Day and day and day

And there goes the last week of May, and hence my vacation attachment at my sponsoring company - for now.
Today is my very last day at the company before I get the whole of the month June off so that I can concentrate on training with my dragonboat teammates for the dragonboat festival come the 30th. Looking back, these 3 weeks has its fair share of exciting, and yet sometimes hilariously unfortunate events which I'm starting to accept as a part of my perhaps semi-charmed life.

Let's see. I met a lot of nice friendly people at the company, and not to mention machines which were 2-3 times my age. You'd be surprised to know that despite being old, they've almost never broke down before in their many years of service. No wonder the company which produced these machines went bust - there were no orders for new machines since the old ones seem to last forever xD

I got the chance to indulge myself in the super hot, and dust-filled, sauna-like atmosphere near the plant furnaces. As mentioned to a fellow staff on the orientation tour, it was more of a pore-opener than an eye-opener to us; and the guys were just grinning away at the girls from HR dept, with expressions which say, "NOW, you know what work is like for us xD ".

I met two charming young ladies from the HR department. One of which probably was either disgusted or extremely amused by my attempt to ask her to help me to fill in my feedback form for last week's staff orientation according the answer key ("54553554454434544545" "wonderful" "magnific" "Tan Jo" "QA/QC" "28/5/07") that I sent her through email. The other one was either irresistibly cute or was totally in love with "Milo" when she knocked her own head against a Milo tin she was playing with when she was little, making a tiny crescent-shaped scar in between her eyes.

Tan Jo probably made his own name known to the CEO of the company when he accidentally emailed a print request to his big big boss instead of to his colleague in the same room. *shudders in horror at the thought of being called to the CEO's office to pick up the printed documents that I requested* Good thing he was out of town when I sent out the email, so that I had time to recall the contents of the email through the mail system (WELL, I honestly hope that it worked) =P .

Frustration was the word to describe how my colleague and I felt during our attempts to mark out a 6m x 2.4m perfect triangle on the plant floor using nothing but chalk, a 60cm ruler and a measuring triangle. Oh my poor legs and back >< . I can't believe that I totally overlooked the fact that it could've been faster had I used a piece of string and chalk as a protractor to sweep out the sides and diagonals of the rectangle I was supposed to draw -- feeling stupid (this is reinforced by the fact that I did badly in my results of semester 2 which just came out last Saturday). You should've seen my black-as-coal fingers when I was done.. heck, even the chalk I was using turned black.

"If you have but one wish, what would you wish for?" was the question that I posed to people around me, ever since I overheard this pair of aunties chatting on the company bus about how a Miss Universe contestant wished to be able to take 2nd helpings without putting on weight. The responses are varied. A young friend of mine wished for a girlfriend. Another friend in NZ wished that his 2 assignment papers are done. An undergraduate in medical school wished that she would get her wings and halo soon and become a full-fledged 'angel', while another drama queen kind of girl wished that she'd know how to be herself better. My best friend wishes to be reincarnated as a girl, while my cousin and this other girl wished to have "endless wishes". It's interesting how one's response tell so much about their character and personality.. my conclusion? I have a lot of weird friends -- and I love them all xD

She agrees with my postulate that horoscopes are a kind of personality brainwashing, and she paints her own room while chatting online in the middle of the night. Yay, another addition to my pool of crazy aquaintances! ^^ AND she's coming. Look out Singapore! xxxDDD