interview heartache II

Don't worry Nigel. I feel your pain. I just had an internship interview with Edelman, some PR firm. Haha the cuiness of cui I must say.

There I was thinking... hmmm PR firm, so let's wear a tie & suit. Singapore weather so hot, you don't want to be wearing that all over the place. So let's go to school first, drop my things i.e. clothes hanger, bulky laptop bag, textbooks for tuition etc. Grab my suit n tie & notebook & head down to the company 30 mins early. Go in calm and composed. Perfect plan... except that at 2.15pm I'm still at home. And the interview's at 3pm. No choice, so I rushed directly there. Clothes hanger, laptop bag, textbooks & all.

Roar! Reach there, kena some construction site on the entrance & I ended up walking a huge detour round the B1 carpark (only to find out later that I entered the building from the back entrance). So here I am at the lift lobby still carrying all my shit at 2.57pm. Well I can't be carrying all my shit up there & look so freaking unprofessional. Guess what... I hid my cui stuff under the deserted security counter. Picture me looking furtively around, trying to squeeze into my suit and discretely tucking my bag under the counter.

So at 3.01pm I'm sitting in the Edelman conference room, beads of sweat trickling down my head. Glasses fogged. Can barely catch my breath. Compared to what happened before, the interview was super uneventful. Chatted with 2 chio bus.. one called Delicia... tasty :) At the end, she even said "you carry yourself very well"...

Little does she know about the clothes hanger, bulky laptop bag and pile of textbooks tuck away under the security counter :)