Have not been in the best of moods in during the past couple of days… not even sure what exactly is the reason. Hopefully it’s just another case of the monthly “disease”….

Had my exams last week. I am surprisingly more confident in my Accounts paper, as opposed to my Communication Skills paper. You would think that Communication Skills is more like an English essay/compo kind of thing, but then…… well, yeah there were essay questions. But the topics covered (tips from the lecturer aside), were quite rescrtictive. And I kind of assume that the lecturer expects us to write based on those notes that he gave us… which seems a little.. erm.. limited? Don’t know if I will be able to pass but I guess I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Starting to get the sick-and-tired feeling about work again. Obviously this feeling will come intermittently as long as I continue there. And it’s only a matter of time before I really dread going to work, and not to mention have the dragging feeling, something I wonder if I already do. Despite the good location (near to school) and some nice colleagues, I’m finding less reasons to like working there. The environment is warm or hot most of the time, even at night and especially if/when I’m stationed at the outdoor dining area. The excessive humidity there does not help. Neither does the fact that I sweat quite easily. 95% my time there I feel hot and sticky. One more thing that does not help? The stingy bosses’ attempt to cut costs by wanting to switch off the air-cons when there is no customer. AND the fact that their doors are left 70% open, resulting in easy exit for the cool air. And obviously it’s not just about the air-con crap that peeves me about the bosses (or maybe it’s (still) just one of them…). Anyway, the other factor and most important one is of course the money. You’d probably be shocked to know that I’m earning an hourly rate of $5. You’d think sure, work more lor, then earn more. But I suppose I prefer to see it from another aspect. Just because some of them know that I don’t really do any other things beside school, doesn’t mean I have to commit the rest of my time and life to them. Don’t foeget I’m just a part timer. And if they think someone of my age is supposed to be responsible and know how to think, yup they’re right. I DO know how to think. Call me silly, but I’m not letting them have their way either. They think that just because they’ve asked me to extend my work hours a couple of times before and I’ve agreed, I’m gonna agree every other time. Well, it’s not gonna be like that anymore. So what if I get less money? I’m already working for the number of hours according to what I wanted my schedule to be. I’m just a cheap labour to them, of course they would want me to continue working there. I was told about a 3 month probation period I have to go thru before they review my pay. I doubt I can wait any more for that 3 month point…

School starts next Monday and my next day of work is this Thursday. Can you believe I am dreading Thursday more than Monday?

Time to flip the newspapers.