on why Monday is a good day

I always go to this shop for whatever photo errand needed to be done..... and I have just found out that they do digital enhancement to pictures. For my case, passport sized photo..... maybe I have repeatedly gone to this place because those pictures looked good.... they do the sort of things done to magazine covers and stuff like that. But on this latest occasion, this digital enhancement thing made me look like I was wearing makeup and lipstick..... way too much "brush up" and pimple deleting....

I have one more exit interview to go, and this is the official one with the MD and hr.... I have talked to the manager and director. I am trying to avoid HR people.... whenever I bump into them theyre like "why the @#@ are u resigning? Now I need to dig out those resumes again and find a replacement. What the hell is wrong with you?" I also need to clarify that I have no problem with anyone.... for some reason it is easy for people to think that there is some "rasa tak puas hati"......

Why does a resignation result in a backlash?.... people get fired, people get retrenched... promoted and demoted.... people come and go.

I am on annual leave tomorrow.... is it time for NFL action? Hopefully there is a game tomorrow morning....

apartment to let.. anyone?

Greetings all,

I am looking for an apartment around the Bukit Jalil area.... preferably near an LRT station and/or near the Technology Park Malaysia.... anyone got tips or recommendation... kindly let me know.

Thank you and best regards.

Blue Monday...

Anxious about tomorrow.... I didnt quite hand in my resignation notice to my supervisor in person.... he was in a meeting last Friday.... so just left it on his desk and drop him an email. He usually comes down to our office in the mornings. He should be no problem, has always been diplomatic and open, but I am not sure about the director.... hopefully there will be no exit interview or anything like that....

It feels good, so it cannot be the wrong decision. Next two week will be interesting, I am not that involved, but still there are some handover to do.... I wonder who will be in charge of my "son"... the facility monitoring system project. quite relieved to know that I will be dealing with those contractors no more.... quite unbelievable people. Just last week, a 50K "engineering and project management charge" quotation sent to me.... very2 shocking and ridiculous. I am more willing to pay like 50 ringgit for that kind of work.

Djibril Cisse scored the decisisve goal vs Blackburn... hopefully this will get him going and rediscover his scoring habit. He finally started a game and lasted the whole game.... in my opinion, he was improving as the game went on, and the climax was the goal. Liverpool need him to hit top form..... I think he will be important for Liverpool.

Cigarrettes anyone?

BAT has offered me a job. I think I will accept it. I have no doubt about this apart from the fact that they sell tobacco products. But then again, like the saying of the wise men lol... petroleum companies, or other companies don't do that good a deed to the world anyway. Its all about profit.

Hopefully I will not mess up again. I will go into the realm of SAP, six sigma and crap like that, and leave mechanical engineering. I am pretty sure I am going into the right direction. Anyone know about BAT GSD's office in Technology Park? (The one in PJ is BAT, whereas BAT GSD is a sister company in Bukit Jalil). Hopefully the place is beautiful with shiny glass wall and steel structures... lol.... and not like in some shophouse. Then after this, theres the not so fun part of tendering resignation(omg again), figuring out stuff like house, car, bills......

"Helena" by My chemical Romance, "All that I could...." by the Killers and "Your Beautiful" by James Blunt. My "troika" of fantastic tracks of the year. Can't get enough of these good stuff.

"El Bob"

There is no greater gift than the love of a cat...........Charles Dickens

You know my female cat that was going to be sterilised.... well she got flu that day and the vet's opinion was shes too weak for the procedure. We didnt get a second opinion, and she never got sterilised at all. And, yeah, she got pregnant again recently , and delivered 4 more kittens, and theyre not ugly, and they are all white; I would prefer more colours.

Her previous delivery produced 4 freaking ugly kittens; we gave 3 of them away(banyak sangat) and kept one. I thought of naming the kitten "Yoda" back then, because it was ugly and cute (almost) at the same time. It has got black fur with large white spots, much like the normal local tabby cat. "Yoda" was rejected, guess what my family call the cat: "Bob". Lol.... tribute to bob.

The Deluxe Containers

The rumour is that production people will displace us Facility Department people, yet again. This time, rumour has it that Facility Department will move into the so-called "deluxe containers", to be placed next to the main building. We all just laughed it off, laugh with a hint of sadness and despair, but I think its not that funny. We are 2nd class workers indeed. And this week, rumour has transformed into cad drawings. And just last week, we were supposed to have spanking new cubicles in a spanking newly renovated office...... all that dream down the drain.

I think that is the most feasible outcome. I think we will have "kontena" office. Space is running out, headcount increasing, building expansion on hold..... The Ironic part is, we ourselves are planning this, since we handle projects. Our motto seem to be "we must suffer to provide service to other people." The only thing that we can do is to look for the most luxurious containers, or the "deluxe containers", as the vendors say it. The only way out is if there is a safety issue....

Why Liverpool lost.....

1 Ramadan falls on oct. 5, Wednesday. So it was announced on tv, by the "penyimpan mohor besar...." It has been 4 years since my last penyimpan mohor experience.... it felt good indeed.

What can I say, the premership is turning into a 1 horse race. I predicted Liverpool to kick Chelsea's ass, a defeat that would see Chelsea lose 3 points, shatter their winning habit and give confidence to the usual suspects. It was bound to not happen...

Unfortunately, Liverpool have this player called Djimi Traore. Ive never liked him, I have written bad stuff about this guy. I wrote about him standing 6 feet tall, being outjumped by midget Fabio Cannavaro in Champs League quart final. He can do worse than that, as proven in last night's showdown.

I have no idea why he was playing. Heck, he should have never worn a Liverpool shirt, and the fact that Benitez wanted him to stay after last year's joke performance baffles me. I think Stephen Warnock was injured, but I would prefer Djibril Cisse playing at left back to Djimi Traore. By the way, Cisse is a good player and he is welcome at Anfield all the time.

Djimi Traore is a special player. He has this charisma. You look at his face and you think "omg dia ni mesti nak buat lawak". A quality he shares with players such as Mickael Silvestre, Philip Neville, Gary Neville(to a lesser extent), Jerzy Dudek..... you get the picture. Do not get me wrong, these players posess football talents. But the big problem is the membuat lawak part.

There is no way that Liverpool can match Chelsea if they do not rely on defence. However, defence only works if you dont commit mistakes, and after Traore's tackle, the floodgates opened. I dont know if Benitez changed tactics, but Liverpool attacked more after chelsea's goal. They should not have, and that's why they conceded 3 more.