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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Really been a scatter-brain lately. For 2 consecutive days, I left my stuff at restaurants. Friday night I went TCC in CityLink and as I do not have a habit of wearing my specs when I eat, I left it on the table. Then only when I reach home I realize I left it there. Luckily when I called back, they told me they have kept it for me. So I have to go back on Saturday to retrieve it.
Come Sunday again, I left my whole bag at Pizza Hut. Lucky this time round I remember it after 15 mins leaving the restaurant.
To top it off, I have a bird shit on me. One word, sway...
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Today is the last day of the Chinese New Year celebrations for me. Though the customs did state that there are 15 daes in total, my personal countdown ends when I go back to work. Perhaps when the weekend comes around the corner again I will feel the festive period again. But seriously, CNY really aint that much of a big deal for me. I do not do much visiting; a tradition custom that lost much of its meaning as the years goes by for alot of people. Much kids nowdaes treat CNY=get ang pows dae. The more houses you visit, the more money you get. And then relatives tend to irritate me with their superfluous questions that repeat every year. A particular conversation would go like this. "Wahh so long never see you already! How are you?” I smile, "ya..." Used to be "where you study?" Dun they bother to remember after asking every year. Why ask if you dun want to remember? Now would be "Where you working?" This is a much more valid question, since we are more prone to changing jobs than school. But still, all I can say is Citi. What do I do at Citi? I frankly do not know how to explain to people except say something related to securities. "Wahh stock market! make alot of money, alot of bonus hoh?" No.... Let me squash 2 myths today. First of all, securities related processing does not equal trading stock. And working in banks dun equal to high pay and high bonus. My hourly pay is merely 3 times more than a Mac boy at the counter and my bonus did not even hit 2 months. Come to think of it, I am a high class Mac manager perhaps.... Goshh... Aint I happy? Haha perhaps a bit exaggerating.
Writing this entry makes me sound like a grumpy old man who isn't happy with his Chinese New Year. Nahh. I did enjoy it, and it was really nice. I manage to do a lot of things I did not manage to do before, did some shopping, away from work for 4 daes, and manage to catch alot of sleep. Its just that Monday blues are visiting me a bit earlier, and I will miss the last few daes. From now on its perhaps work, work and more work as holidaes will be so hard to come by going forward. Why can't Singapore celebrate St Patrick/St Andrew/ St David dae, Queen/King or even the Sultan's birthday. Dear Government just do not know how much we adore them. Dun we all love them, huh Singapore? Or at least 12 days of Chirstmas... I can sing the song if you like. I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday the last four days.
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