Monday blues

It's 12 noon on a sunny Monday. I'm sitting at home counting the minutes. I need to get to work asap but the contractors can't seem to fix the faulty intercom. Feeling disgruntled that I was "forced" to take leave for this stupid issue, when work is piling up at the office. But if I don't take time off to deal with this, it will never be resolved. The worst outcome is if this intercom doesn't get fixed by today...which seems to be very likely....grrrrrr!

Spent the entire morning looking at my holiday pics, especially those taken in Europe. What lovely memories they bring. Can't wait to plan my next Europe holiday...will it be Germany then? Or Spain? I don't really care which, I just want to pack my bags and go!

Work has been a roller-coaster of ups and downs since it started. Of course, everything seems like a bed of roses in the first 3 months, but once that "honeymoon" period is over, expectations of you mount insurmountably. You realise that you can't expect things in the new company to be just like your previous company, and plenty of adjustments are necessary so that you can "fit in". Afterall, cliche as it may sound - it's not about you changing the environment, but changing yourself to suit the environment.

As I grow older, I'm finding joy in little, mundane things in life. Like watching Korean drama serials at home. Nothing can be more relaxing than being in the company of your favourite Korean male lead (in my case, Lee Min Ho), acting the perfect gentleman/lover/fighter in another soppy heart-wrenching serial. Of course, they usually fall in love with the commonest and most ordinary looking girl in the show...which is hardly reality but reassuring nonetheless.

Sometimes, you get the feeling that life is really no fun. The monotonous drag of work and the transient nature of weekends repeat themselves endlessly, week after week. If you will the work week to move faster, you enter yet another similar week too quickly. Too slow and you start to feel bored and suffocated. It's hard to strike a balance, but life goes on.