Room Service & Work Trip

Very often when I travel alone, I like to order room service. I loathed going out to dine alone because that seemed rather piteous. And most prominently,I am a lazy person.

So what did I eat during my last trip (HK and SZ) that resulted in weight gain?

Pics not in order due to blogging with Blogger app.

The dim sum set was from HK Mira Hotel. The Chinese restaurant is a Michelin starred.

The best apple crumpled placed on top of caramel. Simply the best. Plus the city view of course!

Mango with pomelo. I missed home, and so I ordered this together with my main course. Sounded like an excuse? Oh well, actually I am so used to completing my meal with a dessert these days! Bad habit!

My office for the entire week, with city view.

View from my hotel room. SZ is a fast developing state. So many construction going on. Although I travel to SZ as many as three times a year, the surrounding views around my hotel always change. A very dynamic city!

Hello from HK/SZ

This is the longest biz trip ever, 10 days. I am in SZ since last Thursday. Will only return back to SG on 20th May.

I am enjoying my stay here in Shangri La. Enjoy HK shopping trip, pigging time, me-time, away from the Husband and the Son.

Shenzhen/HK Biz Trip

Just got back from the biz cum leisure trip. And I am sick already, I am having splitting headache and body ache. I refused to get on the weighing scale for fear of sleepless nights over the weigh gain. Anyway, if I ever gain weight, I guessed I deserved it. I pork out too much.

Let's start from the first day. I checked-in to Shangri La hotel in the late afternoon. And man, that is one of the posh hotels in Shenzhen. It is capacious, the room has a roomy bathroom that accomodates a bathtub with attached TV, a standing shower room and etc. The room itself has a study table, dressing table, walk-in-wardrobe and living area. I was particularly fascinated with the attached TV in front of the bathtub. It made me spent 20 more minutes on top of my usual bathroom routine.

Walk-in-wardrobe

Dressing table

Study and living area

Bed

That's me after 4 hour flight and 2 hour jam at the custom

My first meal of the day after arrival. Fish and Chip from the room service.

Some days when I feel like having breakfast on bed...

So here are some of the food I had in SZ...

I am a big-eater, I ate... the following... for one of the nights...

Deep fried chicken soft bones (I liked it ALOT!)

Buttered Scallops and Mushroom (Ultimate sinful)



Assorted sashimi

Drunken clams

Grilled cow tongues

Grilled Scallop - too busy with eating...no pic

Assorted Maki - too busy with eating... no pic

Then on another night, I had steaks...

Sea urchin (uni)

Kev's steak

I had steak with foie gras and we also had escargots baked in cheese mushroom and placed on top of mashed potatoes.

I already felt a tinge of regret for binging, there goes my yoga, there goes my running...

How about something less-sinful?

I shopped alot this time round. Almost end up with a hefty purchase in the airport, lucky I did not go ahead with the purchase.

My luxurious purchase...

Prada dancing shoes

Kev's Prada keychain and he also bought a Prada belt

The most expensive purchase for this trip. Ferragamo wedges. Costing almost SGD1k.

Miu Miu wallet

They are not all!

My other purchase...

Zara and H&M

H&M

Tommy, Timberland, Hugo Boss

Uniqlo

Apart from the purchase on top, I also bought alot of clothes in some bargain districts, unlike Kev, he only prefers branded. He did not even buy a single tshirt from the bargain districts!

The shopping and pigging out did not stop after we cross the border to HK, it got worst, especially for Kevin.

And at the airport, our flight was delayed and we had 2 meals 2 hours apart because there was nothing we can do except to eat! And since I only bought 2 Disney t-shirt in China, I decided to go for Disneyland stuff for Ziv at the airport.

How much did I spend? I don't even want to think of it.

Mid Year Vacation Temptation

It is always when you work through mid year and suddenly you feel like taking a long break. My mid year vacation temptation came later because I was pre-occupied with work and Moda Shoppe and had no time to think of vacation.

Don't you remind me about Cameron Highland, that is a piece of SHIT.

The urge to get on a flight and zoom to just some where far away from the diminutive boring showery island came back again recently. Was at Suntec last weekend, and almost book a flight to Turkey. A place which I will never plan to go. Some place that is just so not me.

"I want to go Turkey or Egypt is fine too!" I told Kev. As usual, he shrugged his shoulders and waited for that temptation to go away. He was secretly hoping that my work trip is going to make me miss the NATAS Fair.

