Days of our Lives

Here is an example of an extremely unproductive day at office. Do not assume this timeline as an accurate representation of this blogger's daily life.

900am: Slow and easy breakfast at the office cafeteria comprising of bee-hoon, egg and Peelfresh mango.
930am: A sneaky late entry into the office where eye contact is avoided.
935am: Boot up the laptop. With all the setup scripts running, this process takes approximately 5-10 minutes and nothing much can be done during this time.
940am: Time to fill up the tea cup and have a quick chat with co-workers present in the pantry.
950am: Take a quick round trip around the office to get an update from colleagues whom you normally wouldn't talk to.
10am: Laptop should be ready for work now. Time to check up your emails. Reply to urgent work related mails first and then get to the pending ones when the excuses have been figured out.
1030am: This is the news hour. Tune into BBC, CNN, TOI, ST, CNA until you manage to encounter a website which has been blocked by your local proxy administrator. Next, view blogs of people whom you usually don't meet.
11am: Time to start work. Integrate, compile, debug and test until the stuff gets working. Errors are good, because they give you a chance to think into the problem. If everything worked at the first shot, there wouldnt be our jobs in the first place.
12noon: Start planning for lunch and send quick SMSs to your lunch mates.
1230pm: SMS replies would have been received by now and lunch location confirmed.
1245pm: A satisfactory lunch hour at the cafeteria, foodcourt or hawker center.
145pm: Time for a short 15min post-lunch nap.
2pm: Coffee break in order to wake up.
215pm: Back the seat for some real work.
4pm: Visit the boss to clarify issues and make sure that your presence in known in office.
530pm. Quick exit from from office. The colleagues who do not know you, assume that you are doing a part-time masters.