Finally, after seeing a sea of red yesterday, I’ve managed to clear all my emails and backlog work today. The best thing at work today was receiving a surprise email which will most probably be a motivation from now till June and I hope it will really come true as there are some positive signs. You want to know the answer? Well, you will know it in due course.
I’ve been at where I am for about 3 months now, but frankly speaking, I hasn’t really settle down. I’ve been taking leave, busy with some ad-hoc stuff, moving of office from Location X to Location Y and then back to taking my exam leave again. I hope at least for the next few months, I’ll be able to concentrate and spend alittle more time at work, though, over the past 2 months, there have been many instances where I stayed beyond the normal working hours in office.
I love what I’m doing now but its really different from what I’ve been doing previously, something which I’m still trying to learn and pick up. That’s all for now.
I’ve not been blogging for a couple of days cause I’m busy preparing for Chinese New Year as well as moving my office. Its really a great and memorable experience, I mean how many people will get the opportunity to move office especially from one building to another? Its really tiring but its really fun cause you are piecing your office from nothing to something.
Anyway, after my most stressful presentation today, I’m now preparing for Chinese New Year celebrations tomorrow. Though it is a simple one, but being the first celebration that I’m organizing, I just got to make sure that everything will be alright.
I don’t know if you’ve experience yourself before, but ever since being in my new department, I’ve been really careful with what I say and what I do. My colleagues and I often has discussions and whenever we mention about something, what we discuss come true, although, it was just plain discussion which we did not expect anything constructive to be done.
Yesterday, one of my colleague was on leave and the night before, they were discussing if I would remember to bring the keys to the office and so they thought most probably I’ve forgotten to bring the keys home. Well, they were 50% right, I forgotten to bring the keys to the office, the only difference is that I left the keys AT HOME! *faintz*
What’s the moral of the story? When you work, don’t talk…
Finally back to work today, officially, I’m back to the office after a one month break. Nothing much has change in the office, the only thing that change is my brain, it has turned rusty. I’m getting abit blurry about some of the work processes but nevertheless, after some reminders, I’m able to pick it up again.
The first day of work after such a long break means there are lotsa of things to follow up, I’ve got over 200 emails to clear plus, I’ve got to complete a powerpoint presentation by noon. Preparing powerpoint presentations has always been my forte but its a challenge when you doesn’t really understand some of the things that you are going to include in the slides. I’m glad that with the help of my colleagues I’m able to do it and understand what’s around me better.
Moving on, I’m looking forward to my new office which I’ll most probably be shifting in February and the new challenges ahead.
This will be my last post in 2009 and in less than 7 hours, we will be welcoming 2010, the first decade of millennium. What a year it has been and I shall conclude everything in this post.
Work
2009 will probably be my worst year, being task with 5 mega events this year, I simply didn’t know what’s the meaning of sleep. Waking up at 5.30am, reach office at about 6.30am and reaching home at 10pm, it has became a routine for most parts of 2009. It has been a year of ups and downs, received several awards and down when things doesn’t goes as planned. But we learn from mistakes, we learn from problem and I’m glad I’ve became a stronger person, looking at things from a different perspective. I’m grateful for my bosses who have helped me along, my colleagues who have supported me and of course my understanding wife, who didn’t event complain at all. This is a special year as this is the year where I left the department which I’ve spent half of my career at to somewhere so different, so new and so challenging. I just hope that 2010 will be better and looking forward for more opportunities.
Family
We welcome a brand new family member in February, Ezanne. She was born nearly 3 weeks earlier and coincidentally, my cousin got married on the same day itself. She has brought us joy and new challenges, having to manage both Ethan and herself and understanding Ethan better. I’ve actually spent less time at home this year but luckily, my new supervisor (Boss, if you are reading it, thank you) actually allowed me to clear all my leave and I’m able to bring Jingyi and Ethan for our 12 days Sydney tour.
Myself
Work, study, work, study. With 2009 coming an end, my studies will end in about another 3 months time before I start praying again for a sponsorship for my degree programme. In terms of my grassroots involvement, I was more involved this year as I was given the opportunity to design several banners and tickets for various events.
