Like I said earlier, things often don't go according to your expectations. True enough, I have experience it once again. Due to technical errors, I am unable to complete the assignments today. Worse still, I have behind time by around two weeks for a new course I have signed up on Coursera. That is uncertainly not a good sign. I got to do something about it. The website seems to be prompting a bad gateway for the whole day, I just couldn't access it. I guess something went wrong over at their end, and I will just have to be patient. Yet, its 1am midnight not and I still can't have my access to them. This is when I should make a decision like "Sleep now and try again tomorrow". Instead of that, I made this decision: Post out your thoughts so that you might have a better sleep.
As I was rather tired yesterday, I was unable to post up any thing before I went to bed. I went out pretty much the whole day, and I had some thing else on in the evening and it dragged till the night. Hence, here I am trying to make up for my lost time again. Perhaps, it might not be a good way phrasing it like this. Most would probably think that I am a pessimistic, thinking that time is lost when I had done something yesterday though it might not be what I had expected myself to do. I don't deny that I might be too negative, however, that helps me to be prepared for the worse case scenarios. I would not know what will happen the next second. Based on my experience, I could get instantaneous bad news within seconds that caught me off guard totally. I wouldn't want myself to experience being that lost again, and hence, I tend to be slightly negative as compared to others to prepare myself. We will have our unique ways of living, I won't say what I am doing is right, however, I don't think it will be categorize under wrong.
Job security... I have some thoughts on this for a moment today. I realize that company will give all sorts of reason you laid you off without mercy. Job security may be just something delusional that we all talk about. We will never know when an economic recession will take place. We will never know what a bank run will take place. Remember not long ago, we have had the Lehman Brothers crisis, and European debt crisis. Given such situations where we can not predict whether we would lose our jobs, it will be better if we stay vigilant and prepared for such situations. Problem is for those who are earning much, sure you will be able to stay prepare and not to put too much trust in a single entity, always diversify your risk so that you will be able to survive even when such crisis occurs. However, for the lower income families, or those who are suffering the same situation as I am, will probably be one of the first to die of hunger when such crisis arrives. Then again, people will probably tell us the same thing: You're already considered fortunate to be born in the country without war. Well, let's say, what if one day our country do experience war, the first one to die will be us to. There is just no way for us to escape before hand for this crisis. There is always a possibility. There is no 100% guarantee in any thing on Earth. For now, the previous sentence seems to prove true to me most of the time. How contradicting.
Other than that, I went out with my family yesterday to visit my grandma and to pray as the hungry ghost festival starts today. Though I may not be religious, I will still tag along as it will be the only opportunity to spend quality time with my family. Other days, we will all be busy working despite being severely underpaid. The only thing I remembered about yesterday was the weather. It was unbearable hot. We were sweating profusely and none of us were in the right mind to pull off any constructive conversation at all. Basically, the situation is to hurry up and get going.
Right now, what I can do is to rest well for the day and complete whatever I can manage tomorrow. After tomorrow, it will be a time wasting four consecutive days. Well, the good thing was I had spend quite an amount of my time looking a suitable job position this weekend. I have sent in my application for a number of positions that I am interested in and hopefully at least one will get back to me. That is what I hope. However, most of the time, I am not that lucky. Things will not go the way as I wanted them to be. This is why, I will still allocate some time for me to look for suitable position tomorrow and the coming week. I was advised that I should continue doing this everyday till I find myself a suitable job. To be exact, the actual advice was "find yourself at least two position you are interested in each day, and apply for them". This means I will need to submit my application for at least two position a day. During the weekend, it is definitely an easy tasks, but during the weekdays, I might not have the time to do that.
Well, I will sort out these thoughts tomorrow when I am awake. Hopefully, I will remember them.
What could I comment here?
Have a good rest and enjoy your work/study week ahead. I hope you will have an enjoyable and exciting week even though I know that mine won't be. For those who are in Southeast Asia, enjoy the public holiday and Happy Hari Raya.
Ciao. I will try to post up a tutorial soon.
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