the roads are getting nearer

Saturday, March 18, 2006

` Saturday, March 18, 2006

Here I was, happily (albeit boredom has its way of making its presence felt when the slacker in me surfaces) living my ho-hum life of temporal non-existence. Wishing and hoping and praying that my boss in the faraway Greenwich Mean timezone would've woke up one day and forgot that he had a lackey hiding in the far corners of the office in the exotic Far East eagerly preparing for the mummification process.

Alas, this was not meant to be. At 5pm sharp yesterday, a tiny blip appeared on the internal company messaging system with a seemingly harmless "Hi, how are you?". A typical way to start a conversation, I gathered. I learnt over time that no one really cared whether you had a bad hair day or that your dog had passed on this morning, hence the obvious but rather rhetoric response would typically be "I'm good, thank you."

The exchange of pleasantries certainly didn't last for long.

The Boss: ".....which brings me to another issue..I have a rather urgent assignment for you to undertake."

Me: (mental alarm bells starting to sound in the far Southern Orient) "I see."

The Boss: "Do you think it might be feasibly possible for you to make a trip to the India office in the next 2 weeks? I know it's quite sudden but it would be good if you could go for the exposure to the other side of the business.......etcetcetc"

Me: (unmentionables representing the best of Chinese dialects violently subdued) "Yes, that's fine. But there will definitely be issues surrounding the visa application and travel arrangements...."

The Boss: "Okay, just try to make your way there as soon as possible. We anticipate that this might take over a week or so or even more if things get to a rather interesting point..."

And there you have it. Another trip to the almost adoptive motherland due in the next 2 weeks. Had it not been such a logistical headache making the travel arrangements and also the fact that I've been summoned to that area countless times in a year back, I'd be more than happy to activate Sammyboy in a jiffy.

I'm trying to attribute the rather violent post-reaction from the conversation to the cumbersome PMS. No wonder there's a Chinese saying that you first taste the bitter, then maybe you'll savour the sweet. I wonder how many times over I'd have to endorse the bitterness and if I'm still keen about the latter benefits.

Comments:

Haha, you belong there, dun kid yourself anymore...

And this whole sweet pink thing needs some getting use to. :)

# posted by

cLaiRe : Monday, March 20, 2006 1:07:00 am

Yup, decided to overhaul the template once in a turquoise moon. Although my links don't seem to work properly despite setting them up properly.

Anyone with good advice on this, please come forward. Thank you.

# posted by

sPuTneeK : Monday, March 20, 2006 2:00:00 pm