FIRST DAY OF WORK!

So I started my new job on Monday, and it went really well! First of all, I looked really cute :)

I had an orientation with OHR at 9, and then a meeting with my boss at 10:30, followed by lunch with her and two of her/our colleagues, and then I did some errands before our 2:00 meeting with the other Research Assistand and some of our student coders. (I'm basically a research assistant, but my technical title here is "Project Officer".) Everyone was so helpful!  The orientation was really informative and I got a whole packet full of info on salary matters, health benefits, setting up my accounts, finishing up my employment pass stuff, etc.

My boss, Tan Ying Ying (Tan is the last name, Ying Ying is the first), is really great. She's pretty young and just really interesting and open and very smart. I'm excited to be working with her. We had a kind of orientation of our own about the project, and then I got set up in my office. It's AWESOME! And the secretary, Maya, is incredibly helpful, and they gave me all sorts of office stationary stuff, and, well, here:

In the last few days I've spiced it up a little bit more:

Still need more pictures of people for the bulletin board, by the way. I realized I don't have any good ones of my sisters or my neice and nephew. Probably print of some FB photos sometime soon to put up there.

Our meeting at 2 went well, although we were having software problems. But we got them all worked out and got the software copied and sent out to our student coders in the next few days.

Oh, and here are a few more work pics:

View from a walkway outside my office.

My super long hallway. This is right near the elevator, and my office is all the way at the end of tha hall. Room 46 :)

The rest of this week, I haven't really done a lot of WORK work other than that. I've been running around making sure all my stuff is set up and organizing my office and getting my Employment Pass stuff settled, not to mention other sundry details of moving back just last week. Some other highlights include eating lunch with my friend Jocelyn who's a student here, getting asked to lunch my a colleague whom I have just met two days before, and continuing to look super cute ;)

Oh, and also monsoon rains while I was headed to work Tuesday and Wednesday. Ugh.

Actually, getting this blog up and catching up on uploading my Facebook albums is are some of the few final things on my "Get Back Settled In and Caught Up" list of things to do. The big ones still left are to see about getting my computer and my iPod fixed. For some reason, they both just randomly stopped working the day before and the day of my flight to Singapore! And, on the WORK list of things to do, I'm finally down to only one thing that's and errand, and the rest is all actually WORK! That's exciting!

The only other major thing is setting up plans with my friends that I haven't yet seen since I've been back. And speaking of friends that I HAVE seen since I've been back, the most interesting thing I've done since I've been back was probably going out to a private showing of Sex and the City 2 with a bunch of expat women :) Kathryn invited me. We got a cosmo, champagne, and free flow soft drinks and popcorn and M&Ms. And we looked good. Unfortunately, I am being informed that I JUST reached my maximum file storage quota,a nd I have to pay for more storage. and yet there's some problem with my account and the pictures won't upload. SOOO, pictures of that later. Or else I'll just put them on Facebook and add a link here.

Tonight-US vs Slovenia soccer game at 10 PM with some American friends.
Tomorrow: Bak kut teh ( garlicky pork ribs soup that I really like) for breakfast, North Indian food for dinner with our friends Shreya and Indrajeet, Skype with John Stuart.
Sunday: Church. Beerfest with friends Karthi and Beatrix.

Gonna be a great weekend to end a great week!