I am serious. Dead serious.

Before I get my confirmation on Turkey or Egypt with Kev, I am leaving to HK and Shenzhen next week. HK for leisure and Shenzhen for work. I am glad that I can steal some time off from work @ SZ to HK for some massive, destructive shopping which I am deprived of for the longest time in history.

I want to buy lots of H&M. I don't care if the forever-busy-businessman-Kev is going to join me for the trip, my mission is clear, I want H&M.

Moda Shoppe

It is OFFICIAL. I am now a co-owner of the blogshop, Moda Shoppe.

Moda Shoppe launches its first collection with a blast today. The response was in fact overwhelming (for me) even before the launch, given the amount of work that I have to complete on my task list.

So how it started??

C, who just came back from her stock collection armed with goods from Seoul and Hong Kong approached me to join her in setting up a blogshop. I was apprehensive and I was afraid of being wearisome because there is certain amount of commitment to set up a blogshop. I could not give her an answer. And so, I decided to help her out for free and at the same time, test out the market. I modeled for her, designed a blog for her, tried some marketing for her… The more I get involved, the more I thought, ‘Why am I doing all this for free?’ and so, yesterday 12:30am, I sms-ed her, “I am IN.”

And that’s it.

It can be a simple sms, but it means a great deal to me, because it connotes that I have to devote more time on maintaining the business whether it is going to be a lucrative or an unprofitable one. Kevin told me nothing is 100% profitable and I have to be mentally prepared for the loss.

And to me, it is ‘you never try and you will never know’.

And because it was a first launch, many items were priced at a reasonable rate and the postage fee was waived off for the month.

Track Back

Last week was a bustling week for me. We did shots, we did website, we did launch party, we did many things that not a lot of people can do within a week, from the point where C asked me to join her to the day of launching, it took only 6 days for us to prepare for everything. I was eager to know the results and so to decide if I should give it a go, however, I made the decision before the launch, just to be fair to C.

Those who understands me well, knows I am a mad person. I push for crazy deadline because I want to know the outcome FAST.

I am too worn-out to blog more.

Here’s some pictures of the shots. Personally, I had lots of fun from the photoshoot and best of all. I have to thank C for giving me free clothes, even though I am her partner now. She gave me free clothes in exchange for the services I was providing her before I said "Yes" to her.

The Fateful Wednesday

This Wednesday, the entire office (or just me?) will be mourning over the loss of the ever-reliable Skype, the time-killing cum entertaining MSN, the contingency-messenger-yahoo mail and the final-trump-card Google chat.

Gone! Gone! Gone!

They will ALL be GONE!

Talking about that, it is not even Wednesday and the MSN was already down.
I will be taking a day off on Wednesday to grieve over the loss and gonna have a few bites of katsu cutlet and a few more bites of soft shell crab to face the upcoming catastrophe and uncertainties.

Well, every cloud has a silver lining, fortunately, FB, Blogger, emails and other connecting apps are still made available with my trustworthy iPhone. What will I do without you, my dearest iPhone! It seemed that iPhone is becoming more trustworthy than Kev.

Suggestions on how to re-connect with the outside world are welcomed and will be seriously considered.

Women’s Network Luncheon

This post has got nothing to do about the aforementioned women’s network, but about the lunch at Forlino, Fullerton. How callow! Yeah, that’s me. Haha.

One of the most fulfilling weekday lunches I had for the longest time. And best of all, it is courtesy of the management. Initially I didn’t want to go for the luncheon, because I hate business lunch where I need to put on a fake façade, fake grin, and exhibit fake inquisitiveness.

It was the word, ‘Forlino’ that changed my mind.

Forlino has always been a very highly recommended fine dining restaurant in many food blogs as well as hungrygowhere and it live up to its name! Finally, the word, Forlino can be strike out from my mental to-go list. And yes, I will be back, absolutely.

We were led by a hostess through the concrete maze with extravagant wall designs of black, white and gold. We entered the private dining room and were greeted by a long black table with our name tags on the table to indicate our seat. Lucky or unlucky, I was seated next to the Executive Vice President - Chief Finance Officer who is also the chairperson of the Women’s Network. She did most of the talking and I gave occasional nods and the rest was pure indulgence.

