J: I’m going home to do abit of work tonight.
D: Why? Tonight? Its Sunday!
J: Well, I like to get a head start on Monday. Do some work first. I love my job!
D: What kind of GAY job is that? If given a choice, I rather not work *groans*
Hearing this lively banter between two of my most loved friends made all of us present burst into laughter. The fact that they are both gay made the joke a tad funnier than it would have been otherwise.
Jokes aside, I’ve been pondering about the bits of truth in what they said.
How many of us fall into J’s spectrum and how many falls into D’s? Are you looking for a career as opposed to a job, willingly putting in the extra hours or effort, or are you just working, going through the motions and just working for the sake of an income? My experience is that most of the people I’ve come across are Ds with only a splattering of Js. (Extreme Ds are usually the whiners and job-hoppers. But its also true that they tend to suck at their work attitude and/or skills and possess more than a handful of lazy bones. Rare, but I do know a couple whom I sincerely believe need to be granted PR status on the Disastrous Employees of the Millennium list.)
Work commitment and passion should not be mixed up nor used interchangeably too. I take pride in my work and have no qualms in putting in the extra hours but that doesn’t mean I love my job. The extra hours are because I feel an obligation towards meeting my standard of excellence for a task I’m assigned responsibility to. But I have to admit, after awhile, the grind of long hours and a constant snow-balling of tasks at hand makes me feel dreary and jaded. It doesn’t help that my fiance has just given me a rating of 9.5 out of 10 on the workaholic scale.
I need an outlet. And I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Its a saturday well spent as we visited Nicky’s friend, Marcus’ new Pet haven – Petopia. Its a centre for holistic pet wellness through grooming, spa, massage and hotel services. I do believe some of these pooches lead a more pampered life than several of us around. Nevertheless, it was indeed fun shooting at Petopia and now I’ll all anxious to see how the lomo cameras fare.
Petopia
Ring yourself in
Hats of the Petopians
Toys
Owners can watch their pets get pampered
Spa Beds!
Play room - Toto and Ace waiting for their parents to come back from lunch. (And yes, they are wearing diapers)
Muffin before going for the microbubble bath
Petopia's Gentle Giant - Oscar
Welcome to Petopia!
Its been awhile since I really wrote anything. Its been a tough period of time but thankfully everything is looking up now. I’ve spent the last few weeks swimming in work, and getting some social media detox. Hiding from the world if you might say so. Because I lost interest in so many things, I figured its time to pick myself up.
And I’ve been reading… That, and bashing my way through Professor Layton’s 300 puzzles.
I’m currently hooked to The Meditations of Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius as the blog title aptly quotes. I’m extremely glad I bought his book. Here’s a current favourite paragraph which I believe everyone will benefit from. What a great way to start a day, a month, a life.
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow-creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like a man’s two hands, feet, or eyelids, or like the upper and lower rows of his teeth, To obstruct each other is against Nature’s law – and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction?
Now, here’s something for everyone to chew on. Easier said than done. But don’t every of us love some kind of challenge?
