~*+My Journey Before Heaven+*~

Today was a little depressing, simply because i was not able to finish my workload. On the surface, it seems inoxious. I have tomorrow to finish up the week’s worth of documents, and if all goes well my weekends would be a time to laze around and cool off the heat generated from those menacing calls and lectures from superiors (fishing trip included this week). However, such a delay has caused incipient concerns which i must tend to:

1. I am still not proficient enough in handling my daily duties.
2. I have become too relaxed at work (using the msn, listening to radio blogs, surfing and working simultaneously). We all know multi-tasking decreases productive effeciency.
3. I have not been getting enough rest.

I have to deal with this problems immediately, as the SAF functions progressively (meaning work gets harder and becomes more important). If i fail to iron out these problems now, procrastination would start to surface. When this comes into effect, I would definitely have to face the wraith of my superiors, especially when workload peaks around April (as you can see, i do not have much time left to learn). Therefore, i conclude that i have yet to attain the discipline needed as a Admin Support Assistant, and have to infuse into myself the proper work ethics through culmination. I hope such delays would not happen again.

Pertaining to my religious activities, i am still unable to play the songs required for performance on Good Friday at a satisfactory level. I have to be able to regale with the lord as my focus. So far, i have not succeed, and my work assignment and working hours, coupled with the distance needed to travel to and from officee to home seems to stymie my aim of using my fullest ability to glory god. I pray that god can give me wisdom and help me create time to practise sufficiently so that I can praise his worthy name.

I began to ponder in trepidation about the prospect of the coming weeks. I hope I can adapt to these changes in my life soon.

Now i being to comprehend how much character u need to posess when u dwell in the service sector. It is a sector where eloquent language would not save you from a customer’s aggressive machinegun and risque insults hurled at you and your family. It is a workplace which requires you to remain friendly and pretend to care, irregardless of the unpleasantries thrown at you. NEVER does it seem to be propitious, and the understanding image you try to create in the customers mind only seems to heighten their objurgation to your aparrently ineffecient system. Therefore, i urge those who are irascible to reframe from taking any job that has the word ’service’ closely linked to it. For those who are unfortunate to land a job in the service sector, these are the dont’s that you should NEVER commit:

• NEVER try to jostle with the customer, for the customer is ALWAYS right, and any unecessary heresy would only aggrevate the situation (for most customers are impervious about how we have brought inconvinience to them).
• When a customer seems heated, always start straight away by finding means to assuage the volcano in front of you. Vacillation of action or superfluous explanation on your part would only land you on hot water, so keep it clear, short and understandable (unless you want to experience their barbaric verbiage).
• Bestow upon them the relieve that they have came to the right professional. NEVER feint ignorance. If ever a customer finds out you are a greenhorn, they would deprecate your already exiguous status (in their eyes) to peanut size. When they call for management or your superior, pray hard.
• If all methods stated above fails to sort things out, and their scowl and raucous complaints never seem to elude you, develope immunity by listening to it until their initially risque vocabulary becomes innocuous to the human ear. Trust me, this is the hardest step (try saying,’ I am extremely sorry sir.’ to someone who just demeaned your whole family tree from the greatest greats to the youngest youngs).

From my explanation of this inclement sector of work, i hope many would realise that it is palpably NEVER saint to choose a service sector job as your bread and butter unless you reveil in onslaughts of raining vulgarities. If you do, frankly you are insane

I must say i am really new at blogging, and my nescience of how wordpress works caused me to exhaust 30 minutes to figure out how to start an entry and type till here. Hopefully it would not be as arduous for the next entry.

I had to go CMPB in the morning to receive my posting (again). Having already experienced a day of waiting in agog for my unit while sitting in a conference room for a whole day, i have learnt from my mistake of not having anything with me to do. Therefore, i brought a book, pen and paper, and a Risk board game just in case any of the other enlistees in the room (14 altogether) decided to use their brain a bit in an effort to conquer the world map. My stay in the conference room was cut short however, and i was brought to my new unit straight after lunch. I am now officially an Admin Support Asisstant (aka clerk) working in the National Servicemen Service Centre. My job seems torpid, handling deferment from people. I do hope my (so far) monotonous NSF experience ( consisting mostly of waiting for my posting) would become hectic soon (i cannot believe i am saying this). fortunately, the people within the NSSC seem to be nice people, and the head of the department seems to be a reasonable boss (although he was captious about me spreading the gospel in the SAF). With my unit in comity, i think i would be able to adapt quickly to my posting and be of use to them as soon as possible.

Even though i work in the administrative side of the SAF, the aggressive army lexicon seem to still exist around here. Therefore, i must put in the brobdingnagian amount of effort needed to ensure i do not scold vulgarities, as it is incontrovertible that vuglarities are bad and saying it is to the lord’s displeasure.

All in all, i pray that i would begin to feel effusive of my work, and emite this spirit throughout the whole unit. Also, i would like to take this time there as a god-sent opportunity to ameliorate myself and become a better persona, and be able to bring glory to the lord.

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