Run, Bunny. Run!

Category: Work

  • It Has Just Begun!

    For the first time in a very long time, I actually feel DRAINED while I was sitting on my desk today. Thank God that I only felt that way when it was time to go home. Stayed back for an hour or so to figure out something. My job is a lot about figuring out stuff, especially for someone new like me, I’ve more stuff to go figure. And because my mind was already stuck, I decided to just call it a day. I think I should be able to think better tomorrow.

    And I’m really thankful because there are kind souls who are so ever willing to teach and guide me. But of course, you must ask! Well, it’s not going to be easy but I know I’ll learn a lot, at least in comparison with my previous job. I get paid more now so it actually means the work is more difficult too. But I believe I should be able to handle it but it may be tough for the first few months.

    So long as I have lunch companions and supportive people around me, I think I can brave the storm. 🙂

    And for the first time in my life, I KILLED a lizard. I hate killing lizards, more than killing cockroaches. Lizards are hard to kill. I didn’t want to kill it but because it was easier to kill, since it was a baby lizard, I had to. The problem with my kitchen is that there are more lizards. There is a frequent visitor and like I’ve written on my earlier entry, I can recognise it by just looking at its eyes. It was there yesterday lurking around the sink. Gave me a good fright and jump when I turn on the tap. It was dry and there was no food, no nothing. It came too.

    The other new frequent visitor is a striped lizard. I hate striped lizards. Though they are just lizards, they are scarier to look at. This one is of the same size as frequent visitor #1. And if I ever find it lurking around the sink while I turn on the tap, I think I’d just faint in the kitchen.

    Latest addition is a baby striped lizard which I just killed. I was looking at it and imagining it growing big and all. I cannot take two striped lizards in the kitchen so what I did was to try to kill it. How? Spraying dish washing liquid on it but it still looked strong then I proceeded with aerosol spray. It was still strong. Then I gave up and today I think it’s dead. It was so small, I couldn’t actually just catch it while it was wet with the dish washing liquid but I wasn’t brave enough. Told you I hate lizards in the kitchen, especially striped ones!!!

    Anyway, my daily routine whenever I go into the kitchen is I will go peek at the sink to make sure it’s lizard-free. Or switch on the light and then make some noise to announce to lizards if they happen to be around and getting jiggy with it in the sink that I’M IN THE KITCHEN SO PERGI MAIN JAUH-JAUH. Or if lizard is stubborn and love my sink so much that it’s not leaving, I’ll talk to lizard, “FASTER LA, FASTER GO AWAY”.

    Can someone tell me how I can get rid of lizards in the kitchen? I don’t care if they want to stick on the ceiling or on the wall. Just don’t interfere with me in my kitchen, especially the sink.

  • One Month

    It has been a month. How time flies and this time I’m going to have my first “full” paycheque of this new job of mine. The last time I got paid, it was only a week’s pay since I joined at the end of the month. That was easy money earned. 🙂

    This time around, it is a little harder and it will get even harder next month. But so far, I don’t have any major complaints.

    Now, I really would have to learn to talk. There is more talking to be done here. Meetings, etc. It is very different from the previous job where talking was minimal. I love the way how some of them speak, with such good spoken English. Listen also will feel syok.

    Well, this was what I was hoping for. A job where I’ll be required to talk more. So this time I’ll get to practise it.

    Don’t worry about the post last night. I’m all cured already … until the next time it happens again. Tomorrow is Friday and Saturday is blood test day. It’s going to be my first. It was a sign, I tell you. I was thinking about doing it but just thinking and not doing anything about it until the other day, they were doing a promotion in a shopping mall and I just signed up. Doctor/Nurse, please be kind on me. And I hope I’m healthy.

  • Kerusi dan Meja

    I love my work desk. And I mean it.

    It’s spacious, curved in the middle so that you feel more comfortable sitting in front of the monitor.

    I love my chair too. I normally lean back and push the chair as close as I can towards the desk. Then, I pretend to work professionally.

    I’m beginning to love my colleagues too. A few that I’m beginning to get closer with. I don’t feel so lost now as compared to the first week.

    Most important thing of all, I’ve got my lunch gang already!!!

  • So Long, Farewell

    My last day at work..today. There was haze over in Cyberjaya out of a sudden but it cleared up before noon. I was cool and all. Worked as usual and tried to finish off as much as I could. I could have chose to laze and surf but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.

    I bought one of my colleagues a pair of earrings as a token of thanks and appreciation and she wore it to work today to show me how much she loved the earrings. She’s the first friend I had when I joined the company and has been my close friend ever since. I don’t like to refer her as my colleague because she’s more to a friend to me. If you are reading this, I’m glad you liked the earrings! 🙂

    There was a farewell party for me today with a chocolate cake, some fried meehoon and cucur udang. I’ve got a “Walking Nohohon Zoku” as my farewell present, together with a mobile phone holder. This “Walking Nohohon” will walk and say “Hello” and “I Love You” when you blow towards it, snap your finger or talk to it. Basically it reacts sensitively to its surroundings when switched on. Very cute!

    Sent my colleague home for the last time and he’s got to find his means of transportation starting tomorrow. It has been fun riding home with him as I get to blabber a lot in the car. He’ll be listening and I’ll be blabbering.

    To my surprise, he also got me something on top of the shared gift that everyone in the department chipped in to get for me. If you are emoticon-crazy, you would have come across this monkey emoticon. They are Yoyo & Cici. YoyoCici  This is what he gave to me and it came with a card, which was a killer. WHY?

    After he got down from the car, I continued my journey home and I was already beginning to tear because I was already starting to miss the workplace. When I reached home and read the card, it somehow pushed the tear duct button.

