Today... I'm halfway done.

It's been quite a trying week so far... just when I thought i could sit down in peace to clear some backlog work, we get last min "request" from M late Monday to put up two p-c papers for today... And you can imagine the mad rush in btwn... At one point, couldn't help but feel utterly cynical... I don't think I've ever had to work so hard...! And seems like that will be my sorry fate going forward. Oh well, seems like it is more strategic for me to learn how to deal with all the work than to wallow in self-pity though :P

Though volume of work is rather unpalatable so far, hope things will get better with time. Today when speaking with HDB staff I came to stark realisation that my sitting on things also mean that all these poor HDB ppl there cannot proceed with their work (for items significant enough to come to Ministry for approval lah). And felt somewhat guilt-stricken... Somehow that didn't occur to me till today, when reviewing the pile of stuff I had. More than 50% involved putting things up for M's approval... Hehe, those ppl waiting for the go ahead in HDB must now be cursing and swearing at the Ministry officer (hmm, i think i used to be in that position not too long ago...)

Today, that HDB is a very obedient stat board also finally set in... (A common comment made by both bosses and staff at MND) I'm getting the impression that we ppl at the Ministry wield a lot of power... One innocent question/request could (unwittingly) send ppl in the stat board scrambling for answers... Though it felt kinda "good" (wah, like suddenly everyone so obedient), also realised that I ought to be very clear/careful with what I ask of HDB... else make ppl do all this extra, unnecessary work. In other words, cannot abuse the "power" that comes with this job...

Sigh, am off to hopefully put up couple of simple submissions so that my eyelids wun twitch too much in the weeks to come :P

It's been a pretty xiong week for me. The week ended on a rather low note, with Boss not so subtly pointing out that I owed him several outstanding pieces of work and that I needn't wait for instruction for every single thing... Though I guess the 'lecture' wasn't entirely unjustified, it was still somewhat depressing. I guess the main issue is dealing with a suddenly much heavier workload and learning how to manage my time better. Suppose I would have been a little less demoralised if everything I did/ put effort in wasn't taken merely taken as matter-of-fact my job responsibilites. So well, I had to buck up a bit over weekend and unfortunately spent quite a large part of it clearing backlog work... Hopefully I'll be able to pick up things more quickly soon and then life wouldn't feel as thorny...