What I ate…

Amuse Bouche with Homemade Warm Focaccia

Crab Salad with Wild Rucola, Sweet Pea Leaves and Cantaloupe

Pan Roasted Seabream Filet with Clams, Tomato and Caper Sauce

Forlino’s Classic Tiramisu

Who would says that the tiramisu is classic?

The tiramisu is worth mentioning because it tasted nothing like the conventional ones which are ‘do-able’ in our own kitchens. Unlike the normal and super classic tiramisu, this one doesn’t make you feel that you are putting on weight as you are eating it, the texture is light and refreshing. Those who did not eat it, got to at least try it once!

Service at Forlino was impeccable, the view is great and now I need my green tea.

How do you know...

that you got through your probation period in your new job?

Here's how.

I launched my company portal to view my to-do list. Ran a search on my name. Page refreshed!

Congratulation! You have 122 items on your to-do list!

Not that I daunted by the amount of tasks assigned to me and not that I am under the gun to get things done. Its just... Erm... Maybe... Unfortunate.

Uh... Oh...

Uh Oh... is Ziv's favorite words now.

Anyway, have been under the weather lately, so does Kevin and little Ziv.

Contributing factors?

Frosty aircon in the office, I am like a zoo keeper, with polar bears sitting around me that consistently whined that they are HOT, must be out of their mind.

Piling documentation to review, I have to resort to whisper to my engineers, “It’s Friday the thirteen today, so don’t you send me any documents to review, you know, bad omen, may get rejected… shhhh…”

Noisy toddler at home, it is just like inviting a rock band at your home, wolf cries, banging on the furniture, the repetitive Hi-5 songs and all sorts of noise pollutions that you can think of.

Unkempt cleaned laundry left on the couch piling like a mini Mount Everest, the highest peak at home.

What should I do?

I really need to fall into a deep slumber to get ready to for my celebration at Equinox brunch on this coming Sunday, where Kevin and I celebrate our 11-year Anniversary.

Love that.

Nagging

Our trustworthily office administrative assistant left us in the lurch and up the creek after her holiday trip to Korea. She had so many days of leaves to clear that she nonchalantly bided us “Goodbye” after 3 days at work and 2 days on medical leave. There go my expenses claims. I bemoaned her sudden departure and blamed myself for accumulating up to 2 months’ worth of claims on my in-tray, hoping that the fairy godmother can wave her wand so that everything get entered to the SAP.

Anyway, after a week or so, a substitute came in. She is a 50 odd year old frail looking lady, who adopted some sort of weird slang. I figured that she is trying very hard to ‘blend’ in to the expat environment just like many others here, mysteriously contacted the “slang” epidemic. And I tell you, it sounded bad bad bad. She, on the other hand, is very much less trendy than the former one, who usually will take much pain to match her shoes with her handbag and apparels. She was rumoured to be our ex staff who left the company years ago and decided to return to work force for some reasons which I haven’t got wind of.

After a few dealings with her, I realised she is just like my mum, a widely loathed fuddy-duddy old woman who cannot seemed to stop “educating” those whom she thinks are younger than her, forgetting that she is the noob, not us. She and my good friend cum colleague, who happened to be also an admin, are like arch enemies.

Let’s call the fuddy-duddy woman, E.

E likes to shrink from her responsibilities and divert all of them to my friend, who is definitely not a door mat but a fire cracker, of course that results in lots of “tongue-wagging free show” in the office. And E likes to give a standard excuse for the first month of work, “Sorry, but I am new, I don’t know the rules.” Which is a pain in the ass, especially you know that she is lying through her teeth.

E likes to coax to her primary school level children on the phone loudly, and speaking and teaching them all the wrong grammar strange English slang that I really pity them.

E is an “award-winning” actress by the way. My friend told me that during her interview with E. She was told by E that she is a very family pro woman who will not work overtime. And my friend told her, that it is alright because we can always work from home. However, E, being the greatest actress, will always make sure that she stays later than her boss and the moment her boss left the office, she will start demonstrating the legendary 5-second packing skill to us all. “Vrroomm” she is gone with dark smoke.

Anyway, she is not the only best actress in the office, there are plenty of them here who behaved very much like E, afraid of boss for no reason, shrinking from responsibilities, action-packed in office for nothing, some from finance, some from HR. Isn’t it miserable to juggle between work and acting skill and still have to monitor bosses’ locations? I pity these people, living their lives depending on others tremendously; even to the extent of knocking off on time is like a dream to them unless boss is on medical leave.

