The Gnomes Made Me Do It!

I am absolutely frazzled.
Work has been unrelenting and I have been working late late late the past week.
We even had to go back on Sunday for an event.
Can't seem to get enough sleep!

However! Today I got to watch Garfield and got to leave the office at 5.30! hoorah! We had a tie up with Kids Central and they kindly sponsored tickets for some kids, and, staff got to go as well.
Tomorrow, our collegue Florence is taking us to Singapore Island Country Club for lunch. Yummers! Sigh, all the madness does pay off and I am definately taking a day or two off in Sept for Theresa's trip down to Singa and Christine's wedding.

Speaking of Christine's wedding, I have taken upon the task of putting together her wedding video/picture montage. I want to put together a video, with intermittent photo display of some sort. Of course I would like to come up with a tear jerking emmy award winning 3 minute video photo montage but I know that probably won't happen.

Sieving through all the photos christine suppplied me with made me really melancholic.
I can't believe that I've known this girl since I was 4, when I was upset that she got to be a frou frou yellow flower and I was a stinky farmer with Lycra socks during our nursery graduation concert.
I also realised that we were absent in each others lives during the formative late teens and early 20s.
But, coming back to Singapore, and being able to reside on the same continent after 5 long years, we've managed to pick up where we left off, and she's still the hand I can hold when I'm 6 feet under.

I'm going to miss her, when she leaves for Melbourne with Jason for good.
Here's to Eating chicken wings in the handicap toilet, The Martin Sagas, Church choir, Sleepovers, Walking out on the first day of our waitressing job at Compass Rose...
I'm so happy you're happy


Christine and Jason '99

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it's been almost a month into the new job.
everything's been alright so far, though I really have alot to learn as I am not from a communications background.
My immediate collegues have been really sweet, well, almost all of them, making me feel really welcomed and helping this newbie settle in.
The fact that it's an all-female environment means I have to constantly watch what I say and how I behave.
I do not want to appear to be
a) An overtly friendly, annoying Eager Beaver
b) A Smart arse
c) A fence sittter with no opinions
d) A Strange girl that doesn't join anyone for lunch.

Ah yes...and whilst we are on option c). This whole LUNCHTIME thing is really a Big phenomenon!

You can't just coop yourself up in the office and not eat lunch because everyone will think you are anti-social.
Neither can you lunch alone, cause the one and only time I did...I actually had people asking me "You went for lunch alone???" in a mortified tone, which made me want to reach out and hold them close and whisper "It's alright. I'm alright, really."
WHO you lunch with is also important.
It's best to do so with your immediate department (this I agree)
Inter lunching with other departments is also acceptable, but best to be done on an ad-hoc basis.
Lunching with the boss is a BIG NO!

It's come to a point where come 12pm, I am fidgiting in my seat, wondering if Lunch would be ok today.

All things considering, I've been put in a little corner of my office so I am pretty much left to me own devices.

SIgh...
I don't want to work ah!
Can I be tai tai?

Posted by sideshowjo at 11:48 pm | Permalink | Comments

At work.
Not going away for the long weekend.
BLEAH!

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So apparently I have to conduct learning workshops among other things!
haha...
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