Wow.. finally i'm doing this! I've been thinking about blogging again since mid this year but work and life was really hectic then. A normal weekday or work day for me in Singapore goes something like this:
Wake up in the morning at around 8.45-9am rush to get ready for work, leave the house in a rush, try to get to work by 9.30, nah.. never happens! At work.. its just go go go and no stopping till the clock strikes 18:00 hours, which is officially end of the work day. Our brain shuts at 18:00 hours but our bodies are still stuck in that office chair, why not leave you say? You would think "official end time" means pack your bags and head off, think again. At 18:00 hours, people are still talking about release schedules, marketing plans, budget reports, purchase orders nobody wants to go home yet! No actually, let me rephrase, everyone wants to go home, they just can't, because the boss is still around, managers are still on the phones, directors are still at their computers shooting the 20th last email. So everyone sticks around sort of for show, waiting for the first person to openly leave first. If anyone were to leave at 6 on the dot, they would pack quietly, only switch off their monitors and not shut down the computer to avoid the "shut down" ringer.
You would probably be saying, what bullshit is this, if you end work at 6pm you go home at 6 sharp! Thats not really the case in clean and green city! People tend to work OT (over time) alot in this little city. You know why we don't want to leave on the dot? That is because, some people in the office will make comments like "she doesn't have any work to do, She is so lucky she can leave early". I know what you are thinking, what early? She is not leaving early, early is when you end at 6pm and you leave at 5pm.
Ok, get back to the Singaporean workday lifestyle. So finally about 1 hour of hanging around in the office, normally 7 is the "safe time" to leave. By then some of my friends would have been waiting for an hour and some, like me cursing and swearing at the 1 hour wasted. A bunch of us would normally meet for dinner and coffee, sometimes we even go for Karaoke till 1nish or 2ish. Then i'll rush home, shower and get ready for bed.. and the whole cycle starts the next day.
With a schedule like that, it not surprising that we sometimes don't really have the chance to sit down relax and do the things we really want to do. In other words we seldom have "me time".
Well this hectic lifestyle is currently on hiatus, I have recently moved to a city where the pace may seem as fast as Singapore, however the culture here is still "take it easy mate". Sydney is a bustling city with people from all walks of life, about half of the city is some ethnic town. So far the best thing about moving to Sydney is that I can have a lot of "me time". Sometimes it can get alittle too boring, but nothing unbearable.
So.. i'll be bringing you on a journey.. a look inside my big move to Sydney and many many other exciting things that i'll be learning along the way.
Anyway, thank you and Adios for now.. Missy J has to head to bed, you can't miss trains here or you are fucked!
XOXO
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