My new office is quite good. It’s not as good as the old one as I got bigger space in my old office but at least now, we are all sitting together. By that I mean my manager was previously sitting at another place and the idea to have one room to fit us all is just so we can operate like a team. However, there are cons where it’s harder for us to reach out to other team which we have to deal with on a daily basis. And our office is situated on the second floor. Anyhow, it’s been like more than a month already and the only complain that I have is the desk. It’s a bit short in a way that I will be to close to the monitor. They are making some arrangements to put in proper table. It will be better but I believe that the office will be a bit cramp afterwards. We’ll see anyway.

Among the other arrangements, there’s one considerably big for me. From next week onwards, I will be on loan to another department for two days per week until further notice. Hence, I will be doing three days on database matters and two days on web matters. To be honest, I am quite excited with that kind of arrangement as it just makes my job more interesting. My “new” manager is trying hard to find a senior web developer and until then, I think I will continue doing two days a week for him. I can’t believe that they couldn’t find a suitable candidate or maybe their requirement is too high. I did submit my application for the post but I was told that they need someone who is know-it-all. Well, good luck in finding one and guess what, I am doing part of the job where the senior web developer is suppose to do. And I designed and developed 90% the whole system which was suppose to be developed by the senior web developer. Okay, quit moaning you might say, but that’s what blogging is about.

On a happy note, it was Mee’s birthday a couple of days ago. Not the best birthday as she has to work at night on her birthday. No cake too but she did receive some presents and birthday cards. We are just not really in the mood to celebrate anything at the moment. Too many things to think about. I guess it will be the same for my birthday too.

My whole body is aching now. I did a free weight session at the gym on Tuesday, Body Attack on Wednesday and Pilates today. Luckily, it will be a rest day for me tomorrow before Body Balance on Saturday and another free weight session on Sunday. Sometimes, I wonder if my body will ever recover. Whenever my muscles recovered, I would try to lift more weight. And then I would work harder during Body Attack. The only time I really have a rest is when I fall sick, normally fever and cough. After that, I have to go through all the training again just to get back up to my normal weight and stamina. I think I sounded a bit daft. Anyway, my plan now is to take more care on my body. Even though I still have late night sleep but believe me, I am trying hard to sleep early. It’s just that I have too much things to think lately.

During my last Body Attack session, the instructor mentioned that she will be opening a new class on Friday. I think only a third of the class was kind of interested in it as the class will be set to start from 1930. It’s kind of late, especially it’s a Friday night. The class is called Bokwa and it’s kind of like the latest keeping fit trend. Much like Zumba fever. I looked at some videos on the internet regarding Bokwa but they didn’t look interesting. I didn’t think it’s as high energy as Body Attack and the routine was like repeating all the time. When it’s officially start, which I believe there will be certain charge since the instructor is going to rent the studio for the purpose of teaching Bokwa, I might go to the gym and have a peek. Chances are I won’t be interested in it though the instructor did mention that it’s more suitable for men than women. However, most of the students in Youtube Bokwa videos were women.

Ever since Mee and I came back from our long holiday about two weeks ago, my work has been piling up. Well, the very first day at work, I found out that I have a new manager. I have got much opinion about him but he seems like a nice person. We haven’t spent much time together mainly because he has a lot of meetings to go to and he is trying to familiarise himself with our operations. Also, the interim manager is handing over some work to him. Though he isn’t with the team most of the time, we still have quite a lot of things coming directly to us. After all, we have been sort of managing workload half of the time even when we have a manager.

Anyway, my job has been about management information system. A year or two back, I have been tasked to develop websites. Due to a recent restructure, my involvement in web development is getting less and less until today. My manager told me that I will be taking up the web once again just to get some jobs done. I have been to a couple of meetings before, hence, I know what’s coming. Considering that the deadline is in a few months time and they haven’t been able to find a suitable web person, the tasks fall on my shoulder. As to how I shall manage it, it’s easy. As to how my manager will handle it, it’s difficult to say. I am just doing what I am being told and I can only do so much in a day.

I wonder if I should feel happy or sad. At first, when I found out that they are going to hire some web person, I was a bit upset in an angry way as I created the websites from scratch. It’s as though I did the job and then the credit is given to another person. Sometime later, I just thought there is no reason to get upset. Most of the time, the management is only care about getting things done rather than recognising the effort that the staffs put in. So much so for the equality that they keep talking about.

You must have heard the following line a lot of time.

Use your common sense!

Well, just what does the common sense mean? To me, common sense is broad and one’s common sense doesn’t always make sense to another. A lot of things could have been deemed to be common sense to me when it comes to computer but I can’t really expect it to be common sense to my parents, can I? It’s nothing really, but I just dislike people referring something to common sense. I might have done it before but definitely subconsciously. Something that I would refer to as common sense would be like an airplane can fly.

More often than not, I heard of people shouted out the above line without thinking whether or not it is really about common sense. If it were me who were the receiving end, I would definitely say that it is YOUR common sense, not MINE!

Hmm… it’s been quite a while since I last heard Mee talking about losing weight. In a way, it’s a good thing because I don’t see the need to lose weight if one exercise regularly and eat healthily. I for one has similar lifestyle to Mee except the sleeping part. The lifestyle part, of course because we live together and she cooks most of my meals. The sleeping part, I tend to sleep late like 2am most of the time. I think it really makes my body weaker or rather unable to recover fast enough after all those exercises. I started to train quite hard like lifting more weights for the past couple of weeks and that really strained my neck and muscles. It usually takes me about 3 days to fully recover. And I don’t think that’s normal. I guess I just need to try to have a better sleep pattern although I have been talking about it for months. Sometimes, things take time.

One of our housemates is actually taking apidextra for weight loss. I think she has a gym membership but rarely uses it. I used to only see her going to the gym like once a week on Sunday. I am not sure about now since Mee and I have started going to the gym on Sunday as well. In my opinion, apidextra may aid her in weight loss but I don’t think she clearly understands about apidextra side effects. For me, I prefer to use diet protein shake, not that I need to use it. But if Mee is going to talk about weight loss again, I probably will talk her into purchasing diet protein shake instead.

I still can’t get around with the idea of hotels not offering free WiFi access. Well, I appreciate that in some parts of the world, internet is not cheap but I would have thought that internet should be widely available in a country like Australia. But no, 80-90% of hotels in Australia incur a charge of at least $12 for 24 hours access. It would be a lot higher if you go for per hour rate. It may seem that a charge from 50 cents per hour (should you go for the 24 hours access) is not too expensive but when you look at the hotels’ rooms prices, the charge is unnecessary. I suppose Mee and I will be going to McDonald as it’s our best bet to get free internet access.