is it a norm?

Imagine this: Your partner & you are hungry and both of you wanted to pack lunch to eat at home since the weather is hot. However, your in-laws are also at home at the same time. Will you pack some food back for them even though they've taken their lunch or will you just buy 2 packets of food just enough for you and your partner? You will be surprised how many people i know who would just pack food for themselves and not for the whole house. Takkan 10 pieces of pisang goreng can cause a lot of money???

freedom day

Singapore is celebrating their Independence day today, no wonder i kept calling my counterpart like a silly person but nobody answers my call, until i received my first out-of-office mail :p Silly me. So what am i going to do for the rest of today?? Just kidding, dun retrench me yet. Reports and more reports lar. My B likes to have 1 report in several forms / spreadsheet and i have no idea why. It's redundant but yet she enjoys reading them wor, so how? Just do it lor. So today, i'm going enjoy my "freedom", working cum blogging :p

high-speed chase caused another jam

Want to know wat time i reached home last night??? 9.30PM!!! After marching, we left office at about 7pm. By 7.20pm, we only reached QB, and the jam was so teruk. The signboard stated "Kemalangan Di Atas Jambatan. Berhati-hati ketika memandu." Not again. This morning, we saw the same sign and now another time?? All the cars were static & nobody was able to move. Thinking that the accident must be a serious one, we detoured to take ferry. Manatau, same condition. Luckily it's not Fright-day, otherwise, we will have to camp at my mum's apt. Imagine the jam started right after the traffic light at Kastam & on the other side of the road, the jam continued until Macallum Street. I was starving & having headache and the biscuits just weren't enough even for me alone. So finally reached home at 9.30pm, just enough time to continue my Astro cantonese series :p

The cause of the jam: Shot after high-speed chase. But the chase started at 4.45pm wor. And the jam still haven't settled at 7pm??

bye bye maid

I just realised i didn't update my blog for like a week last week. Partly due to work and also i was just being lazy. Usually these are the 2 main culprits. Anyway, i took an emergency leave on Friday. Initially, wanted to apply for 1/2 day leave on Thurs but i've lost my password, so can't do anything. Called up my boss as early as 7am, left her a voicemail and continued with my arranged iterenary for the day. First part of the day got messed up due to wrong information given & also cos i had to deal with the goverment people.

At about 2pm, we finished our lunch and prepared to send the maid to KL for good. Mum asked dad to go to the parking lot with the maid first, while she and I packed her stuff for her. Not being cruel but we didn't want the maid to take our things out from the house "accidentally". The maid saw us with her bags but didn't ask any question. Mum talked to her about sending her on back to KL on bus with all the necessary details. Could see that she was shivering as it's the first time for her to board a bus in Msia, without any documentation. Yeap, aunt from KL refused to send her proper documentation due to unexplainable reason and we dun even bother to know. Finally sent her away on bus, called aunt to inform her about the maid and mission accomplished. Another burden off parents's shoulders.

friday, fright day

Friday = let's-gather-at-the-PG-bridge day *yahoooooo!!!*

Many people have been ushering out from the company today. Mostly office staff , including my opposite neighbour. Work is pending due to system bug & it's impossible to solve it by today, so i'm free now with a few reports to do. My stomach is getting better but cos i accidentally swallowed my lunch just now due to hunger, it's getting uncomfortable now. It's like having a big rock somewhere in my intestine. And it's making me sleepy :P Excuses.

just go to hell!!!!

My mum called & i just received the stupidest & craziest news!!!! A doc from LWE suggested that my 88-year-old grandpa to undergo chemo treatment to kill his lung cancer cells!?!?!?!?! What kind of a doctor is that?! He told dad, if dun undergo chemo, ah kong will only live for another 3 months only. If undergo chemo leh?? 1 week can say bye bye to us lar?? Is he a moron or he is crazy for money? How can you suggest an old man who is even too weak to walk to undergo chemo treatment? My ah kong's skin is left with no muscle & hair. Even if you pressed on his arms too hard, his skin will "break" if not blue black. When he got admitted, the doc asked us what happened to his arms some more. I think the doc in LWE are idiots. Takkan they dunno the cause of the bruised skin just by looking at it? My dad dun abuse my ah kong, okay! Mum said that when they rushed ah kong to the ER in LWE, the doc talked to them like one kind. "You want him to admit, admit lor. If you want to take him back mah take him back lor", after my dad asked the doc whether my ah kong was serious & needed to be admitted immediately or not. You say lar......and i tot GH is worse. LWE is crazy for money i think. They suck blood from people like us.

the story of mungkin

Aiyo....look at this poor baby. Got abused by a maid until both his legs got fractured but as usual the maid denied lar.

picture from The Star (26July2007)

My parents encountered the same problem with the maid at home. Usually my grandpa will be left alone with the maid at home when parents go out to run errands. Last time, each time parents returned from doing their chores, there would be bruises on grandpa's head. When questioned, the maid would deny everything "Mungkin tadi.....mungkin....." Lots of "mungkin" this and "mungkin" that. Even if she spoils anything in the house, she will go "tak tau, mungkin..... saya tak cakap bohong". No matter how you scold her or threaten her, it's has no effect on her at all. Later, i learnt from my colls that their maids are serupa with my mum's maid. Kaki bohong & always push away responsibilities. Luckily I dun have maid at my own house. If not I think I’ll be the one abusing my maid since I cannot take stupid excuses.

i hate voicemails

I HATE receiving voicemails & i hate leaving voicemails unless it's really very very urgent. Why some people are so fond of leaving voicemails??? Voicemails are so irritating. Whenever i see the red light blinking non-stop on my phone , immediately my mood will slowly turn bad. Dun leave me voicemail unnecessarily!!!

can't turn back time

With all the VSI package & people leaving the factory, this has affect the people who are left in the factory. It's so demoralizing. All this changes make people feel so insecure working with this company & to add salt to wound, rumors make everything worse. Every month there are people leaving from different departments. How i wish life will back to before like our cafeteria is still very huge & there are so many people working together under the same roof. I'm just rambling....

bye bye veterans

Today a lot of people swarmed out from our factory due to Voluntary Separation Incentive. I have no idea how many of them have been "kicked" out from the plant but one thing for sure, everybody seems to be very happy with the package especially the veterans. I wouldn't be happy if i get kicked out from the factory too early. Unless my pay is so very high. Some of them who i know, the first thing they did were to settle their loans (car & house). Some even went to buy landed property. Others went on holidays before deciding how to go on with their life. If i were one of them, i would first settled all my loans then go on short holidays before i settle down & start planning for myself.