Random Notes

The Boys

LokLok and Quan Quan are back with their mom and dad. I guess the episode of being possessed by ghosts somehow didn’t affect them all that much. Thank God. I heard the mom has gone back to work already.Hopefully, they will be able to find another house to move in soon. The boys even suggested to the father to buy the house behind ours which is currently on sale because they want to be close to my mother. How sweet! These little boys are even more appreciative of what my mom has done for them thansome closer kins, unfortunately.

Election is near

After getting almost 2-3 sms per week on election to seek for support, this time round, the ruling coalition tried cold calling! Can you imagine? Cold calling people to seek for support? I was already pissed at the unsolicited sms and now, cold call? I told the poor lady on the phone not to call me anymore. It’s already against the Data Protection Act 2010 – according to my friend, Ann. So, I probably will quote this the next time they tried calling me again, if they don’t know any better.

Awaken

I was told by my colleague that some Chinese dailies mentioned there are many youngsters who pledged to cancel their holidays if election were to fall on the dates of their travels. This is a commitment from the youngsters, probably first time voters. I too, was as excited as them! I am supposed to travel to Korea end of this month and if the polling date fall on the dates coincide with my travel, I will also cancel my trip! I feel that, if each and everyone of us is committed to play a part as a responsible citizen to counter injustice, corruption and tyranny.. Malaysia will be in safe hands.

Random Notes

Hot Days

I think the hot days are here to stay. Probably the past one week, the weather has been unbelievably hot! After some crazy rains during Chinese New Year – which ought to be hot every time of the year, now it suddenly moved to hot and dry spell. Hope it’s not another El Nino or what-not. The air cond in my room is programmed to 18C as opposed to my normal 22C. I can’t even switch it off before I go to bed now, if not, I would wake up in the middle of the night in puddle of sweat. Hopefully, the hot spell would be over soon… a moderate 30C should be nice. Haha.

Writing

Am not sure why some people simply refused to even attempt to write a letter or e-mail on their own before passing them to me to correct their grammar. Just today, a colleague came downstairs, stood beside me and told me to help her to write an e-mail. I told her to get back to her work station, type it out, then e-mail to me. I will assist her to check her grammar. At least – TRY lah. But no.. so I ended writing the entire e-mail for her. And it took me less than 10 minutes to draft one. If you are afraid of people laughing at you for making mistakes, you will never progress.

Sabah

I read with so much anger the news of Sabah invasion. How on earth these people slipped into the country, undetected? If one or two, maybe not an issue.. this is the whole group of gunmen who have intention to take over our land! And best of all, the government downplay the matter and treat these gunmen with kid’s gloves. CHIN TU LAN! The persons responsible for this should resign! It’s a solid proof that they don’t even know what they are doing! Hello? Our homeland has been invaded ok! It’s no freaking joke or “small matter”! Blast the shit out of them asap! Get the fuck out from our land!

Incompetency

I saw on my bank website that I needed to activate my new credit cards. The thing is, I haven’t received them. So, I called the bank after procrastinating for over 2 weeks and found out, the POS LAJU people came to my house but no one was around. Bullshit! There are always people in my house, even during Chinese New Year, coz we hardly go anywhere. And if they did drop by my house, aren’t there supposed to be a consignment slip, to tell me to go collect the credit cards? So I called up the bank and was told that, since I didn’t acknowledge it for more than 20 days, the cards would automatically sent back to HQ for further action. So I told the guy on the phone to resend me the cards. Then, this guy said he can’t. Need to check with HQ first. So I said ok, then you check and let me know. Then he gave me the old consignment note. I said, What for??? If POS has sent it back to HQ, aren’t there supposed to be a new consignment note if they resend my credit cards. He told me to wait 7 days for response. So, after a week, I call them up again. Only to find out, they didn’t do anything. Luckily the girl on the line this time was helpful. So I complained to her and said, her colleague told me, the credit cards now are back to HQ when the cards are still in the POS LAJU center, even after 20 days. So… they failed to adhere to procedure lah? I wonder if the audit is going to say anything about this!

Unwanted

There’s this colleague who is the most hated person in the office. I think I wrote a few times about her idiocy. This week, she was hospitalized for a couple of days. She called to inform the office and her boss. But then, nobody says a word of visiting her. Usually, if someone in our office is sick, we would have an entourage to visit him or her after office hours. But since this woman is so spiteful, nobody wants to visit her. Come to think of it, she’s quite pathetic. Now, we are waiting for her to come back to kick up a fuss. Haha. Some people are so thick skin till they don’t even realize nobody likes them. It’s such a sad, sad life of reality. If you want people to be nice to you, be nice to people first. Pay it forward.

