Busy Bee

These days my life is so swarm with activities that my only free evenings are Mondays and Saturdays.

Most of what I am busy with is pretty repetitive but just can't run away from them :

- Accupuncture at TCM clinic 3 times a week to improve my thyroid condition

- Night teleconferences 2 times a week

- Exercise class on Thursday night and Saturday morning

On top of that I am also dealing with these :

- Xmas shopping and preparation of presents for some friends and meeting up with them as well

- Some art and craft projects that I meant to start on for...ever!

- Talking to some headhunters regarding some new roles

- Planning and packing for an upcoming trip to Europe in December

- Talking to a migration lawyer on some advice on migration

- Dealing with bank on my housing loan and deposits

No wonder everyday I am yawning like crazy even though I am trying hard to sleep at least 8 hours a day. Big improvements from 6 hours in the past and the accupuncture really help aid me in having better sleep but it means I have to cut down hours spent in front of computer or reading my story books so I can grab 2 more hours of sleep per day. Worse of all is I used to sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays but due to my schedule and activities these days I had to wake up about the same time as the work week....sigh.

Writing this entry just reminded me I am supposed to meet my best friend since August and it is now already coming to December! Both our schedule just clashed very badly and really hope that I will get a chance to meet her before we both go on our separate holidays.

Sure or not?

Just the other day I received a leaflet from Fancl inviting me to pop by one of their branch to do a facial test in order to get 2 free bottles of their new Tense up drinks. I was initially skeptical wondering if they will be hard selling products to me and wondering how long the test will take.

Lo and behold, the test is a mere 5 secs! All they do is put a pen like monitor to your skin to check your skin hydration and that's it. I got a 66 reading on the pen and I was checking with the consultant what that means? She said anything that shows 70 and above means the skin is well hydrated and mine is still showing normal.

Was quite happy given that it was like 8 pm at night and I was joking with her that after a day at the office in an airconditioned environment, under the sun during lunch and sweat throughout the day, I am amazed at the reading.

Am wondering if the reading will go above 70 if I do the test ear

How to Overcome Career Burnout

Sometimes some articles you come across really speaks out to you because you are facing that dilemma at the exact moment.

Here's another article to share. Link here.

What to Do When You're Struggling at Work

Another article to share, link here

10 Signs You Have a Bad Boss

I always love reading all these articles (this one is from Yahoo Finance), love to see how many apply to my everyday life. Also, this serves as a reflection if I am the boss.

Link to article

Let's just say my boss currently exhibits 8 out of these 10 signs. Woopee

The Top 7 Healing Destinations on Earth

So sad that I have not been to any of these places before although I travel to so many places already...looks like my focus in travel needs to change haha.

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/the-top-7-healing-destinations-on-earth.html

In case anyone is wondering why all of a sudden I have so many articles on top 7 or top 10, that's because I have been super busy and I just save all the links and finally put them into the blogs at 1 go.

7 Countries Home to the World’s Healthiest People

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/7-countries-home-to-the-worlds-healthiest-people.html

Hmm....time to relocate to any of these places? After all, health is wealth ok!