Friday, November 28, 2003
I've Been Terminated, Suddenly - End of Life in Digimagic.
Friday. I thought today was gonna be another normal day for work. Bright sunny day for work. I wore the best and nicest clothings I could wear. Yes, it was indeed a normal looking day but something came up today that would change these normal working days I've been in Digimagic since my ITP internship started. Life started for me in Digimagic slowly but ended so so abruptly.
It all came very sudden. I was surprised, stunned or even shocked till I was quite lost.
My service to Digimagic was suddenly terminated today. Small Boss Jeffrey a.k.a. "Fish", called me into his office in the late morning around noon. I didn't really felt something good was gonna happen to me then. He never usually call people especialy part-time staff like me to go into his office unless it was something normally bad or something very good. But I knew then, it wasn't anything good. He's not the kind who would call me into to talk about work. He would normally come to me if it was anything regarding work.
I was told by "Fish" that my service as a part-time staff was terminated and I would be working my last day today. He would call me back as a freelancer to work for him if I'm ever needed.
The reasons he gave me for my termination was quite in a blurred mess to me. He said I was looking too free when I was suppose to be working. I was seen surfing the net, checking my e-mails and typing something (which I was typing my blog). But I told him, I finished my work or part of my work as I was waiting for Peipei to return from lunch or somewhere and so I could refer to her for something or some files I needed. Moreover, most people in my office surf net when ever they were free or sometimes even not free. But he replied that I was not pro-active in working, i.e. find some other work from someone to do in the meanwhile.
*Duh...*
But I think I had enough explaining. If he wanted to terminate my service, he will do and would not accept any reasons or explainations from me.
Just like this, my life in Digimagic came to an abrupt end and it was raining outside the office building.
I came out of the office room, feeling a bit sad and lost. But I continued to finish my last task I'm doing. After some time, I went to the toilet and Sidik follow me too. He told me that he already knew why I was called into Small Boss Jeffrey's room. Jason already knew when he was also called into Jeffrey's room in the earlier and Jeffrey told Jason about my termination. Jason then later told Sidik. I was sadly, the last one to know about myself being terminated with any prior notice.
It felt like I was retrenched and it was a bad feeling.
I went to Sim Lim Square with Kernis and Sidik as Kernis wanted to look at something. Sidik told Kernis about my sudden termination on the lift down to the first floor. She wore something like a small cute mini skirt today but I was a little bit too sad to be interested. Sidik and Kernis consoled me. Kernis said this was all a possible outcome of internal office politics in Digimagic. She said it was Big Boss Donald who was behind my termination and had extreme dislikes of staff surfing net while working. Kernis had a serious brush with Donald about this before. She had quite a vendetta with Donald and said he was a scheming bastard.
She told me when I go back to office, I should stop doing all my work, incomplete.
But I was an honourable man and gentleman. And I swear upon the heavens I did anything seriously wrong in my time in Digimagic. I would finish my work completed, on time or even before the deadlines. The last task I do would also be finished, on time, today which is the deadline. I am honourable, conscience and never regret before for what ever I did, unless it was wrong. If I was not to finish my last task, I would be of no difference of a real bastard.
Let the karma solve it for us, of retribution or reward.
I was later lunching with Kernis and Sidik at the Sim Lim Square's foodcourt. I bought my food and went back the table and ate with them. Kernis wasn't eating. I told them I was sad. Sad mainly because I wasn't given any prior notice of my termination, so I could have some mental preparation. The termination was too sudden for me.
Most of all, I would miss all my friends here in Digimagic who had really given me so much, in terms of knowledge, skills, techniques I've learned and most of all friendship and the companionship I've shared with them. I am grateful for all this. I think I am blessed to be here once be at Digimagic. I was already part of Digimagic and after 6pm, its history.
But since the termination had been a fact. I gonna accept it any how.
Frankly speaking, ever since after the first week of November, my productivity fell as I would realise myself. I did do some tiny mistakes here and there at work and was slowing down in the speed of my work till now. I did consider to leave my boring work earlier in the middle of December before the December even ends. I know I'm already quite tired and sick of working life. After all, I am still a student and did hope to be freed for my holidays. But now, all this became true suddenly and unplanned.
So I packed my stuff of gifts from my colleagues and burned my personal stuff in my office workstation PC the last hour before I left the place...
I'll treat this termination as the start of my long vacation then...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Sayaonara, my Digi kakis... *Sob!*"
Friday. I thought today was gonna be another normal day for work. Bright sunny day for work. I wore the best and nicest clothings I could wear. Yes, it was indeed a normal looking day but something came up today that would change these normal working days I've been in Digimagic since my ITP internship started. Life started for me in Digimagic slowly but ended so so abruptly.
It all came very sudden. I was surprised, stunned or even shocked till I was quite lost.
My service to Digimagic was suddenly terminated today. Small Boss Jeffrey a.k.a. "Fish", called me into his office in the late morning around noon. I didn't really felt something good was gonna happen to me then. He never usually call people especialy part-time staff like me to go into his office unless it was something normally bad or something very good. But I knew then, it wasn't anything good. He's not the kind who would call me into to talk about work. He would normally come to me if it was anything regarding work.
I was told by "Fish" that my service as a part-time staff was terminated and I would be working my last day today. He would call me back as a freelancer to work for him if I'm ever needed.
The reasons he gave me for my termination was quite in a blurred mess to me. He said I was looking too free when I was suppose to be working. I was seen surfing the net, checking my e-mails and typing something (which I was typing my blog). But I told him, I finished my work or part of my work as I was waiting for Peipei to return from lunch or somewhere and so I could refer to her for something or some files I needed. Moreover, most people in my office surf net when ever they were free or sometimes even not free. But he replied that I was not pro-active in working, i.e. find some other work from someone to do in the meanwhile.
*Duh...*
But I think I had enough explaining. If he wanted to terminate my service, he will do and would not accept any reasons or explainations from me.
Just like this, my life in Digimagic came to an abrupt end and it was raining outside the office building.
I came out of the office room, feeling a bit sad and lost. But I continued to finish my last task I'm doing. After some time, I went to the toilet and Sidik follow me too. He told me that he already knew why I was called into Small Boss Jeffrey's room. Jason already knew when he was also called into Jeffrey's room in the earlier and Jeffrey told Jason about my termination. Jason then later told Sidik. I was sadly, the last one to know about myself being terminated with any prior notice.
It felt like I was retrenched and it was a bad feeling.
I went to Sim Lim Square with Kernis and Sidik as Kernis wanted to look at something. Sidik told Kernis about my sudden termination on the lift down to the first floor. She wore something like a small cute mini skirt today but I was a little bit too sad to be interested. Sidik and Kernis consoled me. Kernis said this was all a possible outcome of internal office politics in Digimagic. She said it was Big Boss Donald who was behind my termination and had extreme dislikes of staff surfing net while working. Kernis had a serious brush with Donald about this before. She had quite a vendetta with Donald and said he was a scheming bastard.
She told me when I go back to office, I should stop doing all my work, incomplete.
But I was an honourable man and gentleman. And I swear upon the heavens I did anything seriously wrong in my time in Digimagic. I would finish my work completed, on time or even before the deadlines. The last task I do would also be finished, on time, today which is the deadline. I am honourable, conscience and never regret before for what ever I did, unless it was wrong. If I was not to finish my last task, I would be of no difference of a real bastard.
Let the karma solve it for us, of retribution or reward.
I was later lunching with Kernis and Sidik at the Sim Lim Square's foodcourt. I bought my food and went back the table and ate with them. Kernis wasn't eating. I told them I was sad. Sad mainly because I wasn't given any prior notice of my termination, so I could have some mental preparation. The termination was too sudden for me.
Most of all, I would miss all my friends here in Digimagic who had really given me so much, in terms of knowledge, skills, techniques I've learned and most of all friendship and the companionship I've shared with them. I am grateful for all this. I think I am blessed to be here once be at Digimagic. I was already part of Digimagic and after 6pm, its history.
But since the termination had been a fact. I gonna accept it any how.
Frankly speaking, ever since after the first week of November, my productivity fell as I would realise myself. I did do some tiny mistakes here and there at work and was slowing down in the speed of my work till now. I did consider to leave my boring work earlier in the middle of December before the December even ends. I know I'm already quite tired and sick of working life. After all, I am still a student and did hope to be freed for my holidays. But now, all this became true suddenly and unplanned.
So I packed my stuff of gifts from my colleagues and burned my personal stuff in my office workstation PC the last hour before I left the place...
I'll treat this termination as the start of my long vacation then...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Sayaonara, my Digi kakis... *Sob!*"
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Where Are the Hell Are Those Guys?
Wednesday. Wednesday was not a holiday. But Aida, Sidik, Nur, Diana and Kernis were not here yesterday. Guess they were suffering from some sort of post-holiday syndrome known as "I still don't wanna go back to work."
Sidik sent me an SMS early that morning telling me to help him tell Aida he'll be taking a last minute leave that day. But Aida wasn't around also so he kind of got a free day with day. Kernis said she was down with stomach upset yesterday but of course, I could roughly guess that was an excuse. The rest were on leave.
Surprisingly, the long Muslim fasting month of Ramadan was finally over. But the Muslim mama shop which opens 24 hours everyday was closed yesterday to rest. The shop most of the "rebel" staff favourite hound visited for our breakfast or tea-break cultures.
We had Makudonarudo or McDonald's fastfood restaurant for lunch yesterday. I was with Jason and Latifah, later followed by Bernard and David joining us. We talked about office politics, history of the Digimagic and a little history of Mr Jason himself.
I was still doing my task of data entries of the Dumex product catalogues. I had finished four out of eight countries by the end of the day : )
For times when I'm free, while waiting for Peipei to hand over some resources or reference files especially, I spent my time typing my long, long blog. I did type one stretch of blog on Tuesday but the Blogger server shut down unknowingly while I was typing and then I posted and publish it. But as the server was down, all I typed was lost. So I type all the blog yesterday, but I publishing it as today's date. Damn long eh? I'm getting more long winded with my blogs.
Recently, I can't type my blogs at home so the blog I typed was very much of the historical past and did not tally with the blogs' creation dates and time.
This current blog of "Where Are the Hell Are Those Guys?" was typed today : p
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Life sucks without tea-breaks."
Almost at Full Strength.
Thursday. Finally, almost everybody is back here in the office. The usual "rebel" class on the tea-break was almost back at its full strength. It only counted out one regular who was Nur, still ain't back from his leave.
The mama shop was finally open again, back in business. A fresh new recruit joined the "rebel" class today, who was Latifah. Hope she would join us for tea-breaks when possible. My precious tea-breaks will certainly help me past time most faster. The November month over-lapped felt like it was going very slowly than the previous months in Digimagic.
I had lunch with Kernis and David to the Koo Kee - A Yong Tau Fu Shop down the Rochor Road near Bugis Village. It was nice as what it was famous for, its Yong Tau Fu and its noodles.
After lunch , we went for a short walk back the the office. Along the way Kernis bought a few packets of red heart-shaped balloons from a shop selling small gifts and toys.
Back to the office, we had to do some blow job for Kernis... Not that kind of blow job, of course... Diana, Sidk and I were blowing the small red heart-shaped balloons for Kernis. The balloon was small so it was hard to blow. I only blow one small one and my cheeks were already in pain trying to blow a second one. Diana had no problem at all doing her blow job, of course. She's a good singer thus have a strong diaphragm to blow the balloon. Sidik was able to blow two balloons but had problems trying to tie up his balloons.
Jason was the most powerful one as we expected. His first blow on a balloon was "one shot, one kill". His first balloon was blew up. His second balloon blown was the largest out of every one's else. This show he have the "experience" and is "skilled" in blowing balloons...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Life is good with tea-breaks."
Wednesday. Wednesday was not a holiday. But Aida, Sidik, Nur, Diana and Kernis were not here yesterday. Guess they were suffering from some sort of post-holiday syndrome known as "I still don't wanna go back to work."
Sidik sent me an SMS early that morning telling me to help him tell Aida he'll be taking a last minute leave that day. But Aida wasn't around also so he kind of got a free day with day. Kernis said she was down with stomach upset yesterday but of course, I could roughly guess that was an excuse. The rest were on leave.
Surprisingly, the long Muslim fasting month of Ramadan was finally over. But the Muslim mama shop which opens 24 hours everyday was closed yesterday to rest. The shop most of the "rebel" staff favourite hound visited for our breakfast or tea-break cultures.
We had Makudonarudo or McDonald's fastfood restaurant for lunch yesterday. I was with Jason and Latifah, later followed by Bernard and David joining us. We talked about office politics, history of the Digimagic and a little history of Mr Jason himself.
I was still doing my task of data entries of the Dumex product catalogues. I had finished four out of eight countries by the end of the day : )
For times when I'm free, while waiting for Peipei to hand over some resources or reference files especially, I spent my time typing my long, long blog. I did type one stretch of blog on Tuesday but the Blogger server shut down unknowingly while I was typing and then I posted and publish it. But as the server was down, all I typed was lost. So I type all the blog yesterday, but I publishing it as today's date. Damn long eh? I'm getting more long winded with my blogs.
Recently, I can't type my blogs at home so the blog I typed was very much of the historical past and did not tally with the blogs' creation dates and time.
This current blog of "Where Are the Hell Are Those Guys?" was typed today : p
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Life sucks without tea-breaks."
Almost at Full Strength.
Thursday. Finally, almost everybody is back here in the office. The usual "rebel" class on the tea-break was almost back at its full strength. It only counted out one regular who was Nur, still ain't back from his leave.
The mama shop was finally open again, back in business. A fresh new recruit joined the "rebel" class today, who was Latifah. Hope she would join us for tea-breaks when possible. My precious tea-breaks will certainly help me past time most faster. The November month over-lapped felt like it was going very slowly than the previous months in Digimagic.
I had lunch with Kernis and David to the Koo Kee - A Yong Tau Fu Shop down the Rochor Road near Bugis Village. It was nice as what it was famous for, its Yong Tau Fu and its noodles.
After lunch , we went for a short walk back the the office. Along the way Kernis bought a few packets of red heart-shaped balloons from a shop selling small gifts and toys.
Back to the office, we had to do some blow job for Kernis... Not that kind of blow job, of course... Diana, Sidk and I were blowing the small red heart-shaped balloons for Kernis. The balloon was small so it was hard to blow. I only blow one small one and my cheeks were already in pain trying to blow a second one. Diana had no problem at all doing her blow job, of course. She's a good singer thus have a strong diaphragm to blow the balloon. Sidik was able to blow two balloons but had problems trying to tie up his balloons.
Jason was the most powerful one as we expected. His first blow on a balloon was "one shot, one kill". His first balloon was blew up. His second balloon blown was the largest out of every one's else. This show he have the "experience" and is "skilled" in blowing balloons...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Life is good with tea-breaks."
Never Ending Work...
Monday. A new day, a new week. I woke up on time as usual but my overall mood was dampen by the gloomy skies outside my window. I was still a bit tired as my body went through quite a rigorous cycling trip the day before. I went for my usual morning wash-up to brush my teeth, wash my face and hair to try refresh myself but I didn't think it worked much effect on me...
I went to work on time as usual. It was definitely quite a bad day to work that day. With the gloomy weather, it added a certain sadness in the office. Perhaps it was partly because of the Monday blues also. In addition, the next day was to be a public holiday. After the lazy weekend, the next day you had to come back to work then rest one day, and then go back to work again. This was certain dampen the spirits of being productive.
Many of my colleagues were not here in the office that Monday. Some took the chance to clear their leaves on Monday and the coming days after Hari Raya Puasa (public holiday) so they could have a long stretch of holiday. Kernis, Diana, Nur and even Sidik were on leave. The rest of my Muslim colleagues had a free half-day leave. Shahid, Latifah and even Jason had their half-day leave. Jason couldn't get a full day leave, he had too much work to do.
I was grateful to Jason that he took his time last Friday and the Monday's morning to help me fix my office workstation PC and recover my files from the old damaged hard-disk, even though he was busy. He only managed to clear his work and finished them and left from work at around 1.30pm.
As for me, I was doing things and moving things very slowly. I was doing my own stuff the whole morning on Monday. I didn't really did any work at all in the morning as my office workstation PC was down and my files weren't recovered yet. The unrecovered files contained two job task and each was only about half-done. Why were they half-done? I really didn't know. I was doing multiple tasks at the same time last week and they didn't gave me a deadline for them anyway. I practically don't know what to finish in priority first.
Finally, office workstation PC was fixed and my files recovered by around noon. I was able to finally continue my work. The first important priority was to be the I-Learn manual documentation. I managed to finish it with its pagination before lunch and gave it to Peipei.
That Monday, I had lunch with only David, accompanied by Bernard who wasn't eating. We had some chat, talking about men's stuff but definitely no sex topics (cos' Jason's not around). We talked about men's fashion, hairstyle, relationships, national service again and others. I was particularly annoyed with David saying that I pair up with Wanzhen. This had happened many different lunches before already and each time I was getting more annoyed it. I don't why but if David gonna mention that again, I gonna blow up right at his face.
After lunch, I was back to the office to work, again. I was working on my another half-done task, or should I say only about a quarter-done. Some could be done quickly as they were smaller in quantity, repeative or similar. It was the data entries of Dumex product catalogues about eight different countries. I only managed to finish the India and Thailand ones.
I was pretty irritated and was in a pretty bad mood that day though. Peipei kept coming back to me telling me about some mistakes or omissions and things like that which I did on the I-Learn manual documentation. Those were easy to do. But at that time, I felt irritated by solving it at my PC and teaching me about it when I know how to do it. And she was solving it generally already. My attitude at that time was like, "Wau lau. These things are so easy to do but you want me to do it. I think it would be less troublesome if you can do the solution at your own workstation, instead of mine because you were almost finishing it." I remembered that I didn't give her a good facial expression either, I was giving her a combination of bored, sick and irritated look.
I know that was a bad attitude at work but I was really already frustrated with my current work and she kept bugging me with the past work I did with some mistakes that she could help me solve it easily. I wasn't really in a very good mood that day. Moreover, I was tired, especially my strained eyes, after looking and checking at so many cells, figures, letters and words in the Excel worksheet while doing the Dumex product catalogues data entries.
