My first day at work

Well after another restless night, i had to wake up at the ungodly hour of 7:30am. Gave up though and went back to bed for another 10 minutes.

Finally dragged myself out of bed, got dressed, drank some tea and then headed off to work.
Turned up at 8:45am (i figure that was pretty safe) met my new boss who says that there isn't a set time to work but he comes in around 8am and finishes at 8:30pm (huh!!!)
Anyhow was shown around my new office and found out that there isn't really that much for me to do at the moment because access to applications haven't been sorted yet so... read the intranet!

Ok, it really doesn't take long to surf an Intranet site - there's only so much that is relevant to you (e.g. finding out when you have public holidays, what kind of leave you can take, how much sick leave you can take etc etc - BTW HK has publich holidays every single month except for August and November. May has 3 holidays! ) Cool!

Ok back to work, i was taken out to lunch and met a girl from the Sydney office who was visiting for a week - poor thing has been working late and hasn't even done any shopping!! But during lunch it was discussed that there is a lot of 'exchanges' planned between countries and that the support team (only 4 of us including my manager) will swap with people. So looks like i may come back to Sydney in a couple of months for a bit of cross-knowledge transfer (or whatever you call it)... mmm checked the travel policy we fly business class for anything over 5hrs (yes!)

Ok now to the important thing, the office is a bit far from the other business area (it's near the water) so in terms of food there isn't much to eat around my building. But in true investment bank fashion what they provide us goons is AMAZING!

Massive kitchen with comfortable seating area and here is what they have. Couple of sandwich presses, four different types of sliced bread, snacks(biscuits, chocs etc), fridge has fruit drinks, iced tea, soft drinks, milk, water and most importantly alcohol!! I think there's even fruit but i didn't notice (obviously there were more appealing things to look for). Oh of course there was tea and coffee - couple of types of tea as well probably about 6-8 types

Take that, Graeme hehehe


Anyway i'm going to be better prepared for work tomorrow, going to lug a text book to work so i can read it (but it's probably going to put me to sleep... oh well)