Sunday, June 29, 2008

and now....to where?

it has been a rather eventful week this week....

the wallabies beat the french... spain and germany won their games to meet in the euro 2008 final tonight.... the bulldogs totally sucked against a sucky roosters reserve side... hewitt will play federer at wimbledon, while ivanovic and djokavic both lost....

... and on a personal note, i had a major confrontation with my boss this week about our working visas.....

so the general behind story is that due to the Beijing 2008 olympics, the chinese govt are restricting who gets visas to stay in china.... since february, they were reluctant to give any foreigners a new visa to be in china.... unless u bribed the right people....

and now, not even bribes will work.... and ZERO number of foreigners will be able to renew their visas in china....

well.... so its not my boss's fault that its hard to get our visas... but we did actually have an opportunity to do the right/legal thing and get our visas properly a couple of months ago... instead, our boss felt that the CORRECT method was too expensive... so he chose to look for a cheaper/illegal alternative....

now im in the situation with the other foreign teachers where our visas will expire BEFORE our olympic tickets.... so our boss has decided to pay for all of us to go down to Hong Kong and renew our visas and return to china..... well... the last time i checked blogs and forums online, people couldnt get mainland chinese visas from hong kong too.... u had to go back to ur home country....

and the other stupid thing that really pissed me off is that, our boss said that he will pay for our trip to Hong Kong... instead, that will be our week vacation for the summer... which means that we wont get a week off during the olympics.... which means... we cant goto beijing and watch the events we have tickets for.....

ummmm.... i dont think so..... im going to the olympics no matter what.... and if he says no... well, im willing to quit my job to go to beijing in august.....

so that was the confrontation..... the canadian guy, and the irish guy also said, we're going to the olympics no matter what.... so..... i guess the boss is going to need to give in for this one.... i mean... there wouldnt be any problem, and we wouldnt need to goto Hong Kong if he hadn't f**ked around with our work visas for half a year!

anyways.... my contract finishes next week too... well... on July 8th.... and the boss is expecting me to be "korean" about it and just keep working long term without a contract.... actually thats fine for me... coz i dont want to be tied down on another contract... i'll just work until i feel like leaving.... but i still want my 10,000RMB bonus for completing this contract.....

and if i dont get that money.... well THEN..... im going to have to start kicking some admin arses~!!! hahaha.....

SHOW ME THE MONEY~~~~!!!

p.s. i think spain will win 3-1 tonight..... haha

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