Interviews and Trains

My friends' house is very, very, very far from the city. It's about 20 minutes walk to the train station and 1 hour of train ride.

I had an interview yesterday again. It turned out good. Well, at least I think I did well, I hope. There is this trick question that they asked that I found very interesting...

Interviewer: Let's play a game. In this game, we will test on how you gather and assess requirements from customer.
Me: OK... (heart beat increased 20%... stress, stress, stress)
Interviewer: Let's pretend that I'm your client and you're to gather requirements from me.
Me: OK... (Mind thinking hard about past user requirement experiences... portal... knowledge library... electronic forms... business processes... workflow... )
Interviewer: I want a cup...
Me: @_@''''' (What cup???? This requirement gathering??)
Interviewer: Yes, I want a cup...
Me: (Lotsa images of cup flashing into my mind... What he need a cup for? Cup = water/tea/coffee = drink?)
Me: Do you want something to drink?
Interviewer: Good response!!
Me: @_@''''
Interviewer: No, I don't want a drink...
Me: @_@'''' (A cup is use for drinking, rite???)
Me: Then, why you need a cup for?
Interviewer: I need the cup to stop the door...
Me: @_@'''' Can't we use the door stopper to do that?
Interviewer: Ahhh!! You responded correctly!!
Me: @_@''''
Interviewer: Clients usually do not know what they need. They thought that they needed a cup, but instead what they really need is a door stopper.
Me: (RELIEVED!)
Interviewer: Usually, the responses I get from people is that whether I want coffee or tea, or a big or a small cup. You responded correctly...
Me: Oh thank God!

Anyway, the interview went well. But I'm still not sure whether they would want to offer me a job. It seems that this month is the end of financial year, and usually companies would want to wait to the next month to reassess the headcount.

Sigh... I really hate this wait and idle state I'm in.

Anyway, I went home with a good state of mind. I try to keep myself optimistic and positive at all time. And keeping singing songs of praise to God...

Lord, you heard me, right? Please help me and guide me at all times...


Photos taken on the way back from the interview.

It was just noon. And I don't want to go back so early. I don't want to waste my train ticket to the city. So I decided to take a stroll in a shopping mall.


I found Borders!! I really love to read. I really wished that I brought along some books to read. I wanted sooooooo much to buy a book or two. But books here cost about AU$27++ (which is about RM80!!!)... Sigh, I miss reading...


Flinders Street train station...


Flinders Street train station...


My train is here!


On the way baaccccck.... Bye bye city!