Worse still, Small Boss "Fish" gave me a schedule via Peipei of when and what to finish for my task of data entries of the Dumex product catalogues. The scheduled rate of speed was about two countries per day. I guessed he didn't trust me as I was doing things slowly these days. I didn't like to be untrusted. They didn't gave me a proper deadline the first place, even when I asked. But luckily, I think I am able to finish it by the Friday, in which everything was to be finish then.
I managed to finish all the data entries of the Singapore's product catalogue by the 6pm off work time. My eyes were really strained and tired. At times, my vision blurred. My whole body was also tired.
But I didn't go home immediately as I wanted to blog my active weekend's activities last week. I couldn't go home and blog as my sister had just formatted and was fixing the PC at home. The blog was really quite a long one. I finished it at around 7.30pm before I finally went home and rest...
Then, I walked across the pedestrian lights crossing of North Bridge Road, scrolled my way slowly to the Bugis MRT station and took the lonely journey on the MRT train back home...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Work is infinity. One's life is not."
Starry Night.
Monday night. So I was back home. My form of relaxation was nothing but watching television programmes from evenig till night. Kind of sick of it already. My home PC was not ready to use either. I decide to sleep slightly early that I usually did on Monday, instead of wathing the night's Taiwanese variety show.
But didn't sleep immediately. I was surprised when I looked out of my window in room. The night skies was was filled with stars. This was one of the times when I really saw most of the stars clearly in amidst of the urban city. I could only recognised the Orion.
As I was going to sleep anyway, I decided to wear my glasses to sleep so I could gazed at the stars while I was going to sleep. My bed was under the window so I could gaze directly up to the night skies. I pluged in my earphones into my ears and switched on my MP3 player for some soft music to help me go to sleep well. I slept immediately, with the beautiful stars watching over me...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Stars are infinity, perhaps life will be too."
Lazy All Day...
Tuesday. Hari Raya Puasa. A public holiday. A rather stupid and short break in amidst of the working days. I slept earlier than usual the day before but I slept till about 11am in the late morning. It was a good nice's sleep though. Sometimes I feel like I don't want to wake up forever.
I did a refrshing wash-up. I was wondering I would be watching television the whole day again. But I'm sick of it. My home PC was not ready for my use yet. Instead of switching on the television. I sat in the living room's seat and starting taking my Nokia 6610 handphone to play some Java games. I was playing the Java game named Pipe Works. It was not much of an action game but an intellectual one.
My sister was going out at around noon then. But before she went out, she told me the home PC was ready to be use by me and gave me my own user name and password as my sis, her boyfriend and I were using the PC. She had partitioned the hard-disk and created separate folders for each of us.
After my sis left home and I ate my lunch bought by my mother, brought back by my father, I went ahead to using the newly formatted PC. I started putting in all my stuff I burned before the PC was formatted. I arranged my stuff properly as it was. I also installed my favourite Delta Force 2 Demo game so I could play online with other players around the world. Its really benn quite some time that I played PC online game at home. I was too busy then.
I played online game to my fill and surfed the net up to the evening about 6pm. I even gave up my scheduled workout at 5pm as the weather was gloomy and the feel wasn't right. I normally workout the best on a bright sunshine day with the sun's rays going into my room through the windows. The bleak weather also made the floor cold. I do workout lying on the floor when needed to. I don't want to workout on the cold floor.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"A sleeping child is alway at peace..."
Monday. A new day, a new week. I woke up on time as usual but my overall mood was dampen by the gloomy skies outside my window. I was still a bit tired as my body went through quite a rigorous cycling trip the day before. I went for my usual morning wash-up to brush my teeth, wash my face and hair to try refresh myself but I didn't think it worked much effect on me...
I went to work on time as usual. It was definitely quite a bad day to work that day. With the gloomy weather, it added a certain sadness in the office. Perhaps it was partly because of the Monday blues also. In addition, the next day was to be a public holiday. After the lazy weekend, the next day you had to come back to work then rest one day, and then go back to work again. This was certain dampen the spirits of being productive.
Many of my colleagues were not here in the office that Monday. Some took the chance to clear their leaves on Monday and the coming days after Hari Raya Puasa (public holiday) so they could have a long stretch of holiday. Kernis, Diana, Nur and even Sidik were on leave. The rest of my Muslim colleagues had a free half-day leave. Shahid, Latifah and even Jason had their half-day leave. Jason couldn't get a full day leave, he had too much work to do.
I was grateful to Jason that he took his time last Friday and the Monday's morning to help me fix my office workstation PC and recover my files from the old damaged hard-disk, even though he was busy. He only managed to clear his work and finished them and left from work at around 1.30pm.
As for me, I was doing things and moving things very slowly. I was doing my own stuff the whole morning on Monday. I didn't really did any work at all in the morning as my office workstation PC was down and my files weren't recovered yet. The unrecovered files contained two job task and each was only about half-done. Why were they half-done? I really didn't know. I was doing multiple tasks at the same time last week and they didn't gave me a deadline for them anyway. I practically don't know what to finish in priority first.
Finally, office workstation PC was fixed and my files recovered by around noon. I was able to finally continue my work. The first important priority was to be the I-Learn manual documentation. I managed to finish it with its pagination before lunch and gave it to Peipei.
That Monday, I had lunch with only David, accompanied by Bernard who wasn't eating. We had some chat, talking about men's stuff but definitely no sex topics (cos' Jason's not around). We talked about men's fashion, hairstyle, relationships, national service again and others. I was particularly annoyed with David saying that I pair up with Wanzhen. This had happened many different lunches before already and each time I was getting more annoyed it. I don't why but if David gonna mention that again, I gonna blow up right at his face.
After lunch, I was back to the office to work, again. I was working on my another half-done task, or should I say only about a quarter-done. Some could be done quickly as they were smaller in quantity, repeative or similar. It was the data entries of Dumex product catalogues about eight different countries. I only managed to finish the India and Thailand ones.
I was pretty irritated and was in a pretty bad mood that day though. Peipei kept coming back to me telling me about some mistakes or omissions and things like that which I did on the I-Learn manual documentation. Those were easy to do. But at that time, I felt irritated by solving it at my PC and teaching me about it when I know how to do it. And she was solving it generally already. My attitude at that time was like, "Wau lau. These things are so easy to do but you want me to do it. I think it would be less troublesome if you can do the solution at your own workstation, instead of mine because you were almost finishing it." I remembered that I didn't give her a good facial expression either, I was giving her a combination of bored, sick and irritated look.
I know that was a bad attitude at work but I was really already frustrated with my current work and she kept bugging me with the past work I did with some mistakes that she could help me solve it easily. I wasn't really in a very good mood that day. Moreover, I was tired, especially my strained eyes, after looking and checking at so many cells, figures, letters and words in the Excel worksheet while doing the Dumex product catalogues data entries.
Worse still, Small Boss "Fish" gave me a schedule via Peipei of when and what to finish for my task of data entries of the Dumex product catalogues. The scheduled rate of speed was about two countries per day. I guessed he didn't trust me as I was doing things slowly these days. I didn't like to be untrusted. They didn't gave me a proper deadline the first place, even when I asked. But luckily, I think I am able to finish it by the Friday, in which everything was to be finish then.
I managed to finish all the data entries of the Singapore's product catalogue by the 6pm off work time. My eyes were really strained and tired. At times, my vision blurred. My whole body was also tired.
But I didn't go home immediately as I wanted to blog my active weekend's activities last week. I couldn't go home and blog as my sister had just formatted and was fixing the PC at home. The blog was really quite a long one. I finished it at around 7.30pm before I finally went home and rest...
Then, I walked across the pedestrian lights crossing of North Bridge Road, scrolled my way slowly to the Bugis MRT station and took the lonely journey on the MRT train back home...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Work is infinity. One's life is not."
Starry Night.
Monday night. So I was back home. My form of relaxation was nothing but watching television programmes from evenig till night. Kind of sick of it already. My home PC was not ready to use either. I decide to sleep slightly early that I usually did on Monday, instead of wathing the night's Taiwanese variety show.
But didn't sleep immediately. I was surprised when I looked out of my window in room. The night skies was was filled with stars. This was one of the times when I really saw most of the stars clearly in amidst of the urban city. I could only recognised the Orion.
As I was going to sleep anyway, I decided to wear my glasses to sleep so I could gazed at the stars while I was going to sleep. My bed was under the window so I could gaze directly up to the night skies. I pluged in my earphones into my ears and switched on my MP3 player for some soft music to help me go to sleep well. I slept immediately, with the beautiful stars watching over me...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Stars are infinity, perhaps life will be too."
Lazy All Day...
Tuesday. Hari Raya Puasa. A public holiday. A rather stupid and short break in amidst of the working days. I slept earlier than usual the day before but I slept till about 11am in the late morning. It was a good nice's sleep though. Sometimes I feel like I don't want to wake up forever.
I did a refrshing wash-up. I was wondering I would be watching television the whole day again. But I'm sick of it. My home PC was not ready for my use yet. Instead of switching on the television. I sat in the living room's seat and starting taking my Nokia 6610 handphone to play some Java games. I was playing the Java game named Pipe Works. It was not much of an action game but an intellectual one.
My sister was going out at around noon then. But before she went out, she told me the home PC was ready to be use by me and gave me my own user name and password as my sis, her boyfriend and I were using the PC. She had partitioned the hard-disk and created separate folders for each of us.
After my sis left home and I ate my lunch bought by my mother, brought back by my father, I went ahead to using the newly formatted PC. I started putting in all my stuff I burned before the PC was formatted. I arranged my stuff properly as it was. I also installed my favourite Delta Force 2 Demo game so I could play online with other players around the world. Its really benn quite some time that I played PC online game at home. I was too busy then.
I played online game to my fill and surfed the net up to the evening about 6pm. I even gave up my scheduled workout at 5pm as the weather was gloomy and the feel wasn't right. I normally workout the best on a bright sunshine day with the sun's rays going into my room through the windows. The bleak weather also made the floor cold. I do workout lying on the floor when needed to. I don't want to workout on the cold floor.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"A sleeping child is alway at peace..."
Monday, November 24, 2003
A Tired Day...
Friday. Now let me think... Although Friday was suppose to be a typical chiong day, I was not in the mood to do anything serious much as I was tired from the previous night's dinner and other activities.
Especially after my office's PC workstation's hard disk crashed... My two task jobs half-done were still inside. Jason was helping me to re-establish a new office work station and would retrieve my files from my old hard disk later next week.
I was re-edit and paginating some Word documents which contained contents on a new I-Learn English project. I was basically doing that all day long and I was pretty sick of doing Microsoft Office documenting after these three or four days.
I was pretty stress by all these work. Especially those I had done half-way but not yet completed. I was briefed about those two task jobs deadlines so I bo chup it for a while. Peipei never gave me a solid answer for the jobs' deadline anyway.
After work, I went home to relax, watch television programmes and slept silghtly late till the next morning...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"No wonder so many people says 'Microsoft Sucks!', they were sick of Microsoft Office tools."
A "Yee Haw!" Weekend!
Saturday. Slept lazily till about 1.30pm. Saturday was basically a lazy day of sleep, eat and relax. Had practically nothing to but watching television programmes till around 6pm. Although it was a lazy day, I wanted to be active so I wouldn't growing fat.
So I did my usual weekly workout.
I took a total of 1 hour starting from 6pm to do some dancing, a full body workout and sweat it out. My dancing routine I was simply switch on some music and danced to it, which took me about 15 minutes. That's a good warming up exercise for my workout.
My full body workout would be working on my upper abs (50 times sit-ups) and lower abs (50 times lower abs lift) training. Arms, back and shoulder blade muscles training (20 times push-ups and 50 times of 3kg dumb-bells backwards lifts). Chest muscles training (50 times of 3kg dumb-bells chest muscles lifts while lying on the floor). Leg muscles training (10 minutes jogging on-the-spot as normal jogging speed).
After that I was sweating like a squeezed sponge. I took a nice warm bath after that... Ah...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Don't be lazy! Work out often to stay HEALTHY!"
Butt Pained & Legs Strained on Pulau Ubin!
Sunday. I went for a cycling trip with a few friends on Pulau Ubin yesterday. Along with Thomas, Chee Wee and Chee Wee's cousin, Huimin, we cycled our asses off on the beautiful kampong islang known as Pulau Ubin.
The journey started for me as early as waking up at around 8.25am. After doing the all usual morning hygiene stuff, I took my bag and headed for the Chinese Garden MRT station to take the train transit. I was a bit weary but I was slowly waking up along the way to City Hall MRT station. Was also quite bored along the way as this mass transit journey was all too familiar to me. I did what I usually do, switched on my MP3 player and listen to the music while stations whizzed pass one after another, people moving in and out of the train...
I finally arrived. I sent a SMS to Chee Wee immediately upon arrival at City Hall MRT station. He was going to be late as usual as he was taking bus with Thomas, again. I got used to their lateness already.
Before the guys arrived, I've already noticed Huimin (Chee Wee's cousin) had arrived too. But as I didn't really speak to her before at all and she was talking to a friend she met coincidentally, I didn't approach her.
After all the people arrived, we took the MRT transit to Tanah Merah MRT station and took a SBS Transit service number 2 bus to the Changi Village before heading down to Changi Jetty. We all alighted at the same bus-stop except Chee Wee. We were surprised why he didn't alight.
Chee Wee said that he didn't alight because of some old folks blocking his way. But luckily, the bus-stop we alighted was the last bus-stop which was actually nearby the Changi Bus Terminal, the last stop of the bus service. Chee Wee walked to find us anyway. We ate our at a nearby coffeeshop before heading down to the Changi Jetty to take a small passenger boat to Pulau Ubin.
Along the way, the view from the boat was very nice but I felt no sea breeze because the stupid boat had all its old windows shut...
Upon arrival on the Pulau Ubin Jetty, we headed to rent each ourselves a bike. After renting the bikes, we took our way to our adventure. It was some time before we realised that our bikes were quite sucky. The gears wouldn't change properly and mine was unchained twice during the whole trip and I got to get my hands dirty fixing the bloody chain oiled with extreme black and not so easily cleaned grease.
The biking journey was fun and quite tiring also. We went across rough terrains of gravels, sand, mud, puddles and just soil. We went through the jungle path obstacled by some undergrowth. We had to come down to push our bikes as the path was too rough out with the buttress roots and forest debris. We took some time before we got out of the jungle.
We headed to the trail where it was near an abandoned quarry. Althought most of the perimeter around the quarry was blocked by plants, we got a point where we could see the quarry and its abandoned quarry pool. It was beautiful as the pool reflected the image of the mined quarry above.
After that we ride ourselves of ups and downs. I definitely had no problem riding my way up some slopes of rough, bumpy paths. But my butt hurts as the I went down the bumpy slope. The suspension of my bike couldn't work as my seat was very low.
We stopped for a few moments to get some rest, drinking of water. Sometimes we stopped at some houses or shelter selling cold drinks and chatted again. One of the first stop to get our cold can drinks was an attap house called "Orchid Garden", in which I guessed it was a place the owner grew orchids or plant them. He had some collections of animals in cluding mice, rats, chickens, ducks, dog and other wild birds of all kinds like parrots and peacock.
One of these birds were the rare native black and white bird known as the Magpie Robins. The owner had two. The Magpies were originally the most common native bird in Singapore decades ago just like the common mynahs we had now, in thousands. But it was soon challenged by the foreign common mynahs and was dominated. The population of the Magpies dropped drastically within a few decades. The reason was that the common mynah was much larger and more cleverer than the Magpie and so it flourished. Ironically, at the owner's house, where the Magpie's cage was hung, beside there was a cage where a common mynah was held captive too. The population of Magpies in Singapore now were of a few hundreds.
After our drinks, we continued our journey to some paths of gravels and across many bridges. At one time there was a fallen tree blocking our way and Chee Wee suggested we had to carry our bikes over and we did. There were a pair of Caucasians travelling opposite on the same route also blocked by the same fallen tree. They were smarter though. There pushed their bikes under the fallen tree where there was still some space. That was very smart, Chee Wee. Looks like I've wasted my energy carrying up three bikes over the damn tree (Thomas carried one over).
We went to a beach and rested at a pavillion to enjoy some sea breeze as well as chatting (again) and laughed at each others' corny talks.
After that we ride to the other half of Pulau Ubin quickly as the path we took was the main road. We went there to see a resort over there. It was a worth while trip though. We thought the resort was a good and quiet chalet spot. We took down the contacts of the resort before we went off again. But we were already quite tired. So we rested at a stall where it sell coconut drinks.
It was definitely refreshing drink though.
Huimin was definitely hungry (and probably very tired as she ride very slowly already) by then. She ate most of the fleshes of the two coconuts we shared among ourselves. After all, she only had a few slices of papaya for lunch.
After that we headed down to the jetty area and returned our bikes. We headed down to the jetty and took a boat home. This time I got myself a seat away from the other three to enjoy the view, the sea breeze and some sea water droplets splashing on my face.
We took the same bus service we came and went to the Tanah Merah MRT station's toilet to wash up a while and change away our smelly, sweat-filled clothes to clean ones.
After the change, we took the MRT transit heading west bound and we chatted along the way on the way home...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"I love cycling!"
Friday. Now let me think... Although Friday was suppose to be a typical chiong day, I was not in the mood to do anything serious much as I was tired from the previous night's dinner and other activities.
Especially after my office's PC workstation's hard disk crashed... My two task jobs half-done were still inside. Jason was helping me to re-establish a new office work station and would retrieve my files from my old hard disk later next week.
I was re-edit and paginating some Word documents which contained contents on a new I-Learn English project. I was basically doing that all day long and I was pretty sick of doing Microsoft Office documenting after these three or four days.
I was pretty stress by all these work. Especially those I had done half-way but not yet completed. I was briefed about those two task jobs deadlines so I bo chup it for a while. Peipei never gave me a solid answer for the jobs' deadline anyway.
After work, I went home to relax, watch television programmes and slept silghtly late till the next morning...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"No wonder so many people says 'Microsoft Sucks!', they were sick of Microsoft Office tools."
A "Yee Haw!" Weekend!