Sometimes I wonder, since they are willing to spend vast amount of time in the office, then why are they still shrinking from their responsibilities, if so, aren’t they doing nothing in the office while waiting for time to past? Isn’t that more boring than not working?

Sometimes I feel sick of the job, however, at this point of time, many said that you are considered the blessed one with a job right now.

Well, I say, that depends on what kind of job you are having there.

7 Aug 2008 - Goodbye! and Hello!

Goodbye!

I bided DSTA goodbye on 6 Aug 2008. The sumptuous buffet dinner with 10 other colleagues at the Furama City Center marked my egress of the company. It’s amazing that I can befriend with a bunch of fun-loving colleagues during my short 2-month stay. Initially, I used to think that they are dreary bunch of people, but was utterly wrong. Now, it feels sad that I am leaving the company, my colleagues, my understanding boss who in fact, supported my decision to leave cause he knew that I was given a better opportunity and prospect in my new employment. At one time, I felt that I was insensate to leave my boss in the lurch when I barely worked for 1 month in the company and served 1 month notice.

******

Hello!

7 Aug 2008 marked the new beginning (yet again) of my working life. One word to describe my first day of work, “wearisome”. Not because of the work load, but I need more sleep. I felt mentally stressed, cause of the constant change of environment. Month of May I left ST, End of May I joined DSTA, Left DSTA during early August and here I am in this new company, new environment and new boss.

I woke up early for the day and drove to CK Tang where I parked my car. Time checked, it was half an hour before 830am and since I had some time, I decided to walk down the tunnel to Orchard MRT and then to Ngee Ann City where my office is located.

Many of us had the impression that the women working in the town area should looked like top business women, wearing Armani trouser suit and crisp white shirt with hair drawn off face. That was so so so wrong! Since I was early, I surveyed the bustling streets, people were striding along but they wore normal office wear and some dressed seemingly casual. I could safely refute the hearsay that women in town dressed better or looked better than those working in the sub urban areas. It is proven, by me.

Anyway, when I entered my office at 830am, I was one of the earliest to arrive. Even my boss came 15min later. I was given a warm welcome and hug by my boss’s wife. She was such an affable lady and she actually recognized me, even though I was wearing my hair extension. I wondered if she noticed.

I was told to sit together in a room with my boss and given a new laptop. My boss did not give me any work for the first 2 days caused I was supposed to get myself acclimated especially on the HR piece. I was brought around for induction by my boss, he introduced colleagues whom I will be working with to me and majority of them were Caucasians from the States. So there, my new job has a very different working environment as compared to the previous companies. It is quite worrying since I have no experience working in such an environment.

The office is full of vigor, people were always gathering around and discussing about work, loudly. Cause Caucasians seemed to speak louder than Asians. One thing worth mentioning about my company is the vending machines. There are vending machines in every nook and cranny (drinks, snacks – chocolates, biscuits, cup noodles) and guess what, they are all FREE of charge. Suddenly, it feels good to work in such environment as compared to the previous one. I need a more energetic working atmosphere to get myself occupied.

My boss told me that the company practices “flexi-timing” where I can choose to work from home if I need to, and if there is nothing much to do, I can just leave and go home earlier. And I need not be at work at such early timing as he noticed that I was quite early. Little did he know that I am avoiding ERP.

Soon it was 530pm, for once, I didn’t feel that the time was crawling despite doing nothing. I dragged my heels and walked towards CK Tang for my car and headed home.

Welcome to My Office

It is a quarter to noon. I have been doing nothing since the day begin. Maybe I should also add, I have been doing nothing productive since the day I started on my new job.

Apart from some stale course notes which I have to skim through, briefly, I am, for most of the time, genuinely clueless about what I supposed to do in this new job and what is expected from me.

Sometimes, I get lost in my day dreams, sometimes, my eyelids become heavy and most of the time, I feel like going home to take a rest. That's how bored I am.

The padded lime green partition in my office that separates me and the other colleagues or rather I prefer to call them cubi-mates (since I don't talk to them cause we 'served' different departments) from seeing each other, but that doesn't always prevent us from over-hearing each other's conversations.

What I heard from the snips of loud conversations always revolve around, lunch venues, online games, upcoming movies and whatnot, anything except work. Once in a blue moon, perhaps you will overhear something like, "Oh, we have to submit the proposal on...". Now, that is RARE.

