Re-org

Re-organisation in the office is always a bad thing.. people get moved around. New people come in, hopefully no one gets kicked out. Your boss changes, work flow changes, the team changes etc etc... sigh. And I was actually quite happy working with my small team - the american, german, and singaporean. Although all 3 of them are about twice my age, but it was great fun working with them. Things will change now. Oh well.. re-org seems to be happening all the time. And it has happened too many times already in this place. Just that this time it's pretty severe... I hope I will work well with my new colleagues.

That's not the worse. Even worse news today.. jin jee is leaving the bank!!! The 4 of us who started out together in the same team.. has only me left!! Leslie left first, went off to RP to teach. Eugene next.. to JPM. And now JJ!! Oh no! It's kinda sad because the 4 of us were really good buddies and we started out really well, though as strangers on Jul 15 2004, the day we started work, but good buddies not long after that. Sigh sigh. And JJ is moving out of Singapore too.. less chance to meet up. So you see... the banking world is such. Turnover is high. From the 8 Ops grads, only 2 are left in Ops. Plus me, still less than 50% in the bank.

On the brighter side... it's Kenneth's birthday today!!! Happy birthday!! I have picked out 4 places to go for dinner.. actually 6 places initially but 1 was fully booked (!!!) and the other was closed for a function. The 4 places are at rochester park, dhoby ghaut, holland rd, mt faber. Let's see what we feel like having tomorrow. I've booked all 4 anyway.. "kiasu" syndrome. No choice I guess.. it's a sat, it's the 7th July 2007, and it's Kenneth's birthday! Can't avoid to stand in long queues.

The weekend begins!!