BUSY BUSY

not happy today.
one of my colleagues has been working his butt off for weeks.
he's been staying late and working through weekends,
I don't even know how he does it.

and the only reward he gets is complaints on how he kept missing datelines.
it's not like he hasn't been working on it,
but it's like that with coding,
sometimes things works, most times they don't and you just get stuck debugging.

I didn't like what i saw.
it's such a thankless job.
I felt so sorry for him.

so i was sitting in the train complaining to God abt why things are like this,
and God went "do something"
"huh, like what?"
"you said no one appreciated him, so do something to encourage him."
"what if he thinks i have a crush on him?"
"pfft"

got him a card.
he better not make a big deal of it when i put it on his desk tmrw.

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i think there can be, and should be, more love in the office.
but all it takes is one to be selfish to make everyone else selfish too as a defensive measure.

it's very depressing.

Jesus must have been so saddened being amongst Man.

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getting dangerously close to being a one hit wonder toastmaster.
ever since the laksa thing i haven't been able to peak again.

we often joke abt how evaluation and impromptu speech contests are impossible to prepare for and there's a huge element of luck involved.

best lor.

I joined for fun and now i feel a burden to be more prepared since i'm a rep of the club.
and yet perhaps the more i prepare the less spontaneous i'll be.

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Asked shepherd if she wanted any songs from my mp3 player.
"nah, your songs are probably the noisy kind"
"no, i have soothing ones too. Just don't take those like 'my life will suck without you'"

i'm amused by how foul mouthed i feel when i use the word 'suck' and 'shit' when i'm with the church folks.

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Been reading up on cambodia.
angkor wat sounds like such a grand place.
Going on a short volunteer trip there.
If things go our way, we'll end up in a village with no electricity, lights, and "meagre" food.

Survivor time!

we'll get two days of free travel at the end and i've been placed in charge of the two days.
Grace joked that i seem to be more excited abt the last two days than the volunteer work itself.

Cambodia's attractions are all wats.
i only just realised angkor wat is a wat.
in other words, a temple, just like the wats in Thailand.
i always thought angkor wat is a name,
but nope. it's a wat called angkor.

we learn something new everyday.

our facilitator teased us with, "yeah, you guys can stay as long as you like and visit all the wats, just don't, you know, stay until you convert or something"

couldn't help smiling at that comment.
i can still hear Weiping's voice after we came back from chiang mai and i told her i converted to christianity.

"YOU MADE ME VISIT ALL THE WATS, AND YOU COME BACK AND GOT CONVERTED???

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i'm tired.
time to sleep.