It's the end of the first day back at work after the weekend. I love that end of the day feeling; when the office is quiet and you find yourself being able to think clearly and not have to do a million things at once.
Although to be fair, i wouldn't want to be here when everyone's gone..this place gets really eerie when it's empty. Maybe it's the fact that i'm used to the noises in the office; the clicking of people's fingers tapping away at the keyboards, sound of phones ringing, people talking (sometimes too loudly), papers rustling, footsteps coming in and out of the door....
Or maybe it's the countless ghost stories and apparent citing that get me spooked when it's too quiet...
But whatever it is, this is the time when i actually get proper work done. Half the time i think we're just continuously rushing to finish one task after the other. But at times like these......
I get to blog for example. And maybe surf the net...and check out Facebook..........
Talking about FB, i came in this morning, took a sneaky peek in FB and saw that one of our SMs has added me as a friend!!! You can just imagine my surprise!!!
I mean ok, fair enough, we've had a workshop together and were in the same team when we broke up into smaller groups, and ok, i've spoken to him on the phone a couple of times and we've done the whole work emails thingy to one another, but as a friend in FB??? Seriously????
You know when people say don't mix business with pleasure, i'm sure this is what they meant. We've all interpreted it wrongly in thinking that they were talking about having affairs with co-workers. What they actually meant was; don't mix things like FB (where you post stupid stuff and say stupid things and post pictures of you holding a champagne flute or a ciggie in your hand) with people at work who are obviously all religious and stuff and who could potentially be your boss one day!!!!!!!
So what the hell do i do now? It'd be really rude if i don't and yet there's no way that i will!!! Yikes!!!
As they say, fucked if you do, fucked if you don't....
Darn it...
Monday, September 22, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Post of Posts...
I swear i'm useless...ive started so many posts and never seem to be able to finish them. I either run out of steam or i get distracted by something or worst yet...i forget...yikes!!!
I wonder if i'm starting to get forgetful...hmmm...i wonder if that's a sign of getting old. Or maybe i've always been absent-minded but it was ok when you were younger because things didn't seem to matter much back then.
I wonder if that is why SF moans so much. Oh no...he does that because i'm a slob haha. I planned on saying something about him moaning so much at me on my FB's status but he made me sort of promise that i won't do it. So i said ok (and thought to myself, i'll blog it instead).
All in jest though.
The topic of being elsewhere came up in a conversation yesterday. And someone mentioned that being overseas makes for a better life. Things are easier and there's not so much red tape. I was even advised to move overseas for 9 months if i ever get pregnant and have my baby there!!!
All i can say is, if you're not happy here, then move. Don't get someone else to do it on your behalf. And don't keep moaning about it.
I don't know if KL is my home, and i don't know where i'll end up. But i do know this; at the moment, this is where i choose to be. Of course like everywhere else, there are the pros and cons to a place. And like everything else, you being happy or not is down to you and you only.
I mean of course, i moan all the time. But i don't keep telling people how much i hate being here. And i don't keep telling people that they should move and live somewhere else.
Sigh...why is this starting to sound like a moany blog...??? I guess i'm just venting. I was so annoyed last night that i gave the impression of having swallowed a dictionary of swear-words (won't it be nice if there were such a thing??).
Ok enough. Anyway, below i've posted a very interesting blog post from our ex PM... *ouch*
4. I love all these. Kuala Lumpur is cleaner when people leave the city for balik kampong on Raya and Chinese New Year. It is exhilarating to drive on streets which are almost deserted.
5. But I ask myself are people like me, a pensioner being paid and not working? Or is the country on automatic - administering itself? Or is it that there really is not much work to do that we can close up for one-third of the year?
6. We are still a developing country. Developing requires work. Rich developed countries can afford not to work. August holidays see the cities like Paris and London bereft of traffic.
7. I believe, but I may be wrong, that when you are trying to catch up with someone running ahead of you, you must run faster than him. We have this great ambition to become a developed country. If we move slower than our objective can we catch up? I think we cannot.
