switch
06-30-08the switch from student life to working life is certainly not easy. in many many many aspects.
(1) time issue - having to change sleeping hours from 0500-1400 to 0030-0715 is not easy. but i’m on my way to adjusting to that. and am actually getting better at it and fine with it.
(2) home issue - i’m no longer living by myself, and i really like this change now. what with the room that has been given a makeover. it’s so much more live-able now.
(3) travelling issue - THIS is the issue that caused me to cry when I came back from work just now. I have a direct bus home from my office. And that, is really convenient, cos I get a seat, and I can sleep on the bus. BUT IT’S SO IRRITATING WHEN THE BUS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SLOW!
I was hoping to get back within 1.5 hours. but the bus was soooooooooooooooooooooooo slow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could have sworn it was going abt 30-40 km/h ON the EMPTY bus-lane. ARRRGGHHHH freaking irritating. thank God I was sleeping for the first HOUR of my journey. So i was oblivious to anything. But when I woke up I was still abt 45 minutes away from home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! goodness.
And I could have sworn abt FIVE other SBS buses passed the 70 I was on. I AM SO DISAPPOINTED. And when I saw the 43 overtake the bus, I quickly jumped out of the bus, hoping to catch it so I can reach home more quickly. I missed it and cabbed back eventually, but that’s not the point. the moment i got out of the 70 and in vain, missed the 43 and jumped into a cab, I SAW TWO OTHER 70s behind.
IF THAT’S NOT FRUSTRATING i wonder what is. I AM SOOOO SOOOO DISAPPOINTED WITH THE SERVICE.
but i don’t think it’ll stop me from taking the bus back home anyhow. I just have to hope and pray and wish that the bus i’m on is NOT slow.
i’d still rather sit on a bus than a train, cos at least at any one time you’re surrounded by the most 5 other smelly ppl if you’re seated on a bus, whereas on a train, you may be squeezed into a carriage and stuck in the middle of 20 smelly people. (i’ve been so tempted to just take out my perfume and spray people okaaaayyy) and not only that, most likely some person will stand in front of me if I do get a seat on the train, and give me a HUGE dilemma as to whether she’s fat or pregnant. SIGH.
I miss the convenience of hall to school. for the past 4 years i never had to travel so much. 5 minutes to class compared to 2 hours ONE DIRECTION to work (that’s FOUR FREAKING HOURS IN TOTAL). it’s such a waste of time!!!!!!!!! i really just reached home and bawled abt the bus driver to my mom. never got so frustrated in a long long long long time.
i think eventually one day i’ll be tempted to just book a hotel room for one night at M hotel. but that’s kinda pointless don’t you think? it’s like buying clothes to wear to work so that i can earn more money to buy clothes to wear to work so that i can earn more money to buy clothes to wear to work so that i can earn blah blah blah.
except now i’d be working so that i can have money to stay in a hotel room near the workplace so that i can go to work so that i can have money to stay in a hotel room near the workplace so that i can go to…aaaahhhh shaddup emerald.
sometimes i really do think taking the cab will save me from all these emotional and mental stress and anguish. but sorry i can’t afford it right now. which leads me to the next issue…
(4) money issue - i feel poorer even though i’m earning. like really.
thank God i don’t spend much on clothes. the bulk of it goes to music, cab and food. thank God i don’t watch movies too. but really…………………………………………..looks like i’ve gotta have to keep my current office wardrobe of Mon Tues Wed Thurs wear for a long long time to come. cross my fingers and hope i get a wardrobe allowance. >.<
thank God for the 1.5 hours with bassoon. i am now officially sane again.
p.s. i think i was really going crazy just now, muttering to myself during the short cab ride home.
