It's a nice cool morning...

With rain plattering outside...

It would be great to be in bed, sipping hot chocolate with a good book in hand...

Taking me own sweet time to leave the bed...

Hhhhmmmm....

But... guess where I am???

I'm in my stupid office... Reading a newspaper articles titled, 'Why boys lag behind girls'...-Tho informative, I look pathetic...Watching my marketing executive frantically saving her computer having accidentally downloaded a virus...

At this point, I really feel like screaming..Why...?Why..??Why.......???

My very frustrating day..

It was a frustrating day yesterday...

• I woke up at 6.00 to get to work by 7.45. I'm not a morning person so the fact tt I've to wake up early really pisses me off esp if it is not for something worthwhile.
• I reached at 7.30 while my CEO arrived at 8.05- Our appointment was 10.30.
• It will take us 2 Hrs to got there cos it is out of town
• CE drove to my Head of Faculty's (HOF) house at 20km/h. Upon reaching he sped up and din realise a bump ahead.
• My HOF took over the driving. On the highway he decided to follow the speed limit strictly which was 110km/h. I'm used to going at 140km/h.
• Plus we were late.
• Reached the venue and discovered that the personel tt we were suppose to meet went outstation for a workshop.
• Came back and went to the exam centre where my students were sitting for their exams.
• Found out tt there was some construction work going on outside the exam centre.
• The washrooms were also far- two blocks away.
• Came back to college at 4 where I was given the news tt i will be invigilating again today.
• This is the world's most boring job.

So all the above made me very frustrated yesterday. It also made me angry with three people:

The receptionist: When we arrived and asked for the personel, the receptionist told us tt she had a meeting. We thought it was an internal meeting so we tod him tt we will wait for her. He said fine- we can wait for her. 15 minutes later, he told us tt she went outstation. I am angry with the fact tt when I asked for the first time he should know tt she went outstation. Why did he have to make us wait for 15 minutes before telling us tt she was actually not around. this is utterly rubbish and clear cut inefficiency..

The Stupid personel: I made an appointment with her on Saturday. Saturday is only three days away from Tuesdau. Won't u know tt u are going for a workshp three days before it?Workshps are not planned within a short period of time. Unless it is some screwed up workshop which then explains why she is going. Is she stupid or blind? I asked her to check her schedule on Saturday and she confirmed many times tt she was free on Tuesday. I just don't get this kind of thing.. I was very angry with her. If i have the chance i will scold her the next time she fix an appointment with her. Unfortunately I'm not talking to her. My admin exec will be doing the talking.

The School personel:I met with the school personel to see if they could ensure tt construction will not be carried out during the exam period. They, of course, refused, or else I would not be frustrated the whole day. they said the work had been going on for a long time and they want to get it over and done with it altho i don't see the urgency for it..

So tt was how my day went- the only thing tt pacify me was tt i had my favourite food for lunch...

Sushi

Colleague and boots...

Is it wrong if you get fed up when ur friend who keeps on telling u abt her bf??

My friend/colleague- i don't consider her to be a close friend but she tells me a lot of things, keeps on telling me abt her bf. Like how the bf won't allow her to open the house gate when it is raining for the fear tt she might fall sick; how her bf calls her a few thousand times a day; how her bf bought her a digicam when she went Hong Kong with her mon etc, etc..

My objection is not towards the story but the fact tt she keeps on telling me how she doesn't like what her bf does. she keeps on saying how she feels suffocated..

Then my question would be why does she cling on to him and she is getting married in July? Is it hypocracy?

Or am I envious of her cos my bf does not do all those things??

I admit tt I would like my bf to call me slightly more often blah, blah, blah..but I don't complain. I've accepted tt he's the way he is and if he decides to be extremely nice to me on a particular day, i'l just enjoy it and move on...

I used to talk to her every now and then. We even have lunch together. But recently, I don't cos she'l be complaining abt all the nice things tt her bf does..Haiz..I mean what is it tt u want??

Anyway enough of her..

I've a fashion related question: How do u wear a pair of boots without looking bitchy? Look at this one.. Isn't this nice??


