BB 的恐懼 [熱]

參觀了蘇海明大表哥在窩打老道 8 號的家。好風景，但很貴 $_$

在旺角吃過午飯，便出發到蘇海明姊姊的家去。一如以往，小倬瑤見到蘇海明便大哭大叫，仿佛看見怪物 ... 哈哈 =P 對於這個現象，大家一直百思不得其解；蘇姊姊今天提出了一個比較「像樣」的解釋：

「可能 BB 見到一個個樣好似媽媽、但又唔係媽媽嘅人突然同媽媽一齊出現，覺得好混亂、好驚!」

Photo shotting

Started taking photos around the office. It's not common for people working in this department to take photos in office, and thus I broke another record again, as what I often did during the last 2 years =P

Office is where you spent most of the time in everyday, and colleagues are people whom you see even more frequent than your family members. It's a torture if you are incompatible with both.

Farewell lunch with trader [Hot]

Had lunch with Tak the trader in a brand new Japanese restaurant at Lan Kwai Fong --- indeed, I didn't know it's a Japanese one until I stepped inside, it looked so much like a shop serving western foods!

Tak and I didn't used to talk a lot during office hours, but we talked a lot today, ranging from my offer, his study, the derivatives markets, marriage, his dinner with brokers last night to his previous stay in HKEx. If he could just stopped spotting his blackberry it would be even nicer --- Haha, his wife kept complaining about that as well =P

Tak said that he targeted to get me and Edwin to the front office previously, but seemingly I was not really keen on that and thus he went for Edwin. True, I was never ambitious and was not interested in any front office position. Not even for middle office one, it's a bit too exhausted for a lazy girl like me, who looked for simple life, enjoyable moments and normal working hours ... haha *,*

Offer, one more [Hot]

Agent M notified that I've got the offer from R! Nothing else was known though, even on the pay.

Ming and my family supported for my desire move. How would it be like?

ACT! [Hot]

Had a very enjoyable lunch this afternoon for Mary's birthday. It's expensive though! $_$

No update from Agent M. Felt suffocated. I simply wanna know the result and would be satisfied, no matter it's positive or negative. Just wanted to have all stuffs settled asap.

New York ran a webex session with us tonight on ACT!, the new confirmation tracking system. I was the only one who asked control related questions; manager Y raised some queries over its application, but all others were just kept totally silent throughout the process. Could they follow indeed? I was kind of worried if they could handle it. Anyway, there's no way that a team could not operate without certain personnel, wasn't it?

Mandy Chan [Hot]

Talked to Mandy Chan, the new boss of my manager, in the afternoon. It was scheduled to be a 15 minute talk, but turned out to last for 1.5 hours @_@!

What I could conclude from the chat was that she was a very ambitious and aggressive woman, kidda like Fungyee. It was not an easy talk, and I was commanded to give a sound reply on Thursday. Ah ...

Manager Y did something stupid again, and I spoke to him in bad tone. It's simply a reflex action, though I didn't mean to be so cool. Really worried how things would go like after I leave ...

倫敦假期 [熱]

是日倫敦假期，晚上七時多便踏出公司大門 ... 奇哉、奇哉!

《講妳知》 [熱]

被媽媽迫著到金鋪去。因為一看到那些金器眉頭便皺了，所以媽媽由買黃金手飾變成買了一枚小小的鑽石戒子 =P 忽然得到平生第二隻鑽戒，多謝爸爸媽媽 =)

與爸爸媽媽配眼鏡後，便和蘇海明睇樓去。算著算著，才發現原來資金不足 *_*

晚上去看張學友演唱會，天王級數的他，竟然三度忘記歌詞/ 入錯 key! 不過他敢於承認，說自己老了，記憶力真的衰退了 ... 我欣賞! 從來不太留意唱片的我，因著他的表演，在網上找到了他口中所指不太暢銷的創作唱片 --- 《Life is Like a Dream》。

