Sigh

A boring day in the office because i can't resolve anything because of the rms and every one being on leave. My time was spent reading randomly looking at benefit, elf and ae in the morning and reading about jellyfish and the vanderbilt family in the afternoon. Argh. Frustrates

=(

Some days you get to work already wishing you can go home. Today is a day like that. =(

System Error

As I slowly get into the groove of being a working individual, I realize that I tend to get fixated on the little details and miss out on the big picture. In my job, which I just started 3 months ago... I was so concerned with getting the work done that I completely forgot that I'm supposed to Analyze, not just do. I'm paid to think.

And somewhere along the way, I realized that the Singapore education syllabus missed an important subject. They forgot to teach you how to think.. From primary to secondary school and even on to junior college, we are simply trained to answer the questions that are going to come out in exam papers. Like robots on clockwork, there are 2 SAs and 2 CAs in an academic year.

And then when you get to university, it's basically the same again. You go for lectures do the tutorials and then get notes from seniors and do the past year papers if available. Fair enough there are modules that require you to think more than others but then that probably amounts to 10% of all the modules you would take and they would typically be packed into your last semester as a student.

So now, 3 months into my working life, I have to start learning how to think. Something my 18 years of education did not teach me.

Datefusion

The problem with working in an international bank is date formatting. The international intranet tools we use has a mm/dd/yy format, but some of the tools that are in our system itself use dd/mm/yy. It really is a little confusing. And we all know how dangerous it is to get dates wrong, cos if it is, clients can get free money! Argh, to have to bother about small details like that.

Gf nails

on mine some new MAC color cant remember the name. Quite similar to the stage and china glaze ones i have, might do a comparism post for fun.

On qiwan's some OPI color she got done at a salon

New ring + polish

Made another ring, more victorian style and on tips currently: Orly Pixie Dust...pretttyy

As the week goes by

Normally when i reach work I take out some stuff from my bag like my hp, staff pass and the jacket for the day, place the bag in the big bottom drawer, start my system and maybe refill my thermal pot. After my system starts I check emails and then decide what I should work on for the day, as I currently have 5 files on hand.

As a habit I will read some news first, usually on channelnewsasia as sites like wallstreetjournal likes to be anal and lock many articles. So I cant be bothered.

I noticed then at the start of the week, I will usually read more serious stuff, all the business news, world news etc, I wont even go near the entertainment section. But as the week progresses, usually around Thursday I feel like taking a break and I would progress to reading entertainment stuff like Coco Lee wants to migrate to Singapore. Stuff like that.

Also nearer the end of the week, should I have a paper on hand, I will actually take 5 - 10 mins to flip through Today either in the morning or just after lunch, and on Fridays I will really zone out, like stare at the financials and zone out.

So thats what my week is like.

Me @ the F1

at the suite during the race, taken by the club 21 photog. Oh mah gad! I'm a celebrity, loving the paparazzi, haha!

On the track after the race, hair flat from sweating walking around. so unglam

Marshmallows @ a concert

Marshmallows were going for a concert! William So + Ronald Cheng

This is what Mr Marshmallow wore

and this is what Ms Marshmallow wore!

During the concert we sat in front of a bunch of William So's fans, lucky they were not like the Ronald fans @ hong kong's concert (they screamed throughout the whole concert). It was pretty fun, the stars walked around alot and we got to shake Ronald's hand! One girl sitting somewhere behind us saw another girl get to shake William's hand and she was squealing in jealousy. So funny.

Anyway, think i look terrible here but babes looks really good. It was a good weekend =)

Dieting

Ever since I've started work, I have been sitting on my ass. Literally, because my job doesn't require me to move around alot. It also doesnt help that my bus home is right next to my work place, cutting down all my walking. When I worked @ recruit express last year, I'd walk from ngee ann to lido to get a bus home.

So well, i continue like this for about a month, then i realized that my clothes got tighter, and i looked kind of fatter. I got really sad and decided to limit my intake. My eating style is like this: because I get hungry fast, I
usually eat until I'm really full, then i'll be satisfied. And I'm someone who reaaly super super loves her carbos. My diet is basically cutting down on my carb intake, god its so painful for me. It has been going well, karl think that i lost weight too. Was @ the doctor's today, and got my weight. I'm 44.8kg!! Even Dr Lee said I look skinnier. Yippee !

