I give myself 6 months to decide what I would like to do the next 2 years.
I give myself 1 year, to conquer all financial statements and be the queen of costing!!! hahaha
23 days for myself to earn an interview.
1.5 months to make sure I grasp what I need to know now so that my Biz trip wont spill over to the very uncertain 2009.
No pain, no gain.
But can have pain and happiness at the same time I think. Haha...
You are the best GIFT for the year 2008!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Better
I missed out on quite a few updates since my last entry. When i wanted so badly to blog, I didnt have my lappie with me.
I went to attend the information session on MPA at school last sat. I had quite a bit of motivation and insight into this program, what I want, what I need and what I should do. I remember why and what exactly I love about SMU. The culture, the professors. Not all the profs are perfect but certainly, TS is great. He reminded me very much of my two bosses. So logical, so to the point.
I am truly grateful to have MS up there. That little bit of compliments. Very simple one or two liners never fail to spur me on. Seriously, when things have to be reported at his level, that means I am going through that level of stress. It is all so worth it cos he is appreciative and that he is very encouraging. Guess that's the difference between Asian boss and Caucasian boss.
Building my little portfolio finally in the department! HAha.. now im in transition between two projects, that means I am free"er... Non peak season. So shiok, today I get to leave at 6pm sharp.
Anyway... Maybe after 20 sep i will have more to say. For now... Keeping my fingers crossed....
I MISS YOU baobei!!
I went to attend the information session on MPA at school last sat. I had quite a bit of motivation and insight into this program, what I want, what I need and what I should do. I remember why and what exactly I love about SMU. The culture, the professors. Not all the profs are perfect but certainly, TS is great. He reminded me very much of my two bosses. So logical, so to the point.
I am truly grateful to have MS up there. That little bit of compliments. Very simple one or two liners never fail to spur me on. Seriously, when things have to be reported at his level, that means I am going through that level of stress. It is all so worth it cos he is appreciative and that he is very encouraging. Guess that's the difference between Asian boss and Caucasian boss.
Building my little portfolio finally in the department! HAha.. now im in transition between two projects, that means I am free"er... Non peak season. So shiok, today I get to leave at 6pm sharp.
Anyway... Maybe after 20 sep i will have more to say. For now... Keeping my fingers crossed....
I MISS YOU baobei!!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Lost
Im not sure what exactly is it that I am waiting for now.
Im so lost. I need some direction.
At the end of the day, I know I just have to stick to what I believe and hold on to the end.
Im so lost. I need some direction.
At the end of the day, I know I just have to stick to what I believe and hold on to the end.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sigh
CC says dun think so much...
Go for the well deserved holiday.
Dun think about work, about GMAT, about masters, about my Samsung Phone.
Maybe it was a bad decision. SIGH
Anyhow, time to go BKK tom. It was meant to be a vacation. I shouldnt bring anything with me, definitely not all these emotional baggage.
Cant wait to get onto the plane.... Wheee....
Go for the well deserved holiday.
Dun think about work, about GMAT, about masters, about my Samsung Phone.
Maybe it was a bad decision. SIGH
Anyhow, time to go BKK tom. It was meant to be a vacation. I shouldnt bring anything with me, definitely not all these emotional baggage.
Cant wait to get onto the plane.... Wheee....
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Can feel it setting in
It's not going to be easy there...
Working full time and studying part time for my masters.
I am struggling already, just for this GMAT preparation. How much time do I have to prepare? Not much. I was so bogged down by work I was left with so little proper time to study. Maybe I could have planned to take it later. I just didnt expect my stay in China to prolong. Geez...
Yeah, I know i have been out the most of this weekend. I could I have spent the time studying that's right but i miss SG so much I had to go out and fulfill my cravings for all the sg cuisines.
Thank you CC for driving me around the whole of SG today. Dinner was simple but great. I think it is going to get really really tough moving forward.
Work, relationships, studies, family, me time.
Gotta balance.
I just woke up from a 2 hour nap. I am setting aside time for a 4 hour practice test tonight before i head for bed. More practice and readings tom. BUT I have to drop by office. Man.. I am on leave lor.. But what to do... I received a call from China with regards to some screw ups... over with the bank problems. & the broker is coming down to the office.
TUE is my GMAT test!!!
Pray pray....
Working full time and studying part time for my masters.
I am struggling already, just for this GMAT preparation. How much time do I have to prepare? Not much. I was so bogged down by work I was left with so little proper time to study. Maybe I could have planned to take it later. I just didnt expect my stay in China to prolong. Geez...
Yeah, I know i have been out the most of this weekend. I could I have spent the time studying that's right but i miss SG so much I had to go out and fulfill my cravings for all the sg cuisines.
Thank you CC for driving me around the whole of SG today. Dinner was simple but great. I think it is going to get really really tough moving forward.
