Job Hunting

Ellemarie remarked the other day that I didn't seem to be doing much job hunting and was just talking about what places I had been to and seen...

So, let me begin by telling you about my outings on the weekend! : )

Finally met up with Phaik on Saturday. We went to yum cha in Bayswater with some of her Aussie friends (all ABCs except for her BF). They don't have trolleys here! You have to order from a menu. What sort of yum cha place doesn't have trolleys? The food is all right but I still think Melbourne yum cha is pretty good. Afterwards, we went back to her place and played Wii - virtual games like Play Station but you actually stand and swing. I suck. Lost a tennis game against one of the guys and then had the mercy rule inflicted on me in baseball against the system - the other side scored 5 runs to my nothing and they ended the game so as I wouldn't be subject to further humiliation.

Was to move to my new place in the afternoon on Sunday. However, my landlady didn't get back till 7.30pm so I had to wait. Spent the day at the British Museum and participated in 3 of their free tours - Ancient Greece, India & Ancient Egypt. As a relative idiot who doesn't know what she is looking at, the guided tours are a great way to get all the cool stuff pointed out to you. The overwhelming theme is that almost all art was created for religious purposes be it Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam or Christianity.

Anyway, something on the job front. Crashed a Six Sigma conference on Thursday and got a bunch of contacts there. Cool. Have received calls from several recruitment agencies interested in me and have an interview tomorrow. Only frustration at the moment is that several people have been very interested and we talk for a while until they find out I have a working holiday visa. Oh, they say. Even when I explain that I can get a Highly Skilled Migrant Programme visa once I have worked for a couple of months they still say it is a no-go as there is no guarantee I would be hanging around longer than 12 months. When is there ever a guarantee that a person will be hanging around for longer than 12 months? : (

On a lower note, my grandma is going to have palliative radiotherapy for her cancer. The tumour to too large and close to the aortic arch to operate and due to her age, they are reluctant to do more aggressive things.

To end on a brighter note, I made contact with Kong Suk Por's sister and she has invited me up to her place in Stratford-Upon-Avon for a weekend visit. We are determining a suitable weekend at the moment and then I will visit Shakespeare's hometown.