2nd Day at work!

Ok, honestly, have you seen anyone who is that happy to go to work (just look at the title of this post)? :P

Anyways, surprisingly, my email and computer access was up and running on my first day at work! Hurray to efficiency! My PST folders however, are another story....

I had a chat with my boss for him to find out what I had been doing previously and I basically told him I'm ok to take any portfolio. The team here is further split into 2 sub-teams and the overall team strength is twice that of back home...so there seems to be light for my social life! woop woop

And on the social life front, it seems to be getting better! An ex-colleague who will be going back to Singapore will be bringing me to the Dai Pai Dong tomorrow for dinner, and has invited me to drinks on Friday with some other Singaporeans working in HK :D
Feeling extremely grateful for this friendly gesture; for those of you who don't know, it can get pretty boring if you don't have a group of core friends here. We were both whining to each other (yes being typical Singaporeans what else!) that despite what most people say, your social life is really dependent on whether you have that core group of friends to hang out with. While I have friends in HK, I probably don't count as their core group so it does feel a little on the superficial front sometimes. Yes, I was already feeling lonely on Day 3 in HK

2 of the guy colleagues brought me out for lunch today and they're really fun to hang out with! Plus they give me lots of tips about my apartment hunt, which apparently might be tough for me since it's the peak season for house renting now with the new semester starting and the students looking to enter the market....Cross your fingers that I'll be able to find something affordable and to my liking!

And I was feeling quite bored with nothing much to do while my boss ponders on my portfolio (which I guess I will probably get to know by end of the week)...so my boss decided to me to help him with writing minutes for a meeting. Lest you think I am being sarcastic, I was really grateful to be doing something productive finally except that....I. Did. Not. Bring. My. Headphones.

Asked the guys and the department admin if they had any spare but turns out nope. So there was no choice but for me to have the recording played out on the Desktop speaker and plaster my ear near the CPU. (Yes, please" laugh....)...until my other senior colleague saw me and asked me what I was doing! I replied honestly and she said she had a set of spare headphones (thank the heavens!) so I was saved! But not before she had a good laugh cos seriously guys, it was quite a helpless sight!