Well, I’m still blogging after more than a year into it and is pretty much involve with it, not forgetting tweeting and Facebooking as well.
Cause life is really unfair, I realise. This is also something that I’ve actually come to terms with but life is contradicting too, you accept it yet you just need to complain about it. Anyway, personally I just feel that if you wanna get something, you just got to have that quality. But surely, sometimes, support is defintely very much play a part too. Not that I’m jealous that I’m forgotten (I’m no longer in the department anymore, so it just doesn’t matter), but I thought, the people around me, who fought the difficult battle with me (who lost more sleep than maybe I do, who works equally hard as me), deserve it more than who has gotten it now. Imagine, sleeping more than you, slacking ore than you, putting NON CORE WORK more importantly than you do and not forgetting giving you more crazy ideas than you do when they actualy doesn’t know whats happening.
So do we call these people free loader?
Ok, that’s all for the complain.
ps: in case you are still waiting for my Sydney update, I do apologize that I just need to make this post to complain alittle just to let out how I feel and is currently sorting out how to update my Sydney trip… 
After a years of hardwork, I’m finally on leave. Though I’ve got to drop by office occasionally, but at least, I’m able to clear all my leave. So when am I starting work? 1 January 2010.
What’s the programme from now till 31 Dec? I’ll be joining Ethan for his school visit at Botanic Gardens on Friday (4 Dec), then bring him to the zoo on Saturday (5 Dec), attending babys’ full month party and of course the anticipated Sydney trip which I’ll be celebrating Christmas out of Singapore for the very first time. I’ll also be catching up on some of the personal projects which I’ve been embarking on so its really a time to rest, relax and recharge!
My week ended with another farewell lunch from a department head, Mr U. The best thing about him is that he is not my boss at all, yet, he gave me a farewell lunch, just to thank me for helping his department. He is so nice that he asked me to choose a restaurant and choose the food that I want to order (its really hard to find such a nice guy these days). So we decided to head to Thai Accent at Vivocity.
Service
Excellent service and great view (I mean in the future lah, what you see now is the construction of the almost completed Resorts World @ Sentosa). When you enter, they staff will greet you in Thai, which I thought was something which you can’t find in other Thai restaurant like Thai Express. They were friendly and shared with us their chef’s recommendation which help us alot when we were ordering our food.
Food
I’m not really a Thai Food lover but the food just blows me away. The Tom Yam soup was fantastic, they had mushrooms and really big prawns in it. It was spicy but not so spicy that I couldn’t take it. We had sea bass, softshell crab, kangkong and chicken with cashew nuts. Simply, there were no complains about the food. We practically finish up all the food that we had.
I had Thai Ice Tea which was yummy.
Conclusion
This place is a must go and I rate 4.5 out of 5 for it. Pls don’t ask me what was the damage as I did not pay for it and had no chance to take alook at the bill at all.
Location
Its located at Vivocity, #02-145/146.
I’ve attended a lunch this afternoon at Rice Table @ International Building. This was meant to be a treat by my Head as he was leaving soon and he just wanted to show appreciation for the hardwork that we’ve put in. At the end of the meal, he specially thank me (since I was leaving too). Personally, I was quite touched cause I really felt appreciated. Anyway, I’ll be having another 2 more farewell lunch and I’m determined to put them into words here as I thought they are really meant mentioning.
In the meantime, the packing continue and now then I realise that moving office is equally bad as moving house. There is so much to pack, throw and shred. For the past 3 days, I’ve only managed to clear the papers on my table, I’ve still got the cabinet to go. 4 years ago, when I was transferred to where I was, it was just a simple job, carry the stuff on my hand and off I go. Now, I’ve got to pack my stuff into boxes and move it with me. There are simply too much stuff.
Anyway, tomorrow is the last day, 7 years in the division, 4 years in the department, I don’t know if I’ll be able to hold back my tears (I’m a very emo person), afterall, this is the place where I got to know my wife and started my family. There are many happy memories, memorable times and of course sense of accomplishment.
My packing continues tomorrow…
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