Chats....

OK... in some ways, I would like to think that I'm a 'seasoned' chatter on the net... I mean I've been using various chat programs for like the last 10 years!!! However, on an off chance today, I found my way to my ICQ webpage and realised that people have been leaving me messages on there which I've not known about! I came across 2 negative comments about me... here's what they said

Diesel wrote: <228811699>

What a total waste of an effort! Total rudeness from her-I'm awestruck at what posesses people to act like her!? Good luck with Prince Charming-you'll need it !

Oh,and one more thing-you're 'About Me' above says you're 'easy going person'...Fat chance of that- you bit my head off just for asking where you're from ! Check my profile was the reply !!! Go figure.

David wrote: <82170190>
Gosh u wern't very friendly were u. wasnt expecting much, just common courtesy as to a stranger. Apologies if this sounds harsh but I dont think this was all my stuff. Good luck with prince charming!

OK so those were the complaints... here are my rebuttals

1. I have a profile, I spent time on my profile writing up where I'm from and other bits of information about myself, I made the conscientious effort to write my profile, so why cant you do me the courtesy of reading my profile first?

2. On my profile, I do say I dont like dumb questions. Asking me questions where the answers can be found on my profile is classified as a dumb question. Perhaps I should specify what is my definition of a dumb question for these dumb people.

3. When someone randomly chats to me, the first thing I do is to check their profile and see if I can gather any information on them. Just coz the lazy ones dont, doesnt mean that everyone is like them as lazy...

4. Sure I'm easy going .... but everyone has their faults and limits.. and to those that know me, knows that I dont like dumb people.... and those that know me better, knows I have limited tolerance for dumb people.... my tolerance level do not hold to people who are childish, screamish, irritating, too overly 'ladylike' and pretends to be a damsel in distress... etc

5. Finally, it's a frigging chat.... different people react differently to words. Some normal people when I say please check profile - after they ask a dumb question, they actually do check the profile and the apologise for not checking it first... and from there, we actually can have a decent chat.

Anyway, I've been battling a headache for the last couple of days, so seeing these online didnt impress me too much, I'm in 2 minds as to leaving them a nasty message myself... but then again... I'm a NICE person... ;-)

Music, Movies & Makan

Last Friday, a part of the Hillsongs Worship Team was in Perth to have a 'Just Worship' Experience. Apparently it was their first WA trip.... It was held at the Metro Church @ Beaufort Street, Northbridge. We (CY, my brother and me) qued up since 6.15pm and waited.... the worship didn't start till 7.30pm (thanks to CY for getting me a bubble tea to keep me occupied). The aim of this worship was to raise money for the Hope Rwanda cause - a project which is organised by Mark & Darlene Zschech from the Hills Church in Sydney. Perth raised well over $40K for this fund raising project!! The worship ended about 9.00pm.... which I think was a little disappointment to the Hillsongs fan club.

On Tuesday (cheap arsed Tuesday) we (HT, my bro and me) went to watch The DaVinci Code. Enough hype has been said for this movie which came from the same titled book by Dan Brown. The movie was a disappointment as it was draggy at some bits, the parts where they could have explained better wasnt explained properly (no wonder my dad got confused when he watched the movie!) and it was a LONG movie....

Whilst there's a lot of talk about this movie and churches everywhere are raising issues as to the lies in the book - where personally I am getting a little tired of all this controversy talk... I believe that if a person's foundations in the Christian faith is strong, you would take this book as fiction reading, and ignore the fact that in the beginning of the book it does say that careful research has gone into the book. In no way should the contents of the book falter a Christian's believe. This reminds me of a movie I once saw in Edinburgh - The Last Temptations of Christ.... which was also a controversial movie/book. Finally. as dad pointed out to me last night, this book is a good way to share the Christian faith with non believers.

Meanwhile, the Eat Inc gluts have been pretty quiet... CY, my bro and I managed to have lunch at the Bella Rosa @Victoria Park on Sunday and we stuffed ourselves with the pasta. The portions were huge and they were generous with the seafood....SJ at work has been feeding me with really yummy afternoon teas of pastries from Jean Claude and other bakeries .. tomorrow he's going to cook a curry for lunch... sigh.... I think I have to hit the gym properly....

