Full Name: Mark Tan Wen Min
Age: 18
Gender: Male
DOB: 27 March 1992
Faith: Baptist(Christianity)
Church: Faith Community Baptist Church
Graduated from: St Andrew's Jr Sch, Jurongville Sec Sch
School: Nanyang Polytechnic, School of Chemical and Life Science
Course: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Class: PS1003
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
It was work again yesterday.
Despite the weight of my body, I managed to get up on time. I find the job becoming increasingly meaningful; I got to understand different kinds of people. For example, the China immigrants that came to Singapore to work. They are my colleagues. Next, from Bangladesh. They are my customers. The adults; my target of convince. The children; my assistant promoters.
There were very few workers that came from other department, and there is only me and the other China colleague, so it was hard to really build rapport with people from other departments. Through borrowing of items such as screwdrivers and batteries from the furniture and electronic departments respectively, I build another few rapport with these people.
I was glad there weren't any backstabbing or politics in this workplace. Perhaps there were not enough promoters to play me out.
The China colleagues there are very self-disciplined; they do not go about chit-chatting during work-time despite coming from the same country. The first few days of my work was terrifying as I thought to myself: I have to speak, talk, and force myself to think in Chinese for the next 1month of work. However, I was grateful that Singapore's education enabled me to be to a certain extent, bilingual. I became the translator on behalf of my China colleagues. At least I understood mandrin. I am not a mandrin-dummy. =)
After going to dinner with my China colleagues, I gradually understood their motive of coming to Singapore, that is, to be the sole breadwinner of their homes. I really respect their nobility, and also their dignity of working the hard way rather than illegal operations that is of higher pay.
Life has many paths. Which way do you choose? The easy-way-out? Nome. The most secure and down-to-earth path is through hard work. If you have worked hard in the earlier years of your life by studying hard, you can get a higher pay in your job's salary with the pay-off of your hard work. Even if you have made the wrong decisions, start working on foundations, not on the clouds. Hard work is life's best option to success, to living.
Mark Tan at 9:56 AM
