Half-Burnt Labour Day

Yes, it's a public holiday in Singapore today - Labour Day - but Eric Banana's perfect grand plan to sleep until the cows come home did not quite materialise, unduly disrupted by a conference call that was scheduled at an unearthly 8:30 a.m. Wah, siao ah? (read: "The sanity of it all amazes the poopoo out of me.") Guess the grand plan wasn't that perfect after all.

Unwillingly but certainly, he dragged his donkey back to office this morning, his eyes merely two slits on his face. And it certainly didn't help that the conference call eventually overran by an hour :( Thankfully, his boss decided to be merciful and delay the work to be done until Monday, which happens to be a proper, wholesome working day too. Sounds healthy huh?

It seems that a curse is developing around Labour Day for Eric Banana - at this time last year, he was happily roasting his Labour Day over a campfire in the mountains of Taiwan, courtesy of an ill-timed SAF100. This reminds him of the curse of Valentine's Day a few years back, when he would be inadvertently forced to spend it in some foreign land every time 14 February came around.

Anyway, Eric Banana is moving to another role at work, which promises to be an absolute excitement *yawn*. In addition to a whole new world of tidal wavy work, he also gets to keep some of his current work. In short, it's a losing proposition - 1.x job for 1 pay. Hopefully, he will dig his way out of this sometime in the near future. Oh well, it's better to have 1.x job than no job during such hard times. Better to be "entrenched" than to be retrenched.

One big plus though is that his travel geography has been upgraded from "regional" to "global" again :) *whee* It's been too long since Eric Banana travelled anywhere on business.

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