Tag: day to day

  • A Day Delayed

    Today started as a standard Tuesday morning, getting up earlier to make my coffee, and then making my way to work. But soon, it was a little non-standard, as I deviated to pick up some breakfast buns from the Chinese food stall at Chinese Garden MRT. I accidentally purchased the Chives and Egg bun instead of the meat one, but it was still tasty anyhow.

    On Tuesdays, my office has an office wide gathering, in a very Christian form, because we are still a Christian company. And this was quite a nice recap after our planning retreats over the weekend.

    Initially, my day was set on getting some of my prints, then making my way home to finish up the folding necessary. But after half an hour of trying to get updates on the printers, I decided my time was better spent at home, and I pushed my schedule up. Within 10 minutes of my arrival home, the printers emailed to say they were ready. To which I replied, I’ll pick it up tomorrow if that’s alright.

    I continued along my day, folding, cutting and sealing all the zines from the weeks of printing. Productivity guide Cal Newport spoke good ideas to me, and Sean Connery as James Bond accompanied me in the later part of the evening, leading to the night.

    Clarice helped me with a ton of inventory management, and then we’ve actually only just wrapped up. It was a long night indeed, and extremely productive.

    The day was delayed, but thankfully, it worked out well in the end.

    More to print and pick up tomorrow!

  • A Long Day

    It was a very straight forward day today. I got up, made coffee for my international colleague, my wife, and me. Then we left to go for a full day of a planning retreat. It was planning what work would be look like 2 years in time.

    It started at about 9AM, and it ended at about 930PM. It was a long day.

    At lunch, I had gotten duck rice from an extremely incompetent and rude duck rice shop owner. He blamed me for not telling him what method of pay I was going to pay with (digital), and next he forgot I had already ordered, after a 5-10 minute wait. It was quite a ridiculous situation, and I was not impressed with him at all. The duck could have tasted really great, but his attitude left a horrible impression.

    That aside, the retreat itself went pretty well. Everything was conveyed, and we have things to work on for sure.

    On the way home, there was a couple hugging each other in the train, for the entire ride. Entwined in the middle of the cabin. At the bus interchange for the ride home, there was another couple locking lips at while waiting for the bus. Another strange scene for sure.

    Right now, my brain is so tired from thinking, and I’m glad I adopted this style of recording-the-day type of posting.