Post Production Support
It was today that I realised that after the 2 weeks break from flying...I will be stationed in Phil for another 4 weeks(a month) instead of a three for post support....sigh...not very good news to me honestly. At the end of this project, I'm going to be soooooooooo sick of planes I tell yah. I'm so going to reframe from flying from at least a year...I'm just praying no new overseas project. If there is..I hope I will not be involved?slim chance...but I'm still hoping...=D
I'm just a little tired of the incessant flying in and out and spending so little time with my love ones and having that itsy bitsy private time at home just listening to the radio and reading mags...It's always so late when we reach the hotel. And by the time you shower and prepare things for the next day, it's time for bed already. And before you know it, another day begins...Haizz...
Time just flutters by sooooo quickly...=(
And to make things worse...I wun be able to enjoy the Great Singapore Sale!!!A great bummer that is!!!!!*sobz*
Well...perhaps I should look on the brighter side of things...this will save me a great deal of money!
I'm kinda tired of this working scehdule that is purely all work no fun no rest no realx kind of working pace/environment/culture...wateva u like to call it. It's just too damn boring!There's simply no life!!! I'm seriously thinking if I should change my career direction while I still can....Sigh...uncertainity sometime kills doesn't it!
Well, for now I'm not exactly enjoying my work. I'm really counting days as it goes by...hours seemed like weeks and seconds seemed like days man...sigh...i'm sooo rooting for Firday to come...and I can finally take some rest from the travelling..Perhaps I should apply for leave too huh?just so I can take a small break before another sickening month again...
Sigh..
We'll see...
Shall end here for now....
All pumped out....
The whole of last week was ridiculous!!!!!!Was plagued with constant van breakdowns, cranky weather, influx of choking polluted fumes, no water usage in the office, 10 hours work everyday and last but not least, a incredible swollen tonsil with high fever, a running nose, phlegmy cough and a husky, "sexy" voice to carry it all to another week in Phil.
Boy...did I do well for my summary in school!!!! Hahaha..
Basically I sum it all up for the "adventures" I had for the past week. Nothing that I would like to actually "reminisce" about, but that week took it all man!!!!Everything that could get worse did get worse...sheessshh...unbelievable! Anyways I do hope this week gets beta...I'm really so yearning for the break now...Not break from work but still..break from all the travelling is good enough. I need to seriously recover.....else...I'll forever be sick with all the hectic schedules!
So looking forward to end of this week......
Drained Out....
Looking back, I've been travelling in and out Philippines for the past 5 weeks...and counting...The entire project is seriously exhausting!!!!
The smell of the plane officially smells repulsive to me now...Sigh...I do wonder how long I can take this really...
Work has been really tiring too...I have been feeling lethargic the entire week now. Even in my dreams I worry about work...Sigh...occupational hazard.
This two weeks is the UAT period, so the stress level is running up and down whenever things happen.I just hope that things can get better soon so that I can sleep better at night and maybe take a short break amidst these all...Yawnzz...We've been working like 10,12 hours for the past 5 weeks and practically having no weekends...Sigh..I hope all these can pay off. Maybe for my other colleagues because they will be getting their bonus soon...but for newbies like me...I will need another year before getting any. It's quite lame in some ways because although we are newbies..can't we get pro-rated bonus as well?I mean...isn't it abit unfair in some ways ostracizing us like that just because we are new? Sigh...the trade offs of being a newbie. I don't even get any form of increment after probation, no bonus as well...how sad..
Anywayz, we will be getting a 2 week break after one more week while our main users train the end users.I'm sooooo looking forward to that, else I think I'm so gonna just drop dead anytime soon.=(
Alot of crazy stuffs have been happening too...but I guess I don't really have the energy now to update everything...Too tedious...HA!
I need rest....ZzZzzZzzzZzzzzzzz....
Generation Gap
I guess I never really knew the true meaning of generation gap until recently...
This was because of a particular email that I sent to my parents that sparked this entire roller coaster of discussions leading to the fact that sometimes...parents just don't understand you...not because they can't, but because of your generation gap.
I guess we must all admit to the fact that, somehow, no matter how understanding one can be or how realistically close can one try to be in someone else's shoes...One just cannot totally and absolutely understand how one feels unless we are they themselves?
It's like no matter how much you try to put yourself in someone's else shoes...you can never understand to the fullest what he or she is going through?Is the only way to understand someone, to be someone?
Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what the answer should be...But I did realise that sometimes when you think you know how that someone feels...you might not necessarily do...
I guess my emotions r flying arnd right now again...Haa...Oh well...shall end for now...
Becoming workaholic...
This week has been really crazy!
It was really work and work and work and work....
My high fever kinda made it worse too but it still didn't take me off work...I only rested half a day and back to work the very next day. We hardly step out of our hotel(even for dinner-except going to and coming back from the office) for the past week. I wonder if it's a sign from God, we were kinda all given a break yesterday when the network of the whole city was down from 4.30pm yesterday. Well, since we were largely dependent on the network, we were theoretically given some time off to take a break, go for some proper dinner apart from all the room service n cup noodles we had for the week...
