first day at work

Well...it's all gone now. No more hols. No more sleeping in till 12. No more sleeping late at night. All my weekdays GONE. Just like that.


sigh..



SIGH........



(I'll get over it...eventually).


I had induction and training today. Boring, naturally. Well...my butt cheeks hurt from sitting down for so long. I was prepared to see a reflexologist, not a butt-o-logist.

I must say though...the lobby at KPMG is pretty impressive. It's like walking into an antique building with a refurbished modern interior. It's even got its own pool with square blocks sitting in it and water running down a glass panel at the other end. And the lifts have glass fronts so you can look opposite or into each office level. It's definitely got that 'wow' factor when you first walk in.

And the kitchens...stylish furniture. Almost like someone had their kitchen furniture chosen by an interior designer. The only thing that wasn't very convenient was the toilets. It's so hard to find one in that building!!!

hols down the toilet

Last night I told myself that I'd get up when the alarm rings, not 10 minutes after the alarm rings.

Who was I kidding??

It didn't happen. Probably won't happen tomorrow either. Guess I'll just have to go back to setting the alarm a little bit earlier than when I should be getting up to delude myself into believing that I have an extra 10 minutes of sleep.

Don't ask me how that works. Maybe I'm just weird. But that's not new.


Anyway...my first day at Pricewaterhouse Coopers today. It was only induction and training which was quite full on. Took the whole day. But I was told that the complete induction takes two weeks. Now that's long.

Today, I got:-

1. A name tag
2. A visitor's pass (to allow access)
3. A laptop (IBM-not a fashion statement altho i think it's one of the latest). It came in a backpack with my name attached to it
4. A buddy (to attend to my every whim and fancy...I wish!)

So tomorrow...I really start working. 8.45am. Why can't they make it 9am?? Updates soon. Hopefully.

I'm beat.

Work sure takes a lot out of you. It's great when the adrenaline kicks in and you get pumped up but then after a while it's just plain tiring.

I need a massage.

Today, I learnt a few things.

1. Crossword puzzles take forever to do
2. Never tilt a wite-out bottle towards yourself if you're trying to see if its empty
3. Hot water works wonders on wite-out spillages*

*excludes spillages on pictures and documents.

lucky to be me

WHee!! I'm work free for another semester. Well office work that is. It's back to book-hugging now. (tune in to D's book-hugging adventures starting 26/02/07)

Today was my last day at Amcor. It sure was a quick 12 weeks. I can hang up my business suits and start wearing normal clothes again. =) The best part is that I don't have to get up at 7.30 monday to friday.Ok...I was exaggerating a fair bit. work is not all that bad so much so that I'm happy to leave. It's just exhausting. I want my student life back (and for a few more years). But today was great. They all made a big fuss of me leaving. like I was royalty a VIP. Most of today was about me and I was only there for 3 months.

Coz I won't be able to make it to lunch at the Grand Hotel tomorrow (they're going bowling after that...relaxation day for employees), we had this small lunch at the nearby shopping centre while gossiping about stuff...a farewell lunch type-of-thing. Can't believe I'm going to miss lunch and bowling...when it's on the company.


Then when I least expected it, my manager had the whole group come round to my office (a bit of a squeeze) for a little farewell speech, and then I got this:




A cute leaving card...




...that doubles up as a cert with a few messages in it



And this:




a gift card for use in a Sanity music/dvd store




AUD$80.00 worth of music and movies!!! 0.0


My jaw literally dropped when I opened it. I pretty much got the full treatment of an actual employee who's leaving and I'm only a student.

Tell you what...I consider myself lucky to have spent my summer holiday working at Amcor. I've learnt heaps of stuff and gained a bit of experience not to mention getting to know quite a few really nice people.

The fruit baskets will be sorely missed. As well as choccy-biscuit fridays and the morning tea's and lunches. Most of all, my co-workers.

CNY? What CNY??!!

Chinese New Year here can't be compared to that in Brunei. The atmosphere here is like any other day (except if you happen to be in Chinatown) plus it isn't really recognized here which means there isn't a public holiday for CNY.

okay...maybe i haven't really made an effort to go around and watch some lion dances. I happen to know that there was a lion dance at Crown on saturday night, which of course I didn't bother to go. The last time I saw one here was 2 years ago, under the hot sun.

But that's besides the point. See...I don't get to visit relatives/friends, or get any ang paus (kind of feel a bit old for that), or get invited to open houses. At least i had some sort of a reunion dinner last saturday night. If you can call it a reunion dinner.

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3 more days 2 1/2 days and i'm off work!! No more sitting in front of a computer and fiddling with spreadsheets or formulas or figures. =) I'll probably miss it a little but hey, I want my student life back.

It's way more fun being a student that working full-time. Anyone who's been working full-time for more than 5 years can vouch for that. The only problem with being a student is that you're always broke.

not enough $$$

or no $$$ at all. when you're working, at least you don't have to worry too much about your bank account...unless it has a hole as huge as the ozone layer or your cash inflow rate < cash outflow rate.

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Random speak:

Melbourne city council has taken small steps toward recognizing same sex relationships according to the age today. I don't have anything against gay people but I have to say that the photo of the two gay accountants was rather gross.

Have you realized that post-911, you're guaranteed a slot of either war or terrorism or both on major news channels like BBC and CNN? It's usually the first topic on the main headlines. Which pretty much tells us what the world has come to (or how much emphasis the media puts on the topic). We humans (or the war-loving human species) will never learn to make peace. If it isn't Hitler and his Nazi's, it's the Japanese. If it's not them, then it's the US and Iraq.

I don't reckon Saddam's execution did anything for the world except perhaps to show that the US likes to be in power and to signify a milestone in the war against iraq. And also for the Iraqi's...first step towards democracy. Then again, it was Saddam who built up his country's economy in the 1970's.

For me, however...life has not changed whatsoever by the execution of some president.

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On a lighter note, i wasn't feeling too good today so i took a half-day off work. My manager said not to bother coming in tomorrow if i'm still not feeling so well. Temptation.

*must...resist...temptation*

Best actress award: Dame Helen Mirren
I want to watch The Queen.

So much for trying to rent/buy dvd's. Renting one dvd costs as much as buying a pirated one. Well...at least the quality is better. And I don't plan to buy pirated dvd's anyway.

bit too late, no?

I finally had my first OHS induction in a corporate environment yesterday. 9 weeks and a bit is a little too late for that, don't you think? Considering i'll be leaving in about 2 and a half weeks. But at least i got to watch a health and safety powerpoint (and escape an hour of work).

The video really wasn't bad at all. Lots of exaggerations but hey, at least it cracked me up. The lady-who-got-cut-with-a-blade scene was good. One deep gash from being unbelievably careless (and stupid). Some of the footages were exagerrated to the point where you'd imagine the "actors" as cartoon characters.

maybe they'll be a fire drill before i finish up. that'd be so cool.

apart from that...i'd have to scribble a no, thank you on the induction sheet where it asks if i'm interested in joining the safety comittee.