The journey to the toilet IS an exhilarating one. All sorts of windows showing on the monitor screens, like Online Soccer Manager, online forums, Meebo, MSN, MP3 and the best part, they don't even bother to Ctrl-Alt-Tab when caught visiting such websites. Brazen. Even their cubicles look 'motivating' with pictures of demure, dainty and dyed-hair Japanese sirens, ever good looking Andy Lau, famous mumbler Jay Chou and the passe groupie (which I deemed) F4, etc...

So what will you do, if you are not doing work? Answer is almost universal, people EAT. Tea break is usually almost straight after lunch. Eat to kill time, eat to stop yourself from sleeping, eat to establish rapport among colleagues and eat to brighten gloomy days... The piling tibits on each of our desks tell people we are bored and the office looks like provision shops with assorted crackers, gums, chocolates, ice-creams etc.

And not forgetting to mention about the dress code for my office? Be it contract staff, permanent staff, dread-to-come-to-work staff, to them everyday is Dress-Down-Friday. Jeans seems to be the staple apparel for all. Yeah, some women actually did dress well for office but you know, when you see others dressing down, I somehow lost the mood to even put on makeup and dress-up.

That is how environment changes a person, I guess.

So that is my office culture, the place where I will be, most of the time.

This week...

Updated this via my mobile phone on the way to Ayer Raja camp on a cab.

This week is more of a training & wedding week rather than a working one. Since Tue I've been attending training at Ayer Raja Camp. And Fri is the very much awaited wedding of Cindy & Boon Xiang. Let's see if I can squeeze some time to meet with Charlie, RA and Samuel after the first part of the wedding ceremony.

First Day of Work

First day of work is always the most unforgettable day for some. For me, I WISH I CAN FORGET ABOUT IT ASAP.

Samuel told me, "Its like that one la. You will get used to it!"

I agreed.

The Workload

So far, nothing much, I was asked to read through some course notes for the first 2 days. No laptop for the first day, that also means no internet access. My colleague sitting next to me is kind enough to lend me her laptop to go online to surf net and check emails.

On the second day, I got an Acer laptop, hooray... Internet access is on the way!! Actually I was pretty surprised that I was granted internet access as I have heard from ex colleagues that my company usually don't grant internet access to staff due to security reasons. But anyway, I GOT IT, so it doesn't matter, why? how?

I anticipated that the workload will be heavier as time goes by. Cause I was told about the plans of the department and was involved in several roles. (my goddess...)

The Colleagues

It is always nice to be the youngest in the company. Like I have always been in all my previous companies. This time I FEEL OLD.

Those colleagues although are merely 2-3 years younger than me, but somehow I still feel OLD cause, not generation gap but "lifestyle gap". They are all single, some attached and definitely have NO KIDS. While I am married with a son. So see the gap?

I feel that even among colleagues they don't seems to be close, very often lunch time is so quiet. No one talks. Although they are young, but somewhat life-less. Rarely do they joke, rarely do they gossip, rarely do they chat... Almost doze off during lunch.

Oh yes, the best 'entertainment' during lunch time is tour NTUC. How cool?!

Anyway, how coincident, I met a ex Singtel colleague who happened to work in the company for like 2 years. She told me loads about the company culture and our conclusion is, "NUA". The pace of the company is SLOW and she told me that she waited 1.5 years for an email address and till to-date, she has not get it. So efficient huh?

Anyway, being in such company has its good and bad points. Will just play along...

Transport

I am the super blessed one according to the colleagues... Kevin drives me to work and pick me up from work everyday. Even though he keeps complaining about the traffic, the jaw-dropping ERP charges ($6.50 per trip), still, he wakes up in the morning with me. He is so sweet. And when it rains, he will park his car opposite and arm himself with an umbrella to wait for me at the main gate, cause apparently the security system of my company is super stringent and he cannot park his car within the company to wait for me. His birthday is coming, I definitely have to splurge on something nice for him.

Culture

Guess, all IT companies cultures are the same. Reporting late for work is so common and universal. I adapted to the culture on the second day and reported to work at 915am instead of 830am and went off on time at 6pm. During office hours, people will gather in front of one table to talk and lunch time is always 15mins before noon cause the common excuse, "wanna avoid lunch time crowd".