Work, relationships, studies, family, me time.
Gotta balance.
I just woke up from a 2 hour nap. I am setting aside time for a 4 hour practice test tonight before i head for bed. More practice and readings tom. BUT I have to drop by office. Man.. I am on leave lor.. But what to do... I received a call from China with regards to some screw ups... over with the bank problems. & the broker is coming down to the office.
TUE is my GMAT test!!!
Pray pray....
080808 + Peking Duck
I was so lucky!! I didnt know that I was actually taking A380 cos i checked in via the internet at around 2am on the day of my flight scheduled at 5pm. I was too tired to notice, otherwise, I would have put myself in the upper deck! How Cool!! and the lucky thing is we were on board the last A380 flight SQ scheduled for the Olympic crowd! Before that, I went to look for Shan jie. Went to her apartment and we had a quick lunch before she showed me the different places in Silk street in Beijing. The traffic in beijing was unusually clear. Our flight was pretty empty too. Guess what, my flight took off at 5pm and it touched down in sg at 1030. That was one of the fastest flights I have ever taken from BJ back. The pilot said we were 40 min ahead of schedule. No delays, not much turbulence too. But because of this flight, I missed watching the opening ceremony! One chinese passenger asked the crew if we could watch live telecast of the opening. Well, our aviation technology hasnt reached that point of advancement at this point of time. I was so so tired i zonked out after dinner. It's good to be home. One last battle before my BKK - GMAT!
Friday, August 08, 2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Lunchie Alone
CC and YB left for Haiyang this morning. Leaving me to have lunch on my own in Yantai. That place is just 1.5 hr drive from here.
Anywayz... the lunch box today is 1.5/5.
Anyway, there has never been a 5/5. At the most, 3.5/5. So you can imagine...
I caught HANCOCK movie over the weekend. That was the first English movie we caught here. CC was always excited about watching that show. I rejected wongso back in SG cos i said I had to watch it with CC.
And so after we checked out the timing, we got the tickets. Well....
We were just in time for the show to start. BUT. The moment we heard Chinese background, CC's first reacton was, Oh SHIT, you wanna leave?
Haha... Well... I said, let's just watch and see.. although i felt very uncomfortable too.
And well, it was not that bad an experience afterall, to catch an ang mo show in Mandarin. Pretty nice.
I cant help but say this...
I miss AMK HUB.
Anywayz... the lunch box today is 1.5/5.
Anyway, there has never been a 5/5. At the most, 3.5/5. So you can imagine...
I caught HANCOCK movie over the weekend. That was the first English movie we caught here. CC was always excited about watching that show. I rejected wongso back in SG cos i said I had to watch it with CC.
And so after we checked out the timing, we got the tickets. Well....
We were just in time for the show to start. BUT. The moment we heard Chinese background, CC's first reacton was, Oh SHIT, you wanna leave?
Haha... Well... I said, let's just watch and see.. although i felt very uncomfortable too.
And well, it was not that bad an experience afterall, to catch an ang mo show in Mandarin. Pretty nice.
I cant help but say this...
I miss AMK HUB.
Final Leap
Okae. No one is going to be able to stop me from completing everything i have on my list today. I no longer care nor can I afford to wait. Im going to put it out for all to see, if, at this point, you still do not want to be held responsible, or that you would like to join the crowd in waiting I am not going to care.
I guess my sort of "project manager" position requires that i be honed and be prepared for this. It doesnt matter what happens in between, because the sole reason of having a project manager is so that one person can liaise and sort things out with all the relevant parties when the PM has no actual authority. And that is the exact position that I am in.
I need to handover everything properly. Being stuck right in the middle of everything, 2 banks, 2 departments, 2 authorities and so many bosses. I cannot afford to let everything crumble. I have already come thus far!!
Plus, my motivation to complete everything today is so that i can start preparing for my GMAT. Tonight. Tom night. I dun have time anymore!!!
Friday is going to be fun i guess. Going to be travelling back to sg with CC and JO. HAha.. And i have just contacted Shan jie. We will be meeting up for lunch! CC can do his shopping, JO can get the things he was suppose to buy for his boss.
Friday is definitely worth celebrating because it marks the end of my share options slavery for the time being, and it is the beginning of my 1 week vacation!! After GMAT, im going to bangkok!
JY, if you are reading this, Im going to meet June and Pum for lunch in bkk!!! And you know what? We are meeting at Chula for lunch. HAahha... my Gai tord.... Oooooohhhhhh....
EXCITED!
Back, back to finish my mt everest pile of work, then I will be ready.
