AT work, my colleagues, my future?

Monday, back at work in my cosy office. Pin up all those souveniers my ex colleages and friends gotten for me on my new pinboard.

11am. My colleague was nice enough to accompany through the long walk to DED to collect my access card to my office door. The walk to DED, though long, but was very peaceful. You will get to see the swimming pool, the big greenery, tennis courts (i think) and it just leave you in peace and serenity. This place that I am working in is less "hurried" than those you see walking in NTU. Big gardens, flat lands, and nice students and esp my colleagues.

Had a nice lunch with my ah fu ge who is kind enough to walk over from his faculty to join me at my premise. Chat a little and did the same old craps. Suddenly a sense of "sadness" overwhelmed me when we parted at the lift lobby. LOL! Well, guess cos he is one of the limited kind soul I became friends with while I was still in NTU. And am glad I approached him during the convocation to tekan him with some silly questions. I knew I can be quite a bully. LOL!

Then, was walking to the pantry to fill up my cup when my colleagues called out to me. They showed me a BIG beetle, koala-bear hugging an apple core. I thought was a toy beetle until they convinced me that they picked it up on the road side and they decide to rear it in the office and they even named it Oscar. This colleague of mine has weird taste she even have a mini cobra (dead) soak in liqour and keep in a bottle, which she puts as display on her desk and she thought if Oscar dies, she is going to pin it up at her desk. LOL!

Then I was thinking of an exotic pet for myself, and I thought of hermit crabs again. Or maybe dead feotus soak in my urine? Hmm......what else can I keep?

You know, back in my ex office in NTU, no colleagues will ever be that friendly enough to even show if they are keeping ants at their desks. Everyone just mind their own business. Whenever you are in doubt, they will just say "I dun know, I am not sure, Not my area" just to brush you off. And whenever there are office lunch parties, everyone will gather around the buffet to pick up their food and went back to their own cubicle to sliently devour it. In constrast, this new dept, though also under NTU, you can feel the strong bonding the staff has for each other. They do not make you feel that asking questions are sins, or make you think that you are all alone. Step by step, they will tell you what is to be done, bit by bit they will impart you, slowly letting go of their hands when I am ready to work independently. And they actually communicates. :)

I am looking forward to the retreat this thur and probably this will be the right place for me. How many wrongs to make one right. This may sounds true now.

Maybe holding a part time to help out someone starting up his business and I really hope to be given the oportunity to try out and learn. God, give me strength, give me determination, give me the trust that I can do it. Give me time....