something i found while clearing out mail. picked out the funnier ones:)
A clear conscience usually signifies a bad memory
If you think no one cares about you, try missing a couple of payments
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks
Borrow money from pessimists-they don't expect it back
To steal ideas from one person is "plagiarism"-to steal from many is "research"
Don't steal. The government hates competition
Don't suffer from insanity-enjoy every minute of it
Lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself
Few women admit their age, few men act it
Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them
He who laughs last thinks slowest
Madness takes its toll-please have exact change ready
Friend help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now
I used to have a handle on life, then it broke
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine
Don't take life too seriously-none of us get out of it alive
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once
Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot
There are 3 kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't
As long as there are exams, there will be prayer in public schools
On the other hand, you have different fingers
If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished
last day of work. time to reminisce. one month only and i felt sad enough at the end of the day.. i think i should only take up one-week jobs or sth haha.
anyway, finally finished deleting vice pres's emails.. it was so funny.. cos secretary sed he'd be back aft lunch so i just headed straight for his office when i got in in the morning. and stopped short. upon seeing him inside. and she laughed at me. so bad! hmph. and while i was deleting emails, mr nice french guy happened to notice me on second look and said "new boss eh?"
ah yes, latest update on mr nice guy.. i managed to talk to him! waha:) i think he was slightly taken aback when i appeared in his office and asked for his card. as did the rest of the pple i've never talked to. and i realised his looks are definitely not of very high calibre. but he is really nice. and he's the only one who thinks i look older than i am! rofl. he asked me if i was doing my bachelors. cos according to him, asians look younger than they are. (and so does he, that's why he's here. well.) and he was born in western africa! i can't remember why he told me that, but that is so fascinating.. exactly the kind of pple i'd like to meet in uni.. exotic. or so i think? haha. right i'd better stop talking abt my nice guy if not pple like ser n aud will accuse me of gushing.
i wish i'd gotten a chance to chat better w mr lawyer though.. he didn't seem particularly inclined to chatting today cos he's going off to france tonight for holiday.. but he's quite nice too.. i think he's the only one who apologised for giving me boring work haha. so cute. and so.. different. nobody would apologise for that. then he said it's cos he knows, he's done the same thing not too long ago or sth like that.
i think i'm going to do a person-by-person-description like wat i did in my diary. secretary! she's actually quite fun.. seems a bit like a da jie to me, dunno why. maybe cos she likes calling me xiao mei mei. yesterday's gossip session was v amusing:p but today she was kind of serious. maybe cos boss is back la haha.
p. lea. regional tech service manager. long name. so i shall just use her abbreviation. she's funny.. a bit blur one. haha. and kept accusing me of not being able to finish her work.
aiyah i'm too lazy to write the rest. actually not that much stuff to say also. just felt v sad when they were all so nice and wishing me all the best cos it's my last day. well. first job is done.. now to slack around a bit.
was just feeling so so blue. let me be melodramatic and say something about "life stripped of all its illusions". yesterday and today i guess. i can't remember what i was doing on monday but monday seemed alright.. oh! monday was lunch w lyd then neverland w fiona. alrite i think it started after the show then. i think colorgenics is only accurate when i'm not happy. am not going to cut and paste the whole thing cos it would bore anyone who's still reading this to bits. haha. or maybe i just believe in it cos of my current mood.
anyway. nevermind about that. haha! spent the morning sitting in the vice president's office deleting more of his emails. (there're like 5 vice presidents in all, of the different divisions. it's actually quite weird cos i don't think there're any presidents of the divisions. haha. senseless names. like chris said.) so when pple happened to notice me sitting there, they'd make remarks to the secretary outside such as "(v/p) has shrunk" and "!! how come (v/p) became so small!" haha. i was most amused. so fun to surprise pple.
and then my direct boss (the guy whom i report to most of the time) took mc for the afternoon so i ended up in his office to write cds. haha. spend my last days occupying others' offices. but it's quite fun! haha:p anyway, after writing like 40 cds and spending 2.5hrs on that, i decided to manufacture an errand down to the 22nd floor to ask the computer technician if there was any way to speed up the writing and she was SO horrified when she heard i'd been writing the cds one by one. i felt silly. and cheated. oh well. secretary didn't know that there was a cd-writing machine downstairs which could do 5 at a time..
and then comp tech said i mite have spoilt my boss's computer/cd drive/watever oops. actually, i just realised something. once i started the 2nd batch (secretary started the 1st batch of 20 off for me, and said i could do 40 the next time and finish it off) i felt this nagging unease when the 1st cd took so long to burn. so i checked it on my own comp, but didn't think to open the files to check. sigh. how stupid can clar get. i thought as long as the files appeared they should be working. evidently my brain has atrophied. anyway, so i ended up wasting 20 cds (can't open the powerpoint files on some computers, queerly). yeah.