    He wrote,

     “I never expected I’d write you a farewell card. So sad, you’re leaving. But I’m glad to have fated to know such a great person. I’m happy to know good things (job & boyfriend) are coming your way now. Wishing you great years ahead in your job, career, life and better boyfriendss…(Update me if it comes true)”

    See the double “S” behind the word boyfriend? I wanted to laugh. I only need one good boyfriend and I’d smile dying. The boyfriend part is definitely not a good thing now and I’ve been telling him my relationship disaster stories. Current and past so he knows my frustration and hopes for a happy and fulfilling relationship. I guess the tears moved more because I really hope things would be like what he’s written, that it is coming my way.

    That aside, I also have poems written by another colleague. I don’t really know how to describe him. I’ve never spoken face to face to him with more than 10 lines. Our conversation has been limited to just conversations online and that is also quite minimal.

    Today, he wrote me 8 lines.

    Ah Grace lengnui
    Ah Grace hou
    Ah Grace hou zhan guai
    yan wai Ah Grace zui oi sek “kai Si Kor”
     
    Senyuman Gracie seindah suria
    Membawa cahaya kepada semua
    Semoga Gracie tetap ceria
    Bisa menjadi kenangan semua

     

  • Tuesday

    You know…before you leave, the company would like to hear from you,  about your opinion working in a particular place. Today I did what I just did. In fact, I think I wrote more than I should but it was because the form gave me only 3 lines and I can’t write something with just 3 lines. It’s either I write or I don’t. I ended up writing 1 page of comments and suggestions on a separate sheet of paper.

    I don’t have to care so much you may say since I’m leaving but I just felt the need to do so. Maybe it’ll do some good for the others who are still there.

    One thing I know… I think I just made someone hate me today for writing what I wrote. I have tried to sound as nice and as polite as possible but sometimes writing like that just doesn’t allow me to convey the message as intended. The truth always hurts. I don’t know where I found the guts to write today. Maybe when you have been trudging on silently for too long, you want to make your voices heard and when you do, it sounds exceptionally loud because all the while, there has only been silence.

  • Office Politics

    I’ve often heard of how bad some office politics can turn out to be but I just couldn’t picture how terrible it could get. Today is one of the days in which I felt so much injustice. Today it also opened my eyes to another world that I knew existed but could never feel how it tastes like.

    People can be so biased that they are blind. And if a person is set to nail a person down, he/she goes all out, in spite of whatever measures just to sabotage the other. It is so scary.

    I felt very sad and angry for a colleague of mine who did nothing wrong but was sentenced guilty of committing an offence, which isn’t an offence at all. To me, the whole issue was ridiculous because accusations were simply thrown to the innocent faces.

    It has taught me to be careful at work but then again, it doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be safe and protected.

    Sometimes I just don’t understand why people love to play all these games at work, it is tiring you know? Just listening and knowing about it is tiring enough, what more being the one involved, being the one plotting the plan and carrying out the dirty tactics.

    I sincerely hope that the truth will be revealed one day and that it will open the eyes for those who have been blind. The good ones will seek a better opportunity out there and the bad ones will have trouble sleeping at night.

    Yeap, today I felt like strangling someone.

  • 2nd Day of Work

    “Are you the quiet type?”

    “I’m quiet when I’m with strangers but when I’m with people I’m close to, I become crazy!”

    “Haha. Okay. I’m the quiet type.”

    “Yeah, I can see that.”

    Today I was given training and I’ve got work to do already.

    I killed a spider while I was driving. Nothing great really because it was just a small spider. And I had to kill it because I kept imagining what if it got bigger and see it while I’m driving..then I couldn’t continue driving for sure.

    Today’s a very long day and I got tired. It has been the longest day after my holiday. But I’m sure I’ll get tuned to it as I go along.

    Someone called me unexpectedly this morning while I was working. I thought he was very brave to ask me out, to tell me how badly he wants his relationship with my sister to work. For the first time, I just sat there and listened to him for more than an hour.

    “You are the only person I can talk to.”

    It did change my impression towards him for the better bit. But really, everything lies in my sister’s hands.

    Sometimes we don’t realise how important someone is, how much hurt we’ve imparted on someone until one day that person seems so far away. And then you feel like you love her so much and you know you loved her all along but you never showed it, thinking that someone would be kind enough to understand all your nonsense.

    Anyway, I hope things will turn out fine.

  • 1st Day of Work

    I was so excited and scared. I only managed a few bite of breakfast.

    LDP was exceptionally smooth today and I have no idea why. It took me 35 minutes to get to Cyberjaya. Like a breeze.

    And because of that, I was exceptionally early. I was told to report to work at 9 but by 8:15, I was already there.

    Reported to Mummy that I have arrived safely and then I made my way to meet the HR Manager. He asked why I came in so early and explained to me everything that I need to know. He later showed me around and introduced me to everyone. I couldn’t remember all the names.

    I was then passed on to the Deputy IT Manager who then introduced me to my team leader. My manager, he is a very nice man. I am seated in between an Indian girl and a Malay girl. Sitting in front of me is a Chinese girl who is also new. So, I call my row the multi-racial row and I like it. The Chinese girl came in on Monday. She’s a fresh graduate and two years younger than me. My first friend in this office. 🙂

    I was told to surf and so I did.

    I called Mummy again to inform her I’ll be leaving the office. Coming home took me 1 hour and 15 minutes. It was jammed from Puchong onwards and then I took what I thought was a shortcut as I was approaching home.

    I was supposed to buy Mummy dinner tonight, to some place to have crabs but she was already cooking dinner because she wanted to join her friends for a lantern gathering.

    “How is it?”

    “Mee, I’m so happy today. I think I’ve found the meaning to life!”

  • Out

    3:30pm: Went to the toilet and did a Superman pose.

    5:00pm: Walked out as a free woman.