France is really lousy. Draw again with Israel. The weather is starting to turn cold again and temperature dropped back to 5 degrees. I wonder has this anything to do with the earthquake in Indonesia. The days of good weather when the daytime temperature is around 20 degrees are gone and I wonder when they will return. Despite this, spring is everywhere because all the trees have leaves and flowers on them now. I once wrote in my journal that when the day comes for these trees to bear flowers, it would mean that it is not long before I get back home. And would I miss France? I asked myself. Now, I can say not a single bit. If there is a time when I wanted to leave the place more eagerly than ever, it would be now. Especially when doing all the planning of the tour and nothing much in my work. Hope this kind of mentality would change when my sup returns because it is still quite early to think of going home. If I continue to think like this for the rest of my IA, it would definitely affect my morale and motivation for my work.
At lunch, Laurent the new trainee joined us but after taking his food at the student section, he again disappeared. His sup, Sebastien went looking for him but couldn’t find him. The lunch was a draggy one because Stephen (the big boss of the team) joined us and all they talked was work. Not that I understood their jokes during other lunchtimes, but somehow the atmosphere was a bit different with him around. He doesn’t usually eat with us. Most of the time he would eat with Bruno (the previous big boss) or my sup. The way he looks at people, esp. me I feel, give me a kind of feeling that he is scrutinizing the behaviour of that person he is looking at. Kind of give me a creepy feel. After lunch, Laurent was already back in the office. I told him where we would normally sit in the restaurant and he said he would come looking for us tomorrow instead of the other way round. I thought of eating lunch with just him only since I don’t talk much with the rest of the guys esp. after Mathieu had left and Jaro missing in action. But I dropped the idea because I didn’t want to get stuck just with him.
The phone in the office rang and it was for Laurent. Yesterday the phone rang and it was for Ahad. My PC is just next to the phone so that made me the receptionist who can only speak English. When the phone rang, I was hoping it would be from Thai Airways telling me that there are vacancies on the 11th July. I wonder maybe they did call and perhaps I wasn’t around and Jeremy picked up the phone. But he was too bochap and hence didn’t tell me. He never say goodbye to me when he left. He just walked out of the room like that which I think is rude. But funnily he would greet me when he enters the room. I was planning for my tour again and had dropped Belgium altogether so that I would have more time in London. At around 4pm, I turned and looked at what Laurent was doing. Then I realised that he was using OpenGL to do some 3D graphics. And he was always so busy even though he just arrived. Whenever I asked him for lunch, he would say gimme a second, and would do some touch up on his work. Hence, I felt that I should make full use of my time here to learn. I can do the planning back at the multimedia centre. I went online and search for OpenGL tutorials and was reading them until close to 6pm, Jean-Marie came.
At lunch, Laurent the new trainee joined us but after taking his food at the student section, he again disappeared. His sup, Sebastien went looking for him but couldn’t find him. The lunch was a draggy one because Stephen (the big boss of the team) joined us and all they talked was work. Not that I understood their jokes during other lunchtimes, but somehow the atmosphere was a bit different with him around. He doesn’t usually eat with us. Most of the time he would eat with Bruno (the previous big boss) or my sup. The way he looks at people, esp. me I feel, give me a kind of feeling that he is scrutinizing the behaviour of that person he is looking at. Kind of give me a creepy feel. After lunch, Laurent was already back in the office. I told him where we would normally sit in the restaurant and he said he would come looking for us tomorrow instead of the other way round. I thought of eating lunch with just him only since I don’t talk much with the rest of the guys esp. after Mathieu had left and Jaro missing in action. But I dropped the idea because I didn’t want to get stuck just with him.
The phone in the office rang and it was for Laurent. Yesterday the phone rang and it was for Ahad. My PC is just next to the phone so that made me the receptionist who can only speak English. When the phone rang, I was hoping it would be from Thai Airways telling me that there are vacancies on the 11th July. I wonder maybe they did call and perhaps I wasn’t around and Jeremy picked up the phone. But he was too bochap and hence didn’t tell me. He never say goodbye to me when he left. He just walked out of the room like that which I think is rude. But funnily he would greet me when he enters the room. I was planning for my tour again and had dropped Belgium altogether so that I would have more time in London. At around 4pm, I turned and looked at what Laurent was doing. Then I realised that he was using OpenGL to do some 3D graphics. And he was always so busy even though he just arrived. Whenever I asked him for lunch, he would say gimme a second, and would do some touch up on his work. Hence, I felt that I should make full use of my time here to learn. I can do the planning back at the multimedia centre. I went online and search for OpenGL tutorials and was reading them until close to 6pm, Jean-Marie came.
He asked if I was feeling better now as they are short of one player. I asked whether he can find another player as I wasn’t feeling that well. He said he can try asking friends from outside but they would prefer to have people from the lab. Actually I was much better today than the past 2 days, but didn’t want to tired myself up. Also I wanted to recover fully so that I can go on a trip this Sat. And I already planned to go to the multimedia centre this evening. So I told him no, I would play next week perhaps, because I was still feeling not that great. Either he didn’t listen carefully or was so confident that he could persuade me, he told me to make arrangement with Vincent or Nico on how to get there. Therefore, I had to repeat again that I wasn’t going to play tonight. Then he said oh, ok, never mind. I really hope he can find another player and would not go away thinking that this SG guy is trying to “chao geng”. I wish that he came and asked me to play because he thought I might have recovered in time for the match and since they got one more slot, they would give me the priority of filling it up. But my guess is that they are actually quite desperate to fill up the 10th player. In any case, how they think of me is beyond my control and so no point talking much of it.
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