I'm in a red outfit today. As much as I had expected, one fella commented "Eh I thought you don't celebrate Chinese New Year??"
Is the color red exclusive only to this festivity. It's just a color, for heaven's sake..
Geez!!
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20100223
baby you're a maze...
Sometimes in a desperate attempt to come across as learned & proficient in the Queen's English, many a times one ends up screwing the whole thing. Read this & tell me that you are not simply amazed...
Police report has been made against Mr. A on 30 Feb and the original copy has been passed to Ms. J on the same date for her to do the insurance claim. Amazingly on the next day, I received a call from Mr. A after his refusal to answer our numerous calls previously. He mentioned that he has passed all the Company's....
Police report has been made against Mr. A on 30 Feb and the original copy has been passed to Ms. J on the same date for her to do the insurance claim. Amazingly on the next day, I received a call from Mr. A after his refusal to answer our numerous calls previously. He mentioned that he has passed all the Company's....
assume the ass in you not me
I am in a state of frustration right now. Especially with my job. Before you start assuming that I am already bored of it.... well, not really. My job as an EA to the big kahuna is quite fun but its the moonlighting as HR that I despise much.
I simply don't understand the simple fact that they have assigned a duty to me but not to entrust me to do it my way. If they feel I need to be protected from the evil forces out there, why give it to me in the first place? Now I have to CC the whole wide universe when I send out a mail.
Then there's this BIG meeting coming up where they are going to brief the others on the new policies etc etc etc. The ones scheduled to attend are holding managerial positions and above. We are supposed to show samples on how the claims forms needs to be filled. So its a hypothetical situation. And we create a fictitious claims and just put in figures to give a feel of how the real thing should be. It can be any figure can't it?
But no, she says must put the actual figure so that the manager don't shoot us back with "Eh, where got airfare so cheap like that?". Try to cut the red tape she says. But making them complete a million and one forms isn't red tape?
I don't know, I am getting a little irritated by this... I am so not enjoying this. Damn!!
I simply don't understand the simple fact that they have assigned a duty to me but not to entrust me to do it my way. If they feel I need to be protected from the evil forces out there, why give it to me in the first place? Now I have to CC the whole wide universe when I send out a mail.
Then there's this BIG meeting coming up where they are going to brief the others on the new policies etc etc etc. The ones scheduled to attend are holding managerial positions and above. We are supposed to show samples on how the claims forms needs to be filled. So its a hypothetical situation. And we create a fictitious claims and just put in figures to give a feel of how the real thing should be. It can be any figure can't it?
But no, she says must put the actual figure so that the manager don't shoot us back with "Eh, where got airfare so cheap like that?". Try to cut the red tape she says. But making them complete a million and one forms isn't red tape?
I don't know, I am getting a little irritated by this... I am so not enjoying this. Damn!!
20100211
spammed
I don't about the others who blog but have you received comments in your box that is so weird and probably uncalled for. Well I am sure you have but...
There's this person who has his/her name in Chinese characters who left one comment too many which is linked of course. When I click on the link, it goes to some porno site me thinks. And of course being me, I deleted those comments lah.
But yesterday, this Chinese person again (I don't really read Chinese, for all I know its a non-Chinese name written in Chinese...) left another comment but this time got a bit of smarts to add "Maybe your sole purpose in life is to warn others................." (or something like that with a long series of full-stops)
Did this person get a premonition and decided to go all philosophical on me? Who knows? Just when I thought I've been shown the light at the end of the tunnel (you know the sole purpose of my existence and all that jazz), I clicked on the link which he/she so smartly put as the long dot dot dot, another soft porn site.
It's probably another Zoolander at various stages of undress. Like I said I don't read Chinese so I had no clue what was the site all about.
Now you are wishing I didn't delete it eh... Well, maybe next time but someone's got to tell me what it's all about...
There's this person who has his/her name in Chinese characters who left one comment too many which is linked of course. When I click on the link, it goes to some porno site me thinks. And of course being me, I deleted those comments lah.
