A long tired day

I started my day with going to visit warehouse at Changi. As usual, the usual task of checking the layout, asking about headcounts, equipments, the whole operation plus the sweaty feel and look after the warehouse trip. I normally prefer to visit warehouse in the afternoon so that I can head home straight as I know I will feel dusty and dirty after the trip. But this time had to it in the morning as I had a meeting in the office at 3:30pm

Rushed back to office at 11am. Though I am under the cool Air-con, I just didn't feel comfortable and sticky all over. Yaki! But what can I do, I still have to make sure I clear my pending issues. I am in the count down mood to my sabbatical leave, so have to make sure I hand over work rightly to approriate parties. I am actually a little stressed as it will be samples season when I am gone. I hope things will just go smoothly and all samples will arrive on time. If there is any miss, it will mean no order for the factories and no sales for our company. Just hope not, cannot imagine less bonus. I need $$$$!!!!

Jennifer dropped by and joined me for lunch. She had fried Kway Tiao and I just had a bowl of hot red bean soup. I had a heavy breakfast and just could not eat anymore. We had a good chat for an hour. Very thankful that she came by, this 1 hour plus was my most relaxing time for the day. After lunch, it was hectic and I worked like crazy all the way.......

After 2:30pm, the email just flooded in suddenly as if the senders knew that I will be away soon. Oh my god, just when I thought that I have cleared almost everything, so many issues just popped up. Dealing with custom issue is the most challenging one. This particular country just keep changing rules and regulations every now and then. It is making things difficult for us to adjust. For goodness sake, can they just make up their mind and decide what they want.

Then, it came a long list requesting for internet access. It went well for about 20 minutes, and suddenly the system hung and there was this error message appearing on my screen. Oh no, whatever I have applied for the users were gone and I had to re-start everything again. When I have completed them, my inbox was full of auto generated confiramtions for all the applications. I had to spend time deleting them away. Why can't this process be simplified and go. Why must I be tortured this way?? Really no justice.

Arrived home, take a quick dinner and have to check Yi Ren's homework. He has 3 thinking sums that he cannot solve. You know these days, schools do not call it as "problem sum" anymore. The teachers told me that "thinking sum" is a better name. "Problem sum" will frighten the kids and they will switch off and not think anymore. Maybe that explained why I was bad at Math when I was a kid. When I looked at his questions, I was seeing ***** all over. I could not understand as he has to use the model method which I did not learn that in school. In the end, I had to give up and told him to check with his sister. Different generation uses different learning method, I am just lost sometimes. By the time I finished with all the school headache, it was 8:30pm. That was not all.

I still have one last final task to go, to meet my friend and passed her some items. We have not met for a while and spend some time catching up alot of things. When I began to feel sleepy, we realised that it was almost 11pm. Times just fly fast. Luckily we were just at a nearby fast food outlet which is 5 minutes from my house.

When I was at my "home sweet home", I was so tired that I just felt like jumping on to my bed right away. But I did not instead I was on bed an hour later. You know what happened? I just felt that my face was so tight and the skin was so dry and no moisture. I decided to do a simple facial treatment before I sleep. Spend extra time to do cleansing, scrubbing, putting toner etc. Finally the mask. The truth was I want to look great on Friday, 11 April in the office as this is the last day of work before I start my long leave.

I finally got on to bed at 00:15 am and doze off in my sweet dream. Heard any zzzzzzzzzzz snoring!!!!! Don't worry, I will not.