Chapter 1: Prelude

Oh well, I'm not really the blogging type, being lazy and all, and my narrative skills are getting really rusty. So bear with me please, if I bore you with needless information..hmm..like the two sentences which I just typed out *oops*

I started this blog to start documenting a journey. A journey that I've already begun and is about to get pretty exciting in the coming months (hopefully, in a good way). So I'm late to the blogging scene, so I figured I have plenty that I need to catch up on. Well, not only to learning about blogging in general, but also to sharing stories about this journey. Going by this, such posts could be pretty fragmented amongst the other posts. I'll have to apologise for it in the beginning now..

Disclaimer: The following is based on a *somewhat* true account. However, where details are not wholly recallable or intact, some estimation or fictitious dribble might be substituted instead. Or certain portions might be sensationalised or exaggerated to make for more interesting reading material. *hiaks hiaks*..

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First Impressions..

It's been barely more than a week since I've been recruited to this firm (again) . At this point of time, there aren't too many people sitting at where they are usually supposed to be seated, or so I've been told. Many unfamiliar faces come and go from this room in the GMTI building, and I'm having a hard time keeping track of who's who. Not to worry, I told myself. We're all going to get chummy and have a great time working together in no time! Ahh..ever the optimist eh?

My seat currently faces away from the entrance door, sitting at a right angle to where the Banganae was sitting (I realised he could speak Chinese as well as I did! Good thing I knew about it then and there on the first day). He's my mentor for now. A nice chap, I thought. And in the days to come, he did nothing to prove me wrong :)

So on this day, while exploring the *wonderful* software that's going to be my ricebowl for a while, two faces came through that same door. New faces I've not met before. My shifu told me we'll be going to this market with some other colleagues today. Cool, I thought. Maybe I can get to meet these two "newcomers" (hey it's relative).

So at the door outside our office, I was introduced to the two "sisters" of Nauticus. The really pale, soft spoken and bespectacled one was YL. The other one, face black black and always looking busy, was SL. Face black black? Hmm.. I couldn't be sure, but I think I
remember both wearing dark coloured suits. I thought these two were really experienced staff. In my own quiet way, I doubt I left much of an impression on either. Though *face black black* was the definitive last memory I had of SL before we met again after that day.

We walked to this really old-style market and hawker centre for lunch.. Lunch was a less uptight event thankfully, and there was jolly talk all round though I didn't participate much. Most of it was teasing and joking between the Banganae and SL. YL was really quiet. I mean..really. I thought she was just very shy. Hehehe..
After this lunch meeting, we seldom saw these two again. As I understand then, some of the people in the project has been deployed elsewhere, including most of my own team. It would be some days again before I met these two girls...

Here ends Chapter 1. Stay tuned for more of the story that unfolds..