Bohemia Bunny

When the past and future collide

April 21st, 2008 by lynnylchan under Comments and My Life

A mere 8 days after signing a rental agreement, I signed another ground-breaking document: An employment offer. I am most efficient, no? I haven’t even graduated and I already have a job. Yay!

It looks like I shall have to put in a new policy about work-related blogging - namely, none. My blog isn’t here to talk about work, it’s to talk about me! But just to sate curiosity, this is a rough overview of my future employment.

It’s in the education line, and I get the flexible hours and work culture I wanted, without sacrificing potential earnings. In fact I think I can safely say I’d be earning the same wages working as a drone in some MNC, but then I’d probably be less happy because a) I hate wearing office clothes and b) I don’t like corporate culture that’s too rigid. So hey, I don’t have to wear office clothes, and I have staggered working hours so I don’t have to cram onto the buses and trains with everyone else. It’s a small setup so I report directly to the boss.

Anyway, after I got back to hall, I had to go out and get some lunch from behind. Sitting in Cheese Prata waiting for my nasi lemak, I looked around and reminisced about the first meal I had there - which, incidentally, was also my first meal as a Eusoffian. I’d just moved into hall and my new roommate and I went to eat cheese prata, because someone had told me about the shop way back in JC. And there I was, nearly 4 years later, still looking at the same WordArt menus on the wall. Some things don’t change - much. In fact, the only thing in this scenario that had changed significantly was me.

I got a weird sense of tunneling through time, like the effect in the movies where the scene blurs out and one element remains the same while everything changes. Or vice versa. The menus hadn’t changed much, the scenery from my seat hadn’t changed (although the view from Fong Seng now includes Varsity Park), the service will probably still be abysmally slow in 5 years’ time. Nice to know I can come back and experience that anytime.