Hard Earn Living (Part 1)

Well, this post is suppose to be my Vietnam trip post and how I lost my wallet and everything there,  however, I am still waiting for photos from my dear friend, so Next Post lo..

This time, I would like to share with you all what I did for a living :)  Take a guess?? Hehe, I think people will take a look at me and guess that I'm a librarian, admin , OL, teacher etc because I look soft and gentle ??!! Well, the truth is - I AM Not what you guessed! Lol...nor I'm the gentle soft gal !

I graduated from Chemistry Major in UM, so technically Im a Chemist but I think this title is very misleading and make people thought that I am some freak scientist or something..LOL

4 years ago, during my sem break, I would came to Sg to visit my aunt and bf so I sort of browsing the newspaper for job and I came about the advertisement on hiring Lab Officer from National Environment Agency. At one look at the job description, I thought I should be able to manage so I sent my resume. After quite a long wait, I received email from the HR for an interview. When I got to Environment Building at Scotts Road, I was amazed at the big organization and nervous like hell. I remembered that my GM asked me : Do you know where Tuas and Tuas Incineration Plant at? Are you comfortable with waking up early to work?  I remembered I was silently thinking : Where the hell is Tuas? Very Ulu one r? Huh what time do I have to get up?? But I calmly replied : I roughly know the area but not the exact location of the plant and waking up early should not be a problem after I got used to it.

Finally, I managed to beat other 100 odds applicants and got the job so I googled Tuas Avenue 20 but the cursor was pointing at some blank area on the map, I was like WTH?!! So Ulu til no map ??!! I also have no any freaking idea what a Incineration Plant do and what a chemist do there... LOL, I vaguely know incinerate = burning but no idea burn what...Haha

So enough of boring history, now we go to fact. Singapore is a very small island whereby land is scarce and the weather is humid so Sg can't afford to use normal landfilling method in their approach at waste management. So Sg adopted Incineration (burning of organic waste in high temp)  of the refuse.

Yeah...I deal with rubbish everyday...I had dealt with rubbish day in and day out for 4 years... But aside from the sight and smell, there are some interesting parts of my job that is worth sharing here, in mt next post coz too long already!