It was a nice break cos we manage to go out for some fresh air, did a lil shopping wondering arnd...I needed the break somehow.It was a really tiring and mind boggling week...
But thanks to the support of my parents, my bf and of course my friends..I managed to pull thru the week. Thanks to them! =)
It's always good to be home...But alas...time flies so quickly I'll be back here real soon again...Haizz..
Well..I'll end here short for now..
=)
My fever was officially 38.7 yesterday...sheesh..I din expect my temp was that high until I went to the doctor..all I knew was that I was rather cold...n there seemed like a huge cloud hanging over my head..Bad time to have a fever if you ask me..
Anyway I took the afternoon off to see the doctor and rested in the hotel...coincidently..another colleague of mine fell sick too...so we both went back early..
It's pretty sad to see that the rest of my colleagues did not send their regards when they came back to the hotel. It was only until this morn that they asked if we were okay..sigh..how superficial huh? It was pretty sad if you ask me...so deprived of TLC rite now...sobzz...feel like going home...sobbzz again...
Anyway I think i'm much beta todae..no more cloud hanging over my head..but the sore throat is still there...but I guess we'll give it a lil more time to recover totally I guess...
Anyway it was some experience being sick n all alone in a foreign country...But I'm fine...no tears no fears...so it was all good.=)
Well..I'm really looking forward to going back home....
Sick in Phil....
Yesh I noe I noe…I am sick again…Not too serious this time actually...Just some fever and a sore throat….
Well I was flying with a fever yest..started having a fever on sat nite..then somehow it got worse on Sunday..but since it was too late to do anything...I juz flew with a fever..I took a panadol on board n took a short nap..felt abit beta after..
When we arrived at the hotel..my fever came back again…so I took another panadol n went to bed..no appetite to eat..just had a cup noodle..couldn’t evern finish the whole portion…
Sigh..din get a gd nite sleep actually..the aircon was abit faulty…cold n hot cold n hot…so irritating..sigh..i hope I can get a beta rest tonite tho..else my fever will not recover…Now it’s my sore throat….sigh…I am so vulnerable…haizz..
Will stop for now I guess..can’t even think straight now man…haizz..
Just blog.........
I have been reading alot of news regarding pple almost having their asses sued because they simply revealed too much stuffs on their blog...Haha..pretty interesting. Well...I remembered that in my blog once, I mentioned about how some pple blog for the sake of blogging and perhaps even for online popularity of what I call.."Blog fame". They enjoy having a
counter read-do-meter on their blog and the joy of seeing their counter tick predominantly....
Well, its funny how popularity sometimes gets too much into our heads that we forget what we really want in life. It's like how a simple idea of a diary, get's introduced to the now very common source of sharing, internet! With that introduced, the proportion gets blown up even bigger with the "Most popular blogs ideology"
Can life be ever simpler now as technology takes over our lives?
I mean in olden days, diary used to be a thing of privacy where we keeps our sorrows, our happiness, our heartbreaks and even our "satan" whom we prefer to keep in our closets under locks and passwords...
But now...everything is transparent, not only do we like our friends to know what we go through and what we think... we allowm strangers from all over the world to read and see the "secret" us.Or is it all for show?
Whatever it is...times have changed I guess...we all seek to be different now in ways or another. To be recognised is the word here. We all like to feel our own existence for once and to be acknowledged by someone once in awhile?Perhaps perhaps....
Ramblings....
A week has since past since the beginning of the project in Phil....I am rather getting used to the "pace" of life now in Phil...Wake Up, Brekky,Work,Lunch,Work,Dinner,Bedtime. Basically it's a no life cycle cos during project times, we work more than 8 hours a day and sleep less than 8 hours every night.Sometimes I just feel so unjustified, I'm not as highly paid as the others but yet I have to do the same amt of work if not more and to complete all the more admin,mundane and tedious work as well...I just can't help but feeling abit exploited sometimes...Sigh...
In a way, I'm glad the weekend is coming...can go back to my own bed again and see my loved ones. However, this break is almost like non existence because we're flying in night on Fri, and leaving Sun early afternoon...Personally I think it's pointless.I think we hardly spend 48hrs in Sing...sigh..
We were all supposed to fly in late afternoon, but beause our company wanted to get the promo tickets and save some $$(as usual), we have no choice but to catch the earlier flight.And because it's promo tickets...we don't even have the choice of not going back...It's rather hectic you noe, flying in and out like that...I mean..in a month, I have virtually flown like 8 times?I'm even starting to get sick of the airplane food...*sobz*
Well...I just feel like complaining for now...disgusted that I'm told to do something outside my supposed role..%#%$^%&^)*(
Till then...keep it cool...