Oh, gotta share a silly silly analysis i did yesterday:
With the bad stomach I had, I ate like plain mini mantou and this corn porridge, with no sugar or much seasoning, you can imagine it being somewhat similar to tau suan, exactly the same visually, but instead of that "TAU", you replace it with corn. Yes. that for lunch. And guess what, YB was eating this Cod fish with pasta on those hot plate thingie that came sizzling hot... SIZZLING!!!.. And she was sitting right opp me. CC decided to eat century egg porridge, but then he had like 2 mini baskets of HAR GAO, 1 SIEW MAI, 1 pork ribs, Custard bun, mini plate of fried noodle, and this chillie-the kind in yong tau foo one...and he was beside me.
WE WERE SHARING A TABLE!! Of course, other than the fact that the mantou was really fresh and nice. That's all. And yes, I only ate like 1/4 of the corn porridge. And I was starring hard at the har gao, which CC constantly assured me it wasnt anywhere delicious but still, he did not stop eating. And he said the fried noodles smelled sour, still I see him put a lot of chilli and he was obviously enjoying his noodles.
I left earlier back to my room to rest. I was so so so so hungry at 6pm. I decided that if i were to wait for YB to dabao porridge for me, I will most likely die and faint. I woke up and went to my self made pantry. There were the cup noodles, the digestive biscuits and pringles.
Cup noodles, too much oil, and anyway the portion was too big, I cant possibly eat just noodles with hot water without adding the very oily seasoning so I decided, next.
The digestive biscuit was good except that it had milk contents inside and I dun think i wanna camp in the toilet for another night.
Pringles. I began to read the contents, potato, vegetable oil extract, salt... oh, when i saw the word salt, plus the fact that the other ingredients didnt seem as destructive, there I made my choice. Pringles. Salt is good because that was what my body needed with all the diarrhoea.
I chose original to keep things simple.
Haha.. that was one mini analysis i did yesterday. I can imagine how some of you must be thinking who eats potato chips while having stomach flu? But you see, i did do an analysis. hahah.. just to self console.
Anyway, I didnt make any more bathroom calls. I guess I survived!
I guess my sort of "project manager" position requires that i be honed and be prepared for this. It doesnt matter what happens in between, because the sole reason of having a project manager is so that one person can liaise and sort things out with all the relevant parties when the PM has no actual authority. And that is the exact position that I am in.
I need to handover everything properly. Being stuck right in the middle of everything, 2 banks, 2 departments, 2 authorities and so many bosses. I cannot afford to let everything crumble. I have already come thus far!!
Plus, my motivation to complete everything today is so that i can start preparing for my GMAT. Tonight. Tom night. I dun have time anymore!!!
Friday is going to be fun i guess. Going to be travelling back to sg with CC and JO. HAha.. And i have just contacted Shan jie. We will be meeting up for lunch! CC can do his shopping, JO can get the things he was suppose to buy for his boss.
Friday is definitely worth celebrating because it marks the end of my share options slavery for the time being, and it is the beginning of my 1 week vacation!! After GMAT, im going to bangkok!
JY, if you are reading this, Im going to meet June and Pum for lunch in bkk!!! And you know what? We are meeting at Chula for lunch. HAahha... my Gai tord.... Oooooohhhhhh....
EXCITED!
Back, back to finish my mt everest pile of work, then I will be ready.
Oh, gotta share a silly silly analysis i did yesterday:
With the bad stomach I had, I ate like plain mini mantou and this corn porridge, with no sugar or much seasoning, you can imagine it being somewhat similar to tau suan, exactly the same visually, but instead of that "TAU", you replace it with corn. Yes. that for lunch. And guess what, YB was eating this Cod fish with pasta on those hot plate thingie that came sizzling hot... SIZZLING!!!.. And she was sitting right opp me. CC decided to eat century egg porridge, but then he had like 2 mini baskets of HAR GAO, 1 SIEW MAI, 1 pork ribs, Custard bun, mini plate of fried noodle, and this chillie-the kind in yong tau foo one...and he was beside me.
WE WERE SHARING A TABLE!! Of course, other than the fact that the mantou was really fresh and nice. That's all. And yes, I only ate like 1/4 of the corn porridge. And I was starring hard at the har gao, which CC constantly assured me it wasnt anywhere delicious but still, he did not stop eating. And he said the fried noodles smelled sour, still I see him put a lot of chilli and he was obviously enjoying his noodles.
I left earlier back to my room to rest. I was so so so so hungry at 6pm. I decided that if i were to wait for YB to dabao porridge for me, I will most likely die and faint. I woke up and went to my self made pantry. There were the cup noodles, the digestive biscuits and pringles.
Cup noodles, too much oil, and anyway the portion was too big, I cant possibly eat just noodles with hot water without adding the very oily seasoning so I decided, next.
The digestive biscuit was good except that it had milk contents inside and I dun think i wanna camp in the toilet for another night.
