Monday, January 31, 2005
Well this post is going to be a long one. Bear with me on this. Anyway, I doubt you guys will finish reading every single word right? I think I better first start off with something important. I will be a parttime Financial Adviser from now on. Point to note; Part-time doesn't mean that I won't be caring about my clients anymore. I will still be doing the same as I had always done. It is just that I need a stable job as I haven't been contributing money to Mum and I feel damn bad about it. To be honest, if I am earning buckets of money from my current job, no way will I look for another job. So you guys should know roughly how poor I am now right? Anyone who want to treat me to a meal are welcome to call me up or leave a message at my Tag Board. ;P
Anyway, I had been to 2 interviews so far. Out from about 50+ applications. Kinda ironic when I just read the news today that unemployment rate is under 4% now and more jobs are being created. Who get all these data anyway? The first interview I had was with Yellow Pages which I had hope to get but doubt so. The other one was as an IT trainer which I just attended today. hope to get this one as I can work parttime which is what I want. Pay might not be great but I don't spend a lot. Though I really hope to be able to get some new clothes before the Chinese New Year. Time is pressing and to be honest, all I am armed with are 2 shopping vouchers. One is a $20 voucher for Topshop which I got from my StarHub points and another is a $50 voucher for Levis which I got from M1. The most annoying thing is that there is no way I can spend the Levis voucher until I get a new job cause the last time I check, there is no Levis Jeans going for $50. Hope that I have better luck with Topshop. ;)
Basically I been slacking for the whole week. Went shopping with Tessa and gang on Tues, suntanning with Alson on Wed and spring cleaning with Mum on Fri. Only Thurs was spent on training at the agency which was great. The best training I ever had. Too bad it might have come a moment too late for me. ;) Sat was spent playing soccer and spending the rest of the day in a daze as I was too shacked from it. We played for close to 3 hours and after nearly half a year of not playing it. Talk about madness of the highest order.
Now I must talk about Sun. It is the highlight of the week for me man. This story is long so bear with me on this. it all started back in last year when I was bored at work and came up with an idea to set up a flea market to sell second-hand clothes as I was amazed by the amount of shopping my female colleagues were doing. I shared it with Pig Head as she was with me then. The idea die down soon cause it was quite a hassle to collect them in the first place and also to convince people to let us sell it for them. Pig Head called me on Tues telling me that she got tons of unwanted stuff after doing spring cleaning on her room. Point to note is that her room is not that big to begin with. She asked me whether the idea of a flea market was still on. Of course it is but not after Chinese New Year as I needed time to find my goods. The next thing I know is that she had already got a stall on Sun and I am in it. To be honest, at first I was thinking of dropping out cause I got no $$ at all to share the rent which is $45 a day. I was glad I didn't do that as I had a lot of fun from it and definitely learnt a lot from it. I was so shocked when I boarded her car in the morning(She had picked me up with her BF, Jeff) as she really have tons of stuff to sell. Her boot was filled to the brim and half of her backseat was filled with soft toys. My contribution was 3 Ikea chairs for us to sit during the fair.
After setting up the stall, we begin to do our business. To cut the story short,there is no way Pig Head can be a good bargainer. Our first business of the day was only worth $4 and that's for a total of 4 stuff. We were in danger of becoming the $1 stall at the flea market(We were the cheapest stall at the market by a long mile) and Pig Head the $1 Queen. She is just too nice. Always giving in to people demand for a bargain. Everything also can $1. Thank god that all the stuff come at no cost as it was to be dump away anyway. I not that good at bargaining too. If only Tessa was there that day. Sure will chop them to death. ;) To be honest, we were just working to break even for the day but glad to say that at the end of the day we earned some money which is great. Jones also joined us at the flea market and ended up selling his trash for quite a tidy sum of money. I had learnt quite a lot from this flea market. It was fun and enriching. To be able to see so many type of shoppers in just a day. There were shoppers out there who is happy even if they can get it for 50 cents cheaper. I was wondering just what can 50 cent buy in S'pore now?? The most important rule of bargaining is never to give your price at the beginning. For the seller, you must give a much higher price. I had never seen someone who is willing to pay the price I quote at the first offering. There were some but it is really like 1 in 80?? I will defininetly do it again. I am already having some ideas on what to sell. And I don't mind doing it with Pig Head again. It is the company and fun that counts. ;)
You can take a picture of something you see. In the future where will I be?
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