I had expected a busy time ahead, calls at work comes hammering in, as many new client bought adsl over christmas and only connecting up now. Late January was my turn to take annual leave. My brother and i went to Sydney to visit friends and relatives. One of my relative, Mr KT, is engaged to his girlfriend, who he had a relationship with for four years. To me that is wonderful news.
The trip was mostly spent in the rain. We saw most of the tourist spots. Overall a splendid four day trip. When i got back to Melbourne i had cleaned up my desk, my wardrobe, school notes, and updated my CV. I did my best to get enough regular sleep. Also attended a dinner for library graduates organised by graduates.
Febraury 2006
Love was no where in the air. My brother had relationship difficulty with his girlfriend who lives oversea [her home country is Thailand]. His girlfriend has no plans to come back to Australia, even for a visit and it has been 2 years. Oh well. My sister's depression has lighten but not alleviated. Now she is thinking of taking up a course in "make up". Which gives us hope that she feeling better about herself. While i am back at work and the routine of things. No love for me either. Life is good though. I'm healthy and happy, what more can i ask?
March 2006
My sister bought two RPG games called, [1]Phantom blade and [2]Atelier Iris: external mana. I am so HOOKED onto Atelier Iris, i played it everyday before and after work. lol. I even wake up early to play the game. The storyline is interesting and the side quests are puzzling but cute. Oh i love it so much. I have gone pale because i am indoors so much.
Then one day I decided to clean the mould on the bath room ceiling and by Sunday morning my upper left backside felt extreme pain. I couldn't move my left side properly that Sunday morning. I had to call in sick. Mom took me to see a Chinese medicine specialist to examine my physical pain. They said a few muscles was strained. I can't sleep on my left side for long periods of time and was advised occasionally the pain acts up. Sweet. Both the specialist and my mom laughed at my cleaning ceiling skills and that i'm to avoid cleaning ceilings for this year. Ha ha
April 2006
Doing lots of overtime to earn some $$$ for mid year sales. We really want to buy those PS2 stuff soon. Ms FHS, Mr SR and I spent a lot of time together during overtime in building 565. We have gotten to know each other much more now. There is something about email that can't replace human social interaction. The warmth perhaps? We realised we need to synchronise our day off to hang out and chill.
May 2006
24th of May we (Ms FHS and Mr SR including my sister) indeed hung out. However, there were hitches and it all nearly went haywire. Very laughable. Involved a great deal of patience from all parties.
At 12 noon my sister and i arrived at Mr SR suburb and sussed out the local shops except the mall, by then Mr SR sms me steps to head over to wait at his place for Ms FHS to arrive. We spent four hours waiting for Ms FHS. Funny enough Ms FHS was in another eastern suburb around 2pm she woke up but as she boarded the train she left Mr SR mobile phone number behind, so she headed off to the city to our work place and fetch the number from work email records. She then took the train to Mr SR suburb after a few directions given via email. Four hours later she arrived and we altogether left for Knox city to watch the movie "Over the hedge", which was very cute by the way. We had pizza for dinner, the first waiteress forgot our eating utensils, so i asked for them and head waiter joked about eating it with our hands and then gave them to us. After dinner we headed back to Mr SR place to meet his significant other who just came home after work. A wonderful day spent with friends. We now advise Ms FHS to carry a mobile phone from now on. lol.
June 2006
This month was quiet, continued overtime work, played PS2 Sim2, GTA: Vice City and San Andreas, and Tomb raider: legend. My computer crashed and was reformatted. We now back up everything to usb mass storage. I attended Ms DL her 21st birthday party at Suede. Australia lost to Italy and they didn't make it to the semi finals, at least Socceros did better this time round in the World Cup.
July 2006
Ah, this is more of a social month, it kicks off with me having another annual leave this time it is three weeks.
Week 1: I went to see an acupuncturist about my shoulder and dentist about my extra teeth growing behind my wisdom tooth. Dentist found three holes in my teeth required fillings. The extra tooth will be getting x-ray in August due to dentist appointment is booked out. While the local community health centre has 3 years waiting list. My friend Ms KL and I watched a movie, "the break up".
Weeks 2: Visited Ms FHS and Mr SR at work then we went out for drinks at Taxi (Fed SQ). My friend Ms KL and I watch DVD "family stone" and "kiss kiss bang bang" and cooked home made pizza.
Week3: Visited my referees and catched up with them. My first library job interview, of all things it was for RMIT. I couldn't believe i was short listed. Too bad i didn't get the job even though they contacted my referees. Usually when new employer calls your referees it means 90% you will get the job. However, it is okay, as the experience was something i will keep forever. It is proof that i am indeed a valid candidate after all.
My RMIT library assistant interview memo [as i did not get the job - July 2006].
*Learn to tailor your interview around the job description and also bring that one with with you too!
*Effective communication demo eg. working as a team on a project.
*Automated system use = Question, which areas of software have you used and in which job?
*Relationship = Question, how do you deal with difficult/rude staff?
*Do not ask about "on-the-job training", as you must show you can do it on your own, and besides they don't want to know what you cannot do for them.
Same week my sister and i hanged out with Mr SR watching American shows, lent him PS2 Sim 2 game, and chatted about selling items on Ebay. Then in the evening i went off to Alia NewGrad seminar about working in different library sectors.