8. A developed country today and a developed country in 2020 is not the same. In 2020 it will be far more advanced and richer than in 2008. The developed status is not static. It is moving.
9. Even if it seem to be growing slowly percentage-wise, but its one percent is bigger than our 5 or 6 percent. Our base is lower. To catch up we must really grow faster.
10. Can we grow faster by not working? I think not.
11. Lets look at the implication of having holidays. If workers have to work on holidays they have to be paid twice their daily wage. If they work beyond working hours they have to be paid four times their wages. And many industries just cannot stop operating.
12. All these add up to higher cost of production and therefore we will be less competitive. For a trading nation which depends on exporting goods, raw material and services, the cost of our exports is important. We will not be competitive especially against low-wage countries. But not to worry. The Government will make us competitive by withdrawing subsidies and giving them back again under different headings in the budget or off-budget.
13. Its a bit early but I would like to wish everyone Happy Hari Raya. Please drive slowly. We want you to come back after a very relaxing 4 - 5 days holiday. Do not worry about unfinished work. It can take care of itself.
P.S. I think the Government and the private sector should consider retreats. It's not a holiday of course but comes very close to a holiday. Besides you can become a savvy agriculturist.
I wonder if i'm starting to get forgetful...hmmm...i wonder if that's a sign of getting old. Or maybe i've always been absent-minded but it was ok when you were younger because things didn't seem to matter much back then.
I wonder if that is why SF moans so much. Oh no...he does that because i'm a slob haha. I planned on saying something about him moaning so much at me on my FB's status but he made me sort of promise that i won't do it. So i said ok (and thought to myself, i'll blog it instead).
All in jest though.
The topic of being elsewhere came up in a conversation yesterday. And someone mentioned that being overseas makes for a better life. Things are easier and there's not so much red tape. I was even advised to move overseas for 9 months if i ever get pregnant and have my baby there!!!
All i can say is, if you're not happy here, then move. Don't get someone else to do it on your behalf. And don't keep moaning about it.
I don't know if KL is my home, and i don't know where i'll end up. But i do know this; at the moment, this is where i choose to be. Of course like everywhere else, there are the pros and cons to a place. And like everything else, you being happy or not is down to you and you only.
I mean of course, i moan all the time. But i don't keep telling people how much i hate being here. And i don't keep telling people that they should move and live somewhere else.
Sigh...why is this starting to sound like a moany blog...??? I guess i'm just venting. I was so annoyed last night that i gave the impression of having swallowed a dictionary of swear-words (won't it be nice if there were such a thing??).
Ok enough. Anyway, below i've posted a very interesting blog post from our ex PM... *ouch*
Cuti-Cuti Malaysia
1. There are only 365 days in a year. Take away 104 days of Saturdays and Sundays weekends and we have left 261 working days. But Malaysia is multi-religious and we must not work during Raya, Chinese New Year and Deepavali. But we must also not work on Wesak Day, Taipusam, Christmas, New Year, Federal Territory Day, various Muslim holy days and I do not know what else.
2. But we must not work on by-election polling day also. Then there is the Agong's Birthday and the birthdays of all the Sultans and Governors.
3. We seem to find more reason for not working. If the holiday falls on a weekend, then have a long vacation beginning the day before Saturday and the day after Sunday - four days in all.
1. There are only 365 days in a year. Take away 104 days of Saturdays and Sundays weekends and we have left 261 working days. But Malaysia is multi-religious and we must not work during Raya, Chinese New Year and Deepavali. But we must also not work on Wesak Day, Taipusam, Christmas, New Year, Federal Territory Day, various Muslim holy days and I do not know what else.
2. But we must not work on by-election polling day also. Then there is the Agong's Birthday and the birthdays of all the Sultans and Governors.
3. We seem to find more reason for not working. If the holiday falls on a weekend, then have a long vacation beginning the day before Saturday and the day after Sunday - four days in all.
