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The week was quite hectic, which was mainly caused by the fact that I was covering for my business partner. We work well together in that he is highly commercial and can use his experience and intuition to deal with most problems. However, what he lacks is knowing what the law actually says and writing coherent advice the looks and sounds professional, which is where I come in - he knows his limitations but compensates by asking me for help, only that what he wanted me to help him last week with was quite protracted and complex, which meant that I spent most of the days doing his work. When I finished, I still had my own work to do, which made my days much longer than they needed to be. During the week though, I did catch up with a workmate, who told me years ago that he 'had a thing for me', whatever that meant. Truth me told, there is certainly chemistry between us, so whenever we got together, the underlying tension was palpable. If we didn't have partners, I suspect t...

I was meaning to blog last night about the week before but I had a very mentally and emotionally exhausting day yesterday, so I couldn't bring myself to write. Anyway, the only highlight of the week was when Sam and I went to see this live show called Thank You for Being a Friend during the week . It was basically a replica of The Golden Girls in muppet format. They even put 80s ads in between breaks, which was a trip down memory lane. Both Sam and I enjoyed the show a lot. Friday evening Neither Sam nor Iain wanted to see a movie, so me and my lonesome left the office at about 6:30 pm and met up with Ryan and Jake. Seeing that the other boys weren't coming, the three of us decided to do something different from eating at Grill'd, so we had dinner at the food court for a change. After dinner, we went to Apple Shop for a browse. The next thing I knew, I bought the latest Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard. Needless to say, I love both of them, although I just can'...

The week started off relatively stressful despite the public holiday on Monday. While it is always good to get a day off, it also means that I am squeezing five days' worth of work into four, which is all a bit of a false economy in the end. The week started off stressful because I had to do a presentation first thing on Tuesday morning but it went really well as usual, so I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted me out there again in the not too distant future. The rest of the week wasn't too bad. There was plenty to do and some of the work was reasonably challenging but it was not so overwhelming that stressed me. Meanwhile, the horror client from the week before finally asked for a meeting late on Friday, so I am not looking forward to that meeting. Be that as it may, it is still a learning experience on conflict resolution and I always believe that difficult situations can become opportunities, so I am going to embrace it. Also, it was Sam's birthday on Friday, so...

It was great to have another long weekend. Even though Labour Day doesn't mean a whole lot to me, it was good to have a mini-break. Friday evening I had a particularly difficult client during the week who basically wouldn't listen but turned around to say that we never explained anything to her. I repeatedly extended invitations for her to come in so I could go through everything with her in detail but instead of accepting that offer, she just sent me one aggressive email after another. While I pretended that I wasn't perturbed by her, her accusations and negativity really bothered me. This whole thing hasn't ended yet and I have no idea how it would turn out, so the next chapter has yet to be written. I left work at about 6:30 pm to meet up with Iain for dinner. Sam was working late again, so we met up with him after dinner to see The Intern together because all the good seats for The Martian was taken by the time we bought our tickets. I wasn't surprise...

Well, it was a very boring weekend. There is so little to report. Friday evening The week was quite cruisy. I had just enough to do but nothing too overwhelming. That almost never happened. By Friday night though, I had had enough of being at work, so after I put some finishing touch to what I was working on during the day, I was happy to leave work at about 6 pm. Iain and Ryan weren't coming to movie night, so there was only Jake, Sam, and me. Sam was running late too, so after getting our movie tickets, Jake and I went to Grill'd for dinner. Sam finally turned up when we were just about to finish dinner, so the three of us went to visit a few shops. We saw The Visit, which was a M Night Shayamalan movie. Naturally, I was expecting some kind of twist at the end of the movie, except that I already guessed what that twist might be a third of the way into the movie. As usual, the movie was quite stylised and spent a lot of time building atmosphere, so it felt almost too...

The weekend was relatively uneventful. In fact, the whole work week was unremarkable by any standard. I just hope it is not the calm before the storm. The only event of note was that one of my team member's husband passed away from cancer. He had been seriously ill since last Christmas. Because of the diagnosis, J had had to look after her husband full-time at home and couldn't come to work. We basically left the position open for her and hired someone temporary to fill her place. Now that her husband has finally passed away, I would expect that she would want to come back to work soon (I think it would be healthy for her to do so since she has been living in limbo for the past 9 months), which was good timing - I have just about had enough of the temp - she is weird. She gushes over everything and says things like, "Thanks for putting up with my incompetence", which gets very overbearing very quickly. She is constantly sick and when she got back after a few days le...