Back in the workforce

Today marks my first day back in the workforce. I arrived in office at 8:45am. Was quickly briefed by my manager before he rushed off for a meeting. As my workstation was not ready yet, I was left sitting by my table with practically nothing to do. After about 30mins, my assigned buddy came and give me some briefing and bring me around the department. 10am my laptop arrived, so I go about setting up my station. By 10:30am I was back at my table with nothing to do again. Chatted a bit with some old friends. At around 12noon, I go out for lunch with some colleagues. The rest of the day went by slowly. At 4:30pm, the department have their lou hei. All in all, it was a good first day for me. Slow going and easy adjustment for me after my six months of break.

2nd of Jan 09

Today is the orientation day for Ezra's school. So brought him down to meet his new classmates and also for him to adjust to the 'back to school' lifestyle. Hopefully, he will be more prepared come next monday. It was a short 2hrs session for him, after which, I drive him home to rest. While I drive the car to top up petrol and meet up a friend for lunch. Driving is very tiring for me, thank God for a wife who love to drive. hehehe. After my meeting with my friend, I meet up with Viv again to proceed to our 2nd HDB appointment. Yea! Finally we have a place we can call our home (ok, technically we still have to wait a couple more weeks before we can move in, but who is counting rite?). After the appointment we went to order our 'seahorse' brand sofa. And realised that the price have increased by $200 only a few days earlier. *duh* no choice, we both love the sofa, so still decided to go ahead and get it. Went home and share the news with my parents that we will be trying to move before CNY if possible. But instead of sharing our joy, got shown black face and questioned why we need to rush to move. *sighs* why can't they look at things from our side? Its not like I can always be so free to be around to handle the moving of things. Especially more difficult when I get back to full time work.