July has been a good ride
after all
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after all because
it started off
real real slow
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have been stuck with
petty jobs which were
pretty time consuming
yet didn’t generate good pay
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2/3 of the month was gone
and i was feeling kinda lost
partly because there wasn’t
any trip to look forward to
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not anytime soon until
mid-Sept
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but somehow throughout the month
i managed to book another 3 trips
and one was coming real soon
pushing my next traveling date
to end of August
something to look forward to
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which makes life
kinda better and i realize
going through peaks and troughs
over and over again
is making me somehow more patient
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can you imagine
Saturday morning
still in bed
and i got an email
to review past work
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that particular project
had already gone through
2 rounds of reviews
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but i have learnt the art of
not to reply email when you are
feeling kinda heat-up or impatient
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so i left it until
i really felt like working
after a Saturday nap
got the review done
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basically review means
someone else made changes
to your piece of translation
and client would demand you to
go through and decide whether
you accept and reject the changes
and provide a reason for either
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and i actually replied
the email in the nicest way ever
that i was so glad that
i didn’t reply to it
in the morning in bed
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no i wasn’t feeling fake
it was just that
i no longer felt that
it was that awful after all
and i had got it done anyway
and felt that i have won
the war since none of the changes
were due to mistake/typo
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and my reply went something like
“Thank you for sending me
on a Saturday so that
i can take my time to
go through it”
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oh man i can’t believe it
that’s so so nice of me
yet the person didn’t even reply
well good sign, anyway
because i really didn’t want to
hear more from this project
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things started to pick up
and i managed to juggle
between work and rest on weekend
by taking a day off on Saturday
and working full day on Sunday
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it’s a good way to
kill the Monday’s blue and
productivity is actually good
by taking a complete day off
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yay.. target hit
new skills learnt and
i managed to catch two movies
after work on a weekday
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and i was having movie
with a friend who was
heading straight to the cinema
in her work attire
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so imagining that
she was going to dress up
in somehow formal attire
i actually picked up a
little black dress
to play pretend that
i was hitting the cinema
from the office too
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and before i had the chance
to grab my Sperry white
my mom actually took out
the pair of GEOX leather
which have been
abandoned forever
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gosh!!!
so i ended up
heading to movie from home
pretending to be an OL
all over again in
LBD and black leather shoes
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Spidey is not really my kind of movie
but still, I made it there
although i perhaps have
a list of 1001 reasons not to go
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after she told me about
the nasty colleagues in her office
life is tough
sigh…
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and on another occasion
another friend of mine
no i wasn’t pretending that
i have a lot of friends
they do exist, for real
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posted on FB about stressful life
i have not been meeting her
for some time and
didn’t really know if
she was coping fine
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so i actually sent her some
home-made snack, biscuit and teabag
during a quick catch up session
near her office
and thank goodness
she looked okay
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i seriously don’t know why
it doesn’t sounds like
that kind of thing I will do
but i feel that
everyone needs that
little support from time to time
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