Fantasy football

Lets play fantasy football: http://fantasygames.espnstar.com/football/football_index.do?operation=logoutuser_football

I have a team already, but I forgot about it and it was sort of neglected until they sent me an email as a reminder. So, my score is already screwed up. But this is still fun, playing team manager, though they give away prizes to top scorers. The astro pundits each have their own team.... and they have their own so called celebrity league. Surprise surprise... mr Paul Masefield is leading.

The other night, was clicking the remote away when stumbled upon a rerun of NY giants vs San diego chargers game, and that was my first american footbal game since I left ann arbor. Though didnt watch the whole thing, the giants were staging a comeback when I decided its running late and time to sleep. Also witnessed one awesome catch made by jeremy shockey.... omg what fabolous catch, and that reminded me of american football's greatness. But it is so sad to hear the wolverines are at 2-2 right now..... I mean sad but not shocking at the same time. For me, Braylon Edwards is to the wolverines as Theirry Henry is to Arsenal, and he left a humongous gap indeed.

Die Chelsea, die!

I think I have been very prudent with money since started working, because I value it more. But in college, I bought some useless things. On the top of the list is the sony discman that cost me like nearly 200 bucks. I cant believe I bought that crap, in freshman year. It is a quality product, but the problem is that its overpriced and I bought my ipod like a few months after I got the discman. So, never used the discman since. The motorola walkie-talkie is quite useless too. It is there on my desk collecting dust. I think I only used it like twice, when I called epol/jun to come over to my apartment to "winning". Yes, they bought the talkie also, but it was on 50% off, quite hard to resist.

But the other day, while strolling around in a bookshop, killing time, waiting to pickup my sister from school, I decided to buy a FHM. Wah, the stuff in the magazine would make anyone drool(this is open to interpretation). I think I have been so disconnected to the gadget world. I only knew ipod nano is out like today. I think my prudent spending is largely due to a disconnect to product marketing. I think I also have a watch fetish. Man, I wish I could have one of them tag heuers...

I predict chelsea's first loss tonight to Liverpool, the team that last beat them. A romantic prediction, isnt it? Another sleepless night it will be, and tomorrow morning I am off to KL for bats interview. Hopefully I can get some good sleep in flight. Anyways, the three favourites for the champs league in my opinion are chelsea, liverpool and juventus. Liverpool because they have that "mombok" aura(luck, european champs blood running in them, the kop and bla bla)... and the other two because they are simply good.

career path

If I can turn back time, I would do this whole career thing differently. If only I was more optimistic and patient, I would have waited for a good offer instead of jumping into an offer and not drag myself into this whole jobhopping mumbo jumbo mess. I wish that I had the guts to reject job offers. I envy people who get many job offers all in the same time, and have the luxury to pick the best choice.

I wish that I applied to companies that I actually want to work for, instead of mixing them up a bit. But thats a good strategy for me considering my CGPA, pawe lain citer lah. And the not so interesting offers came first.... I think I had no choice but to accept, because I was such a realist. And once I had actually accepted offers, things would get complicated when more interesting companies came calling.

Anyways, I think I need to get out of my current situation. I think the whole place is in a mess, my department is in a mess, and I do not want to drag myself into this mess. I want to escape from the problem, sort of. I dont know about other companies or factories, but here it is chaos. Every request from production to us in Facility dept. is urgent. When every request is urgent, there is chaos, and something is not right.

I am in charge of energy conservation, every week they want me to update. And yet, they dont even have sufficient data of all the facility equipment, or any kind of documentation, or any kind of facility monitoring system. Can you believe it.... such a huge plant with no facility monitoring system? All the facility equipment monitoring is done manually, because the monitoring system broke down like 3 years ago.

Sometimes, when these people ask me to give updates, I fee like telling them " are you freaking stupid.... we dont have data, we cant analyse the equipment's performance... how on earth can we improve them?".... but the bosses are NATO's... No Action Talk Only, and they only want results.

I need more annual leave

I think I am taking this BAT (british american tobacco) seriously. Although it would be really ironic if I do end up there. Me working for tobacco company, hmmm.... and family opinion so far are reduced to comments like "haa nak jual rokok kah".

I guess I will be going to KL again, for the next and final stage. A few more hundred bucks gone... just like that. The final interview format for bat is similar to that of shell.... proposal, case study, group discussion and final interview. Shell's was from 8 to 5. Bat's is from 1:30 pm to 7. Hmmm... I have no idea how they are gonna do this.... everything crammed together.

The position is not engineering related, which is interesting for me. (no engineering=interesting). It is also a trainee position, management trainee, though to be exact its called business technology associate. I have no idea what that is.

