Saturday, November 22, 2003 :::
I keep yawning at work, it could very well be because of the horrible weather. It has been raining since yesterday evening as I got of work and now at 12.30 it STILL raining. I can never understand Sydney's rains. They go on for days with rain but can go for months without a single drop of water. WEIRD!
Yesterday was quite a sad day at work and I declare that 2 of my bosses are MASSIVE PRICKS. Following up from my previous entry, Jo has left the company and not in a very nice manner I should say. As I said Jo put in a letter with Sasha and even spoke to him about the possibility of leaving on Friday. He seemed alright with it so it was settled that Jo was leaving on Friday. But on Friday morning, (we have 8am meetings every Friday) Sasha asked Jo to stay on after the meeting so I came back down here. Next thing I knew Viv was running down asking if Jo was here. Apparently Sasha asked her to leave immediately instead of finishing the day and instead accussed her of not giving the company enough notice and that it was unfair. Jo was crying when she left the boardroom and just left. I can't believe that Aaron and Sasha would be so mean. How can Jo plan that her mom would be sick? How can she plan that her sis would've passed away 3 months ago. Its just effing ridiculous. I strongly believe in karma and believe that one day it will come back to haunt them. Aaron dared to even say that from an employers point of view it was not beneficial. They just have no heart. Why couldnt they just allow her to finish off the day. She lives so far away and gets up at 6am just to get to the meeting at 8am and they just ask her to leave? She wanted to leave properly, have everything done up instead of having things left the way it is now.
Viv and I are having a hard time because we don't know what Jo has been doing and all three of us are in charge of different areas. Its just bloody unfair. Jo's had such a bad year and they just had to make it worse for her. She sent us an sms that made us all want to cry, she said that since she joined the company us girls have bonded so quickly and allowed her to ease the pain of her sister's passing. We have in turn become sisters to her. It was just so so sad and made me hate my bosses. I don't understand how they can be so cruel. Money is not everything and noone should be allowed to be this selfish. Why can't they imagine themselves in her position? In Lisa's words she said "Wait till its HIS MOM who was this sick and it was HIS sister that died, then he'll know what it feels like." I feel this way too.
Sigh its sad isnt it, how people prioritize things in their lives. Whoever said Money is King should be shot dead. Nuff said!
::: posted by Sass O at Saturday, November 22, 2003
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 :::
Its WEDNESDAY!!! YAY YAY YAYYYY......I got up at like 7.30am and I stumbled out of bed thinking about what to wear for work. As I stepped into the bathroom I was like hhmm its Wednesday go back to bed! So I happily did till about 9am. Couldn't sleep anymore and felt so guilty for doing nothing I decided to crawl out of bed. Not like I did anything for the next couple of hours anyway but at least it felt good not being in bed.
Gobbled some breakfast and watched some corny 80s series on TV and lastly the news. Funny how Michael Jackson was the headlines! I don't understand why people won't just leave him alone, I mean who are they to judge what kinda person he is. There are many more horrible people out there and they just had to choose Michael Jackson just cause he's worth millions. Tabloids are horrible and I don't even think Michael Jackson is news more like gossip! Even the Italian funeral for those who died in the suicide bombing came like 3rd in the line up. I mean that is really really sad.
Was just chatting with Grace and she's leaving for Malaysia in a mere 24hrs! How I wish I was her, I'll only be back there in like 3 weeks. But time flies right...right right??? IT BETTER! Hope it will fly to Dec 11th and after that it'll be so so slow. I have a gut feeling that when I'm in Malaysia and time to leave I'm gonna be so upset. All my best friends are back there and frankly speaking being in Sydney for so long is getting to me. I am in dire need of a change and I really do not know where else to go. Fel was suggesting Japan next year but its too late to apply for that Teach In Japan thing also I still have commitments to my Masters. If any of you are wondering if I've applied yet the answer is NO and YES I will do it by today. Have decided to do it part time and once that is done I'll be off to Japan. My tentative plans for the next couple of years. Of course together with Fel since he's the one that sorta persuaded me to join him in Japan.