Weirdos

Weirdo Warning on ICQ - 257-433-042 (Mark)

mark (04:46 PM) :
hi

Me (04:55 PM) :
hi

mark (04:56 PM) :
how are you my name is mark

Me (04:56 PM) :
hi mark

mark (04:57 PM) :
which asian country are you from ?

Me (04:58 PM) :
see profile
mark (04:58 PM) :

didn't come up that's why i have asked ,but now it's ok

Me (05:00 PM) :
ok

mark (05:00 PM) :
do you have pic of you ?

Me (05:01 PM) :
no

mark (05:01 PM) :
ok piss off then

Me(05:02 PM) :
hahah u just gave me a reason to write what an asshole u are on my blog

mark (05:03 PM) :
you asian all are so cheap

Hands up if you think this guy is a fked up arsehole? But at least he's in Sydney... not in Perth!

Stuffed

I received an email from TC yesterday asking what I was doing tonite. Told her I would be going to the gym unless she can convince me otherwise... and her alternative suggestion was way better than the gym... it was an invite to the HYATT for a free dinner!! Who can say NO to that and free alcohol as well??!?!?

So off we went tonite to the Hyatt for dinner. It was the launch of Hyatt's new menu. There was a great sample of appetisers (about 5 types). They gave a little bit of each on the lazy susan so we could pick what we wanted to eat. There was a Hyatt representative on each table as well (about 20 tables in all) so that they can gather feedback from us. The main course was yummy.. I had the rare steak cooked to perfection with a seafood stick of prawns, scallops and oyster!! The dessert.... was... oh soo good (this from someone who isnt a fan of dessert) . There was a taste test of 7 different types of dessert on a plate for each of us, and it was fun trying to guess what each dessert was according to the menu. To top of the evening, each of us were given a mini chocolate cake to take home .... I havent tried it yet as it looks too rich and I'm too stuffed to eat anymore tonite...

Eat Inc

A couple of us have set up this website called Eat Inc which incidentally sounds like 'eating'. It's a site dedicated to FOOD. The main objective is to recommend places that we have gone to eat or have successfully cooked at home. There's a couple of Eat Inc 'branches'. So far, Singapore, Malaysia and Perth. Hopefully in time to come we will be able to branch out more and offer a wider variety of food choices on the site. The site is slowing being developed with the help of Twelve Baskets so be patient if you do drop by the site and give us any positive and creative criticisms so that we can make your visit a happier one.

Whistle While You Work.....

The last couple of weeks has just flown by, I'm now into my 4th week at my new job and so far I'm loving it. OK people who know I usually whinge by now, you would be surprised I haven't whinged yet. The people are easy going to work with, as long as I get my work done. They actually listen to opinions and adopt any good ideas that you have. I get to set protocols as to how I like things done. The plus is that we have this great kitchen at work, so last week I cooked laksa and this week, chicken curry is on the menu. Oh and SJ and I have similar taste buds (not bad for a kuai -lo) so every now and then he buys us afternoon teas, pies and scones. Very sneaky, coz it means I have to go to the gym a little bit more often. Another good thing is I get encouraged to go to the gym as well....

Striked Out

Singaporeans went to vote yesterday and since I'm not in Singapore and since I didnt fly to Canberra (yeah right!) to cast my vote.... I've been striked off the Electors list... yay!! It doesnt make of a difference to me... hopefully, I'll not have to vote in Singapore it's a waste of time.....

Speak Well Speak Up Speak Out

My bro and I did this test on the weekend thinking that we could participate in the challenge only to realise that the challenge was for2005! We were both pretty impressed with ourselves at our score as we did it in one attempt!! I stumbled onto this Speak Good English website some time ago and it was part of the Speak Good English movement that the homeland was trying to promote last year. I dont think it worked though just looking at some of the Singapore blogs that are on cyberspace. This movement is highly overdue as there is a need to improve some of the pronunciation and grammar usage by the inhabitants of the homeland. How ironical though to have a Speak Good English campaign, as I remember when I was growing up, they had the Speak Mandarin Campaign! Although that campaign didnt quite work on me.

