Penalty for Late Submission

Recently someone told me the penalty for late submission to one of the government departments was a certain amount of money (X).

But when the letter came, the penalty was only one—fifth of X. I do not know whether there was a mistake or not.

All I can do is praise and thank God.

I remember the following song we started singing in Canaandland Celebration this year.

What Can I Do

Verse 1:
When I see the beauty of a sunset's glory,
Amazing artistry across the evening sky
When I feel the mystery of a distant galaxy
It awes and humbles me to be loved
By a God so high

Chorus:
What can I do but thank You,
What can I do but give my life to You
Hallelujah, hallelujah
What can I do but praise You,
Everyday make everything I do a hallelujah
A hallelujah, hallelujah

Verse 2:
When I hear the story of a God of mercy
Who shared humanity and suffered by our side
Of the cross they nailed You to, that could not hold You
Now You're making all things new by the power
Of Your risen life

Cheque

I wrote a cheque wrongly today. Shucks!

Too Busy

Some people just cannot take no for an answer.

They have wanted to see the boss for something unrelated to our field but I told them I would inform them when the boss is freer. Maybe they think that I did not inform the boss of their intention.

They have been calling and asking not only once but twice so far.

We are so busy that my own meeting with the boss has been delayed so far for about a week due to the fact that I have to finish my work and he has to do likewise.

Where's the Darn Thing?

Wasted time looking for something that does not exist again.

Some people must be thinking I am so free. NOT

Lost and Found

I was mighty pleased I found a document I thought I had lost.

Thank you Lord.

!@#$%^&*

This is the first time I have used such a title in my blog. :(

I was boiling mad today cos I was blamed for something just cos I was being too nice. NO MORE FROM NOW ONWARDS YOU HEAR ME!

I had to ask God for forgiveness for my reaction and also for the people who accused me. After I prayed, I felt better.

The Darn Thing

My assistants were out during lunchtime and I had to get ready some reports for the client before he arrived. The photocopy machine was acting up on me. It wasted half the amount of papers used for the reports. *sigh*

Overworked

Worked more than twelve hours today. Thank God for the strength.

Time to relax and enjoy myself after Canaanland Celebration tomorrow before continuing the saga tomorrow night.

Claim Approved

Though I had an extremely busy day, I am super delighted cos the director approved my claim for extra work done for 2008 and 2009. That means I would have to pay more tax for 2008. But still the approval has come at the right time.

The rain has been coming down almost the whole day.

The electricity supply stopped coming as I was about to knock off from work. So the whole area was in pitch darkness and there was traffic congestion on the road. I had to be extra careful since the rain was coming down at the time as well.

My SIL’s parents arrived from SDK last night and tonight we all had steamboat at home. Indeed it is the most appropriate time to have steamboat when the rain is coming down. We did not have to switch on the air-conditioner.

I was very hungry and ate a lot.

Aunty Alice made some 'leong fun' so I am gonna have some later.

Where’s the Darn Thing?

I was instructed by my superior to look for some files yesterday evening.

Since I did not manage to find them, I had to continue this morning. I wasted about 2 hours altogether looking for things that do not even exist. Working in this kind of situation is fun. NOT!

Are You Busy?

Today someone actually asked me, 'Are you busy?'

What a rhetorical question!!! And the person should know better.

I wish I could just answer him, 'Oh no, I am not busy at all. Can't you see I am in the midst of 'goyang kaki' here?' Duh

There was never a time in the past when I was not busy.

There is never a time in the present when I am not busy.

There will never be a time in the future when I will not be busy.

I will always be busy as long as I am working in this present company.

First Day

Woke up at 6.05a.m. Was wondering why the alarm clock on the mobile phone did not make noise. On closer check, I put 8.00a.m., not 6.00a.m. Duh

Today is the first day of work or school for most people. There are more cars on the road.

Upon arriving at work, I switched on the pc. I got the first shock of my life when a message came out saying that my profile cannot be accessed or something to that effect.

The thought that ran through my mind at that moment was, ‘Oh no, I do not want to lose my work again. Pls pc, pls do not crash on me’. I did not backup my work for the whole of last week. I was thinking it could not be so much of a coincidence.

Next I wanted to launch the IE Browser and then I got the second shock when another message came out saying the pc does not have any internet connection. Argh! Oh no, not on a Monday morning on a fresh new year.

I was praying hard and asking God to do something. I wanted everything back to normal.

I restarted the pc and everything was back to normal. Phew! Thank God.

I quickly took out the pendrive to back-up all my work.

Gee that was a close call. It certainly woke up me right up.

Had to be careful and alert when writing cheques today since it is no longer DD/MM/09. Any mistakes would render the cheque void. But so far so good. :)

No Electricity Supply

For these past three days, we had been experiencing power cut for a few hours per day. *sigh*

And therefore work had been disrupted and it was not fun playing catching up. Today I managed to clean up my work area for a few hours and it definitely looks better than before.

