Tuesday, November 29, 2005

i had to go to the company's computer supplier yesterday to exchange a psu unit that blew up. They had a couple of plush monitor covers on display. its basically a soft toy that wraps around your monitor. so cute! heheheh. they had a website printed on their label, but i think i wrote down the wrong one. it was sungmin.co.kr, or sunming, or something like that. can't figure it out. wanted to find some pictures of it. i tried googling, but could only turn up a cacafied product



that looks damn shitty though. the ones in the store much brighter. but anyway, i turned up something pretty cool when i was searching. i found a company called Hanspree that makes pretty cool tvs. Makes a great novelty item. The site is all flash, so I can't find any images to link.

Anyway, got to figure out what to eat for lunch. Getting a bit sick of KFC. Actually, I'm not sick of eating it, but just getting the stomachache that comes with it the next day. Must be something in their wicked wings man. I eat regular curry and stuff also no problems. Haihs... might end up going KFC to eat again though :)

Monday, November 28, 2005

i was sooooo tempted to skip work again today. slept late playing wow last night. i think i've played for around 15 hours plus over the weekend. stupid double honor weekend. makes everyone kiasu, including me. We can get twice the amount of honor and/or reputation points when we play battlegrounds in WoW. Something new they put whenever theres an American holiday. So we've been sort of playing alterac valley like sor hais. andy says it will last till tuesday, so gonna go home today and grind some more :) probably won't come to work tomorrow :)

other news, tho's godsis came down to sydney yesterday. so i tagged along when thos brought her to the pancake place at the rocks. I've been craving to eat the pancakes there for ages. but alwez lazy to make the effort to go :) i think the last time i went was almost a year ago. wow. never noticed, time really flies by. i had beef ribs, and then pancakes. bloody full after that. the pancakes were nice, but i think i was too stuffed to fully appreciate them. must go there and take pictures next time. they really look pretty good.

Ooo.. the restaurant actually has a website up. Thats the page with all the pancakes. Pity the pics are so small. but yah, still looks delicious. oh man...making me hungry liao. think i'll go for lunch now. probably kfc. hope i don't get stomachache again. oh wait, that might be a good thing. then i have a real excuse for not coming to work! yay! KFC it is then ^_^

Friday, November 25, 2005

its a relatively quiet day at work today. not a whole lot to do considering that its friday. its been more interesting at work the past few days or so. moving forward with a lot of new stuff for the company. we'r getting a new phone and internet system thats to be implemented next month. its not like i have a real say in the issue or what not, but at least i was consulted on the matter. which is sorta fun. nice change from what i usually do around here.

We started looking at ERP systems too. I think I mentioned that a couple posts ago. Its pretty interesting researching the matter and finding out information about ERP systems. Called up and talked to a consultant as well. Makes me feel important. Heheheh. I guess anything is better than doing purchasing paperwork. Wiki is fast becoming one of my favourite sites. Quite useful even when I want to research ERP systems. Not bad weii. Should have used it more often when I had to do papers in uni.

Enough about work though. I tend to blog more about work when i'm at work o_O Wonder if I should take off early today. Its only 2.45 now, but its such a "don't feel like work" day. Its been raining the whole morning, but the weather is starting to clear now. No plans for the weekend, except maybe go Kino to buy a book. Maybe go for yumcha on Sunday, and then Kino. Sounds like a good plan since we don't have anything else to do. Or might just stay home and play WoW full time. It is (or was)Thanksgiving holiday in the States, so this weekend might have double honor/reputation when you pvp. See how it goes.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

at work. feeling lazy. nothing new to shout about. i shouldn't be feeling so lazy though. i ponteng work yesterday. forgot to set my alarm and woke up at 8am. stoned for about 1/2 hour trying to decide if i should turn up for work or not. in the end, decided to just play Wow and watch anime the whole morning ^_^ how blissfully irresponsible.

I've finished reading the Cash Flow Quadrant book yesterday. Didn't glean a whole lot from it, but I suppose it makes a decent read. All it does is just reinforce ideas that I already know, and give you some rather ambigious steps to get started.

Hrm.. I better get back to work instead of thinking of something to write about. Paperwork beginning to pile up on my desk.

