Is It Really Friday?

I woke up this morning, looked at my hand-phone & got a bit of a shock to realize that it is already Friday! So fast?! It’s shocking to not realize how fast time flies! Although I’m glad that it is finally the weekend…

My supervisor & I had a meeting in the morning with the Restroom Association of Singapore. As part of formality, I was once again tasked to prepare a pot of tea & Styrofoam cups to be placed in the training room. As usual, nobody drank from the cups & pot of tea. What a waste! A few tea bags are wasted each time we have such meetings with external companies at our training room. I commented about this to my supervisor & he said no choice, coz it’s just formality.

The meeting went well, with the Executive Director sharing with us some interesting action plans for his company & my supervisor listened to find out how this may be synchronized with what my team is currently doing. Interesting ideas, but fallible model… not very feasible, from the way he looked at it. To some extent, I agree with my supervisor too.

Lunch was rather different today, not because of the food, but because we actually started talking about Christianity! I can’t remember how this topic started, but one of my Christian team-mate & I started talking about Christianity to my supervisor. But alas, he wasn’t very receptive to what we were saying… not because he is closed up, but it’s because he is TOO open to all kinds of religion.

I found it difficult to carry on the conversation coz he’s very firm about respecting all other religions & it is considered insensitive to say that your religion is better than another. With such a mindset, I really don’t know how else to say. But oh well, my team-mate said that we could still pray for him. Nevertheless, being able to start a conversation about Christianity is at least one step towards creating an awareness or openness to discuss about this. It’s still a good first start…

Soon after lunch, my supervisor & I had to rush down to Keppel Towers to meet one of our SNEF consultant & research executive, to discuss about this salary survey which we have been tasked by the higher management to carry out. It’s so interesting how my supervisor can get so humorously worked up, coz everyone else unknowingly kept on focusing on the details, whereas he’s trying very hard to help us see the bigger picture.

But one thing I must say – that I really applaud my supervisor for his incredible analytical ability. He is very, very good at seeing the WIDE (not just big) picture about almost anything! No wonder he is able to lead my team this strongly. That’s why I said, my job is an intellectual one… not 100%, but to a very large extent involving much brain activity.

Returning back to the office, we found out that almost everyone from the other departments had left the office for their weekend! It’s left with my team hard at work, as usual… this time, my supervisor left for home before me! Coz my other colleague & I stayed back to work overtime for another 2 hours to clear our work. It’s quite surprising to realize after 2 hours of OT that there is still so much more work to do! But we were both tired & decided to go home… of course, bringing back some stuff to read & analyze for the next week of work.

It’s an interesting job, I must say… though complex & tiring. I’m beginning to see myself evolving into a much more intellectually responsive person. To a certain extent, this has become a fair bit of occupational ‘hazard’ coz people working in my type of job scope tend to or is required to analyze matters in all possible angles. I find that I have difficulty laughing over silly or lame things at times… I don’t think that it’s because I’m too serious, but perhaps because my mind is processing my thoughts differently nowadays, especially at work. Thankfully, it’s not an entire change of mental tendency… just sometimes…