Saturday. Slept lazily till about 1.30pm. Saturday was basically a lazy day of sleep, eat and relax. Had practically nothing to but watching television programmes till around 6pm. Although it was a lazy day, I wanted to be active so I wouldn't growing fat.
So I did my usual weekly workout.
I took a total of 1 hour starting from 6pm to do some dancing, a full body workout and sweat it out. My dancing routine I was simply switch on some music and danced to it, which took me about 15 minutes. That's a good warming up exercise for my workout.
My full body workout would be working on my upper abs (50 times sit-ups) and lower abs (50 times lower abs lift) training. Arms, back and shoulder blade muscles training (20 times push-ups and 50 times of 3kg dumb-bells backwards lifts). Chest muscles training (50 times of 3kg dumb-bells chest muscles lifts while lying on the floor). Leg muscles training (10 minutes jogging on-the-spot as normal jogging speed).
After that I was sweating like a squeezed sponge. I took a nice warm bath after that... Ah...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Don't be lazy! Work out often to stay HEALTHY!"
Butt Pained & Legs Strained on Pulau Ubin!
Sunday. I went for a cycling trip with a few friends on Pulau Ubin yesterday. Along with Thomas, Chee Wee and Chee Wee's cousin, Huimin, we cycled our asses off on the beautiful kampong islang known as Pulau Ubin.
The journey started for me as early as waking up at around 8.25am. After doing the all usual morning hygiene stuff, I took my bag and headed for the Chinese Garden MRT station to take the train transit. I was a bit weary but I was slowly waking up along the way to City Hall MRT station. Was also quite bored along the way as this mass transit journey was all too familiar to me. I did what I usually do, switched on my MP3 player and listen to the music while stations whizzed pass one after another, people moving in and out of the train...
I finally arrived. I sent a SMS to Chee Wee immediately upon arrival at City Hall MRT station. He was going to be late as usual as he was taking bus with Thomas, again. I got used to their lateness already.
Before the guys arrived, I've already noticed Huimin (Chee Wee's cousin) had arrived too. But as I didn't really speak to her before at all and she was talking to a friend she met coincidentally, I didn't approach her.
After all the people arrived, we took the MRT transit to Tanah Merah MRT station and took a SBS Transit service number 2 bus to the Changi Village before heading down to Changi Jetty. We all alighted at the same bus-stop except Chee Wee. We were surprised why he didn't alight.
Chee Wee said that he didn't alight because of some old folks blocking his way. But luckily, the bus-stop we alighted was the last bus-stop which was actually nearby the Changi Bus Terminal, the last stop of the bus service. Chee Wee walked to find us anyway. We ate our at a nearby coffeeshop before heading down to the Changi Jetty to take a small passenger boat to Pulau Ubin.
Along the way, the view from the boat was very nice but I felt no sea breeze because the stupid boat had all its old windows shut...
Upon arrival on the Pulau Ubin Jetty, we headed to rent each ourselves a bike. After renting the bikes, we took our way to our adventure. It was some time before we realised that our bikes were quite sucky. The gears wouldn't change properly and mine was unchained twice during the whole trip and I got to get my hands dirty fixing the bloody chain oiled with extreme black and not so easily cleaned grease.
The biking journey was fun and quite tiring also. We went across rough terrains of gravels, sand, mud, puddles and just soil. We went through the jungle path obstacled by some undergrowth. We had to come down to push our bikes as the path was too rough out with the buttress roots and forest debris. We took some time before we got out of the jungle.
We headed to the trail where it was near an abandoned quarry. Althought most of the perimeter around the quarry was blocked by plants, we got a point where we could see the quarry and its abandoned quarry pool. It was beautiful as the pool reflected the image of the mined quarry above.
After that we ride ourselves of ups and downs. I definitely had no problem riding my way up some slopes of rough, bumpy paths. But my butt hurts as the I went down the bumpy slope. The suspension of my bike couldn't work as my seat was very low.
We stopped for a few moments to get some rest, drinking of water. Sometimes we stopped at some houses or shelter selling cold drinks and chatted again. One of the first stop to get our cold can drinks was an attap house called "Orchid Garden", in which I guessed it was a place the owner grew orchids or plant them. He had some collections of animals in cluding mice, rats, chickens, ducks, dog and other wild birds of all kinds like parrots and peacock.
One of these birds were the rare native black and white bird known as the Magpie Robins. The owner had two. The Magpies were originally the most common native bird in Singapore decades ago just like the common mynahs we had now, in thousands. But it was soon challenged by the foreign common mynahs and was dominated. The population of the Magpies dropped drastically within a few decades. The reason was that the common mynah was much larger and more cleverer than the Magpie and so it flourished. Ironically, at the owner's house, where the Magpie's cage was hung, beside there was a cage where a common mynah was held captive too. The population of Magpies in Singapore now were of a few hundreds.
After our drinks, we continued our journey to some paths of gravels and across many bridges. At one time there was a fallen tree blocking our way and Chee Wee suggested we had to carry our bikes over and we did. There were a pair of Caucasians travelling opposite on the same route also blocked by the same fallen tree. They were smarter though. There pushed their bikes under the fallen tree where there was still some space. That was very smart, Chee Wee. Looks like I've wasted my energy carrying up three bikes over the damn tree (Thomas carried one over).
We went to a beach and rested at a pavillion to enjoy some sea breeze as well as chatting (again) and laughed at each others' corny talks.
After that we ride to the other half of Pulau Ubin quickly as the path we took was the main road. We went there to see a resort over there. It was a worth while trip though. We thought the resort was a good and quiet chalet spot. We took down the contacts of the resort before we went off again. But we were already quite tired. So we rested at a stall where it sell coconut drinks.
It was definitely refreshing drink though.
Huimin was definitely hungry (and probably very tired as she ride very slowly already) by then. She ate most of the fleshes of the two coconuts we shared among ourselves. After all, she only had a few slices of papaya for lunch.
After that we headed down to the jetty area and returned our bikes. We headed down to the jetty and took a boat home. This time I got myself a seat away from the other three to enjoy the view, the sea breeze and some sea water droplets splashing on my face.
We took the same bus service we came and went to the Tanah Merah MRT station's toilet to wash up a while and change away our smelly, sweat-filled clothes to clean ones.
After the change, we took the MRT transit heading west bound and we chatted along the way on the way home...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"I love cycling!"
Friday, November 21, 2003
Give Me A Break...
Hmm... I seem to be running out of ideas what to blog everyday, especially for my quotes or quotations. I also seem to running out of brain juices of the blog titles. The blog titles seen to be turning quite crapped.
Perhaps I am getting tired... I may need a holiday going somewhere to travel but I got no money to do that!
Thursday. I was suppose to continue to do my task jobs of the Dumex products data information entries into Excel or compile and format the I-Learn Thai manuals' textual information into one.
But I was asked to do some last minute changes of the NASA Myanmar's application design, functions and other stuff like that. The NASA Myanmar was to be delivered by today, which was yesterday. I did some changes in the morning, then I passed it to Peipei for her to pack it and compiled in order to burn it into a prototype CD-ROM.
I tested the prototype and saw some things that was supposed to be changed but not changed. It was actually my fault as I didn't check it properly. Peipei did checked for me too but she missed that mistake out too.
So I had to change it. Pass it back to her again so she could pack it into a CD-ROM, again. But her PC workstation was so slow, the packing process of the CD-ROM was very, very slow. So I got to help her pack another one. My packing programmes gave me multiple errors several times and I always had to restart my packing process. My PC workstation was faster than Peipei's though, so I didn't had much concern over the errors.
I succeeded packing the stuff I needed to.
But then, my PC workstation kept on restarting for no good reason. I thought it was power plug to my CPU was loose and I plugged it in firmly and restarted my bloody PC again. But it it still kept on restarting. I called Jason for help, he's the technician around the office. At first, we thought it was a computer virus, possibly the worm virus. He did a virus scan on my hard drive but to no avail.
He can't find what seems to be the real problem before I left, off from work, so I left him to deal with it.
I headed for City Hall to meetand pick up Elvin first before heading for Movenpick Marche Restaurant Singapore's entrance at Suntec City Galleria to meet others for our Secondary School Class Gathering Reunion Dinner.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"To rest is to continue a longer journey in the future..."
Feeling Sensuous? Or Tired?
Thursday night. I managed to get only 11 people to be there at the restaurant for the dinner yesterday evening...
Out of my graduate class of 44 people, I have 23 contacts in which a few of 2 or 3 contacts were obsolete. Leaving me to gather 21 people. Out of this 21 people, I got 13 people confirming and ready to have the dinner yesterday.
And yesterday Henry forgotten to come, agreed to come but in the end fly my kite. Siti Salimah don't know what happened. Yieling was coming but not for the dinner, but activities after the dinner.
The people who came were Elvin, Marcus, Kian Chong, Denise, Vivian, Huixian, Asryna, Puay Koon, Priscillia and I. Although I knew some how everyone did changed (maybe only Elvin is still quite the same...), I knew some thing still didn't change.
This is friendship I guess?
Taking about change. I know I've changed alot over and over within these three or four years after graduating from secondary school. It was definitely not much about my appearance but how I feel towards everything around me. I can tell everyone I did changed a lot, especially over the last six months. And I mean a lot...
Okay, back to the main topic. I felt that the dinner wasn't really much of a reunion but a simple gathering. I felt that it was quite a failure... I did had quite high hopes on this to be a good reunion... : (
Perhaps thats why I wasn't really in much of a good mood and being lively as much as usual. Perhaps I was also slightly tired from work... For few moments during the dinner, you could see me smiling and laughing but sometimes, I just went down under... Didn't talked much during the dinner either.
I could only say the dinner was a good attempt for a reunion.
During the dinner, everyone else did have quite a good time, I hoped...
After the dinner, Elvin, Marcus, Kian Chong, Denise, Vivian, Huixian, Asryna and I went for some free, street arts as it was the Busker Festival. Watching the street artist perform was quite fun. I think everyone got quite a few good laughs.
But the show seems very short though. It felt like it was only 30 minutes.
After the street performance, we headed for the Esplanades Theatres to meet up Yieling.
I was quite sensuous when I reached the Esplanades. I haven't been there for about a full month...
Then, Yieling came.
Yieling had definitely grown plumb but is still the same lively and outspoken Yieling I know. If she didn't come, the mood around the rest of the gang would be less lively. And also, I liked to state that Kian Chong's attempt to brighten and liven up the mood was a good attempt but was kind of... *duh*?
We heading for the area around Fullerton One to look for some outdoor cafe to enjoy some drinks but ended up at d'Original Satay Club under the Esplanade Bridge because most cafes were closed already as it was 11pm... But had some good chats at the outdoor food club though.
After a while, we went home. Asryna and Denise took a cab home I think. Marcus ride his own bike. While the rest of us took the MRT transit. Elvin, Yieling, Vivian, Kian Chong and I took the east-west line, westward home. But poor Huixian go to take the north line all the way to Sembawang...
We continued to chat on our way home. I didn't really talk as I normally would.
Perhaps I was tired... Really, really tired...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"I'm still tired. I want a long vacation..."
Hmm... I seem to be running out of ideas what to blog everyday, especially for my quotes or quotations. I also seem to running out of brain juices of the blog titles. The blog titles seen to be turning quite crapped.
Perhaps I am getting tired... I may need a holiday going somewhere to travel but I got no money to do that!
Thursday. I was suppose to continue to do my task jobs of the Dumex products data information entries into Excel or compile and format the I-Learn Thai manuals' textual information into one.
But I was asked to do some last minute changes of the NASA Myanmar's application design, functions and other stuff like that. The NASA Myanmar was to be delivered by today, which was yesterday. I did some changes in the morning, then I passed it to Peipei for her to pack it and compiled in order to burn it into a prototype CD-ROM.
I tested the prototype and saw some things that was supposed to be changed but not changed. It was actually my fault as I didn't check it properly. Peipei did checked for me too but she missed that mistake out too.
So I had to change it. Pass it back to her again so she could pack it into a CD-ROM, again. But her PC workstation was so slow, the packing process of the CD-ROM was very, very slow. So I got to help her pack another one. My packing programmes gave me multiple errors several times and I always had to restart my packing process. My PC workstation was faster than Peipei's though, so I didn't had much concern over the errors.
I succeeded packing the stuff I needed to.
But then, my PC workstation kept on restarting for no good reason. I thought it was power plug to my CPU was loose and I plugged it in firmly and restarted my bloody PC again. But it it still kept on restarting. I called Jason for help, he's the technician around the office. At first, we thought it was a computer virus, possibly the worm virus. He did a virus scan on my hard drive but to no avail.
He can't find what seems to be the real problem before I left, off from work, so I left him to deal with it.
I headed for City Hall to meetand pick up Elvin first before heading for Movenpick Marche Restaurant Singapore's entrance at Suntec City Galleria to meet others for our Secondary School Class Gathering Reunion Dinner.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"To rest is to continue a longer journey in the future..."
Feeling Sensuous? Or Tired?
Thursday night. I managed to get only 11 people to be there at the restaurant for the dinner yesterday evening...
Out of my graduate class of 44 people, I have 23 contacts in which a few of 2 or 3 contacts were obsolete. Leaving me to gather 21 people. Out of this 21 people, I got 13 people confirming and ready to have the dinner yesterday.
And yesterday Henry forgotten to come, agreed to come but in the end fly my kite. Siti Salimah don't know what happened. Yieling was coming but not for the dinner, but activities after the dinner.
The people who came were Elvin, Marcus, Kian Chong, Denise, Vivian, Huixian, Asryna, Puay Koon, Priscillia and I. Although I knew some how everyone did changed (maybe only Elvin is still quite the same...), I knew some thing still didn't change.
This is friendship I guess?
Taking about change. I know I've changed alot over and over within these three or four years after graduating from secondary school. It was definitely not much about my appearance but how I feel towards everything around me. I can tell everyone I did changed a lot, especially over the last six months. And I mean a lot...
Okay, back to the main topic. I felt that the dinner wasn't really much of a reunion but a simple gathering. I felt that it was quite a failure... I did had quite high hopes on this to be a good reunion... : (
Perhaps thats why I wasn't really in much of a good mood and being lively as much as usual. Perhaps I was also slightly tired from work... For few moments during the dinner, you could see me smiling and laughing but sometimes, I just went down under... Didn't talked much during the dinner either.
I could only say the dinner was a good attempt for a reunion.
During the dinner, everyone else did have quite a good time, I hoped...
After the dinner, Elvin, Marcus, Kian Chong, Denise, Vivian, Huixian, Asryna and I went for some free, street arts as it was the Busker Festival. Watching the street artist perform was quite fun. I think everyone got quite a few good laughs.
But the show seems very short though. It felt like it was only 30 minutes.
After the street performance, we headed for the Esplanades Theatres to meet up Yieling.
I was quite sensuous when I reached the Esplanades. I haven't been there for about a full month...
Then, Yieling came.
Yieling had definitely grown plumb but is still the same lively and outspoken Yieling I know. If she didn't come, the mood around the rest of the gang would be less lively. And also, I liked to state that Kian Chong's attempt to brighten and liven up the mood was a good attempt but was kind of... *duh*?
We heading for the area around Fullerton One to look for some outdoor cafe to enjoy some drinks but ended up at d'Original Satay Club under the Esplanade Bridge because most cafes were closed already as it was 11pm... But had some good chats at the outdoor food club though.
After a while, we went home. Asryna and Denise took a cab home I think. Marcus ride his own bike. While the rest of us took the MRT transit. Elvin, Yieling, Vivian, Kian Chong and I took the east-west line, westward home. But poor Huixian go to take the north line all the way to Sembawang...
We continued to chat on our way home. I didn't really talk as I normally would.
Perhaps I was tired... Really, really tired...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"I'm still tired. I want a long vacation..."
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Data, Info and Text Processing All Day!
Wednesday. I was doing data, info and text processing all day, yesterday...
Not very happening yesterday... Except for Kernis who was busily and happily receiving her boyfriend's calls from Australia almost every hour!
In the whole of the morning and early afternoon, I was inputing, computing and typing all the data information of Dumex products of Thailand and India in Excel as of requested by Peipei via "Fish" on Tuesday. It was a headache even though it was a "copy and paste". I must check all the data entries were correct as well.
At lunch, I (Jeffery, a.k.a. Eiizumi) went with my Small Boss, Jeffrey (a.k.a. "Fish"), Jason, Kernis, David, Linda, Peipei and Fong Peing to Jeffrey Gathering Place (coincidence?) to eat. We ate and chatted. "Fish" asked Jason for a cigarette to smoke. I was quite surprised that "Fish" smoked. I only know there's smoked fish!
After lunch, the rest went back to office while Kernis, David and I as usual, went to PARCO Bugis Junction's Cold Storage to buy bottles of mineral water.
After that, it was back to the office. I was to do my top arch-nemesis job, I- Learn Thai. But luckily this was only the beginning. I wasn't doing its horrible director application but its still as bad, manual content documentation in Word. I managed to copy and paste contents from multiple files as to compile the contents into one single Word document file. Although it was only "copy and paste" job, I'm already quite stunned in my brain...
I hope the Muslim fasting month is over soon! I've also been fasting from our old traditions of breakfast and tea-break times for quite some time! I really missed those breaks with my Muslim as well as non-Muslim colleagues!
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Currently no comments."
Wednesday. I was doing data, info and text processing all day, yesterday...
Not very happening yesterday... Except for Kernis who was busily and happily receiving her boyfriend's calls from Australia almost every hour!
In the whole of the morning and early afternoon, I was inputing, computing and typing all the data information of Dumex products of Thailand and India in Excel as of requested by Peipei via "Fish" on Tuesday. It was a headache even though it was a "copy and paste". I must check all the data entries were correct as well.
At lunch, I (Jeffery, a.k.a. Eiizumi) went with my Small Boss, Jeffrey (a.k.a. "Fish"), Jason, Kernis, David, Linda, Peipei and Fong Peing to Jeffrey Gathering Place (coincidence?) to eat. We ate and chatted. "Fish" asked Jason for a cigarette to smoke. I was quite surprised that "Fish" smoked. I only know there's smoked fish!
After lunch, the rest went back to office while Kernis, David and I as usual, went to PARCO Bugis Junction's Cold Storage to buy bottles of mineral water.
