Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Saga Of Wolverine

1. Thailand is really bloody hot like hell.
2. Thailand traffic is mostly alright until you go to the airport and then all hell breaks loose.
3. Thailand is not really the Land of Smiles. We talk about the Japanese and their artificial politeness but is Thailand necessarily any better?
4. Thailand girls are a curiosity. They are either gorgeous or cannot make it. No inbetweeners.
5. Where exactly are the protestors???!!!

After landing in Singapore at about 3+ yesterday, I got home at about 4+ before going out to play badminton with Gerrie. Mind you, it was on an empty stomach because the only food I ate for that day was what the airline served.

I also discovered some things about Gerrie, they are:

1. Gerrie looks good in office attire, especially white. The moment I saw her, I just wanted to 抱抱 her. But then again, I would 抱抱 her whatever she's wearing.
2. Gerrie is quite a drinker. She said that she drinks a lot (mostly wine and sake). I guess she wouldn't mind a alcoholic boyfriend then (?)
3. Gerrie can't really play badminton. It was quite fun to tease her about it and give chance here and there. For all those who think I can't play badminton as well, I want to tell you it's only I can't be bothered to move around. Once I do, I am ok at it. Anyway, I was bothered yesterday so I moved around the court quite a bit.
4. She has nice legs. Got to see them yesterday. And she probably has nice other body parts too, but I have yet to verify on those.

Anyway, today was my first day back at work. Got a whole load of emails that spun my head (like the Poltergeist girl) all over the place.

First off, this newcomer in my Office, I call him 阿满 (because he comes from that smarties club 满沙 Or Mensa in English), he really on-the-bola lah. Heard from Jubilee, he just self-initiate reports and then within a couple of hours, when all people want is an email reply, he type out a few pages of document already. High IQ 就是不同地...

Second off, Wolverine was suggesting to 阿满 that he do an updated report that our ancestors previously did so within a few hours, after reading through all the previous work, the Mensa Man came up with a proposal already. Kaoz...that guy damn fast...

Wolverine then came up with a few "suggestions" on what 阿满 should consider for his report but Jubilee couldn't understand Wolfy's chim English (honestly, I thought he used unnecessarily big words that sounded a bit confusing). So Jubilee asked me to read the email and tell her what he meant.

So what did I do? I read Wolfy's email, kinda understood hsi point and wrote an email with these words "小 XXX 只是在说..."...and then of course, being half alseep, I proceeded to send the email to...

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Wolverine.

When I just hit the "Send" button, I immeddiately felt something was not right but I didn't know what...so I checked my "Sent" folder and to my absolute horror (and amusement actually), I sent the email to Wolverine instead of Jubilee. What was I thinking???!!!

So after that, I just immediately sent an email to Wolverine to apologise and hope that he didn't mind (to soften the impact, I just added a :p). His reply was "No worries...".

Now "No worries" is a good thing but "No worries..." is another thing altogether. Why you need the "..."? Will he cut me into shreds later with his admantium claws? I hope not...

Well, that's it. Another eventful day at the Office™.

Wolverine: Always kena arrows in the back...that's another one from Archangel!

Friday, March 17, 2006
Good Feeling

"Hello, I am so cute, how could you bear to eat me???"

Babe...NOW you look MUCH cuter to me...

Anyway, I won't bother to want to disguise that things are (strangely) going swimmingly for me right now. One thing after another. God is really blessing me. Truth is, work is still crappy though but more on that later...by the way, please be forewarned that this will be a very long post...but since you guys will probably have one month to digest what I wrote without any new posts to distract you, you readers should have plenty to go through my shit.

Let me begin by telling you guys about my forthcoming job interview on Monday. Basically, I suspect the whole thing is but a mere formality and that I've probably gotten the post but still, I'm over the moon about it.The first interview that I had for this post was in early December (I think) but since then, I heard nothing from the department at all.

Well, if you went for an interview and then don't hear anything from them for the next three months, what do you think are your chances of getting that job? Next to zero, right? That's what I thought too. In fact, when I was summoned to meet my new Demi-God (henceforth, I will address her as Iron Maiden) for an "informal chat" (don't you just love these things they call "informal chats"? Why don't they just call it the "Your next meeting with me will be about me handing you a pink slip" chat?), she also reminded of that fact too. But more on that later.

So imagine my joy when the head of the department I wanted to join suddenly called me up to ask if I was still interested in the job. Of course I was! So yeah, I will be going on Monday then.

How many times have I talked about Gerrie in my previous posts about dating? I think I have mentioned her quite numerous times already. And I also think I had made it rather clear that I quite fancied this girl. So how are things going? Nicely, I guess.

To be honest, I still quite figure her out. I asked her out for the first time on 4th March while I was still in army ICT. Although the evening went ok, I didn't really think I left any kind of good impression. But strangely since then, she has been responsive to me asking her out for a badminton session and well, even hinted that she doesn't mind going out with me for wine drinking (I am trying to be as neutral as possible...her exact words to me when I told her about the interview was "If you get it, we CELEBRATE with wine. Hee...". We? *Silly grin*). Well, she had also invited me for tennis when our badminton session got cut...wah lau eh, I must be reading too much into this kind of things.

I really don't know whether she's just being friendly or whether she might like me as well. I don't know her nature. But at least the fact is that she doesn't dislike me enough to avoid me so maybe that's a good thing. I think she must at least know that I fancy her because I did tell her during our dinner that if I didn't feel right or like someone, I won't go beyond a first meeting. So the fact that I am so eager-beaver to meet her again must register, ain't it?

Well, whatever it is, I'd just take things one at a time. It's early days and there's still a lot I don't know about her but you know one thing, have you guys (and I mean guys because I don't think gals get this kind of thing) ever seen a girl for the first time and just know that you wanted this girl? That was how I felt when I saw laid eyes on her. When she walked into the room. Two words just flashed into my mind...

老婆

So there you go...

Now talking about work, things are becoming a royal pain in the arse. Ever since Iron Maiden came into power here, she's being throwing things left, right, centre for us to do. Half the time, if not most of it, we are so busy that we don't even know what we are doing. This, surely, cannot be the civil service way?! I always thought civil servants should be very free but still don't know what they are doing...so I think we are, kinda, straying away from the civil service motto by being so busy. Well, at least we still don't know what we are doing.

Anyway, I had gotten called into Iron Maiden's office to discuss some project that she wanted to hand to me...or so I thought. But guess what? When I went in, there was totally no mention of the project at all. Instead, Mdm Iron starting asking me about where I want to go, why I want to go, what I want to do, what I could do, what I couldn't do, how I do what I did, why I didn't do what I should have done, what I should do because I might not do what I want to do and blah blah blah. Really simple stuff.

By the end of the session, I was so broken down by her relentless questioning that I had to seek 抱抱 from Smurfette.

来，给哥哥抱一个

I think Iron Maiden really got to change her look and her demeanour or something. Talking to her is extremely intimidating. She makes you feel like a Primary One kid going into the Principal's office to meet the Principal, who then proceeds to break you down into pieces with her intimidating stare and relentless barrage of questioning. Seriously, they should just send her to Abu Ghraid. Those Iraqis will confess in no time under her questioning. No need for those humiliating tactics. See? Singapore, another Number One...in interrogation methods. LKY will be proud!

There really are a lot of things that are going on in the Office but I think I'd leave it for another post that, maybe, just maybe, I'd write on Sunday because these are exciting, political and extremely dumb dark times in the Office...and I wouldn't want my loyal readers to miss any of it.

Oh...come to think of it, I actually really don't care if you miss it lah...