Life Without Work vs. Life With Work

Gawd. I'm so hyped at one time, sleepy & tired at another, energized at some point, demotivated at some other. I think I've definitely NOT get used to the 'getting out of bed at 7am, and going to bed at 12am' routine. First day of work for the year 2-0-0-9 starts today! And it certainly did start in full-gear ok! I came into office and saw the ever-long list of unread mails waiting to capture my attention and response, and began clearing them, 'til I saw "We regret to inform you that your reservations has been cancelled". WTH. I almost got a heart attack! That was my boss's hotel reservations that I'd by hook, by crook, finalised before I left for my year-end holidays! And now they're telling me it's cancelled 1 day before my boss's scheduled to check in! I was so pissed that I shot them an email with the meanest demand for clarification (well, not really that mean also la... I was just too gan-jiong, so I wasn't as polite to actually use the term "Could you kindly.... please?" like how I always do). Turns out, it was a misunderstanding. Fullstop. My bad. Fullstop. I must've grown 'rust' towards the so-called professionalism concept and grown careless for some reasons over the past week of non-work lifestyle! Luckily enough, I realised it was miscommunication, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, whatever that was, and sent another follow-up mail to the hotel reservations people and let them know it was alright and apologised from my end. I tell you... *Sweat*! But that wasn't all. It didn't just stop there. I had a series of 'heart-attack sessions' that followed to kick-start my entire morning, way throughout lunch hour! Even I'm amazed at the speed I actually un-slack-ed myself and picked up the art of multi-tasking almost instantly after finishing my morning cup of hot milo. I would've usually needed around half a day to warm up and pick up on speed & efficiency at work after a super long break away from office! Today's definitely different. 'Monday Blues' surely did not come visit me today.

But I do miss my waking ups at random hours in the morning (or noon). That, and sleeping at random wee hours way early in the morning. Haha! Now I'm having a hard time adapting to the supposingly normal routine clock. I miss the less-stressed, no-deadlines life. I miss the fun. I miss the laid-back days. I miss being near him. I miss doing things together. And this is something that will come as a shock (especially to myself). I actually miss jogging in the evenings in the neighbourhood. Who would've thought. I enjoyed my alternate evening jogs throughout the past week. Yes, my muscles did sore quite a bit during the entire process (blame the no-exercise lifestyle I'd been living with), but I guess it was the easy-going, peaceful surrounding that made those jogs enjoyable. And he joked I should continue jogging in the evenings when I'm back in KL, except there won't be any neighbourhoods, I can use the 'office-back-to-apartment' trail. Crazy! Where can la! I'd probably inhaled more carbon monoxide, smoke, gas, stinky river banks, stale rubbish dumps ever than oxygen!