hello 25 goodbye 41

we have moved office. yes, 3 months on and we have said our farewell to the dingy albeit cosy abode @ 41a neil to a much bigger and more nicely refurbished reside @ 25 a neil.

but i m so gg to miss the old place - so many memories and more significantly, that was where our hopes and dreams first took flight. my list of top 5 most unforgettable moments @ 41a:

1. the days before the opening - numerous trips to ikea to shore up the necessaries - including that day we bought the company's flower (daisy) and the night market cny shopping @ chinatown where we bought the plant and many versions of the cny delights.
2. opening day itself (17 feb): a day that started totally tensed (what with the fiasco the night before with d.) but was filled with a lot of buzz and a lao yu sheng session (with said yu sheng kindly sponsored by lifen).
3. the many nites of playing 'in-between' with various frds
4. the long nite just after our first month of ops when we were struggling with the old ops system (g calender) and trying to come up with a brand new approach - that nite proved to be our most productive nite ever as we settled so many outstanding issues and exhibited much fire fighting skills to smoothen our ops running.
5. the day that we had our first company lunch (to commenerate our 1 month in op) @ yan palacce

actually, what must be remembered most about 41a is really that it was the birth place of our aspiration - the many falls we took along the way to make it happen and the many ppl who helped us and encouraged us to make sure we perserve on. there were of cos the ones who snubbed us for our humble beginnings (they chose to overlook our wealth in vision and focused instead on the seeming poverty of our locale) - that made us much stronger and more steely in our resolve to prove them otherwise.

more imptly, 41a must be remembered for the collective efforts of our 3 dear staff - their steadfast belief in us and constant encouragement to us made this not just another office where we go abt our daily grind but more like a family where we support one another and bought into a common goal.

and so it is - hello 25a, goodbye 41a - u will always be remembered.

dear journal

finally ... the bad seed in my company has been removed - time to pull out the confetti and start the music (kelly clarkson's 'already gone' is prime choice for spin simply due to the title alone). it's bye bye n. and no thanks for the constant 'dejected demeanor which fringes on self pity that is seriously unattractive' (quote from antm cycle 14 - tyra still has it in her to dish out the meanest shit!) and for the smart alec-ky attitude that begged to be adored and for the 'i-m-doing-a-good-job-pls-look-at-me-and-give-me-a-pat-on-the-shoulder' look everytime something as mundane (and inane!) as getting in on time is achieved.

good riddance!

dear journal, why is it increasingly difficult to get someone who is reliable these days? is it that difficult to get someone who actually takes being on time for work and putting in a solid 6 hours work as part of their job scope instead of having to fall back on motivation and showering praises whenever these happen? simply put, since when is it the boss's job to cajole u to stick to punctuality and hard work? i paid for yr existence in the company for crying out loud!

moving on, the past week was a pretty emotional rollercoaster ride for me. confrontations, arguments, patch-ups, tempers flew and admist all these, a birthday dinner for d. honestly, at this rate i might as well be diabolic - what with the many facets i have to put on, sometimes within the same hour - i fear i might be losing myself. i can almost feel like my feelings numbed up at a certain instance when the usual argument took place and the usual culprit flew into a "face-tearing" confrontation - i dont even feel shocked or maligned or upset anymore - ke$ha might as well be singing blah blah blah in my head when the episode happened. it is not good.

olc is moving to a new venue - fyi. and after MONTHS of being put on hold and being part of someone else's big fat plan, the dust has finally settled as to where i wd be setting up my new insurance agency branch. i m thrilled and excited by the new prospects. familiar grounds again after all these time, what goes around indeed comes around! wish me luck!

the longest distance...