Today was one of those weird days, the days were you wonder what made you get out of bed, what made you dress up and head out to work because nothing seemed to go correctly.
Apart from the fact that you have a billion things to do because the past week you were away at a training course, there is the fact that customers come in to complain for previous Staff’s mishaps and such.
But that is not the whole point of this post, the whole point is, that a customer did come to me today and was upset with the service he was getting, he requested something that was impossible to achieve on my end and after promising to look into it, we were to head downstairs since my office is on a different level so he would pick up his new card. And little did I know that the elevator will choose that moment to stop on us.
Seriously it was stuck in between floors for almost 30 minutes and even when we pressed on the bell no one came to help. The best thing that I have started to do is take my mobile phone wherever I go. That way whenever there is an emergency and I have service I will be able to phone for help, which is exactly what I did. However they were not able to restart the elevator and therefore they ended up moving us manually until we safely reached the ground floor where they pried the doors open.
It was truly an experience, the customer himself laughed and said now you will not be able to forget this, it will go down in history.
So my word of advice, when you wake up feeling that something will go wrong today, don’t think positively, instead choose to stay underneath your covers and go back to sleep, wake up when there is no danger to yourself out there in this big bad world.
One might think that every year of their existence is supposed to be filled with happiness or sadness but never both. I found that this year I had experienced both. I was faced with lots of challenges, and the most important one is the one I’m ending the year with (can’t share much about it, those closest to me know it but it’s something that’s bringing me down and ending 2007 with a flop rather than a bang). I used to think that 2007 would bring me extra happiness, and at some points it did, I got to see many different things in it and I got to live many events of my life. To play back some I thought I should illustrate what most think being happy is all about.
The Ups: This year marked the year I started work, some might argue that it should belong in the down side but the up-part about it is that I started depending on myself, feeding my technological urges and food needs. I began the year with a 3 month course which I pretty much did great in, and had met some new friends in (Abs this is to you, and my long lost love whom I discovered I knew all along, forgot the nickname I gave you back then hehe :)) I had a healthier relationship with my Mother this year as well since the previous years and I think I’m starting to establish a good sequence with her, I might claim to hate her before but I am not sure anymore because it’s just all too confusing now. Daddy however is still the love of my life, the guy who spoils me silly and never leaves me wanting anything. My sister graduated this year High School and headed to the States which was a great thing, they are all moving on and up, and I would never wish for anything worse. I met the most amazing work family I can ever meet, one that is literally one heart and one hand, and its through that family that I am getting through difficult times! Yes this post is getting long but I’m trying to reflect on this year. Other aspects of my life flourished and prospered as well to unseen bounds, where it is painful to feel the pain of being rejected by some who don’t even know me. All in all, it was a good year but not as great as 2006, I tried to keep a positive outlook on life but the past 3-4 months were pure hell.
The Downs: The issue I am going through is one of the worst downs I have faced in all my life, to want something so bad yet not be able to have it due to outside influences is just unbearable, and is plain hurtful! Most downs I’ve had were at work however, where I noticed that not everyone is as they seem, and not every smiling face is a decent smiling face. People hurt others to get ahead and those who do I believe will fall down one day if it was not something they deserved! I realized I do not want to continue with the field I’m in because in the end it’s too stressful and there are just certain limits I can reach. It does not even touch a small part of what I want in life and that is what I am aiming for. Deaths and other hurtful disasters were avoided this year, only hurt is the one in me. I am not going to lose hope or faith. I am actually going to fight for what I want and I will with God’s help have it!
In short, I am reminded by the words I spoke last year and they were:
I am a better person, I am a wiser person, I am who I am and I am proud of it. I will love myself first and foremost, I will find the silver lining in everything that happens to me, and I am stronger than any darkness that will ensue itself around me. I am me!
I tried so hard to live by this quote and I believe I have done that. Maybe not all the time but at least those days where I needed it most. To 2007, I am saying I saw the good days and the bad, the good days made me live with the beauty of the world, made me feel that this year was an absolute beauty, the bad made me wish I could just crawl under my rock and die. I am hoping that the end would be better than what I am experiencing now and I really wish I get my dreams fulfilled! To 2008, I welcome you with open arms, wishing that you bring me the happiest part of my life, hoping you fulfill all that I dream and wish, hoping that I am reunited with my loved ones and tied to them with bounds that are unbreakable. 2008 I want you to bring me this happiness, I want you to keep sadness and despair away, I wish with all my heart that a happy beginning is what I will experience whether its from work or my life in general I just need it.
