Work.

woah, it's been raining heavily these days yea? im quite enjoying the cool weather that the rain brings.
anyway i went to my job training yest. we had to be at clarke quay at 9.30am so ned and i were squeezing with the working ppl on the mrt. luckily we were gng to outram first so we weren't stuck in the mrt for too long. later when we reached the office we saw the girl that we met earlier during the work interview. so we made a new friend very quickly and we just chatted before we were rushed into the office where this alfred guy talked to us abt the company and what we're gng to do. so its an advertising company which helps organizations with low budget to do advertising, by way of mass communication. in short, just door-to-door promotion. then we were rushed into another room where alfred talked abt DETERMINATION+DESIRE and all of us went out to the respective areas we were given. i was to follow this tim guy and learn the skills of mass communication. i thought i was gng to just watch as he does his job, but it turned out to be me doing much talking especially for chinese families. i found out that my chinese was indeed better than my english.
the area that we were given were all rental flats, and most of the time there were only old people who said that they themselves need help, and cannot help us. i was quite surprised that so many ppl were jobless and had some kind of health problems. until we met this teacher who sort of gave us a lecture on how ppl in this area are old and financially in need, and she very kindly gave us 10 dollars. ohh did i mention that we were raising funds for a VWO and the minimum contribution is 10 dollars? i guess thats why we are rejected so much. but i found out an interesting fact. the ppl in the rental flats actually contributed more than those ppl who actually have a house themselves. is it that the poor can understand the plight of those financially in need, so they are willing to give? or is it just the stuck-up attitude that those well-off ppl that makes them so arrogant that they can just slam the door in ur face? i was just wondering.
commission is earned when u sell a whole book of 20 cards and u get 40 dollars per book. 100 dollars for 2 books. its not easy. 8 hours of going door-to-door and maybe getting only 5 cards sold per block. i didn't finish a book, was left with 3 more. ned could finish one book and she got 40 dollars le! so cool. we'll be going back next wed again. ahh its a tiring job.