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over blogging and over working

i'm sorry for flooding this blog. i feel like i've been away for so long that now i'm having a bout of bad verbal diarrhea. i'm bad. i talk only on my blog now. i'm turning into a hermit.

a fren sent over 2 links the other day bout a lady passing away sadly due to overwork (and she's only one year older than hao-e). not wanting to belittle anything, (cos she's apparently very different from me, cos work to me is just a means to get $$ to support my lifestyle. no one will catch me overworking myself, cos i'll be entirely bored to tears if i'm made to do something for more than 8-9 hours a day!) i just think her dedication to her job is really remarkable and something i cannot comprehend at all. i salute her for her commitment to hp and i think her boss must be a real slave-driver and aresehole for making her work such horrible hours (have you read her last blog entry?). again, not trying to belittle her job, i just think if only she had died chartering the direction to stop global warming, or working for peace in the middle east, or even saving the abused and abandoned dogs at the spca, at least that would have been something right? but hp gizmos in new zealand? can't they live without their gadgets and gizmos for a minute? they won't die or anything, will they? what's the hurry mate? enjoy your beautiful lord of the rings scenery!

i hope the news of her departure has spread to the new zealanders, cos i hope it weighs on their conscience to have contributed to the death of a very young person who matter to many of her family and friends and who have to live with her absence now that her life was cut short by their stupid, idiotic demands on emails demanding attention every day.

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