after helping to arrange two meetings for top management, i've decided that being someone else's personal assistant (PA) is probably a job that i'll avoid at all costs. having been culpable for rescheduling meetings several times, i felt guilty even to have to call those PAs up to tell them that meetings been changed again. surely doesn't help that these PAs' bosses are highly busy ppl with packed schedules. i can just imagine how nerve-wrecking it must be getting all these phone calls from diff ppl in the organization all day and having to reshuffle meetings/appointments again and again! bearing that in mind, i guess i can empathise with some of them for being a little hostile at times; or for wanting more commitment to certain dates given... hehe certainly doesn't help that being a small fry in the office i can't make big decisions on the spot! :P

beginning to feel like though colleagues are all very nice ppl, prob wun get to know them very well; but maybe it's still too early to tell. ppl do talk, gossip etc, but feel like there's less of the get-to-know-each-other-better kind of talk... hehe and given my tendency to keep to myself, i guess i ought shoulder some of the blame as well! feel like right now, it's quite impossible to hang out a lot with ppl and to get to know ppl really well, like i did in uni... maybe that's why ppl say after you get out of sch, it's a lot harder to make good friends. aiyah i guess there will be exceptions too. haha maybe when i start getting a lot of OT... and have to go through thick and thin with colleagues, the chance will arise. :P

there were 7 infants and toddlers in total at my colleague's housewarming party yesterday! given my experience living with Kai and family, this isn't exactly an eye-opener, but it's been a while! at one point, i was also 'passed' my colleague's ten-month-old baby... whom i tried very hard to hold properly, while frantically trying to draw on my baby-carrying experiences some 16 years ago with my then extremely little cousins. i was told by a colleague who recently crossed over from the private sector that the phenomenon of young married couples/young married couples with kids is certainly not the norm where she used to work. i guess it might be cos ppl working in private/public sectors have diff priorities? anyway, i was a lil baffled how till today i dun seem to have 'shaken off' my guai1 image... one colleague, when introducing me to her husband, joked that i was the guai1 type who "will stand up just to shake his hands"... i mean i know i'm not pai4 but why is it that wherever i go i seem to project this guai1 image...