Monday, January 20, 2003
I got into an email war with Nor again. Sigh. I just couldnt take it.. and with the office's current mood, I just didnt give a flying fish about it.
I mean, I tried very hard to swap my Bintan dates. Called up 2 staff, 1 of them apologised profusely about not being able to help, the other one, Yusof from HAD, very nicely agreed to the swap. That means, he'll take my Jan 27-31 slot and I take his Feb 3-7 slot. Emailed Nor about it, thinking she would be happy that I did the swap, instead she replied something like... Did you get Boon Nam's clearance on this?
I emailed her back, this is the best I can do. It will be one week plus after implementation, I will make sure there will be no hardware problems. There WILL be hardware problems, even months after the implementation, so when is a safe time to take leave, August? Haha I purposely put in that sarcastic question in the end. After sending that reply back to her, I left for Woodlands Checkpoint. Met Ricky and we did our work till about 1130am. Still early. I dont wanna be back in the office for the 1pm team review. Its lunchtime anyway. So I just drove around. Round and round aimlessly. Had lunch and then drove back very slowly, by the time I reached back office it was 2pm. The team was still having their review in Courage Room. I just sneaked past and went quietly into my cube. I really dont feel like even looking at Boon or Kwan.
About 2 plus the meeting ended and I was in the middle of writing a long email to Boon Nam telling him about the whole Bintan thing when he appreared sheepishly in front of me (Lily would say, PENGECUT!) and told me, "Are you free? Lets discuss about this whole leave issue. Courage Room now." Okaaayyyyyy... so Nor has met up with him earlier and told him all about this. Exactly what she told him, I dont know.
So then Boon asked me how this whole thing came about and I told him the whole story. And old diplomatic, tactful Boon told me that he knows I am not irresponsible and that I am making the effort to change, and stressed that next time before booking for holiday packages/airline/accom/etc, we must seek clearance first blah blah. And he told me that he is leaving it up to me to take the leave and go to Bintan, but if there are any hardware problems, then be prepared to be paged. I said, FINE, I will take the ferry back if I have to. Dammit. I wanted to tell him what VV suggested he would say if Boon asked him to do something, and that would be "I will do whatever your grading justifies." Isnt that petty hahahahahaha :) But who cares. Gimme the money and I'll go.
I did some work then left office at 545 with Shih Wee and Poh Yee. The weather was dark and it looked like it was going to rain anytime but I really felt like running so we went to Macritchie and ran in the rain. Pretty cool run, drenched and soaked, but happy :) Poh Yee had the wet t-shirt look (oops!) so Shih Wee gave her his extra t-shirt. Drove them home then I went to KPT Eunos for coffee with Mervin. He cant go to Bintan :( Oh well, I guess I'll go with KC, Sofian and Daniel then. I really wish he'd re-consider, he brings life to any situation under any circumstances. My fingers are crossed.
I mean, I tried very hard to swap my Bintan dates. Called up 2 staff, 1 of them apologised profusely about not being able to help, the other one, Yusof from HAD, very nicely agreed to the swap. That means, he'll take my Jan 27-31 slot and I take his Feb 3-7 slot. Emailed Nor about it, thinking she would be happy that I did the swap, instead she replied something like... Did you get Boon Nam's clearance on this?
I emailed her back, this is the best I can do. It will be one week plus after implementation, I will make sure there will be no hardware problems. There WILL be hardware problems, even months after the implementation, so when is a safe time to take leave, August? Haha I purposely put in that sarcastic question in the end. After sending that reply back to her, I left for Woodlands Checkpoint. Met Ricky and we did our work till about 1130am. Still early. I dont wanna be back in the office for the 1pm team review. Its lunchtime anyway. So I just drove around. Round and round aimlessly. Had lunch and then drove back very slowly, by the time I reached back office it was 2pm. The team was still having their review in Courage Room. I just sneaked past and went quietly into my cube. I really dont feel like even looking at Boon or Kwan.
About 2 plus the meeting ended and I was in the middle of writing a long email to Boon Nam telling him about the whole Bintan thing when he appreared sheepishly in front of me (Lily would say, PENGECUT!) and told me, "Are you free? Lets discuss about this whole leave issue. Courage Room now." Okaaayyyyyy... so Nor has met up with him earlier and told him all about this. Exactly what she told him, I dont know.
So then Boon asked me how this whole thing came about and I told him the whole story. And old diplomatic, tactful Boon told me that he knows I am not irresponsible and that I am making the effort to change, and stressed that next time before booking for holiday packages/airline/accom/etc, we must seek clearance first blah blah. And he told me that he is leaving it up to me to take the leave and go to Bintan, but if there are any hardware problems, then be prepared to be paged. I said, FINE, I will take the ferry back if I have to. Dammit. I wanted to tell him what VV suggested he would say if Boon asked him to do something, and that would be "I will do whatever your grading justifies." Isnt that petty hahahahahaha :) But who cares. Gimme the money and I'll go.
I did some work then left office at 545 with Shih Wee and Poh Yee. The weather was dark and it looked like it was going to rain anytime but I really felt like running so we went to Macritchie and ran in the rain. Pretty cool run, drenched and soaked, but happy :) Poh Yee had the wet t-shirt look (oops!) so Shih Wee gave her his extra t-shirt. Drove them home then I went to KPT Eunos for coffee with Mervin. He cant go to Bintan :( Oh well, I guess I'll go with KC, Sofian and Daniel then. I really wish he'd re-consider, he brings life to any situation under any circumstances. My fingers are crossed.