《講妳知》
歌手：張學友 | 作曲：張學友 | 填詞：張學友 | 編曲：David Tan

看妳背面　我身體欠自然
看妳正面　兩手失控在顫
看妳笑臉　我開心數夜數天

＊與妳說話　我啞口會無言
　與妳碰面　我體溫會亂變
　與妳貼面　一世的經典

　若妳肯　再擁抱緊一點
　我願意用我十年
　去換我共妳十天　ooh

　要講妳知　妳的意義
　每當我的心肝跳一次
　沒法子　難制止
　妳是血液滲於我每一處

　要講妳知　我的故事
　這一秒即使心再不跳
　在記憶　潛意識
　愛是已在心中永世不變＊

REPEAT＊

光陰可以瞬間轉數十年
生死起跌也知不會倖免
當中只有愛的感覺未曾變

行程緊密 [熱]

行程緊密的一天。先帶爸爸媽媽去驗眼，隨後與蘇海明到會展去，参觀沒甚資料可取的婚紗展，反而七樓的傢俱展可觀性更高 =P 步行到 IFC ，走了一圈又到 Tiffany 看了絕無僅有的婚戒，決定到 Pacific Coffee 喝杯飲料歇息歇息。

轉眼已到晚上七時多，與何曉珊會合後再送蘇海明到他懷念的燒味店吃晚餐，接著便到「鏞記」去出席馮金的 farewell 晚餐。大家都餓昏了，一轉眼就把所有餸菜掃清，還浩浩蕩蕩地走到杏花樓新店吃甜點 *,*

與莊靜賢乘搭地下鐵路回家，說了一番話，送給她，也送給自己。

Final interview [Hot]

Details given by agent M yesterday didn't exactly matched with what I was expected to do during the video conference meeting this evening --- it's 2 x case study within 30 minutes + presentation of 10 minutes to Julian + Q&A session + talk to HR @_@

It turned out to last for 2 hours instead of less than one hour, which was stressed by agent M for more than 3 times yesterday. So lucky that I didn't take her so-called “suggestion” to sneak out from the office for interview. Never believe totally in what the agent said! >_<

騷亂 [熱]

同事 James 生日，一行十六人到了香港大學同學會餐廳，引起一陣騷亂 =P

下午五時， Agent M 忽然致電來，說要將原定下星期一的見試調到明天六時。我早說了明天不行嘞，我的 team 有人放假，人手不足；她卻建議我明天告假病假，嚷著我已經辭職了，別管現在的工作。我最討厭就是她這種不負責任的人，很憤怒，直指她這樣做是錯的!

與經理 Y 討論，結果犧牲了星期一的颱風補假，換來明天下午五時下班的安排 =(

「金泰」 [陰/ 雨]

今晚約了歐陽嘉敏、金佩思、林詠欣與蘇海明到九龍城的「金泰」吃晚飯，他們早早便到達了，只有我九時才抵步 ~~>_<~~ 梁可穎與 Frankie 踫巧也到「金泰」去，還坐在我們旁邊，真有緣 *,*

看到一個頭髮似開花、打扮娘娘腔的侍應哥哥，很想笑 =P

歐陽嘉敏下星期要到新加坡去「坐監」，一路順風，兩個月後見 ... 噢，如果有 R 的 offer ，可能會早點見面 ... 還是別發夢了 @,@

Unpredictable way [Hot]

Things always went in unpredictable way --- Agent M alleged that R was interested to go for a final round interview with me, which was out of my expectation.

Accepted my manager's suggestion to defer my last day, but only for a week. Would it be an appropriate decision?

又見工 [熱/ 驟雨]

上星期告訴另一個 agent M ，說我有 offer 了，不能繼續等待 R 公司一個月也安排不上的 2nd interview ；受了刺激的 agent M ，立即替我弄來今晚與倫敦人視象會議的面試。

兩個倫敦人，一個叫 Patrick 一個叫 Peter，一白一黑、一肥一瘦、一高一矮、一個戴眼鏡一個沒戴眼鏡，非常絕配，認不住笑了 =P 後來把他們的外貌形容予蘇海明，蘇海明立刻為他們起了「肥瘦大盜」的稱號 ... 哈哈哈 >,<

今趟的面試是有名堂的，叫「Structured interview」，感覺新鮮。結果嘛? 由於太新鮮，所以不知道 ...

