Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Hell if this keeps up, my 3 months in the company will be a blast!
The day started when i arrived in office at about 8.50am(i am increasingly arriving near 9a.m these days) . I really loved the serenity in the office. Few people means less stress. No bosses means 'its time to relax'; at least from my point of view. But then, Lay Lian the Toto queen or the long term accountant, was already busily typing away. What a way to start the day by burying yourself at work.
I went out (its modus operandi for me to take a dump in the toilet every morning) and met Ken the French at the lift lobby. He always greets people with the words, "how are you?" and my standard response, like most Singaporeans, are "Fine".
I asked how long he works there and he's relatively new;about 4 months. And then he HAD to say " you know, Irene's waiting for you to buy her coffee". I forgot what was my reply. But i remembered distinctly me asking him the excitement of his job. He said sometimes its quiet and illiquid(market). I said that's good cos he could relax.
I have always viewed Ken as a slacker but his following response changed my perception of him.
he said" Its not good. Being relaxed isn't
good for the brain". Goodness. I guess we can all learn from him. Procrastinating sucks...big time. Already know i feel i am beginning to lose touch wit my accounting concepts. Damn.
but the fun thing is that i managed to interact more with the laojiaos in the FISHTANK. And of cos, Irene. She's kinda sweet, and she revealed that she was from Singapore Polytechnic. The oldbirds like to call themselves the "young ones" and they are in their 40s. I learned much from them. They told me the various functions of the machines, and the MOO for each excchange, the ways to identify and explain the levels of liquidity, the bid and ask prices.
I realized that say, should the index be 18,900, the prices will be quoted as selling at either 900 or buying at 900, not the whole 18,900. Maybe i should ask them more tomorrow. But i watched with fascination and horror as the figures changed in real time to other figures, within seconds! There are queues at certain strike prices i believe, and you can see that the when the queues decreases, the order has been successful.
To be very frank, most of these things don't make much sense to me now. Its not because i am inept or what but its just that i do not have the exposure to them. But i greatly appreciate the time that these people took to inform me.
Ken the French loves playing Toto. He self-proclaims himself as the "Toto King" and uses terms like 'System 7' which i only hear from my mom, and others who plays lottery. Its kinda amusing to know that the caucasians do indeed play lottery.
Well, time to go off now. Thursday coming soon and this means...my off day is nearer!! But first, there's always the question of coffee for Irene...but she's like busy!! And when i tried to pull a fast one on Ken, by saying that he's the one who really wants to ask Irene out..he rebutts it saying "oh i had coffess with her already, now its your turn". I replied why not we(ken and I) have coffee together.
the bastard said: "i don't do guys". The fishtank rocked with laughter.
