Work Sucks
It was one of my customer's colleague last day at work and as usual, there will be the farewell lunch/dinner kind of stuff, and I was left to have my lunch alone. After lunch, a small group of them gathered around his cube and casually asked him which company he is joining.
I don't know what is wrong with people who refused to reveal to their colleagues which new company they are joining next. I mean, what is so secretive about where you are going to work? It's not as if you are going to join a shameful company. You resign from your present company to join another one because
a) there is more prospect, and
b) obviously the new one pays you more.
And shouldn't you be proud of it? But these people choose not to answer the question when their colleagues asked them where they are going next. They will give play-hard-to-get, hang-up-to-sell kind of answers like
"Dowan to say lar, paiseh",
"I tell you after I leave lar",
"Aiyah, you wanna know for wat".
Hey dude, your colleagues asked you because they want to keep in touch with you. Why play hard to get? Why hang up to sell?
This is not the first time I have seen this scenario. I have witness it from my own colleagues as well. I have no problems telling them "I am going to join ABC Company next month. Come and join me if you want." Am I different from others? If you resign from your job and joins a new company, do you tell your colleagues where you are going?
Recently, I am very disturbed by some politics going on in my office and I can't blog about it because I suspect some of my colleagues know this site. Fuck.
Singapore also got white smoke
Irritating Tuesday
Two of my customer's colleagues came over from their HQ site to Tuas today. A middle-age guy by the name of C, and a mid-20s girl called S. I wasn't really formally introduced to them, so I just carried on with my work (I am currently working on a particular assignment that needs a lot of planning and thinking). I think the 2 of them can't be bothered with me too, since I am only a vendor to them. They brought along their vendor, whom I think is from Hong Kong, judging from his accent.
The moment S sat down at the cubicle diagonally behind me, she switched on her music. That sickening bitch not only played her songs via speakers, she played them loud too. And the irritating thing is, she kept repeating and repeating all those 5566's songs. And she played it whole day, non-stop, repeating those songs at high volumn (at least to me, I think the volumn is pretty high in an office environment). The songs got so irritating and caused my braincells to stop functioning. The fact that I played Solitaire Showdown till 1am last nite didn't help.
Nobody stopped her. I can't stop her. I am only a vendor there. I can only cursed and swear at her by complaining to my friends. KNNBCCB lar. How would you feel if I blast my
GNR's
Right Next Door To Hell in the office? You wanna listen to your songs, ok lar. But not everyone is a boyband fanatic loser like you, so please bloody turn down the volumn. If she is my colleague, I would have walked over, switch off her speakers, and slap her on her head. KNN.
Why do I always have to face such customer???I was driving home when WC called me on my mobile at around 730pm just now.
WC: "Eh, when is the Chelsea match ah?"
Me: "Tonite lor, why?"
WC: "Just now while buying 4D, I saw a man bought Chelsea win for $40,000!"
Me: "Sure anot? He siao ah?"
WC: "Sure lar. He is a bookie around the neighbourhood lar. How? Bao yar bor? (Sure win anot)"
Me: "Err... dunno leh. Why? U wanna bet ah?"
WC: "Feel like leh. Itchy itchy leh. How? U want anot? $100 each lar"
Me: "Err... ok lor."
I bought $100 on Chelsea win at odds of 2.70. I have a feeling I will never see my $100 again.
In One Setence
Yesterday,
FF asked me to answer in one setence, how much I would do for a person I love. I gave her a pretty
straight-forward and down-to-earth answer.
After a day's thought, and pardon me for my unoriginality, I think this is my final answer:
"Words can't say what love can do",
Bon Jovi.
My Top 10 songs
I was tidying up my CD racks when i realised i have near to 250 CDs! If each CD costs $18, I would have spent $4500 on them!!! Ok, minus off some CDs that do not cost $18, but lesser, I supposed I have spent $4k on CDs. That's a lot of money to me! Damn it, where did I get all those money from last time?
Anyway, after tidying and rearranging them neatly, I have decided to list out my top 10 favourites from my rack (in no particular order).
1)
Estranged -
Guns N' Roses,
Use Your Illusion II2)
I'll Be There For You -
Bon Jovi,
Slippery When Wet3)
Santa Fe -
Jon Bon Jovi,
Blaze Of Glory/Young Guns II
4) Say Anything -
X japan,
Ballad Collection5)
I Remember You -
Skid Row,
Skid Row6) Only Time Will Tell -
Nelson,
After The Rain7) I Don't Want To Live Without You -
Sleeze Beez,
Powertool8)
The Look -
Roxette,
Look Sharp!9)
It's Me -
Alice Cooper,
The Last Temptation10) When The Children Cry -
White Lion,
PrideAnd I have no idea why I have
DJ MP4's The Book Is On The Table in my collection. As quoted by
FF,
shameful!
Junior Consultant
I went to take my exams today. It's an online mcq test. Hey, this mcq is not easy ok. There are more than one answer to every question. And I have to select a selection for every answer. Confused? Ok, for example there are 5 answers to a question :
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Each answer has a True/False radiobutton. So for each answer, I have to select whether the statement is true or false. Which means, I have to read through every single answer and make a selection. And I have 80 questions.
It was a 3-hour paper. I finished it in about 2.5 hours and was about to click on the Submit button. Look, once I click on the button, there is no turning back, and I would know the results immediately. No, D, there is no moderation. Only pass or fail.
I closed my eyes, with my heart jumping a little faster, and click...
Yeah!!! I have passed. I am now officially a junior consultant.
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But hell, my pay is still the same.... miserable........
Perception
Now that I have been attached to Tuas for almost 3 weeks, then i realised how good it was at the previous customer's site. At our previous site, we have a room all to ourselves. So when i had nothing to do, i would just play games openly there, or better still, i will just sleep on the sofa. (yes, there is a sofa in the room. I think we were just short of a bar fridge) We would always drive out for lunch, sometimes hang around at West Coast Mac till 2pm before we return. And if i was really really bored, i would just pack up and leave early and no one will care.
I am now all alone at Tuas. I am sitting in front of the manager's desk. I can't play games. I can't surf the net openly. In fact, most of the web sites are blocked. And lunch is only 45min and I can only eat at the canteen. Usually i would finish my lunch within 20min. And i can't return to my cubicle coz the room would be locked and i have no access. So i can only go for my smoke break alone, or stand stupidly outside the room waiting for the Customer to finish their lunch.
Now i am so lonely at Tuas.... If there are no hiccups along the way, I should be able to leave Tuas on the 17th of May... countdown...
On another note, has any of you been emailing, messaging and reading a fellow blogger's blog and wonder how he/she look like? I have been reading a particular blog and have been corresponding with the author and all the while, i have this tough rocker image of the author. And i almost hit my chin on my desk when i caught a 10sec glimpse of the photo of the author.
She is sooooooo sweeeeeet.
:P
Ok, back to my study notes again. 2 more days to exams.
Wish me luck.
p/s: I still think Juventus will proceed to the semis.
