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Birthday & Updates :)
Saturday, March 26th, 2011 13:51 Here's a long overdue post on the fun stuff that happened during my Birthday :)
This year, the b-day fell on a Sunday. So on Friday, at the office, at exactly 4pm, my boss ushered everyone into the conference room with great urgency. I was like eh??? cause I had NO idea there was going to be a meeting or anything.
Except that when I entered the conference room, I was greeted by a pretty little cake, my smiling boss, and a bunch of staff who were more than happy to have cake in the middle of the day :D
The weekend flew by pretty fast. The family pretty much forgot (Dad went to vietnam, my youngest brother went to KL to see our other brother. Ok in all fairness my youngest brother did send his wishes on Facebook...). But meh...
Cause on Monday, my supervisor suddenly sent me a message, "OK, all the editors are going to bring you out for lunch! We will blindfold you - whatever we feed you, you must swallow today! We leave exactly at 12pm and get a cab to harbourfront!!"
I convinced them to skip the blindfolding, but everything else - trip to harbourfront, Pizza Hut for lunch - i even received gifts from my supervisor - happened in a whirlwind of laughter, smiles, and pizza-hungry editors.
I nearly cried. What did I do to deserve their generosity?
In all the (now) 26 years of my life, I never dreamed that I would have a group of co-workers as giving as those seated around my office cubicle. The rest of the day, I remained confused, stunned, mildly guilty, sad, happy, intensely appreciative and deeply undeserving of the people I worked with.
Stunned cause I didn't know that co-workers could be this good.
Confused cause I wondered where the hell they came from, and why the hell they'd be so good to me.
Guilty cause of my previous preconceptions of working in super-kiasu-laden Singapore - where most people are bloody competitive - only to realize I was downright wrong to think some people were out to usurp when all they desired was to give me the best Birthday they could.
Happy cause... well, obviously.
Sad cause the people who I'd thought would remember, didn't.
Intensely appreciative, cause, well..... whatever, you get it, right?
And typing all this, I deeply comprehend the circumstances whereby the mish-mash of entirely contradicting emotions will mingle together and smite you in the face with a thoroughly sleepless night.
Love.
This year, the b-day fell on a Sunday. So on Friday, at the office, at exactly 4pm, my boss ushered everyone into the conference room with great urgency. I was like eh??? cause I had NO idea there was going to be a meeting or anything.
Except that when I entered the conference room, I was greeted by a pretty little cake, my smiling boss, and a bunch of staff who were more than happy to have cake in the middle of the day :D
The weekend flew by pretty fast. The family pretty much forgot (Dad went to vietnam, my youngest brother went to KL to see our other brother. Ok in all fairness my youngest brother did send his wishes on Facebook...). But meh...
Cause on Monday, my supervisor suddenly sent me a message, "OK, all the editors are going to bring you out for lunch! We will blindfold you - whatever we feed you, you must swallow today! We leave exactly at 12pm and get a cab to harbourfront!!"
I convinced them to skip the blindfolding, but everything else - trip to harbourfront, Pizza Hut for lunch - i even received gifts from my supervisor - happened in a whirlwind of laughter, smiles, and pizza-hungry editors.
I nearly cried. What did I do to deserve their generosity?
In all the (now) 26 years of my life, I never dreamed that I would have a group of co-workers as giving as those seated around my office cubicle. The rest of the day, I remained confused, stunned, mildly guilty, sad, happy, intensely appreciative and deeply undeserving of the people I worked with.
Stunned cause I didn't know that co-workers could be this good.
Confused cause I wondered where the hell they came from, and why the hell they'd be so good to me.
Guilty cause of my previous preconceptions of working in super-kiasu-laden Singapore - where most people are bloody competitive - only to realize I was downright wrong to think some people were out to usurp when all they desired was to give me the best Birthday they could.
Happy cause... well, obviously.
Sad cause the people who I'd thought would remember, didn't.
Intensely appreciative, cause, well..... whatever, you get it, right?
And typing all this, I deeply comprehend the circumstances whereby the mish-mash of entirely contradicting emotions will mingle together and smite you in the face with a thoroughly sleepless night.
Love.