Monday, November 21, 2005

i'm still undecided as to whether I should go back to KL during CNY. Andy says MAS flights are really cheap if I fly past mid January. Something around $6-700 for a return flight. Problem is, I don't know what I'll be doing back home apart from holidaying and spending money. It would be nice... but I won't be working which equals even less money. Aihs. Maybe I shouldn't think about holidaying until I'm rich. Aihs.

workwise, i've mentioned that my contract ends in mid january. after that, i can choose to stay on at the company, but i don't want to be doing purchasing anymore. maybe 2-3 days a week is okay kua. the company will be doing an overhaul of their systems next year. modernise the whole company and how we do things, supposedly. We'r gonna be getting some form of ERP system in to handle at the very least the accounting, purchasing and payroll side of things. And how does this relate to me? I might be put in charge ^_^ cool huh? well.. i don't know how true that will be, or the extent of my authority. Most likely i'll oversee the project, make recommendation etc etc. If it works out that way, it'll be something really good to put on my CV. BUT... its all hot air at the moment. See how it goes.

Saturday, November 19, 2005

cis... this Thos worried me a little last night and this morning. Didn't come home last night, and this morning was still missing. couldn't call his hp summore. Was thinking to myself "oh no! did he kaput in an accident? shit...need to find someone else to pay rent."

Anyway. i even went downstairs this morn to check if his car was around. it might be time to really get worried if it was. But then i realised halfway that he had grading at some karate camp this weekend. cis.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Lunchtime at work...and I dunno what to eat. It used to be a pretty easy choice when I didn't have a car. I'd just buy a burger at the station and have that for lunch. $3.60 for lunch. Nice and cheap. And it sorts of lasts me till dinner time :p But I haven't been bringing any food to work lately, so i've been eating a fair bit of KFC. Nothing much else to eat...except for McDs, Subway, Hungry Jacks and a chinese place that we go to every week. Everything else around here is pretty crap. Aihs... wish I worked in Chinatown. Plenty of stuff to eat, and girls to watch ^_^

I think i'll just end up eating KFC again. Just waiting till I get hungry b4 I go off to lunch, which is usually when everyone else isn't at lunch :) its quite nice to have such a flexible workplace. Or maybe its just me.

Nothing new to blog. I had dinner with Farah at Tengoku last night. Farah is my godsis if I haven't mentioned it before. Thos was spose to come along originally, but then he decided to stay home so he could play WoW o_O Food was good as always, but the seaweed used on the california roll not crispy, so that was the only substandard thing last night.

Thats about it I guess... gonna head for lunch now

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

its fairly quiet at work today cuz theres this huge strike protesting the new industrial relations law going on. so i think theres only like 4 ppl in the factory, 2 of them being apprentices. the ppl in the office still have to work though, which means me :`( Sometimes it sucks not being a union. Some of these blue collar workers actually do much better than those with office jobs. Ah well... I guess it only happens in Australia.

Hrm..feel lazy to work and blog at the same time la. Nothing much to say anyway. Feel like going home early tonight.

Friday, November 11, 2005

I've been listening to the radio every morning now that I drive to work. Just heard something that kinda amused me. I usually listen to the breakfast show on Today FM. Kyle and Jackie 'O' (or something like that). They make a good combination, quite funny and they have good radio voices. Anyway, the station's big thing at the moment is their gay news reader's wedding. His partner came on air a couple weeks ago and proposed to him. Obviously accepted la... and its a pretty popular event. Alot of listener's wanna get invited to the wedding etc etc. Excellent marketing material for a radio station.

Anyway, they were discussing what to do for the wedding (one of the djs, Jackie, is a/the wedding planner) and taking ideas from callers. The groom/bride wanted to release a dove at the wedding. Romantic but rather cliche and it could backfire too. Jackie mentioned that she knows of this wedding where the couple wanted to release a dove too. They had a little girl carry it, and when the time came, she threw the bird in the air...and the dove went *plop* on the ground o_O

The girl was holding the bird too tightly and killed it. Not the best thing to happen at a wedding. The whole event would be quite amusing... in a funny, horrible kind of way ^_^

Thursday, November 10, 2005

i'm at work rather early. 8am, as opposed to my usual 9.30-9.45am Quite a good improvemen huh? The wonders having a car can provide. I wake up a little later nowadays. 6.30am, used to wake up at 6 or 6.15 leddat. Didn't feel like mucking around at home, so might as well come in to work and bludge while getting paid ^_^

For some reason... I was thinking that last night was Thursday, and that it was a Friday today. I was so dissappointed when I realised its only Thursday this morning. Aihs... Not that I have anything to look forward to during the weekends. Just wanna finish up a book that I bought. Cash Flow Quadrant. Hehehe. Starting to read all these type of books again. Better than reading novels imo. I get enough fiction from all the anime that I watch. The next book I might read is "Millionaire Next Door" by Thomas Stanley. I still want to get the property books by Steve McKnight though... he has 2 books out, but apparently theres some conflict between the ideas behind his 1st and 2nd book. Might still be worth a read. Its a good place to start at any rate.

