Work resumed this week with the usual, one whole day of meeting, 1 day of opening ceremony and the works and one more which is a welcome ceremony for incoming sec 1... and I am having very very bad, extreme work blues.
The night before, I had trouble sleeping, until 3am. Then the first day of meetings after meetings was mentally draining. Some 'new' and 'not-so-new' stuff are leaving me eye-rolling and having to work with extreme short deadlines... Luckily I had KM and went there and felt better somewhat. That was Monday.
Still had disturbed sleep and slept late 1.30-2am and I woke up extremely zombie that the cup of coffee couldn't wake me. I was going cold turkey for the Coke zero and all the caffeine, artificial sweetener. On top of that I was resuming my Chinese meds so that meant no tea. Urgh imagine being zombies and still had to sit through meetings and ceremony. And any spare time I could squeeze out, I was setting up the room. Bloody herculean task... I wondered as I was putting up the wall paper in setting up my classroom, if I would fall over anytime from the height I was in and whether there could be easier ways about it. Having the rock music playing from Spotify helped. I was spewing foul language as I stapled the backing paper up on the partition using just a regular stapler that had many mis-shots from the regular stapling. Bloody hell, can use stapler gun, wth didn't pass to me and I was using regular stapler. Spew more expletives when I was back in the privacy of my own room which I continued doing up. It was very painful cos there wasn't time allocated for us to do it. Had to find own free time after all the periods of staying in the class, with the class and ceremony and so on. Really painful.
Gratefully I went for KM and learnt a new technique. It was rather fun as a senior female student and me partnered up. We were wary of doing with noobs cos of the potential injury from their lack of control and coordination. Thankfully we were fine. I did accidentally punch once but still not at full force which I profusedly apologise. At least I am aware when I hit someone. But I don't see this apology with the noobs. At times they aren't even aware they actually hit someone. So it was good to learn a new technique and we could kinda do it cos we listened and watched and observed. Unlike many of the noobs who kinda rushed into and do their own pattern. Use bull strength cos they are guys. Kinda ironic, which I remarked to my senior partner, how they don't know but just want to rush to do. Cos there were big numbers so we had do in turns and wait our turn. Some just rush to do immediately after the demo by the main instructor and we the more senior students don't get to do first though that was what my batch did and let the seniors do and get more chance to observe. But no... they want to rush to do. So both of us observe and learn more about the common mistakes and when it was our turn. We could do the technique. Well more rest time cos have to wait our turn. Then after class, there's a 30min extra time where those keen, can do more practice. So after the grading in March, where some noobs and most seniors stay back. Now grading is over, once class is over, suddenly all clear out and wow, free space to practice. Generally I have been staying most days that I go. Especially got a higher grade or same grade female training partner. So we refined the technique further and could do it better. Just need to do more practice cos it's muscle memory and practice. It felt good to learn and try something new, keeps things fresh. So that was Tuesday.
I slept earlier about 12am and woke up for the work ceremony. More things piled on. Have to eat lunch in class for 3 consecutive days. Walao. Then got supervise cleaning to do set up for the ceremony. Then got practice. After the actual ceremony where my mind was a complete blank, I still struggled to 'wake up' cos feel my mind is fatigued. The packed hours ain't helping. Then after all these, still had small group meeting that was at least 1.5 hrs until I reminded them I needed to go buy a resource book from Kino. I went home and saw the sinseh, resuming my Chinese medication after a long break. My cough came back from too much iced drinks. So I stopped it. Got my med then I headed to Orchard. Bought the books, got it delivered. Need to claim back the money. I went home straight after despite being in Orchard. I was so sleepy on the journey there, though lesser by the time I went home cos I tried some resting. Went to bed before 11pm. That was Wed.
Today, I used my 'free' time to finished up that wall paper and borders. F&÷₩"ing pain in the ass. I just sucked it up and finished it off and swept the floor. Last bit which I couldn't do was to wipe the tables and chairs with detol water. Had to ride the bus and I took a bus back to thr mrt. Ate my early dinner then headed for training. That wiping will have to wait til tomorrow. Also bought new earphones so I can finally have music in my ears and drown out both language conversations. Sian, work has been sucking these few intensely busy and hectic days. I wondered if it was the lack of music to drown out the noise that was taxing me. Will find out when I use my new earphones at work.
I found KM to be my 'happy' time instead. Had an ok class and a good extra practice with my usual partner. We worked on the full range of the techniques, cos class could only cover the basic simpler technique. Since no time in the usual class to revise and practice the full range we being regulars and have learnt, so we stayed back. Just both of us only. Another did punching the punching bags. It was good cos for unsure parts, the main instructor pointed out and demo key aspects we had missed, forgotten. It's nice to have a dependable training partner. Motivate each other to train. Will miss her when she takes a long half year break from June. In the meantime, I guess I will keep looking forward to KM, especially when there is no serious injury and can train with good partner. I will still keep going cos I am clearing my package which has been renewed again for another 6 months. Wow I have another 104 lessons. Hope to keep this up. Helps keep me in shape and mentally sane.
"Food is the most abused anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underutilised anti-depressant." Very true.
I at least am looking very forward to after work. Managed to skip one very pricey $70/$90 work party. Already made a prior appt with my friends to meet up. No way I am cancelling on them like that. I had about enough of the 'socialising' in these types of work party. My wallet will thank me. My stomach too, from that previous hangover from trying to drink the value in beer and cheap wine. My cough would too, cos I am officially off any cold drinks until further further notice. Don't want to waste my money spent on Chinese medication which is not cheap. But health is definitely worth a lot. I appreciate that even more than before. I hope to sleep before 1am. Will finish up all the outstanding irritating and painful stuff tomorrow. Today is still mine. I will dictate what to do with it.
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