Life continues

I had a very packed summer.

Taiwan trip --> Japan trip --> Driving Lessons + Fell ill (Flu again. But quite serious.) for two weeks --> Driving test (barely recovered) on 31 July 2006

No time for thoughts. No time to be nervous. No time to worry.

And then I faced a brand new phase of my life -- I started working on 1 August 2006.

Now it has been approximately a month. I have been busy, but so far it's manageable.

I guess my mom is right. It's a good to have a challenging job. Few years ago, she predicted that I was not the type that would be content with uninteresting and repetitive jobs. I might enjoy selling cakes for 1 or 2 weeks, but would die of boredom afterwards.

As a trainee, I am given all sorts of tasks every day. Usually, it's something new and clueless to me. But I know eventually I will be able to sort it out. I just have to stay calm, be well prepared, consider all possibilities and ask someone if I run out of ideas. Panicking is the last thing I should do.

On the other hand, I remind myself constantly to stay cheerful and positive, even if I am asked to do something that I absolutely hate. (The most popular trainee tasks: research and prepare bundles.) I used to like photocopying, because it's so monotonous that your body would remember the moves and it would become a set of reflex actions. Yet, after copying 200 pages, the smell of photocopies just makes me feel dizzy and nauseous. Besides, copying is time consuming, especially if the photocopier is in a bad mood and sends out fault messages every other page.