Just because I am an autumn baby :) after all the hot summer days, cooler days sets in. Well to be honest these days are actually cold, not cooler. These mornings when we leave the house for work, we see our misty breaths as we walk hurriedly to the train station. K's catch phrase these days is "omg it's so cold..." The sun sets earlier and by 5pm it's dark. My favourite is seeing green leaves bursting into colours of yellow, orange and red all over.
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| Signs of autumn in our garden again |
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| Has it been a year already? |
Work wise, we have moved to our brand new building next door last week. I have to say the move was very smooth and seamless, well done to the move team. To move more than 5,000 people to one building over a few weeks is no mean feat. These days, banks are moving towards an agile workspace. What does this mean you might wonder. It's a first for me too, so let me explain. Technically you don't have a fixed desk. Your team of 12 is assigned an area of say 10 seats and as long as your team sits in that assigned area everyday, that's fine. What about the remaining 2 you ask. Yes, so they encourage people to work from home these days so a guy I know work from home say, every Tuesday just so everyone can fit into that designated area. Each of us has been assigned a locker (back to school!) and at the end of the day, you need to clear your desk and move all your stuff into the locker so that the next day someone else can take that desk you were using today. It is all very clinical to me but this is the trend these days. They argue that there are a lot of empty desks everyday with people traveling for business or away on holidays, so to save costs, they don't create enough desks for everyone. There are also many "breakout areas" dotted around "to encourage more teamwork and collaboration" - all these office lingo - despite the clinical environment.
For me, it's not that bad because we are in a "private area" meaning we deal with confidential information so we are in a secured area and so we pretty much stick to the same desk everyday and hence no need to clear our desks. Everything is brand new which is great. Our desks are height adjustable meaning you can work standing up - especially useful after a heavy lunch and you want to stretch a bit and not sit down and feel stodgy like a bun the whole time. At least I tell myself I'm also burning calories whilst standing. The coffee machines are great - I get myself one free decaff latte every morning :) The restaurant is not too bad either. See when I started here a year ago, the tiny canteen had nothing to boot, carpets were stained, old and worn out. The worst was to see the few resident mice (yes mice - plural) scurrying about IN BROAD DAYLIGHT which is pretty much ILLEGAL to me, but yet it seemed like I was the only one concerned about them because all my colleagues all continued working as if nothing happened. So this new place does not have any mice (yay!) although my colleagues love to add the word "yet" after my sentence.
Last Wednesday Gabby brought baby Isabella (I call her Bella-chan) to meet me for lunch on my birthday. Where did we go? I actually suggested going to our staff restaurant hehe.
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| Beautiful mommy with Bella-chan |
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| Grilled scallops to perfection |
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| Had to include my birthday flowers from K :) |
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| You know it's cold when your hubby wraps himself in a throw and lies comfortably in his fav position on our sofa and plays with his phone |
A few snaps of dinner this week which I shared with my family and also sharing here. No food styling whatsoever haha
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| Baked salmon in nasi lemak chilli (so easy and so yummy) with fried runner beans with onions and dried shrimp paste homemade from my grandma, served with some tofu miso soup |
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| K's fav dish of mine - chicken claypot mushroom rice This super easy recipe never goes wrong and tastes even better using our new rice cooker using the claypot function! (Pris - recognise the chilli bottle? hehe) |
And that's our life these days!
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