Here I take some time off from my busy after-work schedule to blog about the weirdoes at work:
1. Mr Tight Pants
Not only his pants are super tight until he can’t walk properly but he is utterly dumb too. T said he has a stupid face but I found out that he IS indeed stupid. He has taken an interest in V, who is obviously married (from the wedding string she wears and the red pottu on her forehead). Heck, she is even pregnant! Yet, after she rejected his lunch invites by giving hints that her husband and MIL prepares lunch for her, one fine day he asked if she has a boyfriend. Oh.My.God. What the hell is wrong with this man?? How bloody stupid can he be? And now he continues to walk kangkang + tempang, cos his pants are so tight.
2. Mr Solar Drink
This man has the most annoying laughter, kak kak kak in a high pitch. Even T said that we just have to endure his laughter now that we sit in the same area. I noticed that he likes to place his mug of drink at the window sill. He walks past, takes a sip, then goes off. On the way back, take a sip again and back to his place, which is nowhere near the window. Trying to activate some ingredients inside the drink?
3. Psycho
A part-timer data entry boy that looks up from his PC whenever anyone passes by. He looks up from his PC and stare until we go out of sight. And on the way back, he has to look up and stare again. I stared back at him from the corner of my eye a couple of times, didn’t work. So I gave him a stupid smile one day, doesn't seem to have much effect too. So I reverted to the staring back at him and I think he got it, cos now he only looks up and then looks back down again. Haha, V even asked him one day, “Apa??” to which Psycho didn’t respond cos he is well, psycho. Annoying thing is that he looks down, but when I walk off I know he looks back up again, so I turned my head and stare at him. Sometimes he looks at your face, then lowers his gaze to your crotch level. Bloody fool. One day V saw him bending his head trying to see a girl’s watch at Sentral. Ain’t he weird? He freaked the girl out and she finally scolded him that there are many boards flashing the time. Stupid.
4. Ms Rich and Upper Class
Super rich that she leaves her car for valet parking if she drives out for lunch and returns. Apparently shops twice a week at Banana Republic. Ok fine but she asked V who was munching some peanuts, “Don’t eat that! Do you know how much calories there are?” and then “Are you not on a diet?” and asked her to take care of herself after marriage. When she found out that V is actually pregnant, she said sorry. Who the hell does she think she is to be speaking like that? Well, she is one who purposely wears high-waist skirts so that she can’t eat much and she only eats a few mouthful/takes a few sips of each meal/drink.
5. Ms Korean Born in US
Being able to speak Korean doesn't mean you have to be a Korean. You don't have to speak it at every single opportunity, you don't have to eat Korean food at the food court to show-off, you don't have to listen to Korean songs and you don't have to tell me the Korean name of the food when I ask what’s she eating, for I finally answered you ‘It’s kuey tiao la right?” And no, being born in US doesn't mean that you will become a US citizen if you go there to study hahaha! And it’s not such a big thing being born there. You don't have to add that ‘vital’ information when you introduce yourself to strangers lol! Despite being supposedly Westernised and welcoming other cultures, you are some sort of religious extremist who want to impose your whatever beliefs on me. Now take your beliefs and fuck off!! I will never forgive you for denting my holiday.
And then there is the new enthusiastic girl who likes to skip around the office, that T asked one day “Can you not be so excited?”. There’s the other newbie big girl whose voice, T said, doesn't befit her size. These 2 new girls wanted to give their team a treat after they got confirmed (*roll eyes*) and wanted to go to Madam Kwan. T said it’s not necessary, so they went to Kenny Rogers instead. Before everyone ordered, they announced that they actually have a budget to stick to. Hello, then what was that Madam Kwan? And then the big girl ordered half a chicken for herself. Laugh la, I almost finished half a chicken at Logenhaus that day too bwahaha! But that big girl keeps drinking the company milk from the fridge wan :D
And the one that I just noticed today, we have an Adam Lambert too. Tight jeans that are really fitting, they look like leggings. And he wore a jacket today with button badges on them. Whaddaya want from me? So whaddaya want from me?
