We had a new boss around 2 months after I joined in. He was such an eye opener. A very intellectual peron. Someone I can actually interact with, someone who actually cares about work. The best person I ever met in my life is him. I have an ultimate respect for him. His characterisrtics are commendable. Then, it was a time when the school TA left. We were close but he really wanted to leave.

Then came the new "boy". Oops! Man-lah. He is very small in size. A very friendly guy. Creative mind. A thinker. Creates such beautiful staff for his GF. He also left. (Potong jalan jer! orang datang dulu belum leave, dia dah pergi dulu) He's starting work this coming Monday. All the best.

Then came this new guy. Awesome guy. Very ON. Helpful. And still learning more about his character.

Now, the path seem much clearer. I know what I'm doing. However, I do not say I excel i it. I'm still in the process of mastering this job.

TODAY.

Today was pasting labels day. In and out of classrooms. Up and down staircases. In hand, countless key and the "heat". Gosh! I felt like I could almost fall unconcious. I'm so ever lucky to have Felix around to help me with pasting and such. Such a good mate.

I thought it was good news. I mean, at least to me. But, its not. What can I say...

Things may be so superficial sometimes.

Or I may be.

I get caught in this recurring 'life sequential drama'.

I struggle to get free. In the end.

I give in.

I succumb to what fate has brought upon me.

This desire to break out of this circle.

Its bringing its power upon me tremendously.

I signal for safety.

But,

even faith cannot safe me.

I surrender.

I can never say these words again.

You complete me.

You make me whole.

All I can say right now.

I do not dutifully believe that time has change anything.

It has only given us a chance.

A chance to realise.

That all will eventually end.

I signal for safety.

But,

even faith cannot save me.

I surrender.

" There is a sense of apprehension in myself. I feel I'm becoming that person I was again years ago. Its like my brain has been programmed to do those things. Those things that I abhor. I scrutinized to why things have turned out this way. Is there no hope for me to alter? I contest to keep myself from engulfing myself into this pool of unknown fate. I know of the sequela for my actions and yet I still do not stop. Help! "

To that someone; I hope you soon realize this is where you are now.

And I really hope you'll come clean.

It was a nervous day back at work. I had finished preparing the labs for exams. I was busy preparing questions for the interviewee that is coming that afternoon. I wrote them down with much hope that it will be place to good use. The time came and questions were proposed. I asked some rhetorical questions that some appeared odd to myself but lucky it made sense to that guy and also to my boss.

Judging from his attitude, I feel positive and confident about this guy. The only setback might be the learning process of having to teach him the tricks and traits of troubleshooting. Also to mention several day-to-day possibilities experiencing stress of having to solve the problems on the spot.

It will be a great challenge. I'll embrace with open arms and an open mind.

Working colleagues who rock my boring mundane work.
Shahrie & Komala.

They are both 'mukabuku' & 'serial offenders'.

LOL.

We were suppose to celebrate Shahrie's departure from our department in order to pursue his living dream. In which he has not yet figured out besides the fact that he knows one thing is for sure, getting married early next year. I'm so super-excited for him for being so brave and daring to test unknown waters. I don't know whether when the time comes for me, would I be able to do the same? Leave all that hard-up work I've done with the team to strengthen things up there. Would I be able to? I still doubt myself.

So we were waiting for Boss to come up to the office to tell us he's done with everything. But little did we know, he was going around collecting work related stuff that the people were suppose to return. Poor him. People take advantage of the goodness in others. And I think he just thinks too much of the welfare of other people that he forgets about his own.

We reached Seoul Garden around 8. Being a weekend, it was packed with lots & lots of people. Families, friends and even colleagues gather around to celebrate each individual purpose or just simply to have dinner. Since it was so packed, we walked around the mall. One thing I would say; it felt a little awkward. There was like no area we could actually go to or no topic other then technology we could ever bring up. I just realised that working together on technology & actually going out together actually placed two different contrasting situations. We actually could not relate and went one big round without conversing at all. I could not think of anything that I can actually bring up. Pure awkwardness.

Komala saved the day when eventually she brought up the topic of wanting to get her younger sister a laptop. That's when it started to pick up. Is that the only thing we could talk about? I'll never know yet. We'll only get to see in the near future. So we were walking around looking at several notebooks at courts. ASUS, HP, COMPAQ, Lenovo, and then came Sony Vaio. We looked at the pricing of this two particular notebooks. Same specifications, same kind of material casing. One of them even had 3GB worth of RAM and a great graphics card. But it was cheaper then the other which used on-board graphics. We were puzzled by it so we asked a nearby sales person. We simply asked :

Us: "Hi there! We were wondering about the pricing of this two notebooks. Why are they different?"

Salesgirl: "Huh? What do you mean?"

Us: "How come having these two notebooks having the same specifications, but this one is much cheaper?

Salesgirl : "Oh that's cause the other one is lighter lor!"

As you can see from the reply, she is purely ignorant and clearly didn't know the product that well. We decided not to let Komala buy. With that kind of service, it will be sad to know that she'll actually supply the notebook without the power adapter.

Finally, at 8.45, Seoul Garden finally called us. We ate heartily. The staff here was very friendly. They took the courtesy of telling us that they were not supplying anymore food after 9.45.