Lastly an update of my frustrations at work. I was supposed to attend an interview today but I cancelled it. Conscience got the better of me. The past week I've been busy applying for better paying jobs and had promising feedback but yesterday after work I had a chat with Joanne a colleague of mine and it really made me feel that I should really stay on with my current company. You see Joanne joined not long after me and she's still in her 3 months probationary period after which she will be confirmed. Yesterday she spoke to Sasha our boss, cautioning him about confirming her because she might not want to stay. Things are really hard on Joanne now because her sister passed away in a horrible car accident a mere 3 months ago. Her mother is now suffering from severe depression and caused her to be bedridden. She needs vitamin shots daily and can't even bring herself to eat. Joanne is married and therefore can't really care for her mom as much as she wish she could. It doesn't help that she lives an hour away by train from the city.
Her husband has been helping out as much as he can by cooking and caring for the mom plus driving her sisters to school but there's only so much time off he can take from work. Sasha suggested that she continue her job and not quit and slowly start coming in on Saturdays and later on doing it part-time. So now I'm very much inclined to stay on with the company just so things would be easier on Joanne's part. Helping her with her work so she can leave early to care for her mom and things like that. I just hope that things would become much better for her family because it just has been such a horrible year for them. I guess one can't be too selfish too wanting to move to a better paying job. Cause I look at it this way if I were in her position I would be feeling so devastated and need all the help I can get. I can't help directly so I guess this is the only way I can help?
Just hope I'm doing the right thing for my own career......but then again I don't think this is such a bad idea too especially helping out someone whom I've bonded with so quickly over the past few months. Lets just pray that everything turns out better for her family alright?
::: posted by Sass O at Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Monday, November 17, 2003 :::
Good afternoon everyone!!!! I'm in a pretty good mood today considering I'm at work...it IS because of the retail therapy I had over the weekend. Sass & Bide turned out to be an upsetting experience mainly because there weren't many good stuff around. Thank god for Tricia who held on to a pair of size 6 jeans for me!! Well they were extra long but hey I can always chop them off. Got there and saw piles of ugly coloured denim, the nice ones apparently didn't apear this year. The ones that I found had massive tears around the crotch area. I have a gut instinct that some size 10s tried to wiggle themselves into a size 6 there for tearing them. I found countless size 6s in that condition!!! What a waste of good denim. In the end I got the pair of jeans off Tricia that was $80 and a summer blouse for just $20. There went $100.
The next day I met up with Tricia and Yuin for lunch over in Chinatown. Whilst waiting for them to arrive I decided to step into Bracewell. BAD IDEA! I tried on a blouse and Trish rang asking where I was, she arrived as I stepped out of the dressing room and she went "Ooooo Nice top!!" so she decided to go try it on too in a nother colour, next came Yuin as we were both stepping out of the dressing room too and well let's just say we took over Bracewell for the next 45 minutes. We carefully picked through everything on the racks for anything we liked in our sizes, we swapped tops and sizes. In the end I bought a pair of pants and a top for a bargain price of $80. Trish got 3 tops, 2 of them same designs but different colours for $56 and Yuin bought 2 tops for about $40. Now do you see why we went insane? They were so so cheap what more it's Bracewell!
We then hopped onto a bus to QVB, there we looked at shoes.....hhmmm. Well you see I've never really liked buying shoes as I'm very very picky. I've only ever bought black shoes and I have less than a handful of them in my shoe closet (or the non existence of it). But I saw this really cute pair of shoes (perfect for work and for anything) at Witchery and I bought them straight away. There was another one for a cheaper price but the heels were too high. I do think I'll get them in white though cause its $100 and the Wichery one was $140. White and Black, doubt I would need that many shoes after this. Can always go back to KL to get cheap pairs of sling backs and slip ons.
I loved my weekend, though I hardly spent time with Fel except for Saturday and a couple of hours yesterday. He's so so busy with his assignments and so stressed out. All he does he wakeup, design, sleep, design, eat, design, sleep, wakeup. Just hope he does really well and this week passes quickly for him. It's his last week and once this is over he'll have holidays till next year and start thinking of what his next step is!
Hhhmmmm I think I better go, haven't been working a whole lot today. The property market is slowing down a whole lot.
Btw...I'll be back in M'sia in 3 weeks! CAN'T WAIT!!!
::: posted by Sass O at Monday, November 17, 2003
