it's the holidays!!! and does it feel like it or what!! whoo feels great :) :)
lots of last minute present buying and gifting... an ipod touch for the coz and a light sabre for the godbro!
cheesecakes for christmas day and gingerbread people too.
took the boys bowling today. where i stupidly blew 20 bucks thinking i would win a red nintendo ds on this skills game. LOL. hilarious. we ended up with a mini plane... hrm... 20 bucks = 20 tickets. expensive!
fun fun fun
having a bbq tomorrow which will be good and the weather is looking great!
and off to HK i go on monday, for some serious shopping and disneyland fun!
yep, i am enjoying myself! :)
lots of last minute present buying and gifting... an ipod touch for the coz and a light sabre for the godbro!
cheesecakes for christmas day and gingerbread people too.
took the boys bowling today. where i stupidly blew 20 bucks thinking i would win a red nintendo ds on this skills game. LOL. hilarious. we ended up with a mini plane... hrm... 20 bucks = 20 tickets. expensive!
fun fun fun
having a bbq tomorrow which will be good and the weather is looking great!
and off to HK i go on monday, for some serious shopping and disneyland fun!
yep, i am enjoying myself! :)
it doesn't feel anything like the year before...
i have been working my ass off these last few weeks and i am getting tired!!!
we had to postpone our compliance audit halfway through the actual audit because we (they) realised that a lot of things weren't up the scratch / completed / ready for audit. i am so unsurprised. i think they weren't either.
wednesday night, caught up with madison for a couple of drinks at harts. so happy that she's doing well. :)
thursday night was our client/ contractor party. and despite all negative instigations about it - boring, best behaviour, no excessive drinking, must mingle, etc - i thought it was a lot better than our christmas party. i had a great time!!! finally got to meet a lot of our clients and contractors.
towards the end of the night, met a couple of senior managers from CBA - they are so switched on, intelligent and just full of worldly experience. and they just said some things that helped me understand who i am and where i want to be. :) :) :) really really interesting to hear what they had to say about the CBA glitch on wednesday and what they had to do, the steps to implementation and the time it takes to fix issues like these whilst at the same time understand that there were a lot of angry customers who couldn't access their money!
and so, we talked for ages.. and haha it looked like we were going to party on at the ivy afterwards too. but we didn't - stole away - and it took AGES to find a bloody cab. was after midnight when i got home.
and i was neither hungover nor tired at work on friday!!! some of the others, not so lucky! lol.
friday was a rather bitter day for the ops team. so many unfair things coming to light but hey, let's not talk about that! it was h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s to talk about the night before though!!! hehehehe :)
it was also our ops team dinner. (yay...) ez and sare and i went for a drink at 5 on-the-dot. could not be in there a minute longer with the other two. and it was good went to the brooooooklyn and had a wine. then we went to the same old spice (can you tell i'm getting bored of the place).
another girl who use to work here, right when i started came too cause she's going to be temping for us in the near year for a couple of weeks. hm. yeah. more bitterness here but hey, not my decision or problem!
anyway, ez and sare and i as the only members of the ops team who actually went to the WHOLE contractor party and STAYED, were by this stage, quite buggered. anyway, we managed and it was good (as it could be) and thank goodness it ended early!!
NOT THAT I WAS ABOUT TO GO HOME AND CRASH...
no.. i went to cronulla to amanda's 21st cause i havent seen her in ages and ages and ages and jan said she was driving so i could get a lift home. woo!
it was so good to see her with her new bf (they look so happy together) and to see her doing well post-target (everyone does well post-target!!!) and just to catch up. it was even better than avril was there cause hadn't seen her in ages either! yay!
however, i never, never, never NEVER want to go to northies again. felt so out of place. it was pure low-IQ minded bogan zone. no thanks. and the floor was so sticky cause of all the spillages i thought my shoes were going to get stuck there! lol
finally came home and crashed around midnight.
