Cool On The Exterior, Warm Within
Empty Vessel
Saturday, November 11, 2006 @ 12:18 AM
It's hard to put into words how I feel these days. If you ask me, what are you busy with now? You would probably catch me tongue-tied. Perhaps this sense of drifting about is why I kinda feel.. empty, sometimes. Being in a transition phase now, in-between jobs, studies thrown out of my must-do list, has given me more time on my hands. Time that might still be in excess if I go out on the streets, giving away a little to each beggar I meet. It's not that I don't have things to do; it's more of a lack of direction.
I am still waiting for that miracle to happen.
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The intern had his last day today. But he was on two days' mc, so he practically ended his stint early. Can't say I was in tears over his departure. He wasn't particularly endearing with his bo-chup attitude and his disappearing acts. Out of the 5 interns that I've came across, he was the only one who had us tearing our hair out perpetually. Surprisingly, I was more besotted with his friend, who was helping out in the department right outside ours. When we first met her, we were scrambling to figure out her gender. She was constantly in shirt and pants and had a boyish haircut. It was only when I bumped into her in the ladies that I could confidently embrace her into the sisterhood. Heh.
She brought me to the staff lounge today. My first time in my one year here. I was surprised to find a piano in the room, plus an un-utilised KTV room and bar which were barred by chairs. What a pity. As she began raining her fingers lightly over the piano keys, I was told both of them spent a lot of their time in here. Ah-har.. SO this was where the intern always disappeared to!
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Met up with bra and amy for dinner. It was a good one, with bra regaling us with her war stories with unreasonable customers. Honestly, I've never seen anyone who could turn her nose up at customers without being caught. After all, the customer is always right.
We talked about how time flew. It's been 2 years since I left. It hasn't seemed that long to me. Me at 19, fronting the desk with my other colleagues, praying hard that I wouldn't get a nasty customer each time I clicked the next button. The customer who just refused to listen to your explanation on why you couldn't acede to his unreasonable request, the customer who came in at the eleventh hour and expected you to get his ad in within a few minutes and the huffy one who marched in with fire in his belly and grabbed you as his punching bag. I haven't seen it all but I had met enough of them. Before that, I hadn't known so many kinds of weird people existed in this world.
But then, there were the funny incidents which made your day. The illiterate customer who tried to use the PC for free usage and misinterpreted your instruction of 'clicking' on the hyperlink as literally lifting the mouse onto the screen to click on it. Or the father who came in with a mission - to secure a gf for his son. And subsequently made more trips back to 1) bring the mother to scrutinise the girl 2) pass her a photo of his highly eligible son.
Am feeling terribly nostalgic. Hopefully, one of these days, we will be able to get all of us together for a catch-up session!
