Wednesday, 6^th July 2005 | 1:43 PM
Busy me

You know, I really salute mothers who can juggle motherhood with their careers. I come home each day completely exhausted, but I'm not sure whether it's because I've done a lot at work when I don't feel like I've done much.

It's real madness at work. And not because this book is coming. Honestly I hadn't realised until recently that the launch is next week! Unlike in the case of the previous book, the handling of this book has been taken out of our hands and is in the hands of upper management (whom I'm sure are busy bragging about what they have done about it, and not caring about us the little people who helped to make it possible. But, whatever). I just realised I haven't even ordered my copy. Oops. But as I was saying, it's madness enough at work even without this book. I need to get used to this restructuring thing. I learn of new things that I have to do everyday - and worse, I have to learn these things.

At the same time, I don't know if I'm seeing too much into things, but yesterday Deebs asked me if I was used to doing pricing for certain books. I told him honestly, no. I've been doing pricing (only started recently) but not for those, so Deebs decided to leave them to my ex-boss. Contrast this to Ms Manette, whom today tasked me with looking at the possibility reducing the price of one of our titles in order for us to be able to clear the stock. Ms Manette would have offered to teach me how to price those special titles so that I can do them by myself in the future. I know Ms Manette isn't representative of my gender as much as Deebs or the other men in this office are of theirs, but it's just an interesting dynamic that I'm noticing here. Ms M seems to think I'm more capable than the men seem to think I am. And I tend to agree with her.

Honestly, do they think I went to university to learn how to do data-entry? I agree that I would have to pay my dues and learn my way up from the top, but I am quite confident I learn much faster, and I know much more of things than the men in this company credits me with. I really hate how they seem to equate my lack of experience with a lack of brains. :(

In other news, the 117th IOC session is going on right here in Singapore, and by the end of the day we'll be able to find out if Paris, London, New York, Madrid or Moscow will be the city to host the 2012 Olympics. And yep, I just ranked those cities in terms of my choices. We've been having hype about the 2012 Olympics 24/7 for the past few weeks just because we're hosting this conference (and so darn proud of it!) and I'm quite sick of it. Nice to see all the celebrities down though.

I've been thinking about rejoining my gym. I've decided that that probably is the best way to go now in terms of exercise for me, because my new neighbourhood isn't like my old one. It's not exactly safe nor calming to go walking/jogging in the streets when the sun isn't out. Plus, there's a whole lot more pollution to contend with. I swear some of these buses which zoom past are in violation of our anti-pollution laws. I've been checking out which branch of the gym chain I used to be a member of would be most convenient for me and a potential budget. I've been feeling guilty about my lack of progress in the "500 miles to Nowhere" plan, and plus I believe I really need to exercise now. Been looking at personal trainer plans too, but I'm filing that under "budget to consider".

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