it was my last day was as a temp staff for this summer vacation and probably, for the rest of my life. having worked as a temp staff at the same company over five years, it’s weird how i was so familiar with everyone and everything and yet, chose to mostly isolate myself cos of the changes that have taken place.

the sales engineer who used to be my favourite (references: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) is no longer the favourite cos his values have changed. i once respected him for being true to himself. gone is his sense of right and wrong. he finds it “stupid” to resist or air our honest opinions against unreasonable demands of the management.  that employees should, for their own sake, comply to expectations of the management, regardless of how they exploit the employees. so in his usual uncle-gives-advice manner, he told me that’s how the corporate world is and that probably will be the life i will live when i graduate. he went silent when i asked him if such people were really happy in their jobs, if they really lived a worthy life. maybe he thinks i’m naive to have such values. after all, i haven’t really entered the big, bad working world, have i? yet, i think i can be quite dogged about such things, about being happy,

oh well, i guess i’ll still miss the good times i had there and the fact that i’ve made friends there.