Anyway, I am looking for a trainee position, because I want to get proper training. I think I will be better off that way. Currently I am huffing and puffing, and there is no one giving me directions. Everyone including my supervisor is too busy, and no one is willing to help. I am treated like I am not new and it is frustrating. They give me projects and no directions, and I am held fully responsible. Due to my lack of experience, I have overlooked some fairly important things while executing work. My worst nightmare is that I would mess up critical things, and be removed from the project. Now that will be a blow to your self confidence and ego.

Boiling point

Out of clutter, find simplicity.
From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

I just cannot stand dumb drivers. Dumb drivers are those who hog the fast lane, and think theres nothing wrong with it. Plenty of them in Kuching. They think they are safe drivers. But they are actually selfish and single minded, and dumb. There are 3 lanes, and they go driving 60 km/h in the fast lane. Maybe they are just dumb and actually dont know traffic law. Sometimes, I feel like stopping these people and give them a slap in the face. Worse are cibai drivers, and these people actually deserve a slap in the face. These are people who for some reason drive slowly in the fast lane, and when you are about to overtake them, they speed up. Just because they dont want people to pass them, because kiasuness and/or cibainess and/or dumbshitness.

Knives out

I cannot wait for tomorrow. It is monday indeed.... and so the cycle will go on. Tomorrow will be the start of a hectic phase of work, for the past month or so I feel like I have been slacking, and sort of got a wake up call last Friday. Now I am nervous and anxious, and thats good because that means that I indeed have awakened. Having said that, I do not like the fact that all of a sudden, time is running out for me to complete this project, after someone like asked to do freaking extra credit to be submitted together with the assignment, deadline not changed. And all that done in a meeting with the contractor and vendor. I was like omg, "just do it".

I have seen Chelsea and particularly Michael Essien play quite a number of times, and I could not be more impressed by both. Chelsea should win the champions league this time, at least they have the pedigree, if not luck. Essien is worth every penny chelsea paid for him, and I will go to such extent: he is better than gerrard and Lampard combined.

Chelsea has gone to 6 wins on the trot, zero goals conceded. At the moment, the only team that I can see beating chelsea is Liverpool. They play similar style, they will cancel each other, and Liverpool with the power of the Kop and a slice of luck will somehow win.

mocha choca latte frappucino....

Today at work, I literally had meetings from 9 to 4. Freaking crazy day. At 4 o clock, I was so tired, I was just waiting for the clock to tick to 5. I was literally sitting at my computer doing nothing, staring at the monitor, right index finger clicking the mouse.... pretending I was at least doing something.....

We have this huge shutdown coming.... for the first time in like 3 years, they are going to stop production for like a week.... to do maintenance. The machines have been running for 3 years non stop, and now this huge miantenance work. They call it annual preventive maintenance.... but I was told that its not done anually.... the last one was like 3 years back. Luck has deserted me.... for the firs time, the maintenance will be done during raya week.....

People were telling me that I should bring pillows and comforter and sleep next to the air handling unit. Some say do not even dream of raya, as I will be at the plant for 24 hours 7.... and freaking cook rendang and lemang at the chiller plant there. Of course these people were just trying to scare me..... and I have confirmed with the boss that I WILL take days off for raya.

Are you kidding me.... I have not celebrated raya for the past 4 years.... nothing will stop me this time, even my job. They never mentioned this shutdown thing during the interview, and I never agreed to come to work on freaking 1 Syawal.....

Public service announcement: LASIK

To get lasik surgery done is like a dream for every bespectacled person. People have no idea how wearing glasses can affect lives. It is uncomfortable, annoying, physically restrictive.... we are handicapped. I seriously think that I am legally blind, because without my glasses, I simply cannot function.

Back to my story, the first time that I have ever thought at all about this LASIK was when I was at Sunway. This was when I stumbled upon a LASIK center next (left) to the pyramid. They advertised it as a miracle.... lose your glasses after painless 30 minute surgery... or something like that. And its somewhat affordable too.

However, I did quite a research on this back then, and found out what they didnt tell us. LASIK is much more risky than advertised. Complications are all too common, from severely dry eyes and astig to total blindness. The percentage of people who got blind due to LASIK was high too.... but forgot how much... Furthermore, if the surgery was successful, it doesnt guarantee that you dont need glasses. If I am not mistaken, 100% of people who need reading glasses, after LASIK, will still need some sort of aid(glasses) for perfect vision.

Anyways, my public service announcement is, if you think of getting LASIK done, do your research, and get a lot of professional opinion.