disfigured

ok.. someone else gave feedback today that i should blog more in order to entertain her while she's at work.. geez.. makes me wish i was doing her job so i can complain about not being entertained by other ppl's blogs while i'm at work.. hehe

urgh, i got this ugly cut on my forehead now above my right eyebrow.. got it from playing badminton just now. i was jumping to smash the shuttlecock when i apparently swung my racket so hard that it totally threw me off balance mid air. i was of cos expecting my legs to reach the floor first so i can recover myself, but they never did leh for some strange reason.. haha.. i landed face down on the floor. bumped my head and probably cut myself on the edges of the tiles..

i know, i know.. sounds incredible.. i was there myself and i can't believe it either.. haha..

so anyway, guess i have to live with this stupid cut on my forehead for the next few days.. hm.. just hope it doesn't leave a permanent scar or something..

updates

a dear old friend smsed me today asking how i was - complaining i haven't blogged in a while.. so ok.. i shall oblige because i value all feedback.. haha

let's see... wat's been happening, wat's been happening..

oh yes, there is the little matter of my job switch.. i switched from this...



to this!

yea.. i'm your humble public servant now.. haha..

well, one would have thought that since i crossed over, things would be good.. but sometimes life throws ya a curveball.. anyway, i got this piece of great advice from someone: how you handle yourself when times are tough will shape you more than when times are good.. something to remember and live by during these dark times..

ok.. that's all the update for now.. until the next time someone else complains! hehe..

krabi + bangkok!

just back from krabi & bangkok! it was certainly a much needed holiday after the hectic months of september and october that was spent preparing for the exercise.

spent 3 days in krabi and 5 days in bangkok. a picture say a thousand words, so without further ado, here are some highlights of the trip...

vogue resort - our accommodation in krabi

our room in krabi

views from ao nang beach

day 2 in krabi - island hopping!

day 3 - canoeing & elephant trekking


we had a little visitor on our boat during the canoeing trip...

and now for the elephants!

centrepoint petchburi - our accommodation in bangkok

and now, the food that we've been gorging ourselves with during the past 8 days..

italian food in krabi - pasta, pizza and uh.. tom yam soup?? haha

seafood @ wan sai in krabi - pineapple rice, green curry, red snapper, shrimp & chicken

the fish was HUGE - how huge? compared to my arm, it's like...

tony roma's in bangkok

chinese dinner @ nam sing restaurant, bangkok chinatown - steamed fish, sea cucumber, shark's fin, pork ribs & seafood fried rice

and of course, we have to perform the obligatory arm test to compare aginst the fish we had in krabi...

the grand finale - bird's nest!

final night in bangkok: outback steak restaurant - cheese fries & fried calamari

my prime minister's steak.. hm...

and that about sums it up, folks! here's a lil' slideshow for ya. more photos available at my webshots album here!

rant

oh today is such a frustrating day because of 3 major incidents which can all be boiled down to 2 words: "no progress". warning: rant ahead!


No-Progress #1 - normally, when you hear that your office is being shifted. you would be interested to know WHERE you're shifting to, right? oh.. everyone's interested in knowing and interested in speculating, but how come no one actually ASKs the higher-ups who have the answer? i haven't been in the office for days, so i thought someone else would find the chance to go ask, but no..... the day of the shifting comes around, and wat did i find? no one in the freaking room knows where we are supposed to move to. how the f**k did that happen?!

anyway, it turns out they are carving this room out of some free space on one of the floors for us. problem? everybody else on the floor is moving out, the contractors are coming to take over the space on monday, and our spanking new room has only started renovation - which means it will only be ready in another week or so. sigh....

anyway, i won't be around the office much in the coming weeks, so i packed my stuff and disconnected my computer in anticipation that the things will be shifted anytime. wonderful, just wonderful. just when i thot i would have a change of office today, i am stuck. no progress.


No-Progress #2 - who knew crossing over can be such a complicated matter? all this while, i go along with the anticipation that the cross-over will happen on 1st nov, only to be told that somebody is being childish and is blocking the thing. like wat the hell? seriously, if you really thot i was that important then you should have done something more to keep me in the first place now, shouldn't you? i really dun see the point of u being childish and refusing to let me go when i have already made it clear that i dun want to stay in the first place. u think i would really stay on a few more months just so your little project will be transited over nicely? really? u really think so? just when i thot i would be crossing over on 1st nov, i might not - i'm stuck. no progress.


No-Progress #3 - i am a big believer of the whole baseball thing, i.e. 3-strikes-and-yer-out. i firmly believe there is no point in me keep banging my head against the wall, expecting to smash a hole in it when all it does is just hurt. perserverence may be a good thing, but i'd really be a fool to keep trying when i know that freaking wall ain't gonna budge an inch. forget it. there are other thinner walls out there. just when i thot i would finally be making some headway, i get shut out. no progress.



i just hate it when just as it seems my life is starting to come together, all the pieces start to crumble before my eyes.. but is the situation still salvageable? or rather, is it even up to me to do something to change the situation? sigh..

QOTD

and the quote of the day has to go to my project manager who said (after a long briefing)..

"so.. is there any other part of my job that you are doing on my behalf? hehe.."

sheesh..

irony

irony is when...

they tell you that you got promoted to "Software Specialist" the week before...

and this week, you end up tearing up floorboards, moving network cable points and telephone wires - like Phua Chu Kang and his contractors.. this so brings back memories of that Industrial Attachment stint at NYCC all those years back...

sigh..

expectations

and the underlying theme for this week certainly seems to be... expectations

as the saying goes.. "Always aim for the moon and even if you don't reach it don't worry, cause then you'll fall among the stars"

the only problem with that saying is.. it still sucks because the fact remains that you missed the bloody moon! ah well..