Anyway, its too early to judge if I will stay long in this job, long as in complete the contract, but one thing for sure, I will not continue another year of contract with them. For several reasons which I am too lazy to state. I look forward to be a SAHM by the end of this year and having baby no. 2 soon.

Yawn...

Sanobar

Company event at Sanobar, One Fullerton. Had a whale of a time.

Quite fun and entertaining especially the belly dancing item...

Some colleagues can be really fun-loving. So don't judge a book by its cover. You never know, when these people will surprise you with all sorts of ermmm... DANCE MOVE.



GROOVY!!


After the event, went for the movie premier of National Treasure 2. Nice show. Should go and catch it. 3.5 stars out of 5 stars.

Don't look for me, I'm on maternity leave...

How do people spend their maternity leaves?

Breastfeeding? Attending crying baby? Lying on bed? Stare at the ceiling? Cleaning soiled nappies? Scratching oily hair scalps?

Me? I watched tv, play mahjong, xbox, tour buffet lines and yes, went for some short retail therapies.

Don't assumed that i've delivered. In fact, i'm about a week plus away from delivery. Some people wondered why I applied maternity leave a wk plus in advance and even requested for induce delivery, some even questioned me. I wonder how can I politely tell them this, without being too defensive. My original respond was, "I don't feel like working, cos i'm lazy and I need to have some peace... You know, QUIET, PEACE, TRANQUIL!!! before the little one comes out. I have got 3 long months of break, do you think it bothers me to 'waste' a week plus of leave to stay out of work and to run away from 'kong kam' (pardon me, its hokkien) from work?! It is definitely worth it!"

Anyway, being a 'polite' and 'demure' person, I replied, 'I'm giving birth soon.(with a motherly expression)' That's it, no 'due date' given.

On delivery, the process, the pain, the horror stories of giving birth or even the hospital ghost stories did not freak me out or make me wet my leggings. I deemed I was unknowingly trained during the 9 months that I can't bother how or when the baby is going to come out of my bump. As long as he comes out safe and sound, i'm RELIEVED. I sounded like an irresponsible mother, did I?

Guys will never understand the 'inconvenient' of being pregnant especially during the last trimester. I still consider myself lucky that the whole 9 months was quite a breeze to me. Its just the sleepless nights and toilet crawls @ that is driving me nuts.

Some people told me the tiring part is not about giving birth, its the part where I've to wake up @ night to attend to baby's crying. Seriously, I don't mind that kind of suffering cause I can always share the 'load' with Kevin. I think its time to let him take on the role as a father since I headstart 9 months being a mother. I always tell him this with glistening eyes, "I can't wait for us to suffer together, rather than I suffering alone (being pregnant)."

Right now, I typing this on my bed with SCV showing on TV and its time for a nap soon... And opps... Its only 5pm... *yawn*

Who wants to work in office when you can enjoy these moments alone at home without having to yearn for the arrival of Fridays and frowned at the nearing of Mondays? Not me!

Snakey...

Ok, right, I am double-boiling snake soup again. Composing my blog entry during office hour.

Sometimes I noticed that the people in my office are always busy typing and I wonder how many of them are actually concentrating on their work. So I peeped.

The conclusion? Here’s my list of what people do other than… working… in my office
1. reading and forwarding “junk” emails [as if they are some important emails]
2. internet messaging [make it seems work related, helping company to save telephone charges]
3. composing blog [with a minimized screen]
4. surfing net [with a minimized screen]
5. viewing online photos [with a minimized screen]
6. reading blogs [with a minimized screen]
7. talking, gossiping, joking [in a serious business-like tone]
8. eating, drink coffee, make coffee, cooking or heating up food to “pollute” the entire office [looking feeble as if you really need to eat else you will faint]
9. looking at fishes in the aquarium [but try to make ppl believe that you are thinking about work or at least hope to get some inspiration from fish watching… I hope…]
10. doing personal stuff [anything and normally this involves using the company’s resources, such as printer, photocopying machine, files etc]

Here’s just 10 things that people would normally do and can safely get away with it since much of the snake eating activities involve your laptop or desktop, which makes you look real busy (provided your acting skill is superb) of course there are others more innovative and excellent time-killing ideas such as playing games etc…

I think employers should not impose strict rules on employees to concentrate on their work every minute and second, I mean, everyone needs a break, imagine, having to wake up at such shitty hours (8am?), and work till the sun sets before going home. I can’t imagine leading such life and I already feel like a loser when I am typing this out.

