Sun evening. Just finished laundry. So much for my glamourous swinging single lifestyle. Not much swinging one can do in Ulu Chungli. From now on, I shall refer to Ulu Chungli as UCL. Little Uncle dropped gave me a lift back from Taipei earlier. Was at their place for the weekend. My visit gave them the motivation to go for a morning workout. We checked out the hot springs of Beitou (walking distance from where they stay). If you ask me Lonely Planet made it sound better then it really is. Then again, it could be just that I am not a hot spring person.
Arrived in Taiwan a week ago. Will be going back to Spore tomorrow for a week. No special feeling about going back actually. A week is too short to really miss home.
I had fucking lousy start to my new life in Taiwan:
02 nov 10pm-03 nov 3am:
Farewell party with my dearest friends - More about that later.
03 nov 8am: Opened my eyes. Something didn't feel right. I see the morning sun. FUCK. My flight is at 830AM.
03 nov: 10PM. Changed flight. Arrived in UCL. In my new apartment. Cannot find my internet connection point. To me another 3 days to finally locate it. And another 2 days to set the IP address so that I can connect.
04 nov: clean, unpack, household goods shopping.
05 nov: Officially my 1st day of work Verigy Taiwan. Did my 1st presentation. Didn't go well at all. Luckily it wasn't with a live audience. It also finally dawned on me how unprepared I am to take up this new role.
06 nov: Notebook crashed. All data wiped out. Colleagues started engaging me. Again I realized how unprepared I am to take up this new role.
07 nov 9am: Went to open my NTD bank account using my work permit. I have 3 mths worth of salary not paid out to me because I dont have a NTD bank account. Was told that I need a Resident Permit to be ready before I can open a bank account in TWD. Hello its a bank account for me to put $$$$$ IN. Work permit cannot meh??!! What the hell?! I am CONTRIBUTING to the economy of Taiwan & I cannot open a BLEEDING bank account without a Resident Permit???!!! This plus the trauma of my crashed notebook was the final straw. I actually teared in front of the bank officer. She was really really sweet & was trying her best to help me out. But the stupid banking regulation in Taiwan didn't allow her to do that.
07 nov 10am: Got a call from HR. Photograph I submitted for Resident Visa cannot be used. The Taiwanese officials have like 888 criteria for passport, IC, Visa photographs. I had to go retake immediately or risk DELAYING the Resident Visa. Once again tears of frustration flowed out as I took the call.
08 nov 8am: Dropped my Chanel Compact. All the powder fell out. The mirror cracked. 7 more years of bad luck. Great.
08 nov 11am: Msn therapy session with bobo. Felt much better. I love my friends.
09 nov: Performance evaluation with new Boss. Conclusion: I got to work REALLY hard.
My lousy week ended on that note. Fantastic.
7 comments:
Hi gal,
Sounds traumatic but hang in there k?
Ni ke yi de, man man lai... Hugs for u.
Hey~~~ transitioning/beginning is always difficult... Btw, can understand ur frustration cos, guess what, me also haven't got a bank a/c here, since me only just received my Alien Resident permit... (took me MONTHS to get ALL required documents completed & had to run all over the places & fly to & fro Sin/TW to get them done ><) Sooooooooo, 加油！ Things will definitely get better for u :D
ahhhhh, you actually teared!!
ok thats it, I'm going to burn down taiwan embassy!!!
BURNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
p/s: the comment is for "say say" only. it will not be valid as court evidence should taiwan embassy be burned down one day.
"pat pat" on the back.....you are bionic puss remember? MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.......
hey hey, moving to a new country is tough. But remember you are BIONIC CAT, you can combate all the evil forces out there!
Haaaaaiiiii Yaaaa!!!
hey qin ai de,
so sorry to hear all these.. all this will be over soon k.. we are always here for you.. just im us, call us, skype us whenever you feel like it k? miss you :)
qin ai de
oh just read what happened to you during the 1st week...hope you are feeling better and getting used to the life in UCL. Take care ya!
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