LOST IN TRANSITION

something interesting is taking place in this country this weekend. the government here has announced that it is switching from a thursday-friday weekend to friday-saturday weekend. i guess they have finally realised that no man/country is an island and to be able to deal with other countries only 3 days in a week is a bit troublesome.

anyway, this transition will take effect on september 1st 2006. and because of this, some commercial companies (such as mine) are following suit. as result of THIS, i am getting this thursday-friday-saturday off (yay!). it feels a bit weird to be getting a day off due to this (due to technical reasons instead of celebrating an occasion). in any case - i'm not complaining. a day less spent in the office is never a bad thing! (my enthusiasm about my job is just so evident isn't it? ;P)

being the first long weekend here - i feel a little bit pressurised. i feel this need to do something special this weekend. just so that i can look back and say "oh... that three day weekend? i remember! that was the weekend when i (to fill in a very cool and exciting activity)!" but at the moment, it looks like that i'll be finishing off that sentence with a big fat NOTHING.

we (me and my colleagues - remember A and B .. and the housemate) had a plan actually.at first, a bunch of us were planning to go to this hotel on merdeka day as they are having a m'sian buffet there on the 31st. we thought that we'd be all patriotic and go gobble some m'sian food on merdeka day. but then, some of us had to back out due to .. ehmm financial constraints (my married colleagues are on 'economy' mode cos they're going back to m'sia for raya on self-sponsored tickets. plus, they eat m'sian food practically everyday cos their wives cook. so not so much appeal there). so the only people left are myself and my good-for-nothing housemate. due to the (sudden) lack of appeal of this plan, i've decided to bail out too (seriously, people need to pay ME 130 dirhams for me to eat with him.. eheh).

but i might actually be doing something after all. with my filipin* friends. eheh. don't quite know what we'll be doing, but my boss's secretary is coming up with something. will the cute filipin* guys be tagging along? not quite sure. but i personally am more than willing to accomodate them.. eheh. and i hope the 'something' that she's coming up with involves some opportunity for .. emmm.. bonding (eheh). j/k

and how will the change from thursday-friday to friday-saturday effect me? positively i think. it will be less weird - that's for sure. now, it'll just feel like i'm in kelantan or something. furthermore, i will be less compelled to be online on both days since a lot of my friends will not be online on saturday - most of them ym only from the office). this way, i can spend my saturday AWAY from my laptop and do some .. emmm ... soul searching.

yeah, right.