I cannot believe that I had not blogged for nearly a month already! Its quite shameful, especially counting the fact that I used to log in twice every week! If not for the 'gentle' reminder from Spy P to update my blog soon, I would have really not found the time to write entries again. But still, it feels good to know that my good friends continue to visit my blog regularly, even if one of the reasons for doing so is to read the blogs linked on my page (thanks hah, Spy P).

Updates updates! Hmmm...what shall I write? Besides my new job, there's not really much going on in my life right now. Boring hor? The first 2 weeks of Dec was absolutely stressful and crazy. There were a lot of events to plan during that period, and I must say the stuffs I learnt during the process were quite enlightening. There were really quite a lot of issues to take care of, just for one event alone. And sometimes, I really did not know the best way to handle the situation at all! How do you cater food for a session when you don't even know what the turnout will be like? What do you do when the speakers you invited to the event rejects you? What do you say during a event when your kind boss suddenly entrust the role of emcee to your face, and you don't have the time to prepare any scripts at all? And during important meetings involving the top top management, what do you say when your big shot boss ask for some event statistics and you are unable to provide it at that moment?

Seriously, I'm beginning to believe that to do well in this posting, I MUST LEARN TO SMOKE MY WAY THROUGH!!!! Sometimes hor, it really doesn't pay to be honest and just say you don't know. No matter what, still must die die reproduce some intelligent (and believable!) answer to your boss and look as if you really know what you are saying. In other words, must know how to ACT! Xiong right? Best part, this boss of mine have the irritating habit of popping new tasks/events on your table, without giving you any preparation time and fully expecting good results at the end of the day. You tell me lah, how to come up with good execution when here, I'm already drowning in all the current work, and you still add on to my burden with even more tough duties? And hor, most of my officers are clearing their leave during this festive season, so its quite difficult to get them to help me, and I also don't have the heart to ask them to cancel their leave lah. What to do, sacrifice my own leave lor. Fortunately, its not a lot lah, only about 4 days left. Won't lugi so much.

But things are slowly getting better now, as I begin get a better idea of my entire work portfolio and the expectations from my boss. There were some painful lessons learnt, but I guess that cannot be helped and I really count myself fortunate that I have 4 good assistants helping to share my workload and stress! I've also gotten used to juggling many tasks all at one time, and constantly tracking the progress of each and every one of them. Ms Prada was right to advise me that when all the undone stuffs seem to be equally urgent, I would need to stop for a while and really consider how to prioritise the tasks and get the important ones done first. Of course my analysis hasn't been accurate all the time, but I make mistakes and learn and try not to make the same mistakes again. There were times I even had nightmares about my work. Haha.

The people at my new workplace are quite nice though. Most are rather young (sheesh!) and I find myself being the 4th oldest in the office. Sigh...I was one of the youngest in my former place leh. Most times, we lunch in and the guys would talk lots of crap and make the rest of us laugh a lot during the meals. And one of our favourite topic....MY BOSS. Aiyah, its quite sad one. He's really unpopular among the office people and he's being known to rebuke some of the boys quite loudly whenever they don't do things they way he wanted it. Fortunately, he seldom scolds the females. But there was once where I made a careless mistake (due to my forgetfulness) and a colleague (JJ) kena-ed his harsh words because of it. I felt so guilty leh and all I could do was to keep apologising to JJ. Luckily he didn't hold it against me lah. But still feel so 过意不去...sigh! Must try not to do that again. SO PAISEH!!!

So besides work (shall not talk about it anymore), its just flute liao. No more baking and less choir practices. I figure I couldn't handle both flute practices and choir at the same time. Too taxing and I would leave very little personal time for myself if I were to devote some of my precious after-office hours to both activities. Already, I'm arriving at my office much earlier than the last posting, and leaving it much later too. Sometimes when I had reached home and taken my dinner, I really have to force myself to pick up the flute and go through the boring drills and songs. Its quite a chore at times, when all you want to do is to chill out in front of the TV. Fortunately, I'm continuing to progress rather well in the instrument and Andy had remarked that he's quite pleased at the rate I'm improving in my basic techniques, which is 气息 and 音色. I've not really considered how far I want to go at this stage, but think Andy will kill me if I were to say I want to stop now. And anyway I won't lah, cos this would mean all the hard work I've put in for the past 1 year would have gone to waste. Its not easy to build up the 丹田 power and I know once I stop practice, it would go downhill immediately, cos my foundation is still not that stable mah. Currently he's trying me out on a Grade 8 piece. I told him he was crazy. Think I'm prodigy arh? But still must give it a shot, though its like super duper tough lor. Its no longer just playing the score as its written. Now, I'm expected to add in the rudiments and various impressive techniques to 点缀 the score. So damn 麻烦 lor. Learn piano so easy, just follow what's written. Chinese music, nooooo....cannot just follow. Too simple liao. Must be imaginative and put in your own flavour and style. Xiao lah.

So anyway, looks like this entry is going to be the longest I've ever written. One last thing to add lah. Bought the Korean drama 'My Girl' last Sun at Carrefour. Was told it's good, though not as good as 宫 lah.

Just finished watching the entire show today. Having post-drama blues as usual.