wonderment

I can’t believe that I just crossed the 4 month mark of being back. It doesn’t seem so long ago that i left Melbourne and it doesn’t seem so long that I’ve been working! Where did all that time go???

Anyway, I’ve been away from my blog for so long so I owe an explanation.. Let me say it best in pictures:

That’s my boss on the right, Anna the helper in the middle and V my colleague.

Me and mah “baby”

The Boss has been wanting to submit her application portfolio for The Master certification since 2006 but because business has been so brisk, she didn’t really get down to it until recently. (If she becomes The Master in her industry, she’ll be the first person in Asia and the eighth person in the world with that kind of status. It’s BIG.)

So what usually takes one year of data gathering and preparations, we had to pull together in one month! I couldn’t  imagine how it could happen and now that we’ve even managed to package it and Fedex it off to her mentor in America for the first cut … I don’t know, it’s pure thanks to God that we’re still sane.

I was really stressed out today though. I hate doing things like punching holes and cutting tiny bits of paper when I’m rushing for time and then also knowing that I’m forgetting stuff and being asked to “check again”. On top of that, because I was still very tired from the rushing around to print the stuff yesterday, I didn’t really feel very chirpy which Val picked up on immediately. She was such a brick for rallying us when the Boss and I were nearly at each other’s throats and coming in at the last part of the packaging (which I honestly suck in).

The best thing was, I couldn’t help but tear a bit when i thanked her for her help  through SMS and she replied that I would do the same for her too.

For a while, I’ve been wondering if V really liked me. Perhaps it’s my self-awareness in overdrive but I sometimes wonder if she sees me as a threat to her relationship with the Boss. After all, she has always worked for the Boss alone.

I remember her warning me not so subtly when I first came, saying that she would not “sabo” me because she will “die” from the work and then I shouldn’t “sabo” her because then I would suffer with additional work to do. Not a very welcoming thing to say for a new colleague but I grew to love her ability to be super frank and quick-thinking in the tightest situations. She was never inherently evil and always helped me with things I didn’t know and things I messed up so I wouldn’t get blasted by the Boss.

So to be recognised by her like that today, it made me happy to tears.
At the end of it all, my “baby” is just but a pile of papers. It’s not my effort alone because so many others contributed to it. However, for my colleague to see me as someone who will support her and not sabo her, and for my boss to see that there’s more to me than just plain forgetfulness and laziness is the best thing that could come out of this project.

I also love it that the Boss gave me time off tomorrow morning. I think she meant I was to rest (I must have looked a wreck!) but I have to run a ton of errands, applying for my driving test, closing my bank account, registering for my Grad Diploma course (that’s another story), going to check out my friend’s boutique … what rest?

He he.