August 2006
Hee hee. My family have been watching Big Brother 2006 and Jamie was the winner. My sister and i watched the movies "the lake house" and "pirate of the carribean: dead man's chest". Both very moving and spectacular performances. I enjoyed them both.
Tooth are the most vulnerable of all bones, as they are easy pulled out, so i advise you maintain and look after them. I just can't believe at the age of 25 that i will be growing another extra tooth yet it is one i cannot reach to clean. A pain in the butt. Now i'm free at the age of 26. Yay. 7 August 2006 i had my extra growing wisdom tooth taken out; overall quick and painless. My dentist used "the wand plus" technique to provide pain free anaesthetic and just numbed the tooth in question. Neato.
September 2006
I had resigned my job of 18 months at TeleTech P/L. It feels sad but I have always wanted a library related job and to nab one after 8 months of searching and applying is wonderful. Civica won me over with a full time job. On my 2nd week at the new job I played host to 2 Taiwan clients of ours for 2 weeks. The Taiwan clients came for training on our LMS product. This helpdesk job is more than just sitting by the phone. There is plenty to learn and do that's for sure. Such as learning to claim dinner and travel fare as business expense as I have never done that before, and now i understand the role of receipts in the world of conducting business. Oh...we have cab vouchers too. Oh gosh. So cool. This job opens a new world for me.
October 2006
We have our own mailing list called SPUN. This month we have a very special once a year SPUN conference. At the office we held a cocktail party for it. Here I met many of our wonderful clients and got the chance to hear their thoughts on our LMS product. Super cool. I totally enjoyed the experience and I do look forward to getting to know our clients and working together to make our LMS product even better.
2 more Taiwan clients arrived for training. This time they focused on how to customise the LMS product. However, i am not playing host instead i'm expected to focus on looking at SR cases instead.
My sister and I watched the movie "The devil wears Prada". It skips a couple of scenes from the book, shows Andy being hired by Miranda too early on, even added a love scene here and there, which is cool; overall the movie was funny, glamorous, and realistic in the way some bosses are bullies especially in the world of fashion. I too have endured some insult like Andy and it does hurt me personally when people attack my sense of taste in clothing items and weight.
My brother has got a new job as Front Office manager with Homes @ Flinders (service apartments) at end of September but he quit mid-October due to lack of support and disorganised in staffing. Oh well.
November 2006
Mimi (the cat) is 15 years old now.
My horse 'Pop rock' number 12 in the Melbourne Cup came 2nd place. Not bad huh? Delta Blues won 1st place.
I had a dental appointment to have a check up. I have discovered that i'm a 'mouth breather' by default, meaning when i fall asleep i would find myself sleeping with my mouth open. Dentist said this habit stems from my mouth's formation. My uper teeth protrudes and causing the mouth to open by default. Well, i do have a shit nose; half the time it is runny or not working yet it can pick up the scent of a smoker nearby with disgust. With this discovery we do believe due to this open mouth business my front teeth pores are left exposed and unable to receive moisture and protective coating from my saliva. Also with the teeth pores open it allows food stain to enter my teeth enamel hence brown stains. The dentist recommends i undergo cleansing treatment, polish, and new fillings be made to the teeth.
Apparently, i'm missing two bottom front teeth that never grew when i was a child. Dentist said you never know they might erupt in the future. What a scary thought. Oh, i'll be needing my back teeth's cavity cleaned and filled, x-ray screening of all my teeth for decay. I'm gonna be broke but i'll have my healthy teeth.
My cousin Mr KT and his financee finally got married this month. My new job doesn't allow me to take leave during probabtionary period. However, their wedding reception was beautiful, well judging from the photos anyway. Ms VT another cousin of mine is pregnant. Blessed news this month.
December 2006
After 2 months my friend KL and me manage to arrange a dinner to catch up and celebrate her birthday. We ate at "Stone grill" located in China town. We had 2 mocktails; pink fantasia and green tea shake. For entree grillled calamari with rocket salad and another dish Gyu ingemaki. The main meal was chicken-pork-beef on skewers cooked on a stone that is 400 celsius HOT with entree sashmi. All was very Nice and Yummy!
My birthday was on the same day Civ [my new work place] had held luncheon with Victorian customers and xmas party with Civ staff, whom some of them had come over from USA and Singapore to join us in the celebration. It was al good fun.
Then on the weekend i had yum cha in Prahran with my sister, mom, and dad; my brother had to work that day. Mid December had dinner at SOS
with Doh.boy and SweetSadist77. We even hanged out in the cold in New Quay only to find Gremlin II shown on bad yet large screen TV, mucked/posed with fluro lighted street sculptures, and every cool bar was booked out for xmas party. Oh well we had fun alright.
Civ [my new work place] had internal staff re-structuring [dumping middle managers] and reporting levels. We as an organisation are still going through our growing pains/motions [new workflow for every team] and a whole heap is a work in progress [change in work process and service delivery direction].
Happy New Year
L1 HD -> L2 T.S/T.A -> DT;Only L2 can communicate with DT about cases. My duties were changed yet badly informed/delivered - it took two
meetings [28/DEC/2006 and 22/JAN/2007] and many disputes to arrive to the right conculsion and concensus about which cases goes where based
on what conditions in greater/full detail, all pushed by my request painfully. I can accept changes but some people like being damn vague
than being meticulous on details.