After that, it was back to the office. I was to do my top arch-nemesis job, I- Learn Thai. But luckily this was only the beginning. I wasn't doing its horrible director application but its still as bad, manual content documentation in Word. I managed to copy and paste contents from multiple files as to compile the contents into one single Word document file. Although it was only "copy and paste" job, I'm already quite stunned in my brain...
I hope the Muslim fasting month is over soon! I've also been fasting from our old traditions of breakfast and tea-break times for quite some time! I really missed those breaks with my Muslim as well as non-Muslim colleagues!
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Currently no comments."
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
No time to type Monday's Blog lah!
Monday. I was typing the whole morning and early afternoon. Typing my last weekend's blog. Helping Aida to type the stock list of media softwares in the office.
During the afternoon, I went lunch to the freshly opened famous Tiong Bahru Roast Shop near my office building, with Bernard and Yvonne. Jason was sick, on medical leave. David was on leave. Kernis was on diet (maybe just simply bad appetite).
Yvonne again persuaded me to wear contact so I look more handsome. But I replied that my National Service coming in about half a year's time. I don't bother too much about being handsome anyway. Firstly, I had no money (I need to save up for rainy days, I'm totally financially independent from my parents). Secondly, like I said before, if I want to change something (including my looks), I'll change dramatically.
After the lunch, I was doing some changes for the NASA China thingy, I think... As for the rest of the day, I don't remember a thing... I was pretty tired as I did not sleep well the night before. My grandmother had came to my house to stay and I let her took my bed.
I miss my bed...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Human spent one-third of their lives sleeping. So sleep is precious. Treasure your sleep."
All I wanna do, I do it for you...
Tuesday. Still did not slept well. Still not used to the tilam (matress bed) I'm sleeping. No wonder my horoscope says this week I must take enough rest everyday.
I was so busy today.
I was doing the whole bloody morning compiling data information into a Word document but after all the work I did. She told me that Small Boss Jeffrey a.k.a. "Fish" wanted the thing done in Excel. I should have made sure and shouldn't allow to use assumptions of Peipei. Her assumptions always have problems...
So, I went lunch with Kernis and David to the Yu Kee (a duck rice shop) to have lunch. I was pretty tired and was not very lively. Only David and Kernis were doing all the chatting. After lunch, we all went window shopping at PARCO Bugis Junction again as well as to buy some groceries (mainly mineral water).
After the shopping, I broke formation with Kernis and David as I was going to Sim Lim Square to pick up three boxes of betacam tapes. I thought it was going to be quite easy job. I walked through the Si Ma Lu (somewhere Bencoolen Link and Albert Street) to get to Sim Lim Square. I found my way easily to the specific electronics shop where Digimagic orders the tapes. I gave the personnel there the cheque and they gave me the receipt invoice.
I was in quite a shock when I picked up the three boxes of betacam tapes, in which two were tied in string. They were quite heavy. Althought I thought I could handle the weight, I could handle the stress and the pain the weight pulling the strings on my hands, especially my fingers' joints.
I was also suppose to but some CD paper envelopes for Aida too, but the things I carry was too bulkingly irritating. I gave up the plan.
I initially to thought I could carry those shits and walk all the way back. But the stress and pian on my hands and fingers was quite intense when I was out of Sim Lim Square. I was already sweating all over. I finally decided to take a taxi back to the office.
When I was back to the office, I was quite in a pathetic mess of sweat. I put down the boxes and passed Aida the receipt invoice and my taxi fare receipt. Then, I went down to Bras Brasah Complex's Popular Bookstore to buy the CD paper envelopes and the CD cases Peipei needed. Then, I was back to the Digimagic office and gave Aida the money changed and the receipt of things I bought.
I was back to work. I was working on the NASA Myanmar changes, again. I finished it and was typing blog now.
Now, I'm gonna go home and sleep...
Z z Z z ( x . x ) z Z z Z
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Arghhh...!!! Go home and sleep lah! Philosophist also needs to sleep!"
Monday. I was typing the whole morning and early afternoon. Typing my last weekend's blog. Helping Aida to type the stock list of media softwares in the office.
During the afternoon, I went lunch to the freshly opened famous Tiong Bahru Roast Shop near my office building, with Bernard and Yvonne. Jason was sick, on medical leave. David was on leave. Kernis was on diet (maybe just simply bad appetite).
Yvonne again persuaded me to wear contact so I look more handsome. But I replied that my National Service coming in about half a year's time. I don't bother too much about being handsome anyway. Firstly, I had no money (I need to save up for rainy days, I'm totally financially independent from my parents). Secondly, like I said before, if I want to change something (including my looks), I'll change dramatically.
After the lunch, I was doing some changes for the NASA China thingy, I think... As for the rest of the day, I don't remember a thing... I was pretty tired as I did not sleep well the night before. My grandmother had came to my house to stay and I let her took my bed.
I miss my bed...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Human spent one-third of their lives sleeping. So sleep is precious. Treasure your sleep."
All I wanna do, I do it for you...
Tuesday. Still did not slept well. Still not used to the tilam (matress bed) I'm sleeping. No wonder my horoscope says this week I must take enough rest everyday.
I was so busy today.
I was doing the whole bloody morning compiling data information into a Word document but after all the work I did. She told me that Small Boss Jeffrey a.k.a. "Fish" wanted the thing done in Excel. I should have made sure and shouldn't allow to use assumptions of Peipei. Her assumptions always have problems...
So, I went lunch with Kernis and David to the Yu Kee (a duck rice shop) to have lunch. I was pretty tired and was not very lively. Only David and Kernis were doing all the chatting. After lunch, we all went window shopping at PARCO Bugis Junction again as well as to buy some groceries (mainly mineral water).
After the shopping, I broke formation with Kernis and David as I was going to Sim Lim Square to pick up three boxes of betacam tapes. I thought it was going to be quite easy job. I walked through the Si Ma Lu (somewhere Bencoolen Link and Albert Street) to get to Sim Lim Square. I found my way easily to the specific electronics shop where Digimagic orders the tapes. I gave the personnel there the cheque and they gave me the receipt invoice.
I was in quite a shock when I picked up the three boxes of betacam tapes, in which two were tied in string. They were quite heavy. Althought I thought I could handle the weight, I could handle the stress and the pain the weight pulling the strings on my hands, especially my fingers' joints.
I was also suppose to but some CD paper envelopes for Aida too, but the things I carry was too bulkingly irritating. I gave up the plan.
I initially to thought I could carry those shits and walk all the way back. But the stress and pian on my hands and fingers was quite intense when I was out of Sim Lim Square. I was already sweating all over. I finally decided to take a taxi back to the office.
When I was back to the office, I was quite in a pathetic mess of sweat. I put down the boxes and passed Aida the receipt invoice and my taxi fare receipt. Then, I went down to Bras Brasah Complex's Popular Bookstore to buy the CD paper envelopes and the CD cases Peipei needed. Then, I was back to the Digimagic office and gave Aida the money changed and the receipt of things I bought.
I was back to work. I was working on the NASA Myanmar changes, again. I finished it and was typing blog now.
Now, I'm gonna go home and sleep...
Z z Z z ( x . x ) z Z z Z
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Arghhh...!!! Go home and sleep lah! Philosophist also needs to sleep!"
Monday, November 17, 2003
Diversity.
Friday. What a nice working day. Although I have handled all sorts of different projects within that day, I remained pretty cool.
Now what I did? NASA Myanmar Roadmap (node map), IRAS Flash movies screen grabs and the Sountex website project changes. These were all seem so easy to me now. When I first started working all these things, things were moving very slowly and painfully then I expected. But I've became quite veteran on these stuff. Developing systematical working protocols in my brain so I can phase down the work one by one, stage by stage.
At lunch, David, Kernis and I went to the PARCO Bugis Junction foodcourt for the Teppanyaki again. They again ordered the beef set but I ordered the oyster set. I wanted to try something different. We had a nice meal. Kernis still eating little as usual but to me, its abnormal. How can someone eat so little everyday and don't faint and crave for more? I guess it required some skills...
Some women will do anything to remain slim but fit. That's not good for health.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Know your limits and know when to stop. Don't push yourself too far. Push yourself to the limits, not over."
Drink and Merry!
Friday night. After work at around 6pm, I returned home first and had to rush for my dinner before meeting my friends to club at Zouk at 8pm. Firstly, I didn't told my mum not to cook mine, so I have to return home to eat and its prefectly free of charge (I'll pay house-keeping fee to my mum at a later date). Secondly, I have to change my clothes to a more decent-looking and comfortable one. Lastly, I don't want to have dinner out alone and expensive.
So I rushed back home, ate my dinner and rushed back to City Hall MRT station to wait for Jun Long, Chee Wee, Alvin and Thomas at 8pm. But in the end, I waited for about a god damn 45 minutes. Thanks you guys for being so late. Luckily, I didn't appendicitis along the way...
So we finally reached Zouk at around 9pm plus, paid $28 each (instead of $15 for early-bird entry before 9pm...) for an entry ticket as well as two drink coupons. We were ready to party. One of Chee Wee's friends named Phoebe had asked a bartender over there to kind of reserve to tables for us. We then waited and so-called guarded the table as well as some seats for Phoebe as her gang till 11pm.
And about 11pm plus, Phoebe and her gang of gals came. Later, Huimin (Chee Wee's cousin) and her friend came too. Now, Phoebe and her gang of gals were too much of an attitude for me. My bunch of guys attempted to give up ther seats or talk to them but all they got was turning eyes of rudeness, ignorance and bad attitude. I didn't bother about those bunch of bad attitude gals who were smoking and drinking. I don't like people who smoked either. Pretty much of a bad habit. Because I know I would live longer than them (even though secon-hand smoker gets more harm but I don't have that too much everyday) and who would die first.
I just want to have my dance to sweat it out and de-stress, have my drinks and enjoy my this period of life.
Late through the night, more and more people came to club. The place became so packed with people, I could hardly dance big moves. I had to squeeze through people and people squeezed me. I have to "siam" tranverstites along the way. As you all know me, I don't like crowds. But I don't mind this as I could squeeze between pretty gals... Ha ha ha!
Kent joined us at around 12am.
Now, I drank some Long Island and two glasses of Vodka Limes. The bunch of guys and went to the dance floor and dance. As first, Jun Long seems just be dancing crazily.and thought he was just having his fun.
We didn't realise he was drunk!
Then he started accidentally hitting a lot of people and his hands couldn't keep to himself. We had to surround him to keep him out of trouble. At one time, he tried to hold a lady's shoulders. I pulled his hands back. Luckily, the lady didn't notice as there was a lot of people, or we could be in trouble.
So we decided to drag Jun Long to the toilet to pee as well as to wash up. But he didn't. We did drag him back to our table but he was too much to handle in a crowded place. So we dragged him out of the club. Outside under a small wayside plant, Jun Long puked. We got the tissues as Chee Wee ran a few hundred metres to get him a bottle of mineral water from a petrol station kiosk as he mumbled his drunk words and even cried...
*Duh*
Thomas and Alvin accompanied the drunken master as Chee Wee, Kent and I heartlessly returned to Zouk inside (leaving Thomas and Alvin to watch over their buddy), back to the dance floor to dance or to our table to drink.
We had our fun enough at around 2.30am plus and went back to the drunken master and his two friends. We sat by the kerb of the street's road.
I was feeling okay. Although my head was slightly swirling in fantasy but I knew my civilised soul with conscience was still alive. At least I know what I was doing and when I should stop.
So much for Jun Long calling me a drunk in my testimonial from him at Friendster.com . Ha!
I took a cab along with Kent and Alvin. The drunken master (Jun Long), Chee Wee, Huimin and Thomas all headed for Chee Wee's home. Jun Long couldn't go home late so drunk (besides, he live very far away from the rest, in Punggol). Thomas was still taking care of his drunken buddy, so he'll need to stick around. While Chee Wee and Huimin were cousins. I didn't quite believe Chee Wee's house was quite a refugee camp. Ha ha ha!
As Alvin, Kent and I was taking the taxi, the taxi looped back to Kim Seng Road where the Zouk was near. We saw Phoebe being pulled by one guy then surrounded by three. There was still a lot of people waiting at a temporary taxi stand there. I don't know what was happening but the three of us in the taxi were really ba gua with the taxi driver. Heh heh...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Don't drink yourself in sorrows. It wouldn't help at all."
An Almost Lazy Weekend...
Saturday. Slept late till 2pm in the afternoon. I reached home at around 3.30am. but I think I only slept at around 4am on Saturday early morning.
From, the moment I woke up, I went to brush my teeth, wash my face and took a nice warm shower to wake my lazy body up. My spirits was there. I wasn't in any hangover. But I felt my body was lazy.
I wasn't going anywhere that day. My relatives from Malaysia as well as local were visiting my family for dinner. It was quite reunion dinner.
My aunt, who is a professional beautician helps my sister to darken, to tattoo her eyebrows (but she tattoos them a bit off, so my aunt did it again for my sister on Sunday).
The younger cousin sisters were a little irritating though. Cute yet irritating. Felt like whacking one of them as she very rude and shown no proper respect. But I don't want to, after all they are kids!
Sunday.
Sunday was almost just like yesterday. Woke up at 11am. Again, I went to brush my teeth and wash my face. My aunt just finished her tattooing job on my sister's eyebrows in my parents' bedroom.
I slacked in the living room, watching television programmes all afternoon.
Before my relatives came again, I took 30 minutes starting from 4.30pm to do a full body workout and sweat it out. My full body workout would be working on my upper abs (50 times sit-ups) and lower abs (50 times lower abs lift) training. Waist muscles (30 times side turns). Arms, back and shoulder blade muscles training (20 times push-ups, 50 times of 3kg dumb-bells normal lifts and 50 times of 3kg dumb-bells backwards lifts). Chest muscles training (50 times of 3kg dumb-bells chest muscles lifts while lying on the floor). Leg muscles training (10 minutes jogging on-the-spot as normal jogging speed or sometimes, sprint).
I took a shower after that.
My relatives then visited us again in the , along with my 40 plus year old cousin's cousin's cousin (I'm not really sure of my relationship with her, I just know she's my cousin)! They chatted all late afternoon and the early evening. All the sisterhood and motherhood were there basically. Whle my younger cousin sisters were still irritating around my house. I got my two younger cousin brothers (who were older and far less troublesome than my younger cousin sisters) with me to watch the live Rugby World Cup 2003 Semi-Final, England versus France.
My supported English team won the game to my delight.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Cute babies grow up into irritating kids."
Friday. What a nice working day. Although I have handled all sorts of different projects within that day, I remained pretty cool.
Now what I did? NASA Myanmar Roadmap (node map), IRAS Flash movies screen grabs and the Sountex website project changes. These were all seem so easy to me now. When I first started working all these things, things were moving very slowly and painfully then I expected. But I've became quite veteran on these stuff. Developing systematical working protocols in my brain so I can phase down the work one by one, stage by stage.
At lunch, David, Kernis and I went to the PARCO Bugis Junction foodcourt for the Teppanyaki again. They again ordered the beef set but I ordered the oyster set. I wanted to try something different. We had a nice meal. Kernis still eating little as usual but to me, its abnormal. How can someone eat so little everyday and don't faint and crave for more? I guess it required some skills...
Some women will do anything to remain slim but fit. That's not good for health.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Know your limits and know when to stop. Don't push yourself too far. Push yourself to the limits, not over."
Drink and Merry!
Friday night. After work at around 6pm, I returned home first and had to rush for my dinner before meeting my friends to club at Zouk at 8pm. Firstly, I didn't told my mum not to cook mine, so I have to return home to eat and its prefectly free of charge (I'll pay house-keeping fee to my mum at a later date). Secondly, I have to change my clothes to a more decent-looking and comfortable one. Lastly, I don't want to have dinner out alone and expensive.
So I rushed back home, ate my dinner and rushed back to City Hall MRT station to wait for Jun Long, Chee Wee, Alvin and Thomas at 8pm. But in the end, I waited for about a god damn 45 minutes. Thanks you guys for being so late. Luckily, I didn't appendicitis along the way...
So we finally reached Zouk at around 9pm plus, paid $28 each (instead of $15 for early-bird entry before 9pm...) for an entry ticket as well as two drink coupons. We were ready to party. One of Chee Wee's friends named Phoebe had asked a bartender over there to kind of reserve to tables for us. We then waited and so-called guarded the table as well as some seats for Phoebe as her gang till 11pm.
And about 11pm plus, Phoebe and her gang of gals came. Later, Huimin (Chee Wee's cousin) and her friend came too. Now, Phoebe and her gang of gals were too much of an attitude for me. My bunch of guys attempted to give up ther seats or talk to them but all they got was turning eyes of rudeness, ignorance and bad attitude. I didn't bother about those bunch of bad attitude gals who were smoking and drinking. I don't like people who smoked either. Pretty much of a bad habit. Because I know I would live longer than them (even though secon-hand smoker gets more harm but I don't have that too much everyday) and who would die first.
I just want to have my dance to sweat it out and de-stress, have my drinks and enjoy my this period of life.
Late through the night, more and more people came to club. The place became so packed with people, I could hardly dance big moves. I had to squeeze through people and people squeezed me. I have to "siam" tranverstites along the way. As you all know me, I don't like crowds. But I don't mind this as I could squeeze between pretty gals... Ha ha ha!
Kent joined us at around 12am.
Now, I drank some Long Island and two glasses of Vodka Limes. The bunch of guys and went to the dance floor and dance. As first, Jun Long seems just be dancing crazily.and thought he was just having his fun.
We didn't realise he was drunk!
Then he started accidentally hitting a lot of people and his hands couldn't keep to himself. We had to surround him to keep him out of trouble. At one time, he tried to hold a lady's shoulders. I pulled his hands back. Luckily, the lady didn't notice as there was a lot of people, or we could be in trouble.
So we decided to drag Jun Long to the toilet to pee as well as to wash up. But he didn't. We did drag him back to our table but he was too much to handle in a crowded place. So we dragged him out of the club. Outside under a small wayside plant, Jun Long puked. We got the tissues as Chee Wee ran a few hundred metres to get him a bottle of mineral water from a petrol station kiosk as he mumbled his drunk words and even cried...
