Chair.

Today I went back to work and the first thing that greeted me was that my chair was changed without my knowledge (I won’t even say approval). One of my colleagues took the liberty and exchanged his chair with mine while I was away on holiday – talk about being courteous. It doesn’t help when this colleague was never one of my favourite colleague anyway. I could have given him a piece of my mind, but in order to preserve the harmonious relations among members of my office I decided to just ask him to buzz off while he was about to offer his explanation. Not the best way to celebrate my return to office, and to say I’m not impressed with this colleague would be a blatant understatement. I mean, the least he could do was just drop me an email and let me know that he’s exchanged the chairs, and I don’t need to endure such a traumatic return.

And today has been horribly hot! I was perspiring all over whenever I’m not indoors, and I really hate that feeling. Somehow it seems that it’s warmer here in Hong Kong than in Singapore. Thank God it’s the school holidays now and I can still pretty much wear casually to school. I can’t imagine if I’m one of those who have to put on a suit everyday to work.

Most of my colleagues will be going off to their holidays soon, so I’ll be having the office to myself – with the exception of that chair-exchanging colleague. Thank God I have no common topic with him so I won’t even think about starting a conversation with him.

Will be registering at City University this Thursday evening. Hopefully the picture they are going to take for me will turn out to be a nice one for the student pass.

Hong Kong.

Reached home at about 10.30 and the first piece of news I heard from my neighbour was that the neighbour downstairs complained about water dropping from my aircon last week. Blimey – who broke into the house and switched the aircon on for me? But just for the sake of finding out who the real culprit is for the aircon water, I’ll suffer a bit and not switch on my aircon this week. If the neighbour downstairs is still complaining about the water, then obviously it can’t be me. It’s not exactly fun to endure the heat, but to clear my conscience, that’s what I have to do (or maybe I can just get a new aircon and have it installed inside my house rather than having it hanging out of the window).

Anyway the flight from Singapore back to Hong Kong was decent. I didn’t have enough leg space as usual, but at least I didn’t have someone suddenly tilting his seat in front of me, and there wasn’t anyone who left his or her mobile phone on throughout the entire journey. All these means that this was the most enjoyable Jetstar flight I’ve ever taken!

I think throughout these couple of days I didn’t really update about the things I did, and I think it’s going to be a heck of a long entry if I were to describe day by day. So instead I’ll just do it in a number format – if you don’t get the whole story then there’s really nothing I can help you with.

11 – Number of days I spent in Singapore.

16 – The total number of people if all of us at Diablo bring his or her partner to a gathering.

6 – The number of jugs of alcohol I drank with Philip, John and Weiqiang at Zouk on Wednesday.

0 – The number of first class honours student from my graduation batch of E-Commerce stream.

4 – The number of pieces of tops I bought at the Canterbury store in Heeren.

3 – The amount of money I paid to get into Sentosa on the monorail.

2 – The number of times I bought food from the food court in Pioneer Mall.

1 – The number of times my whole family had a meal at home together.

12 – The weight of my check-in luggage from Singapore to Hong Kong.

45 – The amount I paid for seeing the doctor yesterday.

13 – The number of mails in my physical mailbox after I returned this evening.

Back to work tomorrow – do I not like that?