work, work, and work again.

yes i know, this blog is getting a bit dusty. didn't want to update for the past dunno-how-many weeks cause i know all i can talk about would be work. how boring right. so i shall just update about work once in a while, i promise.

basically, i've been really busy. spending more than 12 hours at work during weekdays and doing the necessary during weekends [prep for aust].

work's been really horrible [but definitely much much better than when i started]. volume of trades can be really unpredictable. most of the time, it is reasonably high, but then sometimes it gets scarily high. quite hard to describe, but just imagine my office desk filled with deal tickets, broker confos, reuters conversations, fx tickets [the real nuisance cause the fx dealers keep cancelling and reissuing]. i'm practically busy the whole day. no time to go to the ladies[ yes, its that bad] during the peak times of the day. but i really have to say that the traders at the money market and the fx desk [these 2 are the ones i work closely with] are nice. sebastien espinesse and david pibarot are really funny... they will try to imitate me when i speak chinese to agnes and their pronounciation can be really quite accurate. and omg, they can get really playful to shoot rubberbands at each other in the room. its so funny that i always can't help laughing to myself when i walk out of the dealer's room [hopefully nobody sees that]. but when work's concerned, they r really serious. joanne [my colleague] says traders at big banks are mean. like when u approach them when they r busy trading, they will ask u to f off. for that i'm thankful that i'm working in a small bank =D. wai ling's interning at RBS. she told me that the traders there r naughty. yes, naughty is the word.

nice things aside, something really scary happened last thurs. so scary that i almost cried. i didn't see the broker's confo for a usd100m deal. help. [its quite hard to explain the consequences here. just know that its a big prob] and it was about 7pm when i found out so the mm traders went home already. but it was really fortunate that the head of treasury was around to help us out. he just made a call to paris using his own mobile phone and everything was settled. thank god. the trader's assistant was really nice, she called me to tell me not to worry, cause sebastien won't scold me the next day. see what i mean by nice pple. i can't believe that they r extending my contract to jan [cause i thought i'm lousy so they won't want me]. but noelle's last day is 31 dec, i'll really miss my good friend =(

been having lots of nice food recently. most r treats. hee.
1) italien lunch on my boss. nice boss always treat us. this is already the 2nd treat since i temp-ed at the bank. first was at fullerton =D
2) grand corpthorne's cafe brio on chongren [nice chongren treated EIGHT of us] - i have to say i really dislike making my friends wait for me after work. for all my dinner appts, i'll be really late =(. anyway,its my 1st time having hotel buffet with friends. nice experience. next we went zouk's winebar. then the guys headed to boat quay for a second round of drinks =/.
3) 'lawry's - the prime rib' [at paragon] with my family. can't remember when's the last time i had fine dining. but this was really good. drank a bit of the house wine which was not too bad.
4) 'house of seafood' with my family [walking distance from my house]. there's always a long queue and parking there is a headache. ohmy, the crabs r yummy and the price's really reasonable.

feeling so unhealthy eating so much without exercise. i always tell [or rather, comfort] myself that running in and out of the dealer's room is considered an exercise. HA.

my sis is in cambodia for her cip trip. i'm missing her already. love my sis <3 <3 <3.

two shows that i like watching recently are the hk drama at 9 on cable tv and 篮球火 [jerry yan's really sweet <3]. really sad that i can only catch the last 5 mins everyday of the hk drama cause i reach home at 9.40 after taking cab and i can't believe i actually can like a show that i watch only 5 mins everyday. haha.

i need more time for my family, friends and myself.