Ever since we moved to our new seating area, I’ve become more observant, due to the increased exposure to strange characters.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Rotten day at work
In the morning, I got 3 emails from DG. 1 telling me how to run a slide, 1 reminding me to exclude Poland from all overall EU data and 1 more telling me the mistakes in the BMS deck. The BMS one is the one that bothered me the most. It had already disturbed me in the morning, but I managed to pull myself up and carry on updating the slides the best I could, until..
Yes, I admit that:
• I pasted Q1 2009 data into Q1 2010. And I didn’t look at it to see if it made sense. So I guess I did 2 wrongs here
• I thought that 2 slides had already been updated, so all I did was to hide Turkey’s data. Well, I had already commented there that I hid the data, not updated the slide.
But what DG thought/’accused’ me of was:
• Several slides updated were updated wrongly. They haven’t actually been updated!
So add all of those up and it sufficed enough to call T and complain about me?? I guess so, since he sounded pretty pissed with all the ?! in the slides.
If you read my email, I said that I have done up to slide 65 only for the day. Anything after that was not updated, of course they were wrong!!
The cause of the problems:
• Me being blur and stupid
• Him not reading my mail properly
• Old blobs that were left there, as though the slide has already been updated for the 2nd round
• No blobs there that were interpreted as being updated already
I must not blame anyone for it, but I am angry that he called T. It seemed like a serious problem, that I had done something so very wrong. It seemed as though I had been making mistakes for several days when it was only today that there was such feedback. NE never did this, although I’m sure I made some mistakes last time too. Bloody hell. I did tell T and replied to him as well on the miscommunication, hope it saved me a little.
To run salt into the wound, I already have a track record for this, mentioned in last year’s performance review. The call definitely made a mark in my record for my promo. Damn-fcuking-it!
Was very down and angry. Angry with myself for being stupid, and even more angry with DG for doing this, especially when it was not 100% my fault. Felt very very rotten that dinner outside and J-Card day couldn’t cure it. Tears streamed down as soon as I reached home; it was as though I had been waiting for a time to let go. I felt that the incident was a dream. When things so bad happen, it must have happened in a dream. I don't know why I take it so badly. This is the 1st time that I felt rotten and bad in this job.
And I just can’t explain why I’ve deteriorated mentally. I’ve noticed this since I started work in AGB. Sometimes I have totally no recollection of an incident/event; I don’t have the slightest idea if it ever happened or not. Like I have NO idea where the printer cartridge went to. I am the only one who knows how to open the printer up, so it must be me who removed it but I totally do not remember taking it out. What’s to be blamed? Lack of concentration from being sleepy? Tiredness from all those work? I’m starting to think that this mental deterioration and sleepiness might be caused by some medical condition. I mean, people can’t just become stupid suddenly right? Is hypothyroidism hereditary?
Sleep will cure things. When I wake up, it will seem as though nothing ever happened. It’s such a marvellous thing. I know I must bounce back, as Shaun said, and must bounce back even higher to patch the damage but maybe it’s Friday tomorrow and I am not feeling the mood for it. I get dejected and demotivated easily. Besides, I’ve been saying that I don't want to do work this whole week, been bored of slides and I don't know why.
Sleep time where all the troubles go away and you wake up wondering ‘What was it that was troubling me yesterday?’ Truly felt that it was a dream. How can this happen at a job I like so much, the only job that I felt the fiery spirit to work hard for and the one that I had been gunning for a promo?
:( :(
Yes, I admit that:
• I pasted Q1 2009 data into Q1 2010. And I didn’t look at it to see if it made sense. So I guess I did 2 wrongs here
• I thought that 2 slides had already been updated, so all I did was to hide Turkey’s data. Well, I had already commented there that I hid the data, not updated the slide.
But what DG thought/’accused’ me of was:
• Several slides updated were updated wrongly. They haven’t actually been updated!
So add all of those up and it sufficed enough to call T and complain about me?? I guess so, since he sounded pretty pissed with all the ?! in the slides.
If you read my email, I said that I have done up to slide 65 only for the day. Anything after that was not updated, of course they were wrong!!
The cause of the problems:
• Me being blur and stupid
• Him not reading my mail properly
• Old blobs that were left there, as though the slide has already been updated for the 2nd round
• No blobs there that were interpreted as being updated already
I must not blame anyone for it, but I am angry that he called T. It seemed like a serious problem, that I had done something so very wrong. It seemed as though I had been making mistakes for several days when it was only today that there was such feedback. NE never did this, although I’m sure I made some mistakes last time too. Bloody hell. I did tell T and replied to him as well on the miscommunication, hope it saved me a little.