Anyway, I recommend this website, it has mini quizzes for you to take to see how good your grammar is and the pronunciation.... also has lessons on how to improve your English... this is something that should be looked at if the homeland strives to be a global centre for businesses.... and people would stop pronouncing vegetables as ve-ge-ta-bles.....

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...

Good Stuff

God answers prayers in the strangest ways. I asked Him to open doors for me as he sees fit and then presto...I get a new job totally different to what i'm doing now yet at the same time relevant to my studies.... yiippeee.... I'm just so happy to get out of the hell hole. Here are the top 10 reasons why

1. No more impossible productivity targets and chargeables for me to meet
2. No more being treated like a child in kindy being told very sternly what can and cannot be done
3. No more forced and unnecessary over time and having to account for every 6 minutes of my day
4. No more being asked by a non comprehending dolt of a boss if I REALLY have to go to the airport to pick my parents up
5. No more having to wear stockings, closed toe shoes, and play conservative dress up
6. No more having to be stressed about getting to work on time, stressed about taking time off, or even stressed about asking to start a little later or leave a little earlier
7. No more being paranoid that the secretary and bosses are reading our emails and being told by the secretary that I'm a F*****G Idiot
8. No more knowing that when the boss praises you, it's not sincere as she believes that once she gives me a praise, I slack off as I think I've earned brownie points
9. No more 6 monthly reviews
10. No more having to deal with 2 faced people who tells you that they are helping you and goes behind your back and gets you into trouble with the boss

and Yes I promise this time I will try and stay in this job for a longer period of time :)

A New Life Begins

My brother officially moves to Perth tomorrow to continue with his studies... and will be living with me for the next few years.. I think it would be a pretty awesome/strange/wicked experience. In the last 12 years, I've only 'lived' with him for 2 years while I was back home and working there. Since then, he and I have been living in extreme ends of the northern and southern hemisphere. Of course there have been times when we were back home together for holidays, but at holidays, everything is all just fun.

The food ministry aka YA3 will now have a new member :) We did say that we dont want to have a doctor in the ministry, but for my brother and other future members, as long as they are not a medical doctor that practices medicine, we'll allow them to join us.

Alot of people have asked me if my brother and I get along... I suppose we do... our friends hang out together when we're back home... but we're now both grown ups so maybe abit of adjustment on both our sides to get adjusted to.

I think I have to be mindful of the chores that we have to do... I dont really want my old man to complain to me that I 'bully' my brother. But really, I only get him to do all the man chores... then again... he says in his blog that he's coming here to a life of hardwork and household chores...

Work just sucks more and more.....

I know I keep whinging about work but really work just gets from bad to worse. There's a rumour going on this week that we're abt to get uniforms to wear... IF I was in a service industry, constantly meeting people and clients, I can understand the need for uniforms to represent the company... but we hardly see anyone nor have any clients come into our office... and we have to wear uniforms?? Good grief...

Last week I scored a brownie point by doing an almost perfect file and I got 'praised'.... later on I found out that my satay doesnt like giving me compliments and praises as she feels that each time she gives me a compliment or a praise, I slack off thinking that I can be abit slack now that I've achieved some brownie points... that obviously pissed me off... but earlier on this week, I queried a client over a transaction on his bank statement which as work goes, it was my satay who had to ask the client abt this transactions coz low lifes like us are not allowed to speak to clients... and it turns out that it was a transaction that could have been easily recognised had I looked at the tax portal - well in the first place, the person who made the deposit into the bank account should have narrated the transaction better!!! Anyway, I got a blasting from my satay asking if I actually go thru the processing instructions and if I had, I would have picked up the transaction in the tax portal.... So I admitted that I dont use the processing instructions... Hey I'm a Pro at what I do so why should I?? Anyway, today I thought I will have a search for this processing instructions to see what the big deal is all about and I found out that it actually doesnt exist on our database but on the lap top of Number 1!!! Like Hello... how the f**k am I suppose follow these instructions if they are not readily available to staff??? Just coz the client that I requested this query from is some high flyer in some bank... he's being treated like a god... I think the bosses fail to realise that people do make mistakes.... to top it off, I later found out that satay made an error with some pension calculations as she used the wrong date of birth for one of the clients, and in that process, they had taken out excess pension money for the year... HAHAHAHAH!! She stuffed up!! So nobody's perfect, but I'm sure she will find some excuse to justify her for that.

