"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." - Sophocles

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Liquid Nitrogen: everyone is very stressed in the hotel industry, the captains, cooks, dishwashers, managers and waiters

if you start working from the bottom, getting scolded and cursed at in different languages is considered normal; most waiters/waitresses are in sec sch/poly

you have to carry heavy trays and walk in heels on a slippery kitchen floor, and working hours are 5 to 11pm- if you're lucky or new- with hardly any time to rest

sometimes till 1am or later

and once you sign up with a certain staffing company, they disallow you from working with hotels for a few months after resigning under any other staffing companies/directly with hotels

i am amusing myself by typing in your way of quoting

oh yes i must add the requisite

HURR HURR


Someone: ha
you're actually a fairly literary person
it's just that you hate the discipline of literary studies
and the field of literary criticism

you're actually very fair to the sexes
just that you dislike a lot of things abt women
but you don't feel men should have privileges just by dint of their manhood

they would have to know to differentiate between a misogynist, a chauvinist, and you
lol

Me: in modern societies if you're not a femnist you're a misogynist
if you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem


SUG: you know, I've seen a new breed of men that don't fall under both misogynist of chauvinist or feminist

I think it's quite an interesting sociological study

I call them closet misogynists because they say they think of women as their equals and think really highly of women, BUT they still uphold the traditional "gentlemanly" stuff like holding doors open and taking the tab
and they say they'll feel odd being a househusband although they don't mind

Me: haha
that is called "chivalry is not dead"
and is sexism

except no one complains when sexism benefits them


My Toy: u know
BJs can be of varying standards
but ben n jerry's never fails to satisfy

Me: you're the expert


Me: the way to avoid bitterness is to divorce oneself from the world entirely
but the cost of that is probably worse than that of bitterness

MFM: my, what profound words. too much chekhov?

Me: gah


Someone: i went for 2 informal interviews with directors and etc of a particular div i really wanted to work in at [a ministry] and they wanted to take me in.

the last step was to get a formal HR interview and i'd be in
and hr wont even allow a formal interview becos i got second lower

its like. the bloody prospective boss really wants me already
its just this stupid thing

im so pissed off
and i cant do anything abt it

another friend got accepted by [a statuary board] last yr before she graduated but was dropped when she was o.02 shy of second upper

i think its a similar sob story all round

Me: wah lao
civil service sucks lah


Liquid Nitrogen: wah they allocated 2 modules i wanted to me
CORS is omniscient

Me: well you filled in the module preference

Liquid Nitrogen: oh yarh. *facepalm*
brain not working


MFTTW: well i have noticed oytu have a tendency to use the absurd as a means of stating the obvious
which makes people annoyed because they don't see the beyond the absurdity

i psychoanalyze you
that means that... hmm...
you are hiding

hiding behind a facade of dunno what what blah blah

gah, this isn't working.
(you can tell i was not meant to be arts student -- no capacity for bullshit)

Me: gah