Sunday, September 30, 2007

Guess.

Fancy guessing where I'm at currently?

I'm in the office, not that difficult to guess, right? The centralized AC is not set to operate on Sundays (even machines get a day off), resulting poor Jed sweating it out like a burst pipe, literally, earlier on. I almost swore and cursed to dehydration. Fortunately, with a little thought, a seperate self-maintained AC and a spare notebook, I'm in a much more comfortable environment now.

Nah, just wrote this to remind myself that I've worked on this day thus can later accumulate these working weekends into my leaves. Hehehe.

And also because today is the last day of September. Tomorrow onwards, we're heading into the final quarter of 2007 and someone will be attending classes morning till night.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Jen Day!

Hellou Jen. Time really flies as this would already be the second birthday wish from me to you. Seems like it was just yesterday that I first met you. Anyway, since my archive's in KL and I can't find any recent images of you here, I've decided to do the ultimate and draw you a birthday card! Using MS paint only! Fuh, I am so talented.

Salam harijadi juga. Sajelah nak berBM jugak. Semoga segala cita-cita dan juga kehendak anda termakbul dalam masa yang paling singkat. Jangan tension dan stress sangat, nanti kepala meletups! Hahaha.

Happy Birthday Jenifer Alicia Ooi Mei Lin! May all your wishes come true! May your wishlist get fulfilled. Live your dream! Stay cool and happy and spontaneous and all that!

p/s: those squarish stuff are supposed to be confettis, should any of you fail to realize.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Demotivated.

I'm quite demotivated to work lately and I think its affecting my blogging as well, I've been deleting more drafts rather than completing them. Working late has become a thing of the past and I simply cringe at the thought of coming to office during weekends, which unfortunately, I have to, for this coming Saturday and Sunday. Yup, its THAT bad, sigh. Is this a sign that I should start scanning for another opportunity elsewhere? Or is it Fated ala Adrian?

I kinda managed to list down a few probable cause to the above situation ::

(i) Uncertainties abundant. There's no solid plan for the current project as the dateline keeps getting postponed, so flexible like yoga! Its as though it'll never gonna end! Working on the same stuff again and again and over-again is never a good thing.

(ii) Uncertainties abundant 2. At the same time, I keep getting thrown into minor enhancement projects which I totally hate it! Anything worst than finding a dead cockroach in your Maggi Goreng Sotong has got to be assigned to a completed project with 0% knowledge and 100% expectations.

(iii) Uncertainties abundant 3. I have absolutely no idea what's the plan after I completed the 6 months assignment here. When inquired, I get, we'll see as things go. WTF! Imagine you asking me the progress of the module and I answer the same thing lah, can?

(iv) Uncertainties abundant 4. Resource management crisis, to date, I have changed 3 different PCs and worked on 6 different notebooks.

(v) Colleagues from hell, possible reincarnation from flies or mosquitoes. Both having attitude problems, one having the skills but think too highly of himself and bad at communicating, while the other not having the skills but also think very highly of himself. The other day I screwed the latter, giving him a huge piece of my mind and suddenly, he became much more approachable. :)

I wonder how my PM manage to deal with them so easily, perhaps he has tolerance + 100.

(vi) Unappreciated.

(vii) This is totally personal. I miss the girlfriend. I miss my family and friends. I miss life in KL.

I shall head home early today in preparation for an awful day ahead, and the day after tomorrow.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Ajisen Ramen, again.

Seems as though I dine there too frequent lately, should consider getting a membership there. Anyway, New Ramen alert! New Ramen alert! Went there the other time when Adrianne came visiting, somehow we just ended up there, like, automatic. And yesterday, I had it again for lunch with E, who had the Volcano Ramen and nearly died-ed in an attempt to finish it.

The Chilli Soft Shell Crab Ramen. There's also the Black Pepper version of it. I felt that the ramen should be dry instead of soup-based because eventually, the crab would become soggy making it less appetizing. Just a thought though.

The glittering Chuka Idako (Seasoned Baby Octopus) that comes with the Soggy Crab Ramen.

Chicken Teriyaki Ramen, the girlfriend's all time favourite, the only dry version of ramen available. I still prefer soup-based. It felt like eating the dry version of 'ban min'. I curied a piece of crab from Adrianne, hahaha.

My all time favourite side dish, Fried Octopus. Sedaps + Huge Portion, what more can you ask for? What more? Tell me.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

Jed and the girlfriend wishes you Jung Chau Jit Fai Lok.

I have a box of MoonCakes, assorted flavour, all to myself because the Landlord bought them for me even though I've mentioned there's no need to do so when I bought a box for them. What am I supposed to do with so many mooncakes? And to think that I was planning to buy one earlier on as I headed home (which I didn't in the end), the least is to have some mooncake during this special occasion right? Now, its an overdose.

In KL, I would normally head over to my Aunt's (Mum's Elder Sis to be exact) house for some prayers and lots of tidbits, the usual groundnuts, jellies, mooncakes, pomelo, yams, more fruits and more unknown but edible items. We still light up a few lanterns, just for the occasion and I guess we've pretty much grown out of lighting candles then sticking them everywhere.

Indirectly, we're doing our part in minimizing global warming.