{"id":221,"date":"2004-05-08T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2004-05-08T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2004-05-08T01:00:48","slug":"long_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Long Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long day &#8212;<br \/>\n9:10am &#8211; Called the company to accept their job offer. The offer was actually made on Wed but I was weighing other options and finally decided on it this morning. It&#8217;s not exactly my dream job &#8216;cos I won&#8217;t be writing much. I&#8217;ll mainly be looking at news that come in from the wires and uploading them to the website. But I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;ll be a stepping stone to other things. Oh well, I guess I should just start on something. If not for anything, the company name will look good on the resume.<br \/>\nAm starting work on Monday. I am, strangely, calm about the whole thing. I&#8217;m not ecstatic, rather the feeling is one of relief. I&#8217;m mentally exhausted and I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t have to go for anymore interviews. I mean, I certainly would like more people to have a look at my beautiful face but I think that there&#8217;s been enough exposure in the past couple of months. I should shy away from publicity and lie low for the moment. ;p<br \/>\n9:30am &#8211; Arrived at the company after a 15-min walk from home to collect the pre-employment medical examination forms.<br \/>\n10:15am &#8211; Arrived at the clinic at to have my pre-employment medical checkup. Blood pressure was taken, eyesight was checked, height and weight taken, X-ray and urine sample taken. Speaking of the latter, the silly clinic gives a container with such a small opening to pee into! Like hello??? I&#8217;m a gal not a guy! Not easy to aim you know!<br \/>\n11:45am &#8211; Finally managed to get over and done with the medical examination. My dad very kindly picked me up and gave me a lift to the airport to pick Chungking up.<br \/>\n12:45pm &#8211; Chungking struts out carrying only a small backpack. Yeah!<br \/>\n1:15pm &#8211; Chungking &#038; Saz (Chungking&#8217;s Singaporean friend) come to my place for a short while as I had to rush home to reply to an important email.<br \/>\n1:45pm &#8211; We take a bus to Little India. It was a bit of a novelty for me too. I haven&#8217;t been to Little India in ages and I was taking more pictures of the place than Chungking was! Haha.<br \/>\n3pm &#8211; Had a late lunch at an Indian eatery serving South Indian vegetarian food. Very yummy!<br \/>\n3:45pm &#8211; Saz brought us to Sungei Road flea market where there are lots of second-hand goods. First time I&#8217;ve been there after all these years! After that, we walked to Arab Street. We walked around till about 5:30pm after which we went to have a drink at a cafe.<br \/>\n7pm &#8211; Walked to the hotel Raffles the Plaza and just lounged at the comfortable couches at the lobby while we waited for UrbanNomad to join us for dinner at 7.30pm.<br \/>\nThe night ended at about 10:20pm after all the chatting over dinner. Had heaps of fun today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long day &#8212; 9:10am &#8211; Called the company to accept their job offer. The offer was actually made on Wed but I was weighing other options and finally decided on it this morning. 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