Raffles Place Rat

Ok ok... not quite at raffles place... then wat do i call myself? Tanjong Pagar Tiger? hahaaha ridiculous.

so. i'm finally here, at my decided-during-uni short term goal. to be a raffles place rat. to wear a tie, long sleeved collared shirts and swanky leather shoes to work everyday. to wake up when there's already light. to rush to work flustered in the mornings, squeezing with hundreds of commuters on the mrt. to search for a place for lunch amongst huge lunchtime crowds. to work in an aircon, carpeted office, with my very own dedicated extension phone line. working 9am to 7pm, fueled by limitless amounts of coffee. where i always wanted to be.

(of coz, this is as opposed to waking up at 5+am to reach jurong before 8am, wearing polo-tee, jeans and sneakers to work, staring at machines and diagrams all day. but i'd very much rather wake up at 1pm everyday and spend the whole day at home in singlet and shorts and watch gundam seed destiny.)

or is it? everything is new and fun now, but i can't stand the thought of doing this all my life. there must be something more. own business? adventure guide? professional backpacker? i have a follow up 6yr short term goal liao... but that's it. i guess i'll figure it out as i go along.

anyway, right now there's good and bad.

BAD:
- senior colleague who thinks he's damn smart. well, maybe he isn't a bad person... but i think his bark is 10 times louder than his bite. but being new, i may be wrong...
- falling asleep during classroom sessions (wat's new?)
- reaching office sweaty everyday
- limitless amounts of coffee

GOOD:
- my current seat has a view of the sea!
- my current job situation as a whole
- very nice (current) manager
- lunch buddies with all the newbies
- cute girl among the newbies
- rotated for 6 mths (at least i won't get bored so soon)
- (hopefully) being selected for bigger things
-limitless amounts of coffee

frankly, everything is still fluid, coz i'm part of a new hazy programme to rotate noobs throughout my department functions for us to get a better view of things, i dunno wat i'll be doing eventually. i dun think anyone knows. maybe the director's making it up as he goes along, coz my (current) manager's as clueless as me. bad thing is liddat ppl dunno how to deploy me also, and i end up doing sai kang. but at least i learn a lot and hopefully hv chance for bigger things.

yup... i like wat i see so far... but i hvn't seen much yet. the enthu fresh grad vs the perpetual cynic.