Charles Lamb said: "I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."

So today was officially the first day at my new job as Research Assistant. :D

Pictures are the lazy one's way of blogging, so, here's a tribute to Laziness! What would us bums do without you? Hahaha!

The Office at Room 2-6-26

(do pop by and say hi!)

And that's the plant we're planning to "borrow" to put inside the office. ROFL.

Only joking! I'll bring my own potted plant.

Cute Li'l Notes For The Room/Door

I thought it'd be cool to brighten up the place just a tiny bit! :D

Yours truly at her cubicle.

(clicking away with the faulty mouse at the dinosaur-age computer...

I like the swindly chair though ;D)

Office roomie and fellow RA - Kai Ing!

We've agreed to come into the office together on the same days so we won't rot of loneliness. :D Yayyyyy~

Work was shamefully slow today, because we spent more time chitchatting, exploring the place, and running to the Facilities Department to get the air-conditioning unit working (and to fix the roof that looks like it's going to cave down on us) than actually sitting down and coding media reports. LOL!

It was also pretty tricky to get a hang of the database - it seems like an inevitable summer of learning for me, first with ARROW I had to learn Microsoft Excel, and now Microsoft Access - but we blew off some steam by visiting the Monash Skybridge! :D

The team's really great - Marc and Kai Ing are awesome colleagues, easygoing, friendly, and helpful! :) Our supervisor, Chin Huat's also really pleased that he's assembled a fun troop of research assistants to contribute to the noise level on the 6th floor code the media coverage of the 12th General Elections. ;)

Another really cool part is that I've been somehow miraculously elevated to Monash "Sessional Staff" while I'm an RA! Do you have any idea what this means?!

ACCESS TO THE PANTRY.

Hahahahahahahha!

Just kidding-lah. But apparently I can store my food in the fridge, provided I label it and stuff. I wonder if anyone will eat my food if I do that. Maybe I should put coloured food dye into a cookie or something and see if anyone's tongue is blue after that. Hahaha.

And I wonder if I can get those Sessional Staff parking privileges! HEHEHEHE.

*Edit (18/1/09): As it turns out, I am NOT sessional staff! :S Parking privileges have been embarassingly not granted. Hahahaha. It turns out the only way to be sessional staff is to actually sign some contract with the university - which I did not. It's either Desert Parking or Paid Student Parking for un-statussed, non-sessional-staff me! :/ Lol!