Introducing Waddle.....

Meet Waddle who's 8 weeks old..... the latest addition to the family. He's one of the puppies that I've decided to keep in memory of Toby. All the other puppies have been rehomed or sold. I pray that they have all gone to good homes. Waddle already has some of Toby's traits so let's hope he'll continue to be a chip of the old block and follow his father's footsteps :)

The 50th Post

OK.... I've reached the 50th post.... it's been a slow climb I have to admit... but hey I got there...

Anyway, it was my first day of at my new job yesterday and so far so good :-) It's always good when 1. the boss doesnt mind that you can come into work late as long as it's before lunch time and 2. the boss comes and tells you that it's enough for the day and I can go home at 4pm!! Yeah!!

It felt funny yesterday as I sat through meetings and all I could think of was time sheets and what if I still had to account for 6 minutes of my time and what would have been on my timesheet for yesterday.

After a very hard and exhausting first day of work yesterday, it's Anzac Day today - a public holiday. Don't I just time it so well?? :-) Anzac Day in Oz is a reminder to the country for the servicemen and women who had served the country in all the wars, but the most prominent one being Gallipoli during WW1. So plans for today.... given the cloudy weather... pure vegetation

My Very Own Sampan

So I'm about to embark on my own sampan and it's scary. When I was a kid, dad bought me this Smurfette Poster on the left and through out the years I'm often reminded of this poster. Even though I would still be employed by a company and be paid, I will have to learn how to set up my own sampan and be responsible for it.

The last couple of days, in the midst of vegetating at home and with HT who is also bumming around, I've had to think of a name for my company which would have significance to me, and checking out domain names and ASIC. Whilst this is all so exciting, I'm also apprehensive and scared as this is all a whole new challenge for me.

I've come up with the name 'mustard seed'. Why you may ask. It has a lot to do with faith , both between myself and God and between my future 'clients' and myself.

Whilst reminiscing with my brother and some friends about Sunday School songs we used to sing, a chorus popped into my mind which to an extent describes the challenges that will lay ahead for me

I don't know about tomorrow; I just live from day to day.
I don't borrow from its sunshine for its skies may turn to gray.
I don't worry o'er the future for I know what Jesus said;
And, today, I'll walk beside Him for He knows what is ahead.

Many things about tomorrow, I don't seem to understand.
But, I know Who holds tomorrow, and I know Who holds my hand!

I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
by Ira F. Stanphill

Bloody Pissed Off

Today has been one of those days that just absolutely pissed me off. It started off with this morning when my darling of a satay sent me a txt message to ask if I had any client files at home, and if I did, I was to bring them in. That triggered alarm bells in me as I still had 2 more weeks to work at that place. When I got into work, I got called into her office and was basically told that I could pack up and leave. The convienient excuse she used was 1) the directors decided and 2) that there wasnt enough work to sustain me for the next 2 weeks. What a load of crap. Anyway, to add insult to injury, when I was packing up my desk, my boss STOOD next to me, watching my EVERY move to make sure I didnt take any 'client information' like WTF... 1) I'm not going to a competitor's firm 2) I'm out of that industry for the time being and 3) I've only been in the frigging company for a few months and didnt get a chance to know any clients!! Besides, if I had wanted to get client information, I would have done that ages and ages ago!!! Duh.... Anyway, I really felt like a criminal. My satay has such double standards.... when her darling secretary got escorted out of the building from her previous job (to join satay and satay is a competitors firm) she was all indignant abt the way the secretary was escorted and today she bloody did the same thing to me - except it wasnt out of the building but out of the reception area!! She didnt do it to the other people who left and they had gone to competitors firm.... Anyway, I am just pissed off that I got treated this way. They could have had the courtesy to give me a couple of days notice and not spring this surprise. Then again, it is to their advantage to spring the element of surprise on me. Admittedly, the last couple of days I havent been very motivated and just couldnt give a damn... but still, that was no reason for them to do what they did.

I'm giving them till Wednesday to pay me .... if not, I will kao buay kao bu....

And after all that... I did some retail therapy and got myself a new phone... I'm back to being a Nokia phone user....

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE :-)

An Interesting Week

I've had a very interesting week that I should have posted as it went by but I was tired the last couple of nights... right now, I am pleasantly pissed after consuming 4 bourbon and cokes and a shot of something JR recommended with no dinner... and typing is not very easy at the moment!!!

So lets start of with Monday.... I handed in my resignation... where I got all the usual 'we are so disappointed' kind of crap... come on... do they actually think I believe that they are sorry to see me go?? They're probably jumping for joy! I just was pretty surprised to hear words like 'I'm not impressed with you', when like think about it, after all these months of unnecessary stress, do they actually think I would have stuck on?

Had a flu shot on Tuesday - no big deal but it was free so I thought what the heck, one more thing to scam off the company. However, as I was asked to tend to the phones on Tuesday whilst the rest of the people in the company went to play models for the day, I had a pretty good heart to heart chat with the IT guy, where I learnt some stuff.

On Thursday, I was asked by the HR Manager to reconsider my resignation. They apparently thought that I resigned coz I was asked to do my CA... like WTF... are they that dumb and so blind? Studying is the least of my worries... Anyway, I couldnt 'accept' their kind offer of a 6-12 month contract with no CA enforced onto me. BIG DEAL.... like what dad said to me, if I was to accept their offer what is to stop them from picking on me again? They may stop picking on me for a little while as they put their hate energy elsewhere but who knows within a month or two again, I'll be on their hate radar again. As always, dad always has a good point.

Thursday night, Calvin, my brother and I joined a multi church group to visit and sing to the patients at Holywood Hospital. I have to admit, it's one of the rare hospitals that I have visited that has no 'hospital smell'. There we sang and ministered to the sick patients with our singing. It was an experience. Some of the songs which we sung were from the days of old and it brought back memories. Managed to teach Calvin actions to Sunday School songs like "He's got the whole world in his hands"

Tonight, we (PG & JR and me) had to go for lawn bowling with the social club. Prior to going to the bowls, we ended up at the Rosemount and had a couple of drinks... that kind of helped us get thru lawn bowls. I swear, after a while, I have no idea what is going on. I think 10 pin bowling makes abit more sense.

I think it's time I foraged for some food in the pantry...