Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Song for the day - Mansun: Negative
Today, reality sunk in that my ipod was gone. Travelling to work was suddenly quiet... way too quiet. Usually, I would just plug in and zone out. But without it, now I had to just stare blankly into space.
Over the weekend, my ipod was nicked. It happened at crowded Tampines Mall. I don't even know when it happened or even realised it was gone. Only when I wanted to pay my friend for dinner, opening my bag flap, I realized that it wasn't at it's usual place. Thinking it may have dropped out, we went back to the restaurant to look for it. But the staff said that they didn't see it. Thinking back hard, there was a point where I realized that my bag flap was open. But at that point in time, I brushed it off as my hand accidently hitting it open. Oh well... got no one but myself to blame for being careless. Kame was feeling guilty and offered to pay a bit for it. I was amused that she would think that way. It wasn't even her fault in the first place!
Told my manager about it and he concluded that I was already targeted from the very start. If not, why would my wallet still be around? Well, looking on the bright side, the ipod being nicked would have been better than having my phone or wallet taken. The hassle of remembering all the phone numbers/ replacing all the IC and driving license would have been worse. And since i bought it, it didn't have any sentimental value. If it were a gift, or if I had bought it to commermorate something, I believe I would have reacted very differently. Now, it's just money gone down the drain... and silent travelling days ahead. Nothing which I can't handle.
Sigh.. but still they say negativity breeds negativity. The negative vibes over the weekend seeped to the start of the week. Today was a very messed up day. It began with me waking up and then realising that I did not have the key to my office. Yup. Over the weekend, I gave it to one of my promoters so that she can do some work on my com. And I forgot to get it back. So i had to wait for my manager to get to office. Wasn't so bad. Managed to sneak an extra few minutes of sleep under the sheets.
Work, was as usual, last minute. There are deadlines for me to meet, no doubt. But unfortunately the bottle neck ain't with me but Ops. And this product is supposed to be launched this weekend... right... Dun you just hate it when u have a deadline but others seem oblivious to it? They think their deadline is on Fri. Once they finish their necessary work on Fri, they go for a nice cold pint of beer at Lan Kwai Fung. Ah Nia here in
Was also crabby to some people whom I usually will be nice to on good days. Was at the ATM when this old lady starting asking me for S$1. Usually, I would have obliged (even if she could've been lying). But looking at the ATM and realising that I only have S$20 bucks left in it... I ignored her. I gave flyer distributors/ questionnaire givers/ promoters a look that interpreted as "come up to me and you will die" look. Most stayed clear. Good idea. Even this customer who keeps calling my phone, I lost my patience with him today. I transferred him over to my manager to handle or I would seriously have smashed my office phone to bits (for the record, his request today was totally ridiculous).
Had to go down to Little India to do some translation work. That meant more waiting only. While waiting, some African guy tried to pick me up. Sigh, what's is it about me that attracts the wrong guys, especially the dark skin variety? No offence, but after a really bad relationship with one, the stigma still remains. I just gave him an icy stare. More weirdos ensued: was at Bedok collecting keys from my promoter when this group of guys approached us, asking how to get to
Urgh... i pray tomolo will be a better day.