went for an eye examination this morning... everything's still good. and i didn't have the heart to correct the optom when he suggested i sit closer to the front in lectures. :) :)
just wrapped all the girls' xmas pressies. woo!! and going to make gingerbread men and ladies tomorrow. if you would like some, you better shout out!
x
i have been working my ass off these last few weeks and i am getting tired!!!
we had to postpone our compliance audit halfway through the actual audit because we (they) realised that a lot of things weren't up the scratch / completed / ready for audit. i am so unsurprised. i think they weren't either.
wednesday night, caught up with madison for a couple of drinks at harts. so happy that she's doing well. :)
thursday night was our client/ contractor party. and despite all negative instigations about it - boring, best behaviour, no excessive drinking, must mingle, etc - i thought it was a lot better than our christmas party. i had a great time!!! finally got to meet a lot of our clients and contractors.
towards the end of the night, met a couple of senior managers from CBA - they are so switched on, intelligent and just full of worldly experience. and they just said some things that helped me understand who i am and where i want to be. :) :) :) really really interesting to hear what they had to say about the CBA glitch on wednesday and what they had to do, the steps to implementation and the time it takes to fix issues like these whilst at the same time understand that there were a lot of angry customers who couldn't access their money!
and so, we talked for ages.. and haha it looked like we were going to party on at the ivy afterwards too. but we didn't - stole away - and it took AGES to find a bloody cab. was after midnight when i got home.
and i was neither hungover nor tired at work on friday!!! some of the others, not so lucky! lol.
friday was a rather bitter day for the ops team. so many unfair things coming to light but hey, let's not talk about that! it was h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s to talk about the night before though!!! hehehehe :)
it was also our ops team dinner. (yay...) ez and sare and i went for a drink at 5 on-the-dot. could not be in there a minute longer with the other two. and it was good went to the brooooooklyn and had a wine. then we went to the same old spice (can you tell i'm getting bored of the place).
another girl who use to work here, right when i started came too cause she's going to be temping for us in the near year for a couple of weeks. hm. yeah. more bitterness here but hey, not my decision or problem!
anyway, ez and sare and i as the only members of the ops team who actually went to the WHOLE contractor party and STAYED, were by this stage, quite buggered. anyway, we managed and it was good (as it could be) and thank goodness it ended early!!
NOT THAT I WAS ABOUT TO GO HOME AND CRASH...
no.. i went to cronulla to amanda's 21st cause i havent seen her in ages and ages and ages and jan said she was driving so i could get a lift home. woo!
it was so good to see her with her new bf (they look so happy together) and to see her doing well post-target (everyone does well post-target!!!) and just to catch up. it was even better than avril was there cause hadn't seen her in ages either! yay!
however, i never, never, never NEVER want to go to northies again. felt so out of place. it was pure low-IQ minded bogan zone. no thanks. and the floor was so sticky cause of all the spillages i thought my shoes were going to get stuck there! lol
finally came home and crashed around midnight.
went for an eye examination this morning... everything's still good. and i didn't have the heart to correct the optom when he suggested i sit closer to the front in lectures. :) :)
just wrapped all the girls' xmas pressies. woo!! and going to make gingerbread men and ladies tomorrow. if you would like some, you better shout out!
x
this is how much i miss working there.. clicking on a link from an ad, taking me to imagination at work (click !!!) and settling in for the interview between ray martin and jeff .
i was part of that!!!
i was part of that!!!
yesterday was the first (or the internal) work christmas party.
it was ok. food was average and well, it was really noisy so it wasn't GREAT. ok, so i'll admit it - these people just can't / don't know how to / don/t have the funds to / don't want to party the way bigger companies (e.g. GE) do... :(
i have to admit, at GE i loved the whole package - whether it was all of us coming together to book a room for the night to make sure we were all safe, to actually HAVING a social committee who were not great, but at least committed to bringing all the offices together for EOY celebrations, to providing everyone with a cab charge home. these little thoughtful things were missed.
and the after party sucked. i mean.. srly, jackson's??? and salsa?? although it was interesting at one stage. pole dancing!! wooohooo!! but the DJ SUCKED. he didn't even play our song requests!!!
