spinxie's babblings

Thursday, February 5, 2009

The auditors finally came for their audit today after seven weeks of delay on my part. I have been trying my best in getting everything ready and in the midst of all the busyness today, I felt a burden has been lifted off from my shoulder. I have not felt so good for a few months now.

So now is the time to concentrate on other work and catch up on backlogs.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Dinner at Home

Vegetarian Dish

Cauliflower with Chicken and Button Mushrooms

Roast Goose

Sauce for Roast Goose

Fish Maw Soup

Silly Mistake

Today I made a silly mistake which should not happen at all but unfortunately it did happen and I was not proud of myself.

The boss did not scold me but told me to amend my mistake. Since the beginning of this year the boss has been more patient with me.

Maybe after working for him for ten years, he finally appreciates all my hard work. I like to think so.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Lost and Found

Last Saturday while the workers were busy installing the new air-conditioner, I was busy turning all the cupboards upside down looking for some documents that need the boss’s signature for auditing purpose. I was thinking the worst that they may fallen into the rubbish bin and therefore are lost forever. I would not be able to recover them at all. Since I could not find them, I was very upset with myself the whole weekend.

Yesterday morning before I started work, I prayed and asked for God’s favour to be upon me to be able to find those documents so that I do not waste any more time searching for them.

I could not believe that as I was rummaging among a pile of documents nearest to me I found them! I was so happy until I could identify with The Parable of the Lost Sheep, The Parable of the Lost Coin and The Parable of the Lost Son in the New Testament. Needless to say I was rejoicing and thanking God for the answered prayer.

Sometimes there are so many distractions and things for me to attend to concurrently that I can lose concentration on what I am supposed to do.

That is why I treasure the hours between 7.30-8.30a.m. and 5.00-6.00p.m. where there would be less distraction. But nowadays we receive quite a lot of phone calls after 5p.m. especially from KL clients because they know that our working hour has been extended by an hour.

Dinner at Home

Monday, February 2, 2009

Air-Conditioner

One of the air-conditioners at work has been playing up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it would switch off by itself. At other times it would cause the electricity to trip.

Last week the boss decided that it was time to get a new one. This time the air-conditioner would be a ceiling mounted type and could blow to four directions. And one of those directions is towards me.

The air-conditioner was installed last Saturday and I stayed until 6.45p.m. so that the workers can make it fully functional. I only got the first taste of it for less than an hour that day.

Today everyone is back to work. I put the air-conditioner on 16 degrees Celcius. Before lunchtime, some people were already feeling the coldness and the boss requested the temperature be increased.

From now onwards I think I can wear more long sleeves to work. It is definitely the time to start wearing some of them which I have not gotten the chance to do so.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Dinner at New York New York

Yesterday was my elder brother’s birthday but we only celebrated tonight.

There were nine of us and therefore we had to be separated into two tables.

I did not feel like having hamburger for dinner and therefore did not order the humongous hamburger that can feed four people. We should have ordered that because we found the food portion to be too small for us. So we had to order more than one serving of food. The food were quite tasty but the drinks were nothing to shout about.

I had Lamb Shank and after that shared a Coney Hotdog with Jeff. The Lamb Shank tasted better than Jeff's order of Lamb Chop. The hotdog in the Coney Hotdog was quite tasty but the sauce that came with it tasted like the sauce for the spaghetti bolognese since they use minced meat.

The restaurant was less than half full when we were there.