sembcorp interview

heard from zhipeng that his sembcorp interview lasted for 5 minutes. for me, it was 2 minutes longer.

i think they just want to see our faces. the two interviewers are quite young, ladies in their late 20s. and they tend to hide their faces behind the laptop monitors.

i was asked about my apparent lack of leadership positions held in singapore, about my home city in wuxi (sembcorp engineering and constructions built an industrial park there, but the interviewers obviously had no knowledge of that), about how i learn english (they thought i had no idea of ABC back in china), about my TKD green belt, about my study plan. about my proposed working life in sembcorp (subsidiaries and so on) any other questions? initiall i planned to ask them about their company structure, the bankrupting SMOE, the Solitair legal conflict, the divestment of pacific internet and so on... but since they didn't even have the idea of the wuxi industrial park, i didn't bother to ask such stuff. so i asked them what will happen after this round of interview. okz, the selected ones will be called next week.

btw by interview's supposed to start at 11, but ended up at 12. heard from he fang that the afternoon interviews are made into group interviews instead of individuals. obviously they are running out of time.... is it because some crappy people has crapped too long? dunno what nonsense they can mangae to crap.... the guy before me virtually went in and out of the interview room in 2 minutes time.

yups, and many of the guys are post-NS men. only saw two gals today. one is from rj. we stoned there for an hour, occasionally cursing the low efficiency of sembcorp. she went in half an hour before me. the other one came 10 minutes before i went in. luckily kok hao came in later, so at least i got someone to talk to, for about half an hour.

collecting my extended passport from china embassy tml. later's gonna extend my social visit pass. and probably more interviews are on the way. hehe. i have a very reasonable employers and supervisers, who allow me to sneak out 2 or 3 hours a day without deducting my pay.

yes, that is the hwa chong spirit.....

work's going back to normal after the holidays. relief classes are flooding in. projects are flooding in as well. luckily the singaporean kids have given a warm response to singapore government's gamble on life sciences. i'm having a slack time now at environmental learning and research centre, typing this post entry. next door at biology learning and research centre, a chaos is going on....

see, the benefit of not taking bio.

attended the founder's day dinner yesterday. the food was delicious. better still there were only 4 of us at the ten-people-table... so basically we ate double the average quantity. there's a new teacher sitting at my table. he's an ex-student from tchs and hc. was taught by my guardian. was from s2. was taught by mdm yeo and mr yeo....

and our dear CEO and principal wished hwa chong “永垂不朽”, in front of the one thousand guests

wth....