Long weekend postponed

Monday today, not on leave.

Initial plan was three consecutive three days long weekends, made up from a public holiday and two annual leaves on consecutive Mondays.

Broke that streak today, because when I was on the third day of my latest working overtime streak last Thursday, I knew from the workload and progress then that I would be working straight through the weekend, and most likely into the early of this week.

So I postponed the annual leave today to this coming Friday, the last day of July, after which my annual leave would be forfeited.

Really do not want to be working when I am on leave, whenever possible. Not always possible, but I gotta try my best.

I worked overtime a total of 20 hours and 9 minutes this past weekend. Two days, twenty hours.

Coincidently, that was the total overtime hours I did in February this year, down to the minute. What are the odds?

I am beyond burned out.

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没日没夜

星期天凌晨十二点半，几分钟前刚下班。

不是工作做完了，就只是太累了，无法再继续。

星期六的加时工作，应该有做了九个小时左右。几乎就是吃饭、上厕所、载送孩子以外的时间。

待会睡醒后又重复…

这是连续加时工作的第五天。

好累、好累。

这份工，唉～

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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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