Gah. Work today wasn't bad, but wasn't that great either. I guess I'm just adjusting from holiday mood to work mood, I'll grow accustomed sooner or later. Woke up at about 6.45, gave kitten a wake-up call (silly baby was lazing in bed for about half an hour when I called). Then got ready for work, left the house by about 7.45-7.50 to meet John at Braddell at like 8.30.

Walked into the toilet at Braddell to find John there, so bonus. Went to the building, expecting doom and gloom, not sunshiney happiness. Went to the front desk, got directed to the guardhouse. Saw Liling. Went to the guardhouse, got directed to the security desk. Got our work passes. Went upstairs, got there by 8.45, then waited for like 20 minutes while a couple of other people got attended to (including Liling) before we did.

Finally, got brought to sign our contracts. Standard company stuff. I think, not that I’ve worked for many large companies before. Heh. Make that *any* large companies before. Learned about our induction programme, got brought to the teaching facility to learn how to use the marvellous software. We started with ENDV, which is what we use to get our feeds from the wire services from Associated Press. Then moved on to Coyote3, which looks bloody archaic and ancient. I can’t believe the whole company is using that. >_<

Broke for lunch, so we went to the cafeteria. Not as big a selection as I thought there’d be, but then again there are always various coffeeshops in and around the immediate vicinity. So no worries there. Bummed around the lobby till about 1.50, then went upstairs to learn more about the library. They’ve got an extensive magazine section, I guess I’ll check through it on my downtime. Learnt a little about LotusNotes, and the reference sections. Nothing too out of the ordinary, or exciting. Then.. went to the art/photos section and met Mel, the cartoonist. Funny guy, friendly too. But he’s not that great of an artist. XP

Breezed through that, then went to back to the teaching fac to learn LotusNotes properly. Nothing too exciting or noteworthy there either, but then we got to leave by 5! Whoo! Just hope I get to leave at that time tomorrow too.

John said he was going to go meet Kris in town, as his “only tether to sanity”. John’s funny in that antiestablishment way. He more or less inspired me to do what I did next, I took a train down to Raffles Place to wait for Kitten, having tried to coordinate with Pam as to what time they were finishing. At about 6.10, she finally appeared, and I got up to get behind a pillar. Then surprised her when she came by. =)

She walked to the train station with Pam and their new friend, Jasmine, then said bye as they got on the train. I then got on the train with her and hugged her all the way to Pasir Ris. Gawd I missed that girl. *sigh*

When we got to Pasir Ris, went to Old Chang Kee to buy some fritters and the like. Bought a can of vanilla coke, sat down, talked a little, ate, then I had to go home since mum was nagging. =p If all goes well I can meet her tomorrow too… Hopefully.