To run salt into the wound, I already have a track record for this, mentioned in last year’s performance review. The call definitely made a mark in my record for my promo. Damn-fcuking-it!
Was very down and angry. Angry with myself for being stupid, and even more angry with DG for doing this, especially when it was not 100% my fault. Felt very very rotten that dinner outside and J-Card day couldn’t cure it. Tears streamed down as soon as I reached home; it was as though I had been waiting for a time to let go. I felt that the incident was a dream. When things so bad happen, it must have happened in a dream. I don't know why I take it so badly. This is the 1st time that I felt rotten and bad in this job.
And I just can’t explain why I’ve deteriorated mentally. I’ve noticed this since I started work in AGB. Sometimes I have totally no recollection of an incident/event; I don’t have the slightest idea if it ever happened or not. Like I have NO idea where the printer cartridge went to. I am the only one who knows how to open the printer up, so it must be me who removed it but I totally do not remember taking it out. What’s to be blamed? Lack of concentration from being sleepy? Tiredness from all those work? I’m starting to think that this mental deterioration and sleepiness might be caused by some medical condition. I mean, people can’t just become stupid suddenly right? Is hypothyroidism hereditary?
Sleep will cure things. When I wake up, it will seem as though nothing ever happened. It’s such a marvellous thing. I know I must bounce back, as Shaun said, and must bounce back even higher to patch the damage but maybe it’s Friday tomorrow and I am not feeling the mood for it. I get dejected and demotivated easily. Besides, I’ve been saying that I don't want to do work this whole week, been bored of slides and I don't know why.
Sleep time where all the troubles go away and you wake up wondering ‘What was it that was troubling me yesterday?’ Truly felt that it was a dream. How can this happen at a job I like so much, the only job that I felt the fiery spirit to work hard for and the one that I had been gunning for a promo?
:( :(
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Timmy’s trip to Sweden
It was Timmy who went but I blog about it. Actually all I have is the sending off and the receiving =)
This time, I decided to send him off at the airport. Hehe, a change from last time when we don't send each other off (other than the time he picked me from London). Jee was right; she said sending off is more difficult and she doesn't do it too cos will be um seh tak. I thought I’d be strong but when parting at the car park, trickle trickle trickle.. and then I couldn’t find the exit, so I made 1 more round. I really couldn’t find the exit, not that I wanna wave bye bye again :D
By the time I drove out of the parking complex, boo hoo hoo already. I remember the turn where the road diverges into 2 – back to the parking complex and the other to KL. When I showed Timmy that spot when I picked him back, he laughed some more. Apalah. And somewhere along the way home as well, when we kept calling before he board the plane. Boo hoo hoo. Then I told myself, “Hey, it’s a good opportunity for Timmy. What’s there to be sad about?” And that really cured it. See, it’s all in the mind :D And I didn’t want him to worry too (don't know if he actually did)
Fast forward to 2 weeks later, time for pick up! I left the office at lunch and drove slooowly there, knowing that I had a lot of time. But when I got there, I saw that the flight was arriving earlier than scheduled. And it was arriving at that same time! Good, less time to wait, less anxiety. Quite wanna pee but afraid to miss him. I know that it’s gonna take some time to come out but I think I can hold it. And I hold it and I hold it and I hold it. I see some men wearing big D&Gs emblazoned over their chests; they must be Middle Eastern on Timmy’s flight :D No sight of Timmy. Wait some more and I see these..
Looks Middle Eastern too, it must be Timmy’s flight. But no sight of Timmy. Then I saw someone familiar; I can’t recall. It must be Timmy’s coll! Think think think, nope it’s the CIMB loan guy. not sure if it’s him actually, thought of giving him a call but no need la, later Timmy comes out and I miss him while sibukking with other people.
Half an hour later and still no sight, getting worried and bladder going to burst. Another round of stewardesses with different colour hanging cloths emerged and my hopes were raised, but nothing. Went to check the board, flight indeed landed. Asked the counter if there’s any other arrival hall, nope. Made a quick dash to the pee room. 45 mins after the flight landed, sunshine boy called! :D Said that he’s waiting for his bags. Phew.. Then I saw those maroon uniforms and they ring a bell: Qatar Airways! And like 15 mins later, sunshine boy emerged wearing a formal jacket hahaha!
