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memories carved at the back of my brain
Sunday, August 28, 2011
aug II...
 view taken at batam =)
finally end of august, and i'm seeing the end of my admin duties. just sent out one of my few final emails. and a check reviewed that i've actually sent out almost 450 emails within this 3-4 months period. work out the math, average 3 to 4 emails a day including weekends. would say this was a tough period on my workload, and was glad it was over. at least boss was nicer to me towards the end after i let out in an email that i was tired and unhappy from covering the admin stuff and that affected my lab work badly. its good to be trusted by boss, but yet the amount of things that come non-stop from him its too much to handle at times. but at least i've learnt / seen the art of procurement and handling suppliers / sales people, and some finance skill involved as well on grant management. another plus point was this job made me spoke to some of my lab mates whom i normally don't speak to more, and hence somehow improve the communication channel as well (especially from the other side of the office). nevertheless glad the end is here, though i know i wouldnt be totally relieved from this now that i knew too much confidential stuff and still some dangling matters to settle. at least more free i guess.
lectures had been okay, just once per week and its pretty boring but its the last module already! and finally received confirmation that i've passed the written QE taken in june, which is a relief as no one will want to go through the long preparation process again. jap lessons are going to end in 1 month's time where i have to take my E2 test. given my circumstances i wouldnt be able to continue my intermediate course which needs full commitment of 36 lessons. but still had been nice learning some other languages though i am very slow at learning non-science stuff (its true and especially languages), and hopefully it will be useful when i go japan in december, and the travelling after that =) had heard about how workaholic is it over at IMS, not looking forward to it at all but would be good training and experience. imagine 9.30am to 10pm everyday, non-stop from monday to saturday, and no personal PCs in the lab and the provided computers are only for academic purposes. furthermore they don't communicate at all in the lab. only work work and more work, plus group meeting twice a week where progress report are required weekly, this is madness. i shouldnt complain about my biweekly report then..
and PE are finally over, with my first chance of voting! quick and rapid process i was back home within 5 mins (including my walking time to the school downstairs). wouldn't comment on the results or whom i've voted, but hopefully the divide will heal and the sour sentiments will eventually decrease over time.
and batam trip had been very nice and relaxing. cable ski was tiring and after 1 whole day me and val still couldnt stand up on the board (sigh). but its a nice experience. at least we went on the kneeboard for few rounds. and we came back with all total aches everywhere and anywhere which took almost a week to recover. but having to soak in the nice resort and jacuzzi after that was a very nice experience, cum the very nice hotel room! much more relaxing than tioman, given we were really just there to relax like watching dvd in the room at night and having fun in the pool. cant wait for the next one again =)
gotta start on new sets of readings for a totally new topic for my work, which i'll need to work even harder to churn out stuff for QE next year as well as for my attachment. at least let me move on from here and hopefully i'll start afresh new on a clean slate, leaving my old self of lack of confidence and motivation behind.
and did runnus last week which was my first offical proper full run. the 11km of slopes was tough but glad i managed to finish, despite the rather slow timing. had a bad start and the run after that didn't go so well. but at least its a good experience. hopefully i'll take a shorter time to finish the bay run next sunday and have a better run! =)
till next time then! =)
4:33 PM
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