Artwork by Chloe Chong

Chloe made this during art class yesterday to give to her principal.

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I am very happy tonight despite being exhausted.

I received email reply from my former guardian Francis Ng (who is residing in Melbourne, Victoria) with photos attached. Yay!

Thank you internet for making our world smaller.

OT again

These last two nights I had been sleeping early, getting at least 7-8 hours of sleep per night. I needed those hours because this week has been an extremely tough week.

There are so many deadlines to meet. And therefore last night I decided not to go to cg/life group as I was planning to work until 6p.m. today. I needed to rest early last night.

Before I started work this morning, I mentally listed out everything that I had to get done by today. As I proceeded to do them one by one, I was glad that I had the peace and quiet (actually total bliss) when everyone left by 1p.m. The only sound was Light FM on the radio.


I had this for lunch.

Thank God for the strength and that I did not fall asleep this afternoon.

As usual on a Saturday I backed up all my work in my personal pendrive in case something happens to the computer. And by the time my files were finished backing up, the clock showed 6p.m., not a second less or more.

One thing I did not get done yet was filling in the Statistics Department Survey Form and therefore I brought it home to do it. I do not think I have the energy to do them tonight. I really need to sleep early tonight to recuperate once again, after a long and extremely tiring week.

I really thank God it is the weekend.



Mum made this while I was at work. ('Cha Koh' & 'Ondeh-Ondeh'). Yummy.

Vouchers Day

This morning before bosses came to the office, they called up and told me to inform all site staff to turn up to the office before 10.30a.m.

By 10a.m. they were slowly trickling in. Each of them was given some shopping vouchers to spend and those of us who work on Saturday in the office were also given some.

This time round I feel kinda a bit stress to go shopping because those vouchers are only valid until end of this month and most of the outlets sell expensive stuff. I hope I can spend all the vouchers in one go so that I do not have to return to the shopping mall again before the end of the month.

Sign Outside Office Toilet

Sign Outside Next Door Office Toilet

New Refrigerator

New Microwave

New Pantry (I hide my lunch at the most bottom cupboard)

Generation Y

(Thanks to Sharon Lai for forwarding this via email to me yesterday)

People born before 1945 are referred to as: The Silent Generation

People born between 1945 and 1961 are referred to as: The Baby Boomers

People born between 1962 and 1976 are referred to as: Generation X

People born between 1977 and 1995 are referred to as: Generation Y

Why do we call the last one generation Y?

I had no idea, but a caricaturist has explained it graphically below...

Hey, I learned something new today :)

RMxx,xxx.00 worth of vouchers

Today one of the company clients gave the boss RMxx,xxx.00 worth of shopping vouchers to spend until end of this month.

These vouchers are not free but are used to contra the professional fee. They are by no means small amount. The total amount is more than the average salary of most people in this country per annum.

We find that it is quite lame of them to give such a thing. Afterall we are not any Hollywood celebrities who could just spend that kind of $ in a matter of seconds, well in this case a fortnight.

Statistics Department Survey Form

This morning I was awaken up when the electricity supply was cut off at 5a.m. and therefore the fan stopped turning. The next time I woke up the time was already 6.33a.m. Argh! I forgot to switch on the alarm on the mobile phone last night.

I had to be super fast and could not dilly dally. I had to have a quick shower and although the water was not that cold, I was having a slight back problem by midday. I feel like an 80 y.o. Thank God I am ok now.

This week has just gone by just like that. There is so much work but time is waiting for no one including me.

Two days ago the officer from the Statistics Department had already called re. the survey form which I only received last Friday and am supposed to fill in asap. I did not have time to look at it yet and I told him to give me at least this week to see if I am able to fill it in.

When I first started working for the company, I had to fill in the survey form once every three years. Then it became a biennial thing. Since two years ago, it has become an annual thing. All this boils down to more work for me because I have to fill in not only for one company but three companies. So sometimes in order just to save time and energy, I opt for the easiest way out. I would just photocopy the company’s accounts for the previous year end and pass it to the officer to fill in for me. Out of three companies, I usually filled in for at least one company.

Today I became the first person to use the microwave to heat up my lunch. My brother went to Tamparuli yesterday and one of his clients gave him a serving of ‘Tamparuli Mee’. He already had lunch and brought it back home to give to mum. Mum suggested I bring it to work for lunch today. The noodles tasted ok. I still prefer ‘Tuaran Mee’ though.

Left work after 6p.m. The boss was still surfing the internet and therefore I left him to lock up. On the way home, the rain was coming down in buckets and at the rate it is going even right at this moment, I think a lot of places should be flooded by now.

I was glad to be able to indulge in a longer hot shower after dinner tonight.

