My Digital World

I stayed in Rotterdam two weeks ago, because I promised Jok and SiuMei to take pics of them to hang on the living room of their new house. My week started at my last day at Albumprinter. The working environment turned out very cool. The laugh is reduced, the motivation to work seriously is totally gone for me and my colleague Erik, since I am fired on that day and Erik's contract will not be extended in August.

Rudy, Tantra and me were going for Dim Sum that day. It was our last lunch together. I liked to eat with my team. We talk, we eat and we laugh. In the future, I don't know if we can have regular eating-outing like this. But at least, I have their contacts. So, I will be the organiser again.

Since I lost my part-time job and since the Dutch government will not support me anymore for studying, I need to find a part-time job to keep money flowing in my pocket. I cannot count on my photography business, since my biz is just at the starting phase, which means that I cannot garantee myself for 3 meals a day.

I applied some applications. For all of them, I get a job interview. The weirdest thing is that two of the interviews are somehow cancelled without letting me know. They didn't send me an e-mail at all to inform me that I did not need to come. So, they waste my time and let me circle around the building without having a clue what to do. The last job interview was today. It was about being a teacher at the Secondary School in Rotterdam, which I really like to do. During the interview, the school says that I am over-qualified. They said, they will test the candits for their knowledge etc. but since they think I am over-qualified person, I do not need to do that test. Being a perfect candit does not mean that you are the one they are looking for, since they can use that excuse to drop you out of the game, since you are "too good". Although, I did encounter this, but from my friends' stories, I know that this world is sometimes really weird.

Okay, that was about jon hunting. Again, I was very busy with my business. I went to many places in The Netherlands to check out their products and I am looking for co-operation. As what I expected, the photo-album that satisfy my standard, is very expensive. Their staring price (with only basic page, without any nice decorations on the pages etc) cost me 125euro. On top of that, I need to print large pics, like A3 size, which each page will cost 4-5euro. The photo-album has 40 or 80 pages, so you can do the Math to see what my cost is. Don't forget to include the photopaper which is around 1euro+ per page.

Because this all costs me too much, I am considering to print the pics by myself. I have a professional printer: Epson Styles Pro 4000. I did some calculations of the costs. It is cheaper, but it is not that cheap that I can fully do the print service by myself. Therefore, I find another way to save my cost. Via Zhoaduan, I get contact with a Chinese manufacture in photo-album. I will do the price comparison. Hopefully, this will give me the best solution.

This week, I finally can go to Kannai to give them the software that we made for about one year ago. They were not excited to see the software, since we promised them to give them one year ago. I had a tough talk, but I did survive. My business partners see me as the talkative guy, although I did not like to talk. I prefer to be a listener.

Today, my canteengirl starts chatting with me. This is the second time that she took the first step. The chat was the best of all other conservations before. Maybe because we talked about camera stuff, which she is far more interested in than my stupid jokes. On her msn, she didn't change her profile pic anymore after she puts the pic I took a while back. I am happy she likes it so much, since in the past she regularly changes pics as I do.