My take on work...

If I have a choice, I want to stay in school forever. This internship, while interesting at times and slightly beneficial has gotten me thinking A LOT! Given that this is a big organisation I'm working for, I just think that there are many layers to clear before you can do something.

On top of that, I just think that it is very hard to send msg across. Like in school, if you want something done, you would do it yourself if necessary. But in an organisation, you would first have to feedback to the relevant dept, who may/may not pass on the msg and yada yada yada... so...

The thing is I spent weeks doing something, only to run simple tests on them. Or not even test... it is like writing a long and complicated formula with loads of macros only to calculate perhpas what '1+1='. It just seems like a lot of wasted effort. Where are the crunching numbers that I am supposed to interpret? Somehow, this dept simplifies a lot of things I learnt. Which further highlights the difference between school and work. Things are just different. Or maybe I just have this thought that work life is challenging and mind boggling. Right.. I spend one qurter of my time there using my brains and the other three quarters doing brainless work.

I knocked on 20 doors today. Only 6 of them opened. Wahlaoz... I can just so see this line in my internship report.

"I managed to get hands-on experience in doing research as I was sent to conduct a door to door survey."

Yeah... so that was what I was doing in Woodlands for two and a half hours tonight. And did i mention I was in heels cause I went after work?

The good thing? I get tomorrow off... It is fun if more people opend up. At least I won't have to waste time to make another trip there again. Sigheth... Better luck this weekend ba...

Which reminds me this weekend is kinda packed cause I have to go for a blood test and Char's concert. Squeeze in more knocking... and exchange research, completing of composition plus planning programmes for camp and *poof* I can so see my weekend evaporating.

work is tiring... and routine... and mundane... and repetitive...

and there are just so many more adjectives i can use to describe work.

Ok.. plus.. the World Cup is here... so I've been juggling my time between catching matches, or snippets of it, playing Zuma and trying ot get a high score, meetings and dinners with friends after work. Hence, this explains why my blog has been so stagnent.

I mean there is nothign much to blog about work. Don't think you all wanna hear about how I have to do data entry and coding for 7 open ended questions for 1000 over responses. And you won't believe how weird and unbelievable some of the responses can be! and...

Ok.. I guess I just managed to described a bit of my work.

Ya.. and now to a weekend of rotting before the whole routine starts again on Monday...

I realised I haven't updated for eons. Just tired after work. Plus meetings after work, movie outings, renewed interest in maple story together with live telecast of French Open has kinda kept me off the Internet and MSN the past few weeks.

This is actually a rather old post. Wrote it in Wed but blogger wasn’t being cooperative... It didn't let me blog about Da Vinci Code.

Caught Da Vinci Code with Fran earlier… Well, there are instances where I think the pen is mightier than the sword. This was one of it. Perhaps certain things are just more exciting when you read about it happening instead of watching it. Or maybe words just make certain scenes sound better. Maybe it was due to anticipation, thus, the movie felt a little flat. There was no climax. Just like telling a story.

Also, the movie missed out on some explanation, changing a bit of the details here and there. Went for the movie despite the not so good reviews. It was ok I guess. I didn’t really regret because I felt as if I was transported to Europe for 2.5 hours, getting glimpse of the Louvre and other sights.

As for the controversial storyline… well… despite all the protests and calls to ban the film, I would put it down to a work of fiction, by an over-imaginative author, who can put one and one together to make three. Honestly, if people cannot discern between fact and fiction, and as a result, lose faith in their religion after watching the show, it just illustrates that they aren’t really in it.

Hmmm.. I wanna watch XMen 3… and Over the Hedge! Oh… and there’s Pirates 3. I didn’t catch 2.. but 3 looks exciting. Btw, as we were waiting for the movie to start, they showed a trailer for the new James Bond movie. Have to say that I think that Pierce Brosnan looks so much better compared to the new 007. But we shall see…

So many movies.. so little time! Spent Saturday slacking. Was supposed to either go cyclig with Angie or catch a concert with Sharon. Sad to say, I didn't do both... woke up at 1 plus and decided not to go cycling. and I kinda slacked the day away...

It's time to sleep...