If You Step On My Toes...

hello

If you step on my toes you better watch out I'll bite your head off...

Its been a month and the office is a mean concrete jungle. There is basically three types of people in the office...

a. The people who are extremely friendly but behind your back they are talking badly about you, creating all sort of rumours and trying to gang up against you. And in addition to that they will eventually step on your head...

then there's

b. The people who are just very cold and unsocial towards newcomers (meaning trainees like me) . They act like your inferior to them and making friends with you would be a waste of their time..

lastly,

c. there's the friendly people but don't talk to you at all... When you pass them in the hallway their smile ask how are you and then thats it...

Office politics itself is very dirty... Its somehow similar to what you see on the idiot box... And somehow i fell that this job of mind is going to teach me now how to handle all of this is the future :)... oh well... let's hope for the best...

at the end of the day in the office you cannot be too friendly if not people will step on your toes painfully....

-natalie-

Please Don't Stop The Rain - James Morrison

And if it's going to be a rainy day
There's nothing we can do to make it change
We can pray for sunny weather
But that won't stop the rain

You're feeling like you've got no place to run
I can be your shelter til it's done
We can make this last forever
So please don't stop the rain
Let it fall, let it fall, let it fall
Please don't stop the rain
Let it fall, let it fall, let it fall
Please don't stop the rain

Hello

its been pretty emo lately for me... I can't speak mandarin and the issue has always been bitting me in the ass... especially now at work where most of my collogues speak in mandarin or cantonese .. Its like everywhere i go people would talk to me in mandaring and the thing is i understand what their saying but I would always reply them in english...

I'm trying to learn from my mum. She's been teaching me a few words now and then ... lets hope the rain will stop soon :).. oh well...

At least I have something to look forward to tomorrow.. hehe I'll be of to curve tomorrow for the bazaar and the cheer competition organized by CHARM ... I hope I have fun.. Got to go now...

-natalie-

Romantically Blissed

Hello

"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."

-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen -

I've always been a fan of the old romantic classics :) Movies such as Pride and Prejudice, The Duchess and so on have always made me imagined myself being born during those times and dancing in those fancy balls... And finding love at the end of the night ... I sometimes think I've been borned during the wrong time to a time where men who treat lady's with such manners are all extinct... I have met a few however most were just mere acts...

I'm a really traditional person when it comes to things like this .. I guessed it has been due to the reading and some contribution from Walt Disney himself...

Oh well maybe one day just one day such of my fantasies would come true or something... Eventhough the possibility is well near to zero. I can still dream :)

Oh another thing... I was in the airport quite recently sending someone dear to me and I saw something very dear to me... It is something that you could say would make me smile on the inside and the outside. Well I saw...

I saw a couple sending their eldest son off... The mother was crying but not bawling like crazy and the father saw . Instead of patting her on the shoulder like most of the male species would do (no offence but from what I've observed... ) . He took her into his arms hugged her tight and kissed her on the cheek looked into her eyes and smiled while saying 'He'll be back soon.." . He meaning their son... It was so sweet to see a couple who are not to say very young or very old but has had three kids and both who are constantly working 9-5 jobs and sometimes during the weekends... It was just so sweet and it was the only thing that made me smile for real while I was there... I stood there wondering in the corners of my mind whether I would be romantically blissed one day just like them....

-natalie

After Two Weeks

Hey All

WOW how time flies when your caught up with work in the office from 9 - 5.45pm everyday :) Yes that's how long I work and I do it from monday to friday every week ... The food in the cafeteria at first was alright but then it started to get worst... Sometimes the food get too salty and too hot ... So yeah you know me and my tummy ...

But I look forward to lunch time all the time due to the fact that I get really hungry when i'm the office .... My body probably loses weight when I'm in the office due to the fact that it is so freaking cold... And my body will probably burn all my fats just to produce energy to keep me warm ... Ok I sound like a nerd or something I shall shut up...

Office politics is so dirty I tell you... People will take the smallest mistake and use it as your biggest disadvantage to bring you down. Just the other one of my collegues got scolded for slamming a bunch of papers on the table... so yeah... Not only is the politics dirty but office gossip is too ... Being new and all there has been some stuff said about me.. But I shall not disclose the details here...

Working is in a way fun if and only if you enjoy what your doing ... I for one find my work to be mentally draining due to the fact that my brain has not been working much since SAM ended and it is not suddenly exercising with digits from the 383 items in the building of which I work in... Oh well.. thank goodness my parents allow me to sleep in during the weekends... :)

Anyways I'm off... bye

-natalie-

Its The Freaking Weekend Baby !

Hello

'It's the freaking weekend baby. I'm about to have me some fun'

Haha that's one of the lines to the music that was playing on the radio when i got home from work. hehe ... I'm so glad to be home after working for the entire week in checking stock and trying to figure out how to cut cost through inventory. It was really a behind the scene thing to how much food people can actually consume in an entire year. Entering the freezer was nerve wrecking because I was so afraid that I might get locked up inside by accident and become an Ice Queen or something . But none the less I'm doing fine.I enjoy working because it helps take my mind off things. It gives me something to do during my spare time too.

Its March now which means that the results for my application my University would be coming out in a month time or maybe possibly late March. I hope I get it. I just so want to get out of this house and move on with my life. Get my degree and hit the road in one of my dream places to go . Hong Kong ! before it sinks. Basically , I just want the whole drama through out my journey from last year doing SAM until today to come to an end. and yes there's a lot of drama I just never told anyone.

Coming to think of it most of the places of my I-want-to-visit list is sinking. That is so sad. Curse you Global Warming. Oh well I hope time will let me go to those places before they go under the water :)

Anyway I got to bounce yo before I start typing out everything that's playing in my mind. The mind is a complicating place isn't it?

'Life is simple, its just that we have a tendency to make it complicated at times '

-natalie-

Dear Life...

Dear Life,

You drive me crazy

You make my head hurt

You make me wish that time would pass by faster so that i can go home from work

You make me feel stupid cause

I have to walk up and down from the office to get all the information I need

To write a good report and then once I've done that you make me pass it to my boss

Which my boss tells me that I've missed out a tiny detail while I was in the office listening to him

And then you make me realize once I went down to get the missing information that

He never told me to do that just now

So now dear life I am stuck and haunted by the fact that I have to figure out how to get all the information right...

What have I ever done to you?