woohooooooooo!

HOHOHO.

It's funny.

Just yesterday I was wishing for more work to do.

Today I got my wish. But a bit too much to take at one go man! haha
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I had nothing to do again in the morning... went on ebuddy to find pple to talk. haha! And guess what... I took a 2 hour lunch break!!! GULPZ. Feels guilty. Luckily I didn't have work to complete. hahaha Was with a group of temp staff and since today is the last day of the Swensen's 1-for-1 sundae deal... we went! Yah man. Hahaha Took a bus down just for ice-cream deal. Unbelievable.

But honestly, we didn't purposely tuo. There was a bit of queue... waited a while for the food to be served. And since we ordered so much, we took some time to eat also. I had sambal grilled fish. Comes with soup of the day, cup of coffee, and icecream + small piece of brownie. And then we bought the 1-for-1 sundae... HAHA. Fillllllling! Ended up paying $18... for lunch on a normal working day! haha
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Oh ya, back to my story. So after lunch.... I decided to ask my supervisor whether she has stuff for me to do. Discussed for a short while regarding my presentation later in the afternoon so I went to tidy up my slides. Then finally, it was time for my presentation. Luckily it was more like a meeting than a presentation. During the discussion with my supervisor and another colleague... it hit me that I have loads of preparation to do for the next few weeks!

My project requires me to update and then review certain terms, policies and procedures for this guidebook for employees who are posted overseas for their international assignment.

I feel a bit like a lost sheep coz apparently certain policies are not formally documented so there are certain issues with regard to the claims and reimbursements etc etc. To prevent myself from revealing any confi info, I shall just be brief.

Firstly, information is all over the place... So I need to find a way to contact different pple and seek their advice. The problem is... they seem busy most of the time... A bit paiseh to bother them leh.

Secondly... Some pple are still in the process of reviewing whatever they need to review. And I need these information to produce a revised and updated guidebook. I can't rush them right...

Thirdly... Most of the processes involved are pretty technical... which I have never been exposed to. For example personal income tax. I never pay before! haha! If the tax rates where the employee is posted to differs from Sg, do the posted employee claim back from the company for the tax difference... etc etc etc ... I don't know man! GULPZ.

I foresee a lot of readings to be done and long hours by the computer!

And when everything is more or less settled, I think I have to present to the Director or whoever is involved in this reviewing project. Deadline? In roughly two weeks I think? Oh my god!

I'm excited to have work to do. But the excitement is somewhat dampened by the ... i-feel-damn-lost-feeling. *breathe in deeply* wooohoooo! I shall take up the challenge sia!

Anyway, my Friday ended nicely. Met up with Eddie for dinner today. Left two poor souls coz the rest of my vj classmates had stuff on/ not in sg. I TRIED DURIAN CHEE CHEONG FUN!!! It's some place by the road in Somerset. The price is decent and I'm satisfied, coz no need to pay service charge! haha! Plus I was a bit on budget after my fulfiling lunch. Anyway the durian chee cheong fun wasn't fantastic becoz I prefer durian on its own... But ok lah, try for fun. Quite interesting. I will try the mango and strawberry one someday.

YAY! Weekend!!! Badminton on Sunday with ah ma! = )

What I like at work

At work

I like it when I'm kept busy.
I like it when my inbox is filled with mails.
I like it when my telephone rings.
I like to move around and have work to finish
I like it when people says hi and bye as they walk past you.
I like it when people says "thanks for your help!" "you have been helpful!"
I like it when I don't have to think so hard about what to say (i.e conversation flows smoothly) during lunch.
I like it when people smiles and makes small talk in the lift. (
I like it when I can help to save paper. (albeit in the process, I sometimes carelessly ended up using more than necessary)

What I don't like? When the statements above are in the opposite!

I don't like awkward silence and I really don't like it when I have nothing to do! Coz I'll keep checking my mails and when there's no new messages, I'll get disappointed. hahaha Is this weird?

