Hikkoshi-Soba, Decisions, Sleep-over.

To celebrate the shifting of our company to another smaller unit down the corridor, we make a reservation at a Chinese Restaurant along Tanjong Pagar road for a small dinner party for our Building Department. Apparently, it is an old Japanese custom that we take 'Hikkoshi-Soba' together as the new guy will treat soba-noodles to the new landlord and neighbors back in Japan. Here, we will substitute the soba-noodle with Chinese style noodle. So noodles, sake, tiger beer and mao-tai flowed freely yesterday. Our Building department is small at the moment with only 14 staff for now, of which only 12 was present.

Our Malaysia-Singapore in-charge Japanese director just inform me earlier that he would like me to go over to project 853, 854 (the circle line) to execute the pre-project administration for the building portion of the 5 stations. Civil works at these 2 portions of the Circle Line had commenced work. Tentatively speaking, I will be coordinating the building portions of the Marymount, Thomson, Bukit Brown, Adam and Farrer stations. Sounds like an important job. Need to coordinate with the authorities (mainly LTA, SLA etc), sorting drawings (including coordination), and the normal QS stuff. Actually, I have to admit that it looks interesting but have to consider if this is in line with my vision. This job will probably take 4-5 years. Can I make up the time lost later if I want to take up stock broking again? Will my pay increase???

After the dinner, I went to bunk at my friend's place at Orchard to get a quiet place to study. Luckily her man is not around. Studied until 2am before my eyes closed shop. Interestingly, my friend showed me a few units from her window that had the female occupants running around naked. Been there seen that. Not impressed. You need more than being naked to get my interest.

Woke up at 7am and went to work at 8am. Yeah... Saturdays again... As usual.