5/365 : workspace

So yeah, I went back to work today. Not a lot of tasks yet; I just had to update my manhour reports, and my performance appraisals. I happen to have left a few pending documents before the Christmas vacation, and they came back to haunt me two weeks after. Hahaha.

And yes, I really did forget that we even had an internal Japanese examination slated for this morning. So I got to office without even any review or practice, and just threw myself into the Japanese level 3 exam. I expected my vocabulary to bomb, I did good on grammar and listening, and I thought the Kanji section was a breeze. ;) If I pass this, I go on to the conversation part of the examination, which is to be held next Monday.

Hopefully, I pass so that I get an instant salary increase (everybody wants that). Also, I hope I also pass the JLPT level 3 last December for an instant hefty bonus! Yay! :D We find out the results to both around February or March.

I also talked to Ching over lunch, and I was really glad to hear her lively again. :) The past few days, it was really obvious that she was having a hard time with the cough and cold (and the imminent fever), and I guess the negative-twenty-something-degree winter didn't really help. But I'm really relieved to feel that she's actually getting better. :)

And one last anecdote: one of my officemates actually brought durian (jackfruit?) into office today? Like a real honest-to-goodness durian fruit, and not just the candies either. And GOD, it stank up half the office floor! :p Everyone was smelling like durian by the end of the day, that I swear, I think I used up a quarter of our first aid clinical alcohol just so I don't notice the smell half the time.

And yes, that's me at my desk, reading a new specifications document that Reji pulled up for me, while drinking some coffee I whipped up with the Hazelnut Coffeemate I recently bought. :p