yes, no one cares, but

interviews: sia yesterday and mcys today. the former is for a generalist post which i have no real intention of taking (the bottom of the barrel, she is being scraped), and involved five excruciating hours of tests, including a gp type essay that i thoroughly flubbed. the interview itself was not much better. what, the woman asks me, do i think the people who were retrenched from sia felt when they heard the bad news -- to which i give the extremely eloquent reply of 'er', just because, well, what possible bearing does the question have on my employability? i left feeling a thorough wreck, the only consolation being that i did not get lost finding my way out of the free trade zone onto the ecp, although i did have to pay $7 for parking. ouch.

mcys was somewhat better. i had been fortified before hand with a semi-decent lunch (leftovers, but good ones), and promised myself time at galilee if i did well; plus, the job is actually one that is sort of interesting to me. one of the interviewers reminded me of e-ching: sunny, imperturbable and rubicund, which gave me hope that not all who stay in the civil service for years at a go are grinches and grumpy-pants. it was a first round, group-chat thing, something i manage better than one-on-ones because i tend to feed, remora-like, off my own superiority complex and own the room that way. so much for humility, but if it works, i say run with it. knock on wood, i think it went well. oh, and i did go to galilee, and would advise future customers to stay away from the "NEW" teriyaki chicken because it is synthetic and highly overpriced.