God Save Me...

I'm BORED. Very Very Very Very Very Very bored.


I have NOTHING, completely NOTHING to do (besides fix up some meetings which will take less than 10 mins and I have to pretend to be busy till 6pm). Why is life so cruel?





I hate my job. A job is a job. A career is something you enjoy. A job pays the bills, you don't care if your office burns down, you pray for your PC to crash every day, you live for public holidays and you plan your leave so carefully that you can take the whole week off when a public holiday is around the corner. This is COPYRIGHT dude - its my damn words.





My boss isn't around, and I normally don't have much to do on normal days, besides handle issues because my team is fucked up which keeps me quite occupied actually, and today he's not here. Yesterday, he wasn't here. I didn't care, I left at 5pm. Nothing to do what!





So today I came at 10am, everyone else was here. Good for them, I'm sure they have things to do right.


It's a very confusing situation, which is better - Be swarmed with work and be occupied all day OR be paid and not have work to do and pretend to be busy when you're not. I'm sure many would say option 2 is Heaven, but I kid you not, it isn't. Having nothing to do is very tiring indeed and I would like to put my incredible brain to use once in a while at work.


It's not fun to pretend to be busy, what do you do? Surf the Internet? You'd run out of things to surf eventually (trust me on this one). Play games? All gaming websites are blocked. Then when someone comes near your table,you gotta pretend you were doing real work. It's frustrating. You get lazier and when there's actual work to do, you won't want to do it. I'd rather go home, play with Lucky, watch tv and spend my time more wisely in the way I want to rather than sit here typing my blog and let others think I'm working hard because they hear my keyboard clicking furiously.





If one day someone comes up to me, pulls up a chair and goes "Show me what you do all day", I'd be stumped, I'll tell you that. Really.


"Ok, so these are the websites I surf all day, I'm very up to date with movies and celebrities and I can tell you a whole bunch of stuff on cats. Oh work, nah. It's done, finished it within the first 30mins of stepping into the office. Coffee, anyone?:





SO 2nd option is to spend my time wisely at the gym, but it's always so crowded and the gym instructors are always watching you like how an eagle watches its prey to know when it can make the kill. I hate it when the newbies approach you, thinking they can strike it bigtime by telling you that you can look better and only they can show you how. Rrrrright.


1pm there's a Body Pump class. I hate it, but its good. My thighs ache like hell, I feel like I'm dying for 1 hr, but I know it's good. Still got 40 mins to kill before i can start making my way to the gym. Perhaps I can spend longer time there, come back, buy my soup, estimate abt 2.30-2.40pm I'll be back in office. Then, there's a couple of hours more to kill till 6pm.


Sigh.





So bored, so bored I'm watching the US presidential elections. Anyone who votes for JOhn & Sarah need to be admitted to a mental institution. Can they just choose Obama and get it over with. Sarah is so pretentious, playing the Power mother of 5 card, boo to her. Big deal she's got Jamie Lynn as a daughter. so what. boo hoo.





I have a $100 Robinsons voucher, I'd like to spend it but nooo I'm stuck here.


My boss is at another office today, his phone keeps ringing, I keep picking it up, repeating the same old line of how he's not here today, u can get him on Bloomberg & email. bla bla bla. Pickng it up is pointless isnt it? Then you have pricks who call his line several times, then immediately call my line and go" Oh he's not at his desk?" I Feel like saying, "He's not? No shit? And we wonder why he didn't pick up the phone the past 4 times you rang."





I just saw Farah's "outdoor" pal, Gato. He's damn damn damn cute. Sigh, I wish I could keep him but that just wouldn't be possible now would it. Lucky is a very jealous cat. I doubt he'd handle it well. He's already jealous when we dont give him 24/7 attention. Poor thing. I miss him so much, gonna see him later. He's such a curious and intuitive fella. Okay 12.30pm already, time to start getting ready for the gym. BRB later

Welcome Back

It's been a really long time since I blogged, because I either ran out of things to say or had way to much to say to write.

Funny thing is that the office has blocked blogspot, thus I can blog but unable to read my own blog. It's silly. But I'm too lazy to move it elsewhere so I shall just continue.

Where shall I begin? Hrm...

Prison Break is back!