*Duh*
Thomas and Alvin accompanied the drunken master as Chee Wee, Kent and I heartlessly returned to Zouk inside (leaving Thomas and Alvin to watch over their buddy), back to the dance floor to dance or to our table to drink.
We had our fun enough at around 2.30am plus and went back to the drunken master and his two friends. We sat by the kerb of the street's road.
I was feeling okay. Although my head was slightly swirling in fantasy but I knew my civilised soul with conscience was still alive. At least I know what I was doing and when I should stop.
So much for Jun Long calling me a drunk in my testimonial from him at Friendster.com . Ha!
I took a cab along with Kent and Alvin. The drunken master (Jun Long), Chee Wee, Huimin and Thomas all headed for Chee Wee's home. Jun Long couldn't go home late so drunk (besides, he live very far away from the rest, in Punggol). Thomas was still taking care of his drunken buddy, so he'll need to stick around. While Chee Wee and Huimin were cousins. I didn't quite believe Chee Wee's house was quite a refugee camp. Ha ha ha!
As Alvin, Kent and I was taking the taxi, the taxi looped back to Kim Seng Road where the Zouk was near. We saw Phoebe being pulled by one guy then surrounded by three. There was still a lot of people waiting at a temporary taxi stand there. I don't know what was happening but the three of us in the taxi were really ba gua with the taxi driver. Heh heh...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Don't drink yourself in sorrows. It wouldn't help at all."
An Almost Lazy Weekend...
Saturday. Slept late till 2pm in the afternoon. I reached home at around 3.30am. but I think I only slept at around 4am on Saturday early morning.
From, the moment I woke up, I went to brush my teeth, wash my face and took a nice warm shower to wake my lazy body up. My spirits was there. I wasn't in any hangover. But I felt my body was lazy.
I wasn't going anywhere that day. My relatives from Malaysia as well as local were visiting my family for dinner. It was quite reunion dinner.
My aunt, who is a professional beautician helps my sister to darken, to tattoo her eyebrows (but she tattoos them a bit off, so my aunt did it again for my sister on Sunday).
The younger cousin sisters were a little irritating though. Cute yet irritating. Felt like whacking one of them as she very rude and shown no proper respect. But I don't want to, after all they are kids!
Sunday.
Sunday was almost just like yesterday. Woke up at 11am. Again, I went to brush my teeth and wash my face. My aunt just finished her tattooing job on my sister's eyebrows in my parents' bedroom.
I slacked in the living room, watching television programmes all afternoon.
Before my relatives came again, I took 30 minutes starting from 4.30pm to do a full body workout and sweat it out. My full body workout would be working on my upper abs (50 times sit-ups) and lower abs (50 times lower abs lift) training. Waist muscles (30 times side turns). Arms, back and shoulder blade muscles training (20 times push-ups, 50 times of 3kg dumb-bells normal lifts and 50 times of 3kg dumb-bells backwards lifts). Chest muscles training (50 times of 3kg dumb-bells chest muscles lifts while lying on the floor). Leg muscles training (10 minutes jogging on-the-spot as normal jogging speed or sometimes, sprint).
I took a shower after that.
My relatives then visited us again in the , along with my 40 plus year old cousin's cousin's cousin (I'm not really sure of my relationship with her, I just know she's my cousin)! They chatted all late afternoon and the early evening. All the sisterhood and motherhood were there basically. Whle my younger cousin sisters were still irritating around my house. I got my two younger cousin brothers (who were older and far less troublesome than my younger cousin sisters) with me to watch the live Rugby World Cup 2003 Semi-Final, England versus France.
My supported English team won the game to my delight.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Cute babies grow up into irritating kids."
Friday, November 14, 2003
Another Critical Work!
Thursday. I thought what I had finished the day before yesterday (Wednesday) was the most "last minute" kind of work. I didn't expect yesterday (Wednesday) was another one.
Except this time it was asked by the Small Boss Jeffrey a.k.a. "Fish", for client review yesterday. "Fish" is really a forgetful "Fish". Althought fish is know as brain food, providing protein for humans to replenish lost brain cells. I think "Fish" needs to eat alot of fish. He always forget this and that and we have to suffer under his forgetfulness, the most suffering victim was especially for Jason.
Now, Peipei, Sidik and I had to compile the whole of the Sountex website thingy, its structure, its links, its contents and others within one day. We all slice up the website's designs templates in Photoshop, created the GIF images in the Macromedia Fireworks and export them into HTML files with the tables automatically created for us in the HTML files.
Along the way, I also had to handle the Dumex Mama Gold for China project's changes. Surprisely, after all those sucky animations I did for hours. It was totally okay. Luckily, I only had two very minor changes...
I managed to finish my part of my job. But Sidik was so desperate with his, he got to simply export the whole of website's designs templates as GIF files and put them in as a chunk into HTML files. Peipei was also deseperately linking all the buttons and HTML pages, while "Fish" was rushing her to e-mail him those files...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Don't ever procrastinate work and do it the last minute. Its never fun doing last minute work..."
Thursday. I thought what I had finished the day before yesterday (Wednesday) was the most "last minute" kind of work. I didn't expect yesterday (Wednesday) was another one.
Except this time it was asked by the Small Boss Jeffrey a.k.a. "Fish", for client review yesterday. "Fish" is really a forgetful "Fish". Althought fish is know as brain food, providing protein for humans to replenish lost brain cells. I think "Fish" needs to eat alot of fish. He always forget this and that and we have to suffer under his forgetfulness, the most suffering victim was especially for Jason.
Now, Peipei, Sidik and I had to compile the whole of the Sountex website thingy, its structure, its links, its contents and others within one day. We all slice up the website's designs templates in Photoshop, created the GIF images in the Macromedia Fireworks and export them into HTML files with the tables automatically created for us in the HTML files.
Along the way, I also had to handle the Dumex Mama Gold for China project's changes. Surprisely, after all those sucky animations I did for hours. It was totally okay. Luckily, I only had two very minor changes...
I managed to finish my part of my job. But Sidik was so desperate with his, he got to simply export the whole of website's designs templates as GIF files and put them in as a chunk into HTML files. Peipei was also deseperately linking all the buttons and HTML pages, while "Fish" was rushing her to e-mail him those files...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Don't ever procrastinate work and do it the last minute. Its never fun doing last minute work..."
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Work, Work, Work...
Wednesday. Ah... Finally, I just finished my hell of the work for David... Now, I'm still in the office. I'll just type my blog for the day before I go home.
I was doing still doing NASA Myanmar director application in the morning , I think (now I'm so disorientated with the work I did just now, I don't even remember what I did in the morning).
Anyway, in the late morning and for the rest of the afternoon, I was doing the Dumex Mama Gold for China together teaming with David, Jason, Fong Peing and Kernis. The project I was doing was already in its critical phase when it even just started. It was absolute craziness. We were to produce a whole damn application within these two days (yesterday and today), as well as doing the changes which was coming in along the way. Imagine you were rushing something, done that something finished and then you were told that you had to change it.
During lunch, Kernis and I, who were sick of the food places near our office, along the North Bridge Road as well as the food places down the Liang Seah Street. We decided to head for Bugis Junction's Domi instead (initially, we wanted to have take-aways and join Jason and David at the Jeffrey's Gathering Place later). Domi sells Japanese cuisines. We abandoned Jason and David to the boring food places. Because Kernis and I could enjoy the discount of 30% eating in at Domi as I have a student pass. Heh heh...
We enjoyed our meals as it was nice and something different from the usual, boring food places.
I even had to do some bloody animations without the in-between images of the photoshop files. I had to create asome of the in-between frames and then fade in and fade out transitions. Or else I would have to do all the in-between frames which may take me a whole night to do it and also highly possible I couldn't even finish it at all.
I managed to finish all the transitional animations just now. Fong Peing and David hadn't finish their part of their jobs. Kernis finished hers around off-work time as she took the easier tasks and left all the photoshop design changes to David. That's typical of her.
Well, its time for me to head home. I can't stand the sight of this hypnotic monitor. Its making my eyes real tired. *Yawnzzz*
Z z Z z ( - . - ) z Z z Z
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Time flies fast if you didn't notice. So live your life to the fullest and fulfill your dreams! Life is short!"
Wednesday. Ah... Finally, I just finished my hell of the work for David... Now, I'm still in the office. I'll just type my blog for the day before I go home.
I was doing still doing NASA Myanmar director application in the morning , I think (now I'm so disorientated with the work I did just now, I don't even remember what I did in the morning).
Anyway, in the late morning and for the rest of the afternoon, I was doing the Dumex Mama Gold for China together teaming with David, Jason, Fong Peing and Kernis. The project I was doing was already in its critical phase when it even just started. It was absolute craziness. We were to produce a whole damn application within these two days (yesterday and today), as well as doing the changes which was coming in along the way. Imagine you were rushing something, done that something finished and then you were told that you had to change it.
During lunch, Kernis and I, who were sick of the food places near our office, along the North Bridge Road as well as the food places down the Liang Seah Street. We decided to head for Bugis Junction's Domi instead (initially, we wanted to have take-aways and join Jason and David at the Jeffrey's Gathering Place later). Domi sells Japanese cuisines. We abandoned Jason and David to the boring food places. Because Kernis and I could enjoy the discount of 30% eating in at Domi as I have a student pass. Heh heh...
We enjoyed our meals as it was nice and something different from the usual, boring food places.
I even had to do some bloody animations without the in-between images of the photoshop files. I had to create asome of the in-between frames and then fade in and fade out transitions. Or else I would have to do all the in-between frames which may take me a whole night to do it and also highly possible I couldn't even finish it at all.
I managed to finish all the transitional animations just now. Fong Peing and David hadn't finish their part of their jobs. Kernis finished hers around off-work time as she took the easier tasks and left all the photoshop design changes to David. That's typical of her.
Well, its time for me to head home. I can't stand the sight of this hypnotic monitor. Its making my eyes real tired. *Yawnzzz*
Z z Z z ( - . - ) z Z z Z
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Time flies fast if you didn't notice. So live your life to the fullest and fulfill your dreams! Life is short!"
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Busy Worker Bees!
Tuesday. What a day. I remember yesterday I was whining on my blog about not working much. Now, I'm gonna whine about the work!
Yes, that's right, life is definitely full of ironies.
Today was almost all work me! I was doing the reserach work on a Dumex Sciences banner thingy for the director application for the whole morning. I had to clean work between director files and the photoshop, switching them on and off just trying to get that banner size right or the bitmap cleaned. I finally got the end I wanted with a little help from Fong Peing's high-resolution image.
For everyone else around me in Digimagic, it was also the same, nothing but work. Jason has been working like a dog since yesterday. As he was the technician around at Digimagic, he had to fixed computer virus invasion of the server and don't know what server in fix thingies. Kernis, David and Fong Peing was also busy doing design for some director thingy. As usual, Meifang, Chin Leong and Jacqueline were all doing the IRAS project. Peipei, Sidik and I were dealing with the NASA Myanmar's director application.
As usual I went home, along with Kernis and Sidik like yesterday...
How I wished I had a one week break first, go holiday somewhere nice before I started working back in Digimagic...
*Sigh*
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"What is the purpose of our lives? Our purpose is to love someone in this world. But do we look for someone we love most or someone who love us most?"
Tuesday. What a day. I remember yesterday I was whining on my blog about not working much. Now, I'm gonna whine about the work!
Yes, that's right, life is definitely full of ironies.
Today was almost all work me! I was doing the reserach work on a Dumex Sciences banner thingy for the director application for the whole morning. I had to clean work between director files and the photoshop, switching them on and off just trying to get that banner size right or the bitmap cleaned. I finally got the end I wanted with a little help from Fong Peing's high-resolution image.
For everyone else around me in Digimagic, it was also the same, nothing but work. Jason has been working like a dog since yesterday. As he was the technician around at Digimagic, he had to fixed computer virus invasion of the server and don't know what server in fix thingies. Kernis, David and Fong Peing was also busy doing design for some director thingy. As usual, Meifang, Chin Leong and Jacqueline were all doing the IRAS project. Peipei, Sidik and I were dealing with the NASA Myanmar's director application.
As usual I went home, along with Kernis and Sidik like yesterday...
How I wished I had a one week break first, go holiday somewhere nice before I started working back in Digimagic...
*Sigh*
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"What is the purpose of our lives? Our purpose is to love someone in this world. But do we look for someone we love most or someone who love us most?"
Redundant Night.
Monday night. After I left work for the day, I went straight back home. Although I had a so-called briefing on at 9pm later, I decided to head home first as I'm not gonna loiter or strange around in the city area on my own for three hours, alone, and also to have my dinner alone.
I hate being alone, doing things alone. Moreover, it was Monday and there's monday blues.
So I took the MRT train home. Got a take-away of a packet of hor fun at my neighbourhood's coffee shop.
I reached home, my family was having their dinner. I forgot not to take take-away as my mum always cooked extra even though I told her not to cook my share. So ate the rice and the dishes my mum cooked. The hor fun would be my supper.
After resting foor a while at home, I took a $9.90 taxi straight down to Zouk. I was too bored to take a hour journey by taking MRT transit and bus service down to Zouk.
When I'm there, there was a small crowd of 30 people, mainly of the year two juniors. Many of my year three friends absent themselves. The only year three people around was Kent, Jeslyn, Meng Kiat, Zhihui, Banu and me. After much fuss on registration work to the SP volunteers to the production shoot done by Rahim, Jeslyn and Kent, the briefing finally started at around 10.15pm.
There's a reason why Rahim was there too. He's a senior technician from my school. The production company there, called Kinema Entertainment , if I've not guessed wrongly, rented my school's video production equipments.
The briefer was a guy, in which I guess was the big shot around known as Mike. I know his name but never seen him in person. He's the crucial link person to secure my group's FYP project using our proposal. I've heard he's a rich man's son. His father properties were almost all over Bintan.
Mike briefed us with a slight American accent. He said the production shoot of a somewhat music video yet not so music video display that would showcase three dunno what bands, would be a good experience for us the SP students to really how professional work was done. All the students were divided into different camra, lighting, sound and staging teams. The production shoot period would be done within two days. Everyday, the work would start from 7am till 2am!
It all make sense to me now. No wonder... Another SP scheme to earn money while renting their equipments while asking students to so-call volunteer for Kinema Entertainment's production shoot in order to gain valuable experience, so that Kinema Entertainment could use SP free labour. Kinema Entertainment don't even supply any of the volunteers' meals as a kind gesture.
I immediately wanted out of this production shoot, so I told Kent to cancel my name out of his register. I don't think I could make it for the production shoot anyway. If I go, I had to apply three days leave! I don't think my Small Boss "Fish" would approve a three day leave on only a week's notice. I doubt he would accept my leave application.
So I quitted the thing with Meng Kiat and went home taking bus, then took a MRT train home.
On the way home, Meng Kiat said he would be looking for another home to sleep. Chee Wee and I always knew he had family problems and had tried to know and understand so we could help him but he just didn't wanted to say a thing. I'm eccentric fellow but Meng Kiat was a weird one. I'm deep, but he's deeper within the darker waters...
In anyway, I gave up helping Meng Kiat just like Chee Wee. If Meng Kiat does't open up, we couldn't help him at all, not even to share his woes.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"If you love someone, you must treasure and love yourself even more. Because that someone is loving you too."
Monday night. After I left work for the day, I went straight back home. Although I had a so-called briefing on at 9pm later, I decided to head home first as I'm not gonna loiter or strange around in the city area on my own for three hours, alone, and also to have my dinner alone.
I hate being alone, doing things alone. Moreover, it was Monday and there's monday blues.
So I took the MRT train home. Got a take-away of a packet of hor fun at my neighbourhood's coffee shop.
I reached home, my family was having their dinner. I forgot not to take take-away as my mum always cooked extra even though I told her not to cook my share. So ate the rice and the dishes my mum cooked. The hor fun would be my supper.
After resting foor a while at home, I took a $9.90 taxi straight down to Zouk. I was too bored to take a hour journey by taking MRT transit and bus service down to Zouk.
When I'm there, there was a small crowd of 30 people, mainly of the year two juniors. Many of my year three friends absent themselves. The only year three people around was Kent, Jeslyn, Meng Kiat, Zhihui, Banu and me. After much fuss on registration work to the SP volunteers to the production shoot done by Rahim, Jeslyn and Kent, the briefing finally started at around 10.15pm.
There's a reason why Rahim was there too. He's a senior technician from my school. The production company there, called Kinema Entertainment , if I've not guessed wrongly, rented my school's video production equipments.
The briefer was a guy, in which I guess was the big shot around known as Mike. I know his name but never seen him in person. He's the crucial link person to secure my group's FYP project using our proposal. I've heard he's a rich man's son. His father properties were almost all over Bintan.
Mike briefed us with a slight American accent. He said the production shoot of a somewhat music video yet not so music video display that would showcase three dunno what bands, would be a good experience for us the SP students to really how professional work was done. All the students were divided into different camra, lighting, sound and staging teams. The production shoot period would be done within two days. Everyday, the work would start from 7am till 2am!
It all make sense to me now. No wonder... Another SP scheme to earn money while renting their equipments while asking students to so-call volunteer for Kinema Entertainment's production shoot in order to gain valuable experience, so that Kinema Entertainment could use SP free labour. Kinema Entertainment don't even supply any of the volunteers' meals as a kind gesture.
I immediately wanted out of this production shoot, so I told Kent to cancel my name out of his register. I don't think I could make it for the production shoot anyway. If I go, I had to apply three days leave! I don't think my Small Boss "Fish" would approve a three day leave on only a week's notice. I doubt he would accept my leave application.
So I quitted the thing with Meng Kiat and went home taking bus, then took a MRT train home.
On the way home, Meng Kiat said he would be looking for another home to sleep. Chee Wee and I always knew he had family problems and had tried to know and understand so we could help him but he just didn't wanted to say a thing. I'm eccentric fellow but Meng Kiat was a weird one. I'm deep, but he's deeper within the darker waters...
In anyway, I gave up helping Meng Kiat just like Chee Wee. If Meng Kiat does't open up, we couldn't help him at all, not even to share his woes.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"If you love someone, you must treasure and love yourself even more. Because that someone is loving you too."
