Holiday NOT Enough

Assigning the first two days of Chinese New Year "holiday" to be holiday is NOT enough. It is definitely NOT a holiday for the Chinese who celebrates CNY as we were busy preparing food, visiting family and friends, catching up, ... How is that holiday?! 
There should be another day assigned as holiday, the third day of CNY as Chinese believes this day is not a good day to socialise or visit relatives and friends because it is "Chi Kou Ri" (Day of Red Mouth) and in Chinese culture, red mouth means easy to cause quarrels and fights. The 3rd day of CNY will be the perfect holiday! 

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Three words to sum up how I felt physically after the Brisbane trip:
Jet lag!
Exhausted!!
SLEEP!!!

Exhaustion

Which is worse? Physical or mental exhaustion? I think it is mental exhaustion. Brain shuts down, nothing is processing... : |

TIRED OUT

Yesterday, I had to make 2 presentations to the Dean and it was really pressurising and stressful for me. I wanted to make sure I make a good presentation because I still feel accountable to my former PI even though the project has ended. I also wanted to make sure I make a good presentation because I am making the presentation to the Dean!
However, in the end, we only had time for one presentation as I was questioned several times throughout the presentation. The second presentation would be postponed to a later date but soon. Argh, prolonged stress. :(
I was so exhausted and tired out by the whole experience that I slept immediately after dinner from 7+pm till 2am.

Zonked Out

Updated 5 November 2010, 1:15am
I only just woke up! I was that exhausted. :(

I am totally zonked out today. As I was waiting for my bus home, I totally spaced out and missed it! In the end, I had to wait an extra 20 minutes for the next bus. :( All that waiting made me even more zonked out. I got home close to 7.30pm and I am going to sleep now. zzzzZZZZZZZ

Exhausted!

I am totally exhausted today. I was out in two schools, did 5 sessions of testing. Other than that, I was also hit by mental challenges as well as physical challenge throughout the day. :(

EXHAUSTED!

Long Day(s)

I was interviewing teachers for my project today. It was quite exhausting because I had to pay careful attention. Although there are specific questions to ask, sometimes the teachers might say something which was interesting and I would follow up with more questions. :P

The day before, a group of us were working on scheduling papers, workshops and symposiums for the coming conference in June which is organised by my research centre. That was pretty tiring too but we had lots of fun working together.

Looking forward to the long weekend for some relaxation. :) Hmm, dreaming of a massage lol.

Exhausted!

Updated 21 Feb 2009, 1:12am. Still awake despite being exhausted. :(

Exhausted! I really am exhausted. I think I can sleep for 24 hours straight!

Sorted out a bit of the budget in the morning before going down to the school. Came back from school, throat sore and hungry. But there was still much to be done, like packing of materials for Monday early morning school visit! If a good friend hadn't drag me to lunch at 3pm, I think I would have totally skipped lunch. :P

Really exhausted...

Exhuasted!

I never had to pay so much attention to all that was said at a meeting. This meeting of mine went from 2 to 5pm. It was definitely physically and mentally exhausting!

Despite having a rest in the earlier part of the night, I am still exhausted. Yes, still EXHAUSTED!

Exhausted!

I have been working on some videos since Wednesday, helping to code them for another colleague to get inter-rater reliability. As it was the first time I have seen the videos, each 1 hr video has taken me at least 1.5 hours to code, sometimes having to play back to re-look. It is mentally exhausting as well as slow going. :( I would love to work faster than that.

The best time I found to code them was really, really late at night when my girls were asleep because then they couldn't ask me questions about the videos, lol. Such as last night, or rather early this morning, I coded 2 videos between 12:30am to 3:15am. This morning, I managed to code another video while the girls were in pre-school. However, I had to leave for office before they returned home. I got to code 1 more video at work before it got too distracting with the various phones ringing and such. I took off again to find another place to work. Finally, I ended up at Starbucks, lol. Surprisingly, it was rather quiet. I coded a 5th video. :) I was really pleased with myself and left for home. The coding really knocked me out mentally. I fell asleep for more than two hours, only to wake up at 8pm. Now I have energy to work through tonight again for the last 5 vidoes, lol.

PS. I am lucky that I have a boss who is very understanding and doesn't mind where I work. She even said I could work at the beach as long as I could get my work done. Shall try that one day, hahaha. :P