Yes! Though not as captivating as the first season, it still rocks. Michael Scofield looks like he has put on some weight though. Sara's back - that's a waste of time. Don't think she ever contributed much to the show, besides being kidnapped over and over again. They should have permanently killed her off and introduced a new love interest for Michael. Or scrap that idea, the show is not about love interests anyway. There's too much action going on for that shit. LJ should play a bigger role instead of just being in one or two scenes and that's it.

Looking forward for Heroes to be back too end Sep!

My cat Lucky.

He's adorable and has grown so much in just 4 mths. I love him to death, always worried about whether he's okay, or whether he's healthy. He's got a nasty biting habit that doesn't seem to go away, I've got scratches all over my hands and he only seems to do it to me.

It's very sad because I don't know what to do. I don't know if he's being aggressive or dislikes me, or he's bullying me because I spoil him, or he's just plain playing. As he didn't have any mother/litter mates, he might not know that he's very aggressive. I also wonder if it will go away once he gets sterilized. What if it doesn't, or worst till what if he's allergic to anesthetic? 1 in 1000 cats are allergic to anesthetic, and someone I know had a cat who was and the poor guy passed away due to the procedure. So we've decided to get his bloodwork done in advance to know if he's allergic or not. I had no idea there was such a thing, in fact if I didn't hear about this, God knows if I would have known there was such a thing as vets these days do not inform pet owners of this. Apparently you're supposed to know.

Well, I'm 1/4 through the Cat Bible book I bought (though its sort of repetitive of whatever I've read online) so hopefully I can cover more areas.

Though for his biting, I'm really at wits end. I don't know what to do. Singapore vets are useless, we've sought 3 vets advise, all giving the same standard "advise" if you were to call it such, none worked. Geez....

Office

There's a new clown in town and he's a clown indeed. First day, he pissed off several people by demanding things. If I am new in the office, isn't there some discretion or some good 1st impression I would like to show others? This joker was already throwing around his weight man, thinking he's so high and mighty.

His contract is not finalized yet but he demands to start work, I was quite ecstatic when HR told him to fugg off and not come in till he is supposed to, oh wait wait, then he refuses to go on a trip if he has to incur an admin charge on his credit card, prob less than $50?

Dear God, why do you create such jokers and infuse them with such thoughts that they rule the world?

Anyway I can't be bothered to entertain him, I hardly spoke to him unless necessary and if he thinks he can boss me around, he should get acquainted with the bottom of my shoe cos it'll meet his fugly face preetay soon.

What's wrong with these people? Am I the only sane one here? Or am I the only moralled one here? Probaby the latter. Rich people seems to keep their morals in their attic. (I'm sure not all, but this bunch sure does). Sheesh.

School

Not quite pleased with school results for last term, but then again I guess I did slack off. Oh well, school's starting again today. Yipee.. totally uh..looking...forrrward.. to it. yup. 4 mths of studying, no life, exams, assignments, no life, weekends burnt, only books I'll be reading are texbooks, doing group work on weekends, returning home after 10pm twice a week. Ahhh the good life. Mid sems, final, taking the leave I don't have to study.

I'm hungry, it's 12.20pm, I had half a bowl of Honey stars for breakfast (cos it ran out) and I'm hungry. And we can't go till after 1pm cos it'll be crowded. I hate Raffles Place. No one can eat in peace. and when you lunch with others, you gotta accomodate their timing too. maybe i shld have gone to the gym after all. saves all the trouble.

now what shall i have for dinner.....

Reflections

Have been very busy going out that I have had no time to blog. After my exams, everything was lazy lazy lazy. Been going out and slacking at home often, a priviledge I didn't have for 3 1/2 months since I was schooling. And now, December has already come to an end and in Jan, it's back to school already. Sigh. How depressing.

Xmas was a blast, and I am totally broke. Tomorrow New Year's eve is with family. I wanted a different beginning to 2008. 2008 will be a good yr for us and I wanted to enter it being around the people I care about, instead of in a crowded club or party with gyrating strangers who are high and drunk.
2007 didn't begin so well for us and wasnt too good till the end and I'm very particular abt beginning a new yr. I believe if you begin it wrongly, the whole yr will go wrong. I've also learnt to appreciate my family more, thanks to Amriq and I want to be around them this yr.
Usually I'd join them for dinner then rush to leave and felt bad many times. I know they also want me to be around but probably keep telling themselves that I'm young and would rather spend new yrs with my friends.
So this yr, I want to be with them. This is probably the most sincere blog entry since I've started this piece of crap.
I feel like I've accomplished quite a bit this yr and I know 2008 will be the start of better times. Hopefully 2009, I'd move into marriage and who knows what's come after that.

