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What have I been up to?
posted : Friday, May 01, 2015
As opposed to the usual "updates" title hahah.
(Korea trip posts mostly completed, just waiting to upload photos and captioning so they should start appearing in a backdated manner)
As usual this sort of post will be dominated by work-related stuff.
I realized I have not really mentioned about my new role at work here. Partly coz I wasn't sure how much I can say anyway. Or how much I can complain about.
Boss A from another team resigned and my boss was moved to replace him. My team was thus, headless and in a move that set quite a few tongues wagging, I was tasked to take over. Well, sort of - my title was unchanged officially coz after all, I am pretty inexperienced for the job and I have been staying rather low key throughout my 2.5 years on this job so big bosses don't really have a sense of whether I am doing well or not so I needed to prove myself worthy.
To be honest proving myself worthy wasn't on my mind coz my mindset all this while is to just do my work and if it gets noticed, well, good for me. Competing against peers was never my intention.
3 months later I don't really know if I have excelled in my new role. I am just really busy trying to keep my head above water and no time to worry about this. I just hope I am helping the rest instead of giving ambiguous and inconsistent advice. But I must say it's an eye opener getting in touch with issues in their areas and realizing there is so much more to learn.
Without a doubt the last couple of months have been the toughest since I started working. While running the team, I am concurrently retaining my engineer portfolio (even though I have been delegating more and more work to my TO who has really came into her own) and running weekly RTC meetings. In short, my previous workload multiply by 4, squeezed into 4 workdays (coz the 5th is essentially taken up by all RTC related work - minutes, etc).
Being single and without a family in a foreign country at this moment is therefore, somewhat an advantage because I could stay back at work for as long as I want. Many days, I am only able to start on my personal work (as in my engineer duties) after office hours because I was busy with others during regular office hours. The security guard who goes around switching off office lights had known which cubicle to check for human presence if he happens to see lights still on after 9pm sigh. In contrast to my ex-boss who is more or less in a similar position who have to rush back to her two toddlers at 5.30pm every day, and so is drowning.
Though there is a glimmer of light at the end of tunnel. Letting go of RTC role by end of this month and mathematically, with my full 5 day workweek restored, I should be able to cope much better. So that is definitely something I am trying to focus on.
Also loads more to learn on managing a team. Do I really need to take so much ownership into other people's issues? I really need to work out a style and position. I am yet to do so.
As much as I hate to admit, a combination of complacency in terms of phototherapy and topical treatment and recent stress at work...there are signs of psoriasis flaring up already. Not so much on the rest of my body but definitely on my face. Getting quite a number of comments.
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In other news, I have finally gotten in-principle approval for PR in SG.
Had no idea why it took that long. Sigh. Got the letter in March, 10 months after I submitted my documents and a whopping 16 months since I started the whole process. In contrast I know of friends who managed the whole process in like half a year?
Honestly I think it's the immigration officer who blacklist me for being overly nonchalant when submitting my documents hahaha. So yeala I am also at fault la.
Since it has taken so long..dun mind making it a bit longer. Scheduled my completion of formal procedures for May since I don't know how long I will take to do medical (my previous report expired). Turns out..not very long. So idling again, oh well.
But this development, together with the previous one on work...sort of sets a tone and direction for my next couple of years. Looks like I will be stuck where I am for a bit. Well....considering I was a bit lost at the end of last year and the beginning of this year I suppose it helps.
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Attended a couple of weddings this month involving former classmates. Lynn (gotta say, of all people) was the first from my JC class to get married (to my knowledge, who knows maybe some of those who have gotten disconnected have also gotten married or something). There's another wedding of my uni classmate, and contemplating going home during Jubilee weekend in August for the first F5Sc wedding! Maybe we should just make that the 10 year anniversary gathering la instead of waiting till November/December la.
But yea...it's a sign that I too am approaching this age and still hopelessly single. The funny thing is that my colleagues sensed the urgency and recently kept trying to match make me. 皇帝不急太监急 lolol. Hahah maybe I should just let them do this. Coz if I were to be completely honest....I don't know how to do this sigh. It was pushed off my priority list in uni coz of psoriasis and never made it back on the list.
But I suppose it will be nice to have someone I can talk to. Especially now that I am kinda alone here.
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Recent events left me craving for a break and a holiday somewhere, but can't figure out where to.
It does looks like Europe will have to be postponed to another year. Pretty unlikely that I will go for a solo trip this year, maybe I could do Penang during one of the long weekends but that's it. But recently confirmed the NZ trip for year end! Too far ahead for me to get excited over at the moment though. In between I am planning a couple of trips back home too.
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Looking forward to June! My usual favorite month of the year.
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