my past 1+ month has been a lil tad boring and uneventful, which explains the unavailable awesome blog posts that used to display themselves vividly on this website.
since i started working, waking up everyday always leads to going through a repeated process of what we called as routine, which often ended up me coming back home late from work, have dinner, shower, surf the world wide web, and crawl to bed, dreading the next day to come. my boss always seems to appear right on the dot whenever it is time to leave the office, and he calls going back at 6.30pm… early.
let me elaborate more on my job. office hours are from 8.30am- 5.30pm (8 hours exclude one hour lunch time). because we have this system whereby all staffs are required to punch their cards as a method of checking in within the period of 8.30-9am (allowance of 30mins for traffic jam etc), i always chose to punch in late. in fact, the later the better! why? one would raise this question. because even if i punch in on time (8.30am), if my boss shows up in my office room close to 5.30pm, i’ll have to stay back and finish up the work he’ll bring up along with him.
one project i fear most is a singapore project involving jalan tukang and its neighbouring jalan jentera. the mention of the word ‘tukang’ in my office sends chills down everyone’s spine, except my boss of course. designing the road itself is tedious. i have to take in consideration of the existing ground elevation, the planting and services level, the footpath level, and the drain invert level which thus leads to the drain depth. i also have to match those levels with any existing road and boundary levels. oh, the headache!
apart from this project, i was also in charge of the soon-to-complete uitm selayang campus. basically, it’s just cleaning up what messes my senior, whom have already left the company, left behind. the owner of this project is our very own public works department (jkr), and they’ve appointed another company as an independent checker, who is in charge of checking my company’s design on the uitm selayang campus. this independent checker has been enquiring a couple of questions which i, no doubt, fails to answer due to my freshness in this field and mainly because this project wasn’t designed by me, and therefore i do not know the design concept, the applied analysis, the whereabouts of the complete software model etc.
the only thing that actually kept my sanity from jumping out the window is by socializing. a couple of yumcha session once awhile, sometimes followed by a movie, or just meet up for some catching up. lately, thursday actually, i met up with jinni, mayjune, chianming, alvin and liying. we had our dinner at murni, went over to jinni’s place cos mayjune want to check her results online, and then back to another mamak that we call nasi lemak ayam (on mayjune’s request). hanging out like this, it felt good – well, not orgasmic good, but still good – and all those talks makes it feels like the good old times.
sometimes it makes me wonder, did i rush into working life too soon? what if i just took another 1-2 months holiday before starting my work? wonder would i be jobless now if that’s the case. hmm, i guess that is yet another one of my road not taken 