I've realized how many proper "friends" I have this yr and though I keep thinking that some ppl have all the friends in the world, I don't feel any less bad because I think it's important to have a few good ones rather than a bunch of useless ones.
I had a friend who doesn't speak to me due to me not symphatizing about her on-off-on-off-on-on-off-dunno-on-off-?? relationship with her boyfriend and she expects the world to cry along with her. I had so called close friends who didn't bother replying to my sms when I invited them for something.
And frankly I don't quite care.
I was upset initially but I tell myself I already have all I need and want and I do not have the time nor energy to waste on such meaningless people. My hands are already full with doing what needs to be done to accomplish what I want in my life and I'd rather not have them there than have them there so it's okay.
By the way, the new girl in my office seems pretty alright. We chat alot about stuff and I suppose her thinking is similar to mine as shes been in Sg for a long time.
I've also gotten very lazy in work due to the holidays and leave this month so come 2008 I better buck up and ASK FOR A RAISE TOO!

Alas, I have recalled that I didn't post the pics and now that I have changed my stupid Nokia phone to another stupid Nokia phone, the pics are in my old memory card which is up my cupboard and I am too lazy to bring it down. (why cupboard? cup-board.. doesn't make sense.)

So I have taken other pics and will put it up instead.

This pic says it all...



We went this close to the Singapore flyer


Taking a pic by the road?




















Something's not right
























AND THE GRAND FINALE...



Ronald DUI

A year older and none the richer..

It came and gone - my birthday yesterday. Finally turned 23 and it wasn't really a big deal because it felt older. Like after everything and working and schooling and whatever else that has happened in my life, only 23 ah?

Didn't feel very special, probably because it's my stupid OTB exam today and WPL exam on Friday so I spent the day studying. Only went out to Tampines for lunch with Vani at Sakae Sushi because my mum gave us her voucher and went to do Xmas shopping for the kids (not mine) and bought Amriq an Xmas present which I shall not state what it is cos he spies on me!

I spent the $200 I got for my birthday. My parents (+ Vani) were very sweet though. Amriq met me downstairs on 9th Dec at 11.45pm and he wanted to be with me till it was 12am and I was complaining to him that everyone went to sleep and no one at home bothered it was my birthday. I was already feeling down that I couldn't celebrate due to my exam and this made it worst.
After 12am he sent me to my door and the lights were all off and I said perhaps my mum thought I was at home and closed up everything. He opened the door for me and they were lighting my cake and screamed Surprise!!
Boy was I surprised!!!

Apparently Vani came up with the surprise and luckily I told her I was going downstairs to meet Amriq then she msged him and told him to bring me up. I don't know why I told her I was meeting him since they were all "asleep" and it was lucky that I did. She would have been heart-broken if she came out with the cake and found me not at home.

She also gave me a game set - Game of Life. It's pretty fun and we played it twice and stopped after I won. hehe.
Amriq came yesterday as well and he has something special planned for me on 14th after my exam. I am VERY excited!! On 15th, family is having a BBQ to celebrate my bday with my aunt & cousin - both their birthdays are on 12th Dec.

Can't wait.

This year has been a blessed year. It didn't start of right and Amriq and I had loads of quarrels but I appreciate him and my family more than ever and it is such a peaceful feeling to know that my family has finally accepted him as part of my life and I know they know we are definitely getting married although they won't say it yet.

I hope next year will be a better year and I'm damn sure it will be.

I shall conclude this post by saying :-
I might not be cash rich but I am definitely rich in all other ways and that is something we should never take for granted.

New Kid On the Block

We have an addition to our team - she's an analyst to analyze whatever she's supposed to analyze. Hopefully they'd have the decency to train her, unlike in my case where I spent my first few days going through the files of the previous person to figure out what the frig is going on here.
She looks pretty busy though, yes, on her first day, very busy when the boss is not even in town. Tsk, don't make fun okay.

Anyways I heard she has an attitude problem - ya know the type who think they are all that and way too smart and above the rest. I heard only la, who knows. Perhaps she could turn out to be very nice or very nasty.

