Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Been sometime since I last posted. Boy, things are sure monotonous these days. Really miss those days where you can just sit around somewhere and just talk about anything and everything with friends.
Work hasn't been very nice of late. Apart from the increasing workload (for some reason or another), I get a taste of office politics. It really is very unpleasant when someone in the workplace picks on you and reports you to your superior even though you know you have done nothing wrong. In the end you are forced to apologize to that person for some wrong you actually haven't committed. That just happened to me today, and I don't think I'm very happy with it. It takes alot to swallow the humble pie and even though I've done it and things are resolved (or at least they look resolved and calm on the surface), there's that bitter after taste left in you.
On the plus side I'm actually very happy my department has a specially catered recreational 'club' of sorts for us to use at no extra cost at all. Of course it's not exactly a club since you don't need to register or pay to get in. It's just an entitlement to everyone working in my department. The club's located in a nice place, complete with trees and landed property. I think I'm starting to fall in love with that place because it's just so secluded and so few people actually go there, such that there's that stillness there. Exactly what I want from my future home anyway, away from all the hustle and bustle of urban life yet at the same time easily accessible. I used the gym there, yeah, it's decent sized, but of course no way as large as ACJC's one. I think that gym's gotta be the largest one in Singapore anyway.
Went for a run also, pretty tiring and a sign that I haven't ran ever since the day before I enlisted, which was, on the 24 of January. Maybe this will get me doing some running and jogging again, heh.
After that it was a long long ride home from where we came from. Saw some JC students on the bus. That, and the bad events in the day, put me into a pensive mode, thinking of life, the past, the future, and of course about today. I always ask myself when someone has done something bad to me. Have I done something wrong myself in the first place? Why do I always feel so strongly whenever these kind of things happen? Do I have too much pride? Do I want to impress people every time? Or is it something else, something deeper that makes me unable to fathom it at this point in time. I hope I can find the answer to that, and the answer to my emotions soon.
On a brighter side, after I changed bus along the way to 106, it was packed! Someone caught my attention though. It was this girl from ACJC. Most likely J1 this year, because I haven't seen her throughout the whole of last year when I take 106 to college. One glance and I found her pretty cute. Of course, that piqued my interest because that's my junior, and a cute one to boot. Unfortunately the bus was rather packed and there was a guy blocking her throughout most of the ride so I couldn't get a good look at her face. Eventually though I got the chance, the guy alighted the bus (yay!) and I was standing beside her. Got a good look at her and I'd say my judgement was pretty accurate, she's cute. Cute looks + petite size was all that was needed to fulfil that criteria anyway. Eventually she sat down with me standing near her, and the file on her hand was on her lap, so I managed to see her name, Valentina. (I can see Wesley with an evil grin of sorts now.) Too bad she wasn't my junior by one year or the same age as me. Grrr.
Ah well, that's about it for today. Tomorrow's Wednesday, and I doubt I'll be staying up to watch Manchester Utd against Barcelona. Though I'm rooting for Barca. Go Barca! I'd be content as long as Man U doesn't win, heheh. And beyond that, Thursday's a holiday so there's more reason to go to work tomorrow, though I don't like the prospect of going to work at the moment. I hope and pray that things turn better tomorrow, and I'll treat today as a lessoned learned:
Be more careful when interacting with others, especially when they're out to get your blood.
Mmhmm...
Work hasn't been very nice of late. Apart from the increasing workload (for some reason or another), I get a taste of office politics. It really is very unpleasant when someone in the workplace picks on you and reports you to your superior even though you know you have done nothing wrong. In the end you are forced to apologize to that person for some wrong you actually haven't committed. That just happened to me today, and I don't think I'm very happy with it. It takes alot to swallow the humble pie and even though I've done it and things are resolved (or at least they look resolved and calm on the surface), there's that bitter after taste left in you.
On the plus side I'm actually very happy my department has a specially catered recreational 'club' of sorts for us to use at no extra cost at all. Of course it's not exactly a club since you don't need to register or pay to get in. It's just an entitlement to everyone working in my department. The club's located in a nice place, complete with trees and landed property. I think I'm starting to fall in love with that place because it's just so secluded and so few people actually go there, such that there's that stillness there. Exactly what I want from my future home anyway, away from all the hustle and bustle of urban life yet at the same time easily accessible. I used the gym there, yeah, it's decent sized, but of course no way as large as ACJC's one. I think that gym's gotta be the largest one in Singapore anyway.
Went for a run also, pretty tiring and a sign that I haven't ran ever since the day before I enlisted, which was, on the 24 of January. Maybe this will get me doing some running and jogging again, heh.
After that it was a long long ride home from where we came from. Saw some JC students on the bus. That, and the bad events in the day, put me into a pensive mode, thinking of life, the past, the future, and of course about today. I always ask myself when someone has done something bad to me. Have I done something wrong myself in the first place? Why do I always feel so strongly whenever these kind of things happen? Do I have too much pride? Do I want to impress people every time? Or is it something else, something deeper that makes me unable to fathom it at this point in time. I hope I can find the answer to that, and the answer to my emotions soon.
On a brighter side, after I changed bus along the way to 106, it was packed! Someone caught my attention though. It was this girl from ACJC. Most likely J1 this year, because I haven't seen her throughout the whole of last year when I take 106 to college. One glance and I found her pretty cute. Of course, that piqued my interest because that's my junior, and a cute one to boot. Unfortunately the bus was rather packed and there was a guy blocking her throughout most of the ride so I couldn't get a good look at her face. Eventually though I got the chance, the guy alighted the bus (yay!) and I was standing beside her. Got a good look at her and I'd say my judgement was pretty accurate, she's cute. Cute looks + petite size was all that was needed to fulfil that criteria anyway. Eventually she sat down with me standing near her, and the file on her hand was on her lap, so I managed to see her name, Valentina. (I can see Wesley with an evil grin of sorts now.) Too bad she wasn't my junior by one year or the same age as me. Grrr.
Ah well, that's about it for today. Tomorrow's Wednesday, and I doubt I'll be staying up to watch Manchester Utd against Barcelona. Though I'm rooting for Barca. Go Barca! I'd be content as long as Man U doesn't win, heheh. And beyond that, Thursday's a holiday so there's more reason to go to work tomorrow, though I don't like the prospect of going to work at the moment. I hope and pray that things turn better tomorrow, and I'll treat today as a lessoned learned:
Be more careful when interacting with others, especially when they're out to get your blood.
Mmhmm...
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