oh man. so i see that i haven't progressed much since the previous previous entry. about the first day of work that is. i digress so much!

it's now 0946 hrs on 15th May 2006, monday. let me just explain how i go about doing this. it's not that i'm blogging everything at once. it's just that i don't have internet connection here in the office. there's no wireless and well, the LAN doesn't work coz i'm not really a proper employee with an SP email address and everything. so i type out the stuff on notepad and when i go home and have free time, i post it on the net. so the timings will be weird and all so just ignore that!

so now it's 1007 hrs. i felt guilty so decided to do a bit of my report simultaneously. i arrived around 0810 looking and feeling completely drowsy. so after fixing the computer, i just couldn't stay awake. i was trying to play a game of solitaire (illegally of course) to keep me awake but my desk-mate saw me. so i changed the subject by asking if i could listen to music. asked my supervisor actually, and told her i'm bayangara sleepy. but she said i couldn't :( that's really sad man. i mean so what if i listen to music? as long as i finish that report on time, it's ok no? sigh. with music, i'd have def been able to stay awake. it's so scary to even think about someone catching me falling asleep. even kelvin. though he did try to wake me up a coupla times. but i WANT to sleep! i wanna go hoooome :'( but actually, it's not coz i hate this environment or smth, no way, but it's just that i NEED sleep! i've been surviving on less than 6 hours for the past nearly ten days. and i don't even sleep in the afternoon. so there's serious sleep deprivation. see, i just slept off for a minute again. head nodding. horrible. terrible. scary. i really don't wanna get caught.

major thookam. it's already 1042. i just slept like mad. in fits. sigh. and i'm still sleepy. i think i'm gonna have a quick lunch later and sleep till 1330, when everyone's left. lunch break is from 1230-1330. so i guess i'll continue about the first day of work. i'd stopped at the part where my supervisor had finished introducing me to everyone.

after that, she came into kelvin's (and mine) cubicle and gave us a briefing about what Distribution Engineering does and about cables and transformers and stuff. i was totally lost, coz i haven't done a proper power module before. lost in the sense, i understood everything she said, but i'd never heard of all that before. other than transformer operation. kelvin knew everything that was going on, coz he's got a diploma in power stuff! anyway, i was majorly falling alseep when she was talking. i rly rly hope she didn't notice. though it doesn't matter anymore. so much for first impressions. she finished around 4-ish and gave me a coupla feasibility reports, done by her, to read. coz she said she was gonna give me one to do.

so i read them. ended only at 6. so got home around 7.45, extremely tired. on tuesday, i'd finished reading them by 1430. but she went off for a meeting then! so i just pretended to read but was actually sleeping. i mean NO work for 3 hours! a bit too much no? but annette came in a few times to chat. to keep me company. and probably keep me from sleeping. sleep was one of my arch-enemies on the first two days.

oh yes, i forgot to tell about lunch. i didn't bring a dabba on monday coz it's really weird to have one on ur first day of work! so at around 1235, jeff, one of the officers, said he'll take me and kelvin for lunch. and i was like "ohh i'm vegetarian". so he said there's only one vegetarian place nearby and dropped me there before driving off with kelvin to some telok blangah place. it was some WEIRD dirty place in alexandra distri park. chinese veg with NO queue. in fact, none of the stalls had queues! only 3 or 4 people standing there! so finally, i decided to go n check out the western stall. they said they had nothing vegetarian. but when i asked for french fries, they had. so dumb. so i bought a packet for a dollar and walked back to office with it. v long walk. which is why jeff drove us there in the first place. the fries were AWFUL. completely soaked in oil and disgusting tasting grease. yuck yuck yuck. i couldn't bear to eat them so threw away the last few. just couldn't. sorry, all the people of ethiopia. anyway, supervisor said that most people bring in their own food. coz the nearest eating place is v far away. so i was rly glad. tuesday onwards, i brought lunch as usual!

and we can just eat at our own desk. which was what i did last thursday. which was why i ate a chilli when it was supposedly past 1 am. k so tuesday was like that too. boring. was the worst coz i had NO work and just slept. and i couldn't even sleep in peace like in lectures, coz this is an office! nobody SLEEPS in offices! oh but during lunch, since i'd finished in 25 minutes, i spent the rest of my time sleeping. properly. head on my desk type. i think i'm gonna do the same today.
ok, so i've finished talking about monday and tuesday. nothing much! it's now 1107 hrs.

seriously. this is SUCH a good way to waste time. thank God. notepad rocks.

guess i'll get back to my real report now. good night.