I think my work area has never looked so clean before so at least I'm doing something to improve it.

One of my ING insurance agents came to the office and passed me the following diary.

I worked until 7.30p.m. to get rid of the backlog before going on leave for the next few days.

Let the holidays begin ...

Getting There

Today I worked 14 hours. Thank God for the strength.

I am trying to beat my own deadlines so that I do not have to worry about my work when I go on leave next week.

I thought I would not be able to finish tonight but I did, so tomorrow I can relax.

I still have to do some amendments when I go back to work on Monday but that is only for something minor. At least I had done the bulk of the work.

Overworked

The result of being overworked is not recoginizing the name of someone I added in FB. Grrrrr

That was what happened to me after work tonight. I was thinking if I had added the person wrongly. I had to go into the person’s profile and looked at the profile picture to confirm I know the person.

Gosh I am treading on dangerous ground once again. I think I need more sleep and I better have it.

We had the following for dinner. I only took them when almost everyone else had taken theirs and hence the funny angle from which I took the steamed fish. Plus one dish was almost empty and therefore I did not bother to take it.

Today's Happenings

Had a busy day and did not finish the following lunch until 2.30p.m. I ordered it from the ‘mamak’ stall which is under a new management.

The food under the old management was edible but I did not like the owner’s attitude. One time I ordered food for my boss’s maid and after twenty minutes there was still no sign of the food being delivered. I called up the owner and he said that they did not want to deliver for that day. Well, he should have told me when I ordered instead of letting us waited.

Now I reckon the food under the new management tasted better. And the lady who answered the phone seems to be polite and obliging.

I thought I would not be able to finish the rice but I did.

Left work after 5p.m. I finally opened the packet of beef jerky I bought at the Taiwanese at City Mall at the end of September. The beef tasted like it was being marinated with some herbs before being bbq. It was not tough. Though it looked dried, it was actually juicy when I took the bites. But I still prefer the ones that my uncle bought in Taiwan.

Among one of the dishes we had tonight for dinner was stir fried shallots with scallops.

Overwhelmed with Work

I was on leave for only one day last week but when I went back to work this morning, I had so many things beckoned me to finish.

Meeting deadlines is definitely not fun at all.

Lunch

The weather was hot and hazy during lunchtime. Did not feel like going out to takeaway or eat in somewhere. So ordered from nearby coffee shop and had this delivered.

When I ordered Seafood ‘Wat Tan Ho’, I did not know that the cook would put in slices of fish. I expected fish cake. So the slices of fish was a bit fishy to me. That is why I usually do not like to order fish when eating outside. At least I know and next time if I order the same thing, I would ask for fish cake.

Worked until 6.25p.m. today and I was so tired by then.

Editing Work

Recently I have been extremely busy with a lot of stuff at work. Before one of the interns completed his internship, I told him to save all his work into the pendrive so that when I have the time, I will transfer them into my work pc. I did not have time to check what was given to me until today since I need to edit some of the things he had done before it went out to the client.

Lo and behold when I opened one of the files, what was given to me in hard and soft copies did not match. I wish he was there so that I could scream at him. The whole experience was driving me nuts.

I practically spent the whole or should I say wasted the whole day and night (yes, I had to bring it back home to finish) editing his mistakes and improved on anything that needed to be improved.

Another hard lesson learnt: make sure check both hard and soft copies given are the same no matter how busy work is.

National Day 2009

Went back to the office after 9a.m. Fed the fishes and saw one rat got caught inside the trap. Informed office boy to come to dispose of it.

Did some work and before 1p.m. CTY came to fetch me and I suggested we went to Wisma Merdeka to eat ‘Asam Laksa’.

After parking the car, we took the elevator in Phase 1 to go down. From there, we went to Phase 2 elevator. I forgot which floor the food court is on. So I pressed 5 – carpark, 4 – carpark, 3 – carpark and 2 back to outside Familia.

CTY suggested we went to the 2^nd Floor Food Court facing the ocean. But no ‘Asam Laksa’ was available and it was definitely not the food court I was looking for. I called a friend and she was unsure as well.

When we saw the security guard, we asked him about the foodcourt and he said at the 6th Floor. We proceeded there and when we came out from the elevator, I discovered the food court did not exist anymore but there are different individual coffee shops but most were closed because of the public holiday.

When we went back down to the 2nd Floor, I saw Dr. Benjamin Leong's mum and said hello to her. She was my former Primary 5 class teacher.

We went to the usual 2nd Floor Food Court and found that it has been renovated. Previously I thought the food court was a bit too bright for me and now after renovation, it is too dark. But the air-conditioners were at full blast though.

We had chicken rice and I saw most people around us were eating the same thing as well.

Went back office and worked for another two hours before going home.