Random events

It's the weekend but hubby's working today (Sunday) so it doesn't really feel like it's the weekend. We were able to go do some window shopping yesterday but the weather was so horrible that I didn't really enjoy the outing. It was cloudy, it was cold and at one point, we were pelted with a hailstorm. Poor hubby had bits of ice dropping into his clothing through the opening at the neck. One hit his ear and it stung for quite a bit. Horrible..horrible weather. Just as I thought the weekend weather was going to continue being crappy, the sun came shining out on Sunday morning. What horrible luck for hubby to have to go in to work on such a fantastic weather-day. I ended up going out alone and getting some things for the home. Oh, and I bought a new suit too. The other day during the career fair, I managed to secure an interview with one of the companies. I'm ecstatic! Some of us 'chosen ones' were asked to attend a casual dinner the evening of the career fair and I found out that only 5 of us were chosen for an interview from our university! Man, who wouldn't be happy? The only thing is though there are many stages of the interview process and well, this was only one of many hurdles that all potential candidates have to go through. I just hope I get through the next phase at least - the test phase.

Anyway, besides the one good opportunity from this company for the interview, the other 15 company reps I talked to didn't seem too eager to hire anyone. Other than giving my resume to them and hearing the same "I'll forward this to our HR department", there wasn't much to look froward to. Some companies weren't even looking to hire graduate students! What's so special about undergraduate students compared to graduate students anyway? I was about to give up and just leave. I'm glad I left with at least one opportunity for an interview.

So today I went suit hunting for the interview. I had worn the only other professional suit to the career fair and also to the casual dinner hosted by that company. So of course I have to wear a different suit to the interview. Can you believe how hard it is to look for a suit for someone who's 5 ft 2 over here where everyone's supposedly obese and tall?! It was so horrible. I went to a department store that has petite sizes, but they didn't have small petite sizes so the pants were too big even if the length was just nice and the suit jackets were to flabby. Then I went to a really nice store where I knew would have my size, but it turns out that they don'tt carry the petite line for suits in their store. They had casual wear in petite size, but not suits. Blurgh! Finally I went to a store that I saved for last coz the suits tend to be more on the trendy side. But the store layout was so stupid. The suit tops would be hung on the rack and the matching pants would be folded in a different section of the store. And because they carry so many patterns of pants, it was so hard to find the matching pants for the suit top. On top of that, there was only one suit top for every size. And because I'm a size 2, and everyone else here is a size 2 too, I couldn't find myself a suit top! I finally found one, the store assistant found the matching pants after scouting all over, both top and bottom fit well and I was already at the counter about to pay for it when I realized that the pants and top didn't match! There were double stripes on the pants but single stripes on the top. Should've looked at the expression on the store assistant's face ok. She seemed to flustered. We finally found a solid black pantsuit that matched and came in my size, but I was just dissapointed that the store assistants couldn't be more competent. The last time I went to the store the same thing happened. I was looking for a suit and the store assistant kept insisting that I could wear this one pants with a suit top. It was so obvious that it didn't match but because both top and bottom had stripes on it, she kept saying it matched. Yesterday a person at the cash register insisted that she had made sure that the items we bought were discounted but we had to point out to her that if you do the math, the discount was not given to us. Luckily hubby was paying attention to the numbers. My mind was elsewhere and I would've just paid the cashier without any questions. Tsk..tsk..

Oh, did you know that you could get on the reservation list at T0y$ R U$ to get the PS3 when it comes out in Nov? Hubby found out and quickly asked me to go get on the list. But by the time I got there, they had no more space on the list. I saw some signs outside the store which directed how one should line up for the reservation list. I think some people probably started lining up really early in the morning. I wouldn't be suprised if people slept outside the store to be first in line!

Anyway, I have tons of homework to do and tons of laundry to fold. I also need to cook. Am hoping to get everything done by tonight before leaving for a birthday party of a friend.