The YOG

The YOG is finally drawing near. Lots of back ground work to be done and prepared. The whole campus has been taken over as a YOV for the delegates and young atheletics. Although there are some inconvenience at work, however, it is also a relief to most of us as we only come back on campus to work on alternate weeks.

Coming into the campus is like going to board a plan in the airport. We have to wear an accrediation pass which is 4 times the size of a normal id card. Then rest our bags onto the belting to be scanned while we have to walk pass a gantry before we can pick up our bags.

Monday was a happy day for most of us because all of us are expected to vacant the office by noon as the personnel are waiting below our block to conduct the "sweeping' across our whole premises.

Working from home as its pros and cons. I still wake up at 8am and log on to check mails from 8:30am onwards, all the way till about 4 or 5pm. The inconvenience and restrictions are, many of my work are related to physical documents which many of those, I cant be bringing all them home. I have selectively brought back some processes to work on and besides checking mails, which only has about 5 or 6 emails per day, there isnt much I can do or progress.

Security within campus will be even tighter from next week onwards, having to change two buses before we "slip" through a cargo lift from basement and straight to our office level. Working hours will be shorten from 10am to 4pm. No outside food nor medication can be brought in. The fencing around our campus makes it look so intimitating and unfriendly.

Besides some constraints I faced, the best thing about working from home is the flexibility of watching tv while I work, tidying up my room, or taking a short nap before logging on again to check for any incoming emails.

And here I am, sipping through my Ice Green Tea Latte at Starbucks while blogging and checking office emails at the same time. Ah....how I wish we can have a long term alternate work weeks...........