a "mass interview" where all the candidates were asked to attend and be interviewed together and where our responses were no longer privileged to the interviewer(s) solely.  I wasn't feeling too confident after the interview as I realised that; (1) I was the oldest candidate (yes! can you imagine my fellow candidates are all in their early and mid-twenties??!!?); and (2) they are from local Uni (definitely better qualified than my overseas degree!).  Again, you can imagine the joy I felt when I received the email confirming that I have gotten the job!  :)

Now about the job.  A 'Graduate Recruitment Programme' as it is termed is a six-month contract position in a medium size local PR agency.  The plus side is  that the next six months would be a platform for me to learn the ropes of PR and be paid for it!  But the flip side means that I could very well be jobless after six months if I can't prove to be of value.  Then again, this is the same risk present in many other jobs is it not?   At least I am given the chance to learn and prove my worth and at the same time to find out whether I am cut out for this. Perhaps, I am worrying too much now.  I am a true blue worrywart man!  >.<"  Maybe the anxiety of starting in a new and unfamiliar environment is more overwhelming than I have given credit for.  Nonetheless, I am still looking forward.  I lurve challenges and this new journey is yet another I am set to discover. 

"Good things are worth the wait" - I hear of this cliche saying so very often and I surely hope that after all the wait (search) this is the job for me!  I can't wait for Monday!!  Wish me luck!  :))