joke of the day

Dear Landscape Architect,

We notice that the trees in the rooftop garden start to tilt towards the sun. Why do the trees tilt towards the sun? Can you explain this?

Warmest regards,

A certain PM of a well known company

...duh... Somebody must have skipped his / her science class...

What would you do...

...if you have to make a phone call to a person with first name Tit and last name Phoo?

I decided not to give her a call, fearing I would burst into laughter. I'm so sorry...

Thanks so much!

This month has just started for two weeks, but a lot of good things have come to me one after another. I just can't say enough thank you's to You who makes this possible.

Teachers' Day

I didn't know the existence of this day until I become a tutor. Hadn't my student congratulated me, I would've never known about Teachers' Day.

Last year, I received one congratulatory note from my beloved tutee.

This year, she gave me a box of chocolate. And two others gave me a cute bell and a flower. I'm touched :') Thank you!!!!

I promise I will become a better tutor for you all!!

The Return of the Haze - "I'll be back..."

I blinked my eyes once, twice, thrice… It’s still blurry. Then I smelled the smoke. Oh, I thought, the haze has finally made its way back to Singapore. It slowly approached the island and surprised me with its presence on Tuesday morning. My morning looked like lala land with using smog as visual effect.

What has Indonesia done now, another forest fire? It seemed pretty bad… And as if the smell of the smoke was not enough, strangely the number of people smoking along my walk to the MRT increased by 4 fold. My lungs immediately screamed for fresh air. Well, I wouldn't get any until I reached MRT premises.

Work

What an inconsistent manager can do to you:
1. Unclear direction.
2. Low self esteem because you keep thinking what you do is never correct.
3. Wasting time.

And can you stop blaming me with that look on your eyes and your tone and your emails? Why the heck everything seems to be my mistake after taking over your category when you do not clearly give me all information and guidance on how to do things here? How am I supposed to know that it's a mistake and not an intended 'chim' term you inserted in the file you are supposed to assess previously? Do you even check attachment files?

Roar

hello work!

yeah, finally i came back to the working community again after a longggg hibernation :p

i've just been started working for 3 weeks. so far still good. a bit blur here and there, but okay lahhh.. a bit boring, coz not much to do. but the good thing: no need to OT, so i still can give tuition hahah..

okay, on my first day, i got a surprise.. not a surprise welcome party or something like it, but a surprise in how my 1st day in PS was very similar to my 1st day in SM. here are the similiarties:

1. the name of my colleague right in front of me is Pauline and she's sitting facing me.
2. i sit 2 rows in front of my direct boss and he can see my monitor.

i was like.. err.. how can this be.. haha

anyway, i still enjoy it. a lot of break times haha..

live life to the fullest! *random talk*

good byee..

(note: when i said "boss" it means i'm referring to the director who has been working very closely with me for the past 1.5 years. the rest i will just call as director haha)

this is my hardest good bye :( after thinking for a long time, i still decided to leave my work place. made my boss upset (i think) even though he didn't show it. i felt really sorry for him.

after CNY, everything went so fastttt.. got 2 more weeks remaining for working. told my most hard working seniors that i'm going to leave the following week. clearing up all the things. handing over the task to the rest of the team member.

i also felt very sorry to one of my seniors who has to handle one of my project alone after 2 juniors left at the same time :( so sorrryyy...

yesterday and today i keep clearing my stuff. wanted to take before-after photo, but forgot... so instead, i present to you halfway-after photo hahaha..

halfway done

after

in the end not really cleared everything lah.. still left a lot of stationery and files and boxes :p those two A4 boxes are empty. the huge box on the left is for my director. hahahah sorry huh.. since you didn't mention who will take over my project, so i will pass it to you.. and umm.. i left the rest of the drawings in my compactor, 2 rows of my 3-row-shelves :) enjoy it! oh, and the other one row, i passed over the space to my boss muhahahaha

and i got souvenirs: paper cuts and bruises. my boss warned me not to get paper cuts. howwww... i told him i experienced a lot already.hahahah can't be avoided oneeee

my boss still very nice to me T.T yest when i was clearing my stuff, he walked over to my place and asked for any documents / drawings need to be passed to him. then he helped me clear all my drawings T.T today didn't get a chance to meet him for a long time and even said goodbye. but it's okay, i overheard yesterday that he didn't like to say farewell. so ok loh :p i just left a gift for him. and for my 3 beloved seniors hahaha.. hope they all like it.

most of my colleagues were surprised when i told them i handed over my project mostly to directors and seniors. hahaha.. that means you really lack of young engineers lehhhh... go go go!! look for the E1, M1 and M2 haahah

well.. it has been a very great experience, very interesting line of work, but too interesting until you can't sleep hahaha. i will miss my company so much :( maybe the emails too :p but not the chasing. hmm.. maybe? hahaha..

anyway, i'm hoping for the best for all of my colleagues and project teams (client, contractor, architect, structure engineers). looking forward for the projects to be done and i can smile looking at it :)

dilemma

happy new year everyone! (both for the new year new year and the chinese new year haha)

i.. dunno what i want hahaha..