Pringles. I began to read the contents, potato, vegetable oil extract, salt... oh, when i saw the word salt, plus the fact that the other ingredients didnt seem as destructive, there I made my choice. Pringles. Salt is good because that was what my body needed with all the diarrhoea.
I chose original to keep things simple.
Haha.. that was one mini analysis i did yesterday. I can imagine how some of you must be thinking who eats potato chips while having stomach flu? But you see, i did do an analysis. hahah.. just to self console.
Anyway, I didnt make any more bathroom calls. I guess I survived!
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
A....gain
Stomach flu again...
Great, the last trip i had to transit beijing i kenna stomach flu also. Is it you chouchou? haha... Must be you.
Should i go see doc later = go to the hospital and go on drip
OR
Should i endure and see what happens as I continue to self medicate?
I cant believe I am exactly 7 days away from my GMAT.
And i cant believe as well, how ill prepared I am! ! ARGGhhhh
Still cant tie the loose ends up. I gotta leave this friday. Things have to get somewhere chinese folks! Time wait for no man.
Great, the last trip i had to transit beijing i kenna stomach flu also. Is it you chouchou? haha... Must be you.
Should i go see doc later = go to the hospital and go on drip
OR
Should i endure and see what happens as I continue to self medicate?
I cant believe I am exactly 7 days away from my GMAT.
And i cant believe as well, how ill prepared I am! ! ARGGhhhh
Still cant tie the loose ends up. I gotta leave this friday. Things have to get somewhere chinese folks! Time wait for no man.
Monday, August 04, 2008
Breathe
The first official deadline of things was over.
I am now clearing up some of the aftermath. I guess when if this was a pure finance job, i wouldnt have to be so worried now. But no, this is fundamentally a HR responsibility and so I i feel i owe it to the employees. I have to make them understand and be sure of every single thing that was laid out.
Things were never so intense and so challenging. I had to liaise first, with UBS, and then there are the brokerages, Kayhian and Vickers, and there was the indirect liaison with SAFE, the foreign exchange authority in China, not the end, this not so well known bank in china, the employees, yes, I mean the pure Chinese, of which i have to translate every single thing, especially the concept, in chinese, and we are talking about financial terms, and there is the tax part that I have to handle, make a quick decision because I didnt get it when the time was up. I also had to now make sure all the relevant bosses know and understand what they are checking when they put a signature or stamp on the relevant docs. Finally, to gel everything and also so that I can show everyone a clear picture of the whole process, I need to put everything prim and proper into those flowcharts, policies, etc. From SG, to Norway, to Switzerland to China, international ya?
And so none of the weekends since I arrived passed by without me having not to think about work. It got pretty bad this weekend cos I dreamt abt my colleagues, my boss and work for two consecutive nights. I didnt know if it was the indigestion or the stress or perhaps, both, I felt pretty nauseous and my stomach was so bloated. I hate this feeling.
I cant wait for this friday. 080808, opening of Beijing Olympics and guess what? I AM transiting the city for a quick peking duck and some shopping, not sure how much of the olympics experience i would get, but surely it is cute that I get to be "THERE" on the very day. I hope the airport doesnt screw us up and that it is safe for us to do what we wanna do, and most importantly, to have our flight bring us back safely, home.
I am now clearing up some of the aftermath. I guess when if this was a pure finance job, i wouldnt have to be so worried now. But no, this is fundamentally a HR responsibility and so I i feel i owe it to the employees. I have to make them understand and be sure of every single thing that was laid out.
Things were never so intense and so challenging. I had to liaise first, with UBS, and then there are the brokerages, Kayhian and Vickers, and there was the indirect liaison with SAFE, the foreign exchange authority in China, not the end, this not so well known bank in china, the employees, yes, I mean the pure Chinese, of which i have to translate every single thing, especially the concept, in chinese, and we are talking about financial terms, and there is the tax part that I have to handle, make a quick decision because I didnt get it when the time was up. I also had to now make sure all the relevant bosses know and understand what they are checking when they put a signature or stamp on the relevant docs. Finally, to gel everything and also so that I can show everyone a clear picture of the whole process, I need to put everything prim and proper into those flowcharts, policies, etc. From SG, to Norway, to Switzerland to China, international ya?
And so none of the weekends since I arrived passed by without me having not to think about work. It got pretty bad this weekend cos I dreamt abt my colleagues, my boss and work for two consecutive nights. I didnt know if it was the indigestion or the stress or perhaps, both, I felt pretty nauseous and my stomach was so bloated. I hate this feeling.
I cant wait for this friday. 080808, opening of Beijing Olympics and guess what? I AM transiting the city for a quick peking duck and some shopping, not sure how much of the olympics experience i would get, but surely it is cute that I get to be "THERE" on the very day. I hope the airport doesnt screw us up and that it is safe for us to do what we wanna do, and most importantly, to have our flight bring us back safely, home.
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