Mood: Meh 
Vaping: Vozol 12000 Puffs Cool Mint
Drinking: Sunquick Orange Squash
Weather: 28°C, Clear
Location: Mont Fleuri, Mahe, Seychelles
I took a whole week off doing absolutely nothing but watching the Filipino telenovela. I watched it from episode 1 to about 85, and then I skipped all the way to episode 360 and watched it to the end (episode 373). It was such a good series, but I’m just not the type to spend all day watching telenovelas. I can’t really do that. It gives me such anxiety and I get desperate to know how it ends, especially because there’s a lot of back and forth. I watched it all week because I was sick with some sort of flu, its progression was very slow but then the phlegm came along a for about 3 days now I’ve felt a whole lot better but I’m still trying to get rid of phlegm by blowing my nose. I went from clear to one day being yellow, and now it’s clear but sometimes white. I also skipped a whole week of Tagalog classes, I will resume this Tuesday.
I had scheduled an interview with a potential new employee (supervisor) for yesterday afternoon at 1pm. This lady who was above 35 years old came by the shop at around 11am when we were still open to customers, trying to see if we would be open to her having the interview then and there because she wouldn’t be able to make the 1pm appointment due to “transportation problems”. What does that even mean? Honestly, the job was hers if she wanted to – she would have started on Monday. But her stupid reason was just not good enough. If she had called to reschedule, we would probably have agreed to it. If she had emailed, whatsapp or texted us to reschedule, we would have probably rescheduled. But she literally came unannounced, with a ridiculous reason. Who in their right mind would not attend a job interview? Someone who isn’t desperate for a job!
If I had a job interview lined up, I would have taken the bus. I don’t know how to react to this. Am I being unreasonable? Perhaps she got a lift to town and wouldn’t be able to go back home because she didn’t have enough money for the bus, and she could only get a lift back home through someone who was working in town? Because at the moment I’m only assuming that “transportation problem” meant that her car broke down. Am I not dealing with someone who has a car? Perhaps I no longer live in a world where people have no money for even their bus fare? Did she not have any money to text or email either? Did she have no money for data, to send us a message on Facebook? Does she deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt? The problem with a 35+ person with excuses is that excuses is no longer their habit – but a lifestyle. She has excellent references from her previous employers, everyone mentioning her courteousness (which is a big deal for me after having to deal with a whole bunch of Gen Zers).
At this point I think the way forward would be to get an A’Level student to hold the fort until after Christmas, and then we can revisit employing a permanent staff. At this point I would just much rather hire an expatriate. I don’t want to keep having to come back to the process of hiring a new employee every other month.
I’ve been slowly getting back into building websites (my own). I am building 2 ecommerce websites, and the others will have content only, until I figure out the best way to proceed in monetizing them. I also want to build a community, it would be great to have a dating site because let’s face it – when will trying to find a partner ever end? Never. But how in the heck does one promote it. I’ve always wondered about that. It’s easy to promote it when there are enough people already in it, but how does one even begin? Who would join a site that nobody’s in? I remember we tried building one ages ago and there were locals who were joining it. But then we encountered a problem with the purchased software and we never really bothered trying to recover after that. It was a fun experience though! But Seychelles is far to small a country to properly profit from extreme niches. Unless the business is an in-person type of experience, you wouldn’t have enough people joining a dating site enough to make a proper business out of it I believe. So my target market would never be limited to just Seychelles.
Visited my mother earlier. Hadn’t seen her for about 2 weeks because I didn’t want her to catch whatever it was I had. I also kept my distance today while sitting outside in her balcony just in case I’m still contagious. My older sister’s got 2 dogs that I want to visit this week. I want to give them some treats and hopefully get them to know me well. The last time I met them, one of them was growling at the sight of me and my twin sister. I need to be their favourite aunt!
There was a superyacht docked right in front of my mother’s balcony earlier, called “Mar”. I don’t know if this is the one. But I took a picture of it:
Apparently, it costs 1.8 million Euros to rent this yacht for 1 week. Eek! I saw a bunch of skinny white people exiting the yacht, heading for Boardwalk of The Maharajas. They looked like they’re from the same family, like young 40 year-old parents accompanies by young adults in their early to mid-20s. They were dressed simply, so I would assume these characteristics are that of generational wealth.
Thyl is calling me to sleep so I gtg.