slosh down the pepper!

Transferring... Part I

After 14 sleep-plentiful days piled with rich food and fun plus 4 more days of sicky days accompanied by a hot head and bloated stomach, I returned on the 19th, to a less than exciting monday office! Great start to arrive at 8.45am! Not that I was early for my 8.30am - 6.15pm job, but I usually only stepped in after 9am and stretched longer in the evening to cover the 8.75 hours of compulory work.

Spent the bulk of the morning clearing 130 emails (using a colleague's PC), with more than half ending up in the trash bin without even being clicked on. 11.30am already, and my soon-to-be ex-boss hadn't arrived in the office yet and my soon-to-be new boss is on block leave and wldn't be back till 2006! Exasperated! Without a workstation and assignments to do, this seemingly happy world was on the brink of collapse once my colleague comes in at 12pm to claim back her PC. Yes, I was supposed to be transferred out of AI to SD. The former kicked me out more eagerly than what I expected!

I mustered enough courage to go over to my new colleagues and found out from my Big Boss that I was to shift to a patch of empty workstations located at the other end of the office. For a moment I was still happy, at least I wasn't going to be homeless. After a peaceful lunch, Z helped me to shift my PC. But shucks! Error dialog box popped up: ".. domain could not be found..." The LAN point didn't work. Relocation of the normad again. [A temp one, luckily.]

A look at the watch. Sigh, not even three o'clock. Spent the rest of the afternoon trying to do a change request and reading a thick book of system manual.

Sleepy-ness rating: *** (out of 5)

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Dinner was a sumptous event at Sinma Live Seafood in one of geylang's lorongs. Thick white sweet-smelling porridge ... tender 'ma mi' chicken marinated with honey and spices panfried to a slight crisp ... flavorful egg beancurd braised with little fried shrimps and minced meat ... ever more tender-than-chicken frog legs cooked in dark soya sauce - buy 2 get 1 free, buy 3 get 2 free! ... little coconut packed with sweet juice and white smooth flesh to refreshen the body with its cooling properties... To top it up, a bowl of rocher soya beancurd was sent to party with the above foods. Terribly full.

posted by slingwoof @ 12/20/2005 08:52:00 PM