Actually I was kinda worried. Shortly before his arrival, I asked myself, how often do we hear of things happening? Almost nil. After that, I relaxed.
Keh keh keh, so I got my Timmy back AND these..
This time, I decided to send him off at the airport. Hehe, a change from last time when we don't send each other off (other than the time he picked me from London). Jee was right; she said sending off is more difficult and she doesn't do it too cos will be um seh tak. I thought I’d be strong but when parting at the car park, trickle trickle trickle.. and then I couldn’t find the exit, so I made 1 more round. I really couldn’t find the exit, not that I wanna wave bye bye again :D
By the time I drove out of the parking complex, boo hoo hoo already. I remember the turn where the road diverges into 2 – back to the parking complex and the other to KL. When I showed Timmy that spot when I picked him back, he laughed some more. Apalah. And somewhere along the way home as well, when we kept calling before he board the plane. Boo hoo hoo. Then I told myself, “Hey, it’s a good opportunity for Timmy. What’s there to be sad about?” And that really cured it. See, it’s all in the mind :D And I didn’t want him to worry too (don't know if he actually did)
Fast forward to 2 weeks later, time for pick up! I left the office at lunch and drove slooowly there, knowing that I had a lot of time. But when I got there, I saw that the flight was arriving earlier than scheduled. And it was arriving at that same time! Good, less time to wait, less anxiety. Quite wanna pee but afraid to miss him. I know that it’s gonna take some time to come out but I think I can hold it. And I hold it and I hold it and I hold it. I see some men wearing big D&Gs emblazoned over their chests; they must be Middle Eastern on Timmy’s flight :D No sight of Timmy. Wait some more and I see these..
Strange uniforms with cloths hanging from the sides of their heads
Looks Middle Eastern too, it must be Timmy’s flight. But no sight of Timmy. Then I saw someone familiar; I can’t recall. It must be Timmy’s coll! Think think think, nope it’s the CIMB loan guy. not sure if it’s him actually, thought of giving him a call but no need la, later Timmy comes out and I miss him while sibukking with other people.
Half an hour later and still no sight, getting worried and bladder going to burst. Another round of stewardesses with different colour hanging cloths emerged and my hopes were raised, but nothing. Went to check the board, flight indeed landed. Asked the counter if there’s any other arrival hall, nope. Made a quick dash to the pee room. 45 mins after the flight landed, sunshine boy called! :D Said that he’s waiting for his bags. Phew.. Then I saw those maroon uniforms and they ring a bell: Qatar Airways! And like 15 mins later, sunshine boy emerged wearing a formal jacket hahaha!
Actually I was kinda worried. Shortly before his arrival, I asked myself, how often do we hear of things happening? Almost nil. After that, I relaxed.
Keh keh keh, so I got my Timmy back AND these..
Lovely chokolats that came in a diamond-studded tin :D Every day I take one. A chokolat a day makes me feel happy. At the time of writing, no more already.
Moose, the mascot of Sweden. The moose is soft and nice and its butt has lots of beanie bag balls. And moosie is holding something!
The something! Woot woot woot!
Funny thing was that, I was just asking Jee to get me a phone on her trip to London, since she's going there earlier. I showed her the site and the model I was interested in. I had been saying that I've been wanting to ask a favour but haven't actually done so, until that exact same day. Was not expecting it at all cos I have been saying all along that I wanna get a phone cheap from UK. And then Timmy took it outta his bags, surprise surprise surprise! Bought from Doha airport some more, hehe. Lub lub and enjoying my wifi! :) :)
Thursday, May 6, 2010
A week of tiny things gone wrong
So what went wrong this week that made me think it’s just a not-right-week:
It started on Sunday night when I had this terribly lazy feeling of not wanting to go to work. I thought it was strange as I’ve never had this before. Might be related to the no-mood feeling of having just paid RM180 for a stupid steamed fish.
Monday: The stupid train to Port Klang was early and I missed it. A little bit mang chang already early Monday morning.
