Friday, January 31, 2003
I'm tired. Have not written in 2 days. I cant even remember what happened on Thursday.
Oh. There was the CEO briefing about HDB's restructuring. He said the same old thing, I fell asleep the first 10 minutes actually. I was looking at something else most of the time. My eyes roamed the entire auditorium. Theresa and Kok Ching were sitting beside me. A few seats away, I can see Rebecca and Kang Kee. How nice. Hui Hui and Cheng Chuan were sitting on the right side of the auditorium. Andrew and Jafne on the left side. Lovely sight. Behind them, Regina and Tian Wah. Not counting the other 'veteran' ISD couples. Wonderful. And then I saw him, the Michelin Man. And true enough Lily was sitting beside him. FUCK IT. Hahahahah... Earlier in the day me and Andrew were Novell msgin each other and the essence of the conversation is that, if the world is against you, you just say, FUCK IT. Yeah, FUCK IT.
But I cant help but look at them. They look funny. I think its just me. There are too many couples here. I close my eyes and fell asleep again. Kok Ching gave me a nudge. He said, goodness, look at the no of couples here. As if he read my mind. Then he said, "well, you were almost a couple too."
HUH? I really didnt know who he was talking about. He said she was going after me but I didnt respond, so she gave up. What the? Cant be Lily. He doesnt know. Erica? Possible. Theresa quipped "Yah lor.. your secret admirer". I didnt really wanna think about it then, so I closed my eyes again. ZZzzz. On and off I heard CEO saying something about the new HDB Corp and what our options are. Just show me the money, I thought to myself.
Right after the talk I rushed out and met Chris at Basement 3. He took a few measurements of the Mobile Van, then brought the new ruggedised notebook up to my cube. He demo-ed it for a bit, then Kevin from Starhub came. A real pro, this guy. He installed the GPRS card on the notebook and voila, wireless surfing. Cool man. Kevin did a mini presentation on my whiteboard on Starhub's GPRS and DLC capability. He impressed me. I wanna impress people. I must be more confident.
I stayed back a while longer to play with the notebook and learn about the Personal Firewall, told Shih Wee I really cant run today, this is the 2nd time this week I cancelled. Finally left the office about 730 and met Mervin at Marina. He had some SingTel vouchers for Kenny Rogers and we had a very good dinner. Just thinking about it now makes me hungry again. I told him about the CEO briefing but I dont think he was listening anyway. CIO, CEO, he was mixing it all up on who is actually leaving. After dinner we walked around a bit and I bought a new pair of Teva Sandals at WOS. They were having that Sandals for Charity thing and since I'm going to Bintan next week and my old Bata Sandals are begging to go into retirement, I went down to the car, took out the Bata and bought the Teva for about half price.
I showed the notebook to Mervin, he was surfing while I was driving around. Pretty good coverage. Stopped for a while at East Coast, listened to some music that I downloaded and then went back home.
Just before lunch today Kok Ching asked whether I want to go eat with him. He has been helping me out a lot with PVCS. I wanted to go to the post office to pay for the TV license fee and he offered to come along. Well ok then. We went to MOS burger and he was telling me about his new Sengkang place. Must be exciting, to get married and play house with a girl you like. You get to choose your sofa, your TV, even your toilet sink. I asked him who he was talking about yesterday when he told me about my secret admirer. Suliana lah, he stressed. Oh. Well. Ok I've heard people telling me that even though she has a boyfriend (Ibrahim) she was not really happy cos he's a PUNK (he colors his hair and ride this mean bike) and she was looking for someone more.. err.. I dont know the word to use. You get my drift. And of course, I didnt really do anything, like always. I was having so much fun with someone else then. But look at where that has gotten me. FUCK IT.
In the afternoon it was time for CIO to give his speech. It was more of a history lesson on what he has done in ISD in his 13 years. Yada Yada Yada. I have utter respect for that man, I think he really made it. He's THERE. You've got to hand it to this guy. Oh and Theresa and See Yiing has been persuading me to go to his farewell dinner on 20/2. I dont really wanna go, its $32 and I dont see the point of going. But they want me to give a little speech, from a SLO's point of view. Maybe I'll do it. Maybe. I'll give an answer tomorrow.
After the speech me, Dilip, Shekar and Nor worked on the project some more, Wee Wah really helped a lot. I met the SCS vendors around 630 and they installed additional 1G RAM and another CPU to each server. Resolved the ArcServe issue too. I'm lost when it comes to the actual details of the application, especially on the Lotus Notes part. Hey I have not gone for any courses and this is the first time I'm touching it. I need to learn it myself I guess. Later. Much later. Told Shih Wee again, for the 3rd time this week, that the run is off, and finally left the office at 9pm. Went to the gym and ran for 5km.