I was a bit disturbed today after work when one of my colleagues walked past without saying bye! At that moment, I had the "i-dun-know-you, stranger" feeling.... or worse still, the "i-know-you, but-I-can't-be-bothered-with-you" feeling.

That's why I always make it a point to say bye (at least to the people sitting around me) whenever I leave. I will also drop by my supervisor's cubicle to say that I'm leaving... coz I think it's polite to do so.

So I'm puzzled and disturbed when people just walk away liddat! = (

"Maybe they are in a rush." .... "But it doesn't take long to say bye!!!"
"Maybe they are shy?" ... "But it's only one short word!!!"
"Maybe they din see you." ... "... ... ... I absolutely don't think so."
"It's just bye only lah... care so much for what?" ... "I wonder why too."

Maybe I should learn to let such things not bother me so much.

让爱川流不息

wahhhh. I just caught the 让爱川流不息 charity show and it's damn heartwrenching!!! There were really meaningful poems recited during the show. Anybody knows where to get them?

Watched the show with my mum. haha and we kept tearing! Especially when Quan Yifeng mentioned bout this mama who died protecting her little baby and left a message on her cellphone in chinese saying sth like "To my beloved child, if you survive, i want you to know that mummy loves you very much."

I'm so glad and feel really blessed that we are living in this safe little island ... protected from such disasters. We probably can't imagine the pain that these people feel when disaster strikes... But anyway it's heartwarming to know that there are many many many pple here who really cares = ) And hopefully mother nature would be touched and stop all these sufferings! (another strong aftershock hit Sichuan today again!)

On a lighter note, I went swimming with Stacy today! Yay = ) Always feel good after exercising. We swam quite a bit! Good good. And we had yummy lunch at this Jap place. We spent only bout $8 each, quite worth it = ) Let's go play badminton next weeeeeeeeek!

My first two weeks

Heyo!

Work has been draining my energy by quite a bit. So I haven't been online everyday after work! I don't even bother switching on my computer man. By the time i reach home, it'll be around 8pm. So i eat my dinner, bathe and spend my night watching tv. (I'm currently hooked onto the 9pm ch 8 show! Got shuai ges and mei nus. hehe.) Then I'll usually sleep by 1130!

Work is not very interesting most of the time. I've been helping out with the administration of applicants who applied to STB as volunteers or for internship... Contact them, screen their resumes, arrange the interview schedules, help to prepare offer letters (i realised that microsoft office has some fanstastic tools man. it can help to personalise letters automatically for individual people! cool cool. i should attend some of these lessons.) Yup yup. I sat in during a couple of internship interviews and I found them pretty interesting. Can observe what the interviewers asked and how the candidates responded...

The candidates were from XYZ poly. Listening bout their experiences and stuff at school kinda made me wish that if only I applied for that course last time. It' sounded very hands-on and interactive. And their internship job scope sounded very interesting too! Oh wells. But then coming to work in this company also made me realised the importance of a degree. Coz you can't rise above a certain position if u lack that piece of paper. = \ And do you get the feeling that the higher up you go, the more office paper work you will be dealing with? Meetings after meetings, doing up strategies and policies blah blah blah...

Anyway ya, overall it's not too bad. I've been doing relatively easy work coz I don't really need to think and I get the chance to see what kinda stuff people in HR does. LOL. And I may get a chance to go for a couple of fieldtrips! =) But my main assignment is to review certain policies and procedures in this guidebook thingy... which is a bit worrying coz i dunno if i have any suggestions/recommendations. hohoho!

Last week, I was assigned some very boliao stuff to do. There was one day I had to sit at this counter and wait for candidates to arrive and bring them to the interview room. Luckily I wasn't alone man. May also had to sit by the counter and wait for tour guides to take some english tests thingy. So for the entire day, we spoke to the very friendly cleaners, a couple of enthu tourguides... This temp staff from another level also popped by and we chatted. Ya, so that day was super slack. Just talk and talk and talk.

Haha There was a funny incident though. One of the cleaners spotted this little red packet (see the pic) on the floor near the counter and asked whether I dropped it. I picked it up. Looked at it. Laughed. Passed it to May and said "Is it yours?" Then he thought for a moment, and later said "I know whose is it!"

