A new friend

I've been neglecting this blog - special apologies to Gwen for depriving you of your usual lunchtime entertainment. Work has been real hectic (and it will get worse in the following months). Now, I would have been able to multi-task and sneak five minutes to blog a few lines here and there - except that the internet connection at the office is incredibly erratic and gives me some funny DNS server error more often than not. Just so that I don't kill my keyboard in a fit of heavy, pounding frustration, I have given up on blogging from the office.

Anyway, all's the same on the warfront at work...nothing much to update. But something pleasant did happen recently - I made a new friend at work! We joined the company around the same time but did not have the opportunity to interact until a recent project brought us together. It's one of those friendships that eased in very naturally, without having to go through a period of familiarisation or ice-breakers. Like long-lost friends, to be cliche. Perhaps we remind each other of existing friends, hence that sense of familiarity with each other's style and tempo.

And you know what? This new friend of mine was actually a competitor for the job I wanted - she got the job I was eyeing, while I was posted to my second choice. But I'm glad it happened this way, or our paths would not have crossed (she would have joined another company instead)  I remember feeling this sentiment a few years back, at a previous workplace. I'm glad it has happened again - the feeling's almost poetic, to join the dots and see the things I've not seen before. As they say, "Everything happens for a reason". I only have to wait it out to see it.