May
8
Recovering!
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I am sure I had at least 4 more white hair due to the last two days of stress. I am recovering today and I could not wake up to go to the swimming pool. Rallez woke me up my two times yesterday from 7-9 pm because of the new fridge the owner is buying for us. Since I stay home most of the time, they gave me instructions. After that I stayed up until 11 pm and enjoyed the new digital channels. So many movies to watch during the evening now. I need to find a way to get the channels in my room!
It’ s funny how all little annoying events converged when I am stressed:
1. I ran out of cash yesterday
2. I forgot my bus tickets
3. I was lost
4. The stupid visa card has not arrived yet
5. I had to buy a new pair of professional shoes with my last 20 Euro bill! because the store did not have a visa card reader that can read Australian visa card type
This is why it is always recommended to avoid me when I am stressed!
May
7
Horrible night and day!
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I was so stressed out I barely slept. I woke up at 2 am after 4 hours of sleep and I could never resume it. I think I even disturbed Claire because her room is next to mine and the bed is noisy as well as the floor. So now I am completely exhausted.
The interview went very well but the position was not for me. The recruiter was still convinced I should give it a try but I kindly declined. I would have been booted out after the technical review. I spared myself a painful session. It is funny when I talk to people I usually can convince them 🙂
I got another call for an organic chemist position. Who knows?…YES I can do chemistry :! In fact I would like to have a good start and not lying or trying to fit in anything I do not like or cannot do well. I want to optimize my strength an my weaknesses. No more lies, they lead me nowhere!
On a final positive note, we have 100 digital channels today…! Weeeeeeeeeeee!
May
6
First Interview!
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Tomorrow at 2 pm with a financial recruiting company! FIRST TIME, Finally! I am so nervous! My hair is so long BUT I will not cut them. I do not have a suit though. O well! I need to calm down!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
May
6
NO vacation please!
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I really never enjoyed vacation after I left school. The last long weekend was again painfully boring. No swimming for 4 days and nothing really interesting to do. I went to an evening BBQ on Saturday, which turned out okay and on Sunday I spent the afternoon at the bookstore with Rallez. Claire was away most of the weekend with her boyfriend.
The little problems with the french bank and banks in general won’t stop until I get my visa card. Such an annoying thing! Life goes on!
I watched "August rush": IMdB: 7.5/10. It was very good. I could have seen it on the plane but I didn’t get into it.
A cool program I would recommend to extract EXIF files from pictures: exif reader Yo get all the technical info about a jpeg image using this program. No more secrets! Of course it only works on fancy SLR cameras that stores these EXIF info. Then you can be profesional and write down on your pictures like most newbies "wannabe pro" do:
Model : NIKON D200
ExposureTime : 1/40Sec
FNumber : F5.6
ISOSpeedRatings : 100
ExifVersion : 0221
ExposureBiasValue : EV0.0
MaxApertureValue : F5.7
MeteringMode : Spot
Flash : Not fired
FocalLength : 200.00(mm)
No excuses anymore for not being professional! I tried it on several FLikr photos 🙂 It works GREAT!
May
4
The Man from Earth and El Orfanato!
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Geez! I love the story, I love the characters, I enjoyed their voices, I love everything about this movie. It has been a long time! IMdB : 8.2/10 Cool huh?
I really miss old good movies with a deep story! The second excellent movie was El Orfanato. That was so good and so sad. I will never be able to watch this movie a second time but I strongly recommend it. The end tore my heart apart!
IMdB: 7.8/10
May
1
1. SG visa card to keep the cash flowing in
2. prepare Dauphine’s application
3. Answer to Monster.ie
4. Answer to Irish Jobs
5. make the CV more general maybe
6. Australian visa X-ray
3 more applications. Things have been quiet lately.
Apr
28
Monday move!
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Busy Weekend:
1. Moving the blog back locally: ptran.redirectme.net
2. Hiking and Photography Quality time: I love Bray and Howth’s Harbors, very pretty colors!
3. Fixing the Pixelpost blog: GREAT!
4. Requested a blue visa card at SG and I have not got an answer yet!
Apr
27
Bray on a Sunny Day
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Apr
26
Howth
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Full album: Here
Apr
25
One month in Dublin
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40 jobs applications
5 negative answers: in actuary because of no relevant experience
1 negative for Alcatel-Lucent: profile not corresponding to vacancy
1 contact: good background but maybe something else…Jenny
1 phone call: AIB, junior risk analyst position, still waiting for an answer since Thursday 17 phone call
1 job offer: IT help desk position… I declined without asking salary or company…next time I’ll ask for salary
Overall it is quite good for hardly 2 weeks and half of job hunt. I will try something else this weekend and be more aggressive in my strategy by sending to banks company directly and make my CV less specific and more general! I will also try the Monster.ie site, Claire and Rallez kept on telling me about it! And I might also try intellectual property and maybe some jobs in France too. Who knows!
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