life.
OW. as i tried to push the stupid file clip thing back on top of the entire stack of papers, it BIT my thumb.. fortunately, the skin isn't broken, i.e. no blood. unfortunately, i can see where the blood vessels have broken, i.e. big bruise.
Anyway, I had a weird sense of déjà vu as I was shuffling and filing invoices again. Yeah, just before the thumb got caught in the clip. i guess I'd probably seen it in some dream somewhere before, wearing the exact same outfit. This is quite plausible, given the limited number of office wear I own, hence the limited permutations possible. it's a 4C2*4C2 affair. I was shopping for clothes everyday for the first week and wearing whatever i bought the day before to work! :S that tells you the extent of my work wardrobe misery.
"How's work?" is the most common question, or a variant of it, being posed nowadays. I guess I should just recount the not-so-many, but seemingly interminable days of paper-shuffling at the office. The people are nice, but to an inherently lazy person, it just seems off to ask people if they have stuff for me to do. This is mostly what I've been doing, sitting around when I don't feel like getting up to ask people for stuff to do and hoping they will come along and dump stuff on me. If not, I occupy myself with newspapers periodically (hoho) and in the mornings, I facebook and check gmail. Today, I signed up for an options trading course on Friday, but I think I may pass because I'll miss my daily 10pm show!
Will try to make the following recount as interesting as possible. So, let's start from last Monday: my first day of work.
I arrived at the company where I would be spending one-odd month of my life in, with no expectations, except a slight hint at the mundaneity that would turn out to characterize my days in the office. I reported at the 17 th floor, where I was promptly ushered into a waiting room. I think a lot of my time is spent waiting – for the photocopier, for something to do, for the websites to load. Fortunately, there's internet access! (: however limited. Then I met the HR person, and another lady who brought me to the 16 th floor, which is where I'm working, set up the computer stuff and introduced me to the department head. I'm working at the IP dept, which sounds cool, but actually isn't because it's the same old thing, over and over and over again.
Since it was my first day, the "manager" showed me the basic stuff, and taught me how to use the copier and fax machines, find files, and all that. But it was barely enough to occupy the before-lunch period. We went for lunch together, since it was my first time here and I was (and am rather) clueless about the layout of the entire place. To me, it seems like one huge lump of buildings plonked randomly in the same small space, unplanned, and ugly – just look at the skyline! Or rather, the lack of it. ok, i've digressed.
Back to the topic. Yeah, it was lunch at Golden Shoe, which is quite quirkily known as Golden Shoe Car Park – I have no idea why they would name a hawker centre a car park. Then back to the office where the manager, a really nice lady, found me stuff to do. By the end of the day, I was initiated into how to draft invoices. Tuesday, I learnt how to scan files, rename and email them. Basic stuff. And I got to fax my first document I think, not very memorable as you can see. The coolest thing about the computer is it's REAL (as in non-trial) version of Adobe Acrobat, and it's the professional version! So you can really edit, bookmark and create PDFs from single/multiple files! I'm sounding like a geek, but it's seriously quite cool. So, I combined my first PDF Tuesday as well . Ohh I used another fun program, called Photoplus to edit some pics, like designs of some product. It was easy, but I guess the novelty made it fun :P
Printing and filing are like norms. Everyday, that week, I had something to print or copy or file. No biggie. I think my biggest complaint is that I don't know exactly why I'm doing something although I have to do it! It's like just follow instructions, so much so that I feel my brain rotting. Luckily, I have brain-food in the form of music homework (yeah gasp, I'm actually turning to it for solace) and books, which are much more lovely than homework!
My most detested task is the finding of files. I REALLY DON'T LIKE LOOKING FOR STUFF I DIDN'T PUT AWAY! Honestly, they need an electronic system or something. It's super hard finding files, rawr. Then, you feel awful when you can't find a file and have to turn up sheepishly empty-handed. Horrid! Not to mention the many files lying everywhere, and piled up everywhere! At least, I've discovered that a paper-shuffler's life is not for me. I refuse to work with physical files, which imho, should just be for archival, backup purposes! It's a super pain-in-the-ass to hunt for things! I can barely find my own stuff after I leave them lying around, much less, someone else's stuff in all sorts of weird places. Fine, the places aren't weird, it's just that I have to knock on doors to get into rooms that are being occupied and search the place. It's uncomfortable to look for stuff in people's places when they are around, even if you have permission! I think it's a personal space kind of thing, and probably just me being quirky.