However, its @ times like this, in the middle of the night, when i'm hungry
I tend to open the fridge and peep, if there is nothing interesting, I will eat my fave plain white bread, gardenia. So much cravs

Tonights damage: half a bakers inn black sesame mooncake and 3 slices of white gardenia.

F1 loots!

The F1 ticket was provided by club21 as a gift for a family friend who couldnt attend, so i took it! And when i arrived...they had gift bags! I peeped inside and saw Khiels!!! I swiped an extra one from the empty seat next to me and passed to marv. And it was a very elegant sky suite with a buffet dinner set up with drinks/wine/champagne and a full service wait staff outsourced from pan pacific. Talk about neat!

OYEA!!!

It was debby's day @ the F1. Got free gifts some more!! More deetz to come.

Things on my mind

Well last night there was a work drinking function with the trade, rm and my dept. Along with the head of SEA for corporate transaction group. drinks on the bank's bill. and some of the snr bankers were really going at it. Which leads me to think
Better learn how to be a good drunk either that or a really good drinker but then you have to be a drunk many times first.

Healthy teeth

90% of the office brush their teeth after lunch

the ugliest part of singaporean weddings

so yesterday i was a bridesmaid @ my gf's wedding, it was a full day thing. we were manning the reception before the dinner started and well people started arriving. And the first thing people ask, some even before giving their well wishes to the wedding couple, is "Got carpark coupon?", i.e. carpark redemption tickets.

I really think that is very ugly and graceless.

to give this some perspective, yesterday was a public holiday, which means that carpark charges were per entry. so about S$3?

days of the week

so work is on a 5day week basis, everytime it reaches wednesday i get very relieved, cos i only have to think of what to wear for one more day, after that its casual friday. running out of office clothes lar. i'm at expert at mix and match now, i even tried wearing ribbed tank tops to work, cos i got nothing to wear! maybe i should go for a wardrobe clearance flea market sale, but then i love all my clothes so much! how now brown cow...

Funny moments

i think a pic of us both playing solitaire on ur phones while lying next to each other just before we sleep will be rather amusing

Why can't i just add a smiley face

So work email has many unspoken rules, golden etiquette and what nots. Drafting it really gives me a mini headache.

I want to sound polite and nice yet not so cheerful that i irk some grumps or sound like a kid.

If my words are phrased too politely i may come off sounding like a cold bitch. No matter how i put it then i look at it, it still sounds bitchy to me. Or sometimes i think how i phrase it makes me sound like someone's boss. For example, in email i could type.

Hi John Doe,

I would appreciate if you could get me a copy of ABC company's financials. Thanks!

Regards,
Debby

I feel like i sound like that person's cold bitchy boss saying that in a authoritarian tone.

Now if i could just add a smiley face at the end of it all it will sound so much more cheery to the recipient and probably closer to how i actually speak.

Nobody ever told that u had to worry about such inconsequential things when u start working, or am i just a special case of a worry wart with an over-active imagination?

Damn it this feels too right , the one we all dream of (Nickelback: Gotta Be Somebody)

This time I wonder what it feels like
To find the one in this life
The one we all dream of
But dreams just aren't enough
So I´ll be waiting for the real thing.
I'll know it by the feeling.
The moment when we´re meeting
will play out like a scene straight off the silver screen
So I`ll be holdin’ my own breath
Right up to the end
Until that moment when
I find the one that I'll spend forever with

*(`Cause nobody wants to be the last one there.
'Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares.
Someone to love with my life in their hands.
There`s gotta be somebody for me like that.)

Repeat *

Tonight, out on the street out in the moonlight
And dammit this feels too right
It´s just like Déjà Vu
Me standin’ here with you
So I´ll be holdin`my own breath
Could this be the end?
Is it that moment when
I find the one that I'll spend forever with?

‘Cause nobody wants to be the last one there
'Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares.
Someone to love with my life in their hands.
There´s gotta be somebody for me like that.

Repeat *

You can´t give up!
Lookin´ for that diamond in the rough
You never know but when it shows up
Make sure you´re holdin` on
‘Cause it could be the one, the one you´re waiting on

‘Cause nobody wants to be the last one there.
And everyone wants to feel like someone cares.
Someone to love with my life in their hands.
There has gotta be somebody for me

Nobody wants to do it on their own
And everyone wants to know they´re not alone.
Is there somebody else that feels the same somewhere?
There`s gotta be somebody for me out there.

Nobody wants to be the last one there
'Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares.
Is there somebody else that feels the same somewhere?
There has gotta be somebody for me out there.

I am

now a working woman. Le sigh.