May you all have your inner most wishes come true and may 2008 be the happiest year of your lives. I believe this is a sign for me to leave. Sorry for the length of this post but I just had to. Thanks for listening.
As you can see I haven’t been able to blog the past few days it was hectic, crazy and power draining. Today’s lesson is going to be called “How Rude 1202″ and what I will be talking about is the Rudest Moments you ever face at your job. Well the ones I faced recently, so here goes:
- It’s rude to discover new rules in the newspaper rather than your Management sending out a Memo defining the new procedure and such. (I discovered that I now have work on Saturdays through the bloody newspaper and we still did not get a memo regarding it!)
- Very rude to realize that they take back their words every single second of the day. (I have been in the process of moving from where I am to another place and I got a confirmation a month ago that I will be moving in September, but today I got a letter stating that I won’t be moving until beginning of next year! And that was said to me just because I thought to ask what happened!)
- Colleagues that annoy the hell out of you is really bad as well (but that was in my old place and not the new one!)
- Working for 13 and a half hours is painful but what’s more painful is going back to work the next day exhausted and drained, finding out that a day later you will have a meeting and then two days later you would have work on your day off and a few days later you would have a big meeting as well! (I mean what the hell!)
That’s a short list for now because I can’t think well but oh well. Seriously Tuesday was a day where I did not even leave work I was there from 7:30 to 9:00pm the entire day and did not leave, only to have lunch. At the end I was sort of drunk in the way I spoke because you get that way. Today I met with some rude clients who think they own you seriously! I am not owned by you dimwits I am my own person! Ugh but I still adore my new colleagues!
Bed time, so noodles.
P.S. I want an iPod Touch, red iPod nano, and red iPod Shuffle. Apple just updated their iPod family and I want to get my hands on one badly, I am thinking of tapping that savings account! But I might end up with the 16GB iPod Touch.
To survive Sundays one must follow a certain laid structure to ensure everything flows and no one ends up exploding into 10 pieces, well not 10 but millions. I think I can highlight my day in a few points as I did previously. Remember these are parts of life and they should be followed whether you want to or not.
- Sunday mornings should be dedicated to finishing up the pending work that you have kept hanging on Thursday because let’s face it the last two hours of Thursday are better spent gossiping with your friends rather than doing anything, and who says we can work the last two hours before a weekend.
- Checking your work email and deleting those emails that you don’t need helps pass time and keeps you from dealing with whiny customers but it helps when there aren’t any in the branch in the beginning.
- Organizing a pending list of tasks and coloring it can be fun too and let’s you avoid other types of work as well.
- Try not to answer phones or deal with people who are dense because in a way they will ruin your day, the question “Why” can become a mood killer after the 100th time being asked.
- Afternoon naps help the day pass by quicker but it does make you all groggy which is great, makes you mean to people and that’s the way it should be!
- Oh and Sundays should be the days that you attempt the least work in as well as the last day before the weekend or else what are they paying us for?
There can be more rules but those are the ones off the top of my head and it’s difficult to think when you are still half asleep. Why can’t you have a pause button for the morning, so that you wake up and dress and everything and then unpause time so that you have not spent most of it!
This year, 2006, has been pretty good to me. There were the ups and downs of course, what thing in life doesn’t have an up and down, but in general it was pretty nice. Some of this year’s highlights include the fact that I graduated from College, and that before the end of the year I started working. Those are some highlights and some ups really. But to do this post some justice I think I shall classify the post into two categories, the ups and the downs. So let’s get crackin’.
The Ups: January marked the last month that I would be in college and the last one that I’d be taking exams in, it was quite an interesting time and quite free-ing from everything else. I did a bit of work during the end of February to the beginning of April where I got a semi-glimpse at how things worked but it was so brief and I chose to terminate it because it wasn’t what I wanted in the end. I want to establish myself on my own I want to start from scratch and make myself grow into the person I want to be in the future. This year marked the beginning of my turned around attitude, I started to love things rather than hate them and become depressed all the time and I think it worked since I was happy most of this year. I made new friends this year (ananyah & dodo) and maintained some old friendships. I re-visited the States this year as a sort of ‘ending my care-free days’ and I started a small part time job which kept my cash flow decent and allowed me to do things that I wanted to do. I also got a new car. I redecorated my bedroom and fell in love with different things. I had my Jack- the teddy bear keep me company throughout the year and well everytime I was in my room, I mean what more do you need from a teddy bear hehe other than to keep your bed comfy and cozy. You might notice that I am all over the place here but it’s to be excused hehe I am trying to think of the great things this year and those are some of the beautiful things. Oh and how can I forget! Italy won the World Cup this year which was amazingly fun! Hehehe I got to experience happiness towards the winning of my team ;p And I guess the last bit of happiness was that Saddam was executed this year which brought happiness to those who suffered at his hands.