Monday, November 10, 2003
Stagnant.
Monday. New day. New beginnings. Wanzhen left Digimagic and here comes a new comer named Latiffah, a Malay girl from SP of the course DBIT. The nice-looking Malay girl was definitely looking forward to her first day with the initial eagerness and hopefulness.
She was definitely happy to see some fellow SP students around here. After she heard that us the post-interns were willing to stay in this company as part-time staff. I think she thought that days around here would be good and easier enough to go by for her ITP.
But that initial eagerness and hopefulness changed to boredom (I guessed) after she was doing nothing really much for the whole morning and the early afternoon.
Ha ha ha... That's almost what Sidik and I did for the first and second days of our ITP...
Today was also stagnant to me. I was trying to find a decent animated CompuServe GIF format files of "less active fat boy" for whole morning and the early afternoon for Jason. Another criteria was that, it should be best as in real life, not cartoonish. I tried using search engines to find but all I ended up was all the links to XXX sites.
The keywords of "obese", "plumb", "fat" and "chubby", all led me to the XXX sites instead!
So I have to search the keywords "animated GIFs". But now, with the detailed and important keywords left out. I have to manually search for the type of GIF I wanted. That's finding a needle in a haystack! So around the late afternoon, I gave up seraching as I've tried almost all free animated GIFs sites. He told me nevermind as he knew the reasons.
Stupid XXX sites! Of all keywords they used, they must be "obese", "plumb", "fat" and "chubby"?!
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Porn corrupts the human civilised mind and leads to ancient beastly instincts."
Monday. New day. New beginnings. Wanzhen left Digimagic and here comes a new comer named Latiffah, a Malay girl from SP of the course DBIT. The nice-looking Malay girl was definitely looking forward to her first day with the initial eagerness and hopefulness.
She was definitely happy to see some fellow SP students around here. After she heard that us the post-interns were willing to stay in this company as part-time staff. I think she thought that days around here would be good and easier enough to go by for her ITP.
But that initial eagerness and hopefulness changed to boredom (I guessed) after she was doing nothing really much for the whole morning and the early afternoon.
Ha ha ha... That's almost what Sidik and I did for the first and second days of our ITP...
Today was also stagnant to me. I was trying to find a decent animated CompuServe GIF format files of "less active fat boy" for whole morning and the early afternoon for Jason. Another criteria was that, it should be best as in real life, not cartoonish. I tried using search engines to find but all I ended up was all the links to XXX sites.
The keywords of "obese", "plumb", "fat" and "chubby", all led me to the XXX sites instead!
So I have to search the keywords "animated GIFs". But now, with the detailed and important keywords left out. I have to manually search for the type of GIF I wanted. That's finding a needle in a haystack! So around the late afternoon, I gave up seraching as I've tried almost all free animated GIFs sites. He told me nevermind as he knew the reasons.
Stupid XXX sites! Of all keywords they used, they must be "obese", "plumb", "fat" and "chubby"?!
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Porn corrupts the human civilised mind and leads to ancient beastly instincts."
Sunshine Morning and Rainy Afternoon.
Sunday. I went to the Sentosa's Siloso Beach yesterday with Chee Wee, Jun Long, Bryan, Thomas and Alvin in the slightly late morning.
It was definitely quite fun and relaxing but with no girls to accompany us, we the bunch of guys could only ogle elsewhere for the beach babes. Initially Chee Wee, Jun Long, Bryan, Thomas and I settled on the beach first. We found a sheltered pavilion for us to put our stuff. The sun was good, the waters is nice and so were the rest of the mood and feel of the surroundings.
The rest of the guys swam to the water-break's beach in which we called it the Lagoon, but it doesn't seem to make the logic sense of the name to it, to me. Anyway, I was changing my attire to swim wear but the rest of the guys already swam to the Lagoon. I was pretty scared at first to swim alone to there, on the lengths of two to three compitition swimming pools. I was also down with quite a serious coughing. I was also scared that I couldn't catch my breath or something while I swim over to the Lagoon when I'm alone.
So I sat on the main beach waiting for them to come back, while I enjoyed looking at skies with clouds sailing, the sand, the sea, the people and the activities around me.
But while waiting, I started to get bored. Finally, I summoned all my courage to swim to the Lagoon alone. It was quite long. I used frog-style swim, free-style, back swim and even the dog-paddle to swim my ass over there. I was dead tired after that. After relaxing on the Lagoon for a while, the rest of the guys started to swim back! So I followed them to swim back to the main beach...
Alvin came slightly late. He took off his shirt and was ready to bask in the sun. But he was already roasted and scorched on his skin which was clearly seen. We tried to advise him to stay out of the sun. We warned him about the painful consequences. But he persisted his way to play out on the sun though. The only lucky thing was that he doesn't swim... His persistance was because he wanted to take his time out, as he was troubled by some relationship problem. So we have to accompany him to have fun and forget the unhappiness temporarily.
Alvin borrowed a soccer ball from another bunch of beach boys and Chee Wee, Jun Long, Bryan, Thomas, Alvin and I started a beach soccer match. Although we had alot of fun, our feet and legs suffe minor injuries from bumps into each others' foot or superficial scratches or skin torn by the sand.
My feet still hurts from these minor injuries... *Ouch*
After the all the beaching activities, we wash up and headed for the hawker centre at Harbour Front, where we feasted on lots and lots of food. Because we were very hungry!
After the lunch or even dinner, all of us headed to PARCO Bugis Junction (ha... my old familiar area, my place, my home...) as suggested by Jun Long. They all went shopping for the things they wanted and also window shopped. I didn't. Because I knew to the place well enough, so I don't really bother...
The shopping ended not for long. Alvin, Bryan, Chee Wee and I headed for another familiar place to me called Shaw Towers. Thomas and Jun Long headed for their Wushu practices. Alvin, Bryan, Chee Wee and I played for about two hours of LAN gaming while waiting for our free movie treat of "Infinity" at 8pm. Because Chee Wee's cousin was working at the Shaw Towers' cinema, so we could get into the movie theatre to catch a movie in the movie theatre. But we had much fun and laughter from our LAN gaming session!
But after the LAN gaming session, I decided not to see the movie as I was a bit tired and wasn't in the mood to watch that kind of movie. Perhaps I was quite sick of the area or place too...
So I headed home via the old familiar Bugis MRT station...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"After the rain, there's sunshine and perhaps even a rainbow! Happiness comes after sadness."
Sunday. I went to the Sentosa's Siloso Beach yesterday with Chee Wee, Jun Long, Bryan, Thomas and Alvin in the slightly late morning.
It was definitely quite fun and relaxing but with no girls to accompany us, we the bunch of guys could only ogle elsewhere for the beach babes. Initially Chee Wee, Jun Long, Bryan, Thomas and I settled on the beach first. We found a sheltered pavilion for us to put our stuff. The sun was good, the waters is nice and so were the rest of the mood and feel of the surroundings.
The rest of the guys swam to the water-break's beach in which we called it the Lagoon, but it doesn't seem to make the logic sense of the name to it, to me. Anyway, I was changing my attire to swim wear but the rest of the guys already swam to the Lagoon. I was pretty scared at first to swim alone to there, on the lengths of two to three compitition swimming pools. I was also down with quite a serious coughing. I was also scared that I couldn't catch my breath or something while I swim over to the Lagoon when I'm alone.
So I sat on the main beach waiting for them to come back, while I enjoyed looking at skies with clouds sailing, the sand, the sea, the people and the activities around me.
But while waiting, I started to get bored. Finally, I summoned all my courage to swim to the Lagoon alone. It was quite long. I used frog-style swim, free-style, back swim and even the dog-paddle to swim my ass over there. I was dead tired after that. After relaxing on the Lagoon for a while, the rest of the guys started to swim back! So I followed them to swim back to the main beach...
Alvin came slightly late. He took off his shirt and was ready to bask in the sun. But he was already roasted and scorched on his skin which was clearly seen. We tried to advise him to stay out of the sun. We warned him about the painful consequences. But he persisted his way to play out on the sun though. The only lucky thing was that he doesn't swim... His persistance was because he wanted to take his time out, as he was troubled by some relationship problem. So we have to accompany him to have fun and forget the unhappiness temporarily.
Alvin borrowed a soccer ball from another bunch of beach boys and Chee Wee, Jun Long, Bryan, Thomas, Alvin and I started a beach soccer match. Although we had alot of fun, our feet and legs suffe minor injuries from bumps into each others' foot or superficial scratches or skin torn by the sand.
My feet still hurts from these minor injuries... *Ouch*
After the all the beaching activities, we wash up and headed for the hawker centre at Harbour Front, where we feasted on lots and lots of food. Because we were very hungry!
After the lunch or even dinner, all of us headed to PARCO Bugis Junction (ha... my old familiar area, my place, my home...) as suggested by Jun Long. They all went shopping for the things they wanted and also window shopped. I didn't. Because I knew to the place well enough, so I don't really bother...
The shopping ended not for long. Alvin, Bryan, Chee Wee and I headed for another familiar place to me called Shaw Towers. Thomas and Jun Long headed for their Wushu practices. Alvin, Bryan, Chee Wee and I played for about two hours of LAN gaming while waiting for our free movie treat of "Infinity" at 8pm. Because Chee Wee's cousin was working at the Shaw Towers' cinema, so we could get into the movie theatre to catch a movie in the movie theatre. But we had much fun and laughter from our LAN gaming session!
But after the LAN gaming session, I decided not to see the movie as I was a bit tired and wasn't in the mood to watch that kind of movie. Perhaps I was quite sick of the area or place too...
So I headed home via the old familiar Bugis MRT station...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"After the rain, there's sunshine and perhaps even a rainbow! Happiness comes after sadness."
Saturday, November 08, 2003
Over-Time.
Saturday. A pretty nice Saturday. Yet a bit liveless and stagnant to me.
I was working over-time today. I came to the office at 11am. But I couldn't start my work I didn't have the photoshop files, in which changes were made to it for the NASA Myanmar director application needed to do it.
Meifang and Chin Leong also came to work over-time and they still have to work tomorrow. I'll go crazy if I'm alone doing that. After all, the couple have each other's companionship. Meifang passed me Wanzhen parting gift of Ferrero Rocher.
I couldn't bear to eat it either. It is a gift from someone, you know. That's why you never see me giving food as gifts to people.
But the main thing was that I was still having the dry cough and I was coughing quite seriously. Chocolates would worsen my coughs.
To quite my surprise, it was Wanzhen who was to bring me those photoshop files. Yesterday, it was suppose to be her last day at Digimagic, but that was not meant to be. She was helping Peipei to edit the changes in those photoshop files requested by client. And she had done them in the photoshop files at home, so she had had to come today to pass me the files so I could start my work.
She came back...
Peipei assumed she would come at 11am like me. But her assumption was wrong. Nur said she would only come back at 2pm to help Keith do some After-Effects work. I guessed she has also worked late at home for those stuff I needed.
But really, I didn't expect her to be here today.
So she came to the office at 2pm. I've already wasted three hours since 11am. But I wasn't bored in those three hours. I was doing my own stuff. Peipei told me in Chinese when Wanzhen came into the office, which goes something like this, "Ni De Nu Zhu Jiao Lai Le (Your lead actress arrived).
Then she told Wanzhen, "Ni De Nan Zhu Jiao Den Ni Hen Jiu Liao (Your lead actor waited for for you a very long time)."
Wanzhen apologised to me for being late, but I told her I wasn't expecting her to come back to have the photoshop files I needed and Peipei assumed you would come at 11am, not 2pm. So I got earlier at 11am by Peipei assumption. Neither the less, I told her, "Nevermind."
I was happy to see her for the one last time before she really, really left...
She told me I should have called her to come earlier.
I said nothing. Because I guessed she left home when I was thinking about to call her after she shut down and went offline her ICQ. I could roughly guess these things. Moreover, Nur said she would come at 2pm. I don't want to rush her anyway. She could be already on her way.
Anyway, I finished all my work at around 6pm.
After my goodbyes to Wanzhen, Jacqueline, Meifang, Chin Leong, Peipei, Keith and Yvonne (in which I was quite surprise there's still a number of people on this Saturday. I thought it was going to be boring with only Peipei. Ha ha...), I went to SP Convention Centre to see my best friend, Elvin's Wushu Display Performance with his parents.
The Wushu Display Performance started at 7pm till about 9pm plus. It was quite nice lah. Some were very skilled with no mistakes, while some made bloopers here and there. Perhaps because I was also a bit tired, stagnant and hungry because I hadn't had my dinner.
After the performance, I took the MRT transit and went back to buy my dinner and then head home...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Solitude is freedom but loneliness. I prefer companionship's share and care."
Saturday. A pretty nice Saturday. Yet a bit liveless and stagnant to me.
I was working over-time today. I came to the office at 11am. But I couldn't start my work I didn't have the photoshop files, in which changes were made to it for the NASA Myanmar director application needed to do it.
Meifang and Chin Leong also came to work over-time and they still have to work tomorrow. I'll go crazy if I'm alone doing that. After all, the couple have each other's companionship. Meifang passed me Wanzhen parting gift of Ferrero Rocher.
I couldn't bear to eat it either. It is a gift from someone, you know. That's why you never see me giving food as gifts to people.
But the main thing was that I was still having the dry cough and I was coughing quite seriously. Chocolates would worsen my coughs.
To quite my surprise, it was Wanzhen who was to bring me those photoshop files. Yesterday, it was suppose to be her last day at Digimagic, but that was not meant to be. She was helping Peipei to edit the changes in those photoshop files requested by client. And she had done them in the photoshop files at home, so she had had to come today to pass me the files so I could start my work.
She came back...
Peipei assumed she would come at 11am like me. But her assumption was wrong. Nur said she would only come back at 2pm to help Keith do some After-Effects work. I guessed she has also worked late at home for those stuff I needed.
But really, I didn't expect her to be here today.
So she came to the office at 2pm. I've already wasted three hours since 11am. But I wasn't bored in those three hours. I was doing my own stuff. Peipei told me in Chinese when Wanzhen came into the office, which goes something like this, "Ni De Nu Zhu Jiao Lai Le (Your lead actress arrived).
Then she told Wanzhen, "Ni De Nan Zhu Jiao Den Ni Hen Jiu Liao (Your lead actor waited for for you a very long time)."
Wanzhen apologised to me for being late, but I told her I wasn't expecting her to come back to have the photoshop files I needed and Peipei assumed you would come at 11am, not 2pm. So I got earlier at 11am by Peipei assumption. Neither the less, I told her, "Nevermind."
I was happy to see her for the one last time before she really, really left...
She told me I should have called her to come earlier.
I said nothing. Because I guessed she left home when I was thinking about to call her after she shut down and went offline her ICQ. I could roughly guess these things. Moreover, Nur said she would come at 2pm. I don't want to rush her anyway. She could be already on her way.
Anyway, I finished all my work at around 6pm.
After my goodbyes to Wanzhen, Jacqueline, Meifang, Chin Leong, Peipei, Keith and Yvonne (in which I was quite surprise there's still a number of people on this Saturday. I thought it was going to be boring with only Peipei. Ha ha...), I went to SP Convention Centre to see my best friend, Elvin's Wushu Display Performance with his parents.
The Wushu Display Performance started at 7pm till about 9pm plus. It was quite nice lah. Some were very skilled with no mistakes, while some made bloopers here and there. Perhaps because I was also a bit tired, stagnant and hungry because I hadn't had my dinner.
After the performance, I took the MRT transit and went back to buy my dinner and then head home...
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Solitude is freedom but loneliness. I prefer companionship's share and care."
Unexpected Sick End of ITP.
Friday. The end of ITP. I was suppose to attend a university talk by Nanyang Technological University as part of the Post-Internship Seminar as well as meet my Liaison Officer (LO) in-charge of my ITP. I was already sick, down with an irritated throat, an internal nasal inflammation and dry coughs.
So I attended the so-called compulsory and redundant NTU University Talk. They were talking about the Bachelor degrees of Computer Sicence and Computer Engineering. But don't see that of anything related to my line of multimedia. Those, I think they were more of IT side.
Anyway, I think it was pretty redundant for a multimedia diploma graduate to take on a degree on multimedia unless it is one of a specialised area. Because multimedia is ever changing industry because its technology is always is also always changing. The technologies, skillls, techniques and knowledges needed to be learned continuously and updated constantly. The degree you take would be the things you learned on a past, aged period.
I would take a degree on specialised area on perhaps animation or film? I haven't decide yet.
After the talk, I went to meet my LO. I met him, gave him my Log-Book and had a short chat with him along with Ming Yan and Sidik. I left the session early and went to meet Dawn, Chee Wee, Kent, Matthew, Caizhi, Jeslyn, Jin Jian and Joseph for lunch at Dover Market's Hawker Centre.
We had our meals there and chatted about our experiences on our ITP.
Afterwards, most of us went our separate ways to go home and sleep or go meet our other friends. I originally expected to celebrate, to go somewhere to have fun. But in the end, I ended going to Ginza Plaza with Kent, Matthew and Chee Wee. Matthew and Kent had a short session of billard but Matthew left us first even before we went ahead with LAN gaming with the rest. But such activities was to me as liveless and no feel .
I needed something more of socially interactive rather than some brain-numbing activities.
I was sick and bored of it not for long... I went home after that.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"If you live your life of ignorance and lead your life aimlessly, you are nothing but nothing."
Friday. The end of ITP. I was suppose to attend a university talk by Nanyang Technological University as part of the Post-Internship Seminar as well as meet my Liaison Officer (LO) in-charge of my ITP. I was already sick, down with an irritated throat, an internal nasal inflammation and dry coughs.
So I attended the so-called compulsory and redundant NTU University Talk. They were talking about the Bachelor degrees of Computer Sicence and Computer Engineering. But don't see that of anything related to my line of multimedia. Those, I think they were more of IT side.
Anyway, I think it was pretty redundant for a multimedia diploma graduate to take on a degree on multimedia unless it is one of a specialised area. Because multimedia is ever changing industry because its technology is always is also always changing. The technologies, skillls, techniques and knowledges needed to be learned continuously and updated constantly. The degree you take would be the things you learned on a past, aged period.
