An unexpected stretch of holidays coming ahead for me! I won't be working next Monday - Thursday. Monday is Singapore's presidential elections off-in-lieu holiday and Tuesday is Hari Raya. Wednesday and Thursday are the days I start shift, and it so happens that my team is 'off' or resting that day. So my supervisor decided to let me untung two days and hence I suddenly have a nice stretch of six days free (including the coming weekend).
Some of my colleagues and my supervisor suggested that I go home but in the end I've decided against it because:
1. I've already went home this week, and going home often is a very tiring business (I hate crossing customs). Also this means that I'll most likely come back late which will make me tired for my first seven-day shift marathon. And besides I don't want Daddy to drive all the way down to Malacca to fetch me during school days.
2. We're having a cooking session on Saturday to cook for the Sunday school teachers of our church. As I hardly serve much in my current church this is kind of an occasion to serve which I don't want to miss out.
3. I want to spent one of my rare FREE weekends in Singapore with my church friends. Seeing that most of my other free weekends are most likely going to be spent at home in the future.
4. OK this is probably not the most exciting plan for a long holiday but I need to review all my training modules too otherwise I will forget everything during shift and probably no one would be free enough to help me check through every teeny weeny step I've done and pounce on my mistakes. They always say it's stressful to do stuff with pairs of eyes watching, but I've always been grateful for those eyes. Unfortunately, this luxury is going to end after my day-training sessions.
5. I want to catch up with a few persons during this long break. Let's see who I can dig out.
6. I want to have some me-time (a day of it) on Wed & Thur. Don't ask me what I'm doing, even I don't know. But narcissistics need 'me-times', and I belong to that gang. It's either for improvement or leisure purposes. Need that time to prep myself up for shift.
