- The EU Constipation -

As easily as that, a new chapter in his life was written as, an hour into his first day of work at the Singapore High Commission, he was thrown headfirst into the deep end, a 5-page paper to write, a deadline to meet. And so it was that his penchant for going into overdrive kicked in almost immediately as he pored over newspaper clipping after newspaper clipping and furiously scribbled notes he later found entirely unintelligible about the French and Dutch rejections of the EU Constitution in their respective national referendums and the expected fallout on the EU as an entity and its implications on the UK and the Blair government, due to assume Presidency of the EU in less than a month.
He listened, ears pricked, as people recounted fanciful tales of their experiences fending off dragons with red tape and pacifying centaurs with conciliatory gestures.
Most importantly, he learnt about the inner workings of a diplomatic organisation. And swore to be diabolically secretive about this new information. If not for the fact that it was classified, then for the whole cloak and dagger thing that made things ever so mysterious.