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Christmases and New Years

For the past 7 years, I didn’t have to think where or how was I going to celebrate my Christmases and New Years. I have been truly blessed when Datin was still in KL, he would throw warm and full of camaraderie parties at his humble home. There would be warm food, filled with laughter and happiness to be able to spend these two important days every year. It’s also time to come up with new year’s resolutions, trying hard to stick to them, probably throwing them away mid of the year, with us consoling each other, there’s a chance to do so, another year. Haha! The procrastination!

I truly miss the fellowship. Datin is like the glue that holds the group together. I am sure, those friends in Singapore would be truly blessed with Datin’s presence!

End of the World

So the world didn’t end? Sigh. Haha. Was hoping for fire hail storms or floods that eradicate mankind from sins. I read online, there’s somebody actually built Noah’s ark to wait for the end of the world. I told my friends when they were commenting on that, it (the flood that eradicates mankind) won’t happen again. The Bible said, God has promised Noah that it won’t happen again and seal the covenant with a rainbow. Friends just look at me as if I’ve gone nuts. It doesn’t pay to be well versed about the Bible at times. Haha.

Pimples

I don’t know why am I still getting pimples at this age! I thought my adolescent’s nightmare is far from over but I was wrong. I was blessed with good skin for a few years till lately, pimples began to sprout sporadically on my face. At the most inconvenient spot – the nose, the cheek, the side of my face! The worse thing is, they never seem to disappear even after it was healed and left a big scar marks. Been contemplating to go to skin specialist to remove the marks but then, am I that vain? Nobody is looking anyway! If I could bear with me, going out without combing my hair at times (I really forgotten! In fact, I forgot to comb my hair 3x last week, when going to work till I went to the ladies in the office and horrified at what I saw on the mirror! And luckily, out-of-bed look is the in-thing now!).

Quiet Office

I guess this happens every year end. It’s a stupid policy to force people to clear their leaves by year end. What if the employees have many plans the following year? Getting married, having a child, going for extended holidays, or getting an MBA? No.. we cannot do that in our office. MUST clear leave. So now, the office is basically empty for a week because everyone is forced to clear leave. The only thing I could hear now in office is my fingers typing on the keyboard and the leaky air conditioner above me, punctuated with my old woman’s coughs. I think I need to get a blood test.

Shut Up

A colleague came to my cubicle and asked me what’s that smell? I was using Body Shop’s Moringa Milk Lotion. Then the colleague suddenly blurted, I thought what dishwasher smell is that? Then I looked at her and glared. She scurried away. Well, if you have nothing good to say, it’s best to shut up lah. I happen to like my lotion to be smelling like dish washer for all I care!

Body Odor

We were at the cinema yesterday for Jack Reacher when suddenly a waft of foul smelling stuff walked past us. We almost fainted. It was a couple, looking for their seats. I mean, what is so difficult? You have bought tickets at the counter and saw where you are going to sit, so just follow lah your numbered seat. They were hovering at our seats and looked at us. We glared back at them and they went away. We think to ourselves, “Please God! Don’t sit in front or at the back of us! Please! Please go away!” When they went away, their smells lingered for a good 2-3 minutes.. gawd! We thought we would never be able to get rid of that terrible smell for long! Then I watched them walked up and down the aisle on the other side and they still couldn’t find their seats. When the movie was about to start, they found their seats.. which was the other end of our row! There were two guys sitting there and one of them was seen covering his nose in agony! Poor thing! Then I also saw, the people sitting behind them, also pinching the nose! Phew! That was close! I prayed silently in my heart that they would NOT change seats during the movie… to be nearer to us.. otherwise. I think I would ask them to go back to their original seats! A note of advice – Please get your own cable tv and watch movies at home to spare other paying guests the agony of 2 hours of smelling you! Also, learn to wash up properly! Geez! I think my socks for 2 days smell even better than them!

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Death and Funeral

Yesterday, dad suffered asthma attack after coughing for weeks. We told him to see a doctor, as usual, he prefers to be his own doctor. After taking almost 6 bottles of cough mixture with no sign of improvement, he finally relented to check into the hospital.. that is also, after he had to stop cycling twice, in a 5 minute cycle to the clinic. Not that we didn’t want to send him to the clinic, he’s just as obstinate as a cow wanting to do things all by himself. I was thinking yesterday, what if he kicks the bucket suddenly? Funeral expenses is really no joke. A recent friend’s mom funeral costs about RM100k, that is because they shifted their dad’s burial plot to rejoin their mom on final resting place. I am rather glad my parents are quite open about cremation to save space and costs. After all, once we are dead, we no longer exist.. so why bother to even waste a space on earth?

