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My last post was on Tuesday and it's Saturday already. I haven't gone that long without a post in quite awhile. In fact I haven't been using my PC much, be it at home or at work. Been a little busy getting stuff done, work wise and by the time I get home, I'm just too lazy to log on. You know, the usual get everything done rush just before the place shuts down for a whole week or more for the Chinese New Year holidays in about two weeks time.

I know for a fact my office is going to be closed for at least 7 whole days (woohoo!) for the Chinese New Year. It's actually a two day public holiday but most Chinese owned companies here shut down for the entire week and I happen to work in a Chinese owned company so we'll be closed for a whole 9 days including the weekends.

I'm really looking forward to it and It'll be a great chance for me to rest and recuperate at home. The only thing about this period of time I don't really like right now is rushing to get all my work completed just before the holidays. One of my old clients from my ex-office has started a project with us and that has me a little worried. Not that I can't do the project but I'm just a little worried that the holiday shut down will throw a damper on my schedule with the project.

The client is a government client and they only have 2 days off and I really don't want them calling me and interrupting my las vegas strip holiday just to go see them. I wouldn't be a very happy person then :D Hopefully I can get their work done and out of the way before the Chinese New Year. But it's good to know that my old clients still call me up to do work for them :D

That's basically one of the reasons why I've been missing in the blogsphere for quite a while. I just don't have much time to spend sitting and blogging like I used to. Even my blog hopping has been so darn slow that I only manage to visit one or two blogs a days. I'll get to all your blogs eventually though. But judging from the amount of new updates from you guys in my reader, that's like going to take me the better half of the entire day to go down the list. You guys sure post quite a lot don't you :D

I know I haven't really spoken about my work much since I've joined this new company but I must say I'm pretty much enjoying myself over here. I have a boss who is pretty much receptive to new ideas, in fact he has a whole load of ideas himself.

I'm currently given a whole new project to launch an online web printing thing that my boss had lying around for ages. It's a little messy right now and it'll take a little time getting it sorted out and finally going live. It's an interesting little project and once it's online, I'll blog more about it. It just might be something you guys could also take advantage of :D

Like I said, I really do enjoy working here. I may work further than I used to but I go into the office much later and actually arrive home much earlier than my older place :D Having a boss who is also an old friend, he happens to understand the horrendous traffic I have to go through everyday and says to me,

'Aiya, Nick, you leave your house after 9am, take you time, no need to come in early. Avoid the jam and save your petrol la.'

Who can argue with that kind of reasoning? LOL! Now I get to sleep in till much later every morning, wait till the roads clear down some and then take a nice leisurely drive in. And when then later in the evening he will say,

'Hey Nick, since we finish all our work already and have nothing to do, go home la, avoid the rush hour traffic'

And this is roughly around 4pm or so, sometimes even earlier, so I'm really home very much earlier than before :D Now is that cool or what ... hehehe ... You should have seen wifey's face the first day I came home at 4pm. She looked at me and said,

'What are you doing home so early? Got fired or something?' (LOL!)

But I suppose all this is coming home is only temporary. Once the jobs really start coming in, I don't think I'll have the liberty to leave that early. But for now, I must say I'm pretty satisfied with my work :D Ok, I gotta go do some stuff. I'll drop by your blogs soon. Till then, have a great weekend. I know I will.
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