Another guy at work got told that he works too slow and he needs to work faster - especially in the processing. Do they think we're robots now? He's only been with us for slightly over 2 months and has to learn so much new stuff and yet they expect him to work faster... and to make matters worse, they've changed his seating as well to be just outside the bosses office so that they can keep an eye on him...that's just so pathetic.

And of course, the bosses have their favourites, so no matter what any of their favourites does and does not achieve, they are excused and spoken for by the bosses... but the underdogs and low lifes like us who are constantly under the hate radar, whatever we do or dont achieve, we get blamed for it

This is my latest chant.... I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....

Congratulations Delise!!

Delise graduated last nite from UWA and we were there to witness it with her. Great job Delise!!! We kind of crashed in on the post ceremony celebrations ... free food and free wine... after that we headed on to Northbridge for supper... ultra tired as got home and slept at 1am but it was well worth it spending the time with her.

Delise leaves for Singapore on Thursday... *sob sob* so tomorrow night we're having a party for her... not so much as a farewell party but a party to celebrate her achievements and our looking forward to her return in a couple of weeks.

Dim Sum

There are certain 'must eat' things when one goes for dim sum... let's see.. there's the prawn and char siew chee cheong fun, there's the 'dan tart' (egg tart), pan fried radish cake and har kow. Once these are served to me, not matter in how big a serving, I am satisfied... and, I just had that for lunch :)

There's an eating crew starting to form between myself and some the younger generation at church - namely Delise, Calvin and Tim. It's great fun. For some reason, I actually prefer hanging out with these bunch of people rather than ... CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED ...

Anyway, we talked abt forming a eating and food ministry and our aim is to meet and eat. I know we're gluts ..... :) But it might be worth giving this some serious thought if we can also include perhaps helping out shelters to provide food and stuff to the homeless and needy. If eating is our passion and we are able to eat, wouldnt it be great to share eating with the rest of the world that has trouble looking for food?

Buffy Puppies (4)

The puppies are growing.... their eyes have opened and their noses are turning black. At first I thought they had contracted some strange disease... then I realised dogs have black noses!! Duh!! They've now started to 'crawl' and can now 'sit up'. I'm having a hard time trying to decide if I do want to keep one of the puppies or not. Part of me do, and part of me don't. They've also outgrown their play box, so I need to find another play box for them....

After crossing hump day

Thursday at work was pretty stressful. I had my 'review' meeting with satay, number 1 and the HR manager. They said that they were pretty happy with my performance and the usual crappy bullshit stuff..blah blah blah.... But hey did I have a choice? They forcefully imposed me a couple of stuff that I had to do and face consequences if I didnt, so what bloody choice did I have? To top things off, they wanna see me in a months' time again. I'm sick and tired of being under their radar and I dont agree to number 1 being in all these confidential meetings between satay and the HR manager and myself. She cant even handle being a effective manager herself so really, I think they need to be speaking to her as well.

Thursday night, had dinner at home with IRC and we had chilli mussels cooked by yours truly so obviously, I'll say that it was pretty yummy :) We watched a couple of dvds as well and had a couple of drinks - a pretty good night catching up with a friend. On Friday after lunch with DiG, we did a little therapy shopping... and I think I got a bargain... Got a pair of Hush Puppies shoes for $50 down from $100!! How cool is that!?!?!

Weekend is here again, was meant to go to KM's place for dinner tonite but that got cancelled, but it's all good, just means I get to read my book and vegetate a little bit more .... KM and I are on the prowl for a new job ....