I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. At work. Besides blogging.

Even Salman Rushdie said it's the greatest novel in the last fifty years. Really meh? I think it's ok lah. Or maybe it's a little bit out of my league. Sigh. All the characters kinda have the same name. Why did Senore Marquez had to have an Aureliano senior and junior and heaps of different Jose Arcadio? Surely someone who had the ability to write a couple of great literary classics would be able to think of NAMES for his characters right? Or maybe there is an underlying significance to it that I have been too obtuse to detect? Told ya it's out of my league.
I've been meaning to get Midnight's Children too. But I might just spend 30 or 40 bucks on it only to ditch it after 5 pages, adding on to the stack of half-read books I have. People who have read it, please tell me what you think or, even better, loan me the book!


Anyhow, living in KL is really not cheap. Ok, living comfortably in my standards that is. Especially not when your starting pay is RM2000 and you don't live with your parents. How now, brown cow? The good thing is, you're only required to pay tax when your personal income is above RM2500.

Well, according to this blogger, Zewt, where the applicants live could be a deal breaker for some employers(I'm referring to the accounting industry but it could be anywhere). Employing someone who lives in Tropicana or Damansara Heights is almost out of the question. So the ulu-er your place of origin, the higher your chances of getting that job. Which basically means the ulu-er one's place of origin, the harder one's willing to slog.

Hmm... mayyyyyybe. But it's not as if you don't know how things work in this country. It's not WHAT you know but WHO you know. Again, it's not a one rule fits all thing but you cannot deny that it's a pretty standard practice over here in our lovely home country.

I'm not trying to put Singapore and Australia on a pedestal but the truth speaks for itself. Only because I've lived in this 2 countries so I dare comment. That's where you start on a clean slate and get judged based on your competency level. But for someone as mediocre as I am, I probably fit in no where.

So how now, brown cow?? Marry rich and forget about slogging away for someone else? It's such a cliche answer I sometimes cringe when I hear it. It's nothing personal. I've said this a lot in the past too.

Then how?? No use fretting around I guess. Just put your trust in Him who provides at the right time and place. Only God knows what my calling in life is and how the future awaits. Now, responding to and waiting for Him especially when your head is protesting, is not easy.

Heb 11:1 , Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
and Heb 11:40, God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

This pretty much sums up what I was gonna say in the paragraph above. So, read the bible, it's useful!

♥ me for who
I am