Wednesday, September 21, 2005
^^''''''''', it took someone I knew in high school to remind me that it was the moon festival. *blushie*............I'm getting so old, couldn't even remember.......
This year it was set on the 18th of September, for people to bring out the mooncakes (although I'm sure everyone has been enjoying the traditional and now funky new flavors of mooncakes since a month) *thinks*.........they've been showcasing some like snow skin mooncakes, chocolate caramel mooncake, icecream mooncake....stuff like that........we are still partial to the orthodox lotus paste and egg yolk ones ^^...oh yeah, bring out mooncakes, and lanterns, and everyone sit together for a big dinner....
There are many legends behind the mooncake festival......one speaks of a warrior who shot down the nine suns, and in a rage, the sun god took away his wife and made her into the moon goddess....also there are stories about the mooncakes, such as rebels putting secret messages into the little cakes to warn the villagers about the soldiers coming...........
We didn't celebrate this year........hmmm, haven't really for a long while. We used to have lanterns in different patterns like fish, and dragon, and rabbit, and bring them outside, candles shining through the shiny colored crepe paper, and walk around outside. The moon, said to be the brightest during these three days would shine above.................
Haven't done that for massive long time..................sure we get the cakes, actually we get tons delivered to us *mutter about status*, never could finish them, though the boxes are pretty..............then it's just me and grandma, at home.....*sigh*
Second day of work!!!!!!..............boss wasn't even in when I arrived ><....they bunked me off into the small meeting room since they had no available place...I'm wondering if he even told any of his staff I'm working there......
Then got a laptop, a very ooold, laptop, plunked infront of me with the instructions 'set it up and dont put your finger into the socket', and two minutes later during the set up, got a shelf thrown into the room with the instructions 'make it smaller'.
*tick tock*
So there I was on hands and knees unscrewing the shelf apart, taking away the actual shelves, and screwing them back together again.......settled infront of the comp, got briefed on documents, and then I was back into drafting letters....see, what did I say.........
*tick tock*
this.................is.................so...............boring...........
Spent the morning after the letters AND reading a, all jokes aside, five inch thick affidavit. That is a five inch thick, full of papers with words, document....
Then I just focused on fuseki......^^''''''''''''
And reading lawyer jokes which I found in Mr Lee's comp........
Got taken out for lunch. Chinese herbal soup place....I ordered chicken rice ^^'''''''......the thing about me and food, is that I have to know what I'm eating....and the forever traditional chicken rice is what I know best........
Was with Mr. Lee and Ms Cherine, the two senior partners of the firm. It's really weird, but it keeps happening, that I'm prone to be with the bosses rather than the staff...........even my last attachment, though occasionally I was taken to lunch or to court by Mr. Lee's legal assistant, most of my time was still spent with the senior partners at any time. Just find it really hard to talk to anyone else.....like they all do their own thing............and most of my stuff are given by the boss, requiring very little to do with anyone else in the office. Doesn't help when they all keep wondering what race I am ........the first question I got wasn't 'what's your name' but 'are you chinese'..................*sigh*
Boss got a client after lunch, in the meeting room, so I was stranded and went into the other 'office' where I found an available and working and networked comp!!! Right into the internet I go to amuse myself. Boss' laptop had NOTHING except for microsoft office which wasn't even fully installed with all the cool stuff that I could possibly fool around with, it had no office games, and of course no internet. I spent the morning clicking on documents........so was way happy when I found the office comp....................it had spider solitaire!!
Alas, Boss called me away and said 'ok, you can use my office' and set me tons of work to do right before I was meant to leave for home....drafting letters, settling his accounts, faxing and mailing letters, putting together exhibits for his case....................
The phone kept ringing during the times he was briefing me ^^.....grandma insistent of me leaving.......................
Which means tomorrow I will have work right on my desk...........uh...whatever desk they decide to give me ^^
Hmm....it's so weird ne. I keep getting these players who challenges me 'touya akira style'. Not on KGS anymore, so I get them through msn, where they go 'I will play you again in a year!!!' cos by then they would have gotten stronger...........I'm just wondering....why me...........there are so many stronger players than me on the net, especially on KGS, but they are insistent on wanting to beat me in a year.....*sigh*
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 10:16 PM
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