I would take a degree on specialised area on perhaps animation or film? I haven't decide yet.
After the talk, I went to meet my LO. I met him, gave him my Log-Book and had a short chat with him along with Ming Yan and Sidik. I left the session early and went to meet Dawn, Chee Wee, Kent, Matthew, Caizhi, Jeslyn, Jin Jian and Joseph for lunch at Dover Market's Hawker Centre.
We had our meals there and chatted about our experiences on our ITP.
Afterwards, most of us went our separate ways to go home and sleep or go meet our other friends. I originally expected to celebrate, to go somewhere to have fun. But in the end, I ended going to Ginza Plaza with Kent, Matthew and Chee Wee. Matthew and Kent had a short session of billard but Matthew left us first even before we went ahead with LAN gaming with the rest. But such activities was to me as liveless and no feel .
I needed something more of socially interactive rather than some brain-numbing activities.
I was sick and bored of it not for long... I went home after that.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"If you live your life of ignorance and lead your life aimlessly, you are nothing but nothing."
The Bluff of the Sayonara to Digmagic.
Thursday. The last day of my ITP. In the morning, Sidik and I really thought it was my last day in Digimagic and Sidik and I really gonna miss those guys and gals after I left.
But surprise, surprise... The Small Boss Jeffrey a.k.a. "Fish" called us into his office. He wanted us to stay on for vacation part-time job. Our pay was to be increase to $1200 per month. Sidik and I thought we lost all hope to have a chance to stay on. But looks like we predicted wrongly.
Why?
Because "Fish" was always talking to other interns rather than Sidik and I. We felt pretty redundant. The only thing "Fish" would ask Sidik and I was, "What are you working on?" and nothing else.
So Sidik and I came out of the office. We managed to bluff everyone else that we weren't staying on. The only persons who knew we're staying was Peipei and Jason, as they'll have to schedule us for next week's work. All the bluff work through. Even Kernis, Meifang and Chin Leong bought us parting gifts already. The rest also thought we were leaving.
At first, I was invited again to dance Elvis moves. Bernard made himself the DJ again in the recording cubicle. So, I wented to the cubicle and declared to everyone in the office on Monday. But everyone including Bernard thought I was joking. Bernard thought I was joking that I would come back and dance on Monday. I chuckled to my amusement.
Of course, I danced to the Elvis moves to a slower tune for a while but I got really bored to the slow rhythm, then I was only swing my feet slightly and I asked Shahid to change to a music with faster rhythm. But "Fish" came back! Luckily I wasn't really dancing anymore or I'll be caught in action. Then, Bernard in the recording cubicle pretended to be testing the recording levels and the equipment.
Everyone in the office laughed at the turn of the event.
"Fish" simply asked, "What you all doing? Karaoke session ah?"
I further revealed the truth to the most of the people in the office. I subsequently gave Chin Leong, Meifang and Kernis their gifts I bought the day before, as I felt bad because they bought gifts specially for Sidik and I.
I also gave Wanzhen her gift as it was her last day in Digimagic on Friday and definitely would not be back. I gotta head back to school on Friday so I had to give her gift today.
The bluff still worked today though. I met Jacqueline on the lobby when I was going back to the office for a weekend over-time work. And she still thought I left Digimagic.
Ha ha ha!
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Lying can be a good thing as well as a bad thing."
Thursday. The last day of my ITP. In the morning, Sidik and I really thought it was my last day in Digimagic and Sidik and I really gonna miss those guys and gals after I left.
But surprise, surprise... The Small Boss Jeffrey a.k.a. "Fish" called us into his office. He wanted us to stay on for vacation part-time job. Our pay was to be increase to $1200 per month. Sidik and I thought we lost all hope to have a chance to stay on. But looks like we predicted wrongly.
Why?
Because "Fish" was always talking to other interns rather than Sidik and I. We felt pretty redundant. The only thing "Fish" would ask Sidik and I was, "What are you working on?" and nothing else.
So Sidik and I came out of the office. We managed to bluff everyone else that we weren't staying on. The only persons who knew we're staying was Peipei and Jason, as they'll have to schedule us for next week's work. All the bluff work through. Even Kernis, Meifang and Chin Leong bought us parting gifts already. The rest also thought we were leaving.
At first, I was invited again to dance Elvis moves. Bernard made himself the DJ again in the recording cubicle. So, I wented to the cubicle and declared to everyone in the office on Monday. But everyone including Bernard thought I was joking. Bernard thought I was joking that I would come back and dance on Monday. I chuckled to my amusement.
Of course, I danced to the Elvis moves to a slower tune for a while but I got really bored to the slow rhythm, then I was only swing my feet slightly and I asked Shahid to change to a music with faster rhythm. But "Fish" came back! Luckily I wasn't really dancing anymore or I'll be caught in action. Then, Bernard in the recording cubicle pretended to be testing the recording levels and the equipment.
Everyone in the office laughed at the turn of the event.
"Fish" simply asked, "What you all doing? Karaoke session ah?"
I further revealed the truth to the most of the people in the office. I subsequently gave Chin Leong, Meifang and Kernis their gifts I bought the day before, as I felt bad because they bought gifts specially for Sidik and I.
I also gave Wanzhen her gift as it was her last day in Digimagic on Friday and definitely would not be back. I gotta head back to school on Friday so I had to give her gift today.
The bluff still worked today though. I met Jacqueline on the lobby when I was going back to the office for a weekend over-time work. And she still thought I left Digimagic.
Ha ha ha!
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Lying can be a good thing as well as a bad thing."
Thursday, November 06, 2003
Crazy Lip Syncing and Crazy Shopping Spree!
Wednesday. The horrible project that I was trying to escape all the time, the task of lip syncing the 2D character's mouth in project Vitagen.
Keith told me all I needed to do is to make sure the lip syncing was to lip sync the character's mouth to open when there's mandarin voice-overs and shut it when there's not. He told me to ignore the extensive details of how wide the mouth was opening to the pitch of the voice-over speeches.
It was a slight relieve.
But I still frustrated and irritated by this project. Perhaps, my perfectionism genes acted up. Because the lip syncing was not perfect to that of the voice-overs, I was pretty frustrated over it. It was like,"I want it be completed I know I couldn't do it,yet I have to dot."
Moreover, I was also irritated by Keith continuous checks on me on how I was progressing. Changes on this and that. He was like a typical client. No wonder Sidik hates the Vitagen project and doesn't really like Keith giving him work.
After work, I headed straight to Boon Lay's Jurong Point shopping mall to shop for gifts for my colleagues as I was leaving Digimagic. I meet up with Chee Wee, Joseph and Kent. I went all out crazy shopping spree for gifts. Budgeting each person's gift at around $5 (unless the person was an important help to me at office, the price goes up tremendously by four times). I chose each gift carefully by each person's habits, personailities, character or even by face. Unless I really don't know him or her well enough, I would buy the same or similar gifts. I need to buy for 22 persons but in the end I only got 13 gifts. The total budget I spend would be around $100 plus. I thought of buying the rest of the gifts today...
My friends told me I was crazy and nuts but also said my Digimagic friends was very fortunate and blessed to have me there at Digimagic.
After the shopping, we went to the foodcourt for dinner. As to wait for the time to come to watch our movie as we bought the tickets earlier. We were watching the debut of "The Matrix: Revolutions". In the end, the movie came out quite well but the story seems to be going to fast. Just like watching a movie's VCD's third disc or something. I can't even see their fightings moves as the frames are moving too fast. But generally it adequately met my expectations.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"For every beginning, there's an end."
Wednesday. The horrible project that I was trying to escape all the time, the task of lip syncing the 2D character's mouth in project Vitagen.
Keith told me all I needed to do is to make sure the lip syncing was to lip sync the character's mouth to open when there's mandarin voice-overs and shut it when there's not. He told me to ignore the extensive details of how wide the mouth was opening to the pitch of the voice-over speeches.
It was a slight relieve.
But I still frustrated and irritated by this project. Perhaps, my perfectionism genes acted up. Because the lip syncing was not perfect to that of the voice-overs, I was pretty frustrated over it. It was like,"I want it be completed I know I couldn't do it,yet I have to dot."
Moreover, I was also irritated by Keith continuous checks on me on how I was progressing. Changes on this and that. He was like a typical client. No wonder Sidik hates the Vitagen project and doesn't really like Keith giving him work.
After work, I headed straight to Boon Lay's Jurong Point shopping mall to shop for gifts for my colleagues as I was leaving Digimagic. I meet up with Chee Wee, Joseph and Kent. I went all out crazy shopping spree for gifts. Budgeting each person's gift at around $5 (unless the person was an important help to me at office, the price goes up tremendously by four times). I chose each gift carefully by each person's habits, personailities, character or even by face. Unless I really don't know him or her well enough, I would buy the same or similar gifts. I need to buy for 22 persons but in the end I only got 13 gifts. The total budget I spend would be around $100 plus. I thought of buying the rest of the gifts today...
My friends told me I was crazy and nuts but also said my Digimagic friends was very fortunate and blessed to have me there at Digimagic.
After the shopping, we went to the foodcourt for dinner. As to wait for the time to come to watch our movie as we bought the tickets earlier. We were watching the debut of "The Matrix: Revolutions". In the end, the movie came out quite well but the story seems to be going to fast. Just like watching a movie's VCD's third disc or something. I can't even see their fightings moves as the frames are moving too fast. But generally it adequately met my expectations.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"For every beginning, there's an end."
The End of my Time in Digimagic is Near...?
Tuesday. I was working all the way but with periodical breaks from work at times. Yet, Tuesday was a pretty boring and dull day. Time was flies fast yet slow. The contradiction of life.
Apart from the reasons where my Muslim colleagues were fasting and couldn't join us for meals at all. My colleagues were also busy doing their work of their own. It was either they were working and I'm not or I'm working, they're not.
On Tuesday, I was still working on the NSRCC Kranji Golf Course CD-ROM as in the director application. I finally completed in the end. I felt a sense of achievement for the first time, as I did author or compile this application, in which around 70% of it was done by me. The graphic designing was done by designers and programming done by programmer Jason, of course.
Although all I did was the authoring and compilation, I felt for the first time I was doing as a team with other colleagues. Perhaps I was blinded by the hexing, overwhelming load of work in the past. That's why maybe I couldn't see what the teamwork and the kind of team spirit which was always around me all the time.
As the countdown continues to the end of Digimagic internship, I was also getting sadder and sadder. Really, at times, I felt sad leaving my friends here at Digimagic... *Sob*
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"There's no banquet in the world that never ends."
Tuesday. I was working all the way but with periodical breaks from work at times. Yet, Tuesday was a pretty boring and dull day. Time was flies fast yet slow. The contradiction of life.
Apart from the reasons where my Muslim colleagues were fasting and couldn't join us for meals at all. My colleagues were also busy doing their work of their own. It was either they were working and I'm not or I'm working, they're not.
On Tuesday, I was still working on the NSRCC Kranji Golf Course CD-ROM as in the director application. I finally completed in the end. I felt a sense of achievement for the first time, as I did author or compile this application, in which around 70% of it was done by me. The graphic designing was done by designers and programming done by programmer Jason, of course.
Although all I did was the authoring and compilation, I felt for the first time I was doing as a team with other colleagues. Perhaps I was blinded by the hexing, overwhelming load of work in the past. That's why maybe I couldn't see what the teamwork and the kind of team spirit which was always around me all the time.
As the countdown continues to the end of Digimagic internship, I was also getting sadder and sadder. Really, at times, I felt sad leaving my friends here at Digimagic... *Sob*
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"There's no banquet in the world that never ends."
Monday, November 03, 2003
Busy Office with the Monday Blues.
Today was quite a busy day. Everyone was busy with their own tasks. The office's not really a lively mood either.
It was Monday and the blues were obviously there in the mood.
I was also continuing with my NSRCC project's director application. I've started to compile the different level of stories, sessions, sub-sessions together in one director file with all the behaviour scripts, in the morning. I was only compiling two level of stories and it took me the whole darn morning and the early afternoon.
Even more de-moralising, Keith still wanted me to work on his stupid lip syncing job even after finishing the NSRCC job. I told him initially I couldn't do it a few days ago. He said he would teach me. He just couldn't spare a cheap labour intern who's leaving in a few days. Typical Keith.
I think I'm not going to give him his parting gift.
I went for lunch, alone. Everyone else was busy. First time, I was heading down alone for lunch. But then, I saw Meifang and Chin Leong eating lunch inside the newly opened roasted meat shop. I joined them, even I knew I was a gooseberry there. They didn't mind anyway. Heh, thick-skinned I am. Moreover, I really, really hated being alone, especially eating meals outside.
After I finished my duck rice inside the shop, I saw Kernis, Jason and Diana outside the shop. With Kernis and Jason eating (Diana was fasting). I joined them at the table but it was pretty boring as there was no good topics.
After the lunch, I went back to the office. I asked Sidik who was free, to help me to do one simple story of the NSRCC director application. He completed it and I thanked him. I couldn't ask for more of his help as he would be going for his Ramadan prayers later after work.
I was chionging all the way then. Working non-stop on my NSRCC project's director application. I was only just making the sprites in the score with all the transitions and animations for two stories.
I finally completed them till about 7.15pm, when all other colleagues in the office left.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"I hate leaving my good friends, but they'll always be in my heart and in my memories..."
Today was quite a busy day. Everyone was busy with their own tasks. The office's not really a lively mood either.
It was Monday and the blues were obviously there in the mood.
I was also continuing with my NSRCC project's director application. I've started to compile the different level of stories, sessions, sub-sessions together in one director file with all the behaviour scripts, in the morning. I was only compiling two level of stories and it took me the whole darn morning and the early afternoon.
Even more de-moralising, Keith still wanted me to work on his stupid lip syncing job even after finishing the NSRCC job. I told him initially I couldn't do it a few days ago. He said he would teach me. He just couldn't spare a cheap labour intern who's leaving in a few days. Typical Keith.
I think I'm not going to give him his parting gift.
I went for lunch, alone. Everyone else was busy. First time, I was heading down alone for lunch. But then, I saw Meifang and Chin Leong eating lunch inside the newly opened roasted meat shop. I joined them, even I knew I was a gooseberry there. They didn't mind anyway. Heh, thick-skinned I am. Moreover, I really, really hated being alone, especially eating meals outside.
After I finished my duck rice inside the shop, I saw Kernis, Jason and Diana outside the shop. With Kernis and Jason eating (Diana was fasting). I joined them at the table but it was pretty boring as there was no good topics.
After the lunch, I went back to the office. I asked Sidik who was free, to help me to do one simple story of the NSRCC director application. He completed it and I thanked him. I couldn't ask for more of his help as he would be going for his Ramadan prayers later after work.
I was chionging all the way then. Working non-stop on my NSRCC project's director application. I was only just making the sprites in the score with all the transitions and animations for two stories.
I finally completed them till about 7.15pm, when all other colleagues in the office left.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"I hate leaving my good friends, but they'll always be in my heart and in my memories..."
Weekend of Yin and Yang .
Saturday. Yin day. Doing nothing much in the day except slacking around my house. Watching television programmes, play online game and surf the name.
The day was raining and was Yin and I was in a negative, Yin mood. In the evening, when Chee Wee called me to go Zouk with Kent and him. But I rejected him, absolutely not in the mood either although I was normally very on .
Perhaps I was feeling a bit sad that I'm leaving my friends at Digimagic in a few days time...
During the night I was also writing my ITP Log-Book, but there's really nothing much to write on the weekly report as the past week was almost workless.
Sunday. Yang day. Sunday was a more active day. Although I did cancelled my morning jog at 7am. I was watching late show movie of the "The Soong Sisters" till about 2am plus, hence I got only little sleep of about 5 hours if I woke up at 7am. However, I woke up at at 8.15am to go for swimming with Daniel at the usual swimming pool at Jurong East Sports Complex. The morning sun was great, I had a nice tan, nice swim and nice chat with Daniel. Luckily we swam in the morning. By noon, the grey clouds sailed across and started to rain. Before it, Daniel and I were already wash up and headed for the KFC fast-food restaurant in the complex for our lunch.
After that, Daniel and I went Jurong Point shopping mall for shopping, of course! I wanted to get a pair of jeans. So, I bought a men's straight fit denim jeans from Giodano there costing about $49. I was quite desperate for a pair of jeans. I only got two jeans in my wardrobe, one I like but wore it too often, and the other I don't really like to wear.
Daniel Chua bought a shirt at Giodano. However, started to whine that he would always buy something to waste his own money when ever he's at Jurong Point. As if someone's forcing him to buy... *Duh...*
I also shopping for some presents as parting gifts for my friends at Digimagic. Thursday is my last day there, I wanted to sincerely give them something. But after all the looking at the gift shops, I saw nothing significantly nice or good enough to buy for them. The gifts for sale were the usual. In the end, I bought an orange (the fruit) scented candle.
I decided to wax my fingers and make a finger's wax Mould for them.
In the late afternoon, Chee Wee again asked me to go One Fullerton's pub for clubbing. He said we could get free membership over there. But again, I rejected him because I wanted to do my body workout. I've already skipped one off last week. Moreover, I was at home and was in a home mode or mood.
In the evening, I had an intensive workout. Did some dancing moves to the music for about 20-30 minutes. Then during the workout later, I did training on my chest muscles, biceps, triceps with only my two dumb-bells, each weighing 3kg, each body part workout of at least 30 to 50 times. I did 50 sit-ups, 20 push-ups, 50 lower abs lift on a chair and another 10 to 12 minutes of jogging on the spot in my room.
Boy, am I sweating my body out! *Phew!*
During the night, I started to wax my fingers and make finger's wax moulds for them. I melted the block of wax in some hot water after taking out the candle's wick out. The wax liquifies and floated above on the hot water. Then, I put in my fingers on my right hand, the thumb, the middle finger and the index finger into the hot wax. I bear with the pain for a while and put my waxed finger into another container of cold water. To cool and solidify the wax mould on my finger.
Although it felt painful at first, but I got use to the pain and made the finger's wax moulds one by one. I didn't put in my fourth finger and the pinky because they were weak in strength and control than the other three and were more sensitively PAINFUL! Ouch!
