many moons on

Reading the last post, the journey in the Look Like Busy realm is coming to an end. I have tendered and will leave in March.

Assisting in the last ever trial in my life - 24-30 Nov 2010. Awesome!

I truly enjoyed this sojourn in the land of the Look Like Busy. Mentions were awesome. Breakfast at B1 was always a must. Then the occasional file search, filing, extraction or some random sheez.

Weekends in the office is also pretty standard.

Hiking saved my growing ass, my close circle of friends - my sanity.

For what its worth, I had it all. But people need to move on. I think its time to move on.
This blog will soon be redundant.

Many many happy memories. I love my firm. Colleagues, my boss, the environment, the location - high class.

What seems now like a bend in the road will hopefully unfold.

I am ready to close this chapter of life. I look forward to starting clean slate on the next chapter. I wonder what it will be? Pizza Hut waitress. Firefly cabin crew. Failed creative writer. Busybody.

Mid July "back home early" trial

After a serious discussion with BOW's friend,Nadia - I am going to give this a try - Leave office daily at 7pm.
Take home work. If work does not finish, make excuses. If excuses do not work, tender. Easy peasy.

The things I can do, with a life:

1. Read
2. Watch Grey's Anatomy
3. Theaterics with mommy
4. Swim
5. Walk in the park with Joanna
6. Hangout with non-annoying friends
7. Hike
8. Time with Nir on a regular basis
9. Get a mechanic boyfriend, not a mechanical one - virile is not sterile

April showers

Nim's baby shower

I will be attending a first baby shower tmrw - for a classmate of mine who has decided to spawn. The baby's name is Emmanuelle - which I think is a lovely name, for it reminds us constantly that in every situation, God is with us.

Job

I love the nature of my job. I know what I am doing, there are challenges everyday, and best of all my unit is a cool unit to work with. But now there's an opening elsewhere - and that leaves me wondering "should I move?"

I am a person who gets comfortable very fast. Money is not my priority. Job satisfaction is. And for the most part of it, my relationship with the people I work with takes priority over everything else. I have everything here at Skrine. The hours I keep is my only whine.

I like my men super rich and almost dead

A mug I got myself today. That's all. Having no reply to the email is kind of the closure I needed.

Why is it that everytime I want to blog, I get writer's block?

I NEED to bill.

In the 2010 realm

Jan - work, work work
Feb - -do-

Work never ends but there's always this hope of trying to get ahead of the schedule only to realise there's always more work - this is telling you something you already know right??

Mom asked me the other day whether I was free somewhr around the 2nd week of March- to hangout. She was just trying to sound cool. I totally forgot its gonna be my birthday soon and my parents want to take me out. So not only am I a complete idiot when it comes to remembering other people's birthdays, I now have forgotten my own.

Its a balancing act: work, friends and church.

Then there's the procrastination. Tmrw still got time, what. Its a Friday - no one works on a Fri. Its a Saturday - there's still Sunday to catch up. Come out for dinner.. we can eat quickly and come back to work - yeah right!
Buy a birthday present for someone - or whatever else unnecessary comes to mind, when there's work to be done. Bottomline: pure laziness.

Bought a Netbook this month to cope with working late nights - at least I get to bring the work home. Just realised a Netbook comes without a CD kit - HAHA.. so it was really unnecessary to buy an external stereo. But I've a 16Gb thumbdrive to compensate.

Christmas time!

Its my fav season of the year. Its not the deco, or the air of festivities or the pressies. Its that time of the year where I am awed just by the feeling of Christmas time. This year, I barely felt Christmas right up to about a week ago. Work has consumed my time and my being. Its unhealthy, but I still do it. Not an addiction, but something I've given to accepting with much resignation.

Very important Christmas lesson this year: Be in control of your emotions. Never let it stray to a point where you cannot get it back. * bride of Christ concept*

Presents I bought this year:

1. Jean Paul Gaultier perfume for me mommy

2. Track pants for my sister - the idea was to get a personalized gift :)

3. M&S cookies for Pat

3. Cranberries yougurt coated for Rosey

OMG! Nothing else. I felt like I spent all my savings

Lesson of the year: Honesty is NEVER the best policy. Its a lie people tell you so they know what you really mean. Even if your friend is competitive or bitchy, if it doesn't concern you, just carry on with life. Everyone's not meant to be Mother Theresa. There's a reason why Mother Theresa had a ministry amongst the poor in India. Only survival matters.

I found my Gingerbread man again. He's now been a year with me. Covered in whitish stuff.. which I like to think is snow in his land. Enough said.

Blessed Christmas!. May things be blessed in the Look Like Busy realm.

A month later and trash talking

Its almost a month and a half in the Look Like Busy realm. I list the stooopid things I have done so far: -

• wrote with a red ink pen on an original writ - because I literally took my boss's words "Amend in red ink and file into court" to mean just that;
• filed in written subs and bundle of authorities without highlighting it to Dagang 8. Thank God Y.A. Dato Abdul Aziz is a nice man;
• filed written subs into the Court of Appeal without signing it - had to drive back all the way to Putrajaya with an apology letter;
• assumed that mentions in Shah Alam Sessions Courts begin in the afternoon - nearly got a matter struck out if not for the First Defendant's sols having undertaken to inform us *phew*
• sitting next to June Low when she called out to Ragunath Kesavan "Hullo Uncle" - she obviously had huge-ass cataracts and had mistaken him for her friend's father.

Work is fun. Its tough, exhausting, excruciatingly annoying and time consuming - but I am learning new things everyday. My boss has a mountain of patience and a wealth of wit. I am truly blessed :)

My boss's secretary gives me frequent heart attacks and stress migraines, but I heard I will be getting my own secretary soon - so there is HOPE!

June Low - my boss's chamby has retired and is moving to Malik Imtiaz. I shall miss her and the trash talks she used to indulge me in. But I have other colleagues like Pat and Rosey and Anushka on my floor to trash talk to.

I am teaching Sunday School today - so much for penance.. :) I should marry a pastor. That way I can make money and not feel guilty cuz I'd be supporting a pastor. How noble.

Haryati Deepak is hiring. Now!! Why now??!!! I am settled where I am. I only hoped to stay til I found another place. But now, I cannot move. I love my environment in the Look Like Busy realm. Maybe God has other plans for me.

21.8.2009

It was a significant day in the Look Like Busy realm because it was the day my name was inserted into the Rolls.

My mover, Andrew Khoo was a powerhouse. He made my speech so much more awesome better, over my copied-off-Bats version. 1Peng was my photographer and stood by me the whole day. The judge singled me out and acknowledged my noble efforts of merging IT with law.

Someone once asked me whether after today I'd regret my decision of ever joining the Look Like Busy realm? My answer was an instant no.

For after all, I enjoy looking like busy :)