b4 i started working, i always tot tat everything shld b a breeze as long as its not a family-related biz. In fact, i was damn confident tat i wld b able to excel in work. Little did i know tat i m in fact, quite ‘chicken’.
my manager told me the other day tat i wld b in charge of marketing the greeting cards for my association. initially i tot, ‘ chey, sales is my forte cos i had been selling books for my parent since i was like 10 plus i like talking so much. chicken feet la!!’
On my 2nd day of work, at abt 1.30pm, the phone rang and i became very excited cos i wan c if its any of those corporate communication person we e-mailed. i got so excited tat i say, hello, ‘ABCD Association! Good Morning!!’ The caller started giggling and ask me if my watch was spoiled. -_- i looked at my computer screen and realise tat its already afternoon liao. wa lau, 2nd day already kanna suan. but luckily the caller was quite friendly la and even more heng is tat she is not looking for me! heh heh!
Then i learn to operate the door tat cn ‘talk and open by itself’. It took me a few days to remember the correct button to press so u can imagine all those poor thing standing outside, waiting for me to flip thru my notebook to check the correct button to press. the wonder i kept getting the feeling tat these visitors are not very friendly pple.. hmm.. muz b getting too much contact with jane n rog, tat y starting to get senile. LoL! However the good thing abt such a door is tat u can hear wat they say outside cos u jus press a button and u cn communicate wif the person outside or u can keep quiet n secretly listen to their cursing/gossip. but being a person wif intergrity, i wun do these kinda thing. it was by accident tat i heard the story abt so n so obsession wif xxx (use ur imagination to fill in the blanks! u dirty pple, its not the three-letters word u r thinking abt ok! =p). i jus forgot to switch off the intercom aft letting the visitors in so it wasn’t really my fault. u guys understand right?!
anyway last wed, i finally got a call. this time my dear colleage pick up and transfer it to my line. it was actually quite embrassing bcos eversince the last incident, i always avoid picking up the phone. so when my colleage transfer it to me, i pretend not to hear the phone ring. by the 5th ring, my colleage, noor looked at me and say, ’shumin! ur call!’ i go, ‘huh…’ n then quickly checking the time i picked up and go, ‘ ABCD Association! Good morning!’ this time, its noor’s turn to laugh cause its already 4pm liao. jia lat ah, y like tat? my brain doesn’t work with my mouth de? =*( But luckily the caller din notice la.
She just go, ‘ Hi, i m frm xyz co. are u ms shumin? i want to enquiry abt ur greeting cards.’ Feeling abit nervous, i go, ‘ ya.’ then she started asking if we cld gif her co an exclusive design. but bcos my manager din teach me wat to do if customer ask for something different, i politely told her tat i haf to ask my manager 1st n i wld call her back later. then noor came and asked me how was it like. i told her abt the customer’s request and she say, ‘wah, lucky u nv anyhow promise pple. wait u haf to draw one sia!’ i laughed n say tat of course i m not tat stupid la but if tat happen, i wld draw n she wld color! n we started laughing! I jus loved noor so much, cos if it wasn’t for her, work wld b so dull n scary. =)
but then to b frank, i m starting to love this job bcos it made me feel good tat i m doing something for the children suffering frm the illness i suffered. in the past sometimes when i feel sad, i wld wallop in self-pity n asked myself y m i so poor thing. now i understand tat i m not the most unfortunate. some children in their very tender age are having it much more jia lat. i almost cried the other day when i heard my manager consoling a mother of a child in very severe stage of the sickness. even as an adult now, i find it hard to cope with the weakening of my muscles. so i noe tat it wld b so much harder for a child who is hit so much harder than me cos he need to cope with the possibility of death. n when his mum said tat he had bcame more cheerful thesedays n even noe how to console and encouraged the pple ard him, i really feel the ache in my heart cos i feel like a coward in comparison. now i just wan to help the association raise more money to help them n to aid in the research for a cure for muscular dystrophy cos i m in it as well.
