Different Lifestyle, Different 'Views'

Ever since last month, there seems to be a change in my lifestyle.

The usual 'like to hang out after work' de me is gone le.

Now I do not really ask my friends out for dinner or after activities like I used to.

Neither do I look into my phonebook and search for kar kees one by one anymore.....

Perhaps I've come to realise that family is still there for you when you 'dun have' friends or when the whole world has given up on you....

And perhaps the movie 'Money Not Enough II' had made me realise that I should treat my family better and spend more time with them when there's still chance.

Perhaps I'm no longer young and is not as energetic as ever.... so need to come home to rest earlier......

And the time at home surfing the net, watching tv, facebooking, etc etc really makes me super relax. And also I could be more compliant for my chelation more regularly.

Staying at home isn't really bore and bad afterall..... not only I get to rest more and will be more refresh the next day, I also get to save up the money for rainy days.

In a way or so..... I also get to realise that in the past I have always been the one intiating gatherings and dinners with my friends as I really wanna spend more time with my friends..... but now it seems otherwise........ perhaps my expectation of my friends are too high...... the higher expectation I have, the more disappointed I will be. In the end, no matter how good friends we are, we still need to live our own life sooner or later......

But still I enjoy spending time with my friends....... and I get to treasure more on gatherings with them when it happen.

Being alone also makes me analyse more...... best friends, good friends, normal friends, hi-bye friends or normal hangout kar kees..... now I really can 'see' clearly ....

Having flu now..... popped the yellow pill earlier on......getting drowsy now..... time to zzzz.... nitey everyone!

Melonseedy Signing Off,

20-Aug-2008, 2200HRS

Long Long Weekend

A brand new start to my career this week.

Tue sat in a meeting with another team to brainstorm on improving business processes.

Wed & Thur had been busy with online training and generating some stats report that my team lead need.

Fri morning had our weekly team meeting and late noon had a regional con-call with big boss and other regional teams, still a bit green and lost though.....

Brought lappie home hoping to reformat it over the weekend but forgotten that I have not received my remote login access rights and don't have lappie admin login, so guess I can only do it back in office.

Mon will be having off-in-lieu for Sat's National Day.

Thu night suppose to meet ex-colleagues for dinner then karaoke but in the end we only had dinner and cuppa&desserts at the TCC@InternationalBuilding instead.

We really had a great time catching up....

Fri night met my close friends for coffee after dinner. Hung out until 1am plus.

Sat slacked at home spending time with my niece and family watching NDP2008 on TV.

Suppose to meet a friend for dinner but she had requested to postpone to Sun.

9th Aug..... same day last year was a day where I once held my best memories..... time really flies.... a year had passed..... I just hope that everyone will be happy.... forever..... no matter what happen.

Sun entire day also slacked at home except going out for dinner with family.

Watched 七月佳人, a short movie featuring 朱茵 and 陈汉伟 during my school days.

I really had a lot of 'feel' for this movie because the male lead had the same illness with me and still he could find his most love of his life.

Sad thing is he didn't get to live long....... long enough to spend more time with his love.

Just wondering whether will I have the same fate as him?

Or perhaps I might never ever have the chance to meet her this life.....

Tomorrow will be resting at home due to off-in-lieu for the past Sat PH-NationalDay.

Might be meeting KXG or ex-colleagues for lunch, or slack at home again.... see how ba.

Wed might be watching movie with Appu & Biaomei.

Then Sat going NUH for my regular session.

Melonseedy Signing Off,

11-Aug-2008, 0145HRS

Money Not Enough II

Goodbye Old, Hello New

Thurs noon had my farewell lunch at TheSakura@OrchardShoppingCentre with MS team.
There's a lot of varieties there and the food are really not bad.
Can consider to revisit ;-)

Friday last day at work but still couldn't finish some documentations so will continued to complete those and email them when its done.

At night went for a short last dinner with several friends at Maxwell Market.
Then went to 'feed' my car and bought a decal and the charcoal humidity purifier.

The 'Caution - I Brake for Tailgaters' Decal
The Charocal Humidity Purifier

At night reach home and drafted my farewell email.

I kinda of vented out my unhappiness in the email and some told me I might be too harsh.....

Some even say I tried so hard to ask for a 'golden handshake' but why in the end 'burnt my own bridge'?

Sigh..... seriously my point is that no matter how hard I tried to ask for the golden handshake.... I didn't get it was actually worse till the final seconds........ so wat's the point?

Do I really look like those who likes to create trouble?

Following is taken from part of my 'farewell email'.........

"During my tenure of 9 months plus with the company, I've seen and gone through a lot of 'ups & downs' with the company. From 'office politics' to 'humans biasness' and to the most scary 'different sides of humans faces at different times'......it kinda of warned, prepared and equipped me with what I really need to face the other side of the society out there. The good things that I've gained and learnt; to work smart and to try to protect myself at times when needed. And needless to say, the most valuable thing that I've always treasured the most are the friendship and bonding with you people like Chris, Sharlene, Milly, Sok Fen and the rest..... and I must really emphasized that all these bonding are priceless and unmeasurable.

........

All these valuable lessons and bonding will definitely be with me no matter where I go. Perhaps I might not meet certain expectations of me from anyone of you, but still I believe I've tried and given my very best. Perhaps I could be quite blunt with words at times, but still I believe in speaking the truth as lies & brags will not get one anywhere. Hereby, I sincerely apologised if I had not met any of your expectations of me or if my blunts words had hurt anyone of you."

......Is it really that harsh?

Sat had a short catch up with friend cause she dropped her hp in my car the night before and so I met her for a cuppa and we discussed abt the company history......

At night met one of my buddy for cuppa....... that bought the last episode of this bioliography series.....'A Man Named Dave' is the book title...... previously finished 'A Child called IT' and 'The Lost Boy'......

Most likely to proceed to Jodi Picoult fiction series after this ;-)Sun Ash came and we went out for dinner again...... my dear always makes my days better ;-)
Today is my first day at work.......

They have nice pantry with free flow of hot drinks.

But then the working space is really small..... mine is at the most side with tall 'walls' to block ;-)

Got my laptop and account details and email addy......

Then took internal shuttle service to another branch at Alexandra Technopark to take photo for my staff pass.

Initially team lead had wanted me to sit in some meetings involving IT aspects.... but she forgotten to call me.... lolz... then she will be flying to China and my another colleague will be flying to India in 2 weeks time..... by then will left my another colleague and me only in the team.... haha....

Had been reading online training materials the entire day...... they have short tests after each training...... and results will be send to boss.... stress man..... haha.... but bochup lah.... just do lah..

Really into business process and going to abandon all my IT knowledge manz.......

Tomorrow will continue my online training. Gonna sleep liao..... working hours is from 8.30 to 5.30pm :-)

Nitey Everyone!

Melonseedy Signing Off,

4th Aug 2008, 2255HRS