In Other Words

The Machine

Well, still locked out of my blog. I think it will soon be time for some heads to roll. Not that I have the time for it. Have to write articles tonight. Wrote articles yesterday as well. As Liana already said, I didn’t manage to finish mine, hope to do so later.

New guy joined us at work today. Fresh grad, doesn’t really want to be here, is only meant to be here for a few weeks to do some project and is being paid peanuts. I guess I wouldn’t want to be here either if I was him. Been out of school since February and unemployed. Frustrated because all the people around him already have jobs. I guess that’s how it goes. I was pretty unhappy when I didn’t work for a year and a half.

Things are looking slightly better at work. They also look a lot more busy in the near future. I’ll be fine though, I’m always fine. I’ve never had a real problem with being too busy with stuff. Its all for a good cause, that cause being getting the hell out of Singapore. About bloody time to, can’t stay here much longer before I go screaming loony and Don my duck man caped crusader suit.

Nobody messes with the duck man. After all, he’s especially good at ducking, ducking it out, Peking duck and is best served with French fries.

In two months Liana and me will be free of the debts that we incurred in more then one year of my unemployment. After that I’ll still need to pay off my dad, but hopefully we might be able to start saving. Its still kind of hard to have to hand over three fourths of the cash you make just to pay of the debts incurred before. I guess that’s the way it goes. It makes it clear to me, however, that I would never want to live under a mortgage. Screw owning, that’s a man made concept anyway.

I would rather rent and know I can stop paying that rent by just leaving the place I’m in. Fiscal obligations suck. Fiscal obligations are what is keeping me and Liana chained to this little island where we both would rather no longer be. My second paycheck came in on Saturday and I’m already pretty much certain that we still wont be able to start saving for our trip yet. Heck, I’m already moving back some payments to next month.

It will all be fine as long as I keep on working. I guess I’ve been swallowed whole by the machine after all. I just hope I can get a job I like a little bit better. This corporate stuff is scary and absolutely not what I want to do.

posted by Symbol @ 29.6.04