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on loop: mundian tu bach ke ~ punjabi mc


to start off, i would like to greet everyone a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!. i hope that we all will experience a meaningful and significant holiday season as well as a blessed and refreshing new year :) this year has brought each and every one so much strife and dilemma, but in the end, it is the love, joys and peace that stand out. we must thank the Lord for all of His blessings and guidance by way of His merciful heart. i'm just so thankful right now for everything, despite everything :)

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work was especially draining today because it is our last day of academic and product training. by next week, we would be hitting the floors full time already... which means that we were already given our team assignments. it's so heart-breaking to know that we were being broken up into different teams with different shift scheds. my closest friends there were also all dissipated into various teams. so sad to know that we won't be seeing each other that frequently anymore. i loved working with them for these past four weeks that seemed like ten years already. i got into team moe... of which i am very thankful for, because i had been hoping to get into his team. moe is the greatest supervisor ever... and the coolest as well. there's even an atenean in my team, but he's already in fourth year, with yet to work on his thesis. small world :) my shift sched is still the same, 4am to 1pm... sucky timeframe but the team makes up for it all. my off-days would most probably be from 1pm of saturdays till 4am of tuesdays. not bad hehe :) i'm nervous and excited at the same time and i sincerely hope that i do well on my job. and though it saddens me to be working apart from my friends there, i'm sure that everything would work out just fine.

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we had a christmas buffet in astoria this morning. we were all together: the entire class of 33 and our 7 trainers. it was both happy and sad. happy since shempre kainan nanaman hehe, but at the same time slightly bittersweet since it would virtually be our last time together in a long time. no more eating together, or yosi breaks together, or chika sessions. sigh. we were all trying to stay as long as we could, in the hopes of cramming enough time together till the next time that we would be able to do so again. it was with a heavy heart that we tried to appear as jolly as we could, but we'll work it out. coz we believe that one doesn't just give up on great people just like that ;)

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on a latter note, i've been feeling a bit sentimental these last few days. i think it's because i got it this morning or maybe it's the holiday spirit or something. i suddenly realized that i value my friends very much, and of course, my dad. i'm just so thankful to have such great and wonderful friends who's been with me through hell and high water, and an incredible dad that leaves nothing to be asked for. every one i've met all throughout these years: in college and in work, they've all been true and endearing to me. the personalities that have made my life colorful, who've shared experiences with me even as i trod through the storms in our lives and as i float in the goodness of it as well. the great people in my life... i really am so blessed to have them. i hope there never comes a time that i would take them for granted and lose them just like that. coz i'd know that it would be the biggest mistake i'll be making in this lifetime. they are the people i would never forget... not just as fleeting personalities in my life, but as the life itself in my life. thank God for them, sure made life a whole lot interesting :)

once again, happy holidays, everyone! and enjoy the vacation...