I Return to Blogging (for now).

Guess what? From a research assistant under the casual employment scheme, I've went on to multi-worker to become a secretary and a copywriter! For the government! But my salary doesn't increase. I asked mister boss if I could get some money from the bid the company tendered (that is a 7 digit sum). No conclusion. But hey, after copy-writing, the copyright does not belong to me! That is one major reason why I have no whatsoever energy to do it with as much enthusiasm as I am supposed to have.

Ok, this job is bringing in some income, and mister boss can sometimes be nice to let us off 30 minutes to 1 hour earlier. I shan't complain, but I need to whine. Please please please some calls purrrrr-lease.

I am now a slave of the 830-to-6 culture. I need something less desk-bound and something to let off my creative juices. There IS copywriting around here, but it must always be creative within the gah-men limits. How creative can it get? I am not VERY creative, but this is way too-uncreative. I want this no more.

The routine weeks...

I have converted to working full time at the place I'm slogging at, at a relaxing rate. And so, the usual goes - 8.30am to 6pm, get home, have dinner, hang around the internet for a while before heading to bed every night before 11pm. Yes, I'm leading a healthy lifestyle in terms of sleeping times but it's pretty lifeless. But I guess that's what happens after you finish school.

But this job is gonna be temporary, I'm leaving once I find myself in a real full-time job. Thus, the mass sending out of my CV and recent photograph has begun. Now it's just pure waiting. But at least there's pretty good income coming in while I'm on a job hunt.

Realize that it's a JOB hunt and not exactly a CAREER hunt. I have no idea what I see myself in say 5 or 10 years' time. More updates when the interview calls.

Longest Slide Ever

Yesterday was supposed to be rest day, but in the end I joined the JC classmates to celebrate Ally's birthday instead. Little did I know they were going to the Kids Amaze place at Safra.

In the end, we climbed about the mega indoor playground like little kids, but as slow as slow pokes since we are older now. There was this little boy called Marcus who made friends with us and brought us around the playground, including showing us the winding slides and stuff. Here are the pictures...

Into Kids Amaze for only $5.35 for unlimited play!


The 9-year-old little boy who made friends with us.


Asia's longest slide of 18.9m! I was screaming my way down.


Wahaha... First straighten your legs, cross your arms across your chest and wheeeeee!


Now my muscles are aching from all the climbing about. But it was a good workout. I'm definitely heading there again.

My First Full Day At Work

My first half flew by with work to complete. Then came lunch, and by 4pm, I was gone. I kept yawning at the computer screen. Every time I looked away, I was fine. The moment I looked back at the screen, the yawns come. Like a few every minute. YAWN! :O

To commemorate my first full day, I did some good by going to the coffee shop opposite to buy my colleagues tea and buns at 3.30pm since I could no longer concentrate on what I was doing.

But hey, I clocked a decent amount of salary today. YES!

Tomorrow's my next full day followed by 2 half days before the week ends. Go, Esther, go! The pay is worth the effort. Oh how I love monetary rewards for my hardwork!

10 October 2009

It was graduation again! At posh Ritz Carlton Hotel with the family and love. But it's not gonna beat this for sure...

GRADUATING IN OKLAHOMA!






Layers after layers and finally the graduation gown. It was our lucky day that the sun decided to radiate some heat onto us on graduation day in Oklahoma!

Back to Blogging

After major happenings, it's back to the normal routine life. Well, he has left us. No more sufferings for him. May he rest in peace.

Tuition is taking a turn, I'm left with 3 out of my 6 students. 3 of them have finished their exams and I should not be tutoring them anymore next year. As for the other 3 students, I'm still considering.

I have now switched to working 3 half days and 2 full days. Besides the higher income, I would have more time to complete what is on my hands. This week, and the rest of the weeks to come, will be a more relaxing one, with only 3 tutoring days. No more tuition over the weekend, except for one 1.5 hour one on Saturday morning.

Seriously, work saps the energy out of you. When the day is about to end, I just can't do anything else, but just to want to sleep. Having said that, falling asleep after a long day usually ends up with a good deep sleep. A good seven hour sleep is better than a 10-hour bad sleep. So, no insomnia for now.

I should be blogging as regularly as I did from now on, if I don't fall prey to the sleeping bug.

Blatant Spelling Error?




This was what I saw when I opened firefox. Google's my homepage. Heh.

Back to Blogging.

My apologies to readers of my blog. This month has been absolutely mad. After a seeming recovery, and a trip to genting, and a trip to the hospital (to admit someone else), I was down with fever. When the fever was gone, another bout of cough came along, together with news that my maternal grandmother passed away.

Hurriedly, I was forced to make a trip for the funeral in Malaysia with the mother. Hung around for 4 days, came back, went back to work coughing and now finally a Saturday all to myself (well almost). Not mentioning I have been away from Toastmasters for a month now.

But bad news aside, I'm finally coughing less (as the yellow phlegm is making its way out of my body) , Serene is back in Singapore and I'm glad to be home without a terminally ill patient. Calmness, peace, serenity.

The morning part-time job goes on, with a little pressure to finish writing quicker as the deadline draws near. The tuition frenzy goes on. But finances look good. That's because I've been busy to the extent that I don't have the time for retail therapy. Well, I don't have the mood or energy either.

Let everything be back to normal, let me slump back into my routine, let me do what I want to do.

Of Antibiotics and Rest

After a consultation with the gp and two full days of medicine and proper rest, I'm feeling very very rested. No longer coughing my lungs out, and having the voice that may go anytime. So for today, I'm skipping Toastmasters. My voice ain't ready for some full 10-min language evaluation yet. I better safe guard my voice box.

Antibiotics make me high. I feel like I'm floating when I walk, my hands shake, making me feel like a sick person. Obviously, I am sick. But can't get to nap in the afternoons since the afternoons are usually of high-level brain activity like tuition...

I'm ready to get back to work tomorrow, although still coughing a little. But the lungs aren't coming out for now. =D

Dry Cough

Yikes, dry cough and coughing from the lungs. I cough like I'm going to die.

Went back to work today - coughing and doing data-entry. Well, just transferring information hundreds of years ago on manuscript to a word document, with the boss helping to spell out the names while I do the typing. But at last, I'm about 60% done with the report on technical education.

I finally got my access card too! No longer need to borrow the card when I head to the toilet, since there's this magnetic door that you have to get through before reaching the office. Time really passes quickly when one is busy at work. I do a few things and it's time to go home.

Let the cough disappear over the weekend and let me be healthy back at work next week. Then the weekend can be left to shopping since the salary would already have rolled in.