Monday, June 28, 2010

My First Autograph!

Two weeks ago, HK producer/songwriter/singer, Pong Nan, visited Toronto to perform at NTSA (New Talent Singing Awards). Weeks before his performance, I heard about his promotional visit to Market Village and there I was when he came. I took some pictures, but not a whole lot, since mom kept nudging me to prevent me from taking any more because I would "run out of space." Nonetheless, here's a picture of him singing and another one of him signing autographs below.

Even though he smiled at the audience, I couldn't help noticing some sort of sadness in his eyes - even his smiles seemed teary too. Perhaps he was tired from the long flight (which is about 22 hours), but he still seemed depressed when he performed at the awards the next day. Maybe something upsetting happened... Who knows?

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Job Availability...

For the past few days, I've been doing a little job hunt (since I'm not getting very few shifts). Last night, I asked Proj. G on MSN if he found a job since he already graduated from the program in April. Apparently, he applied to numerous companies, but none replied yet. I took a look in various job sites to find very little job postings related to my program and slowly started to wonder if I'll find a job after I graduate next year. Perhaps it's because my program's really specific or the positions aren't normally found in regular job sites. Either way, I hope things aren't as bad as I imagine.

Hopefully he'll get a reply soon and that I'll find a well-paying part-time job as well! Good luck to everyone else who are looking for a job too!!

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Job Security?

It's been a while since my last entry - I suppose I got too lazy to even turn on my computer. (Yes, it's possible to survive without using your computer for a month, and I'm proof!)

Nothing special happened for the past month until last week Monday. That morning, I found out that the store manager left the position and was shocked. Surely it wasn't of her free will since she dropped by the day before, cheerfully as usual, to pick up something. She has worked for the company for many years and dedicated her life towards it. She would stay way past her shift if the store's busy and would come by voluntarily to help out on her days off. She was really nice and would help you in every way possible. Of course, she would set you straight if you're doing something incorrectly, but that's her job: to keep the store running smoothly and properly. She even visited yesterday to see how we were doing. There was no way she would resign from the position, it's just not possible.

And, I was right.

It turned out that she got fired for reasons I don't wish to know of. It's so cruel. How can the company remove a dedicated employee just like that? Didn't they have second thoughts? Had they any doubts? I hope they'll regret for their loss and they fully deserve it, though it's pretty unlikely. I hope she'll find another job soon and live on happily. Some things just needs to be forgotten...

Next week is my one-year anniversary since I started and this sort of thing had to happen. I guess it's true, there is no job security in Canada.