Study no high

I've never been much of a student, academically. I remember locking myself in my room 2 days straight so that I could concentrate on my 'O'levels preparations.

It worked, to a certain extent, I made it with decent grades. I went on to Poly, only to flunk with flying colours within the 1st year, did some part-time jobs before going on to cheong all sorts of hills as a rifleman in Charlie Coy Platoon 9 Section 1 at 1SIR.

I came out relatively unscathed, and took the first job that came along. A retail supervisor at Watson's. It was not what it was cracked up to be, and I left under extraneous circumstances after less than 2 years. I interviewed for my present one dressed in my brother's office wear, and I think I impressed the interviewer with my answer to the standard "why do you want to work for us?" question posed enough for me to go on to the next round.

All that has been almost 12 years back. Now I am lined up for what could be my only shot at promotion for a long time. I have been pleasantly inundated with friendly advice and tips on scoring during the interview; such as not going with the self-deprecating humour strategy that I 1st thought of. Bad idea, bad, bad...

More importantly I've had to catch up on past notes and it feels like I am back in that room when I was a scrawny 16yr old cramming for his 'O' levels. In a way it was easier back then; I only had 1 TV set at home that I don't have a monopoly on, computer is simi I also don't know, and my mind was more innocent then. Now I have a whole load of cable channels to surf through, spend too much time online, and I multi-task in my head too often...

It's just less than 2 weeks to the interview room.


Best get going...