Its been a long while since I blogged, so I guess this entry / series of entries(??) will be about playing catchup, a term I've long since become familiar with this past year.
Its certainly been a most eventful few months, and those that I do remember are enough to fill one entire week's worth of newspapers. Of course, I exaggerate, but I also kid you not.
We could start with the drama of politics at my work place, and the shocking announcement today that my boss is taking leave indefinitely, and will be replaced by Ms Company Prima Donna, indefinitely. The drama is amplified when our Sales Director also announced his sabbatical (he has 226 days of long service leave in his account) and will be back in AP only in July. This news following the announcement of our new VP and a couple of months earlier, our new President of Global Lubricants.
It was interesting that the time the news hit me (I happened to hear the "rumor" an hour or so before the announcement), there were tremors felt in my office building. I felt like I could have fallen off my chair, and my colleague's computer screen actually shook. It was worse on the 24th floor, where the tremors were quite apparent. For the rest of the day, our office was constantly hearing status updates about the quakes felt in the building and that we would be notified in the event should an evacuation be needed, etc. etc. etc.
And I finally went in to the doc's today to find out why I passed out cold at the end of a company dinner which we held for our new VP. Thankfully, the "boss" had left for his hotel, and I was actually in the middle of a conversation with my boss who was telling me that she wanted to send copies of the internal newsletter that I was in charge of to the RCF, not that I know who they were. It was after that exact sentence that I passed out. My colleague later jokingly told my boss to stop traumatizing me. When I awoke, I was totally unaware that I had passed out, and wondered why I was sitting on a chair with so many people around me. My boss, after making sure that I was ok, said, "Bad joke, but are you pregnant?" And I thought, "What a strong woman!"
While it may sound like a strange thought, to put things in perspective - my boss had recently lost a baby through miscarriage. She found out she was pregnant when she passed out at our company D&D last year and was thrilled to be a mother again. However, it was a risky pregnancy due to her age, and sadly, didn't manage to keep the baby. And at that instant, the fact that she could make a joke about it - I am impressed by her ability to bounce back.
Anyway, to the doc's I went today after the announcement of Ms Prima Donna planning to take over the AP world, thinking they might have some sort of pill to cure injustice and management woes. Sadly, they weren't even able to diagnose what was wrong with me - it had been a week since I fainted - and resorted to poking me with a needle a couple of times to draw blood from me.
The doc informed me that she suspected I passed out due to work exhaustion, but needed to do the due diligence to exclude all the other possibilities such as:
Thyroid disorder
Diabetes
Anaemia
Low Blood Count
Low Blood Glucose
In addition, she DID discover that I was having gastric problems as my stomach was bloated with gas. A sign of gastric, for which she gave me some pills for.
So that is the adventure for today. What I have not included in this entry is:
How I almost got arrested by my government
How I was locked out of my home
Why my wall is being redone
How water bubbles form on my wall
Why I hate private schools
Why I hate American Universities
New Career Options I am considering
The new, really cute Marketing Manager in New Zealand
My Chinese New year
How My Parents' Neighbour were Burgled and they nearly were too
My New Gaming Past Time,
etc. etc. etc.
Labels: Bosses, changes, Politics
