I FINALLY DROPPED THE BOMB! 
My god it was SUCH a drag... I've planned this since like... weeks ago... and didn't get a chance until today! Either my boss was out, or there's always gazillions of people hovering around her. 
Really, our office has no privacy. No walls, no cubicles, not even for the managers! 
They wanted to do that thing our sister company, Ogilvy, did with their office... frankly, I miss those walls we had back in Bapindo... (well they aren't exactly walls, but at least we have privacy!!!) Ne, toro-chan?
So... how did I do it?
I just walked over... talked about something work-related... and then followed by:
"Are you gonna kill me if I told you that I'm resigning?"
I was actually gonna use the
"HAPPY 1st ANNIVERSARY OF MY 1st RESIGNATION, AND HERE'S A SEQUEL FOR YOU!" bit (to all who don't know, I once handed her a resignation letter last year on
FEBRUARY 23, 2003 
) See? If I had been able to execute the plan last week, it would've been really funny coz it would be exactly a year ago!!! Hahahaha! She looked a little shocked for a second there... but I guess it's not because it was unexpected... she probably knew it was coming... someday....
just not this soon...
And her reply was,
"YES, I'LL KILL YOU!" And so an hour later, I was still sitting there listening to her woes and problems about the company, the problems she has to face every day, the current tangled up client problem (which apparently, I'm not the only one complaining)
that at the end of her one-hour-story I was left with a big
(????) thinking...
"Er... and your point is?" 
She also told me that one of the senior is actually resigning her post too and *ahem*... she had prepared to promote me into that position
Lalala... same old bit she used on us a year ago, right
toro-chan? The whole yadayadayada about the
BIG PLANS she has for us and all... not that I'm saying she's BS-ing us... I do think she has some plans.... but uh, I'm not sure I want to be a part of a plan which is gonna involve...
MORE WORK HOURS! And then she goes to say that she had been thinking of resigning herself
BUT she felt that
her professionalism tells her that it is unfair to leave the company hanging with so many unsolved problems at hand.
EVIL!!!!!
*ALERT! ALERT! GUILT TRIP TRICK!!!*
To be honest... I do feel guilty. After all, it's not like all these people are meanies or anything like that... but frankly, when you wake up in the morning feeling like you wanna play hookie, you know something's wrong because it didn't use to be like that. There's like no challenge anymore. No appreciation of your work (because there's no challenge somewhat), and everything is in such a super-tedious mode right now (more fault to the client's side)... and you know, with the 3-in-1... I can only leave work at 7, and thanks to the 3-in-1 thingy every 7 PM and up is crazy traffic (not like before), so I get home at the earliest is... 8 PM... you eat dinner, take a shower, sit with your parents, and suddenly its 11 PM.
And for normal people, it should be bedtime, I guess... but I can't go to sleep because I have some other work to attend to... and of course on top of that, need to vent off some steam and/or love in this blog... (naturally)
She kinda asked a question trying to get me to hint if it was a money thing.
Hmmm.... initially, yes, of course it's about the $$$, silly! You're not giving us enough to stay!
But lately, it's really not about the money anymore. It's really more on the
TIME that I spent almost like pouring away clean water onto the dusty road or something... I'm gonna live only once... am I gonna spend it in that stupid purple chair my whole life? I think not!
Hardly have time anymore to do anything. Hardly have time to learn new things. Almost didn't have time for Japanese lessons... and that had to sacrifice my sleeping-in hours on Saturday mornings
In short...
NO LIFE.
By weekends, I'm already too tired to do anything. Phone goes ring rang rung on Friday nights with gazillions of friends asking to hang out here and there... but too tired to do anything... and thinking that I have to go out and then
WAKE UP EARLY for my japanese lessons the next day is just... erk...
a no-no...
So Friday nights gone... Saturday nights, only when I feel like it... Sunday afternoons, sure... and then before you know it, you're facing yet another Monday...
And what a shock it is to read the last question in Takki's Poporo 4 interview:
Q24: How many hours should there be in a day that is good?
"About 12 HOURS. I think it's better for it to be shorter. Because the longer the day is, the more tired you are. If it's only half the time, isn't it nicer? Work would be less, and then you can go sleep. Yep, half is good."
And on the other side of universe, me and
flo were once saying how we wish that we're living in some planet where
1 DAY = 3524684902864821 hours or something of the sort!
Takizawa, ne! Are you crazy!!!
ONLY 12 HOURS IN A DAY? But then there will be
LESSER TIME TO SLEEP ne?