Hmm...starting to feel a little guilty about not doing work. Heheh. Better find something to do. More later...

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

I wonder if it is just me. Aren't guys supposed to be the womaniser/philanderer/playboy when it comes to affairs of the heart? You see or hear of this a lot in movies, books and other forms of literature. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl falls in love. Boy meets another. Boy dumps girl A for girl B (or for some, dates both of them). That standard fare ain't it?

My own relations seem to dictate otherwise. I use relation in the sense of me and my friends. For some reason, I feel like I know more guys getting dumped by girls or getting their hearts trampled on by the fairer sex. I'm just blogging this because I just found out a couple that I've always known as a couple have split up. I can't name names...but suffice to say, they've been together for a period of time that I can't imagine. The cause? A long distance relationship that was going on fine until... the girl met another guy who she has a good feel with (on an emotional level, not physical...as far as I know). He found out, quite by accident, they talked and decided to break up. It seems they are still on good terms with each other, and I'm sincerely hoping they get back together... don't know why, but they just make a good couple.

Thats just the latest event that led me to blog this. Another super long relationship that I know of (lets say... at LEAST 6-8 yrs) also broke off. Why? Because the girl had a wandering eye for some guy at her company (same thing happened for the above. Man... how come I can't find love at the workplace?!?) I'm not sure of the details... but I think she was cheating on him both physically n emotionally. THINK being the operative word. He found out partly by accident and thorough some dubious and illegal means (think of phone tapping, phone network hacking. very CIA stuff ^_^) He isn't too proud of himself, but at least he does it with style :p

oh. in case u'r wondering. these blokes are pretty cool. good to their gf's. take care of them. all that jazz. definitely didn't do anything that 'deserved' dumping. unlike me ^_^

Yet again, the girl was at fault. I'm pretty sure I know another 2 or 3 relationships that are similar, but can't recall them for some reason. Even Jacq found another guy relatively quick after breaking it off with me. Althought that point isn't entirely true to the topic of this post, and its also due to my own inability to meet other girls (attributed to my unwillingness to socialise as well. vicious cycle. my favourite phrase)

Anyhoo...enough of this. Getting me down thinking of relationships and the lack of it in my own life. Just a note, the 2nd friend I mentioned got back together with the girl. Decided to forgive and forget. See! Such a big hearted person. Women = Evil. Meh
aihs. I think i'm fucked... in terms of a career in software development. Its just been too long since I've actually completed a program or database. Have to bloody relearn everything.

but ermm..blog about it abit later. i'm actually spose to be working now ^_^

Sunday, November 06, 2005

my blog has been kinda sad lately. suffering from a lack of updates, and a lack of visitors, caused by a lack of content, caused by a lack of updates. such a vicious cycle.

i seem to have a lot more free time lately. since i don't work a 2nd job anymore. i planned to start going training again, but not particularly looking forward to the punishment that will be dished out by shihan. just gonna work out at home until my body gets used to the pain :p i just did a short workout session a couple days ago. only about 20 minutes or so, but my body was sore and creaky for the next few days o_O i'm really getting old.

anyway, i've got free time. but it feels like i don't have anything worthwhile to do. i'm bored of wow. probably cuz i'm in the grind to lvl 60 phase and everyone else is already 60 and doing stuff that i can't do yet. aihs. i'm 52 now, so that makes it a minimum of 64 hours of game time to get to 60. and thats if u'r really efficient too. it just doesn't seem worth it... i can watch 153 episodes of anime in that amount of time :p Or read 3 novels. I can even study enough to obtain a H1 in any subject too :p I don't think I've ever spent 64 hours studying for a particular subject. Hmmmm. WoW is really a hugeass timesink.

I'm gonna go shopping today. Going Birkinhead Point (spelling?) with Andy later. I wanted to have breakfast in the Balmain area. Try out one of the cafes over there, but the fugger is busy playing WoW. Aihs... Hope I get to buy a pair of jeans. I only have 1 pair left. Need to buy another pair b4 I wear this one out. Need a pair of slacks too. Hmmmm. Maybe I should wait till Xmas sales. Its only another month plus away.

Friday, November 04, 2005

no events = no blog