Intro... and I thought for a while what to put here about me. :) What do you wanna know? I am just a simple guy working in an IT Company handling Operations and Project Management. I'm also going through a torturous 16 months "express" double degree course at Kaplan APMI - Murdoch University. In this blog, you will basically find alot of nonsense from me. I like to complain and yes I complain alot but for things that are not right. If you know me well enough then you will know that I always complain for a reason :D otherwise I am just like any quiet guy next door starring at the laptop screen. This blog details my daily experiences as well as my training for my runs. I have taken an interest in running since last year and I am working towards completing a Marathon this year... Do feel free to comment or message me I will definitely reply and if you need to email me, feel free to drop your emails to terencetkp@gmail.com!     >> Eat + Shop, Eat + Shop >> new look + new beginning >> Updates in Progress >> All Cleared to go! >> ill for one week >> sick sick sick >> Oops APMI did it again >> Power Failure + Ti Amo >> First Day of School and Work >> irritating rashes - hives   >> November 2007 >> December 2007 >> January 2008 >> February 2008 >> March 2008 >> April 2008 >> May 2008 >> June 2008 >> July 2008 >> August 2008 >> September 2008 >> October 2008   >> SG Runners >> May My Run >> Bad Guys Win	Tuesday, June 24, 2008 //time management / f*cking pissed off / 6km Simei Run There are three parts to my blog entry today. I should start off with work and school work. I realised that its all about time management and for this trimester, I'd failed to manage my time properly. Blame it all on the lousy arrangement of lecturers? Maybe but not quite. I guess its about my own time management. Everything seems to clash with one another. It was good news that my company has managed to split up with our "parent" company. Its a reason to celebrate as we found our own "key", our very own freedom but in a sense, it also meant that we're going be independent on our own; no more Accounts and Administrative Support and being the manager of the newly set up BPO department, I have been tasked to over see the handling and taking over of all Accounts and HR matters from my ex parent company. I'm certainly more than happy to take up this challenge (partly because I have been involved in Admin ever since I was a clerk in SAF) but with a deadline like the end of this month, everything just seems to be in a rushed. I'm rushing like a mad dog trying to take over all the administrative files, HR policies and to understand the support and to question all my existing administrative staffs before the official deadline cuts off on the 30th of June 2008. At the same time, I have another role to play and that's Project Management for a few projects. One of it is having a User Acceptance Test this week and I am supposed to be stationed at my clients place from Wednesday to Friday for 3 full days of training with different groups of users and I am rushing my ass of to do up the training manual for the UAT. At the same time, I have the payroll and HR matters to worry about and my boss has just asked me for help to do up a small program for a customer. Its already driving me crazy and I find it hard to manage. I'm not sure what I have to do first and what to prioritise... and then there's the school work for ICT 265 Knowledge and Information Security. Last week there's a deadline for submission of Research Assignment 3 and as of today I have yet to start on it and there's already another submission due this Wednesday for Research Assignment 4! Not forgetting, there's also ICT 306 Software Architecture's Assignment 1 that has been pushed to this week due to the replacement of Malar with Dr Loo. Everything just seems to pack together without giving me any space to breathe.. (yes except my runs but the runs are meant to let me distress). I'm seriously starting to doubt if I'm really good at managing my own time. What have I been doing? Why is there so much work piled up for me to work on? Why can't I accomplish the tasks on time? I even went to the extend of writing an email to my lecturer in Australia for advice and what I had gotten back from him wasn't really very nice. I tried to explain my situation to him. If I had the choice I would really want to complete all my assignments on time! but right now I don't really have the chance to do so! and he told me that I can't use my work as an excuse. I'm not, I'm trying to explain my situation and if its not bad enough, the assignments are really time consuming. It's not that easy to locate articles in the Australian Context but of course, I don't have a right to argue my way back. I'm still a student afterall and all I can do is to deprive myself of some sleep, stay in office for lunch and try my best to work my ass off for all the outstanding things I have to do. (You must be wondering now.. wah u still got time to blog? Yes I want to blog because I need to vent my frustrations.) Secondly, I am extremely pissed off with a person. I am f*cking pissed off and I have never been so pissed off with anyone for this year. Stop taking me for granted. I have done all I could and I don't think I deserve this kind of fucking treatment from you. I'm an adult now and I want to settle things the matured way and so appreciate that you can follow suit. I'm pissed and I'm upset. It's hard to show it out and tell anyone about it but I'm seriously not feeling good. Lastly, due to my frustrations, I went for a run. It was a run from Tampines to Simei stretching a total of 6km. At the beginning of the run, I encountered abit of stiching problem but I slowed down and eventually got rid of it. I continued running and managed to finish the whole distance in 36 minutes. Though tired, I felt better after the run. Not so pissed but still pissed. Anyway here's the running route: That should be all for tonite. Time to work on the assignments. :( posted by Terence @ 12:19 AM| comments? (0)