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Friday, February 28, 2003
My Daddy phoned me last night. Yay!
Its been 3 whole weeks since I heard his voice. I've gotten used to not having him and mum around. But after that call, I started missing them again.
Just another 10 more days til they return.
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Thursday, February 27, 2003
I am: fluffy, pink bunny-wabbit slippers.
My boss is: hard-edged, black-leather briefcase.
We clash instead of complementing each other.
He says things like:
"Amy is... different... new and fresh..."
"You're so idealistic, to me the bottom line is the most important thing."
And during lunch today, we had this exchange:
He: Can you feel it?
Me: Yes, it's the Dark Side!
He: It's the winds of change...
When I lose my wide-eyed innocence and become cynical and jaded, it'll be all thanks to him. I can feel his influence already.
Must...resist...the...Dark...Side...
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Monday, February 17, 2003
Happy 1st birthday to inthemood.blogspot.com!
I am snowed in with work today, so can't blog.
Amy stressed...
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Sunday, February 16, 2003
Happy 2nd birthday to my Nokia3310!
Athena was the official 'protector' of my secondary school. We had a life-sized statue of her surrounded by a pond/fountain thingy next to one of our main gates. As each of us filed into school, we would look upon her and were supposed to be 'inspired' by her wisdom, etc...
Our greek-mania even extended to our school song, which opened with: "From High Olympus flows to us the glory/ On us the sacred fire descends...".
I'll let you make your own conclusions.
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Friday, February 14, 2003
Happy Valentine's Day!
This morning at 8bloodyam at the MRT station, there was a girl selling roses. Isn't that just too early???
How’s this for originality? Instead of the normal card and rose, I gave my boss Streats newspaper and pandan leaves. He was really happy with both. Happy enough to buy me lunch! Yay, me!
I was gonna explain about the pandan, but the Big Boss just asked us to stop work and “lao yu sheng”. Is that how it’s spelled? Later, then.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003
I’m rather isolated at work due to my seating arrangement and job nature.
Just outside my office, the IT department sits in a cluster of cubicles that face each other. I often overhear them discussing code or cracking jokes with one another. Meanwhile, the manager and his PA share an office to my right. In the left wing, is the office that my boss shares with another executive. I sit alone in my spacious corner office.
Due to my work nature, I liaise exclusively with my boss, whose office is two doors down. We usually communicate via email, MSN messenger or telephone. Everybody else is really busy so they do not drop by to chat. Besides, there are a lot of confidential items in my office, so they are discouraged from entering in the first place. I keep my door wide open so that I can at least see other human beings. But each time my boss drops in or passes by my office, he closes the door. ‘For security reasons’, he explains.
I am not unduly unhappy with this arrangement as it gives me the freedom to skive. But I am worried about not being accepted as part of the team. It is difficult enough being ‘the new girl’; this isolation is really not helping.
There are people from China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore on the staff. And the only language that everybody understands is not English but Mandarin!!! So add language barrier to physical isolation. (Though I can see why they hired me- they needed somebody proficient in English to handle paperwork.)
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Tuesday, February 11, 2003
I was sad just now. So sad I almost cried in the office. I did not want to break down in the middle of Bukit Merah Central, so I decided to take a detour and walk past the now-abandoned HBD office complex. There was no one else along this route, and I managed to calm down and pull myself together. I realised that there is no possible way that I was the most miserable person in existence. It also occurred to me that all I needed was perspective.
So I decided to get some perspective by checking out some blogs and websites. And I do feel a whole lot better! My problems are so simple in comparison with what is going on in the world today. Furthermore, my handphone is now flashing the words "message folder almost full". Which goes to show that I have a lot of messages, which means that many people are thinking about me. So, no matter how bad things may seem, I still have people who care about me.And when you have the love and support of friends and family, you can cope with anything!
Perspective... what a wonderful thing it is!
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Friday, February 07, 2003
My parents left the country last night (0030 actually) so today's my first day home alone. If everybody, and by this I mean my relatives, hadn't made such a big fuss over it, I wouldn't have been so worked up. Sigh...0 comments
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