Best part about last Monday:
REMARKS: ORDER-IN-TERMS. ATTENDANCE IS DISPENSED WITH
(i.e. no need to go court take queue number and wait very, very, very long just to see the AR for, oh, less than 10 minutes)
Worst part about last Monday:
Being snubbed by the mee tai mak auntie again when I brought my trusty eco-friendly container and got in the queue at her stall. Really, I believe she has something against my eco-friendly container.
Study so hard for what right, still cannot get what you want to eat for lunch.
***
In other news, I'm less bright-eyed and bushy tailed than I was when I first started this job (which explains the lack of posts), but I'm doing alright I guess. I just wish there was more time for everything, especially sleeping, watching TV, watching movies with Jon.
I will miss these days - the talking nonsense with D1 day in day out (which reminds me alot of JC with Jon Wrong and Bryan and Quents et al except that it is really day in day out) - like I told him, macham JC lah talk alot and work very hard but everything still very fun; talking nonsense with ON, with my good and faithful secretary, the smell of a cup of tea with just one teaspoon of condensed milk (22 calories). Still being relatively care-free.
We're moving soon, and D1 won't be sitting in the room next to ON and me anymore. We'll also be on a different floor from the Ps and JdS, and in a different building from D2. I'm not sure how this will change things. The only thing I'm sure of is that I will, perhaps, be more efficient in the day.
***
For the first time in what feels like months (it has been months, about two months I think) Jon and I managed to leave the office at 7:30 p.m. on a Friday night. It felt really good being out when the shops and restaurants were still crowded, actually seeing peple we knew around town. Being able to have a decent conversation without feeling like we were going to nod off to sleep while talking to each other, therefore being able to talk properly about the Things That Matter.
Not having to go for dinner at Hong Kong Cafe because it's the only thing still open which serves decent Chinese food at 10 p.m. Actually being able to take a bus home.
I love taking the bus, when I can get a seat; don't you think the feeling of being on a bus and knowing you have nothing pressing and you can get caught in all the traffic jams you want is Simply Awesome? It's liberating, really, having time to just do nothing at all.
I don't know what it is in Singaporean culture which makes people feel they have to work so darned hard.
***
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows
REMARKS: ORDER-IN-TERMS. ATTENDANCE IS DISPENSED WITH
(i.e. no need to go court take queue number and wait very, very, very long just to see the AR for, oh, less than 10 minutes)
Worst part about last Monday:
Being snubbed by the mee tai mak auntie again when I brought my trusty eco-friendly container and got in the queue at her stall. Really, I believe she has something against my eco-friendly container.
Study so hard for what right, still cannot get what you want to eat for lunch.
***
In other news, I'm less bright-eyed and bushy tailed than I was when I first started this job (which explains the lack of posts), but I'm doing alright I guess. I just wish there was more time for everything, especially sleeping, watching TV, watching movies with Jon.
I will miss these days - the talking nonsense with D1 day in day out (which reminds me alot of JC with Jon Wrong and Bryan and Quents et al except that it is really day in day out) - like I told him, macham JC lah talk alot and work very hard but everything still very fun; talking nonsense with ON, with my good and faithful secretary, the smell of a cup of tea with just one teaspoon of condensed milk (22 calories). Still being relatively care-free.
We're moving soon, and D1 won't be sitting in the room next to ON and me anymore. We'll also be on a different floor from the Ps and JdS, and in a different building from D2. I'm not sure how this will change things. The only thing I'm sure of is that I will, perhaps, be more efficient in the day.
***
For the first time in what feels like months (it has been months, about two months I think) Jon and I managed to leave the office at 7:30 p.m. on a Friday night. It felt really good being out when the shops and restaurants were still crowded, actually seeing peple we knew around town. Being able to have a decent conversation without feeling like we were going to nod off to sleep while talking to each other, therefore being able to talk properly about the Things That Matter.
Not having to go for dinner at Hong Kong Cafe because it's the only thing still open which serves decent Chinese food at 10 p.m. Actually being able to take a bus home.
I love taking the bus, when I can get a seat; don't you think the feeling of being on a bus and knowing you have nothing pressing and you can get caught in all the traffic jams you want is Simply Awesome? It's liberating, really, having time to just do nothing at all.
I don't know what it is in Singaporean culture which makes people feel they have to work so darned hard.
***
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
- Leisure, by W.H. Davies
