YOUKOSO!

Sorry for the lack of entries, people… It’s just that, I’ve been preoccupied with a lot of things… Such as my new Eiten-Chan … And also the new W810i support thread I just started over at LowYat.Net…

And I found out being a threadstarter is not really that hard… First, you gotta keep your thread interesting… which was where it began to get hard…

I also managed to write my first 20-page long review (on the W810i, no less) and sent it in to LowYat.Net for a hundred bucks… Which was not a bad deal, IF I get selected, that is…

Now, to get back to my thread/support center… Gimmie a few weeks, I’ll make sure I come back for some meaningful posts later…

Oh, Eiten-chan… How was life even concieveble without you by my side…

No, I didn’t just get a new girlfriend (although you can call her that, with high levels of imagination)… I just got my W810i yesterday. The lack of posts, (AND the total disregard to the MLM topic that I was supposed to be writing on) is probably as a result of her telling me to spend more time with her.

So, sorry people… Give me a few days and I’ll be back…

And I DO plan to do a full in depth review on her, PLUS a long term continually updated review.

Before that, I hope you guys would settle for an Eiten-chan unboxing shot… 

 

While on my way to MidValley today, bumped into some guy who was into this Multi-Level stuff… Something hillarious from from NHK ni Youkoso just popped into my brain now that I think about it, and somehow I feel obliged to prepare a somewhat in-depth report on ML; tracing out its origins and its validity in hopes that we would be brought closer to the answer to the 2 ultimate questions regarding MLM:

NUMBER 1: Can MLM really make you rich just by finding people to join below you? Or, is it really not that easy?

NUMBER 2: Is it, (and has it ever been) just a hoax/scam/lie/mass-delusion-thingy that is affecting our society (Malaysian especially) at large and corrupting our very souls from the inside out.

Having my own personal bad experiance with one MLM company, it might be hard to really be objective, but I will try…  Searching the net, nobody has really been doing it anyway (reviewing the MLM phenomenon), so someone’s gotta do it…

But first, sleep… I have work tomorrow!

Watch this space… 

 

Most anime lovers (including those who find themselves sliding into the "Otaku" area) would immediately know what I’m talking about, when I say the Law of Equivalent Exchange (or Equivalent Trade, take your pick). But for those who don’t, it’s a fictional law from the anime Full Metal Alchemist (FMA), that is used to describe alchemy (and transmutation) and most closely resembles Antoine Lavoisier’s "law of Conservation of Matter".

For me, it’s a common reality of life, in a way. What you want, you must give up something of equivalent value to have it. Take, for example, buying a TV. The desire to own a TV would need the surrender of an equal level of monetary resources to actually bring about owning a TV.

Which was why I wasn’t suprised that it applied for the desire I had to attend her uncle’s wedding. In a strange way, for the chance of going, I had to give up the job I had - without any choice in the matter.

Okay, this is what actually happened. I went to work last Wednesday, my mind all worked up on how to apply for leave on Sunday. Only to be told, a few hours into work, that I won’t really be needed after all. Somebody else is there for the post, and even though I’m not technically needed, I can come over as a part-timer on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, starting June.

12 hour per day, 3 days per week. That amounts to: RM250 per month.

Yeah, I noticed. The pay is getting sadder and sadder.

At least I was able to attend the wedding, which was yesterday (and her whole big extended family got their first introduction to Eirak).

At least I got to meet her.

Surrendering RM300 for that, I guess it’s equivalent trade.

Goodbye dreams of owning the W810i within this month…. T_T 

 

As noted in my previous Welcome to… "… the freedom of choice", I am in the process of gathering the necessary monetary resources to fund my latest quest: getting a brand new Sony Ericsson W810i (refer to that post to see just how hard it is for me to decide on getting it).

I’m currently short by RM400 something, and so, to cover the rest without resorting to the (shameless) action of requesting funds from the great big bank of My-Father’s-Money (when he returns home from Turkmenistan later this month), I was forced to look for work.

I spent almost a month drifting from one food outlet to another (why food outlets? more about that later) trying to find job vacancies, to no avail. That was, until I was called up by the nearby PappaRoti outlet, on Wednesday last week.

FYI, PappaRoti is a pseudo-breadshop that sells mainly one type of bun: PappaRoti, which is a version of the ever popular "mexican" bun; which can be seen everywhere nowadays in this region. The "just-baked-and-still-piping-hot-mexican-bun-thingy" craze itself started in 1998, when RotiBoy was founded. Now, everybody’s jumped into the bandwagon. Sales are no longer as steady as they were before nowadays, though. Guess everyone’s gotten tired of the bun thingy, no wonder the catalyst of this craze, RotiBoy, had long branched out into other bread-related stuff.

Which makes me wonder how PappaRoti is going to survive in the near future. When I was there last Thursday for some impromptu training, the customer stream could be described as, well, slow.

Really slow. 

No wonder my sempai (senior) at the shop told me that things were kinda going slow lately. Add to the fact that, other then the PappaRoti bun, there weren’t that many other buns available on sale (there were, 6 other types), complemented by a soft drinks freezer and an ice cream bar.

 

Not that I’m gonna be there long enough to be concerned about the financial stability of the company. But, its just sad to see another foodstuff company that I’ve worked for fold in front of my eyes (the first place I worked at, a Long John Silver’s outlet nearby to my house, went bankrupt a few months back).

Maybe I’m just attracted somehow to low-volume foodstuff outlets, as all of the places I’ve worked at (Long John Silver’s, Secret Recipe, and the upcoming - if everything goes on well - PappaRoti) were/are all low-volume outlets. Granted, the pay is sad, but there’s not that much work involved, as well (compared to another line of work). AND you get to meet all kinds of people.

Yes, meeting all kinds of people. Working at a foodstuff outlet, low-volume or otherwise, grants you numerous chances to engage in interpersonal interaction (even more so if you’re working on the front/ service section rather then the back/production section). 

Then again, at PappaRoti, the front and the back are not distinctly seperated: as in the same person is responsible for production as he/she is for service. So, it’s a new experiance for me, a guy who had only worked as kitchen crew personnel before this.

I start work on Wednesday. 1 month period, 26 days, 12 hours per day. RM550. A bit sad, but who else wants somebody who would work for only a month on such short notice?

Now comes the conflict part. 

 
On the 28th of this very month (yes, this Sunday), I was supposed to attend her uncle’s wedding ceremony. With prior knowledge that the Boss at PappaRoti is a bit particular about the staff (and everything else, to be exact), asking for an off day 3 days after starting to work does not really leave a good impression.

Me not coming to the wedding, on the other hand, well, just feels like it’s gonna somehow leave a mark on her. 

Damn. The phone or the wedding. I hate decisions like this.