• Then it might have been something related to work, I don't remember what it was exactly. I think it was the edits; I hate doing them. And I had no one to ask since T was still off. I really think doctors have the shittiest writing.
Tuesday: Had a terrible night. The first thing that came to my mind as soon as I opened my eyes was: EL. Had period in the middle of the night with terrible stomach pains and even worse back pains. I have no idea how the pain went to the back but I remember it was excruciating. I remember waking up in the middle of the night to do a yoga stretch. The next day, the pain was still there; it was as though I did a major workout the day before. Stuck 2 Salonpas and went to work, despite knowing that it stinks bad. What's the EPO doing, not seeming to help?
• On top of that, I dreamt that my thumb was broken. I had to hold up my thumb the whole time in the dream; else the bone would stick out and fluid from the bone oozed out. When I woke up, I made sure my thumb was upright and yes, it did feel good to have a working thumb.
• Today I am early at the train station but the bloody train was late. Impossible to head towards Port Klang already.
• Went looking for the stupid company clinic at Boulevard; went to 2 to enquire only to find that it’s inside the mall instead. Went there and didn’t wanna wait cos there were a lot of people.
• Brought rice from home for lunch. Heated it up and someone asked if I was eating petai. Another group of bitch entered and said the office smelt like fish. I was NOT eating fish. We stared at each other. I felt very irritable by then as it was the 1st time bringing lunch to work. And then I couldn’t stop coughing. I put back the rice in the fridge, can’t eat it already.
• Went to the clinic again but the doctor is out for lunch until 2.30pm. What kind of idiot has a lunch time that long until 2.30pm. By then I was very angry and frustrated already.
• Did more edits and then found that I had been cross-checking the data against the WRONG database all along. Finding how they were wrong was even more frustrating; I saved the correct one but opened the wrong file! I was so angry with myself. One thing I have noticed is that my alertness is slowly deteriorating. Wondering if it could be a medical condition especially with my constant sleepiness despite sleeping 7 hours at night.
Actually I don't have a good feeling with 2 days of crap already.. wondering what’s in store for the rest of the week.
Wednesday: Needless to say, due to yesterday’s stupidity, had a long feedback from D. As consolation, my decisions were right, just that someone else’s were already right and I ‘corrected’ it again :D whatever. Today’s work was checking tables; I’m familiar with this and I didn’t check each and every single thing. I thought that today showed signs of being improvement.
Thursday: No words to describe this day. I don't know why I arrived at Sentral almost in tears in rotten mood. Maybe I was frustrated that I didn’t hear Timmy’s call. I was angry that he waited since 7.40am when we had agreed to meet at 8.15am. I don't like people waiting for me and I was frustrated that the train was late until about 8.25am. Maybe I was pissed at being seated between 4 bloody Hacketts who can’t bloody stop talking all the way from Klang to KL Sentral. I got pissed when their curly frizzy hair kena my arm, especially Hackett hair! I don't know why I felt so so horrible.
• Reached the office and didn’t feel like doing any work, maybe there was no urgency and I don't work without a deadline. So I did my own stuff for ¾ of the day and struggled to force some work into that ¼. And then I don't feel good, so I had a 20-min nap. And then another 10 min or so. Never felt so moodless and lazy; I just CAN’T do the work. Never felt such torturous waiting for time to pass and my head started to feel light. And started to have thoughts of taking MC. That thought never escaped my mind this week and the only reason I am not doing so is that I bought the train ticket for a whole week already. I find this utterly strange as it's a stark contrast to my being all pumped-up in the previous post. Heck, even when I had 3 days of MC for gastric that lasted a week, I still went to work for 2 days. What a nerd.
• Parked my car this morning by the drain, my previous fav spot. And there was something among the grass that caught my foot and I almost fell into the drain. Wow, something’s really not right hey?
Actually it's just all little things but making me feel down. Timmy attributed it to 'period' but I don't always feel like this.
It’s Friday, come on baby! Feeling a little ok for now, had some positive news and I better sleep early cos I’m starting to wonder if the sleepiness is started to make me cranky (and also affecting my alertness at work).
It started on Sunday night when I had this terribly lazy feeling of not wanting to go to work. I thought it was strange as I’ve never had this before. Might be related to the no-mood feeling of having just paid RM180 for a stupid steamed fish.