Wednesday. I had to create some time ledger table that gave me a headache. Honestly, they should have keyed the data into a table already instead of using –spacebar- and random stuff to format it so it LOOKED like it was in a table, but was actually not and super hard to format. Maybe it got converted from something else into word…rawr who cares, it was all tiny words and super troublesome to copy-paste that I resorted to retyping everything out! ): at least it took up time. Oh, and Wednesday's lunch was skipped for a Chinatown trip. Apparently, it's their secretarial/paralegal dept's tradition to go Chinatown to buy CNY cards for their clients.. shrugs, I just went along for the ride. And we had to take the longgggg route back because it started pouring all of a sudden! How fickle, the weather.
Hmm, this reminds me, I wonder how the NS people are doing, what with all the wacky weather changes.. hopefully they are all well! Since NS seems to involve a lot of outdoors stuff, although I'm given to know that in reality, a lot of things are indoors – pampered kids.
Continued with the table until Thursday because it was so tedious. Then, I had to help with another table. But hey, all these are better than having nothing to do and ending up typing the blog entry I felt like typing so long ago but never got down to doing it. And woah, is it turning out to be a long entry!
Thursday was normal day. I can't remember anything extraordinary, honestly! And that goes for Friday. Oh wait, Friday, I had to search for stuff INSIDE files instead. Tedious stuff, and seriously, there are quite a lot of things missing when you have to look for them! Annoying. Goes to show how filing is fallible, and that even in a not-so-big firm, troublesome. I was also given the task that I managed to make last until today – taking out 2007 invoices from their respective files, arranging them in ascending chronological/numerical order (since they were originally in descending), removing the staples and finally scanning them to my email. Following which, I had to rename them as per instructions. It's a good job for multitasking – I'm almost done with my book! Not to mention, stoning. The reason I had to make my task last until today is because, the lady who gives me the majority of stuff to do is on leave. She comes back tomorrow, you have no idea how glad I am that she'll be back tomorrow! :D haha and I doubt she will either.
I feel like I have no life ): although I'm not a fan of the "life" concept, I feel like I'm not doing all that I could possibly do! Maybe I should attend that options trading thing after all, just for self-improvement purposes.. despite the cost of a tv show, which I can most probably record :P
I'll just continue blogging until the end of they day, which is due in 45 minutes?! Maybe go hide in the toilet awhile, as I did one day to sms and read out of sheer boredom. I think I managed to squirrel myself away in there for 20 minutes. The weekends weren't very exciting either, somehow I think NS people got the better deal – free food, lodging, new friends, new experiences, money, being less bored than I am (which is the main point) ;P lol.
Went for piano lesson on Saturday, after conking out on Friday because I think I'd gone to learn driving (: ohh driving is fun, although I stalled the car once or twice in the beginning because I was too eager despite having temporarily forgotten the feel of the clutch and half-clutch. He kept telling me to go slower. Boo. Anyway, the most part of the lesson was spent practicing my half-clutch: reversing and moving forward in a straight line at snail-equivalent speed. Oh, and I passed my final theory evaluation on one of these nights, and went for final theory practice. Although there was only a 2% improvement after practicing, w.r.t. my evaluation scores.
After piano lesson, I think I was too slow, so didn't manage to meet up with Jon for food or something because I'd to rush to meet my mom, grandma and aunts at Orchard Point before 3pm. Sorry! By the time I was nearing town, it was about 2.30pm. The fun thing about travelling now is that you find ways to cut transport costs due to the appalling loss of student concession:– I walked from my piano teacher's house to Tanah Merah. In truth, it was only a 10 minute walk.. Either way, I had buffet at Bird's Nest House, where we got coerced into buying 2 cans of abalone. The buffet was quite yummy (: and it wasn't that expensive. I had 3.5 desserts :D but was stuffed. Can't afford to eat too much now.. getting fat from lack of exercise! Following that was shopping at ps, and then to grandma's place for mahjong until late.
Hence, I woke up late on Sunday, went to buy groceries, cny stuff and the like then rotted at home.
Now, I'm rotting in the office! As I have been doing for the past two days. There were 3 files of invoices to complete see. So I finished 0.5 on Friday, 1 on Monday and 1 today. Removing staples is troublesome but it makes the scanning so much more easy because you can use the feeder! Which is not a pok feeder like the one in school.
Alright I'm officially bored if I'm comparing photocopiers.