Dame, dame... I don't agree with Takki.
I DO NOT WANT A DAY TO BE 12 HOURS! As if I'm not already in
SHORTAGE OF TIME! And he wants to cut the day by half???
Ah yes, it's time to quit and do something I really like.
(although I have no idea what it is, so yeah, need to do some soulsearching--and I'll bet I'll come up with answers related to
tamago ) My manager did ask me what exactly I was planning to do... and like the mindreader that she was
(which now strengthens my suspicion that our YM and MSN are really really
BUGGED at work!)
Either that... or she reads my blog!
In that case I better stop blogging about this!!!!
The solution? We did a little bargaining session at the end of it...
"Three months."
"Er... no... the agreement says ONE MONTH NOTICE."
"Okay, TWO months."
"................... fine, I'll think about it first."
So, there's no solution or verdict yet... although my mother is already screaming bloody murder when I told her
TWO MONTHS until I can finally break myself free. She's like
"WHAT THE HELL!? YOU GET YOURSELF OUT OF THAT COMPANY BY THE END OF THIS MONTH!!! DO I NEED TO HIRE YOU A LAWYER FOR THAT?!" Uh.... er... calm down mother... hmmm... I guess she reeeeally wants me to quit.
Me thinks me gonna send over a formal resignation letter sometime this week, just to make sure everything's clear and formal... and that they know, this time, I mean it. There's no health excuse this time that they could smash down with the SARS plague like last year... it's just me, wanting to have more time of my own to do what I like doing. She actually asked if there was a solution she could give me... and I jokingly said,
"Uh... can I work half day only?" AND TO MY SURPRISE SHE ACTUALLY SAID THAT WE COULD WORK SOMETHING OUT FOR A HALF-DAY!!!!
OMG YO...... this is what they call
"ONCE YOU'RE IN YOU CAN'T GET OUT!"
*sigh*
O tsukareta...................................... -____-
And its gonna be
JUDGMENT NIGHT too!!!
This one has actually been the biggest pressure and dokidoki pressing onto my brain and spine this past month.... and finally.... here we are, tamago angels... it's
MARCH 3... where our verdicts come out and all hell breaks loose!!!
(I was even constructing a time schedule for
tako-chan to run around getting all the errands for Dream Boy Osaka done before the deadline!
Seriously, haven't felt THIS agitated for the longest time!!!
And it's almost like a win-win/lose-lose situation for me in both results.... if we get tickets then I will be joygasmicly ureshii... but my wallet won't be
BUT if we don't get tickets then my wallet will be joygasmicly ureshii and as for
nere... you'll see her getting ready to hang herself at the nearest beansprout tree
So....
GOOD LUCK TO US ALL, TAMAGO ANGELS~~~ 
Also another shocking news today.... dad called in the afternoon confirming that they'll be dragging me along to
"THE WEDDING" He brought home the invitation today... after weeks of letting it collect dust on his office desk... he *FINALLY* decides that we're attending
THREE DAYS BEFORE THE RSVP DEADLINE! For an
OVERSEAS WEDDING! 
Helloooo daddy.... ever heard of "PLANNING AHEAD"???
Anyway... the invitation was this
HUGE GOLD-COLORED BOX and when I opened it.... the first thing I thought of was a gold-colored
V6 SUMMER DREAM 2003 CONCERT PAMPHLET!!! It's a very sugoku kireiiiii invitation... the most beautiful invitation I've ever seen my entire life... this one really sets a new record!!!
And
10000+ plus points too because it's in
THREE LANGUAGES: English, Chinese and
JAPANESE (well, the groom is half-Japanese--from his father) So...
ellaaaa... are you coming too? Well well well.... then it also means:
DOUBLE NGOCOR DISASTER NERE & NENEK
who, supposedly, will be in town too,
ON THE SAME DATES! So if
mise doesn't have our calendars YET... we ready to drop a nuclear bomb on them yah
nenek-chan?
Ehehehee... then we send a train of joygasmic sms-es down to
toro-chan and turn her green
unless........ calendars not there, and turns out it'll be
toro-chan picking it up for me on her next turn... then she'll be sending me a train of evil sms-es of how she's currently holding the holy calendar and I'm just gonna go entirely
NUTS Oh and for
Tamago Angel #2... thanks again and please keep thwapping me with the fact that there will be
BIGGIER FISHIES in Osaka so I can control myself in overpriced
mise
Yeeps.... 01.30 AM... bedtimeee.....
