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there is a dog lazying on the grass just beside the road that i take every morning to enter the highway. it's black and shaggy, and i call him, ..well, shaggy. it's at that part of the ground in between major roads, so nobody comes and disturbs. so every morning i will see shaggy curling to sleep, or just on lying his tummy watching the cars pass by. it kind of starts my day...

nowadays, i just wish that i were that dog. because there is definitely no time for me to laze around and enjoy the surroundings anymore at work. the workload is just crazy. when you have to plan to walk by the canteen on the way to the lab so that you can grab some bread and eat it during that 5 minutes walking journey, you're not exactly having a walk in the park working time.

but i'm not complaining. at this recession time, i'm just blessed to have some work to do. god knows how many people out there willing to do anything to just make ends meet. anything, you know, other than being a cleaner, or a maid in singapore which i don't understand why. the point is, job is precious.

it just means that i'm always operating on low battery mode at the end of the day. i feel just like a soldier who has just survived a battle, and have to get ready for another battle the next day. it's physically draining, which is why i no longer do occasional gym at night anymore. should be fine, because with all the walking up and down the lab, i bet i clock in enough miles to stay fit.

it's mentally draining too. i can't stress this enough, but having some peace and quiet after the long working day, is totally a bless. you would understand after having a pager that beeps and a desk phone that rings all day long, knowing you'd be interrogated for data each and every time you answer them. that is why i find solace in my xbox top spin 3 and facebook mob war because they don't demand anything from me, and the fact that i could just shut them off whenever i want.

so what makes my day on this sunday night, on the brink of monday blue (which to be frank, doesn't feel much like a monday blue to me because every single working day is a monday for me nowadays. in fact, i worry more about nadal's performance in barcelone open tonight) is that i'm going for a vacation this thursday.

yeah baby, vacation! it's a good friday holiday this friday (duh!) and we're going to take a night train the night (double duh!) before to kelantan the northern state of malaysia. then we are going to proceed to perhentian island the next day to live and breath as islanders till the middle of the next week.

even better? there would be no pager and no phone for me there. even if the world stops spinning, then be it. i'm sure the president won't take calls either on his vacation because the vice president takes charge. you know, unless the aliens come and invade the earth or something...

i just feel that i deserve it. with continuous 12 hours a day work with no overtime pay, and no aircond past 7 at night, surely i'm due for a short break. ok, maybe i just came back from bali a few weeks back, and the labuan trip a few weeks before that but those were short trips, so they don't count.

this time round, i bet shaggy is gonna miss me. not that i think it notices me all these time, but again, i bet it's hard to notice things when you're that relaxed anyway. i will know in a few days time.





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