It’s been raining quite heavily last night and I saw on TV that some part of Jakarta is started to sink under the water. And after 12 days away from my desk, so does my work.

I must admit that it was a little bit depressing to return and found bunch of envelopes all marked urgent piling up on my table. It was even more depressing to open my mailbox. One consultant urged me to send the report by today. Another one sent me a schedule and asked me to confirm whether I could make it. Colleagues badgering for closure and up date. Candidates called in. Some calls need to be made. Some pleasant, others aren’t. Lots of meeting and lots of updating things were requested. To make things worse, my boss is planning to take leave tomorrow. Hm, I felt a bit suicidal after a while.

Nah, just kidding. I like coming back to the office and sliding back to my daily routine. Standing in front of the capuccino machine listening its brewing and smelling its aroma whilst chatting lightly with friends, sipping it whilst sorting through e-mails and feel its bitter taste against my tongue, replying the urgent e-mails and deleting the old one, make some calls - write some notes, see my colleagues to catch up with latest news (and gossips!) and most of it, relieved that things are pretty much in shape thanks to my dear colleagues who keep it running during my trip (I love you girls!).

Now here my things to do:

1. Finishing up Hay salary survey (almost there, I promise, I almost there…)

2. Preparing IICS/Watson Wyatt salary survey (reality check needed!)

3. Preparing April payroll (URGENT - ready to give our payroll consultant another set of abusive manner)

4. Keeping track on latest recruitment offer (check with boss: am I expected to close down some of it?)

5. Up dating SEA Headcount list

6. More headcount report to the government

And as I’ll be travelling to KL from 24 - 27 April, looks like I have to finish all of the above items by next week. Hmm…looks like I may have to do some serious reality check of keeping habit of not working after 4 pm and not working over the weekend. Plus some extra work to get rid of my procrastinating habit. Now it’s 2 pm and I could feel the heavy lunch settling down. My lids grew heavy and my tongue start lolling out craving for some sugar to boost my energy.

Fancy a cup of coffee anybody?