The moon chase of L and neighbor got me thinking about work habits. Neighbor M was a reflection of how I was few months back. In the day, he will be running for meetings, back to answer some mails and off to another meeting..... When back at the end of the day, others would be gone but continues to work at desk....
L is just mooning day and nite with an eclipse or not.....

For many months , i was juz going to discussions one after another. Some is directly involved but some I dun even noe why i am there....All because everyone need to know or raise any concerns shold they even be concerned....

After that your own work continues thru the night. On work days, I was never home before 10 cos I was in office till then or later. I din have dinner breaks but managed to munch some stuff at times... tat's how my gastric problem was nurtured out to haunt....

Some work need not be done at office pc but I stayed anyway.
Tried going home to bath relax before logging in... it helped to ease the senses but after a while, you just want to get it all done away from home. Home is where your truly relax. Others were also in office running to the same end poinnt, abndonment seems not right for morale boost.

So you stay longer in office with a couple of others who are fighting the same battle in different floors angles and ways. Alone physically at times but not quite alone. And on the way home, u recall u missed something out and then once home, you continue before sending another version out....

Unhealthy indeed. A colic's mum even said that she hardly see her until cannot recognise. exaggeration but the pun is there.
Think the cycle continues again at end of the year while the speed picks up again.....

In previous jobs, i have worked in normacy or in craziness.....
1st was mad.... a huge group of us developing different areas would juz work day and nite and weekends and holidays for different projects or stages. I recall listening to the radio during work.

I hear the last deejay leave at midnite with a goodnite smurf song.... and then the next morning the national anthem and greetings of mornign deejay of the new day. We were still at the same desk and never went home. I could hear the latest song few times a day in the same radio station because I never left the place....

I met the most number of taxi drivers. Normal ones, strange ones that gives you lecture on economics, weird ones that talk and turn back and look at you and talk and laugh in a one sided conversation while driving ahead blindly, reckless ones that zoom too fast until you wonder if the trip is the last, slow ones that give you nausea when you dun have motion sickness....
I had a record number and cost of taxi claims because I was going to client at 830, back to office at 6 and back home after many hrs later. 3 trips a day for every work day and 2 trips for non official work days.

back then in those projects, meeting to go for dinner for ot was so common . no one had lives. If you cannot find a fella for dinner, he could be either in server room, project room or on the way back from client. never because they left as it's the official time to go off. going off early seemed to be a crime and sneaking out was necessary. Struggle is an understatement esp when you din know what you were doing or how to do your tasks in that time frame.

Those were the days . Good to recall but not to relive.
Work life balance is important. Indeed. But if you dun hav a life, what is there to balance?
Ah..... but doing nothing and relaxing is a life of its own and needs to be done...