紀念日 [熱]

很累，只參觀了新世界萬麗酒店，然後又睡覺了。

今天是和蘇海明認識九周年紀念，沒有特別節目，只是到大家樂吃了一頓晚飯 =P

Eunice 旋風式回港，晚上十時來了個暢飲小聚。由於抱恙，我建議到樓上 cafe 去喝熱飲。大伙兒跑到附近的「紫府」去，談天說地 ... 要是明天不用上班就好了 *.*

酒店巡禮 [熱]

今天參觀了 Sheraton、Shangri-la 及 Macro Polo。又熱又累。

上星期病癒了，但好像又復發，連忙跑去看醫生，接著回家睡飽飽，拒絕媽媽去看金飾的邀請 =P

Farewell for Gavin [Shower/ Sunny]

嚴格來說，今天不是 Gavin 在本公司的 last day ，因為他最終在今天下午決定留在本公司的 front office 工作，不到 B 公司去了。亦由於他不離開本公司，身為 Ops King 的他賣了一個「人情」給本部門，工作至下星期五才轉到十六樓去。

完全是峰迴路轉，末到最後不知鹿死誰手。

儘管結果有變，送別行動依然繼續：他派發「散水雪糕」，大家一同去吃送別晚飯 + 卡拉 OK ... 很晚才回家哩 ~

Confirmed [Rainy]

Replied Trevor that I would only consider opportunities from CIBM Audit. He approached Fungyee, the department head, at once, and I was arranged to have a meeting with her in the evening.

Kidda surprised to learn that Fungyee was in CIBM Audit London team before she took up the post here. She was generous and talked like a mentor, but she's far more ambitious than what I've perceived previously. I nearly lost all interests in CIBM Audit when the conversation kept rolling on, since pursuing that meant I would have to station in India or the UK once started until I resigned. Well, forgot about it then.

Y was spreading the news of my resignation and adverse effects began to emerge ... people started approaching me --- HELP! @_@

全軍覆沒 [雨]

再找老細聊天。今天的他比昨天平靜多了，我想他已經消化了我要辭職的消息。平直地告訴他我真的決定要走了，他算是接受，但又提供了另外幾個方案。

「儘管你要離開這裡，我還是希望你有好的去向。」感謝你，我會回家再認真考慮。

我告訴陳瑪莉我要走了，她竟然說她也找到新工作打算辭職。那麼，我們那一屆進入公司的人真的是全軍覆沒了。

辭職失敗 [驟雨]

Trevor 總是在 11.30am 外出吃午膳的。我決定跳過經理 Y ，在 11.20am 直接把辭職信遞交給老細。結果與他討論了好一會，要不是他的朋友致電來催他吃午飯，我想這段談話是不可能在 11.50am 結束的。

老細說了很多真心話，我的辭職委實著他失望又有點難以接受，辜負了他的悉心栽培；當他知道我月尾便要離開了，更激動。

「我知道繼續把你放在 Y 之下，你總有一天會凋謝；可我現在卻仍不能把你抽出來，因為我知道沒有你這組是不能正常運作。我已經盡可能直接與你溝通，你明白嗎?」

一子錯，滿盤皆落索。

「我真的不想收你這一封辭職信，不如你先收回去罷。」「不好，還是放在你那裡比較好。」「你回去想想罷，我們明天再談。」

退出 Trevor 的房間，深感愧疚，悶悶不樂。靈巧的同事 J 立即前來。「你跟他說了要辭職嗎? 你看到他面如死灰的模樣嗎?」更不安。

傻呼呼的經理 Y 仍懞然不知，想起老細剛才說的話，忽然覺得他還真可憐。相對於老細，跟他說辭職是容易多了 --- 下午的時候我跟他說已經與老細聊過了，他也沒有再多言了，只是一直嚷著我走後他會有多慘、我回心轉意一定要通知他、有沒有朋友介紹 ... @_@

Offer confirmed [Cloudy]

Agent 回覆了。一切還好，就是聽到年假日數後心裡一沈。耿耿於懷。

落實了。明天上班前到 N 公司去簽約。

想旅行 [雨]

為什麼說話這麼無情? 為什麼不幫忙反招責備?

想好好地做一件事情，結果心情都弄翻了。究竟這決定是對的嗎?

好想去一趟旅行 ... 一個人的旅行 ...

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開始籌備 [雨]

早上到 InterContinental 去，海景一流，價錢更上流 ...

