The Narcissistic Somniloquist

Since I’ve been back in Singapore, I’ve had to continue working in US time as well as Singapore time. It’s not fun, because of the irregular sleeping hours.

So here’s how it goes on a typical day. I stay awake from about 10pm to 3am, which allows me to straddle US East and West coast working hours. I keep in touch with the team using Yahoo Messenger or the phone, and it’s normally OK. It’s a little harder to make an impact on bigger face-to-face meetings so that’s a minus.

After the midnight session, I sleep until the early morning, and wake up at about 7 am. This allows me to join in some of the teleconference meetings between Singapore and Sunnyvale. I might head into the Singapore office for some discussions with my colleagues there, but that’s optional.

After that, I finish at about lunchtime, and have the afternoon off. I normally catch up on some sleep before dinner time, where I catch up with my fiancee or go get some exercise (swimming or cycling).

That’s just a typical day - most days I have exceptional schedules. It is highly dependent on the meetings that have been scheduled, which in turn revolves around projects that are being conducted at the moment. At times, I feel very much like I’m permanently jet-lagged.

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