Musings of a wanderer

 It's been a busy couple of weeks at work since returning from SG. Being efficient at what I do and being able to speak English well brought about opportunities in other areas at work. For the past week, I have been tasked to manage the operations aspect of where the cherries we pack were headed - and managing the operations aspect also meant that I sort of have to manage the people tasked to my area.  Would I call it a promotion? Not quite, because while the scope of my work has increased, my pay has not commensurately increased as well. I'll update down the line if I am given a pay raise with the changed jobscope but I doubt it. What exactly is the 'operations' aspect that I am part of? Basically, after the cherries are packed, they are deployed to various supermarkets, markets, sold in-house, exported to other countries etc. I am involved in the deployment of the cherries that are meant to be sold at supermarkets/ markets in it's loose form (i.e. not in fixed pre...

Its been a while since the last update and since then, I've gone back home to Singapore for 1.5 weeks to attend a dear friend's wedding and now I'm back in Melbourne. The trip back home gave me an opportunity to reconnect with friends, ex-colleagues and very importantly, food back home. One of the main issues I have here is the general lack of social life compared to back home in Singapore. It's difficult to maintain any sort of friendship when you are only at a place for a few months at a time. And even with our plan to be based here in Melbourne for a longer term, it is only for 6 months. Perhaps if I was here alone, it might probably have been easier since I would generally have more time on my hands I would probably be living in a shared house with more space and time for social interactions. Travelling alone would also mean there is less of a need to answer to anyone for the way you spend your time. Of course travelling with a companion has its own perks as well an...