RIISE AND HESKEY :) 2-2 Liverpool vs Arsenal.
Oh. There was the CEO briefing about HDB's restructuring. He said the same old thing, I fell asleep the first 10 minutes actually. I was looking at something else most of the time. My eyes roamed the entire auditorium. Theresa and Kok Ching were sitting beside me. A few seats away, I can see Rebecca and Kang Kee. How nice. Hui Hui and Cheng Chuan were sitting on the right side of the auditorium. Andrew and Jafne on the left side. Lovely sight. Behind them, Regina and Tian Wah. Not counting the other 'veteran' ISD couples. Wonderful. And then I saw him, the Michelin Man. And true enough Lily was sitting beside him. FUCK IT. Hahahahah... Earlier in the day me and Andrew were Novell msgin each other and the essence of the conversation is that, if the world is against you, you just say, FUCK IT. Yeah, FUCK IT.
But I cant help but look at them. They look funny. I think its just me. There are too many couples here. I close my eyes and fell asleep again. Kok Ching gave me a nudge. He said, goodness, look at the no of couples here. As if he read my mind. Then he said, "well, you were almost a couple too."
HUH? I really didnt know who he was talking about. He said she was going after me but I didnt respond, so she gave up. What the? Cant be Lily. He doesnt know. Erica? Possible. Theresa quipped "Yah lor.. your secret admirer". I didnt really wanna think about it then, so I closed my eyes again. ZZzzz. On and off I heard CEO saying something about the new HDB Corp and what our options are. Just show me the money, I thought to myself.
Right after the talk I rushed out and met Chris at Basement 3. He took a few measurements of the Mobile Van, then brought the new ruggedised notebook up to my cube. He demo-ed it for a bit, then Kevin from Starhub came. A real pro, this guy. He installed the GPRS card on the notebook and voila, wireless surfing. Cool man. Kevin did a mini presentation on my whiteboard on Starhub's GPRS and DLC capability. He impressed me. I wanna impress people. I must be more confident.
I stayed back a while longer to play with the notebook and learn about the Personal Firewall, told Shih Wee I really cant run today, this is the 2nd time this week I cancelled. Finally left the office about 730 and met Mervin at Marina. He had some SingTel vouchers for Kenny Rogers and we had a very good dinner. Just thinking about it now makes me hungry again. I told him about the CEO briefing but I dont think he was listening anyway. CIO, CEO, he was mixing it all up on who is actually leaving. After dinner we walked around a bit and I bought a new pair of Teva Sandals at WOS. They were having that Sandals for Charity thing and since I'm going to Bintan next week and my old Bata Sandals are begging to go into retirement, I went down to the car, took out the Bata and bought the Teva for about half price.
I showed the notebook to Mervin, he was surfing while I was driving around. Pretty good coverage. Stopped for a while at East Coast, listened to some music that I downloaded and then went back home.
Just before lunch today Kok Ching asked whether I want to go eat with him. He has been helping me out a lot with PVCS. I wanted to go to the post office to pay for the TV license fee and he offered to come along. Well ok then. We went to MOS burger and he was telling me about his new Sengkang place. Must be exciting, to get married and play house with a girl you like. You get to choose your sofa, your TV, even your toilet sink. I asked him who he was talking about yesterday when he told me about my secret admirer. Suliana lah, he stressed. Oh. Well. Ok I've heard people telling me that even though she has a boyfriend (Ibrahim) she was not really happy cos he's a PUNK (he colors his hair and ride this mean bike) and she was looking for someone more.. err.. I dont know the word to use. You get my drift. And of course, I didnt really do anything, like always. I was having so much fun with someone else then. But look at where that has gotten me. FUCK IT.
In the afternoon it was time for CIO to give his speech. It was more of a history lesson on what he has done in ISD in his 13 years. Yada Yada Yada. I have utter respect for that man, I think he really made it. He's THERE. You've got to hand it to this guy. Oh and Theresa and See Yiing has been persuading me to go to his farewell dinner on 20/2. I dont really wanna go, its $32 and I dont see the point of going. But they want me to give a little speech, from a SLO's point of view. Maybe I'll do it. Maybe. I'll give an answer tomorrow.
After the speech me, Dilip, Shekar and Nor worked on the project some more, Wee Wah really helped a lot. I met the SCS vendors around 630 and they installed additional 1G RAM and another CPU to each server. Resolved the ArcServe issue too. I'm lost when it comes to the actual details of the application, especially on the Lotus Notes part. Hey I have not gone for any courses and this is the first time I'm touching it. I need to learn it myself I guess. Later. Much later. Told Shih Wee again, for the 3rd time this week, that the run is off, and finally left the office at 9pm. Went to the gym and ran for 5km.
RIISE AND HESKEY :) 2-2 Liverpool vs Arsenal.
