Monday, April 24, 2006
, 9:24 PM
Today was helluva tough day. Why? Well, cuz the workload wasn't evenly distributed across the entire day. So I ended up having to slack throughout the first half of the day( before lunch) and rushing against time to complete my work at the second half( after lunch) of the day. It isn't that I don't enjoy slacking around in the office, reading my book and chatting with Ziqin, but imagine having to do this while Darth Vader (he's the boss) is prowling ard the premises. It just feels so darn uncomfortable, like you're doing something illegal though it really isn't? Haha.
To make matters worse, just when I needed time to be on my side since I gotta complete 100 Tiger Airways Visa forms, that darn system was so freaking slow! Alas, it hanged. Not once folks, but twice! I even managed to finish like 60 pgs of my book? LOL. Seriously, I really think they should like declare the 24th of April PowerLender System Down Day. Darth Vader asked me to go to the office ta talk about some stuff, my stomach did a double take when I heard that. If ya gonna see the Boss, it can only le on two extremes, either you did really bad or you dd exceptionally well. Well, as it turned out, it was kinda both I guess. He said that my speed was really good and commented how focused and diligent I was( really? Hey it's been 18 yrs and I didn't think I'd ever fit this description!). Then came the not-so-good news... Well, I wasn't sacked if that's what ya thinking. Haha. He pointed out the errors to me and said I could improve on them, to bring both speed & accuracy to an optimum balance. LOL.
Then we sorta engaged in a lil chat. He asked me what course I had opted for in Uni, and I told him Psychology, thing is I left out the fact that I should have gotten an admission letter by now IF i was successful, at this rate I dun think it's ever gonna happen. So he suggested that maybe I could do like a field study in the office, do a character profiling of my colleagues. Character profiling? Nice try. Was that his idea of a joke? Hah beats me. But I learned a lil something bout Darth Vader, beneath his tough and should I say stoic exterior, deep within, he's still human after all. He told me that he went to seek help from a psychologist in 2001 when he felt really stressed and stuff, and went on about how it helps thru breathing excercises, how oxygen goes to your brain n every other organ in ya body. Hmmm... after bout 5 or 10 mins, I was eventually 'released'. Well, after this conversation, I dun really dislike him as much. Hmmm will continue to put him under probation.
The people in our office are really nice and friendly. Though there's this girl called Nur who's kinda chatty, she's always talking about new recipes, and discussed about how sweet or not-so-sweet a particular cake is, it doesn't really help to ease our hunger, at all. Then there's this lady Joyce, she's a lil paranoid and ll always ask you how many errors she made and stuff, it's as if she's worried that pple might sabo her by faking the no. of errors she made ( which happens to be a lot on a bad day). Hmmm, there're MANY ah peks in my office, there're 2 who're really cute! One looks uber dorky, ad the other..hmmm looks really grandfatherly and always come to the table opp me to discuss bout work( not forgetting gossip) in Cantonese.
Haha, the office is an interesting place to be in. There're all kinds of pple in ere. This is the best place to see grown women giggle and ahem flirt ard like they were back in the good old days. Haha. Hey and you think that only the ladies gossip, you're in fer a rude shock. Step inside, and ya can see grown and elderly man alike gossiping abouth this colleague and that colleague. LOL. Who ever says that the office is a borin place should really come join us. We even have the occassional party to celebrate monthly birthdays, where there's FREE food! YUMMY!
I really love the FREE vending machine ere too! All you hafta do is punch in a code 33** and viola! An endless supply of free drinks. Kudos to this!!!
Wooh. Anyway, tough day or not-so-tough day, it's fine cuz I get to recharge my batteries after a night's rest. But sometimes I feel like a clockwork machine, operating under the same routine day in day out. It does get to me sometimes, can you imagine how mundane our lives really are!?! Hence I've compiled a list of things I wanna do before I grow old and 'tamed' by reality.
Sky diving (tandem diving so I'm attached to a pro)
Whitewater rafting
Create something of my own (haven't decide what it's gonna be)
Globe trotting
Learn a new language
Well, it isn't much but it's a start, isn't it?
Overall, I guess today wasn't tt bad after all since Liverpool won against Chelsea!!! Haha, get well soon Shirl! Come back tml and eat something decadent! Shim jiayou for QET! Ya can do it, it's in you all u gotta do is tap into ya potential yeah?
