Lazy blogger
I just looked at the date of my last post and yes, I am suitably ashamed of my lack of posts. So I thought I would update you all with a few highlights of the last month.
Lau Pa Sat Trivia
LPS is a great hawker centre near work. Although not my favourite, it is a reasonably regular lunch spot. LPS is also famous for their evening satay.
While enjoying my chicken rice with some guys I work with a couple of weeks ago our lunch was rudely interrupted with LPS Trivia! This was in celebration of 10 years of ownership by some company. Anyways, I managed to know how many streets there were in LPS and score myself a great umbrella. My first SG souvenir.
Not so wise
I was in Sydney one week ago (so hopefully I caught up with many of you) but the main purpose of the trip was to get 2 of my wisdom teeth pulled out. B made me two different types of soup and even translated the names (Moroccan vegetable soup into french and red pepper soup into some other language I forget). Fortunately my teeth came out pretty easily once I had been jabbed with 6 needles. As tasty as the soup was - I loved having an excuse to eat yogo.
Baking
I recently bought a great bench top electric oven. I have already made a batch of brownies and I have a pavlova base now sitting in the fridge to bring to work tomorrow. Hopefully I can start making banana bread - to take advantage of reasonably priced bananas!
2 more Aussies
Lucy and Andrew arrived in SG recently. I think they're having a good time, they are in a nice team but work in a different location to me.
Team video
While I was away, the project had a social event at which each team presented a video about what they do. My team had a great time filming at The Fullerton hotel. I taught myself how to use Windows movie maker to put it all together and with a killer soundtrack our team took out the prize. We enjoyed a sushi buffet last week as our reward.
Work
Although not exactly a highlight, work is exactly what I have been doing most of the time. Our team is still under resourced and the project is still crazily disorganised. I have had several 'discussions' with people to try and change some things, but the attitude to work is so different here that my suggestions are mostly ignored. I am doing what I can, but slipping into the 'it will be just easier if I work all weekend' mentality.
Lau Pa Sat Trivia
LPS is a great hawker centre near work. Although not my favourite, it is a reasonably regular lunch spot. LPS is also famous for their evening satay.
While enjoying my chicken rice with some guys I work with a couple of weeks ago our lunch was rudely interrupted with LPS Trivia! This was in celebration of 10 years of ownership by some company. Anyways, I managed to know how many streets there were in LPS and score myself a great umbrella. My first SG souvenir.
Not so wise
I was in Sydney one week ago (so hopefully I caught up with many of you) but the main purpose of the trip was to get 2 of my wisdom teeth pulled out. B made me two different types of soup and even translated the names (Moroccan vegetable soup into french and red pepper soup into some other language I forget). Fortunately my teeth came out pretty easily once I had been jabbed with 6 needles. As tasty as the soup was - I loved having an excuse to eat yogo.
Baking
I recently bought a great bench top electric oven. I have already made a batch of brownies and I have a pavlova base now sitting in the fridge to bring to work tomorrow. Hopefully I can start making banana bread - to take advantage of reasonably priced bananas!
2 more Aussies
Lucy and Andrew arrived in SG recently. I think they're having a good time, they are in a nice team but work in a different location to me.
Team video
While I was away, the project had a social event at which each team presented a video about what they do. My team had a great time filming at The Fullerton hotel. I taught myself how to use Windows movie maker to put it all together and with a killer soundtrack our team took out the prize. We enjoyed a sushi buffet last week as our reward.
Work
Although not exactly a highlight, work is exactly what I have been doing most of the time. Our team is still under resourced and the project is still crazily disorganised. I have had several 'discussions' with people to try and change some things, but the attitude to work is so different here that my suggestions are mostly ignored. I am doing what I can, but slipping into the 'it will be just easier if I work all weekend' mentality.
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