Monday, May 15, 2006

Yes i agree Soleil... its time i updated my blog...

Well... life's the way it is now... can't say i love it, can't say i dread it either... its just the leaf floating on the river flow inevitably to be swallowed up by the sea...
Work at Compass Energy had so far been mundane... the offshore oil industry is far too complex for such a greenhorn like me to be activated into service immediately... so i spent my time doing the trivial like filing, photostating, organizing, and indexing. Now that i've compiled the previously haphazard data into reasonably neat files, my work just started piling up today. Good? Perhaps... Tomorrow's gonna be a busy day too i foresee... i guess it beats being bored at work...
Big L has a point, he certainly has learnt alot from his one year's head start at work, and he taught me that the only way to prove your worth to the company, is to make it such that your colleagues need to come to you for certain things to be done. I was doing the silly things like filing, putting purchase orders of various items the company had ordered into files, printing nice labels to stick to the divider tabs so that we have neat files divided into neat sections for purchase orders, technical data, drawings etc. It has paid off i guess... i'm now sorta the guy to go to if people need information... which also means work will pile up. Well, lets see...

Threw Big L a surprise party on Vesak Friday... boy the look on his face was priceless... pity the weather was wet on Friday evening and our BBQ held in L's honor though fun did not go as smoothly as we'd have hoped with the charcoal taking far too long to light, the fire not being warm enough for the food to cook quick enough etc. Unfortunately it was the kind of situation that we've already been sucked into this plan, since we had spent time in the day marinating the chicken wings to be bbq'ed, so we couldn't have a plan B to get around the wet weather. Hopefully the next BBQ will be better...
I can't wait for Al to send me the pictures... man L's face will be etched in my memories for years to come :) I mean surprising someone for his birthday is one thing, but surprising him in his own house, getting his gf AND his parents into the act is another :) boy did he get it good... ooh i can't wait for the pictures :D

As for the additional term? Seems like everyone i talk to is sort of envious that i'm still in school... despite the fact that i'd be missing Commencement with my own batchmates, despite the fact that i'm actually gonna be paying school fees again (unless i manage to negotiate some sort of settlement with the Office of Finance to pay for less school fess which is highly unlikely - speaking of which i should get down to doing that... sigh more begging and grovelling again... )
I sometimes even wonder whether i'll last that long in Compass to even consider juggling school and work next term... Well... lets see...

Been in a pensive mood lately... Lay in bed sometime last week and stared at the ceiling letting random thoughts slip in and out of my mind... Somehow one thought crept in and stuck in my head... and that was the fact that i remember very little of my childhood... i've got stories to tell oh i certainly do, but i look back and wonder, what else can i remember? I'm officially no longer a child, almost officially a working, financially independent (almost) adult, leaving behind my past, yet bringing along so few memories...
And life has a way of squirting you in the eye, and a friend's MSN nick just happened to be "Work.... Sleep..... Work..... Sleep..... Work..... Sleep..... Work...." didn't help either... Soleil on the other hand has a roller-coaster of a childhood... climbing trees, throwing stinky Noni fruits at her sisters (she still denies having done that), sat in big lorries driving through dirt roads in the countryside... what about me? I dunno... i guess i'm just child-sick... i've always been the youngest of my contemporaries having been born in December, i've always been the most childish of my contemporaries because i refuse to grow up, i've always been the imaginative idealist among my contemporaries because life is simply far too boring otherwise... Yet now, i've shed this boyish skin to a more evolved organism, but am i necessarily more mature, or am i still struggling to get back into the old skin just so i can justify my clinging onto my childish tendencies, my idealistic hopes, my imaginative past, and my fading memories?

Dr@n|xX at 11:43 PM