The Distance

I missed my quiet and laid back kind of life back at home - Noted that my home is in the land far beyond. Well, actually just 2 hours and 15 minutes away from LCCT that is. Somehow now I became accustomed to busy life in the metropolitan, a place where I will never have enough time. I feel like a walking-dead even in my sleep. Nothing, I mean nothing really stops here.

When I was back at home, I would normally get up around 7:30, take my bath and switch on the computer and surf the net for news, jobstreet, my blog and a cup of tea before I went off to work. Upon arriving, I will have my breakfast nearby Laksa House, Parkcity and normally I would have either kampua or yong tau foo (not as good as the ones here in peninsular but it was okay. Most importantly, a lot cheaper). Then I will have a puff or two, chit chatting with all my colleagues before we start the day at 8:30 am. Our office opens at 9:00 am, mind you.

Here, the story would be :

I wake up everyday at 6:25 am, as my alarm is set at 6:25 am. I get up, take my bath and before that I switch on my computer to check my mails, jobstreet, my blogs and soccernet at one go. Now here is the catch, I always do not have enough time here and so, I have to open so many browser at one go and then go take my bath. 7:25 Usually I will be down the road waiting for bus to take me to LRT. Now, this is the thing that I just hate about this place, the bus is so damn slow. 7:45 I will reach the LRT station and it will take me about 15 minutes to reach my destination. Upon arriving, I will have to walk another 10 minutes to office from the station and as usual, by the time I got into office it was already 8:30 am. There is simply no time to go out for breakfast and so along the way usually I will just stop by 7-Eleven or the aunt next to it and tapau a box of fried bihun at RM 2.00, sometimes she would just give me for free.

I eat in the office, no time to talk to people, no time to mind about the others and quickly grab all the reports and work starts since then and mind you, the office only opens at 9:15 am which is 15 minutes later than my previous office but still, I am on a run all the time.

Can you see the differences? I described my morning working at home in one nice paragraph and the part that I described my life here, you can just feel the tense while reading the two long winded paragraphs. That is the difference.

How about my after work life?

Back home office close at 4:30 pm. I will straight away do some report checking, daily balancing, filing and sharp at 5:30 pm off I go and every Tuesday and Thursday, sometimes Saturday, me and my colleagues will be in the badminton court and get into action.

Contradictorily, here eventhough the office close at 4:30 pm, I will have my daily balancing done at 5:00 pm, then off to checking reports, filing the same old story but it would stretched until 7:30 pm. I need to walk another 10 minutes to the train station and repeat the whole process again and reached home around 9:00 pm or 10:00 pm sometimes and how about badminton? I can forget about it.

That's life here and there. Maybe that's what shaped my writings as well ...