ONe of ThOsE dAYs...

today was one of the shitty days at work... nearly 3 months since i started work at this company, and today they decided to give me very constructive feedback since i started... i could accept all the feedback except one... and i was very surprised and i would say shocked that they told me that, cos i completely had no idea that i was doing that and it was very unconscious on my part, and i did not even realise i was doing that until they told me... and now, it's like time to awaken and step out of my comfort zone and start acting like a professional... it's just too bad that this had to happen before the weekend that i was looking forward to... oh well... i shall try not to think too much and just focus on doing my job well and incorporating their feedback...

anyway, exciting thing that my family is coming to visit for two weeks... and we are going on a few roadtrips... so that should be exciting... i love roadtrips... just not reading the map and navigating though... haha... we are going down to wollongong and kiama for a day trip on sunday, so that should be fun, and apparently it's going to be good weather, so hopefully i can post some pics soon...

非常失望。。。

I got my first "normal" referral this week, and the worker works in the hangar which makes boeing planes... being my first normal referral and bcos it is a very foreign and complex workplace, my manager and mentor were very concerned and made sure that I did all the right things and followed the procedures... made sure that I did all the preparations necessary before i went out to conduct the workplace assessment...

the assessment was conducted on friday... the rtw coordinator who was supposed to bring us into the premise was 40 mins late, so in the end, the whole assessment was delayed and we had to go back in the afternoon to complete the assessment... i was completely exhausted by the time we finished... the whole workplace was really intense and foreign to me... i was really out of my depth and now that i know i am going to be on this account... i don't know what I am going to do... cos I am not allowed to take pictures so it was really difficult to visualise the equipment and the postures... I don't even know what the stuff there are called... even though everyone back in the office was telling me to not worry cos i am not expected to know and that it is a very complex workplace, but i can't help getting stressed... by the time i got home, i was so very tired, but we had planned to have a movie night that night...

went to castle towers to watch the watchmen... i was very very disappointed, i had such high hopes for the show and i was so excited to watch it all week, and in the end, i was so disappointed... the movie was really long, it ended around 12 midnight... i was falling asleep about halfway through the movie already... i thought it was an action movie from the trailers... but it ended up to be very gory and bloody... and what really concerned me was there were small kids watching the movie and i was like oh man, i don't even dare to watch the gory scenes, i can't believe the parents actually brought them to this movie... very disappointed with this movie... by the time we got home, it was around 1am and i was so zombified... had a quick shower and went straight to bed...

one more week before my family is here... can't wait to go on the roadtrips... hopefully everything will go according to plan...

2 more WeeKS...

it has been going on 3 weeks now without any new referrals for me... I am sooo bored and sick of staying in the office all day... so now all i am doing is help out the other consultants with writing some reports and reading reports... i am seriously bored... who knows when I will be getting a new referral... currently i have one miserable file... people are complaining that they have too much work and no time, and here I am... thinking oh man, i have no work and too much time... it's ridiculous... and traffic to and from work is killing me... days when it's really good traffic, i will take about an hour, and days when traffic is sooo bad, like today, it took me 2.5 hours to get home, it was not funny...

i have been busy lately doing research for the road trips and the accomodation... accomodation is really taking me a long time, cos the last weekend is the easter weekend hence alot of the places have min night stays and are more expensive cos it's the long weekend... so basically that's what i have been busy with for the past 2 weeks... other than that, nothing really much to report on...
and the thought for the day, in fact for the whole of this month and the next... SAVE MONEY!!!

ENd of StRess...

finally... i have finally managed to submit the application for the visa... it's been quite a stressful few months... kept worrying that i will not be able to get the paperwork in time... i can now heave a huge sigh of relief... now all i have to do is attach all the supporting documents, and wait for the good news that i am granted the visa... which hopefully will not take long... i definitely have been losing sleep over this whole visa thing that it's not funny...

on the work side, it's been really quiet and boring these 2 weeks, cos there were no new referrals coming in, and i am just helping out with the other consultants and doing my own thing... which is really making me sleepy, especially in the afternoon... hopefully referrals will start coming in soon cos i definitely prefer to be busy than having nothing to do... and my manager's going on leave for a whole month to get married... so i dunno what is going to happen in the meantime...

today marks the end of my freedom... and being at home alone... cos uncle and auntie are back... i quite miss and enjoy the peace and quiet, although i got quite paranoid a few times over the last week when i heard some noises... to the point of taking a knife upstairs to check it out...

MaJor addiCTiOn...

have not felt like blogging for awhile... mostly bcos there is really not much to blog about... work is still as usual... have been struggling abit to finish all the reports and having to get used to the idea of not being able to finish something and having to do another thing which I am really struggling with as I am someone who likes to finish something first before going onto another thing... but i was told that in this role, I have to be able to prioritise my work which can sometimes require me to do something halfway and having to finish something else... also beginning from next week, we will be having a year 3 student on placement at work, although i am not the supervisor obviously, but it will be interesting as i am still adjusting from being an OT student to an OT... it should be interesting to see how and what it looks like from the other side... i would like to try being a supervisor in future if an opportunity comes up...

i have been alone for a week now... and the house is very quiet, especially at night, but I am quite enjoying this brief period of silence, being able to do what i want and when I want... tried to cook the linguine today for lunch... i was so looking forward to eating the linguine but it did not turn out well... being lazy, i decided to cook the whole packet and all the carrots on the fridge and forgot to add salt, so the end product was a carrot-smelling linguine with no taste at all... it was so unappetizing... in fact, thinking about having to finish the whole packet makes me lose my appetite... similar thing happened the last time i tried to cook fried rice... at least that time i had people to help finish the food, now i dunno what i am going to do...

i have been so addicted to this korean drama that pong recommended... called the last scandal... so sad that the female lead in the show apparently committed suicide last year... the show is really hilarious... i am so addicted that you would not believe the lengths i went to to watch the show and buy the dvd... let's just leave it at that for now... but I would really recommend this show if you are into romantic comedy...