Employment

I don't believed I had mentioned one of the jobs I managed to get. But I'd quit after a single day of work. It's not worth killing my back for it.

That's the environment I worked in. New district, new neighbourhood, new buildings.

The house I was working on. This is only the inside.

So, basically, I worked there as a cement mixer. Mixing & just mixing cement all day long. And wheelbarrow it into the house for the plasterers.

That's the pile of sand I was working with. I was done with half the pile at the end of the day. Felt so much like digging trench.

The pack on the right is some plaster. I think it's highly hazardous, 'cos I'd got a few whiffs of it while pouring it into the cement mixer, it made me felt weird/high instantly. Hahaha. The one on the left is the cement itself. 20kg per pack. FML.

That's the cement mixer. Think it was about 1.8m to 2.0m high. 1.5 bucket of water, 7 scoops of sand, a little plaster materials, 10kg cement, 7 scoops of sand again & let it mix. Add water/sand accordingly to get a melted-butter like consistency. Hahaha. Shows how many times I'd done it to remember.

Beer at the end of the day. It tasted so damn bloody good. Hah.

So, that's the end of my days as a cement mixer. An eye-opener. But never going back ever again.

The day I'd went to IKEA with my cousin to look for her bookcase. Saw this garden bench which looks very casual & chill to me. Would love to have one, but, sadly, I don't really have a use for it, since the exterior of the house isn't really that much utilised.

A hoody which I think looked kind of nice. But I forgotten why I didn't get it. Maybe 'cos it was branded Nike. Perhaps that's why.

Ehh... Sneaked a shot of the casino. Hahaha.

Anyway, well, after the cement mixing job, was suddenly called to worked at the factory on the following Monday afternoon. So, drove down there & started work. Been working there for 2 weeks now. The factory's going to close shop within the week though. Then I'll be left with 3 weeks before my return to the sunny island of Singapore. Am still wondering if I should attempt to locate another job during that time. Maybe I'll try for a seasonal one, for the Christmas period. But it's kind of troublesome around here without a car. That limits my job choices by many many factors.

A bit of the pictures taken from me working at the factory.

40 foot container for shipping products overseas.

The inside of the container. Doesn't look big, but it's humongous.

The laying of the products in the container. Forgotten how far done was this. But I know it wasn't much.

The journey of 2388 cartons/boxes starts with carton/box number 1.

And after a long, long day, all 2388 cartons/boxes accounted for & in the container.

A view of the warehouse with the pellets I'd packed.

And I guess that's about it for any work related post, till I managed to get a new one.

Sometimes, I don't like watching trailer very early in advance. Like the trailer for "Thor", was out quite some time ago. But the movie won't be in theaters till May 2011, so says the trailer.

And the weekend was a horrible laundry weekend. I'd woke up at 1100++ hours. Worked the laundry till 1530 hours. The amount of undone laundry & done but unfolded laundry is scary. I had to do 3 loads of the washing machine for the undone one. It's 2 usually, 'cos of blacks/colours & whites. And there wasn't enough room to hang the clothes, resorting to the line I had constructed above the clothes hanging rack some months back 'cos there were quite a number of people in the house at the time. Scary stuff.

That's 'bout it for now, I guess.