Work Work Work!

So I finally started work. My supervisor has been really helpful in lots of stuff and I am really thankful for that. Strangely, I am looking forward to the heavy workload - 2 major projects on topics that I know nuts about, regular compilations of data analysis, and being a meeting coordinator of some sorts, having to call up people to pay their debts on the actionable items of previous meetings. And to complete my internship experience, one cannot forget the must-do, must-have experience of being a photocopy boy. While it is not part of my job scope, my name found its place in the volunteer list for helping out someone with a tremendous load of work to do. Not that I am sore about it, but ramblings are about random stuff, no?

So during the intense workout I got from photocopying old transparencies, my mind drifted to the article I read in the last issue of Economist for the year 2007. Apparently, this housewife dedicated herself to finding out the most efficient way of doing housework, in minimal time and minimal effort. She calculated the number of steps or actions that have to be taken with different kitchen set-ups and suggested the optimal conditions or settings for doing housework.

So I began to develop my own photocopy theory, coupled with trial tests. In order to photocopy the old transparencies, one has to first take a transparency out of the transparent sleeve, align a white sheet of paper behind it, load it into the machine, and zap that page. After doing it, you have to put that transparency back into the sleeve, flip the page and take the next one out. So as not to bore you with my little secret experiment in one of the storerooms of the office, let me just say that the optimal process of doing this mundane job, is to take out one of the sleeves from the file, and place it back in at the end. This saved me at least 10 secs for each transparency, and with a total of 59 transparencies, 590 seconds, saving me almost 10 minutes of solitary confinement! =)

Well, that is that, and I am looking forward to getting a new pet called iMac with a Leopard inside. Guess I should be shopping for it soon, cos the photos from my exchange are screaming out to me for editing. Definitely have to clear this baggage before I move on to new projects in Singapore. And I am sure Lady Nikon will be glad that I will be going out with her again soon.