Thursday, February 24, 2005
thoughts
Had actually wrote these yesterday afternoon, was thinking of posting from home after adding in the Chinese characters, but then was caught up doing a “secret project”. So upload it now, and think will only substitute the Chinese characters on Friday nite (if I am not working on my “secret project”) . keke.
Some thoughts:
- Don’t understand the Pink T-Shirt craze among the guys. Pastel pink formal shirt is ok, pink polo Tee is slightly acceptable, but shocking pink Tshirt?? GAYISH! SISSY!
Somehow, gals wearing blue is fine, but guys wearing pink seem awkward…..
- It seems scary at times to catch myself discussing abt serious topics with friends or others. Years ago, we could spent time gossiping or comparing our lives. Now we talked abt more serious topics like marriage, career, and parenthood.Last week, B was telling us that he and his wife had agreed not to have any kids after seeing how his brother and sister-in-laws can’t control their children. B is 27 yr this year, yet wo li zhi qi zhuang de gao shi ta, that it's too early to say so for he might not have this thinking a few years later, when he see his friends with kids, pressure from parents. I even quoted him examples of my ex-colleagues, after remaining as DINKs ( Double Income, No Kids) for years, suddenly have the urge have a family of their own after seeing kids playing at the playground.At the end of the day, he sort of changed his views, saying "maybe he will want to have kid after 30s", "maybe he and his wife will be affected by their friends who have kids then".
- Planning to do a scapbook with the pictures taken with my ex-colleagues. One thing I realised, I only took pictures with them on the last few days of my service there, and those are sort of "posed pictures". I prefered to have some candid shots of them at work, and pics taken at special company events, which will tell more stories.
Called up "Made with Love", the scapbooking shop which had moved from Liang Court to Plaza Singapura. Arhhh, they are conducting "Scrapbooking Lev 5 " Class this Sat., and beginners ‘class is only scheduled at end of March. While, not going to wait till next month end, so I think I'll attempt to do it on my own. Just hope that it will at least look presentable.
Sort of made up my mind on the colour theme -- pastels, which is "very me". Oh should I include ribbons, lace, flowers as decorations too? Hahaha.
And to Sips, you want me to include the dinner I had with my colleagues at Muchuan, so that once my scrapbook is ready, I can showed them to the Monday dang3 and you can stand beside that "someone" and chipped in yr comments. * wink*
- I noticed the change in me. Years ago, entered the work force as a fresh Poly Grad. , I am contented with a stable job and nice environment. Yah, remembered how my ex-collegaues were all slacking at work, playing neopets, downloading songs as most of the time our boss is not around. 2 years later, I decided to take a risk and joined the private sector. The office environment is lively and interesting, but still I chose to leave after 17 months.
Meilian (the singer from Muchuan) was asking me abt my current job and why I chose to leave my ex-colleagues on the way to the washroom. Guessed she noticed on that Monday when I had my farewell dinner at Muchuan, my ex-colleagues are so fun-loving and lively, it was an enjoyable and enriching experience working with them. Told her the reason I choose to leave is for a job with a better job development, better chance of promotion and better pay in the long run.
"Wo Zhan Cheng. Ren yao wang gao chu pa," She said.
Then it strucked me.I used to be just a simple gal, just gimme a stable job, and I am contented. And I would more likely to stay behind for the sake of my colleagues as I'm zhong4 gan3 qing2 sort, wouldn't bear to leave them behind. Even for my first job, I was one of the last few of the gang to leave the company.
Since when did I start to care abt job development, care abt climbing up the corporate ladder.? Wo ye bu siao de...
I hope that I still retain the innocence, and not get involved in any politics or power struggle.
Frankly speaking, I feel disgusted whenever I see people whining abt how bosses don’t like him/her anymore when they are the ones who curry-favour the bosses and get special treatments from bosses. I don’t understand why some people view other colleagues as their competitors instead of someone who help you to share the workload. Don’t understand why some people have to resort to using dirty-tricks to get rid of their working partners even though when it is obvious that the others don’t wish to be involved in any power struggle. Quite ironic right, having work for 4 years (and seen people being victims of office politics), yet still don’t understand the game….
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