But yesterday, this Chinese person again (I don't really read Chinese, for all I know its a non-Chinese name written in Chinese...) left another comment but this time got a bit of smarts to add "Maybe your sole purpose in life is to warn others................." (or something like that with a long series of full-stops)
Did this person get a premonition and decided to go all philosophical on me? Who knows? Just when I thought I've been shown the light at the end of the tunnel (you know the sole purpose of my existence and all that jazz), I clicked on the link which he/she so smartly put as the long dot dot dot, another soft porn site.
It's probably another Zoolander at various stages of undress. Like I said I don't read Chinese so I had no clue what was the site all about.
Now you are wishing I didn't delete it eh... Well, maybe next time but someone's got to tell me what it's all about...
20100210
strike a pose...
Ever noticed how the cam-whores have one and only that one pose in ALL their pictures? It's like in Zoolander where he says he has a multitude of looks but it's just that one...
Hmm, curious.
It's not been a good day and I am just not in the mood for anything. So instead of completing my assignments, I am browsing FB and am bombarded with the Zoolander syndrome. Thus this mindless banter. Please excuse me, while I go mope about something everything and nothing...
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Now, I'm a GLEEK...
20100203
speak don't speak
A friend asked how I was getting along with my job. I told 'Fine, they just confirmed my position & I got a decent pay raise' (decent enough lah).
Then she asks me the soalan cepumas "But do they really know how you feel about them?" Yeah, what with me ranting and blabbering about their idiosyncrasies especially Super Dino and her new terminologies to the simplest of words.
Thus starts, learn a word a day (or on the days she decides to open her mouth and say something simply stupid). Today's word is "Commute" which in Dino world means "Communiqué".
Mistress Evil Twin tells me Communiqué means to communicate, to speak. Commute means 'Ko Mute' - so shut up. Now it makes senses, its antonym speak.
I'm multi-lingual I tell you - BM, English, smattering of Chinese (good enough to know when people are saying not so nice things), bits and pieces of Tamil, Badak Speaks & Dino/Onion Speaks.
Today's Jalan Bijan is brought to you by the letter C and todays words are Communiqué & Commute...
Isn't learning fun??
Then she asks me the soalan cepumas "But do they really know how you feel about them?" Yeah, what with me ranting and blabbering about their idiosyncrasies especially Super Dino and her new terminologies to the simplest of words.
Thus starts, learn a word a day (or on the days she decides to open her mouth and say something simply stupid). Today's word is "Commute" which in Dino world means "Communiqué".
Mistress Evil Twin tells me Communiqué means to communicate, to speak. Commute means 'Ko Mute' - so shut up. Now it makes senses, its antonym speak.
I'm multi-lingual I tell you - BM, English, smattering of Chinese (good enough to know when people are saying not so nice things), bits and pieces of Tamil, Badak Speaks & Dino/Onion Speaks.
Today's Jalan Bijan is brought to you by the letter C and todays words are Communiqué & Commute...
Isn't learning fun??
carpark claims
I'm sure most of you have submitted claims for reimbursement. You know the norm - meals allowance, travel allowance, mileage, parking, toll charges, telephone calls, etc etc etc.
But have you ever come across claiming for a carpark?
I soon will I suppose if I follow his 'smarts'....
But have you ever come across claiming for a carpark?
I soon will I suppose if I follow his 'smarts'....
quadratic functional mess
I never realised how rusty these brains were till the daughter brought out her Add Maths books and asked me to help her with some problems.
And to think it was one of my favorite subjects and one of my strongest. Functions? Inverse functions? Roots? Point of roots? Sum of roots? Quadratic equations? And this is only chapter 2...
I suppose the fact that I can solve 5 out of 7 problems means I ain't that bad eh? But it takes a lot of flipping the pages, reading and understanding the examples (ever noticed how the examples in the books are always the easiest of the lot & the actual exercises are nowhere related to the examples), switching between the text book and the reference book & the evergreen 'checking the answers at the back'. And that takes like what, half an hour..