sometimes i think my mom's right about how i should listen to my intuition. and then sometimes i'll suspect everything's a farce. sounds schizophrenic huh. but again this not-checking-the-files-thing is an example of my own stupidity. i almost always open up the files to check.. don't know why i didn't do it this time.. thus my conclusion that my brain is gone. haha.
anyway, so i spent the last 2 hours checking the previously-burnt cds and doing the rest. but still have 10 left, so i'll finish them up tmr and go look for the lawyer to do his photocopying. oh! today i found out the name of the french guy who sits near the pantry. actually, he's the best looking one around (k i know i sound terribly desperate here, but one has to rely on one's own devices for amusement at work), probably he's the youngest i think? haha. anyway he's a trainee from france! i was rather surprised they'll send pple here to train. evidently i don't think much of my own country, this is terrible: but at least i think his name suits him haha.
alright i'm in a better mood now yay. blogging is cathartic. and also thanks to lijia for cheering me up:) it's really nice to know someone actually misses me. i think like lyd (and lijia too, just now) said, one gets very lonely at work unless u're working w friends like pying/joon/jiahui. and i just complained about being lonely last week i think. luckily i'm finishing work, will take lijia's place as the go-find-working-pple-to-lunch-with person. :) hope my headache goes away...
haha i think chris is right, working makes u get weird dreams. or maybe i'm over-worrying as usual about stuff. anyway, i was really really restless in the morning, luckily i found a way to direct my energy somewhere else! went to orchard library to find gerald durrell books.. and at first i didn't see any! then the librarian came past with the trolley and -taadaa- gerald durrell. so i grabbed it and then suddenly found a few more books on the shelf i didn't notice earlier. crazy clar.
ah anyway i had a good time laughing, haven't finished the book yet though. i had to work to keep from laughing out really loud in office:p at least it made me in a better mood yeah. in between scanning stuff. it's really amazing how mind-numbing/boring anything can get if you repeat it enough times. anyway, then i got to go to the vice president's office to delete emails! hahaha:D felt v powerful sitting in his room (and chair) haha. like. super dua pai. -gleeful- then one lady passed by and remarked "(v/p) changed ah? better looking eh" i couldn't stop laughing.
yay.. i shall do my work slowly tomorrow so i can xiang shou his office for a bit longer:p before he returns on thurs. as it is, in 2 hours i think i finished more than 1/3 of the stack already. sadly in a way:p oops. and yes, my work ends on friday. it depends on how i want to look at it, whether it's a gd thing or a bad thing. good: i get to do something else. different job lar. and, i get to spend some time doing my own stuff like visiting rg/rj (and also finally getting round to scholarship apps). bad part is i'll miss the place and the pple. for a while. it doesn't do to get too attached to things, i've learnt. like i said, depends on the individual.
okies i shall go enjoy my book! whee~
ah. got back frm watching neverland w fiona around 1/2h ago. the ending is so sad. i wish it wasn't so sad. but anyway, i don't really like kate winslet haha. and i think johnny depp's better as a pirate although his acting here is quite gd too.. it was like during the pirate ship scene.. totally reminded me of caribbean.. i think he's in his element there.. the best pirate i've ever seen! and the child actor is so cute:) and says the funniest things.. to burst barrie's bubble. haha. i think i shudn't have watched all the clips before watching the movie though. kind of takes away the fun. anyway, it was a good show:) tho bit short i think? at least it's not draggy like aviator. i couldn't believe it [aviator] was ~3hrs.
yeah.. next johnny depp show: willy wonka. k i sound like a groupie, as jan calls it. and my racing stripes movie. but i don't think that one will be worth $6.50. looks a bit frivolous/slapstick. i don't know. just an impression.
i also have this feeling my work won't be extended, therefore i'll be jobless by next week. oh well. means i can go back to rj and disturb aud n ser. and also disturb fiona one day:) and visit tchers in rg. haven't seen mrs kwan in ages. i hope she's at rg.
okay i don't know why i'm feeling blue. maybe cos it's monday. feeling rather pessimistic about results/unis at the moment. sigh. rather worrying, no interviews yet. okay this is like self pity time, i'd better stop it and go do something else. tmr will be a better day.
oh! lunch w lyd was fun:) haven't talked to her alone in ages. if that makes sense. i should meet pple more often. horrible kahli still hasn't confirmed dinner. grr.