有故事的锁匙

Last friday, my day took 180 degree turn in just a matter of few hours.

8.30am - reached office only to find that the key to access my breastfeeding room is not hanging where it's supposed to be.

8.45am - still searching frantically every possible nook & cranny, asking people around if they had seen it?

9.00am - found out that the key which I'm holding might be the one & only key the whole office has to the room(which use to house another 8 person team last time).
Had asked the big boss secretary who use to keep spare key, another department head who's supposed to have spare key and even the previous team which has been realigning to another division and shifted.

9.15am - asked another taller colleague to help me look inside the room through the glass panel. Guess what, he saw something positively a key on the table inside the room. SH**
By then, I've almost ask all guy colleague whether they know how to open this kind of wooden door knob with card (like what they always do in movies).

9.30am - no choice but to tell my immediate supervisor of the big silly blunder I made and that the whole office doesn't seem to have a spare key.
She suggested I check with another colleague if still don't have to get big boss secretary to call our regular locksmith.

9.35am - the ironic thing is, I was told why call locksmith when there are plans to tear down the partition the very next day (Saturday).
But I was also told that the renovation workers may need to remove the furniture / items inside 1st today before tearing down the partition tomorrow.
I thought since I was responsible for the 'locking of the key inside the locked room' mystery, I'll have to bear the cost of 'locksmithing' but the secretary say 'let the bank pay lah'

9.40 - I gather from the secretary that "someone" should have the spare key. Someone who had earlier just told me she doesn't have one.
I gather my courage and thicken my face to go ask 'her-another deparment head' about spare key again. At last she gave me a bunch of 30 over keys and said "You can try this whole bunch but as far as I remember we couldn't find the key to open that door last time".
I remembered praying in my heart.

9.45 - tried with another colleague, we are very lucky. Managed to open the door with the 2nd attempt from the bunch of 30 over keys. I dashed in to grab the 有故事的锁匙.
I felt very relieved.

This incident has taught me 4 things :
1. Always make duplicate keys especially if you found that the key is the only one key the whole office has.
2. How big a problem is depend on how you look at it. A problem that can be solved may not be a problem afterall.
3. Always stay calm, things may eventually turn out well. 万事都有解决方案.
4. In life we lost some and gain some... continue reading to find out why I say so..

That day, I declined going for lunch with another colleague because I thought I need to spend time looking for the key/ waiting for the locksmith to come/ finish up my work since I spend the whole morning like a crazy women looking for golden key.

However, life is really like a box of chocolate. You never know what you'll get ..
After lunch time, another department head actually come to my place and gave me a big paper bag filled with 'children books'. Apparently she was doing spring cleaning and wanted to throw the books away but suddenly thought of me (out of so many other colleagues with young children in my department).

At that point of time, I felt very thankful ... head from other department actually thought of giving her now grown-childrens' books to me. Those books are good books & are still in good condition.

I started my day miserably but I ended my day happily ... happy that not only I found the key, not only that I received a bag of goodies but also because incident that happened that day is an 'eye opener' to me.

I love my life despite the ups and downs.

ps : when I came back to office last Monday, guess what ... my 'sillyness' story has gone down together with the partition wall. That wall that initially covered me while I was performing 'motherly duties' and later kept me from reaching my 有故事的锁匙 has now come down .. along with it bringing a story .. a story worth remembering in this blog =)