the career

yea. i may sound darkly boring (apart from shoving tampons sniffing my leaking nose), but with the eerie silence in the penitentiary (read: the office), what activity is legally possible than sleep while pretending to work stare at the square box? besides, 4pm is considered the most unproductive time of the day. bless me.

it just struck me that the ones i've shared some parts of my life with, have already gone towards different directions. no matter whether our childhood ambitions were doctors, lawyers or even teachers, we are definitely moving on to prove our worth.

what i am going relate will be based solely on my experience. insightful encounters that made me smile everytime.

doctors - they are a bunch of weirdos with a crazy sense of humour. they just can't find the decent side of anything without making a joke out of it. and doctors are able to make dirty jokes and still look innocent without having to pull that angelical halos off their heads. i'll just have to remind them that the no-joke-allowed period will be the time i drink, or prepare for the spurt of the century from yours truly.

teachers - one word: proper. well, since their job is about presenting (read: teaching) where students will be the kutuk scrutinizing end, they'd have to be perfect and composed. err, almost. at least, they should be presentable. as they're very the proper one, they also got the certain level of properness (which i failed to comply miserably). the proper thang made me uneasy but teachers are nice to watch and their ability to command with a glare is definitely one of a kind.

engineers - engineers are a loud bunch, the ones who'd turn a place upside down. they may look like geeks, but their pranks are beyond the nerdy looks. the prank-puller, the party-popper, the ..... list goes on. engineers just rock!

not because i'll be one someday that i wrote a nice one on engineers. they were my observations of my friends and their peers. maybe i'll write more on other careers later.

on the other note, i strongly think that whatever you do, whether in a high-flying international co or even a small cramped office in a suburb, it is vital to enjoy the work. when there's satisfaction, you'll be content and strive towards bigger goals. there's no point fighting for the job that you loathed just for the sake of its 6-figure salary.

siapa kasim selamat? doktor, loyer, majistret? apa? ahli muzik?

- nyonya mansoor in ibu mertuaku

in this famous quote from p. ramlee's drama of social caste; the rich should only marry into their equally rich counterparts. it is a message that the jobs mentioned are the qualities mothers look in potential husbands for their daughters : to provide security, comfort and is financially stable (read: lots of money). i mean would any mother let her offspring she so lovingly bore and bred die of hunger by letting her marry some unknown guy with no stable job and no money?

i'm talking nonsense. about doctors and engineers and suddenly, nyonya mansoor? i blame this on the medication and the unproductive environment. *jumps around* nak balik! nak balik!