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I need to admit I forgot to add few other prediction the astrologer blurted, he said that we will not be able to pursue our studies neither continue our studies, we will run away from the house and entangled in love life. I believe at tht young age most of the astrologer prediction will b the same old bull story.

let me continue.

After SPM Though Im not at all interested to further my studies in any other field than medicine. Since i lost 1 point for my aggregrade, I have received letter to study in the top notch school for STPM - English College in JB. Taking into consideration my mom’s advice to study in IT field. Started my college at NIIT, although having so much of dislikes I went on. That time I haven’t used a computer, I don’t even know what is copy-paste ( once I used to memorize the steps for copy-paste for my exam !! hahah Damn IT Dummy but now Im sitting and blogging) hehe. I went through so much with the studies because I hated it, but my SPM result is my firing point in my life, I studied very hard and passed all my papers with distinction and flying colors.Two years of college life about to end …. Dang ! My mom came back with a bad news that Singapore is Retrenching, she is affected and retrenched. A month later the same thing happen to my dad when the company is being taken over by another firm and he is already 55 years old and to be retired as well. I clearly remember it was October and Msia is facing the heat of economy crisis. Retrenchment happened globally.
Now both my parents are jobless and we’re about to end of college life to pursue our degree. We have decided the college to enter and even suggested some twinning program with UK. Things took sudden turn, major disappointment… My parents got cheated by unscruplous Share market remisier , we lost Huge amount of money, all that are my parents hard earned money, their sweat and blood. So now both myself and my sis decided to start looking for job to support our parents and we need to pay for loans, our dream to pursue degree took a quick twist. A month after my college studies was completed, we manage to secure a job at HP Singapore as Technical Asst. But before we secure the job, we ran into financial constraint, I do remember that week was Navaratiri, myself and my sis used to go to temple for prayers and temple food, we will pack and bring back for my parents as well. Yes we had difficulties even with food !! My parents went through much trauma after losing their job and losing huge amount of money. What a Karma effect ! Suffered so much at tht young age where I see girls in my age are much jollying and enjoying their teenage years happily.
Job at Singapore is a challenging, we worked at Alexandra Rd before being transfered to Sengkang. We need to wake up as early as 4am to get ready to work, to dress up, drive to JB custom and take a 170 bus to Kranji (the S’pore Immigration Jam is killer and polluted our breathing daily). From Kranji MRT to Yio Chu Kang , another bus to Sengkang and 15 min walk to the school. Im just 19 yrs old at tht time, Technical Asst means, The only technical IT personnel and need to support - 500 PC/laptops, projector,Camera (Digital/Video), Patching Lan Cables, Testing of RJ45 cables in LAN room, mounting the servers on the rack and all MOE apps. Yes singapore schools are equiiped with such Hi-Fi facility unlike schools in malaysia. 4 storey building and you need to carry the heavy monitors and PC up and down without using the lift. I did build a lean muscle The user’s in Spore are very nasty at times, but there are just many wonderful people around there. It was in HP I learned IT deeply such as laying of fiber channel, backup and I used to climb the server rack to mount servers. I will finish work at 5pm and reach my JB home at 10pm. I had enough time to take shower, dinner and sleep, the next day need to wake up at 4am in the morning and repeat the whole cycle again. What a life man !!

It is already 30 days and now time for my first salary , since I don’t have a bank account yet, cheque is given to us. But to encash it you need to open a account with POSB, but before that you need to have valid work permit. Permit will take some time to be processed and etc, I do remember that day , never will I erase it from my sense even at this moment, I only have SGD5 with some coins with me, I went to Tanjung Pagar for my permit And unsure where exactly the building is and have been walking up and down for hours, no one helped me. I asked many ppl but all gave wrong direction. It is freaking hot and im getting dried under the sun, Lastly I manage to approach a kind hearted gentleman , he showed me the way. His name is Ananth - Foreigner, someone holding very high post, he took a cab to IBM tower first, bought for me food capati and chick peas. God knows how hungry I was that time.

***I don;t want to waste money by eating as I need SGD5 to take MRT back to Woodlands !!
Infact for work permit I need to go to MOM not Immigration office !!! The HR Manguz didn’t give correct information, he took the cab again to MOM and drop me there and gave me SGD10 for me to go back, although I didn’t utter to him that Im lacking of cash !! Im speechless at the moment, he is total stranger but came all the way and took all the trouble to guide and show me the way. He is a GOD send man. After I get my clearance i quickly went to nearest POSB to encash the cheque.
*** Im totally stranger at Singapore- at the age of 19 I didn’t know much about the roads
or anything, but all this exhausted moments I went through alone ***

Days by days gone, every saturday I used to walk from Singapore customs to JB City Square
under the freaking hot burning sun or raining, as the causeway is packed up with cars. Very
tiring and tiring. I have only sunday to rest but the rest is never enough for anything, Sunday evening I used to teach at computer class to earn extra cash also tuition at the same time. It is very tiring and some didn’t even pay me the fees untill today !!
As days goes on, I started fall sick very frequently,perhaps of the tiredness..and the job at Singapore is mind boggling, they squeeze every cents out from our blood and sweat ! I never seat at my place always on the move walking up and down, I used to hold handphone,pager and walkie talkie , if there is any issue the teachers would page for me and I need to respond quicker than superman !! There are lot of dungu’s there, some even will shout that the printer is not printing without switching on the printer, some will even say unable to open their file without putting in their diskette in the PC !! Better still some put the diskette into the CD-ROM compartment and got the whole ROM stucked !! I
feel like laffing now but at tht time !@#$#%%$% !! For all their silly mistake I need to respond fast , just imagine if everyone are the same.
We rented a room in Singapore . Since I wanted to save money, I started eating less at night, I merely will stick to Thosai (being the cheapest food) at night, again started to fall on sick. SInce I wanted to pursue my studies, I took MCSE classes and paid for the courses+ the exam fee, can you imagine, I saved little by little and after completing all the 7 modules, when I’m about to Sit for the exam , The goverment sealed the office and our money never refunded. So I lost my money again with unscruplous education center.So food story and Singapore working life came to end after almost working 1.5 years.
I didn’t stop checking out colleges in Malaysia to pursue my studies, some even say that we will never study because we started to taste the sweetness of money. But I know deep in my heart I didn’t, we took the move to work to support my parents, to help them to recover from the losses that happened.I haven’t tasted the sweetness of money yet, I could only smell my blood and sweat in my salary, I went through the pain at young age. I know the true meaning of hunger and moneyless !!

I manage to get job at Standard chartered Bank in Malaysia, KL. I quit my job and moved on to Msia. …To be continued.