Sciolist

*Originally appeared in my other blog on December 10, 2007

These days I am not at all in touch with news updates or blog updates or even close family updates. But I am not busy, that’s the fact. True that I have joined a new company and a task – its complex, as they say – is assigned to me, but I am not that busy. I was – and am – just reading some documents and gathering information here and there, and penning it down, hoping that it would be of help sometime later. I have some friends here, but they are busy with their own schedules. So it is like I am alone here with no solid task to do. And I am bored. 

This central plaza – the place where I am working now – is a shopping complex, right at the exit of the Tiong Bahru station. It wears a shopping complex outfit rather than a corporate grandeur. But One Raffles Quay – my previous work place – is completely different, extravagant in appearance and as lavish as the buildings you see in the Spider Man movie. Sometimes during those over-swelled-tummy afternoons, I stare at one pointed building, clearly visible from my chair, through the thick glass wall, imagining myself as Spider Man, sitting right at the bottom of the very long iron bar pointing towards the sky. I watch the people, now looking like ants when I see from the pointed bar’s base, hurrying towards the La Pousat, a food court, for tea. But now, from this new place, I see nothing. A bright maroon colored cubicle wall stares at me back, with its dark blue wall pins. I stare back, with same intensity.