Long weekend (2)

Another Monday. Another last day of my three days long weekend.

This is the second of the three long weekends this month. One more to come.

This three days long weekend is a solid fail. Instead of rest and relax, I have clocked 11 hours and 24 minutes of overtime work thus far. That amount will likely increase after dinner tonight...

Worked overtime from after lunch to before dinner on both Saturday and Sunday. Solid working hours. Only stopped because had to go pick up kid from tuition and to have dinner out.

And worked past midnight on Saturday. Spared myself on Sunday night, as I was simply too tired.

And too fed up. The discontentment with work has reached too high a level. Frustrated with how the project is managed, the frequent change in direction, resulting in all these overtimes, and still struggled to keep up.

This long weekend is definitely a failure, and despite all the overtime hours, I am still behind. So the pressure is still looming large.

Can already foresee the endless bombardments tomorrow when I resume my online presence. Not looking forward to it. At all.

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累

真不明白，做什么要活得这么累？

周末不是在休息充电，而是马不停蹄的加时工作。

午餐前的片段就不算了，周末两天，午餐到晚餐间是没有停息的工作。然后昨晚再接再厉的做到快凌晨一点。

今晚不知道是不是也会是这样？

只知道我现在非常十分的烦躁不满、怨念很重。

最近开始想着退休的事，很遗憾的只能想想，因为没有能够退休的本钱。

唉～ 命真苦。

活得好累。

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Headache

Woke up with a headache.

No, I did not drink. I do not believe in self-poisoning.

More importantly, I like to have full control over my mind, my thinking.

Headache persisted throughout the day, and got progressively worse.

Very irritable. So all those impromptu meetings, unsolicited calls, additional demands and parachuted tasks, became super annoying. Nerve fraying, really.

By the end of the working hours, of which I worked overtime by about 45 minutes but pretended I didn't, I had to head straight to the bed and be a zombie.

Got up after about 1.5 hours for dinner. Then dish washing. Then throwing the rubbish. Then writing this.

Not a good day.

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Long weekend (1)

Monday today, last day of my three days long weekend. Resuming work tomorrow.

This is the first of the three long weekends this month. Two more three days long weekends in subsequent weeks.

I will rate myself successful for this long weekend. Only did about half an hour of overtime, which I considered as does not count.

Yes, kind of lying to myself but that's just how it is.

Spent the long weekend mainly catching up on my gaming, and napped more than usual.

Though game progress is a lot slower than I hope, I try not to stress about it. Defeats the purpose of gaming otherwise.

Can't say I am well-rested, because I am still constantly tired, and the headache still lingers. Subtlety, but there nonetheless.

Oh well, work resumes tomorrow. Too bad.

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又一季

今天看了《奔跑吧》第十四季的最后一集，还是暖暖的收官。

希望年尾会有特别篇啦。

一开始是韩国的 Running Man，然后是中国的《奔跑吧兄弟》，然后改称的《奔跑吧》，到最近的泰国版 Running Man，我都看了。而且如果没有什么特别原因，我都打算继续看下去。

喜欢综艺，因为看了、笑了，就足够了。就是消遣娱乐嘛。看看、笑笑、轻松一下。

那些偶尔会看到的美丽风景、新地点的介绍、突如其来的感动，都是额外附加的福利。

希望一直都会有这样的综艺节目啦。

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To not burn

To not have any of my hard-earned annual leaves burned by the end of the month, I will need to take at least two days off in July.

In terms of work, the whole of last month was just one exhausting and frustrating mess, that left me with no life, no time and energy for anything else.

July didn't actually started off great, but these few days are slightly better. Here's hoping there will be no repeat of last month.

Anyway, I have to take at least two days off this month, and initially I wanted to take a whole work week off, five days leave to make a nine days break.

Manager asked me to have a coverage. Fair. And if possible, to break it down to two and three days leaves, given I am not going on vacation or anything, just wanted a break. Okay.

Which got me thinking. I don't really have coverage, not for the primary hands on work I do anyway, because my thermal model and my thermal simulation are built and run on a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software that none of the other thermal engineers in the department uses.

Used to have another colleague in the team who knows that CFD software, but he has left the company. Maybe I should switch to the more common but less features CFD software...

Anyway, shorter break will probably mean I could get away without a coverage, and I also think that I will most likely end up working overtime if I took the whole work week off. My manager thinks so too. She knows me.

So I dropped the whole work week off idea, and am just going to take two separate Mondays off to make three days long weekends.

Monday instead of Friday because there is a weekly Artificial Intelligence sharing on Friday afternoon that I like to attend. Goodness knows I need to get on that A.I. bandwagon before I am left in the dust, outdated and irrelevant.

If I am not already.

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七月

七月了。

新的一个月份，希望是新的的一个开始，换掉上个月的晦气，和无尽的劳烦。转转运吧。

希望是那样，现实又是另一样。

七月一日，病了，还连续病了两天。

七月一日，就需要加时工作了。至今七月才第四天而已，已经加时工作了两天，还是睁一只眼闭一只眼没把今早（星期六）做了半小时算进去那种，自我欺骗的算法。

转运？噗嗤！真可笑。

这就是命。

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