Tonight I also received some photos from my former guardian’s sister Irene Ng. At least it compensated the fact that I did not get to meet up with them recently. Irene also gave me her brother’s (my former guardian) email address. Thanks to the internet, it is time to catch up with each other.

He does not get ‘it’

The ‘Queen’ is back today at noon from overseas. I did not want to risk it in case she did not have jet lag and came to the office. I parked the car at my normal parking spot. When lady boss came in she said she did not think that her mum (the ‘Queen’) would turn up for work. I kept quiet. (The ‘Queen’ did not turn up but she did call)

The client who received his Occupation Certificates via fax called and thanked me twice this morning after the boss faxed the certificates to him. He is definitely too polite.

Boss called for a staff meeting again today, exactly a week after the previous one. After he finished talking about business, he told us the following.

1. We would get our increment letter this week. I wonder this time how much I would get. The last increment I had was November last year, which means after 8 months. I expect I would not get as much as last November this time round.

2. Now that we have a microwave in the office, someone should start using it. But since most people do not know how to use it, I proposed the lady boss to do a demo. She said maybe we should order some pizzas from Pizza Hut soon and she can give a demo in heating them up.

3. Those that put their food inside the fridge should put their name on it so that other people cannot touch it.

That was when my golden opportunity came to talk about the ‘snooping around’ business. Yes I spoke my mind and the boss totally agreed with me. He said we should respect other people’s privacy.

After that some of my colleagues applauded me. But I only found out this evening before we went home that JE (the ‘snooping around’ person) on hearing what I said asked himself who I was talking about. I did not hear him say that. Otherwise I would tell him directly. Why am I being so nasty?

The reason is because this person is so used being like that. He does not know it is wrong to do that probably because his family members do not mind him doing that. But we are not his family members, he should learn to respect our privacy.

When I saw KK and asked him what he thought about me speaking up, he just said ‘like no difference’. I did not press on further because I had to attend to an urgent matter straight after that. But this evening my colleague NE told me that when JE saw some food on KK’s table, once again he went to touch the food to see what they are. KK did not say anything but JL who sat him behind had to tell JE off. Good on JL.

Upon hearing that, I am back to square one. I have to re-emphasize this ‘snooping around’ business again. Obviously there is something wrong with this guy. He does not get ‘it’.

I had this for lunch today. RM3.

Curry ‘sotong’ (cuttlefish), sweet & sour chicken and stir fried green beans.

I found this in the fridge and cannot refrain myself from not taking a shot. A couple of my colleagues laughed at me.

'Homemade ‘Siew’ bun and curry puffs

Homemade ‘Siew Yuk’ and Spare Ribs

I had one curry puff before dinner. It tasted better than the previous time mum made them.

The ‘Siew Yuk’ was very crunchy. Do not know whether the crunchiness would still be there after a while. The spare ribs were slightly overcooked. Mum forgot to put a dash of honey on them.

The rain was pouring just before I had my shower tonight. Thank God that I am home and for the hot water. Simply lovely …

Two Occupation Certificates

The office boy came back from his errands around 5p.m. and handed me two Occupation Certificates he obtained from KK City Hall. He had to wait for an hour at City Hall for the officer to come back to his desk since he could not get the certificates from anyone else besides that particular officer.

This is the first time that I submitted the Occupation Certificate application and obtained the mayor's signature within a week and the certificates are in my hands after fourteen days. It is a record breaking for a 10 acre project.

(Previously the record was seven days for warehouse project)

It felt so good to hold two certificates at the same time, since the project consists of two phases. Yippee!

Tomorrow I have to make a final claim for this project since we had completed our work.

Do you have anything else to order?

The boss did not tell me he would not be bringing his maid home for lunch until he and lady boss were about to go home for lunch. By then my lunch had already been delivered by the nearby shop. Today the office boy went out to do his errands early so he was not able to take away lunch for the boss’s maid.

So I called another coffee shop (mamak stall (mamak – Indian Muslim) and ordered the lunch. I was still waiting for the delivery at 1.50p.m., forty minutes after my phone call. I called the coffee shop again and the boss told me that because I ordered only one lunch, he would not ask his worker to deliver! I was totally flabbergasted! And he even had the guts to ask ‘do you have anything else to order?’ I told him ‘Never mind’ and slammed the phone on him.

I mean I thought time is bad nowadays. They would appreciate every order – no matter how big or small but I am absolutely wrong. Anyway, I have not been ordering from this shop from a long time since I found out the quality of food has deteriorated when the experienced cook who is an elderly woman left and is taken over by a young lady. I thought this is just a one-off thing, so I will give them a chance to make some business. But since they did not want the business, I had to order the food from my regular shop.