Hey My Colleagues

This morning, I finally get to see my 'mentor', who was away at China for a project for the past one week. Prior meeting him today, I have already heard lots of stuffs abt him, like he is the number da hao ren (aka the monk of HP), the super clown & joker, Li Nanxing-look-a-like etc. True enough, he is really a damm funny joker and seems to be a very nice senior to me. The things he taught me today has far superseded what i have learnt over the past week. But the sad thing is although he is my assigned mentor, i am not going to take over his projects. Instead, I am going to take over the job of another guy, who seems to me as a very friendly guy too.

However, during lunch today, I was eating with this grp of more senior colleagues who started to talk ill abt the 2nd guy (the one that i am supposed to take over his work). I was tempted to join in the 'fun' and ask them why and what he did in the past, but i resisted and told myself its NO point engaging in such destructive conversations. I thot i wud definitely feel damm miserable if i were to be the one spoken ill of by my colleagues, esp when its done behind my back.

After the lunch break, another grp of colleagues were talking abt those missing cases in Fraser Hill etc, when one guy spoke abt his interest in hiking and venturing thru the forested areas in sg. I was thrilled and asked him if he know abt the forgotten Japanese Shinto Shrine at MacRitchie which is now well hidden by trees and thick undergrowths. He was equally excited when he learnt that i took great interest in it, and even sent me many internet links related to the broken shrine, which are damm hard to find when i try searching them on googles. We have planned to go down sometime soon, like this weekend or wat .. woohoo..

This snr engineer also shared with me some other 'sacred' places in singapore which were WWII battle grounds of sg. He told me there are several places which are very near to our work place, and we could drive down anytime. He wud be bringing me down tmr during lunch break to Labrador park to visit the entrance of the collapsed tunnel which was supposed to link to Sentosa. He also suggested going to Mt Pepsy to visit some old WWII bunkers, but i told him i have accidentally stumbled onto them during my search for a 'haunted' place during NUSBS FOC2001.

So far, i am quite pleased to be at HP, cos the colleagues are definitely more fun. There r really countless no. of eateries around my workplace, and i dun feel the urge to rush home at 530pm sharp like wat i used to at CDGE. But i also know it will be a diff story when the work load starts to pile in. .. but at least, the working env is really good.