One of the main problems was because of the orange-scented wax. It was slightly more soft sticky than the normal wax candles we use at home when there were blackouts. I had a tough time taking out the wax moulds off my fingers in one piece. It sometimes unsuccessfully cracks as it was quite fragile or went out of shape after I moved my finger when the wax is still semi-solid, making it more difficult to take out the wax mould.
Sometimes, the hot wax cools off, the hot water too turned luke warm. Hence, I needed to change the water into hot water about every 30 minutes.
My fingers were soaked thoroughly, thus making it more difficult to take wax mould off my finger as it was slightly sticky and soft. I failed to take out any after that.
In the end, I only produced a total of 13 finger's wax Moulds, 5 index finger's' wax moulds, 4 middle finger's wax moulds and anohter 4 thumb finger's wax moulds. But I needed to produce 21!
In the very end, I gave up and scrapped all my products and materials and thrown everything away.
I think I'll buy something for my friends at Digimagic as parting gifts instead.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Physical pain is superficially light. The most painful pain is always in the heart."
Saturday. Yin day. Doing nothing much in the day except slacking around my house. Watching television programmes, play online game and surf the name.
The day was raining and was Yin and I was in a negative, Yin mood. In the evening, when Chee Wee called me to go Zouk with Kent and him. But I rejected him, absolutely not in the mood either although I was normally very on .
Perhaps I was feeling a bit sad that I'm leaving my friends at Digimagic in a few days time...
During the night I was also writing my ITP Log-Book, but there's really nothing much to write on the weekly report as the past week was almost workless.
Sunday. Yang day. Sunday was a more active day. Although I did cancelled my morning jog at 7am. I was watching late show movie of the "The Soong Sisters" till about 2am plus, hence I got only little sleep of about 5 hours if I woke up at 7am. However, I woke up at at 8.15am to go for swimming with Daniel at the usual swimming pool at Jurong East Sports Complex. The morning sun was great, I had a nice tan, nice swim and nice chat with Daniel. Luckily we swam in the morning. By noon, the grey clouds sailed across and started to rain. Before it, Daniel and I were already wash up and headed for the KFC fast-food restaurant in the complex for our lunch.
After that, Daniel and I went Jurong Point shopping mall for shopping, of course! I wanted to get a pair of jeans. So, I bought a men's straight fit denim jeans from Giodano there costing about $49. I was quite desperate for a pair of jeans. I only got two jeans in my wardrobe, one I like but wore it too often, and the other I don't really like to wear.
Daniel Chua bought a shirt at Giodano. However, started to whine that he would always buy something to waste his own money when ever he's at Jurong Point. As if someone's forcing him to buy... *Duh...*
I also shopping for some presents as parting gifts for my friends at Digimagic. Thursday is my last day there, I wanted to sincerely give them something. But after all the looking at the gift shops, I saw nothing significantly nice or good enough to buy for them. The gifts for sale were the usual. In the end, I bought an orange (the fruit) scented candle.
I decided to wax my fingers and make a finger's wax Mould for them.
In the late afternoon, Chee Wee again asked me to go One Fullerton's pub for clubbing. He said we could get free membership over there. But again, I rejected him because I wanted to do my body workout. I've already skipped one off last week. Moreover, I was at home and was in a home mode or mood.
In the evening, I had an intensive workout. Did some dancing moves to the music for about 20-30 minutes. Then during the workout later, I did training on my chest muscles, biceps, triceps with only my two dumb-bells, each weighing 3kg, each body part workout of at least 30 to 50 times. I did 50 sit-ups, 20 push-ups, 50 lower abs lift on a chair and another 10 to 12 minutes of jogging on the spot in my room.
Boy, am I sweating my body out! *Phew!*
During the night, I started to wax my fingers and make finger's wax moulds for them. I melted the block of wax in some hot water after taking out the candle's wick out. The wax liquifies and floated above on the hot water. Then, I put in my fingers on my right hand, the thumb, the middle finger and the index finger into the hot wax. I bear with the pain for a while and put my waxed finger into another container of cold water. To cool and solidify the wax mould on my finger.
Although it felt painful at first, but I got use to the pain and made the finger's wax moulds one by one. I didn't put in my fourth finger and the pinky because they were weak in strength and control than the other three and were more sensitively PAINFUL! Ouch!
One of the main problems was because of the orange-scented wax. It was slightly more soft sticky than the normal wax candles we use at home when there were blackouts. I had a tough time taking out the wax moulds off my fingers in one piece. It sometimes unsuccessfully cracks as it was quite fragile or went out of shape after I moved my finger when the wax is still semi-solid, making it more difficult to take out the wax mould.
Sometimes, the hot wax cools off, the hot water too turned luke warm. Hence, I needed to change the water into hot water about every 30 minutes.
My fingers were soaked thoroughly, thus making it more difficult to take wax mould off my finger as it was slightly sticky and soft. I failed to take out any after that.
In the end, I only produced a total of 13 finger's wax Moulds, 5 index finger's' wax moulds, 4 middle finger's wax moulds and anohter 4 thumb finger's wax moulds. But I needed to produce 21!
In the very end, I gave up and scrapped all my products and materials and thrown everything away.
I think I'll buy something for my friends at Digimagic as parting gifts instead.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"Physical pain is superficially light. The most painful pain is always in the heart."
Saturday, November 01, 2003
Easy and Sensuous Friday.
Friday. Hmm... I was suppose to help Keith do some work of lip syncing in the morning. It was on a 2D character talking in Mandarin on the Vitagen project in a Director application.
But in the end I can't do it.
Because the original lip syncing was to that of English, I couldn't really do lip syncing by just switching the cast members, due to differences of English and Mandarin voice-overs in lengths of speech and sound pitches. Moreover, I wasn't familiar with lip syncing at all. I think the lip syncing should be totally re-created so that it is more easier to lip sync. Even if that, I estimated I could only finish in three days and three nights to finish just on story part of the application and I got another two!
So in the late morning, I was doing on the NSRCC project's director application instead. This task was assigned by Peipei. This task was definitely more easier to do as it was not about changing the design or functionality of its interactivity of the director application. Changes are normally more difficult to do.
This task requires me to create a new interactivity on the application on a node story part of the whole application. Finally, I was doing something new and more importantly, the fuctionality part was totally done by me. It would at least give me some sense of achievement. The first phase of my task was pretty straight forward though. I simply have to create cast members with the designs of the applcation keyframes I already had, and create animations, interactivity buttons and other still graphic displays.
I finished most of my work till I realised it was already almost 3pm. But then, most of my colleagues already had their lunch.
Jason had his take-away. Because machines in the offices are all getting screwy recently, now even our server computer also kept on crashing for no good reason. He had to fix it. Kernis was meeting her friends for lunch. The rest wre either had their lunch or the Muslim colleagues were fasting.
So I asked Wanzhen for lunch and she agreed. We went down and while we went down we chatted. She was still her IRAS Flash animation thingy. I asked her how is her work progressing. She said she finally got the hang of it and wasn't so stress of it anymore.
Actually, I always envied her work. She's always doing something new and learn new things. She learned Adobe After-Effects and now Macromedia Flash 2D animation. All I always get is the Director stuff. After the first month of my internship, learning new things like Keynotes, the rest is all director stuff. Moreover the new things I've learn was pretty much short-termed and wasn't really categorised as a new skill needed for in the multimedia industry. They were just pretty much some stuff. Then the director stuff were all changes that were very long-termed and long-winded. I got quite sick of it.
Now back to the lunch period, initially Wanzhen and I was undecisive about what and where to eat. I asked for Wanzhen's suggestions to where to eat but she asked me back. But as many known me, my decision was probably neutral and was "anything". I wassn't really particular anyway. Wanzhen did try to decide, considering the Duck rice stall shop, McDonald's but in the end, we ended up having our lunch at Jeffrey's Eating Place. I was actually hoping not to eat at our usual eating places. Hey, we got few days of internship left and I'm sick of the old eating places.
Wanzhen and I had nice chat and then, Linda, Fong Peing and Peipei joined us at the table. I didn't know they hadn't eaten at their lunch. Normally, they were the first few to have their lunch. The ladies had their chat while I listened on.
After our meals, Wanzhen, Peipei and Fong Peing went for shopping but Linda and I decided to head back to office to do our work. I wanted to finish everything of my task of work by today.
When I was back on work, Kernis returned from her lunch (some shopping as well). She bought a new hand bag at about $30. She was so happy with it she started showing to some of other colleagues. At some points, After a while, she's complaining about the hand straps being too long and others. To David, Wanzhen and my surprises, she didn't bought the bag she initially aimed on Thursday's window shopping. She shown to some colleagues, including me and asked us whether it was nice on her. Then, I cheekily answered, "If I said it was not nice, will you throw it away?"
Kernis and I simply laughed.
I managed to finish my task of work by today (that's Friday, yesterday) and left from work to meet up with Chee Wee at Orchard MRT station. He wanted to see his idols, S.H.E. at Ngee Ann City, so I decided to joinhim and accompany him.
After work, I went off together with Kernis as we were on the same way to Orchard to meet up with our friends. Initally, we wnated to take the bus service number 7 to Orchard but as we missed one, another would take quite long. So we went to take the MRT train instead.
On the way, she said she disliked taking MRT tarains because there were no seats and she had to fight for them. I told her, I rather stand when I am on the MRT train.
Why?
If I sat down and there's a crowd in the MRT train, when I wanted to alight, I had to fight my way out. I think, why waste energy to fighting for yourself into the train for a seat and then when you want to alight, fight your way out? Any way, I don't like to sit down and had nothing to look at except the people sitting opposite you. When you are looking at the windows above them, looking outside. They felt you looked at them and looked back into your eyes. Likewise, the same for me. I think standing up, especially leaning near by the doors, looking outside was more romantic.
Back to the meet with Chee Wee.
Now, I thought I was simply to accompany Chee Wee to see his S.H.E. I didn't expect him to expect me to help my another friend, Meng Kiat, to get signatures from S.H.E., on their albums, in a densely packed crowd of S.H.E. fanatics which the queue of the signing event was no where in sight.
Moreover, I really hated crowds. Especially squeezing in densely packed crowds. Moreover, that time, it was drizzling and very warm. It was madness to squeeze in the crowds.
And I really don't understand the craziness and fanatism of all this commotion just to get their signatures. Your idols don't remember you for it. I don't even do that to my own idol, Stefanie Sun. But Chee Wee said the signatures on his album would increased its treasured valuability. But I thought, the importance of the so-called "value" is actually in your heart, how much your idols' music had accompanied you through the good and the bad times.
I refused to squeeze into the crowd to help accompany Chee Wee and help Meng Kiat to get S.H.E.'s signatures on their albums. So I abandoned Chee Wee to the crowds and headed for the McDonald's at Ngee Ann City for my dinner. First time I've abandoned a friend in need. Ha ha ha!
Anyway that evening, I wanted to feel the night. I was sensuous.
After my dinner, I went into the Books Kinobunya to take a look. I didn't go deeper into shop. I was quite near the entrance when a book caught my eye. I took the sample book to read. The book is named LIFE: 100 Photographs that Changed the World .
The book was very interesting. It shown photographs of historical events, peopl and things, happening all over the world, in the past. It also shown the power of still images, its ability to make many people like me, to think of the particular event and how it affected us and the world. The book lets me see the fragility of the world and how complex or even simple it is. I like the book and bought it immediately, it cost about $20.
When I was travelling back home on the MRT train, I read and see the book in on the MRT train. When I brought the book home, almost whole of my family read and see the book. My sister, my sister's boyfriend and even my Chinese-educated mother read and see it.
The book have not been bought in vain.
I decide to share it with my colleagues and fellow interns on the coming Monday next week.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"We change the World and the World changes us."
Friday. Hmm... I was suppose to help Keith do some work of lip syncing in the morning. It was on a 2D character talking in Mandarin on the Vitagen project in a Director application.
But in the end I can't do it.
Because the original lip syncing was to that of English, I couldn't really do lip syncing by just switching the cast members, due to differences of English and Mandarin voice-overs in lengths of speech and sound pitches. Moreover, I wasn't familiar with lip syncing at all. I think the lip syncing should be totally re-created so that it is more easier to lip sync. Even if that, I estimated I could only finish in three days and three nights to finish just on story part of the application and I got another two!
So in the late morning, I was doing on the NSRCC project's director application instead. This task was assigned by Peipei. This task was definitely more easier to do as it was not about changing the design or functionality of its interactivity of the director application. Changes are normally more difficult to do.
This task requires me to create a new interactivity on the application on a node story part of the whole application. Finally, I was doing something new and more importantly, the fuctionality part was totally done by me. It would at least give me some sense of achievement. The first phase of my task was pretty straight forward though. I simply have to create cast members with the designs of the applcation keyframes I already had, and create animations, interactivity buttons and other still graphic displays.
I finished most of my work till I realised it was already almost 3pm. But then, most of my colleagues already had their lunch.
Jason had his take-away. Because machines in the offices are all getting screwy recently, now even our server computer also kept on crashing for no good reason. He had to fix it. Kernis was meeting her friends for lunch. The rest wre either had their lunch or the Muslim colleagues were fasting.
So I asked Wanzhen for lunch and she agreed. We went down and while we went down we chatted. She was still her IRAS Flash animation thingy. I asked her how is her work progressing. She said she finally got the hang of it and wasn't so stress of it anymore.
Actually, I always envied her work. She's always doing something new and learn new things. She learned Adobe After-Effects and now Macromedia Flash 2D animation. All I always get is the Director stuff. After the first month of my internship, learning new things like Keynotes, the rest is all director stuff. Moreover the new things I've learn was pretty much short-termed and wasn't really categorised as a new skill needed for in the multimedia industry. They were just pretty much some stuff. Then the director stuff were all changes that were very long-termed and long-winded. I got quite sick of it.
Now back to the lunch period, initially Wanzhen and I was undecisive about what and where to eat. I asked for Wanzhen's suggestions to where to eat but she asked me back. But as many known me, my decision was probably neutral and was "anything". I wassn't really particular anyway. Wanzhen did try to decide, considering the Duck rice stall shop, McDonald's but in the end, we ended up having our lunch at Jeffrey's Eating Place. I was actually hoping not to eat at our usual eating places. Hey, we got few days of internship left and I'm sick of the old eating places.
Wanzhen and I had nice chat and then, Linda, Fong Peing and Peipei joined us at the table. I didn't know they hadn't eaten at their lunch. Normally, they were the first few to have their lunch. The ladies had their chat while I listened on.
After our meals, Wanzhen, Peipei and Fong Peing went for shopping but Linda and I decided to head back to office to do our work. I wanted to finish everything of my task of work by today.
When I was back on work, Kernis returned from her lunch (some shopping as well). She bought a new hand bag at about $30. She was so happy with it she started showing to some of other colleagues. At some points, After a while, she's complaining about the hand straps being too long and others. To David, Wanzhen and my surprises, she didn't bought the bag she initially aimed on Thursday's window shopping. She shown to some colleagues, including me and asked us whether it was nice on her. Then, I cheekily answered, "If I said it was not nice, will you throw it away?"
Kernis and I simply laughed.
I managed to finish my task of work by today (that's Friday, yesterday) and left from work to meet up with Chee Wee at Orchard MRT station. He wanted to see his idols, S.H.E. at Ngee Ann City, so I decided to joinhim and accompany him.
After work, I went off together with Kernis as we were on the same way to Orchard to meet up with our friends. Initally, we wnated to take the bus service number 7 to Orchard but as we missed one, another would take quite long. So we went to take the MRT train instead.
On the way, she said she disliked taking MRT tarains because there were no seats and she had to fight for them. I told her, I rather stand when I am on the MRT train.
Why?
If I sat down and there's a crowd in the MRT train, when I wanted to alight, I had to fight my way out. I think, why waste energy to fighting for yourself into the train for a seat and then when you want to alight, fight your way out? Any way, I don't like to sit down and had nothing to look at except the people sitting opposite you. When you are looking at the windows above them, looking outside. They felt you looked at them and looked back into your eyes. Likewise, the same for me. I think standing up, especially leaning near by the doors, looking outside was more romantic.
Back to the meet with Chee Wee.
Now, I thought I was simply to accompany Chee Wee to see his S.H.E. I didn't expect him to expect me to help my another friend, Meng Kiat, to get signatures from S.H.E., on their albums, in a densely packed crowd of S.H.E. fanatics which the queue of the signing event was no where in sight.
Moreover, I really hated crowds. Especially squeezing in densely packed crowds. Moreover, that time, it was drizzling and very warm. It was madness to squeeze in the crowds.
And I really don't understand the craziness and fanatism of all this commotion just to get their signatures. Your idols don't remember you for it. I don't even do that to my own idol, Stefanie Sun. But Chee Wee said the signatures on his album would increased its treasured valuability. But I thought, the importance of the so-called "value" is actually in your heart, how much your idols' music had accompanied you through the good and the bad times.
I refused to squeeze into the crowd to help accompany Chee Wee and help Meng Kiat to get S.H.E.'s signatures on their albums. So I abandoned Chee Wee to the crowds and headed for the McDonald's at Ngee Ann City for my dinner. First time I've abandoned a friend in need. Ha ha ha!
Anyway that evening, I wanted to feel the night. I was sensuous.
After my dinner, I went into the Books Kinobunya to take a look. I didn't go deeper into shop. I was quite near the entrance when a book caught my eye. I took the sample book to read. The book is named LIFE: 100 Photographs that Changed the World .
The book was very interesting. It shown photographs of historical events, peopl and things, happening all over the world, in the past. It also shown the power of still images, its ability to make many people like me, to think of the particular event and how it affected us and the world. The book lets me see the fragility of the world and how complex or even simple it is. I like the book and bought it immediately, it cost about $20.
When I was travelling back home on the MRT train, I read and see the book in on the MRT train. When I brought the book home, almost whole of my family read and see the book. My sister, my sister's boyfriend and even my Chinese-educated mother read and see it.
The book have not been bought in vain.
I decide to share it with my colleagues and fellow interns on the coming Monday next week.
Eiizumi's Crappy/Inspiring Quote or Quotation of this Blog:
"We change the World and the World changes us."