The $7K-earner gal has made very good friends with her, laughing away (they sit opp each other) since the time the new girl came in in the morning. They even went out to lunch together (I made up something, she loves to eat expensive food. Hell so would I if I earned Seven gazoons). Well, I supposed the new girl hit home since they come from the same country.

I wonder how much this one makes, considering how desperate the bause was to get her in makes me assume she was on a good bargaining end.
He's weird. When I first came in, he was all over me.

NO not in that sense, like totally fussing over me, totally taking care of me, I was like wow got such a boss ah? And now before she came in, he was already fussing over her. Instructing me to include her in every team dinner (remember a few posts ago I complained abt eating with stupid visitors who come) and everything if there was one BEFORE she even signed the frigging contract..

Mad ah? What if she didn't sign? So malu right? I think she's already minding it. Last time someone came down (and he's the global CEO mind you) she made up an excuse saying she was sick and on long MC but I saw her at the lift lobby at office, coming back from lunch.
Didn't bother telling my boss anything. His problem. I'm sure his fussing will die after one or two months.

Hoi, end of yr, increase my pay leh?

Though I've been in this dept 6 mths, I've put up with annoying people who love to make others wait. Isn't that worth, say $500 more?

Back to the new kid on the block. She's been nice (as in first day at work niceness) so far till earlier I thought she was abit odd.
We are supposed to have a gift-exchange in the office on 7th Dec so everyone has to buy something worth $15 and above. we were all discussing what to buy when she said she already bought it (and gave it to me to submit like last week - fast to impress? ) then one guy said "Oh you did? You should have bought the same thing on behalf of the rest of us!" then he carried on laughing.
Our friend just stared at him and went "Uh. OhhhhhhKayyyyy."

What do you think about this one? Rude generally? Or rude for a newbie?
He just laughed it off.
Oh and one more, another guy said buy huge bags of potato chips since its cheap and people like going for the biggest presents. She added "Oh not many women will touch potato chips."
The fella retorted, "Yeah? You'd be surprised."

Strike one fella! Zero newbie!

Oh well. Let's see how it goes. I can't be bothered if she's anti potato chips (she's stick thin) or whatever as long as she doesn't get on my nerves is fine.

I shall end this post by saying:

Nokia N80 sucks. My phone is blank. All I see is a white light and it's so irritating. First the headset died and I had to use loudspeaker to here people now I can't see shit.
This is the 3rd damn time there's something wrong with it. Later I'm going to Century Square branch to fix it.
Great. Last time I fixed the LCD it took 3 weeks. I wonder how long it will take now.
And they better not frig with me. They gave me this current LCD.
They frig, they die.

Believe It or NOT

Yesterday

I was at school and went to the ladies and there was another classmate (who I recognize by face but never spoke to her) who was in the other cubicle.
As I was doing my business (aka peeing) I thought, THOUGHT ONLY, thought I heard a moan.
Hmm ok. I took my time and still waited even though I was done. And there it was - constant soft whimpering.
What was she doing, I wonder? It sounded wet.

Today

I called the cops! I called the neighbourhood police station on a bunch of mat-minah-scooters under the block making such a racket.
The officers took a frigging hour to come. They are located behind, I REPEAT, behind our street. Wow.
According to my dad, he could have murdered someone and they wouldn't have caught him.
Disturbing thoughts from a 51 yr old. But so true! What the hell man!
The mat-minahs cld have been high on weed for all you know and I'm sure they'd have hung around for 1 freuding hour to be caught.

They had their mat-minah-rocker songs going on and one girl was laughing like an injured hyena (according to Vani whom I'm so sure has encountered an injured hyena) but no shit man, they were just so damn bloody irritating.
And they weren't teens either, my mum had a peek and they were at least in their mid-twenties.

MID-TWENTIES. Hey, don't you guys have like 2 kids each to go home and attend to ? Oh wait, my bad, kids are usually thrown to the mothers.

Now I am not being a racist but why do mat-minahs just lurve hanging out bawah kolong blok? (English translation : under the block).

Don't they have a job to go to at 8.30am tomorrow morning? Work to complete? Datelines to meet? Bosses to please?

So it went down like this:
I was at my assignment, Vani & my dad standing in the study room for nearly 1 hr looking out the window hoping to spot the police car. I initated the first call to the cops. WE kept bugging my dad to call again so he did after 30 mins. Nothing. 15 mins later, he got mad and redialed and scolded the woman over the phone. He said, you tell me straight, if u police won't do anything, I will go down myself and settle it.
He was informed they were down on manpower.