I've always wanted to get one but my bf doesn't like it cos he said tt i'l look bitchy...So i'm still figuring this out??

'Joke' of the day..

Q: 'What do men do after sex?'

A: Go back to their wives.

It is just me or does it not make any sense?

My tiring weekend and the day after..

Its lunch time now and I've my lunch early today.My complaint today would be the fact that I am so tired to the bones...

A chronology of my weekend:

Sat

8.30-1.30: Work like a dog; attended a staff meeting which was of course long and boring.
1.30 -3.00:Fetched my little sister and had lunch that I wou;d never have again at a pathetic place.
3.00 onwards: Met up with my cousin who dropped by. Stayed in her hotel with her. she brought her daughter.So had to take her swimming which was very long and tiring. But there was an interesting site tho. A lady was seen in her bath robe 'catwalking' around her pool in her 4 inch stilettos.She was so out of place.

Had dinner at night and then on had a long bonding session with my cousin- something we used to do so often when we weren't busy which was a long long time ago.

5.00 in the morn: Slept.

Sun

8.30: Awoken by the cutest niece on earth.Asking me to take her to the pool again. So I did my duties as the 'fun anutie' which i realised later was a huge mistake.

10.30: Had an awfully late breakfast before getting ready to leave the hotel. Thought I was heading back home but my cousin decided to go to a mall.

1.00: Came home for lunch.Again entertained my niece by bringing her to the garden and showing the trees.

3.00 onwards: My cousin left. I start reading my notes for my ACCA class. Marked assignments for my students. Reading and reading until 10.

10.00:Tv time till 12. Went to sleep at one.

Its like all the things tt I did during th eweekend din tire me enough tt I had to wake up at 6 in the morn cos I had to send off my sis to school. I was in college at 8.10. And whether u believe it or not I started working- I did filing cos my table looks like a dumpster; finally looked at the ACCA qn and realised that the area tt I lecture encompasses 40% of the entire paper. This launched me into my panic mode. From then till now (apart from blogging), I've been looking at questions and typing them for the students..

I've never looked at company law this much. Its one of my favourite area but I see it too much that I think I'm gonna vomit company law..I'm sick, sick and sick of looking at terms like issued share capital, the atricles, the memorandum, the directors, blah, blah, blah...

This is so exhausting...Worse still, my computer has been infected with some virus. So not my pc is at the clinic..The worst news of all is when my IT technician told me tt he might have to reformat my pc..How abt my hard work typed notes???

A horrible event in my workplace

Sometimes I wonder how people can actually create trouble for u..I mean don't they have anything better to do?Let me site u an example...

I went for an exhibition the other day representing my college with a colleague, an admin staff. Prior to the day, my head of faculty told us to bring a board so that we can paste info abt our college.

On the day itself, the admin staff did the packing since he was assigned the job. I met him there.He bought along with him a clerk (stupid clerk).

We went to the exhibition. To my surprise there was no board..So I asked my colleague where was it. He told me he din bring it. I told him we can't do without the board cos out booth looks terribly empty and it will cost us our rep.

I asked a clerk to go back to college to fetch the board but she refused even though she had no purpose to be there. Before coming she told me that she is following us to hep us set up the booth. So instead I sent the admin staff back to get the board- which was a waste of time and money.

My admin staff left. The stupid clerk had the cheek to tell me that he has already asked the admin staff to bring everything. I said fine. So i set up the booth waiting for her to offer help but she went around the exhibition hall instead. She left later claiming that there was nothing for her to do since she was not a lecturer.

When my admin staff came back with the board i asked him why din he bring the board. He told me that the clerk told him not to on the basis that there was a board there. The board that she meant was the partition that separates a booth from another.

I was appalled and speechless..I knew what her agenda was. U see my college is under a group of companies. This clerk is from another subsidiary but she frequently butts herself into college for no particular reason. She works closely with out president of the college. She has been trying so many many times to sabotage anything that we do simply because she wants to remove us. She wants to be in the college but she forgot that she is unqualified. So she'l try every manupilating things just to get my people in trouble. She managed to pull a fast one on my admin staff.

