Tong tong chiang!!

I am working today, and yesterday as well. No one else from my team is here in office, most of them only return next week. I as the one of the non-chinese felt obligated to volunteer myself to work on public holidays. Obligation or is it just plain ass kissing, I am also not sure. The other non chinese is travelling in europe to do some training. Sometimes i wonder why the heck am I doing this.

It always interesting when a chat with another individual can really mess up your mind. Mind you, this individual is like the type of worker who comes to office pissed off every day, no interest whatsoever feeling 'Im doing crap' with an end goal of to get the hell out of here. Sometimes I feel this type of people are too pessimistic and should be avoided at all costs; especially in one to one chatting sessions. But these people do give you a different perspective to a situation and get you back to reality and truth, which are usually not really good. They end up being pragmatic rather than pessimistic, messed up fuckedups.

i am getting free internet again yay

I thought I was getting used to my 4-12 night shift. Now that latin america trainings are over, so does the night shift. It felt like I worked less hours, and I could do a lot of things during the day. It is weird and good at the same time that I could do groceries and go watch movies and theres like no one around.

We had our inaugaural foosball tournament a couple of days ago. After such a build up, with all that practise at lunch break; heck we spent way too much time at the lounge playing foosball; we went out in the first round. It was no peanut opponent though, and it was quite unfortunate that we spent our previous weekend in Langkawi, and literally didnt practise before the game, so were quite rusty. Anyway, they used a new ball for the tournament, a much slower one, and we just didnt deal with that change. It didnt help that our game plan was based on statistics (were like a foosball version of Bolton, with less skills).

It was ironic that the course in Langkawi was all about that, how to deal with change. I think it was a good course, and the group; which for me makes or breaks the course, was good, willing to participate. I am no fan of this type of courses, I only went after seeing pictures of the resort were going to stay in. Westin Langkawi is a fantastic resort; huge plasma screen in every room, biggest ever bathtub with view of the sea, infinity pool, and to top it off friendly staff and good service.

Anyhow, some of my favourites from the course. First, the mbti test, which determines your personality and attributes. Mine is entp(introvert, perceiving, thinking,intuition... or something). This allows me to understand myself as well as others better, especially in trying to make sense of why people react or do things in a certain way in a situation. The other is the take charge thinking model, whereby u focus on the goal and develop the steps to acheive it instead of allowing thoughts or feelings clouding your thinking and judgement. Its trivial, but sometimes its good to step back and take a more hollistic or process-driven approach to how our mind works.