Woofy's big escape

Diving Bloopers---OUCH!

Ken Miyake Super Fly our favourite sis!!!

ARASHI Sakura Sake!!! Just think they looked real funny in the MTV LOL

SMAP Lion Heart!!!!!!!!!!! (so old LOL)

V6 Change The World!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Work

It's been 7 weeks since i started my new job all is going well apart from the clumsy and careless mistakes I make every now and then. Nick is very nice to me he taught me lots of stuff and he's fun to work with. My manager is nice when she feels like it but as soon as something goes wrong she gets stressed out and we get shxx from her.

I'm trying my very best at work but I have lots of blonde moments; I always thought that I'm careful and I pay lots of attention to details but I soon proved myself wrong once I started this new job :( Oh well I guess I'm still learning and getting use to the system at work so I try not to feel too bad about my ability...

I've learnt a lot of technical side of thing about whiteware (like fridges, washing machines etc) and other small appliances like food processors and cake makers. I even got Chris to teach me things about cables yesterday because I didnt know anything about them! Thanks to the little tutorial I had with Chris yesterday I'm more confident about giving customers correct information and practical help.

I am enjoying my work and the people that I work with (apart from my manager whom I fear lots!) even thought I'm not very well paid but I'm glad that both Chris and I are working to bring in 2 incomes. We are saving for our trips to Aus and back to HK even thought we dont know when we can make those trips. Chris still wants to work for Fisher & Pakel as a product developer and we'll have to move to Auckland then. We still have at least a year in Palmy; we wont move until I get my PR and then Chris will try to get into F&P to start his own dream job. Hopefully I can find a good job in Auckland too...

Vickie's Hens Night in Auckland

Loads of fun at the drags bar it was hilarious! (Drags or drag queens are men who dress up like women)

My first 2 weeks at work

My first 2 weeks at work were pretty okay...well it was very hard to start off with but I know my knowledge of the job is improving and that I'm more use to standing up all day that kinda of thing.

Apart from earning myself a hugh blister on my left foot in the first week, and coming home everyday feeling like crap, everything else seems pretty good. My uniforms are kinda formal; I bought myself a new pair of dress pants and shoes. Costed me quite a bit but I really needed them for this job.

So far I had at least 3 major dreams about work in the past 2 weeks; there were also many small bits and pieces that came to my mind when I was trying to have a peaceful sleep after a day of work. Not sure why I dreamed about work so much but I have to say one of the major reasons would be stressing and worring about the job... It is a lot harder and challenging than I thought I can be...well I'm good at customer service stuff but hey I've never done anything with fridges, ovens, dryers etc apart from using them in my own home... Finding the right parts for the customers and technicials can be very complicated sometimes. Mainly because I do not have a clue what the heck they want in the first place... For example....what the hell are FC fan in the fridge and actutators in the dishwashing machine? What the hell are out-of-balance kit in the washing machines and how am I suppose to know what a rinse aid bunge is? So yeah that's why I found the job so difficult...there are just so many differnt parts in things and they all have pretty funky names... (For example...a door seal is called a door gasket!)

The other scary thing about this job is that my boss can snap very easily and quickly (according to other staff members) and I could see it on her face from time to time... I watched my steps very carefully and tried very hard not to step on her tail... Apparently people who work for my department dont last for very long, the longest was 5 years and she was the gal whom I replaced. The guy I'm working with now has been there for 16 months and he cant wait to find a different job. The guy before him worked there for a year and the lady before there only lasted for 2 weeks and she had a massive argument with my boss and quitted! So fingers crossed that I will get along well with the boss and I will stay there until I find a better job!

My recent feelings...

I'm not feeling joyful these days...Don't get me wrong, Chris and I are very well together and our marriage is working out fine. My job is hard but that has no power to create such sorrow in me.

I cried in church today because I felt so much sorrow in me... I'm living well but those I love dearly are not. Since when so many people's marriage stop working? Since when couples stop loving each other? Since when God is ignored in their marriage? Since when her/his heart turned away from their husband/wife?

I feel so much sorrow in me looking at how the marriage of those I love dearly not working out... those I love are suffering and in pain; their hearts are torn open and their hearts are continuously crying for help. I know and I believe that God's love is deeper than any hurt...but I wish I can do something about it and not just standing here in a distance looking at my family and friends in so much pain...and living each day in fear.

This one friend I feel so much for him... He's like a brother and son of my own. I don't know him very well but every time I looked at him I have so much motherly and brotherly love for him. He's just simply a wonderful person, a godly person who has his faith and trust in the Lord. Why then? Why does God allow this to happen to him? Why is she turning away from him and why is she not happy with their marriage and now commit and engage in adultery? Why wouldn't she keeps her promises and love him forever until death comes between them? Where is God? Where is God in her heart? Where is God in their marriage? Where is God now? What is God going to do? They are joined by God on their wedding day and they are one, what God has joined together let no man separate and interfere.

They are so beautiful together, they were so wonderfully married, they are one and let no evil enters their covenant with God. If a Christian marriage wont work, I dont think anything else would...

My new job

My new job is a lot harder than I thought and its diffinitely more complicated and challenging than my previous job at the rec centre. Well there's just so much to learn; so many technical terms, so many different confusing parts, and so many things about the system that they refuse to teach me.

I'm just very lucky to have Nick (my work buddy) to teach me. He's only been there for 11 months (which isnt a long time for a job so complicated) and he's really good at teaching and showing me how the system works and giving me tasks to do in order to train me up. He's a very funny guy and he's only 20; I'm very glad that he's so easy to get along since he's the person I see the whole day :)

The problem I found as soon as I started this job is that, there's no proper induction programme in place and all I can learn is the bits and pieces that came to me randomly. According to Nick, our boss doesnt teach the staff much at all; we are not allowed to do a lot of things and there doesnt seem a lot of trust around the place. I think the boss is finding really hard to delegate jobs to her staff. She's probably like me when I was doing my sport management stuff; it's hard to delegate tasks to others when you want things to be done EXACTLY you want! Other than lack of trust, I think she worries about the staff not having the cabability to learn so much in a short period of time. Whatever it is, it is very frustrating when they dont train you systematically and all you can rely on is your pity memory...

New parts that I leant today: Gasket, Trivet, O ring, dryer filter, access port, kneading blades, shaving foil and blades...