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First week back to work after the trip was EFFING slow. I'm not saying there wasn't much work, it's just my brain gears haven't settled into it yet. Second week in, kinda better, but yesterday was Monday and you know how Monday goes. I kinda spent the weekend thoughtlessly, mostly on my bed or sofa reading the new books I got. I still have around 20 books I haven't read from last year's BBW and still in 10% into Midnight Lady (by Cassandra Clare) but dood how can I go to Kino and NOT buy anything? So I kept my purchase minimum. Bought two books. Wabi-Sabi and Me Before You. Well, I watched Me Before You on the flight to Osaka and was...not as moved as people claim to be when they watched the movie. The hopeless romantic inside me felt like, WTF MAN. So I bought the book. Wabi-Sabi was written by a Spanish author apparently and translated into English - which I only realised after I searched the book up on Goodreads and explained the simple English in there. Maybe not too simple, but I felt like the author was trying to mimic Murakami but failing. It's just my view as someone who enjoys Murakami occasionally, and seeing someone else trying to do in such a plain way kinda irks me. So they threw this unsuspecting character, Daniel, to Kyoto after his girlfriend dumps him, where he goes on to find a nameless bar and ended up meeting a weird old man and his niece, who is a suicidal modern geiko, hailing from Cali, and ended up as a fling. Ok the plot itself was fine, but it was as if he didn't make proper research on Kyoto whatsoever, and just flung in some facts on some shrines over there just to make it as if this character went all over Japan.
AND THERE WASN'T MUCH ON WABI-SABI EITHER.
Eh wait. Wabi-sabi is the beauty of imperfection.
Okay I need to rethink this.
Anyway, had my appraisal at work yesterday. Not so much of an appraisal, more like a chit-chat with my tech lead since the appraisal period is already over and I saw my grade already. I met expectation, and well, I expected that I met expectations only too. Ha. Okay anyway, chit-chat. He just wanted to know how I'm doing, and what I'm struggling at currently and why I wanted training ( cuz I wrote in my comments that I wanted to go to training if possible ) and the future. I wondered if I had spoken out too much. I dunno, the span of one hour was punctuated often by silence and me being me I have not much to say. Even so, I wondered if I've said too much of what I shouldn't. Time went by quite fast here, I told him, that its already a year plus but I felt like I haven't learned much. He said, it's okay I'm doing fine, and even he didn't realise it but it's already 5 years plus for him too.
There are a few other things but I don't think I should write them down, I guess.
I have a lot of worries now that I think of it.
8.45AM. I guess I should be getting ready to work already.
Noys came over and brought baby Nawfal and mom and dad look really delighted. It kinda made me think, maybe they'd like it if I get married soon and they have grandchildren. Hmmmm. Ntahlah. After my lil' fiasco I felt like taking time off but seeing mom and dad in a different kind of happy was weird. In a good way of course.
We'll see. Go with the flow Roro. Go with the flow.
First week back to work after the trip was EFFING slow. I'm not saying there wasn't much work, it's just my brain gears haven't settled into it yet. Second week in, kinda better, but yesterday was Monday and you know how Monday goes. I kinda spent the weekend thoughtlessly, mostly on my bed or sofa reading the new books I got. I still have around 20 books I haven't read from last year's BBW and still in 10% into Midnight Lady (by Cassandra Clare) but dood how can I go to Kino and NOT buy anything? So I kept my purchase minimum. Bought two books. Wabi-Sabi and Me Before You. Well, I watched Me Before You on the flight to Osaka and was...not as moved as people claim to be when they watched the movie. The hopeless romantic inside me felt like, WTF MAN. So I bought the book. Wabi-Sabi was written by a Spanish author apparently and translated into English - which I only realised after I searched the book up on Goodreads and explained the simple English in there. Maybe not too simple, but I felt like the author was trying to mimic Murakami but failing. It's just my view as someone who enjoys Murakami occasionally, and seeing someone else trying to do in such a plain way kinda irks me. So they threw this unsuspecting character, Daniel, to Kyoto after his girlfriend dumps him, where he goes on to find a nameless bar and ended up meeting a weird old man and his niece, who is a suicidal modern geiko, hailing from Cali, and ended up as a fling. Ok the plot itself was fine, but it was as if he didn't make proper research on Kyoto whatsoever, and just flung in some facts on some shrines over there just to make it as if this character went all over Japan.
AND THERE WASN'T MUCH ON WABI-SABI EITHER.
Eh wait. Wabi-sabi is the beauty of imperfection.
Okay I need to rethink this.
Anyway, had my appraisal at work yesterday. Not so much of an appraisal, more like a chit-chat with my tech lead since the appraisal period is already over and I saw my grade already. I met expectation, and well, I expected that I met expectations only too. Ha. Okay anyway, chit-chat. He just wanted to know how I'm doing, and what I'm struggling at currently and why I wanted training ( cuz I wrote in my comments that I wanted to go to training if possible ) and the future. I wondered if I had spoken out too much. I dunno, the span of one hour was punctuated often by silence and me being me I have not much to say. Even so, I wondered if I've said too much of what I shouldn't. Time went by quite fast here, I told him, that its already a year plus but I felt like I haven't learned much. He said, it's okay I'm doing fine, and even he didn't realise it but it's already 5 years plus for him too.
There are a few other things but I don't think I should write them down, I guess.
I have a lot of worries now that I think of it.
8.45AM. I guess I should be getting ready to work already.
Noys came over and brought baby Nawfal and mom and dad look really delighted. It kinda made me think, maybe they'd like it if I get married soon and they have grandchildren. Hmmmm. Ntahlah. After my lil' fiasco I felt like taking time off but seeing mom and dad in a different kind of happy was weird. In a good way of course.
We'll see. Go with the flow Roro. Go with the flow.
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