2 months ago i was very certain i want to quit my job. now, i threw letter already, start to question myself. if not bcos of my super nice boss, i won't think so hard. he's.. really trying hard to make me stay. the rest.. like.. errr.. asked me to have a talk with them just for formality. only got one other director who asked me "sure want to leave ah? confirm?", but he's not trying so hard like my boss.

surprised that today he still sms-ed me trying to make me stay. i tot i made it clear on last friday that i made my decision, don't want to stay and that's it. he even tried to push forward my pay review @.@ and took me out of one job (but he's not the director, so i don't know how he can do it) to reduce my work load.

i just can't picture myself in another 2 years in this line. i think i will be like one of my seniors, who does the work merely bcos he has to do it.

yeah it's true i like the company and the ppl. but if i don't like the work? even if it's reduced? yeah i know i'm gg to be transferred to his team and will be doing his jobs and i think i'll be fine. but.. his jobs are all big ones
-____-  no project with GFA less than 50,000. what the heck... (well, maybe HDB projects ahahah)

AHHHH.. need to reply his sms tmrw zzzzzzzzzzz

there are 2 annoying frogs in my life. why frog? cos they remind me of frogs. hahha...(jahat emang, tp emang miripp...)

one looks like this picture:

she's skinny, have huge and widely separated eyes and annoying. every monday morning she gives me nightmare. asking me this and that. T.T lately it's getting better though.. hopefully it will keep getting better.

the other one looks like this:

he has very thick lip, eyes that are jutting out and annoying. hahahah.. every tuesday morning he gives me nightmare. complain why we never think of this and that. where is our deliverables. why everything never do properly and up to his expectation.

sigh..

i think if these two got married, it will be ... i dunno.. horrible?

and i have to face them right at the beginning of my week.

and one of them used to give nightmare every sunday night T.T

MAKAN TUHHH

for the first time in my life... i'm so happy.. i can embarrass the client.. (even though i still made my tone in my reply v v humble, even apologized to client). if only i can be nasty oso.. but cannot.. wait we lose a lot of projects bcos of me hahah..

what say you now?? muahhahahaha

i was trying to be nice.. sent my question only to him and cc to my company's project email. so in case he is indeed in the wrong, he will only be embarrassed in front of my company lah.. but he went too far and even cc the whole team to reply my email.

he told me, my question is based on "much much older version of equipment data and has caused disturbance in communication"

i told him, the table which i used to ask him actually was received on a later date than his table which he claimed is newer than mine. and told him that lately received many version of "latest data" so dunno which one is latest and correct.

EAT THAT (aiyoh.. touchwood touchwood touchwood.. hopefully tmrw don't hv any problem bcos i posted this, hahahah)

let's see. i think everybody will still say i'm in the wrong. cos client is always right. to the hell with that. (pardon my language, really pissed off when i read his email, until i can't finish the work i want to finish today)

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stupidest thing i've done for the day:

i flagged on police car, thinking that it was taxi from afar -..-

*really need to get my eyes checked up again...

working in this consultancy line makes me understand that sweet talk is very very very crucial. hmph. like i can do it... and people expect you to know everything. i'm not encyclopedia okayyy..

i tot in this kind of era people will like a more straightforward conversation, not wasting time.. but i think making other people happy with your words is still very important. haha.

makan ati :(

be patienttttt

i
am
tirreeeeeeeddddddddddddddddddddd


been OT-ing like hell for.. 4 months? forget when was the last time i went back home at 7pm for a full week. hahah.

now going hm at 7pm is a luxury already T.T

and my meeting place get scarier.. one at tuas, the other one at changi. lalalala.. from one extreme to the other extreme.

what a life.

urgghh.. my neck is killing meeee T.T

i think i can go crazy anytime soon if this madness continues for another month.

don't even have enough time to really just pamper my brain. now weekend also can't rest. what a life.

i think my stamina must have been made of steel cos i didn't collapse, not even once until today. ahhaha

happy birthday indonesia! (in another 3 mins :P)

yosh.. hoping for the best for this week!!