Down on man power. On a Tuesday. Midnight. Bedok.

No shit. I can see how that will be tricky.


Sheesh. Why is the world like this?
I just finished my OTB group assignment. Had to piece together 5 assignments into one.
I'm tired.
Good night.

Updates

HI~

I haven't blogged for long, reason being my company had blocked blogs..( hehe say blocked blogs fast. say it again, sounds funny.) and I have this uneasy feeling about blogging yet not being able to read what I blog and I haven't touched Monique in a while either - no time.

But today, Andy gave me an idea of what to blog about! But first, let me talk.

I have a few pictures to upload but no bluetooth in the silly office so shall do it when I go home, really. I will.

Went to Thai express at Siglap on Friday. I got $30 voucher from the management as an apology for the awful service under the previous outlet manager who was going to leave so didn't give a shit. The guy at the counter (dressed in t-shirt and jeans) din allow me to use my discount card till I insisted the vouchers weren't part of a promotion but rather because I complained so I should still be entitled to use my member card. He agreed and afterwhich said the restaurant is now under his care and I complimented the efficiency. But what puzzled me was if he was the manager, who was the other guy dressed in black shirt and black pants while the rest were in t-shirt and jeans? Hmmm....

Yesterday we went to Ikea but I wanted to buy the straw goat (yes, straw GOAT) but they didn't have it :( But it's cute, no? So I bought a collander. What's a collander? The bowl-like thingy with small holes where you can drain vegetables and pasta. We are in DIRE need of one of those. No mother, a basket with tiny rectangular holes all around is NOT a substitute.

While we were queuing up to pay for some other stuff, I saw a tray with small biscuit squares and red jam for tasting. Being a fool that I am, I popped one into my mouth and immediately spat it out. It was SO DAMN AWFUL! I rushed to the cafe and had to queue to buy a coke to wash off the horrid taste and I DON"T LIKE COKE so you can imagine how bad it was. After I had calmed my nerves, I plucked up my courage to approach that deadly jar of "jam" to find out what parts of a dead fish were inside. It was red cabbage jam. It's yucky and thank god wasn't any fish roe-instestinical stew.

After that we went to Sentosa (will upload the pics too) - the Tanjong brach is very nice, it had a bar in the front and it was about 6ish so it wasn't hot. Just felt like swimming at that moment.

Oh yeah, two Indian men (obviously not local) approached a white man and his blonde toddler who was running ard in her diapers and asked him if they could take a pic with her.

WHY, In God's name, would someone wanna do that. Better still, WHY, In God's name would a father allow two weirdos to take a pic with his child?

"Oh look Raju, a white childl!"

"Gasp! Oh my god, you're... you're right! WAIT, is that What I think it is!! She's.... BLONDE!" "WE have got to snap a pic!"

"Yes! Don't usually get to see them running around in their diapers like the rest of us human kind!"

Heh. Weird Weird guy. We also saw another Indian man with half his hair missing. Not like a bald spot but the left side of the head was gone. Not to poke fun, poor guy must have had some accident, but if it were me, I would have rather gone totally bald then leave it like this.

Why, whyyyy!!!

Hmmm what else.. think.. think...

Yes! I'm planning to go to Genting for the FOURTH time. I went Sep 06, Feb 07, Apr 07 and now Jan 08! Wuhoo! I can't explain it but I just love the place. It's soo.. Just love it !

By the way, pls do read how Dr Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong created Genting Highlands. It's an amazing story... He was a genius, far better than any geniuses in my opinion. Who would have thought of a casino and a theme park in a jungle-like mountain?

A MUST READ

http://www.genting.com.my/en/mydream/success.htm

We're planning to go in Jan, hopefully after pay-day and when it's not so crowded. I hate it when it's crowded.

Seriously, you MUST go to Genting. It's a beautiful place and I don't think any other place in Asia, or the world, will have this kind of weather - cool, misty. Not even the places with snow.

Now the grand finale of my post, Andy told me (and allowed me to write this okay so no breach of confidentiality involved) that his family doesn't celebrate anything as in no holidays, no occasions and not even Chinese New Year..

Hm..uh..mmm.. oddd.

STAY TUNED TO FIND OUT MORE ! if he's willing to share. No pressure okay..

(and see more pics.)