I went to ICA yesterday to collect my biometric passport as my current one is due to expire. I was rather shock when I learnt that there were around 150 people ahead of me in the queue. Turning rather impatient, I was already on my way to the exit when a call from my mum changed everything. She told me to wait patiently in the queue and get everything done since I have long wanted to update my passport since half a year ago. I tuned myself to the cartoons there and chatted with Ben on the phone to pass time. Luckily the queue moves pretty fast but all in all I still waited around 1.5 hours before I got my turn. Got my thumbprint taken into the system and signed some documents before I leave. My new picture on the passport looks terrible! I was thinking why can't they retain my IC no. as my passport number, rather than issuing me a new passport no. ? hmm.... Mock exams are officially over for me this coming monday but I only took one paper last monday as I was working before that. Alot of my friends and esp mum keep asking me why I want to work when I am actually still schooling. Usually i will just turn their questions away and move on to another topic but actually the main reason is not due to the salary that they are offering but more of me as an individual wanting to offer help to them when it's needed.Though work can be busy and tiring but time seems to pass so swiftly when work starts to pile up. I have learnt something important through my short term working experience recently. My company did not put me through proper training even before I start on the job, they just provided some brief tasks and instructions for me to follow through. I realised that actually they expect you to know what and how to complete the task that was given.Eventhough I am not taught particularly in this task given, I ought to go find out myself through my own means and get the task done. Sometimes, it seems more like making myself sillier by saying things like:"I don't know. I am not sure." While giving a firm answer like:"Yes this is it and no this isn't" proves otherwise. Though I always expect to be spoon-fed(which makes life much easier), I should and must learn to be independent and find out my own solution to the problem. It may seems to be the harder way through, but believe me, at the end of the day, you'll change someone's mindset about you and the task given will be completed sooner than you ever think it will.
