Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

In Central Citibank Tower Pacific Coffee. Dressing formally drinking a cup of coffee nearby my old work place like in the old days. I was there after an interview for the US visa. The first time in almost a year to wear heels again.

I am excited my visa got approved. My plan is feasible. I am going to the U.S. and South America!!

I have researched on all those questions and cases where the visa was declined for single young women. The more I researched the more stress I had and I pictured all those scenarios that I was being challenged and declined. I even brought my Invisalign braces to prove that I was going back to my country to see my dentist for sure! Haha! I thought of as many points as I could to defend myself that I was not going to stay in America. I was lucky anyway my visa got approved in just 5 mins. Thanks god thanks visa officer thanks everything.

I have got two projects on hand with a crowdsourcing company. One for Cantonese transcription and one for website rating. Hopefully I could pass the qualification test and start working on them. Then I would have good income while at the same time freedom of location! Though it may not be a stable job/career but in the meantime it really fits my needs. I could be anywhere not necessarily traveling volunteering or studying!

Being at home is more pressured than traveling. I feel my choices are more limited as when people around me are all talking about the importance of money and marriage. These thoughts grow stronger when at times I am not sure of what's next. Perhaps it's better I stay somewhere else to clear my thoughts since now I'm locationally independent in terms of work:)

Saturday, August 10, 2013

These days I have been experimenting a more dynamic lifestyle as I mentioned before, to the extent that I have almost forgotten it is just a week before I leave!

It was my last day at work few days ago (feels like weeks). It was the time when I got more attention from friends and colleagues than on my birthdays. I just saw it as a normal day but the people made it special.

Since then I am free to do whatever I want to do. It is such an amazing feeling that I have lost for a long long time. Days are never boring. I meet friends, play snookers, movies, cook, make delicious Chinese dumpling with grandma, water my plant, play ukulele, hiking, watch fireflies, enjoy the time with my funny family (and forget about packing). And it is the first time I would say I am living at present. Not worrying about the trip, jobs, houses, the future. I have a feeling that things would go on the right track no matter what and I am not wasting my time to worry about it.

As a result I have not booked or planned anything except the train tickets and nothing is fixed after Russia. (p.s. I am was one of those excel addict who would prepare a detailed spreadsheet for my previous trips)

So a little update of my plan:
19th August - a 24-hour sleeper train from Hong Kong to Beijing
27th August - a 30-hour sleeper train from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar
-----adventures in Gobi desert (no plan)-----
10th September - 5-day Trans-Siberian train from Ulaanbaatar to Moscow

Sounds like a good plan.