Week 3

Wow, another fast week... it was just like yesterday when I just posted my Week 2 entry... This is good cos before I knew it the year will be gone..

I would say that this is a good week, I finally managed to contact Zhu, got my increment and second part of my bonus, finish up a whole chunk of outstanding work and also managed to clock lots of OT (extra $$$!).

For a start, I received a surprise SMS from Zhu on tuesday morning. Apparently she was having problems with the receiver of her phone, which is why she can picked up call. She said she will get it fixed soon and wish me well. She SMSed me on wednesday night for a chat.. we had a long chat and talk a lot about personal things.. emm, we agreed that both of us should moved on and try to know more people.. ya, even when she was saying that, I could sensed that she wished that our circumstances were a bit different.. sad.. but emm, we have to move on lor... Zhu is getting on well, I congrats her on getting the award and we talked about her plans to open a shop and getting a driving license.. I asked her if she is off her busy schedule and she said yes, so I told her that I will resume calling her once or twice a week but emm, she told me no need to nd spend my time calling someone else.. once a month will do... emm.. o.k lor.. like I said not too bad lah, at least you still got a friend.. I told her I am not looking to get attached in the long run, which probably will be at least for the first half of the year as I am tied up with lots of work.. emm, let's hope some miracle appears... but emm, I still have to move on and not get too frustrated over this...

I am busy the whole week resolving the canteen issues and some compliance issues with the plant.. apparently there are lots of things that are missing but emm, no one knew it or just ignore it until I start digging them out.. emm, anyway, no point talking about the past, done or not done.. we have to move on and ensure it is done now! I was worried about the status of some documents and procedures that was supposed to be submitted but emm, after doing an audit, I find that it is not so bad after all, not a lot of the documents are missing, so emm, saved me some time to complete the filing process.. time is probably not something that is on my side.. everyday when I go to work, I would try to schedule my time to do different things but emm, guess what, some job requires a longer time that what I expected, this did not help with all the ad-hoc meetings and ground issues coming up.. still got some outstanding things that need to be updated, like that say, if you update regularly then it will be o.k, but if you left the updating undone for weeks, that is going to be a chore extracting all the information.. emm, except for this, I think the rest of my work is going on well.. at least that is what I hope for..

I did not get my appraisal letter unlike all my colleagues who have got them since the start of the month.. but emm, who cares.. when I check my pay on Friday, I noted that I have got an increase in my hourly rate (this is how MNC calculate their payroll)... the bonus was about $50 short of what I calculated but emm, still not too bad... for those who think that I am rich now since I got my bonus then you are wrong.. after calculation, I am still short of a couple of hundred dollars to pay my mom and someone whom I owe money to.. have to find money soon to clear this sum.. I have not been spending a lot recently but emm, I guess it is becos I kinda overspent a bit in December which is why this is now coming back to haunt me... planned to clear this sum by selling off some cards on Ebay.. at least it will help a bit...

I met up with Mr Mike on friday evening at AMK, took a real long bus ride from Bedok to AMK, from one interchange to another.. it was not too bad as I like bus rides.. especially long ones.. he got some cards from China to sell me.. ended up spending $300+ and also paid him the $150 I owe him so emm, $450 in all.. which is maybe why I got a slight shortfall on my this month's budget.. not sure if I can recouped all but emm,doing auctions is my hobby emm, and you never know what price it will sell for.. Mr Mike is becoming a father soon.. in March to be precise.. congrats to him.. we chatted for a while about money, the society, the government and also about my love life.. hahahah.. then I realised it is almost 8:30 liao and MR Mike and I have to rushed back to catch the Chinese Serial on Channel 8, the one starring Li Nanxing..

There are also some unhappy things happening during the week, things like the lousy football session, the bloody taxi driver, the colleague who just dun want to co-operation, the complain to the management and emm... some other stuff which I think I would rather forget.. have to stay positive right?... till next week.. have a great week everyone who is reading this..