Half an hour left… I think I can possibly waste it as I've wasted the previous half of the day. The only interesting thing was that I'd to go to Hong Leong Building to get something signed and when I came out it was storming. Thanks to the nice aunty who shared her umbrella with me to get across (: luckily my office is only a zebra's crossing away.. xP
Anyway, I had a weird sense of déjà vu as I was shuffling and filing invoices again. Yeah, just before the thumb got caught in the clip. i guess I'd probably seen it in some dream somewhere before, wearing the exact same outfit. This is quite plausible, given the limited number of office wear I own, hence the limited permutations possible. it's a 4C2*4C2 affair. I was shopping for clothes everyday for the first week and wearing whatever i bought the day before to work! :S that tells you the extent of my work wardrobe misery.
"How's work?" is the most common question, or a variant of it, being posed nowadays. I guess I should just recount the not-so-many, but seemingly interminable days of paper-shuffling at the office. The people are nice, but to an inherently lazy person, it just seems off to ask people if they have stuff for me to do. This is mostly what I've been doing, sitting around when I don't feel like getting up to ask people for stuff to do and hoping they will come along and dump stuff on me. If not, I occupy myself with newspapers periodically (hoho) and in the mornings, I facebook and check gmail. Today, I signed up for an options trading course on Friday, but I think I may pass because I'll miss my daily 10pm show!
Will try to make the following recount as interesting as possible. So, let's start from last Monday: my first day of work.
I arrived at the company where I would be spending one-odd month of my life in, with no expectations, except a slight hint at the mundaneity that would turn out to characterize my days in the office. I reported at the 17 th floor, where I was promptly ushered into a waiting room. I think a lot of my time is spent waiting – for the photocopier, for something to do, for the websites to load. Fortunately, there's internet access! (: however limited. Then I met the HR person, and another lady who brought me to the 16 th floor, which is where I'm working, set up the computer stuff and introduced me to the department head. I'm working at the IP dept, which sounds cool, but actually isn't because it's the same old thing, over and over and over again.
Since it was my first day, the "manager" showed me the basic stuff, and taught me how to use the copier and fax machines, find files, and all that. But it was barely enough to occupy the before-lunch period. We went for lunch together, since it was my first time here and I was (and am rather) clueless about the layout of the entire place. To me, it seems like one huge lump of buildings plonked randomly in the same small space, unplanned, and ugly – just look at the skyline! Or rather, the lack of it. ok, i've digressed.
Back to the topic. Yeah, it was lunch at Golden Shoe, which is quite quirkily known as Golden Shoe Car Park – I have no idea why they would name a hawker centre a car park. Then back to the office where the manager, a really nice lady, found me stuff to do. By the end of the day, I was initiated into how to draft invoices. Tuesday, I learnt how to scan files, rename and email them. Basic stuff. And I got to fax my first document I think, not very memorable as you can see. The coolest thing about the computer is it's REAL (as in non-trial) version of Adobe Acrobat, and it's the professional version! So you can really edit, bookmark and create PDFs from single/multiple files! I'm sounding like a geek, but it's seriously quite cool. So, I combined my first PDF Tuesday as well . Ohh I used another fun program, called Photoplus to edit some pics, like designs of some product. It was easy, but I guess the novelty made it fun :P
Printing and filing are like norms. Everyday, that week, I had something to print or copy or file. No biggie. I think my biggest complaint is that I don't know exactly why I'm doing something although I have to do it! It's like just follow instructions, so much so that I feel my brain rotting. Luckily, I have brain-food in the form of music homework (yeah gasp, I'm actually turning to it for solace) and books, which are much more lovely than homework!
My most detested task is the finding of files. I REALLY DON'T LIKE LOOKING FOR STUFF I DIDN'T PUT AWAY! Honestly, they need an electronic system or something. It's super hard finding files, rawr. Then, you feel awful when you can't find a file and have to turn up sheepishly empty-handed. Horrid! Not to mention the many files lying everywhere, and piled up everywhere! At least, I've discovered that a paper-shuffler's life is not for me. I refuse to work with physical files, which imho, should just be for archival, backup purposes! It's a super pain-in-the-ass to hunt for things! I can barely find my own stuff after I leave them lying around, much less, someone else's stuff in all sorts of weird places. Fine, the places aren't weird, it's just that I have to knock on doors to get into rooms that are being occupied and search the place. It's uncomfortable to look for stuff in people's places when they are around, even if you have permission! I think it's a personal space kind of thing, and probably just me being quirky.