seems like it's going to be another busy week.. hopefully.. really really hopefully.. i can get all my work done during my official working hour and don't need to OT.. then i can go makan with my parents!! hohoho...

gosh.. i need to practice not to forget things @.@ and i need to be more patient? hahha..

yosh!! you can do it!!! fightooooo oooohhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

yeah, i've been officially OT-ing for straight 2 weeks :P not an important news hahahah..

please please please let me go home on time next week??? yosh.. you can do it!

ok, internet super oon hari ini.. ngeselin deh.. oy wireless, can you get well soon, please? whatever your problem is, please please be normal soon.. for the time being i'm tethering the internet from my beloved iphone :P speed quite good, but.. my battery runs out v fast loh..

not a very long post today :P dun want to complain more hahaha

one good song for today!

gosh.. i think i've been OT-ing almost 2 week straight now.. ahhaha.. not until 8 like usual, but until 9-10 pm T.T what a life..

learnt my lesson from my 1st week of OT-ing, that my strategy not to eat before finishing work won't succeed if i plan to OT up 'til 9pm and do it more than one day :P only give me headache after that, and bloating stomach muahahaha.. therefore, i have a change of plan, to eat properly even though i know it'll only make me leave later than 9 pm.. what to do.. hahha..

have a change of decision for a couple of times.. planning to leave my current workplace.. but then my director do/say something encouraging to me that makes me think i'll be able to stay for a little while more.. but then something stressful coming again, making me want to leave this place straight away hahahaha.. what a super duper indecisive person i am..

however i felt weird. though i work like mad (maybe not up to other ppl standard of "working like mad") and not enough sleep for couple of days, i am not tired nor feel sleepy during the day (except during meeting, where i'm always able to fall asleep ever so soundly :P).

my brain, are you not tired at all? my dear brain, can you "tahan" for another round of OT-ing? only up to next week i promise.. up to next week.. then i won't stay in office up to 9-10 pm anymore..

sorry for abusing you my brain :P i think my brain is spoiled already, looking at the way i wrote muahahhaha

GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE!!

sighh.. super fast day today.. no meeting outside, but day in office pass by super fasstttt.. and i'm getting more jobs lalalala.. let me list down again..

853 (tender soon)
885 (tender very very soon)
810 (account closing, but very tough client)
896 (design period, tender in 3 mths? haha)
901 (just gotten the project, tender by nov?)
P159 (hibernate again for now, but heard the client win the land bidding T.T)
P160 (no news at all)
880 (construction, but not involved anymore lalalala)
878 (one of it gg to be under construction but not involved oso T.T)
PA1 (in process to win the project)
PA2 (no news)

wah lao.. 5 major all on! dieee.. but the one doing 878 is super.. he do everything himself.. it's 3 projects in one leh.. so sorry aaahhh, i'll help you if i caannn... reallyyy...

sighh.. felt unwell today.. got headache in the morning, then popped 2 panadols straight away.. after 4 pm it came back again and felt bloated.. wanted to puke but like no energy already hahaha.. reached home at 930 T.T only to find myself getting into serious discussion w/ my housemate.. aiyoh i wanna eat fast n sleep early leh.. but i think i'm just not allowed to huh...

sighh.. what a dayyy...

nahhh some songggg.. hahaha

arggghhh... super lemot mozillaaa.. why r u so slow todayyy???

wanted to download a show since yest, but unable to up 'til now.. hopefully this time caann :P

work's been hectic again this week.. but today i manage to go off early tho.. hahaha, just lazy to OT dunno why.. may tmrw's problem not so troublesome.. come what maayyy...

lesson learnt last week: no matter how friendly you've gotten to a colleague, you still need to be humble and polite to him/her. it's hard to be humble to everyone. there's this pride inside that wants to be satisfied hahaah.. well.. nobody's perfeccttt

i've just reread whatever i've written in my blog, and get a bit embarrassed :P

well.. i didn't go thru two tenders in the end, cos both of them a bit delayed.. but i got a new major project instead @.@ going to be briefed about it next monday.. yeahh...

anyway.. just get my new haircut.. not much different, it's just that my fringe now shorter..

one thing i like about going to get haircut.. the shampoo smells nice and long lasting!! hahaha... i dunno what the hairdresser does to make it smell that good and long lasting.. i wanna be able to do that T.T

ok! one good song for today :P (i think i put up a song in almost all of my posts :P)



guess who sing the guy part?? hahah.. it's chucckk!!! the guy who played chuck i mean hahaha.. he's  awesome and now got a great voice too!! ahhaha..