Hello 2013

It is May and this is my first blog for 2013

The first 3 months of 2013 was so busy that I
was wondering whether I can cope.

April arrived and things are well under
control. With the iPad I think
my work efficiency has been
improved tremendously.

I seldom work past office hours nowadays
because I can do most of my work
while waiting for customers.

I was quite skeptical that iPad can do most
of my work; I was forced to embrace
it and it has improved my quality
of work life tremendously.

It has been 15 months of work at Life
Technologies and everyday time
still move as fast.

But life is definitely less stressful than in research.
Research is tough but the quality of training
is awesome, but I can't imagine
another 5 years of time there.

Whenever I think about my life now, there is new
feeling of serenity & happiness that temporarily
displaces the day to day hecticness.

But still I am forever grateful to the lessons learnt
there & relived that I have a very supportive
& patient boss who seem to believe
in me.

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While 2012 is about adapting, 2013 will be quite
different altogether.

Post-PhD I feel that I am getting closer to
where I would like to be in life.

I feel my creativity is coming back. It has
eluded me for really very long while
I was "struggling to make ends
meet" in research.

My health has also improve quite a lot. I
guess it has been about 6 months since
I last caught a flu, which is quite
a record in recent years.

Personally, I would like to be more
adventurous in many aspects of
my life.

Things are slowly shaping up ...