What kind of behaviour is that??She does all these without the slightest feeling of guilt. FIY she occasionally holds back me cheque on the basis that she is too busy to bank in my cheque..She doesn't like me at all so she finds fault with me...

Horrible...

My day spent...

I spend the entire day by typing a guide answer for my students. Just that...

It took me the entire day to type it.. This was all because i was surfing the net at the same time.

For a moment I felt bad because I was surfing non-work related things on the pc. I met with my head of faculty to check on whether it is wrong if i were to surf on non-work related things. He told me it was fine as long as it didn't affect my work.

He told me that I should not feel bad at all since I work really hard anyway. So this is one of the ways in which the college rewards me for my efforts. So political...I knows he has other agendas..

But then my college is quite relaxed when it comes to lecturers. This is one of the perks here- Flexibility..Luckily for my college we have yet to see any of the employees taking advanatges of the flexibility given. There is one tho who disappears for a long time once in a while. The disappearance is quite long actually- for about half a day.But she does her work quite well.

It pays off for my college to be relaxed with us. One thing for sure we are quite happy. Whenever there is some event organised by the college, the lecturer more often than not are willing to participate. Of course there are somethings and some people that we wish do not exist here.

However, the admin staffs don't enjoy ths flexibility. They even have to clock out for lunch. Its a bit pathetic but I do know that if this is not done the staffs will take a very long break. This is especially so for the newcomers.

Btw, i placed the current music head in my side bar but i cant thing of my current music. This is because i've been too busy with work to even sit and listen to music...

A new beginning and cheesecake

The semester had ended for the second and final year law students...They are now on their way to their exams-an experience that i wish not to relive..

I thought that I was going to feel sad when my students leave especially the final year students. They were the most serious, dedicated and commited to their studies than the rest.I bade them farewell and best wishes for their future endaevours.

I've reasd somewhere that an end is a new beginning..This is very true indeed. While i've ended a semester with a batch of students, i'm beginning a new journey.A new batch of students awaits and I'm actually looking forward to it.

Finally I'm beginning to commence my studies for my LLM-an important advancement of my education. I have not touched a single subject-not even stealing a glance on the subjects..

I am beginning to plan my life in a more proper manner. I've realised that my main ambition generate a huge amount of income. My bf and I are planning on the steps that we are going to take to realise our aims..This of course requires me to consider in a more serious mode whether the academic field in my life long career.

Of course on a shot term aim, I need to restructure my lecturing techniques. This means I will begin to amend my lecture notes, improve on my oratory skills and of course reas more to increase my knowledge.

My bf and I are also planning on our personal lives. We are both on the same channel fortunately- we are heading towards matrimony.

So..in the next couple of months before my students come back from their holidays, I will spend a lot of time thinking and thinking...

I realised that I've done a lot of work for the past year...
For the amount of work I've put in the past year entitle me to a reward..And my reward is of course a highly fattening and mouth watering treat:

A STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE...

A new perspective on law

I've been working very hard lately..I even brought home work just to finish up on my work. While I am currently so tired of working, it made me realise one thing..

I just realised something about my job as a lecturer. It made me realise how much I like law as a subject. To many it may be a boring subject because it involves numerous reading from various sources.

I stumbled upon this course when I was 17. I had seriously no idea what it was all about. Even when I was in my final year and a guy asked me why I chose to do law, I had no answer for him. I actually said tt I stumbled upon the course.

I thought one day I might regret studying law but now I realise that I was wrong. I'm glad I studied law. It allows me to think about the substantive law at a different level. The thing about law is that it enables you to think outside the box. There are so many possibilities. I know the application of the law is totally different from the theorectical part of it. It is this theoretical part of the law tt I love.

Seriously, I think I'm not making a mistake when I registered for my LLM recently. I think I've chosen the right path. For once, I feel like I'm really in the correct path. Nobody force me into it. Everyday when I read more and more, I find more interesting facts.

So I think I'm going to aspire towards writing a paper on one of the law subject. It would be a long time plan. Of course not now and time soon cos my knowledge is very shallow. I know its difficult.But I'l try..

I've one worry..Does this nerdify me??I hope not...