Day 25

I counted the average age of the people in my department- 39! As compared to my friends in other ministries and agencies, I think my department is the oldest. I'm in corporate planning now, and i think the head was right at the interview, the job fit is quite good. I'd have felt out of place in a slacker department. At CP, you need to know everything under the sun abt the organisation. It's not abt specialization, it's about the macro pic. Since i'm the kind of person who wants to cover all the bases, I guess the job suits me. Initially i wanted to start higher, in the ministry above us, but i guess i was too greedy. Coincidentally here i've been tasked to staff the mtgs with that ministry so i'll be seeing a lot of those ppl who interviewed me lol. Over there i was told firefighting formed the bulk of the work, here my boss told me from day 1 that he did not like firefighting and prefers to look ahead, afterall what's CP without the P? I'm thankful for that because i realised how i cld've languished if i were to do firefighting. Of course there are some parts of the job here that i didn't expect, but i did ask for a challenging job.

There are many old-timers here who've worked more than 10 years, my buddy is one. Apparently he's the buddy of everyone new in the dept cos he's been ard for so long. It's interesting to go lunch with these people beacuse they can really EAT. For example, we went to Queensway last week and just for lunch alone, we had claypot laksa, avocado juice, fruit plate and egg tarts. Then we also went to Liang Court another day for Shabu Shabu Ramien and just yesterday it was Earle's Swensons for deparment lunch. But that's the final straw, i've resolved after Liang Court to find new eating partners and cheaper eating places cos i can't afford to eat like that the whole time.