A Reflection

Today will be a reflection to what I have done for the past 4 months of this year. Well, I have basically spent more than 10 hours a day at work, sleep less than 8 hours on a weekday and then splurge on sleeping on Sundays. The balance are spent in the evening watching TV and Facebook-ing till I sleep. Very summarized, eh? A little more detail to the work part...

Well, its already the forth month I was with CPG in January 2010. My project has already very much stabilized in terms of operations and basically starting to venture into the private landed property parts of the contract area. For these 4 months, there were generally not any incident / event that could make me say "That's the peak!". I would like to justify this phrase with this; I was on Facebook and Onemanga for more than 75% of the time in office. I have completed quite a few manga series in this duration.

I guess it was also my lack of initiative that caused this to happen. Or just go ahead and put the blame on my laziness. Heck, who isn't lazy? A previous manager of mine told me that all our technological advancement originated from man's curiosity and laziness (you can name it convenience to make it sound better). Go ahead and think about it. So, back to MY laziness, yes I was always "trying" to pop the big question to my SVP - Can you give me some design works for practise? By now someone much be thinking that I must have lost my mind asking for extra work from my boss instead of a pay rise. Yeah, I am not the kind that thinks in a normal manner anyway. It was only until early April that I was able to ask my SVP this, during appraisal (and no, there wasn't a pay rise although getting one would be great). And now I'm basically waiting for next Thursday for some kind of a design team meeting. No idea what will happen from there though.

Looking at these 4 months, there were also quite a number of things gained. I've got to know the practice on LTA road openings. Yup there are standards on how to place those road cones and sign boards. This standard can be found free online from LTA - Code of Practice for Road Opening Work. Take a close look at works on the road or when there are vehicles parking on the road. Then there is this thing with the regulations on working in confined spaced. This basically touches on the hazards working in an enclosed place. The major thing about this are the dangerous gasses that might exist or exist because of the type of work done. There are various documents on this matter, but basically a good info can be found free from MOM - Technical Advisory on Working Safely in Confined Spaced. Well, I guess you can now say the the best things are free. Others are basically lots and lots and lots of report and letter writing practise. Tons of them...

Yeah, you can say I've done something, but the feeling is like I have done nothing. Quite sad isn't it? So, wish me luck in the next 8 months to come and hopefully I will gain something. I'm ready for the pain... as long as not having to deal with people!