In the meeting

Today, during meeting with my boss.....

Boss: I noticed some of you are using MSN for chatting..
Everyone : *suddenly very tension
Boss: I have been thinking...
Everyone: *bracing for bad news
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Boss: That I also should use msn
Everyone * falls flat

Farewell Lunch

We had our expensive farewell lunch for my colleagues at the Bukit Kiara horsey club yesterday. Has this 8 course meal or something like that. They took soo long to bring the next dish after we finihsed the first one. We were like starving to death la. Then after we told them they were a bit slow, the food started to appear a few dishes at a time.. aiya.... Maybe the waiter hates us for critisizing the food and service in front of him, hahaha.. What a dangerous thing to do in front of a waiter.

It was certainly an emotional time towrds the end, with the farewell "speech" and so on. I really hate changes of any sort, but life is full of changes, some for worst, some for better. Its a pity I could only know them for a short time, but I'm glad to have known them. Farewell and all the best !

My colleague was saying over our meal of "cheap" noodles today that this meal was better than yesterdays posh meal ... haha... cheap or expensive food, it is all just food la. But i was really stuffed to the max yesterday, we couldnt finish all the food.

Finally

Finally got my company email, and the 2nd boss asked me to send a mail to everyone in my company to indicate that was my email address. Then he asked me if I needed any help. Of course I said I can handle it myself, and I already had everyones email from a mail the admin sent to us 1 month back to announce something. So I logged into my hotmail, located the email and clicked reply to all. Ah, everyones mail appeared in the "To :" field. Now I'll just have to copy and paste it and send the email to all. So it went like "hi all, this is my email address....." ok, then click send... sucessful ! Then I suddenly realised to my horror that in my great wisdom, I had used my hotmail to send it, instead of the company mail in my outlook. Suddenly my colleagues started asking me in messenger, eh, aint that your hotmail? My goodness... even the bosses would have received that. I hurriedly resent the mail using outlook, but they said they cant receive it ! Arghh.... call myself a programmer, cant even make outlook express work, I'm going to crawl into a hole and die. In the end some said they got my mail and some said they couldnt get it. I kept resending the mail... in the end it seems to work. Seriously I wonder how many copies of my stupid mail my boss will find in his inbox this morning.. dont even dare to imagine... >.<

In the company....

We had a company meeting yesterday evening. I can tell u that everything the boss said had a hidden meaning behind.

Boss : After going through the work done in the last few weeks, there is something i want to tell all of you..
Meaning : If I don't go through your work, who knows what horrors you all will do to the system, therefore i want to highlight ur dumb mistakes once again..

Boss: bla bla.. so as you can all see, if you do it in this way, imagine how many records will have been locked, causing a serious lack of resources and bla bla...
Meaning : Because of what you have done, we almost released a program that would have our customers sueing our pants off when thier whole system crashes

Boss : Can anyone answer this question?
Meaning: Anyone wants to show me that its not a total waste of hiring him?

'Boss : None of you gave an accurate answer. If I were your teacher I would have failed you guys, hahaha
'Meaning : There goes your bonus and increment for this year. (Insert evil laughther)

The area behind my office......

Just back from lunch. As soon as I sat down, I heard a guy yell loudly behind my office area. Must have been pretty loud for us in front of the office to have heard it. No one seems interested to investigate though. The lorong behind my office is a shady area filled with the sound of electric drills, speeding cars and banging noises. I think there is a car garage behind there. Just last week one of my collegues witnessed 2 parang wielding , bike riding criminals trying to rob a lady. FOrtunately they failed as other people in the area honked at them and scared them off. Looks like I won't ever be parking there, although its near to my office. Better just take a short walk everyday. Even the cleaner lady brought her son along today, her "bodyguard", she was saying. Its just not safe these days........

Since I started working...

Since I started working,

1) I'm turning into an indian. No matter how much sunblock, sunshades, whatever I use, I'm getting darker and darker due to the extremly unpredictable and hot sun shining on me during lunch hour.

2) I had my first full blown migrane that left me completely unable to do anything. Wonder if its due to computer computer and more comuter day and night.

3) Im spending a fortune on biscuits and instant milo/horlicks/tea

4) Backaches are killing me. I really need a live-in masseur.

5) I'm unable to sleep past 10 am anymore even on weekends and holidays. My eyes open at 7.15 everyday even if I dont set any alarm

6) I fully appreciate the wonders of unlimited broadband. A day when the internet connection is down during a boring day at work is like a death sentence.

7) Saturday is no longer a day to sleep in. Its the only day available to get anything done especially if it involves banks and other government buildings

8) I look at my sisters and wonder how they manage to sleep later than me everyday and wake up earlier than me to prepare for school. Come to think of it I also did the same thing in my schooling days. Sigh, I must be getting old.

9) I wonder why I did not skip more classes during college. I dont even have the chance to do that now.

10) Paying for your own everything evolves a person into a Mr/Mrs kiasu. I'd still rather walk under the hot sun to the free parking area everyday and spend a fortune on sunblock than park in front of my office and pay rm 4 a day. I really ask myself whats the logic in this, but cant come up with any answer.

Getting a job

There was this guy that was supposed to start work today in my company. He didnt show up. Perhaps he got a better offer at a different company. Come to think of it, I faced a simlar situation when I first started work. Its wierd that I was worrying one time about why no one called me for any interview, and then suddenly there was one interview after another. After that I got 2 job offers, one after another. Its hard choosing between jobs. I mean that kinda choice sort of determines the next few months/years of your life. I would say that around 40% of my friends who were my classmates have not gotten a job yet, of coz some have not even started to look for one. I cant imagine rotting at home for so many months though

Monday blues

Is it my imagination or did everyone look more gloomy than usual today. Yet another weekend has gone pass and a new week has started. My office line down today, so painful for me, haha.... can't use it to send my daily free sms or update my blog. Today of all days I forgot that my mum took my bag out of my car and went to work without it. Good thing I took out my wallet and other essentials earlier on.

To tell the truth I've always liked Mondays. I really don't know why, maybe because its like the start of a brand new week. A time where I'm refreshed after the weekend. Of coz for those that spend their weekends staying up at night, it might be a different story all together. What I really feel about Monday is, it passes by very quickly, in no time at all, half the week is gone, the week comes to an end, and a brand new week starts again. The pace of life is frightening... and it passes by faster the older we get.

Today marks the day that I have been working for excactly one month. How do I feel about it? Well, for some reason I'm still searching for something I really have the passion for, hope I'll come across it in the near future. In the meantime, everythings still fine.

Hope the line at work is fixed tomorrow....