Just came back from a MBTI type psychometric session with the other newbies. The entire week has been planned out for orientation courses with 20 other new officers including a 2 day adventure learning camp in Pasir Ris. It's FWOC all over again but as a freshie! :X Don't know how that will turn out.
So anyway, we had a 3 hour session with the orientation trainer who was... ..er never mind we're gonna have him for the whole camp so shall comment later -_-. It turns out that this time (since the last time i took it during my MNO course in yr 3) I am a ENFP which stands for:
Extraverted Intuition with Introverted Feeling - or Extrovert, Intuitive, Feeling, Perception
I used to be an ENFJ, but i guess it doesnt really matter coz both my J and P results are like almost always tied. So i'm an in-between of ENFP and ENFJ.
Well we were given a booklet on all the different personality types describing how each personality is at its best, the characteristics, How others may see you, and potential areas for growth.
ENFPs are in short:
- Good at understanding how people and groups work
- Persuasive and compelling in pursuing what is important to them
- Adaptable, blooming where we are planted
- Our energy and enthusiasm encourage others to bloom as well
- Innovators, Initiating in projects and directing great energy into getting them under way.
- Value depth and authenticity in their close relationships and create and support open and honest communication
- Hate routine, schedules and structure
- Curious, creative, imaginative, spontaneous
- Warm, friendly, caring, coorperative and supportive
However, (and this part i find particularly true in recent events) - If ENFPs do not find a place where they can use their gifts and be appreciated for their contributions, they usually feel frustrated and may:
- Become scattered, have trouble focusing, be easily distracted
- Fail to follow through on decisions
- Become rebellious, excessively nonconforming
- Ignore deadlines and procedures
Well. I agree with the frustrated part at least. haha..not rebellious..yet. LOL.
Ok, i suppose this will be a fun-packed week with the camp coming up in 2 days..its time to expand my social (corporate) circle! *prays hard that my stupid 2-week old cough will go away by Thursday!!*
Very appropriately and timely, my MD posted a blog article yesterday evening on our internal site. (Yes, our comprehensive internal site has articles for internal sharing plus blogposts by senior management. Damn awesome right.)
In the post, he wrote about how he came to Singapore from KL when he was 12 and made different decisions which eventually got him to where he is now. Overall it was a very humble post.
So anyway, what he wrote struck a chord in me as it was just what i needed at this point of time - at my first job.
Here's an excerpt of it which inspired me (it's going to be reproduced in a public magazine so i figure it's ok to post it here.):
"Choice is a uniquely human condition. “The stone and the tiger have no choice of life: the stone must gravitate and the tiger must pounce. Only human beings are faced with the mind-boggling responsibility of having, at each and every moment of their lives, to choose what to do and what to be. It is both a necessity and an invitation.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset, in his essay “The Mission of the Librarian”
Life is a series of choices. Sometimes, the choice isn’t even ours to make and we can only choose to embrace the outcome (or not). We make a decision and move forward with it until we need to choose again. Each decision may be a considered and responsible choice but how they all string together is often, rather random. We can only determine the general direction that we want to walk towards.
Recognize what speaks to us. And what does not. Wherever possible, pursue our passion(s) and hopefully, become good at it. Enjoy the journey because the destination will probably look quite different from what you imagined it to be when you started. "
- Mr Beh Swan Gin
Ok, maybe it doesn't have the same inspiring effect out of context, of how he made his drastic career choice, but that's for me to remember.
Oh well. I totally agree with you MD. I'll try my best to find and pursue that passion! *determined face*
" What doesn't bore me to death, will strengthen my creativity. "
I hope. Because I sure don't want to turn out like this:
Super sad right!!!
You know, they say after 7x7=49 days the soul reincarnates after death. Well. By the end of this week, I would have officially been a part of this company for 49 days.
And i've done shit.
Omg i have so much pent-up anger stifledness cluelessness thoughts that i might implode soon.
I have not been myself these past 6 weeks and its driving me crazy.
oh god, help.
Recently, I've witnessed/read/heard a couple of things that made my heart go 'boom' and a tear collect in my eye.
2 weddings and a funeral.
A distant cousin, a really pretty senior, and of course, MM Lee's wife.
The first is nothing much to talk about but the second... ...the pictures are just so lovely!! To Jingxian: I am so happy for you! The ROM and venue looked beautiful and simply romantic! Definitely made me wanna get married haha. And you two were such a gorgeous couple.
As for our dear ol' MM, i couldn't help but tear after reading his eulogy to his wife of 47 years.
Quote exerpt: "Her last wish she shared with me was to enjoin our children to have our ashes placed together, as we were in life."
If that ain't love, i don't know what is. Theirs was a relationship matched with intelligence, trust and respect. Read whole eulogy here.
Part of my department went for the wake on Oct 4, and it so happened that my director was acquainted with the MM couple. Later in the day she shared that so close were the two of them that they were 'like clones' (or to that effect). His loneliness now must be extreme.
Ah, well..enough of other people's stories. It's Friday today! That's bf time for me since he's been operating on a alternate-sunday work week or 6 day/ 7 day week. Seriously, that company is working him (and me) to death! One precious half-day to be with the person that matters most.
I"ll leave off with a pic that feels so apt for this mood. Bye!
