Absentmindedness continues …

Two nights ago when I came home after work, mum told me I forgot to bring down my hand washing for her to hang on the clothes line to dry. She found the bucket with the washed clothes in them when she came into my room to sweep the floor.

Yesterday I forgot to wear earrings to work again. (Thank God this is not a life and death situation)

This morning I was running slightly late for Canaanland Celebration. Normally I am too lazy to park the car properly as long as the car is within the yellow box. But today I made extra effort and made sure the car was parked straight. While I was doing this, I realised Monica Leong and Lilian Tan were doing the same thing. I found it to be quite amusing. There 3 ladies making sure their car was parked straight at the same time. In the midst of the ‘amusement’, I did not take the car keys out from the car ignition! I only realised when I was inside Kyrugma House when I wanted to put the keys inside a small bag I have reserved for all my keys. I had to request my sis-in-law to pass the spare car keys to me and my brother came to the rescue three hours later.

The theory of my absentmindedness is somehow linked to my insufficient sleep was totally incorrect because I had 8.5 hours of sleep last night.

I just have to be more careful and alert.

Wet Weather

From the beginning of this month until now, Kota Kinabalu has been experiencing heaps of rainfall especially in the afternoon.

Yesterday was the worst. On the way home from work after 6p.m. there were flash floods in some parts of the road.

From early this morning until now, the rain has been coming down on and off.

Food for the Day

Breakfast

Daily dose of sushi

Lunch

Rice Noodles Soup with Roast Chicken

Dinner

Fried Chicken

Grilled Lamb Chops

Gravy for Grilled Lamb Chops

Breaking a Routine

Some people just cannot take instructions. They think they know everything eventhough they do not know much. The function of the mouth is not only to eat but also to talk, in particularly to use it to ask questions when one do not know much. It is not fair when I am the one who gets blame for someone else’s laid back attitude. *sigh*

I have not been out of the office for lunch for a long time. Today I managed to break my normal routine. The bosses left work around 11.30a.m. My colleague NE and I went out for lunch to the foodcourt at Giant Kolombong. There was a drizzle while we were walking there.

I wanted to have ‘Pan Mee’, the same one I took away last Sunday for lunch. I asked the person at the stall whether he put sauce into the dry version of the noodles and he said he does not put. So I changed my mind. I would prefer dry ‘Pan Mee’ with sauce.

I ended up having ‘Soto Daging’ – a bowl for RM4. This one is less salty and has less MSG as compared to the one I normally have at a coffeeshop called 'Mifta'.

On the way home, there was massive traffic congestion due to the rain. Some parts of the road outside my housing estate were flooded by about half a feet.

Tonight I had extra dose of energy and made sushi again.

Happy 1st Birthday

This blog turns one today. Thank you all for your patronage. Yours truly truly appreciates it from the bottom of my heart.

Thanks for all your comments, though mostly not through this channel.

Pizza Hut Pizzas for Lunch

The boss had a meeting in the office during lunchtime. He told his wife (lady boss) to order from Pizza Hut online at noon.

The following pizzas were delivered to the office around 12:45p.m.

1. 2 Large Pan Super Supreme

2. 2 Large Pan Pepperoni

3. 1 Large Pan Hawaiian Supreme

4. 1 Large Pan Thai Seafood

5. 1 Large Chicken Supreme

6. 1 Large Royal Masala

I had a slice each of No. 1 and 4-6. The first two slices tasted great since the stomach was hungry. But by the time the third and fourth rounds, the flavours seemed to taste the same. My stomach felt so bloated after lunch.

When everyone almost finished eating and enjoying drinking the chinese tea, one of my colleagues, YKK mentioned that if JE is around, probably there would not be any leftover. YKK was probably correct. No one dared to confirm his thought but deep down I am sure we all agreed with him.

Altogether there were fourteen people devouring 64 slices of pizza. There were ten slices leftover. Some of my colleagues took away to eat at home while I ended up throwing away four empty boxes. The office boy already threw out two other empty boxes before he left work earlier than I.

When I reached home after work, I had stomach ache. That was probably from the pizzas. I had to go to the loo to relief myself. Glad to say I am ok now.

(Since I am on the topic of pizza, I just realize I have not made it for yonks. I am not free to do it on Deepavali. Oh well, some other time)

Absentmindedness

Two days ago I forgot to bring the eight slices of bread to work for morning tea/afternoon tea.

Yesterday I forgot to bring the mobile phone to work.

Today I forgot to wear earrings to work.

Absentmindedness cannot go on.

I think I do need more than the 6.5 hours of sleep per night. I will try to get my usual 8 hours again.

More Energy

Nowadays I find that I have more energy throughout the day. Thank God for that. Normally I would be bushed by the time I am driving home from work.

What has contributed to this sudden surge in energy?

Sleep? I am actually sleeping less now, about 6.5 hours per night. My ideal amount is still 8 hours.

Maybe diet?

These are what I usually have on weekdays.

Breakfast – a dozen of small size sushi and a cup of Milo

Morning tea - four slices of bread with filling

Lunch – either ordered food or from home

Afternoon tea – another four slices of bread with filling and another cup of Milo

Dinner

Supper – I hardly eat any supper

Maybe the answer lies in starting off the day with having carbohydrate and eating more of that as the day progresses.

Jobs Accomplished

I have been busy with work as usual but at least I do not have to work OT during weekends for a few weeks now.

Yesterday I finally finished one of the company accounts for the auditors to audit. That was really a big relief to me. Before 2008 is over, I have two more companies accounts to get ready for audit as well. I am aiming to finish before the deadline.

Today I managed to file away a lot of documents on my desk and around where I am sitting. This is not an urgent task to do and therefore I have allowed the documents to accumulate until several hours were insufficient for me to file them all. Shall continue to do so tomorrow if I do not have more important and urgent matters to attend to.

‘Special’ Colleagues

I have not mentioned anything about my colleagues for about one and a half month. That’s a record! Does that mean nothing happen at work lately?? That would be the furtherest from the truth. When JE took indefinite leave at the end of July, most of my colleagues and I thought that life would be much better in the office. How wrong we were. Instead what happened after he left really shocked us.

Scenario 1

My colleague NE bought ice-cream and put it in the freezer with her name written on the wrapper. She already took one bite and therefore the wrapper should be visibly seen to be opened. But “someone” (we know who the culprit was) took the ice-cream and had a field day with it!

Scenario 2

The “someone” could not finish the beef noodles soup during lunch. Instead of disposing the leftover inside a plastic bag to be thrown into the rubbish bin, she dumped the food into the sink! When NE saw the food in the sink, she shouted but the “someone” quickly walked out from the pantry and pretended nothing happened.

Scenario 3

Most of the time I am the first one to arrive at the office.

Before I do anything else, I have to switch on the following items.

1. Modem
2. Air-conditioner
3. Electric water boiler
4. Water pump
5. Network connection

At the end of last week as I was about to switch on the air-conditioner, I could not find the remote control for it. I searched every nook and corner but still the thing was nowhere to be found. I went into the boss’s room and took the remote control to switch on the air-conditioner. After the two colleagues who are sitting nearest to the air-conditioner arrived, I asked them whether they had seen the remote control. They said they saw the thing the day before. They searched for it after I went away but until today no one mentioned to me they have not found the thing.

I guess to them losing the thing is not a big deal since it does not belong to them. They do not consider it to be their responsibility to look after things in the office eventhough most of the things do not belong to them. Sometimes I really do not know what is wrong with these people. They act as if they are the bosses and the real bosses really have to kowtow to them.