Winza

1. Eat breakfast at least 5 days a week. I’ve actually achieved this goal, but I am hoping to maintain this habit.

2. Do more walking. I figured that much fitness level has dropped a lot since I finished high school. I hope walking will give me a chance to do a bit of exercise. I’m going to join the WaterAid campaign at work this year. 7000 steps a day for 7 days is going to be tough but I hope to succeed!

3. Learn Autocad by the end of the year. I’ve been meaning to learn Autocad since I started my contract earlier this year but I never got my act together. Hopefully this will keep me occupied for the rest of the year..

4. Get a Permanent Job in GIS or the water industry by mid/late 2008. Getting a new job is going to be a big challenge. I don’t mind rejigging my cover letters and my resumes to suit each job app, but I hate interviews. I never liked talking about myself in front of strangers. I never liked replying to questions that I didn’t know how to answer. I will definitely work hard on this one..

5. Repay all my debts by 2010. I know that I don’t have a time limit for my HECS debt and my car debt. But I would feel more happier if I didn’t have any debts.

6. Chant more and stop bragging about life. My chanting has gone downhill lately. I managed to chant two days prior to my interview but I never managed to chant since then. As a result, I started to brag about my life again. This is another thing I must try had to overcome.

I will meet the lady from HR department and two other people in the water resources division for an interview tomorrow. I applied the job a month ago just to see if I would get any chance because it suited my qualifications and it didn’t appear that I would need any prior experience. About a week ago, I got invited to the interview which is tomorrow. I am not very stressed but I felt stomach cramps again this morning, hence I left work 3 hours earlier. Hopefully my boss won’t be angry because I left without her permission.

I don’t even know if I want to get this job. On one hand, this would be a great opportunity for me to work more actively in the water industry as I would be able to do some brainstorming, analysing and planning rather than plan interpretation and data capture. But another part of me wants to stay in the GIS team because I enjoy working with the people there and I can learn more about the software. I guess the former is the better option as it is a permanent full time job as opposed to a three month after three month contract.

I think I might stop preparing and chant for the rest of the night to relax.

I got a phone call from the HR dept at work saying that I got shortlisted and they wanted to interview me for the water resource analyst position.

Damn it!

Originally, I was going to spend most of this weekend rewatching Prison Break and Naruto.

And I wasn’t even expecting it. I only thought it was good for me to practice my writing skills. But then again, I might need to do some interview practice. So, I will chant hard over the next few days, prepare for the “practice” interview and try my best next Wednesday.

It seems that I will going to have to work my a*** off and prepare for the interview on Wednesday. I want to try my best even though I am not expecting to get this job.

Although I only chanted twice, I’ve been quite happy with this week. I managed to force myself into eating breakfast almost everyday, which I find it hard to do since my appetite is the lowest during the early morning. Maybe I should sleep earlier at night, wake up earlier in the morning to play on my Wii (ie: exercise) before I have breakfast.

I also managed to get rid of some work that were on hold for the past two weeks and I felt more happier at work. I am still a bit worried about my contract after December despite having it renewed three weeks ago. Even though the system there gives me headaches, I really like my job and where I work. I also get to attend training sessions and random presentations by other organisations in the water industry. So I am hoping to chant more for motivation, keep searching for jobs on the internet (found two so far) and probably start planning out my career. I also have to identify what things I should learn that will help me with my current skillset.

Thinking back, it’s funny how one of my favourite hobbies as a child and probably as a teenager was reading the Melways in the car and trying out new things on the computer. And now, I am doing both at the same time. Weird isn’t it?