場地沒進展，反倒遇上親切的 Vikki ，預訂了十一月的婚紗照攝影 =P

到蘇海明某中學同學位於青衣的家玩，看完電視台舉辦的港男選舉才回家 ... 好噁心 #_#

風雲色變的星期五 [雨, 風球一號 > 三號 > 八號 > 三號]

早上十一時半就外出了，與 Carmen 及 Queenie 到碗屋吃午飯送別兩星期後到 CP1 工作的 Rosanny ，然後再去看醫生。診症時，醫生的傳呼機響了；看了看，醫生繼續診症說：「掛上三號風球了。」

回到辦公室，大家都在討論何時會懸掛八號風球，早上狂瀉的股市下午會否因而休市；接著兩時半的時候，竟真的掛起八號訊號來!

公司允許同事離開，但大多數人仍然要工作，尤其是涉及海外市場買賣的產品。工作間依然吵吵鬧鬧的，忽然 Simon 經理的一句怒吼：「你醒目一點可以嗎? 不要老是說人家針對你!」然後全層頓變得鴉雀無聲，大家都朝那邊望去 ... 三秒鐘後，一室又嘈吵起來，像在拍電影一樣 @_@!!

收到 agent 的電話，說我得到 N 公司的 offer；細問之下，卻發現他除了人工以外，對其他的均一無所知 -_-" 但他的來電卻已引起漣漪。唉，有又煩、無又煩，點解咁麻煩?

大咖啡機 [雨]

早上忙得不可開交，下午又要與印度人開 Webex 會議；恰巧天下著雨，於是決定獨個兒到地庫二樓的普通員工餐廳吃午飯。

在記憶中，我從來沒在這裡吃過午飯，只有在一次飯後時間與 Gavin、 Kelvin 及Ceci 到這裡逛了一遍。那已經是兩年前的事了。

吃過一碗四寶丸河粉，東張西望，突然給我發現了這臺大大的咖啡飲料機。小時候與弟弟結伴到明愛中心遊玩的片段頃刻擁入心頭，好不溫暖。禁不住買了一杯熱華田，好好回味 ...

《五星級大鼠》

很久沒有看電影了。儘管沒有吃晚餐而戲院卻又只供應不太美味的 cheese hot dog ，還是把《五星級大鼠》看得津津有味的。濃濃的法國味，故事簡單又有點妙想天開。這樣就足夠了 =)

印度人

我希望這不構成歧視，但一天下來與印度人展開了兩個會議，感覺就是疲累及有心無力。

說白點，他們就淨是要人家同意與屈服於他們堅持是對的做法。把中、英、美的人一併集齊，美其名說是討論，卻毫無討論的空間。

望了望手錶，已經是晚上九時十分了。向經理打了個眼色，然後緩緩地放下電話聽筒。再沒有爭辯的聲音，收拾細軟，我要趕到電影院去了。

Meeting with Carol Law [Hot + rainy]

I used to avoid meetings during lunch hour since lunch hour should be the time for relaxation from my prospective. I used to avoid speaking to HR people as I had an impression all the time that they were not helpful.

Anyway, I was forced to meet Carol Law, the HR lady at 12noon, during my flexi-lunch hour. According to the agent, "Carol doesn't want to have the meeting out of office hours.". Well, well.

To me, the meeting didn't have any significant meaning; indeed, it deteriorated my perception to the firm, which was just built up during the last 2 weeks and was still highly fragile.

Let's see how it goes.

爛攤子 [熱 + 驟雨]

又要收拾人家的爛攤子 >_< 一個早上，就是在接聽各方人事打來的電話和發電郵，只因昨晚下屬把某些市場價格資料弄錯了，今天的 P/L 出現了 USD2,100 billion 的虧損 @_@

這些可以避免的「忙碌」一擁而至，更別說避不了的 conference calls: 今晚有、明晚有、星期四晚有、星期五晚也有 --- 簡單點，就是這個星期餘下的晚上也有會議 #_# 那來這麼多東西說?! 下午才告訴蘇海明明晚九時四十分看電影應該沒有問題，突然卻跑出了一個印度人堅持要開的會議，九時三十分才完結 ... 我真的能趕上嗎?

