Coles Myer

well... have just been on the Coles Myer site. after 1 month of pressure from my parents, i have decided to apply for jobs left right and centre...
anyways... the site (http://careers.colesmyer.com/home.asp?ref=coles) is ok... but well lets just say that filling out forms online is one of the more frustrating things in life... up there with trying to decipher Eastern European Maths Lecturers at 8am in the morning ("an noe weevil dry to do ze hipothesis tezt agan wit a alfa valu of ze-ro pont ze-ro fie" *yawn*)
well so anyways i fill up my details... up to the point where they ask you to put 2 references... and all the questions have to be filled... so anyways... the first reference is easy... i put down my experience at Gelares in Yr 11-12... for the second reference... i tried to put my headmistress, and there was where i got stuck.
you see, for each reference, the form forces you to list down 3 duties performed at the organisation... so i was like... err... what did i do at school?
here's what i put down initially:
1. Study (well on occassions... i did most of it in early November 2003 if i recall correctly)
2. Sit in class and look pretty (hahaha ok, i was actually about to submit this... how sad)
3. Ensure that my education did not interfere with my learning (well, i had to try and sound intelligent after point no. 2)

well... then i thought: "i actually want this job, my parents are threatening to cut my allowance"
*sigh... blackmail*
so instead i put down Leigh Simpkins at the EDO as my 2nd reference...
then i had to determine what my role at the EDO was first...
lets see i originally put down "volunteer worker"...
but then after advice from WK hahaha does "volunteer legal assistant" sound too flashy?
and well hahaha i was very hard pressed to think of 3 things i did there...
1. photocopy cases
2. photocopy more cases
3. all of the above
hahaha no really...
at the end i settled on putting in some stuff that looked serious... so that it looked like i actually did work at the EDO, rather than sit and chat with WK and ST, and look busy when Leigh came near...
ahh well to cap this all off...
all i can say is that i really hate online forms... (i'd swear they were created by the Devil) :-P

on a more somber note... the death toll from the earthquake has already passed 60000... and will probably rise significantly... at this point... well i really hope that enough aid arrives at the areas afflicted to minimise casualties. what can i say? at this point... the words of Shakespeare in Act 5 Scene 5 of Macbeth come to mind:
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
that's so depressing it isnt funny... but well it's true up to a point...
life is ephemeral... it comes and goes with the seasons... and if this tragedy doesnt teach us anything else... it is that to live is a temporary gift... and thus to live life to the fullest (interpret this whatever way you wish to) is the best thing that you can do with God's gift.
my prayers...