Monday: The stupid train to Port Klang was early and I missed it. A little bit mang chang already early Monday morning.
• Then it might have been something related to work, I don't remember what it was exactly. I think it was the edits; I hate doing them. And I had no one to ask since T was still off. I really think doctors have the shittiest writing.
Tuesday: Had a terrible night. The first thing that came to my mind as soon as I opened my eyes was: EL. Had period in the middle of the night with terrible stomach pains and even worse back pains. I have no idea how the pain went to the back but I remember it was excruciating. I remember waking up in the middle of the night to do a yoga stretch. The next day, the pain was still there; it was as though I did a major workout the day before. Stuck 2 Salonpas and went to work, despite knowing that it stinks bad. What's the EPO doing, not seeming to help?
• On top of that, I dreamt that my thumb was broken. I had to hold up my thumb the whole time in the dream; else the bone would stick out and fluid from the bone oozed out. When I woke up, I made sure my thumb was upright and yes, it did feel good to have a working thumb.
• Today I am early at the train station but the bloody train was late. Impossible to head towards Port Klang already.
• Went looking for the stupid company clinic at Boulevard; went to 2 to enquire only to find that it’s inside the mall instead. Went there and didn’t wanna wait cos there were a lot of people.
• Brought rice from home for lunch. Heated it up and someone asked if I was eating petai. Another group of bitch entered and said the office smelt like fish. I was NOT eating fish. We stared at each other. I felt very irritable by then as it was the 1st time bringing lunch to work. And then I couldn’t stop coughing. I put back the rice in the fridge, can’t eat it already.
• Went to the clinic again but the doctor is out for lunch until 2.30pm. What kind of idiot has a lunch time that long until 2.30pm. By then I was very angry and frustrated already.
• Did more edits and then found that I had been cross-checking the data against the WRONG database all along. Finding how they were wrong was even more frustrating; I saved the correct one but opened the wrong file! I was so angry with myself. One thing I have noticed is that my alertness is slowly deteriorating. Wondering if it could be a medical condition especially with my constant sleepiness despite sleeping 7 hours at night.
Actually I don't have a good feeling with 2 days of crap already.. wondering what’s in store for the rest of the week.
Wednesday: Needless to say, due to yesterday’s stupidity, had a long feedback from D. As consolation, my decisions were right, just that someone else’s were already right and I ‘corrected’ it again :D whatever. Today’s work was checking tables; I’m familiar with this and I didn’t check each and every single thing. I thought that today showed signs of being improvement.
Thursday: No words to describe this day. I don't know why I arrived at Sentral almost in tears in rotten mood. Maybe I was frustrated that I didn’t hear Timmy’s call. I was angry that he waited since 7.40am when we had agreed to meet at 8.15am. I don't like people waiting for me and I was frustrated that the train was late until about 8.25am. Maybe I was pissed at being seated between 4 bloody Hacketts who can’t bloody stop talking all the way from Klang to KL Sentral. I got pissed when their curly frizzy hair kena my arm, especially Hackett hair! I don't know why I felt so so horrible.
• Reached the office and didn’t feel like doing any work, maybe there was no urgency and I don't work without a deadline. So I did my own stuff for ¾ of the day and struggled to force some work into that ¼. And then I don't feel good, so I had a 20-min nap. And then another 10 min or so. Never felt so moodless and lazy; I just CAN’T do the work. Never felt such torturous waiting for time to pass and my head started to feel light. And started to have thoughts of taking MC. That thought never escaped my mind this week and the only reason I am not doing so is that I bought the train ticket for a whole week already. I find this utterly strange as it's a stark contrast to my being all pumped-up in the previous post. Heck, even when I had 3 days of MC for gastric that lasted a week, I still went to work for 2 days. What a nerd.
• Parked my car this morning by the drain, my previous fav spot. And there was something among the grass that caught my foot and I almost fell into the drain. Wow, something’s really not right hey?
Actually it's just all little things but making me feel down. Timmy attributed it to 'period' but I don't always feel like this.
It’s Friday, come on baby! Feeling a little ok for now, had some positive news and I better sleep early cos I’m starting to wonder if the sleepiness is started to make me cranky (and also affecting my alertness at work).
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