平靜生活 [間歇性大雨]

早上上班的時候下起大雨，晚上下班的時候也下著大雨。儘管我再懶惰，也不得不打傘 *_*
西褲都濕透了，真討厭。

卓炳森說，她已經不像以前那麼熱絡於追求攀山涉水、飄洋過海的旅行生活，對於平凡安靜的生活亦感到滿足。我笑了，笑說她長大了 ... 會和定期練習瑜伽有關嗎? =P

Uniqlo Jeans

到九龍灣新開張的 Uniqlo 行逛，買了一條割價的深藍色闊腳牛仔褲。試穿的時候已經覺得很奇怪 --- 怎麼穿上 22 吋的牛仔褲還是鬆鬆的，不附上腰帶的話有掉下來的感覺? 我絕對不相信自己只有 21 吋纖腰嘞 ...

回家，找出塑膠間尺一量 --- 噢，原來聲稱 22 吋的牛仔褲「報細數」。以後到 Uniqlo 買褲子，一定要試穿，不可盡信標籤所示 @_@

五月新娘 [熱 + 雨]

與爸爸及媽媽談上好一會。在父母的首肯下，我們決定舉行一個簡簡單單的雞尾酒會婚禮，不擺酒了 =)

就這樣，我將會成為一個五月新娘 *,*

家長日 [熱]

依然抱恙，不過還是早起了，因為今天是蘇陳兩家家長見面的日子。

到了德福的美心皇宮吃午飯。一餐下來，沒得出甚麼特別有建設性的意見，就是「隨年輕人喜歡嘛」。

既疲倦、又頭暈、且事情又煩雜，真想哭 >_<

Bronchitis [Hot]

病情沒好轉跡象，於是又打電話到林孝武醫生的診所去。這回終於見到林醫生的廬山真面目了。

「小姐，你已經由感冒變成支氣管炎嘞!」 不是嘛?! 「下星期一必定要覆診，因為有抗生素的藥，記緊，一定要覆診! 不過到時應該好轉了。」

好罷，你是專科，我只好乖乖聽你的話 -_-

晚上約了何曉珊等一群人吃飯，偏偏遇上要 conference call ，又遲到了，整整一小時 >,< 雖然沒有 conference call 也可能會遲到，而且今天是這兩個月來最早下班的一天，但長此下去也太不健康。快點找人請我嘞 *.*

Meeting with Victor [Hot]

Woke up in the great early morning. Didn't wanna take the medicines as they made me drowsy, but gotta took them finally as I coughed like a TB patient. Walked along the Central MTR station, feeling dreamy all the way while my eyes opened wide suddenly --- Trevor the boss was walking straight towards me! Face to face, no way to escape. I knew it's his habit to arrive at office by 8.30am everyday, but it's just 8.10am! Why he went to office so early today @_@ This stimulated another waves of bad coughs on me, especially when Trevor spotted me and smiled. Such a terrific scene *.*

He might not sense anything, but I felt like being caught =P

Still in shock when I met with Victor around 25 minutes later. The meeting was not as relaxing as the one with Paul last time, and those why why why questions drove me a bit mad. How come there were so many whys? Why Why Why ... >,<

Back to office by around 10am, walked pass Trevor's seat as quickly as possible and didn't approach him for the whole day. So fortunate that he was busy in persuading Gavin to rescind his resignation for the day and didn't have time to talk to me ... hehe *,*

做醫生 [熱]

藥吃光了，病未痊癒。本來想到 Viola 極力推薦的林孝武醫生那裡去看診，打電話預約的時候，護士小姐卻說醫生今天有事不回診所。沒辦法，只好繼續去看 Dr. Vio 。

做醫生真好，尤其是開診所的專科醫生。就以林醫生為例，星期一、二、四、五在 10am 至 1pm 及3pm 至 6pm 應診，星期三和星期六只工作半天，星期日休息，像今天遇上私事，又可以不回診所，多自由。

可憐我，十一時多跑出來看醫生，再與 PwC 的舊同事吃午飯，不到下午兩時又回到公司去；今天不工作，正如拿石頭砸自己的腳一樣，代表明天要做得更多。

忽然在想，醫生平日的空閒時間會做甚麼呢? 如果我多了工餘時間，又會做甚麼呢?