Wednesday, September 01, 2004
I could do this job from home
You know those days at work where you are really busy, but at the same time you are getting into your work and enjoying the challenges it presents?
Me neither. I have been told they exist. Then again, at various times of my life I have been told Santa Claus, God and cute girls from Nagoya exist too, but I have never encountered them either.
With the top-ranking two of "the Three Wise Men" (as I have affectionately dubbed my bosses) absent, I don't even have an incentive to appear busy. Instead I have been tinkering with the HTLM here (with mixed success), reading the newspaper and surfing the internet to pass time. Just another regular day at the office.
The only noteworthy happening today has been my invitation to a reception for The (supposedly) Honourable Peter Beattie, which is being held by Queensland Government Trade and Investment Office. Originally the invite was to the Chairman (Mr. O), but he is overseas and suggested that I attend in his stead. Why not? I don't mind sitting through Premier Beattie droning on about trade with Japan, provided there is free food and drink at the end of it.
On a related topic, Kat and I went to the franchise Izakaya down the road last night for dinner. The food and drink itself was in no way remarkable (sure, it was tasty - but not remarkably so) but one thing that was noted (by Kat, not myself) was the amount of interest the Japanese show in (white) foreigners. They compliment your language skills, ask where you are from, if you are working over here - the whole shebang. I haven't done much interernational travel outside of Japan in the last decade or so, but Kat (who has done significantly more) was surprised by the whole thing. I thought it was pretty standard operating procedure myself.
Vincent Vega, it seems, was correct. "It's the little differences".
Me neither. I have been told they exist. Then again, at various times of my life I have been told Santa Claus, God and cute girls from Nagoya exist too, but I have never encountered them either.
With the top-ranking two of "the Three Wise Men" (as I have affectionately dubbed my bosses) absent, I don't even have an incentive to appear busy. Instead I have been tinkering with the HTLM here (with mixed success), reading the newspaper and surfing the internet to pass time. Just another regular day at the office.
The only noteworthy happening today has been my invitation to a reception for The (supposedly) Honourable Peter Beattie, which is being held by Queensland Government Trade and Investment Office. Originally the invite was to the Chairman (Mr. O), but he is overseas and suggested that I attend in his stead. Why not? I don't mind sitting through Premier Beattie droning on about trade with Japan, provided there is free food and drink at the end of it.
On a related topic, Kat and I went to the franchise Izakaya down the road last night for dinner. The food and drink itself was in no way remarkable (sure, it was tasty - but not remarkably so) but one thing that was noted (by Kat, not myself) was the amount of interest the Japanese show in (white) foreigners. They compliment your language skills, ask where you are from, if you are working over here - the whole shebang. I haven't done much interernational travel outside of Japan in the last decade or so, but Kat (who has done significantly more) was surprised by the whole thing. I thought it was pretty standard operating procedure myself.
Vincent Vega, it seems, was correct. "It's the little differences".
# posted by Nils @ 2:32 PM 
