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Sigh… Aida has now officially transferred to post fixtures team. I attended the farewell party (which was super rare of me since I usually don’t join in their social activities) and only reached home just now. Aida was interviewed by me and I felt quite upset that this has happened… it’s all thanks to one of our leads. Argh. Never mind… Damage was done and there’s no point moping around about it.

Let’s hope she’s happy there… hopefully there’ll be one day she’ll come back and join our team again.

So I was looking back fondly at my old office desk photos where I have a little anime corner with Rukia and Ichigo plushies and some Ragnarok Online merch.

Then it hit me – I hadn’t been taking pics of my current office desk ever since then.

There had been so much seat rearrangements that I have moved most of my barang barang back home, so my desk is kinda neat now. I’m not a fan of extremely clean desks, but I have to say this will be so much easier to clear if I leave this job some day. (Just wondering when the day will come since I’m already 19 years in, going 20 next year).

So here it is…

There’s my Dota2 TI jacket (from Taobao hahahaha), Leopold 96% brown switch mech keyboard, Steeleseries mousepad, Logitech Pebble.

No more anime corner, but there’s the Death Note clock that I somehow forgot to bring home. Found it in my pedestal a few months back, decides to pop some batteries in there and voilà, it still works! So back up it goes, on the desk top where it’s supposed to be anyway.

Maybe some day 10 years down the road, I’ll look back on this post with a smile on my face as usual… :)

今天请了假，去打疫苗第二季。

结果在外面的时候就收到一些工作方面令人气得冒烟的消息。连我在打字回给老板的时候，手都是气得抖着的。

连听着深深的歌都没办法让我冷静下来。

当然， 我回老板的语气是很不友好的。

现在过了几个钟，还是听着深深的歌声，我也慢慢的冷静下来了。（虽然那口气还是很难咽下去。）

一直在想，深深应该不希望他的粉丝们会不开心或没礼貌吧。虽然他永远都不会知道，但我还是该为了他做一个有礼貌的生米吧。

好想有个发泄口。

I’ve nothing to do at work.

Nothing.

God, this is so boring.  I’ve done all my work, and now it’s really just a lull period, till month end when we’ll start to do our quarter-end closing. Meh, but before that… I’m just bored.

Amended the side bar background a little – changed the picture to reflect the current season “Fall”.  I think it looks pretty nice, yes?  I’ve changed the text background colour from black to grey as well, so that it’s easier on the eyes with white-ish fonts.

It’s not good being bored… I’m so tempted go visit Taobao to browse the items, and if I do that, most likely I’ll just buy more unnecessary stuff.

Counting down to my Japan trip…

Wow.

I was browsing through the old comments, when I found an old gaming friend commenting on one of my blog entries which I had almost forgotten about.

The blog entry is here:  A Random Mix  (Fourth paragraph onwards)

I really had forgotten about this conversation until now, when I re-read it again.  It has been, what, 5.5 years after I posted that?  And I’m still here in this company, working with the same bunch of people.  And yes I’m still myself, being as efficient/capable as before and not pretending to be dumb or stupid.

No, I don’t mince my words or act humble when it comes to work.  I know my strengths as well as weakness.  I don’t pretend to be all “no la I where got so good” when I know I am good.  And yes, this is still pissing the rest of my colleagues off, but hey, I don’t care how they think of me now.  I’ve been doing my work just fine, and well, they can try to backstab me if they want to, but they can’t do anything to me when it comes to work.  My shields are always solid, up and ready, even against people in my own department. I know my work inside out, something which I daresay they don’t.  They’ve no idea what they are doing – they are only following what I do, copying my templates.  Heck, they even need to take my emails and use them as templates when they are sending formal emails out to suppliers or to other departments.  So unless they can reach or catch up to my level of understanding and consistency at work, they can try all they want to badmouth / backstab me, and I’m still immune to it.

I didn’t survive in this company/position for 11 years out of luck or due to strings being pulled, you know. ;)

11 years in this company, in this department, and I’ve found out that there’s no true friendship between colleagues in the same department.  They are all friendly towards each other on the surface, always gossip with each other during lunch, but if one day someone in that group is absent, you’ll find the entire group gossiping negative stuff about the one who isn’t there.  Such hypocrisy.  I’m so glad I wasn’t part of it.

So yes, I’m still sticking around, going about in my own merry way, getting things done before deadlines, settling in this small, warm, cosy corner where the shelf partition hides me from plain view.

Working life isn’t that bad after all, sometimes.  :mrgreen: