Need a change of working environment...

Appraisal time is coming and judging from the people who are about to get promoted and what I had gone through for the past year or so, it is time for me to really move on and switch jobs. I feel that I'm being used to fill the gaps for the operational side of my team and my leadership skills (like planning, task allocation, delegation, monitoring, etc) is not being tapped fully.

I'm the so-called team leader for my team but I'm being squeezed to do daily shift work and other mundane operational stuff that I'm pretty sick of it to the point of being bochap at work.... I can't do much planning as that would stretch me to be doing more overtime... Speaking of overtime, one of my managers hinted to me that I had done 37 DAYS (not hours!!) of overtime clocked for last year and they're having a hard time of compensating for me ( by giving off-in-lieu or paying in cold hard cash)

To add salt to my wound now, one of my campus mates is being promoted to managerial level. Well it's his rezeki (blessed accomplishments) and I can't say much.. The managers in my company look highly to him and I guess he deserves knowing how much effort he puts in.

I have to stop complaining and move on. Find new jobs where I can be better off... Time to sharpen my resume and interview skills.

2007..

2007 started off pretty hectic for me as I was working non stop for 6 days in a row at a point. But things got to better for me (and my family) as we settled down in our new house. We started to stay in our new house late December '06. When I'm working night shift and when Azlina is having early morning classes in NIE, we would stay in Atuk's house for the time being. Also we started to spruce up our house more now that the toilets are ready (after the renovation). Went shopping at IKEA for furniture, kitchen-ware and accessories, Joo Chiat Complex for carpet, Tanjong Katong complex for curtain for living room.

I realised that a showroom flat will be difficult to maintain in a pristine showroom condition. So far, we are comfortable in our home and will try to make the best out of whatever we have to make it more homely for our family and more welcoming for our guests later on. Pics will be posted soon...

My French class started off well. Currently I'm taking the Paris-Lyon Web Multimedia class. Our tutor Youssef geared us up for more French culture this term and he incorporated cool multimedia stuff in the class. Last Saturday we did an in-depth analysis of an advertising campaign by Chanel (the Chanel Allure perfume slogan: "L'Allure, c'est ce qui rest quand on a tout enleve"). I guess that lessons now will be more engaging with all the language background that we have and I hope to complete the DELF B1 and B2 exams during the June summer period.