The Downs: To start the downs, well the late Amir of the State of Kuwait (Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmad) passed away earlier this year and that marked the sadness for our country. Then came some bouts of saddness and depression that I got hit with but not as much as before. Actually to tell you the truth I don’t even remember most of the downs of this year because I chose not to focus on them and to enjoy my time or to make most of it fun. So I will skip this part.
But I’d like to say that this year was also good on my emotional health and my familial relationships. I think that even though I was dealing with a lot of things and I got mad and stuff but I maintained a good relationship with mostly all of them including Mother and that’s what counts right? What more can a person want than a happy family, a healthy self, and a great outlook towards a bright future.
I am a better person, I am a wiser person, I am who I am and I am proud of it. That was and is my mantra for this year and the years to come. Maintaining a happier outlook towards life will allow me to lead a happier and brighter life. Things will get screwed up, things will be messed and nothing can be done about it except how I deal with it and I hope to learn to deal with things in a better and more mature way than before. So I want to hear you all say this:
I am a better person, I am a wiser person, I am who I am and I am proud of it. I will love myself first and foremost, I will find the silver lining in everything that happens to me, and I am stronger than any darkness that will ensue itself around me. I am me!
Trying to think of a topic to post about, I thought there is nothing better than posting a “This is Me Then.. and This is Me Now” post. I thought what better way to reflect upon the current year but through such a post. So I would like to share this bit from December 30th, 2004:
Wow, the three months or so of school have finally passed and next week I have one more lecture and then I am done.. Imagine that wow! Even though I am excited about the end of the semester yet I don?’t want finals to come nearer..
1 Day left of 2004, let me try and reflect back on my year.. Hmmm..
I started off on the worst start ever, lots of people passed away in this year, i fought with my closest uncle and we ended up not speaking to each other for almost 4 months I think even longer.. but on a specific day which I can’t remember what happened exactly things started going back to how they were.. hmm went through multiple personality changes (just kidding hehe) those are the things that I kind of remember clearly, otherwise it was filled with some okay events.. got to know more people better, and such.. all in all, I guess this year would be classified as hmmm “Just okay” but not great or perfect or anything.. I guess I will wish that next year will rock because I am in total need for some rocking :P
I visited a friend today or well earlier on the 29th heheh since it’s the 30th right now.. I had fun reminiscing a bit with her, and I miss her so much ehehehhe.. We ended up going to another friend of mine’s place hehehe and hung out there for a bit.. and ate Burger King for dinner (yummy)..
Wow just wow! I can’t really grasp the concept of next week when I meet my friends I can actually say.. “Where have you beeen, I haven’t seen you for a yeaaar!?” hehehe Whereas I am planning to meet another friend of mine who is back on vacation and I haven’t seen her for almost 2 years now :r which sucks yet I am happy because I still kept in touch with her through MSN and such..
So yeah, seriously anyone who needs a Gmail account, feel free to ask because I have 5 on one account and on another I have 6 :r I know that by now everyone has a Gmail account but to those who don’t go ahead hehe ask don’t be shy..
Oh yeah, I wanna give out my shout outs to TheDon, Purgatory72, Shosho, Gigi, Rampurple, Swair, Nuttimilius, Zorath, Zeecu, Q, Misguided, Q80ChilloutGirl, Maryam, Uzf, Chocolates, GrandmaFunk, PinkSuedeShoes, Nibaq, Drunk and Gorgeous, umm and everyone else who is on my ?�€?�Kuwaiti Blog List?�€?? which of course is alot of people, these were just off the top of my head which in reality sucks.. oh yea and to those who aren?�€™t there SheWritesQ8, Flamingoliya, Yea HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS! As well as to everyone else!
I wish you a pleasant New Year, wonderful celebrations to the new year, and umm basically yea that?�€™s it :P
So technically that was me then, right? Yes.
The similarities of the endings of both years are so freaky because I don’t have one similarity but many. First of all I am still at the stage where I don’t want my finals to approach, but in this case its for a different reason. Well actually now that I actually fully read the post, there are just two similarities or rather three, the friend I visited on the 29th of December last year, is actually back this year and has invited me for a New Years Eve celebration tomorrow with my other friend whom we visited LOL! So ironically we will be sort of going through a similar situation. Also the other friend whom I wanted to meet is back and I will be trying to arrange a day to go and visit her as well.
