Thursday, August 26, 2004
Two more days until I’m free!!! Actually I won’t really be since up till now I haven’t yet made a dent in the momentous wall of homework that I have. This is a testament to my laziness and boredom regarding homework. Lest anyone keeps insisting that I like to study…this is proof…..I DO NOT.
Just that I don’t like getting told off so I make sure things get done. And also because I don’t want to get unidentified gradings on my exam papers……….I do have a reputation, you know….although I have no idea why the image of me as ‘conscientious student no. 1’ followed through to my new school……………*sigh* (I do this a lot)
Anyhow, there is still something not quite right with my home computer so I am unable to load up my new pictures (drawings) onto imageshack to display here….. I also had a few newspaper cuttings to put in my other blog Dagazdreamer……
So, while I am pining away in the office where I am now an adept at the game of solitaire ^.^……… I did say that I was going to update on the happenings of yesterday right? Well, yesterday has become the day before last, so bear with me for awhile as I recount….
Yesterday:-
Normal day at work, then we went out for lunch with boss number one and boss number two and their friend whom I think would soon become boss number three. Nice little resto…but then all the eateries here are little………but great food, since they serve only dim sum which is a kind of Chinese delicacy usually for brunch…..yum yum, my favourite is something called the ha gau, prawns wrapped in super thin wanton skin……..*is very happy*
During lunch, which as usual I was busy eating in silence while everyone else talked (my bosses seem to only talk about work related stuff…..do all bosses do that?). Atopic came up about staff……..another fav topic of boss…….it’s hard to get good staff around this area cause of the place location…no busses, no train…how do they expect people to actually come? But it seems that many are leaving or have left and they found it hard to retain them……bad thing when you are trying to keep a business going….also because boss number one is quite unorganized and would certainly get many many files lost without a legal aide on hand…..and they don’t know why and thus asked me if it is their fault. Now being right in the middle with connections to both staff and bosses puts me in a very difficult position because I know the reason why but I can’t exactly rat out on them now can I? Some of the reasons included that the bosses are really stingy i.e. only giving the dispatch person $8 to deliver something right to the border of the state!! And also by the fact that the staff aren’t really interested in the job…maybe work one year then do something else kind of attitude……..how to get them committed if they don’t even like the job ne?
But then, I couldn’t say anything so I just shrugged and said not really…….the bosses aren’t that difficult actually….but then they are in a lull right now and I don’t have much to do, plus I have a computer with an internet connection…….. I think I would have died without an internet connection…….but then it is also a reason why my homework still exists……
By the time I got home and told my family i.e. mother and grandma…the horrors!!!! They of course do not understand the term loyalty and told in confidence………they said I should have told boss what the reasons were since I knew, but my argument was that something that was told to me in confidence can’t be blurted out like a turkey gobbling. Also I don’t work there, so who am I to destroy good boss and staff working relationship? Right? I honestly think that my family has spent too much time being more or less rich people and thus in the boss side of life, that they have lost all connections to the poor working people who has to make a living……it’s simply how we conduct ourselves, if I was to go blurting out such facts, then what is to stop them badmouthing me next time? Do unto others what you want others to do unto you……… I prefer to be a nice person and keep my mouth shut…………………*nods*
The day before yesterday:-
I’m wondering if anyone can read this…I’m typing in such small font…….but anyways…….
This was a court day so woke up early with the headache that reminded me of the steam engine *ouch*……then spent about an hour stuck in traffic to go to the state court all the way out there……*ouch*………..we got lost around the area because they are signboards and houses everywhere……plus my mind was a little unclear (I thought the building was yellow when it was actually white………^.^)
So up I trotted on the stairs (stairs again!!!), and into a building filled with the black and white…and criminals…..probably…….and thus began the my institutionalized behaviour engineered for work, I waited….that’s the very important lesson and the thing I would be doing 24/7 when I become a full fledge practicing litigator……… I would wait……eternal…….
But at this time I was waiting for my boss who is coming in his little horrendous yellow coloured hunting jeep (the type you see in Africa being ridden by the horrid hunters shooting after some innocent animal), and he is late. He was late the last time, and he was late this time and he had the dignity to tell me to arrive promptly at nine o clock!!! *Heave*……….always punctual me woke up with a headache, arrived on time, and boss is late……………………………………there goes my scolding, and he did sound rather apologectic…………..*blinks*………. ^.^ I’m not one to hold a grudge so I padded upstairs to watch some court proceedings on my own….halfway he rang and said come down, he was here…but downstairs after some ferocious searching and panicking on my part, he promptly came swaggering up the stairs into the main hall where I was……*sheesh*
More waiting……………..then we went into chambers to see the judge (id you know that everytime I follow to chambers, boss had to ask permission for me to be there? Cool………………………………)
The judge was nice…youngish looking…lots of medals and trophies…. I didn’t know that there was something called court games (sort of like sports day for judges) *lol*
It was very cool………….lasted about 15 minutes then we were out of there…..into boss’ jeep!! *ouch* *double ouch*….his jeep feels like an irregular massage chair….quite comfortable for me since the head rest was just right for me, but occasionally the jeep goes *wham* and whiplash ensues……*ouch*………
Wow…..this is a long entry isn’t it?
Well, to finish…..in the car, boss and I had a long conversation about one of his cases…..which was pretty cool cause he single handedly threw the opposing lawyer out of court as well as the case (metaphorically I mean). What happened was that a company was suing some tenants who were also its shareholders. The tenants got represented by boss who got them to remove the existing directors and appoint him as the company’s lawyer. This was all done like the day before court, so during it when the lawyer representing the company was asked to stand, both boss and the opposing lawyer stood up! Then boss put forward several resolutions declaring the removal of the directors, the removal of the lawyer, the instatement of him as the lawyer and the petition to throw out the case since the company was no longer suing!!! *lol* while everyone else was in a blur……..wow, sometimes being a lawyer isn’t so bad after all……………………
Anyway….got to sign off here cause the entry is way long……………
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 5:13 PM
Comments:
Post a Comment