Wednesday. I had to create some time ledger table that gave me a headache. Honestly, they should have keyed the data into a table already instead of using –spacebar- and random stuff to format it so it LOOKED like it was in a table, but was actually not and super hard to format. Maybe it got converted from something else into word…rawr who cares, it was all tiny words and super troublesome to copy-paste that I resorted to retyping everything out! ): at least it took up time. Oh, and Wednesday's lunch was skipped for a Chinatown trip. Apparently, it's their secretarial/paralegal dept's tradition to go Chinatown to buy CNY cards for their clients.. shrugs, I just went along for the ride. And we had to take the longgggg route back because it started pouring all of a sudden! How fickle, the weather.
Hmm, this reminds me, I wonder how the NS people are doing, what with all the wacky weather changes.. hopefully they are all well! Since NS seems to involve a lot of outdoors stuff, although I'm given to know that in reality, a lot of things are indoors – pampered kids.
Continued with the table until Thursday because it was so tedious. Then, I had to help with another table. But hey, all these are better than having nothing to do and ending up typing the blog entry I felt like typing so long ago but never got down to doing it. And woah, is it turning out to be a long entry!
Thursday was normal day. I can't remember anything extraordinary, honestly! And that goes for Friday. Oh wait, Friday, I had to search for stuff INSIDE files instead. Tedious stuff, and seriously, there are quite a lot of things missing when you have to look for them! Annoying. Goes to show how filing is fallible, and that even in a not-so-big firm, troublesome. I was also given the task that I managed to make last until today – taking out 2007 invoices from their respective files, arranging them in ascending chronological/numerical order (since they were originally in descending), removing the staples and finally scanning them to my email. Following which, I had to rename them as per instructions. It's a good job for multitasking – I'm almost done with my book! Not to mention, stoning. The reason I had to make my task last until today is because, the lady who gives me the majority of stuff to do is on leave. She comes back tomorrow, you have no idea how glad I am that she'll be back tomorrow! :D haha and I doubt she will either.
I feel like I have no life ): although I'm not a fan of the "life" concept, I feel like I'm not doing all that I could possibly do! Maybe I should attend that options trading thing after all, just for self-improvement purposes.. despite the cost of a tv show, which I can most probably record :P
I'll just continue blogging until the end of they day, which is due in 45 minutes?! Maybe go hide in the toilet awhile, as I did one day to sms and read out of sheer boredom. I think I managed to squirrel myself away in there for 20 minutes. The weekends weren't very exciting either, somehow I think NS people got the better deal – free food, lodging, new friends, new experiences, money, being less bored than I am (which is the main point) ;P lol.
Went for piano lesson on Saturday, after conking out on Friday because I think I'd gone to learn driving (: ohh driving is fun, although I stalled the car once or twice in the beginning because I was too eager despite having temporarily forgotten the feel of the clutch and half-clutch. He kept telling me to go slower. Boo. Anyway, the most part of the lesson was spent practicing my half-clutch: reversing and moving forward in a straight line at snail-equivalent speed. Oh, and I passed my final theory evaluation on one of these nights, and went for final theory practice. Although there was only a 2% improvement after practicing, w.r.t. my evaluation scores.
After piano lesson, I think I was too slow, so didn't manage to meet up with Jon for food or something because I'd to rush to meet my mom, grandma and aunts at Orchard Point before 3pm. Sorry! By the time I was nearing town, it was about 2.30pm. The fun thing about travelling now is that you find ways to cut transport costs due to the appalling loss of student concession:– I walked from my piano teacher's house to Tanah Merah. In truth, it was only a 10 minute walk.. Either way, I had buffet at Bird's Nest House, where we got coerced into buying 2 cans of abalone. The buffet was quite yummy (: and it wasn't that expensive. I had 3.5 desserts :D but was stuffed. Can't afford to eat too much now.. getting fat from lack of exercise! Following that was shopping at ps, and then to grandma's place for mahjong until late.
Hence, I woke up late on Sunday, went to buy groceries, cny stuff and the like then rotted at home.
Now, I'm rotting in the office! As I have been doing for the past two days. There were 3 files of invoices to complete see. So I finished 0.5 on Friday, 1 on Monday and 1 today. Removing staples is troublesome but it makes the scanning so much more easy because you can use the feeder! Which is not a pok feeder like the one in school.
Alright I'm officially bored if I'm comparing photocopiers.
Half an hour left… I think I can possibly waste it as I've wasted the previous half of the day. The only interesting thing was that I'd to go to Hong Leong Building to get something signed and when I came out it was storming. Thanks to the nice aunty who shared her umbrella with me to get across (: luckily my office is only a zebra's crossing away.. xP
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