and dinner was three course, my steak was soooooo tough. but my entrée and dessert (cheese platter) were pretty good. yum. so was a slice of heaven. yummy cocktail. first drink in who can remember how long? wasn't even use to the alcohol.. and i thought it was really strong. how OOC O_O
anyway, i ended up home pretty early, i think it was just before midnight - and that's early considering friday nights (the normal random ones during the year) usually lasted just as long if not longer!
no hangover, no can't remember what happened, no funny stories, no embarrassing moments...
but a christmas party none-the-less.
next year, it might be a whole new thing again. who knows?
it was ok. food was average and well, it was really noisy so it wasn't GREAT. ok, so i'll admit it - these people just can't / don't know how to / don/t have the funds to / don't want to party the way bigger companies (e.g. GE) do... :(
i have to admit, at GE i loved the whole package - whether it was all of us coming together to book a room for the night to make sure we were all safe, to actually HAVING a social committee who were not great, but at least committed to bringing all the offices together for EOY celebrations, to providing everyone with a cab charge home. these little thoughtful things were missed.
and the after party sucked. i mean.. srly, jackson's??? and salsa?? although it was interesting at one stage. pole dancing!! wooohooo!! but the DJ SUCKED. he didn't even play our song requests!!!
and dinner was three course, my steak was soooooo tough. but my entrée and dessert (cheese platter) were pretty good. yum. so was a slice of heaven. yummy cocktail. first drink in who can remember how long? wasn't even use to the alcohol.. and i thought it was really strong. how OOC O_O
anyway, i ended up home pretty early, i think it was just before midnight - and that's early considering friday nights (the normal random ones during the year) usually lasted just as long if not longer!
no hangover, no can't remember what happened, no funny stories, no embarrassing moments...
but a christmas party none-the-less.
next year, it might be a whole new thing again. who knows?
:(
wish i was overseas / on holidays like everyone else!
one of the toughest weeks of my year so far!!!
wish i was overseas / on holidays like everyone else!
one of the toughest weeks of my year so far!!!
so i have no where to stay in HK until at least the 26th..
guess i will push back my flight. if i go at all.
second thoughts. but i really want to go and shop some and see my girls.
wish my festive season will be longer. can't wait!
guess i will push back my flight. if i go at all.
second thoughts. but i really want to go and shop some and see my girls.
wish my festive season will be longer. can't wait!
got up toasty early (although it was freezing - yes, i was very cold last night) for a hair cut. only to have to wait because the hairdresser was running late.
so i shopped at myer. got my bang bang bin and some clearance clothing. nice~
came home, nessie's eye was weepy. so made a last min consultation at the RSPCA. poor baby. so scared. so she's somehow managed to damage the outer layer of her eye and amazingly not her cornea. the vet was perplexed and had no idea how that could have happened except to say that she's a super lucky dog! so we came home with some eye ointment. that's going to be fun...
and then...
more itinerary and europe research and planning. it goes slow but almost there in terms of what to DO. then i need to plan how much to SPEND (i.e., budget). easy part right?
anyhoo and i feel the need to share with all that i watched breaking dawn last night after awesome dinner with janpanny at chat thai.
hahaha yeah.. . needless to say, it was... . . . . . . as you'd expect. had its moments.
so i shopped at myer. got my bang bang bin and some clearance clothing. nice~
came home, nessie's eye was weepy. so made a last min consultation at the RSPCA. poor baby. so scared. so she's somehow managed to damage the outer layer of her eye and amazingly not her cornea. the vet was perplexed and had no idea how that could have happened except to say that she's a super lucky dog! so we came home with some eye ointment. that's going to be fun...
and then...
more itinerary and europe research and planning. it goes slow but almost there in terms of what to DO. then i need to plan how much to SPEND (i.e., budget). easy part right?
anyhoo and i feel the need to share with all that i watched breaking dawn last night after awesome dinner with janpanny at chat thai.
hahaha yeah.. . needless to say, it was... . . . . . . as you'd expect. had its moments.