Wanna guess what that little red packet contained? Heeheehee! We were thinking whether to return to the tourguide but a bit paiseh so May decided to throw it into the cupboard.

Day One!

oh gee!!! i just did some random search on a phrase and the link to my blog appeared! i din know it was TAT open to the public.

Cleared another few more items on my to-do list in the last couple of days.

2) Shopping!
5 ) Find some nice places to go for my HK trip!

Wah.. I spent ALOT this time... Finally made use of my Robinsons card. Spreeeeeeeee~

Did a bit of surfing and scouted for some places to visit in Hong Kong! = ) Excited! I don't wanna just shop only... Would like to do a bit of sightseeing = )
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Wanted to blog bout my first day at work but I a bit scared of revealing things that I'm not supposed to. haha Probably due to my knowledge on "Duty of fidelity - Trade Secret & Confidential Information" which I had learnt in my Employment Law class. muhahaha!

But anyway... first day was ... LOL. Well i didn't do any work at all. Except for the last 2 to 3 hours before I knock off. Partly coz my supervisor was a bit busy with her own stuff. So my buddy brought me around to say hi to pple and explore the building. Hehehe!

If got chance, I would love to try out the gym. There's a pool table and those darts thingy too. May (the VJ softballer) is a temp staff there! Popped by his level to say hi for awhile then later during lunch break saw him and his group of temps playing those table soccer thingy and pool. Enjoy sia!

In the morning... I had this briefing thingy bout the mission, vision, various depts etc etc. We were briefed together with some other new permanent staffs... so I know some of the benefits that they are entitled too. heeheeehee. Cool. Much more than the statutory minimum. (*wink to Stacey*) <--- I learnt this in Employment Law too! It's exciting to see what have been mentioned in class are actually practiced in the real world... Like those flexi-time... employee feedback portal... buddy system... work life balance etc etc. Ok .. so far so good. I like the people and the environment. Casual and relax! Luckily I didn't buy a lot of formal wear. heh. Shall update again when I have disclosable stuff to blog about. Take care ya'll!

Time to watch Lost! Like finally...

back to my to-do list

Yay, Cleared 3 items on my to-do list.

1) Pack my wardrobe, and make space for new clothes! HAHA

3) Time to clear some books and some notes. I don't like to throw my books and notes away despite knowing that I probably won't really touch them again!

4) Plan some stuff for my HRC chalet

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After days of packing... I've done some reflection. I shall not buy any more stationery. I think the supply I have at home will last me a lifetime sia!!!

The state of my hall room while I was packing! Messy? My room at home was 10 times worser! And in the midst of packing, I found these....

I'm not a fan of any of these Singapore Idols. But I kept this coz it reminded me of sth silly which me and my grp of girl frens did some years back. Kekekeke. Right Ber? Shall post that pic up some other time. Errr... In the end that poster ended up in the dustbin.

And my Clay too... Sorry man! = ( But I kept my a1 poster. Maybe coz they were my first love. hohoho! Where are you guysssss?

Part of my stack of magazines (there are many many many more not shown in the picture) which I have decided to keep. See anything common in these magazines? heh.

Gee. Sometime I wonder why I'm keeping all these. To read when I'm old and have nothing to do issit? I can't bare to throw them away lah~~~ At least for now = \

So... as you might have guessed, I din throw away as much stuff as I had wanted to. I finally threw away my sec 4 geography textbook BUT i still kept my bio textbook and my jc notes. WHY???

Bleah. Hello~ I'm a Business student. Someone please persuade me to throw those sciency stuff away! I don't think I'll be giving tuition or end up being a teacher. I think. Even IF i do, syllabus changed alreeeeeeady!!! But the thought of dumping my hard work into the dustbin is.... *painful. lol

terabithia

Terabithia

Not a must-watch, but overall I think it's quite ok. Coz .... cute kids + animal + tear-inducing! haha!

I like the carefree lives... and the "being surrounded by nature" feeling. = )