It's frustrating enough for me and I can really feel for the daughter when it all seems nothing but just a fuzzy blur.
And I have come to the conclusion that all Add Maths teachers are just loose in the head. They are faster than the speeding bullet. Some of my classmates in secondary school can attest to our Form 4 AM teacher who sped from one end of the board to the other in a matter of minutes without even bothering if we understood what she was blabbering about. Needless to say the whole Fourth Form failed the AM paper in the first semester. It may have been her proudest moment yet. Funnily, I cannot remember her name for the life of me.
Then in Form 5, we had Miss Ambrose. Another one we simply could not understand. What was she saying neither what she was teaching. Thanks to an infamous tutor at that time (getting into his class was like getting into Yale, we had to sit for bloody exams), we managed to buck up and pass with flying colors. But the case of Lembu Punya Susu, Sapi Dapat Nama - Ms Ambrose was praised for our performance (from zero to hero).
The tutor itself was/is (heard he's still tormenting the kids) another nut job. He'd give us loads and loads of homework and expect it to be turned it the next day. Half the time in school, we'd be doing his work. Good thing was, the reference book used in school & tuition were the same. So we started the 'copy & paste' well ahead of time. Just not with the click of a mouse though...
So anyways, I am desperately begging the daughter to take up tutorials for AM 'cos its only Chapter 2 and I want to throw out the book from the 16th floor.
Parents, if you think the last you saw a text book was when you left school or university or whatever it last was, think again. It's deja vu all over again when them kids head off to school. I suppose if we were to take the PMR or SPM papers again we would be so lucky to get off at a 'B'. Seriously, these kids are being tortured. But really is there any solution to this?
And to think it was one of my favorite subjects and one of my strongest. Functions? Inverse functions? Roots? Point of roots? Sum of roots? Quadratic equations? And this is only chapter 2...
I suppose the fact that I can solve 5 out of 7 problems means I ain't that bad eh? But it takes a lot of flipping the pages, reading and understanding the examples (ever noticed how the examples in the books are always the easiest of the lot & the actual exercises are nowhere related to the examples), switching between the text book and the reference book & the evergreen 'checking the answers at the back'. And that takes like what, half an hour..
It's frustrating enough for me and I can really feel for the daughter when it all seems nothing but just a fuzzy blur.
And I have come to the conclusion that all Add Maths teachers are just loose in the head. They are faster than the speeding bullet. Some of my classmates in secondary school can attest to our Form 4 AM teacher who sped from one end of the board to the other in a matter of minutes without even bothering if we understood what she was blabbering about. Needless to say the whole Fourth Form failed the AM paper in the first semester. It may have been her proudest moment yet. Funnily, I cannot remember her name for the life of me.
Then in Form 5, we had Miss Ambrose. Another one we simply could not understand. What was she saying neither what she was teaching. Thanks to an infamous tutor at that time (getting into his class was like getting into Yale, we had to sit for bloody exams), we managed to buck up and pass with flying colors. But the case of Lembu Punya Susu, Sapi Dapat Nama - Ms Ambrose was praised for our performance (from zero to hero).
The tutor itself was/is (heard he's still tormenting the kids) another nut job. He'd give us loads and loads of homework and expect it to be turned it the next day. Half the time in school, we'd be doing his work. Good thing was, the reference book used in school & tuition were the same. So we started the 'copy & paste' well ahead of time. Just not with the click of a mouse though...
So anyways, I am desperately begging the daughter to take up tutorials for AM 'cos its only Chapter 2 and I want to throw out the book from the 16th floor.
Parents, if you think the last you saw a text book was when you left school or university or whatever it last was, think again. It's deja vu all over again when them kids head off to school. I suppose if we were to take the PMR or SPM papers again we would be so lucky to get off at a 'B'. Seriously, these kids are being tortured. But really is there any solution to this?
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