A plant in a mug can trigger such a complex emotion - longing. Saw someone adding water into her mug that has this scrawny money plant at my client's pantry just now, and suddenly I was missing the good life at a corporate office. Well, when it comes to office space at least. See, we consultants are hardly at the office that we don't even get a personal space there - not even a cubicle marked as our own. Whichever space is empty, we sit. Unlike when you are an office worker, you get your own space, which you can decorate in whatever way you like. Which you can put a scrawny money plant in a mug.
Suddenly I long for that. Long ago, before I sold my soul to the evils of consulting, I used to have that too. I even had a room at one point. And just like my house, they were personalised to the hilt. Which means that they were fire hazards - they had more things than a godown. At one point I even had a goldfish. I used to bring fresh flowers every week too. And when I was doing product development for the airline I used to work for, and my project was to produce aromatheraphy inflight kits, my cubicle was like an apothecary. Used to attract all the girls that way. And some of the men too..tsk..tsk.. I had so many plants that one of cubicle spaces resembled Kew Gardens. And to top it off, a bomoh once told me to remove my plants because they were attracting ghosts! Imagine that!
And now all I have is a laptop bag that contains all the things to accomodate my mobile office lifestyle - laptop, PDA, stationery, medical kit, sometimes snacks too. I miss the space.
May be it's time to move back to the corporate life?
2 comments:
u r going to hate me for this....
but I have a money plant on top of my computer in the office, which is the envy of my fellow colleagues.
it is so luscious that my colleagues said one day it is going to engulf my desk!
I feel like such a fraud.
people think I have green fingers... but in truth, all I do is lovingly add water to the soil, stick in the fertiliser... and God does the rest.
oh... as an aside.... there is absolutely no correlation between the health of my plant...and the state of my finances! :(
I agree with you on the last point - if there is a correlation between the two, the city hall would be as rich as richard branson! and yet they cannot even pave the roads properly. the again, that may have been because the money goes elsewhere. don't want to get into that!
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