{"id":5668,"date":"2020-09-08T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2020-09-08T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:06:06","slug":"covid-19-more-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/covid-19-more-workload\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: More workload?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off lately, I notice that there are so many task forces that I involve in.\u00a0 There are times when I feel suffocated.\u00a0 Not in a physical sense.\u00a0 Emotionally, I feel suffocated.\u00a0 I try to change my routine.\u00a0 I come to work as early as I could.\u00a0 I find that I am able to get more things done when I come early.\u00a0 But I find it difficult to stay focused after Zuhr, as if my &#8220;battery&#8221; needs to be recharged.\u00a0 I try to sleep a bit before Zuhr but often than not, without noticing the time, it is already Zuhr and I miss the chance to have a quick nap.<\/p>\n<p>Since the leaking pipe incident, I admit that it takes me quite a long time to settle down.\u00a0 Being a nomad for a while certainly gives me a different perspective on certain things but I realise that to get myself adjusted to new routines are not as fluid as before.\u00a0 Am I getting older?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, when I feel too overwhelmed with things, what I would do is to have a priority list of what I should do urgently.\u00a0 Most of the times even though it is not easy to put certain things under &#8220;not urgent&#8221; category, I know that I have to be firm in this.\u00a0 There are times when I say &#8220;NO&#8221; and can&#8217;t hardly remain patient due to indecisiveness of certain people.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 My patience is running thin.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I would ask myself &#8220;If others are indecisive, what I should do?&#8221;\u00a0 There are times when I ask some seniors what they want from me or what is the direction of a certain task because I just cannot tolerate with indecisiveness any more.<\/p>\n<p>I might be appeared as rude but in this case, I hate the culture of lots-of-talking-yet-doing-less or what I called as &#8220;Pung pang, pung pang&#8221;.\u00a0 How I wish I have one solid uninterrupted week!<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 cases are increasing today (Tuesday, 8 September 2020).\u00a0 100 cases.\u00a0\u00a0 Do I have to work from home again?\u00a0 Why do I secretly wish that &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. (fill in the blank).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off lately, I notice that there are so many task forces that I involve in.\u00a0 There are times when I feel suffocated.\u00a0 Not in a physical sense.\u00a0 Emotionally, I feel suffocated.\u00a0 I try to change my routine.\u00a0 I come to work as early as I could.\u00a0 I find that I am able to get more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/covid-19-more-workload\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19: More workload?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19_teaching-and-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}