I lost count of my days off friendster, actually I didn't think of logging in anymore since my last effort trying to upload a photo to my blog there. I failed, the reason given was 'you had uploaded 60 photos this month, the limit is 50' !!! The fact was I didn't even login for one whole month, How silly!
Last two weeks has been busy, Ma's Birthday , classes, project work, presentation, interview, psychomatic test, reunion with ex colleague and college friend, parties with classmates, hosting a visitor from Germany (not a happy ending on this one, we kicked him out of the house on Monday)
The week after my tasting trip we started MK611 class and I finally met Isaree's boss for a discussion about an opportunity at her company. Interesting thing was he agreed to come meet me after my class, and he came all the way to RachDamnern to meet me at 10pm! The following week he asked me to come to the office for the second round of interview, while I was wondering what was left to discuss in this round, it turned out that he just wanted his uncle who just flew in from UK to talk to me. The uncle asked me to take the psychomatic test he uses for recruiting at his own company and I didn't see it's a problem. I didn't hear from them for 3 days since I took the test so I asked Isaree what was going on. She got the information for me on the next day, the test result said I was intelligent (very--according to the test) but I am not flexible, so the uncle didn't agree to hire me. If you ask me, that test was a piece of crap. The IQ portion of the test was very limited, like 15 questions. The EQ portion was full of invalid questions and the pre-selected answers were mixed up. But, well, who i am to know better than those psychologist designing the test to read people personalities.
Class for the first half of MK611 ended on Monday night, we had a farewell party for the professor at Mayom Puri in Soi Khao Sarn. I gave a few mates a ride to the restaurant and Goffy commented that my car was such a mess. The party was cool, actually I believe I enjoyed the party more because I've earned more respects from my classmates through a couple of recent events. First was the project presentation where I appeared in the roleplay (it was my idea to have a short skit in the middle of presentation, original actors left it to me to write the script-promising they would act whatever I wrote, after I showed them the script, the actress suddenly lost her voice and we needed to swap roles...you get the idea) and my performance was hillarious, a side of me they never seen. The other incident was among the 2 syndicate groups while we went for a karaoke outing together last Sunday, finally they realized who the boss is!
Since Monday, I have been going out every day. Dim Sum lunch with Kaori followed by a job talk with ISS team on Tuesday, Sashimi lunch on Wednesday, Helping a classmate at tourism exhibition on Thursday (plus dinner date with my study group). In between these activities, I've been reading, some of Murakami series, a Franz Kafka and a few fictions.
I started Murakami's with 'Kafka on the shore', then I loan 'South of the border, West of the Sun' from a library. After that I borrow another 7 books from a friend and I've read 'Hear the wind sing', 'Norwegian Wood', "Hard Boiled Wonderland' and I just finished 'A Wild Sheep Chase' today. The lender insisted that Norwegian Wood is the best but I disagree. To me, that book is the most boring of the series so far. I'm fine with 'hear the wind sing' and I really like 'Wonderland' and 'Sheep chase'. But the best in my mind's still Kafka on the shore.
I also got a hold of the real 'Kafka' work from the library, the book's titled 'Metamorphosis'. I love his style, no rush, simple yet powerful choice of words. In the silence of the story I could feel the universe was stretching. One thing I wonder was why it's called 'Metamorphosis' as that term supposed for the 4-stage of morphing... like in mosquito's life cycle. But Gregor, the main character in this story just went through 1 transformation overnight. I think Kafka use this morphing as a metaphor, Gregor's change from a human being to a giant bug is an obvious transformation, but in reality, the changes in our lives usually are not as obvious. I have the chance to conceal the changes in my ways of thinking, my belief, my sense of what is right and what is wrong. When I choose to conceal them, people around me don't have the same chance as Gregor's family to realize that I am not the same person they had known. When Gregor realized that his new form was not welcome by his loved ones, he didn't have to do anything. His new form enable him to be able to starve to death effortlessly. In my case, I just couldn't make it happen.
Oh, I also lost my 'small talk' on Wednesday. I guess I droped it somewhere in the library as I remember seeing it when I was inside, but I couldn't find it when I got back to the car. I went back to my desk but it wasn't there. I went back again on Thursday and checked with the staff for lost&found but no one reported my smalltalk! That's a very sad ending, I'm foreced to part with my lifesafer-- from now on I have to go back to my dull life inwhich I can't chat while driving.