End of the World

Today, a colleague called me to talk about the end of the world, purportedly on 21st Dec 2012. She said, NASA said, the sun and moon would exchanged position and there would be three days of darkness on earth. I told her, it’s impossible because, simply, our solar system is not built that way. Moon orbit around the Earth while, the Earth and other planets orbit around the sun. The sun is the centre of the solar system. How would the moon be exchanging position with the sun? If that happens – meaning, it’s really shitty because the solar system would be totally hay wired.. we will be burnt to death…and why does she even need to worry about this? It’s beyond our control. And even if this does happen, the moon “exchanging” position with the sun, we will all die at the same time! So, really, stop reading about all the nonsense on the internet.. especially about the nibiru planet or planet X what-not to make your already complicated lives more complicated! Learn from the past, live in the present and anticipate the future.. do what’s right today.

Longest Cough

Till today, my cough is still here.. I was rather lucky that, this time, it has subsided tremendously and don’t interfere with my night sleep. I was a walking Zombie the past 3 weeks because of lack of rest, work stress and incessant night coughing. Can feel that the stomach is somewhat flatten a little. Haha! Which I think, is the only positive sign of being sick. Let’s hope the cough would go off totally soon… I’ve been to two doctors four times.. took countless bottles of medicine – both eastern and western. Found the eastern one is working for me, so I guess am gonna stick to that. I tried manuka honey too.. apple cider.. mint leaves.. but no.. oh well, at least now, I hope the nightly coughs would stay away from me! It’s a torture being unable to sleep!

Giving Up

Mark Twain is right when he said, “Don’t argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” I felt somewhat dejected with the things happening around the office. I should have taken advice earlier – not to bother about too many things. Sometimes, you just need to close one eye and let everything go, so you wouldn’t live a tormented soul. I guess no working place is perfect, so we just need to adapt to it, blend in like the rest. I give up.

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Sick

I never been sick this long. It’s been more than 2 weeks now I am down with cough, flu and sorethroat. I didn’t try the mint leaves remedy yet. Perhaps today. It’s difficult to get out from bed with two eyes glued shut with goo. Yucks! TMI! TMI! I’ve finished drinking 3 bottles of cough syrup and ate almost 2 dozens of lozenges! I am trying the apple cider + honey remedy now. Keeping fingers crossed the cough at night would go away. Been having interrupted sleep for a few nights now.

Old friend

My mom’s old friend and wife came to visit on Monday. He was her cousin, both my mom’s dad and his mom are siblings. He is probably in his 70s now with a head full of white hair. He looked rather well but he has got cancer. I think stomach cancer. But it’s in remission now, so it’s all good news. Since now he resides in Johor with his children, he went to Taiping to collect his old health record and shift them to Johor Govt Hospital so he doesn’t need to travel up north every 3 months. On the way back to Johor, he stopped by KL to pay us a visit.

My family took them out around KL for a short visit since they haven’t been to KL in such a long time. I was home because of sickness and also, to take care of the house, in case the contractors need to come over to do some minor renovation.

My mom said, this uncle is probably dying. That is why he’s been visiting all relatives the past 2 weeks. I said, perhaps, since he hasn’t been around for awhile, he took this chance to see everybody at one go. I guess this is how life goes. At least this uncle still has friends and relatives to visit and care about him.. rather than die a lonely death.

Renovation

The house has been undergoing renovation the past one month. My friend, Mei was right. She said, never ever trust contractors! She’s right! The guy – who is my sister’s friend told us, it would take 2 weeks tops. We are merely renovating two bathrooms because of leakage, add grill to the back of the house’s balcony and paint. Till today, one bathroom is still NOT ready yet and the grills were just installed yesterday. And it’s been more than a month. We are losing patience but then, we have been most lenient because we are not going anywhere and my parents and aunt are always home to oversee things. Imagine if all of us are at work and nobody’s home? I wonder how the working class people do renovation these days? Especially those living in condominiums.. they are limited to weekdays only to fix their houses!

Leadership

A certain dept in the office is suffering manpower “leakages”. Staff has been resigning the past 2 weeks, one by one. I guess it all boils down to how the head of dept is managing them. In this current era, nobody could tolerate shouting and belittling anymore. After all, most young employees now are all educated, at least tertiary level. You think, they are still the uneducated, form five leavers looking for jobs like 20 years ago? Hell no! They all have minds of their own and expectations. And no leaders should use force or rule with iron fist. Now, everybody has to work in a team to make things work. I guess this dinosaur technique of handling employees are still prevalent in the office. That’s rather a sad thing to notice.