5. But I ask myself are people like me, a pensioner being paid and not working? Or is the country on automatic - administering itself? Or is it that there really is not much work to do that we can close up for one-third of the year?
6. We are still a developing country. Developing requires work. Rich developed countries can afford not to work. August holidays see the cities like Paris and London bereft of traffic.
7. I believe, but I may be wrong, that when you are trying to catch up with someone running ahead of you, you must run faster than him. We have this great ambition to become a developed country. If we move slower than our objective can we catch up? I think we cannot.
8. A developed country today and a developed country in 2020 is not the same. In 2020 it will be far more advanced and richer than in 2008. The developed status is not static. It is moving.
9. Even if it seem to be growing slowly percentage-wise, but its one percent is bigger than our 5 or 6 percent. Our base is lower. To catch up we must really grow faster.
10. Can we grow faster by not working? I think not.
11. Lets look at the implication of having holidays. If workers have to work on holidays they have to be paid twice their daily wage. If they work beyond working hours they have to be paid four times their wages. And many industries just cannot stop operating.
12. All these add up to higher cost of production and therefore we will be less competitive. For a trading nation which depends on exporting goods, raw material and services, the cost of our exports is important. We will not be competitive especially against low-wage countries. But not to worry. The Government will make us competitive by withdrawing subsidies and giving them back again under different headings in the budget or off-budget.
13. Its a bit early but I would like to wish everyone Happy Hari Raya. Please drive slowly. We want you to come back after a very relaxing 4 - 5 days holiday. Do not worry about unfinished work. It can take care of itself.
P.S. I think the Government and the private sector should consider retreats. It's not a holiday of course but comes very close to a holiday. Besides you can become a savvy agriculturist.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Painful Mondays...
This was actually written on Monday evening but due to severe Monday blues, was only completed on Tuesday..
Omg i can't believe how severe my Monday blues is today. I mean seriously...i thought it was only one of those things you suffer from if say..you had a really big weekend (i.e. too much to drink which resulted in you either behaving like a drunken idiot or spending the night praying to the porcelain god), or have had a long weekend which began with you managing to convince yourself that you don't have to work for at least another week or so (in reality, 3 days).
But here i am, with a terrible case of it and i didn't even go out last weekend! (mine is usually due to the first reason). All i did was went to my parents for a barbecue dinner (they bought the smallest pit in the world which amazingly enough, not only cooks for 7, but they tasted awfully yummy as well), went furniture shopping (why does this particular chore seem to last forever??), and spending the rest of the time thinking about the green-slip-pink-slip question.
Aaahhh...green slip pink slip...that is the question. But i won't go into that right now just in case the donkey police are monitoring blogs.
So anyway, it had been awhile since i've updated my blog. I'm not sure if that's because i've run out of things to say, or i've got so much that i feel tired just thinking about blogging them all.
Anyways, i'll stop here. Will moan again soon.
Omg i can't believe how severe my Monday blues is today. I mean seriously...i thought it was only one of those things you suffer from if say..you had a really big weekend (i.e. too much to drink which resulted in you either behaving like a drunken idiot or spending the night praying to the porcelain god), or have had a long weekend which began with you managing to convince yourself that you don't have to work for at least another week or so (in reality, 3 days).
But here i am, with a terrible case of it and i didn't even go out last weekend! (mine is usually due to the first reason). All i did was went to my parents for a barbecue dinner (they bought the smallest pit in the world which amazingly enough, not only cooks for 7, but they tasted awfully yummy as well), went furniture shopping (why does this particular chore seem to last forever??), and spending the rest of the time thinking about the green-slip-pink-slip question.
Aaahhh...green slip pink slip...that is the question. But i won't go into that right now just in case the donkey police are monitoring blogs.
So anyway, it had been awhile since i've updated my blog. I'm not sure if that's because i've run out of things to say, or i've got so much that i feel tired just thinking about blogging them all.
Anyways, i'll stop here. Will moan again soon.
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