Buddhists think that if one recarnates to a human being, it means that he or she has done plenty of good deeds in his/her previous life, I wonder why? Is it really “fun” to be a human when you work the shit out of your entire life to secure 3 meals a day and perhaps some other indulgences. Looking at Coby, I realized that life can be very simple and fulfilling. Isn’t this what life should be?

Moving Forward…

I am moving on to a new job and a new environment. Feeling pretty excited and a little bit anxious. Wonder how’s the other place like, the colleagues are like…

In life, changes are inevitable. I hope my change is for better and not for worse.

Some thoughts...

Just some thoughts on something which had recently happened…

When work is a routine, it becomes mundane.
When work has no colleague, it becomes humdrum.
When work is about “boot-licking”, one becomes fictitious.
When work is everything about “back-stabbing”, then it is about warfare.
When work is about being all alone, then work life is meaningless.

Every colleague is leaving the war frontier, how can I bring myself to wage the war alone?
I wonder how long can I hang on to the hustle and bustle of working life where every action is being monitored.
I hate being restricted for every little step I take. I have had enough.

Some Developers....are for torture

Tester is a job not well liked by people, I guess. Especially developers, if you happened to be one, read and LEARN this:

• Developers’ favorite line: Screen/Layout looks better in this way.
  My argument: Fuck you. Don’t talk like as if you are somewhat a designer, remember, you are just a boring human who knows (Giving you the benefit of doubt, I assume you know) how to code. Quit being a complete ass hole, by saying this, I don’t care whether it is friendly to you or to your mother, point is, it is not what the client wants, so stop your mindless rambling and do your work.

• Developers’ favorite line: We don’t have time to attend to these defects!
  My argument: Fuck you one more time. Date lines are meant for you to follow/meet, not for you to drink coffee, or enjoy your curry. You cannot finish your project is your father’s and mother’s problem because they have a child who doesn’t know how to read the dates and they should be disgraced.
  

• Developers’ favorite line: Its not our fault, its “Tester A”, “Developer B”, “Manager C” fault.
  My argument: Shit you, everything happened “in your territory” is not your fault but every other ppl’s fault. Are you stupid or what? Don’t try to drag people down when you are at fault. If you believe in God, rest assured he will punish you for telling lie.
  

• Developers’ favorite line: I don’t think this is a defect. It is not. Close it. Remove it.
  My argument: Excuse me, I am a tester and I don’t need a developer to help me differentiate what is a defect, what is not. If you think you know more, quit your developer job and join me in the testing. I m sure you wont like it. Something which is so obvious to be a defect can be said blatantly as “Not a defect”. Who teach you how to lie with your big bulging eyes? Your father or mother? Quick tell me. BTW, if you are so free to think of excuses not to solve defect, why not spend more time looking at your codes, it is more worthwhile… I can assure you. As I wont remove the defect from the list just because of you, a useless you.
  

• Developers’ favorite line: You so free to test, come help us with our defect la.
  My argument: Are you giving me part of your miserable stipend? Even if you are, I won't be a fool to help you. And what makes you think that worth of my help? Let's just put it this way, I prefer to raise defect till you get overload. And cry. (you favorite tool is to CRY, remember??)
  

• Developers’ favorite line: You don’t know what we are doing. You have a lot to do.
  My argument: Crazy or what? You have a lot to do that is your problem and most importantly, you get PAID for doing it. Do make it sound as if you volunteer for the job. Even if you volunteer, no one will want you to get involved… cos you are awful.

I believe the great developers out there have more excuse than the 7 listed here. Unfortunately, I can’t outsmart them in coming up excuses. They are simply professional in creating excuse to shield themselves from all troubles. Sorry if you meet me, I will make your life miserable and you wish you were never born!

Do you know why despite being so dejected in this job; you still stay with the company? You know, you know very well that you are an abnormal individual who refused to get out of your own world. You fancy living in a stinky world of your own and you must have know you are a REJECT in the society due to your weird-ness (sad, in terms of mindset and outlook, you seriously look weird). Look at yourself in the mirror, do you see a human or a devil’s grandma in disguise? I deem the latter. I send my condolences to you, knowing that you are an abnormal person and no one can help you. What to do? Continue to be an individual whom everyone loathe and detest, which I believe that is how you survive since young. Don't die so early ok, cos weirdo like you are facing a crisis of endanger.

PS I love you.