Imagine that LOL! Now let me reflect upon 2005. In comparison to 2004, 2005 rocked its arse! It seriously did. I changed throughout the year, major and minor changes. Some of the changes not classified whether they are major or minorare that: I started reading again (whether they are cheesy romance novels or not I still started reading, so far I have read around 75 books this year, probably more, I’ve got to work on my reading list to make sure); I am also growing up becoming more mature and stuff (LOL Yeah like that’s believable); I have had a good relationship with my Uncles and Aunts and Family really, I still had some fights with mother but that can’t be avoided can it? I have finally travelled and seen the States, I also went to Dubai but that’s besides the point there, I have finally gotten me a Mac and I love it dearly, and I can say that I am having a great relationship with friends and Jack ;P Therefore, for me, I believe that 2005 has been very good to me, and I am glad to have it part of me.
I just hope that 2006 will rock even more for me. So to end this post similarly to my past year I would like to wish all of my closest friends and Blogger friends a Happy New Year. To list names would mean I might favor some of you more than the others ;P Well I guess I could be mean and do that so here goes: (In order of who’s first on my Blog roll really and not in a particular friendship order)
Happy New Year to: [Purgatory], Mark and Nat, MiYaFushi, Sou, Ameerab, Swair, Drunk’n'Gorgeous, Jewaira, Hanan, K, Donny Boy, 7Tenths, Grandma Funk, Pearls, Gigi, Rampurple, Nibaq, Purgatory and Shosho, Tata, Mr. Tea and Mrs. Milk, William, Zorath, Ayya, 3baid, Bitzer, Blasha, BloBoz, Q80 Chillout Girl, Misguided and Ms Baker, Zeecu, ForzaQ8, GEOrhythm, Delicately Realisitc, Nonaw, Juddy Abbott, Jelly Belly, Tooomz, McArabian, Sheba, SheWritesQ8, Maryam, and the rest of those who are great friends and readers to this blog.
Thank you for making 2005 a great year for me, I hope 2006 will rock much more!
Wow, the three months or so of school have finally passed and next week I have one more lecture and then I am done.. Imagine that wow! Even though I am excited about the end of the semester yet I don’t want finals to come nearer.. 1 Day left of 2004, let me try and reflect back on my year.. Hmmm..
I started off on the worst start ever… lots of people passed away in this year, i fought with my closest uncle and we ended up not speaking to each other for almost 4 months I think even longer.. but on a specific day which I can’t remember what happened exactly things started going back to how they were.. hmm went through multiple personality changes (just kidding hehe) those are the things that I kind of remember clearly, otherwise it was filled with some okay events.. got to know more people better, and such.. all in all, I guess this year would be classified as hmmm “Just okay” but not great or perfect or anything.. I guess I will wish that next year will rock because I am in total need for some rocking :P
I visited a friend today or well earlier on the 29th heheh since it’s the 30th right now.. I had fun reminiscing a bit with her, and I miss her so much ehehehhe.. We ended up going to another friend of mine’s place hehehe and hung out there for a bit.. and ate Burger King for dinner (yummy)..
Wow just wow! I can’t really grasp the concept of next week when I meet my friends I can actually say.. “Where have you beeen, I haven’t seen you for a yeaaar!” hehehe Whereas I am planning to meet another friend of mine who is back on vacation and I haven’t seen her for almost 2 years now :r which sucks yet I am happy because I still kept in touch with her through MSN and such..
So yeah, seriously anyone who needs a Gmail account, feel free to ask because I have 5 on one account and on another I have 6 :r I know that by now everyone has a Gmail account but to those who don’t go ahead hehe ask don’t be shy..
Oh yeah, I wanna give out my shout outs to TheDon, Purgatory72, Shosho, Gigi, Rampurple, Swair, Nuttimilius, Zorath, Zeecu, Q, Misguided, Q80ChilloutGirl, Maryam, Uzf, Chocolates, GrandmaFunk, PinkSuedeShoes, Nibaq, Drunk and Gorgeous, umm and everyone else who is on my “Kuwaiti Blog List” which of course is alot of people, these were just off the top of my head which in reality sucks.. oh yea and to those who aren’t there SheWritesQ8, Flamingoliya, Yea HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS! As well as to everyone else!
I wish you a pleasant New Year, wonderful celebrations to the new year, and umm basically yea that’s it :P
a 28 year old Kuwaiti Gadget Freak who is obsessively in love with Apple Products so much that she probably has everything made by Apple. Currently she's being a lazy bum and putting off writing and everything else but when she does this is her space where she likes to vent and release everything, so welcome to it.
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