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Archive for December 2006
Merry Christmas Ho Ho Ho!
It’s Christmas already in New Zealand… So Merry Christmas guys!
I just finished playing mahjong with dad, sis and her boyfriend and I came first mwahaha.
I hate Christmas sales though… I just finished working four days in a row and will work 10 hours on Boxing Day. Sure. I’m looking forward to that!
I really feel bad about leaving Appassionato out because there had been so many people supporting me and stuff but I really had to! :’( These days I was working on two design requests and I’m glad because now they’re both finished at the same time before 2007. Now I get some rest!
Update: Thanks for the Christmas gift from Mei Zhu!
Ta-Da! Christmas Performance
So I ranted about the concert in my last post. But I’m completely over it now. I just came back from the actual performance an hour ago and it was totally great. The head office of the company was BEAUTIFUL! We sang on their glass staircase and their lunch room had such a nice view.
We were then transported over to a great hotel and we sang before and after a staff meeting they had in an auditorium place. It was better than we had ever sang these songs before because the acrustics were excellent. Because of no transport yesterday, I couldn’t rehearse with them so how did I practise? Over the phone. They rang me, switched the phone to speaker-mode so they could hear me and I could hear them. It was funny for me though… Holding a phone and singing for an hour while playing MapleStory.
Meowwww… So the pay didn’t have to be split up by ourselves. The organisers of the event gave us a $100 voucher each–of course, for their own department store. But we made good publicity for ourselves and we’ll probably be invited to several future events they hold.
Heaven Decieved Me
I thought my holidays would be oh-so-great but in fact, it’s gone all wrong.
Work
Why is our store the only bloody store opening until midnight every night in the whole damn shopping mall? I know it’s Christmas, but who’s there to shop after 10pm? Honestly, no one. So I was given a stupid 5pm-1am work shift and all I did was wandering around the shop with nothing to do after 10pm. Can’t the head office re-consider about what their employees are going through? Sure, it’s money, but I’d rather sleep if there’s nothing to do. The worst thing is, even when there’s nothing to do, you have to act busy–always.
Concert
It began as a happy surprise. We were invited to sing at a private Christmas head office function of a company. So we practised hard but I’m getting pissed now. They (rest of our group) went busking when I was working one day. They told me to give up my one-and-only lunch break of the day to go busk with them. Breaks are for me to relax and yet I was having to stand there and sing so… Why can’t they calculate the earnings in a more… “nice” kind of way? The whole group (5 of us) gained $100+ in two hours and I sang for twenty minutes. They calculated it against the hour? So I ended up with $6.50 or something–why can’t they round it to $10? Is it so hard to?
But that’s not what I’m really pissed about. I guess $6.50 for twenty minutes is more than I’m earning for part-time work~ I live further away from the school than they do. So they live in a nice little bunch while I have to drive to them every single practice. Why then, if my parents will be away and no car will be left at home tomorrow morning, can’t they come to my house just once? I rang them two days ago to organise the practice tomorrow and no one confirmed anything. I asked one of them about it and she said she doesn’t know anything either. What did she tell me to do? Wake up early in the morning tomorrow to get it organised. Excuse me? I’m the only one that has to work long, long hours and I want a break. I want a sleep-in. So I rejected about organising and she talks to me in an accusing tone and makes me feel guilty about it.
And I bet, when we get the pay from the company for our performance, they won’t give me an equal share. It’s supposed to be 4 people in a group but since I’m going to university next year they wanted me to train up the newbie taking over me in this event. We can’t sing as a five so the new girl and I will have to split our parts. What are we going to get then? Half of the quarter of the total sum each. Why?! I trained as much as they did. I can perform all the songs but I’m giving half to the other girl so she can practise on-stage with the other three. Why should I get less?
Unfortunately, life is never fair. What can we do when we feel the balance has tilted? Argue and make things worse? Tolerate.
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