That's Life

New Beginnings

Wow wow wow. I haven't been blogging for ages and these all look new to me now. Well I can't remember both my username and password and the only way i could retrieve my acct was through this blog address and an old email address. AND i didn't know we now need a gmail acct to log-in to blogger. Don't remember how to check when my last post was but it has to be 07 or 08 since i don't remember blogging for the whole 2 years of my army life.

Well. i dun think anyone knows who i am, except for a couple of phang's friends maybe, coz Phang has been keeping this blog going (except for his 1 year hiatus in 2009, and we all know what he had been busy with then.) and i havent been blogging. Life has been pretty mundane so far so i thought of keeping a diary or sthg like a diary, somewhere where i can enter my daily ramblings that i might have, about work, friends, family, lunch, dinner, mrt-ride to work, mrt-ride back home, tv progammes, etc etc and decide whether or not to publish them.

so since i titled this post New Beginnings, i guess that warrants a short intro: I am Mervin, an ex-classmate and friend of Phang. Currently doing an internship at OCBC bank. Heading to Imperial College London in Oct. and dormant co-owner of Ph-ang.blogspot.com. Well. so now on to some random ramblings of today.

Work was pretty routine except that it was monday and everyone was kinda moody and slightly sick. I had a sore throat and couldn't stop coughing but it's probably just the monday blues bug as i am feeling much better now, boss and cubicle-neighbour are also down with flu and cough. i guess when you work in air-con conditions, germs just spread around quickly. boss joked that we all missed work too much during the long weekend, so all fell sick together =.='

Quite glad that there are 7 other fellow interns who make my work-life less depressing with jokes and jibes at one another. It kinda makes time past faster. I still have 4 months remaining till the end of my stint at the bank, have learnt a lot so far and hope to learn more. Work nature has started to get repetitive recently and though i know that work in the real working world is bound to get repetitive, it kinda makes me wonder if i would am able to endure and stay in a long-term job in future if i don't have the interest in it. I guess the teachers have been right all along, about motivation of money being extremely limited in our future long-term career choice. We definitely need that passion and fire in whatever we are doing. banking is lucrative, but maybe i am not meant to earn that money, so perhaps i ll just have to watch all the cash flow down the drain.

but like phang said, people do change and adapt. so 5 years down the road, i might still end up a banker, who knows. I think there are bound to be times when one starts to feel exhausted from the daily work routine.

probably a break would be good. something more than a long weekend.

Mervin~