Siansation

Quote of the day

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

Hmm.. My quote for today has nothing to do with my content but I’ve been keeping this quote for a long time, however nothing is appropriate.

I’ve recently moved location in the office, I actually prefer my old place. Suddenly I lost lots of things:

• Privacy – Everyone can see what I’m doing on my laptop
• Coolness – it’s warmer here, I suspect that the printer in front of me is producing all the heat
• Distance to pantry -  being so near the pantry, make me lose reasons to take a walk in the office (lolx =D)
• Quietness – it’s very noisy here, people seems to be shouting into the phone
• Peace -  Some people are quite vulgar here, I’ve heard quite a bit of swearing
• Female -  My new neighbours are mainly males from Operations, my old neighbours are all females and PAs or Department Administrator
• Sweets – mentos and other candies used to be right in front of me, within my reach but now it’s so far away. It’s ok, at least i cut down on my candy consumption. =)

But I find my new desk more cozy and it’s nearer to my boss’s room though she’s on maternity leave right now. ^^

I’m actually a little too free, since my project hasn’t started, I’ve very limited work at hand. Help! >_<

Letting go..

Quote of the day

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. – Tom Krause

Another week into the new year, currently face with a huge obstacle.  It finally seems like it’s time to let go and move on. Knowing when to let go will save lots of efforts and time trying to make it work when you know it still will fall apart someday.

I hate it but we have to involve my boss who is away on maternity leave. We’ll have to decide what’s the way forward.

If I’m given the chance to do this again, I would be able to do a better job. Given the time spent on this project and the  experience I’ve gained, discovering problems and issues along the way, I would be able to anticipate the problems and also deal with them better.

Days

Quote of the day

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit

Start of the week has been a little quiet. Perhaps there’s only 1 task for me to do and completion of it is dependent on other factors. But those in the office are all busy with year-end stuff and start of the year stuff, closing accounts, accruing budget, salary review, performance evaluation, cleaning up 2010 planning etc.

Office is becoming a little more lively but not so much since my neighbours are clearing their annual leave, so it’s rather quiet at my area. Since I’m a contract staff, I could have encashed my annual leave if I didn’t clear them. However I’ve extended the contract, and hence brought forward my 2009 annual leaves to this year. As a result I’ll have 10 days of annul leave within the extended 6 months. A lot huh?! Hehe..

There are a total of 11 public holidays for Singapore and 6 are in the beginning of the year. Wow I’ve got a total of 16 (holidays plus annual leaves) for my 6 months here. Sweet! What’s even sweeter is that of these 6 holidays, most fall on either a Friday, Monday, Saturday (leave in lieu) or Sunday (holiday in lieu).

New Year’s Day
Friday 1 Jan 2010

Chinese New Year
Sunday 14 Feb 2010 –> Holiday in lieu (Tuesday 16 Feb 2010)
Monday 15 Feb 2010

Good Friday
Friday 2 Apr 2010

Labour Day
Saturday 1 May 2010 –> Leave in lieu (1 more day to annual leave)

Vesak Day
Friday 28 May 2010

Yeah! Long weekends! Awesome!

January:  21 Weekdays  - 1  Holiday = 20 Working Days
February: 20 Weekdays  - 2  Holiday = 18 Working Days
March:  23 Weekdays - 0  Holiday = 23 Working Days
April:  22 Weekdays - 1  Holiday = 21 Working Days
May:  21 Weekdays - 1  Holiday = 20 Working Days
June:  22 Weekdays - 0  Holiday = 22 Working Days
July:  7  Weekdays - 0  Holiday = 7 Working Days

Total Working Days: 131
Working Days Used: 4
Working Days Left: 127

127 more working days for me before the contract ends. I haven’t include the annual leave yet, but it’s already seem like an extremely short period. =(

What will happen after that…  >_<