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Thursday Blues

Work is tough these days. I'm so glad that I won't have to go to work tomorrow. Granted this week was a shorter one but none the less still as stressful. See there's another conflict at work. Lets call it a shortage of womanpower in a different section, a solution was presented to us by our boss, which consisted of shuffling the manpower around here and there. The solution is plain and clear. I have no problem with the solution but everyone else does. We had a discussion and suddenly, I'm the antagonist of the whole situation. Sigh. I feel like I've lost once again. From what I gather, the rest of the staff view this reshufflement as some sort of punishment for being too talkative during working hours or something. I don't understand why we can't just buckle down and take it. Work as it is isn't so hard, and it doesn't have to be. On a lighter note, I have plans this weekend. I was invited to a Christening and, I'm meeting by best friend fo

Opportunities.

I was just watching the last season of House, the episode was entitled Autopsy. This is the episode where the patient, another doctor questions Chase's abilities, because despite Chase being granted all the opportunities he could get, being born well of, handsome and intelligent and having been schooled by Gregory House, he hasn't done much with the opportunities he's received. Its made me question my abilities. I have been called a bag of potential waiting to be unleashed. I have been called gifted and intelligent, yet where am I. What have I done with my life? I was just looking through my friends on facebook - more specifically, those that I have gone to school with in Hong Kong. Most of them are very successful individuals. Senior consultants, law undergrads and where am I? Granted, I have been taking it easy for the past 5 years or so and I feel like it hasn't gotten me that much closer to where I inevitably want to be. I'm still a work in progress. High