Thursday, February 13, 2003
Nothing happened on Hari Raya Haji, I woke up late, sent my family to Mak Hitam's place around 3pm and made my way to the gym. William was lousy, he couldnt get the class working and kept making mistakes. Ran for 5k, left the gym and then met Merv and we had coffee at Siglap near Junia's place. Talked the usual nonsense, sometimes all I need is someone to keep on talking and everything just feels better.
I woke up at 5am today and the smell coming from the kitchen was... goodness it went straight into the depths of my stomach and the juices was flowing like siao. Mom was frying chicken wings and the rendang was simmering. Mmmm they will definitely love this! I sms Jasmine to buy bread cos the ketupat mom bought on Wed had turned bad.
Nor is on 2 days course and will be on another course next week. I was still not in the mood to work and not happy about what happened lately, so I scanned again at the TRMS, I wanted to add on to the course 'Implementing Internet Security' which Boon Nam already approved and see whether I can push him a bit more. So I sent him an email just before lunch time "There is a Macromedia Flash course for 3 days, and the ISO14001 Committee has expressed their wish to have flash animations on our website. Can I go?"
Lunch was excellent, I invited Jasmine, Lucy, Lily, Wee Wah, Thomas and Judy to Courage Room and we had my mom's chicken wings and rendang with bread. Its true what Wee Wah told me last Saturday at his open house, it feels good to invite your friends over and eat together. Right after lunch I was just walking out of my cube when Boon Nam appeared outside and said "Can I have a word with you? Lets go to Perseverance Room." Wooo hooooo 3 days in a row of 1-to-1 private meeting with the boss. This is indeed my lucky week!
Once inside he apologised to me for the way he handled things. He said that he should have gotten the full facts first before accusing me. (I guess Nor must have talked to him). Anyway I told him again about how it was Arthur himself who told me to send that email, and that the reason I submitted my leave card late was because I wanted to make sure I settled most of the outstanding things first before really knowing that I could go on leave, and that he was on child MC on that day anyway. He just nodded and apologised again. He asked whether my decision to take the SRS has got anything to do with him, and if it is, then he asked me to reconsider my decision. He even said that I can talk to the CDD SA and get him to edit my survery form. He tried to convince me by saying that the job market is bad out there, that the timing is not right cos of the graduates entering the job market in may/june, that my compensation isnt that great either. I told him my decision was made way before this, but he insist I think it through again and change it if I need to. I wont. I know I wont.
I wanted to leave the office at exactly 530 and be home to watch American Idol, but I ended up going to Macritchie first with Shih Wee for a run after he persuaded me. And what a good run today was! I rushed home just in time for Idol.. Ruben and Kimberly got in and joined Julia and Charles from last week.
Oh on a sad note, Daniel emailed the gang to say that his brother is still in hospital and need blood platelets desperately. Its weird, I always get one those 'looking for blood donors' emails and honestly, I dont really pay any attention to those, and assume somebody else will take care of it. But now its from somebody I know. And its a whole lot different. They are looking O+, that's what I am, so I've decided to go donate early next week. Anyone wanna join me?
7, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30
Those numbers meant 2.7 million dollars each for 4 ppl in Singapore tonight. And one got it from investing only $3.50 on a quick pick ordinary. Amazing.
I woke up at 5am today and the smell coming from the kitchen was... goodness it went straight into the depths of my stomach and the juices was flowing like siao. Mom was frying chicken wings and the rendang was simmering. Mmmm they will definitely love this! I sms Jasmine to buy bread cos the ketupat mom bought on Wed had turned bad.
Nor is on 2 days course and will be on another course next week. I was still not in the mood to work and not happy about what happened lately, so I scanned again at the TRMS, I wanted to add on to the course 'Implementing Internet Security' which Boon Nam already approved and see whether I can push him a bit more. So I sent him an email just before lunch time "There is a Macromedia Flash course for 3 days, and the ISO14001 Committee has expressed their wish to have flash animations on our website. Can I go?"
Lunch was excellent, I invited Jasmine, Lucy, Lily, Wee Wah, Thomas and Judy to Courage Room and we had my mom's chicken wings and rendang with bread. Its true what Wee Wah told me last Saturday at his open house, it feels good to invite your friends over and eat together. Right after lunch I was just walking out of my cube when Boon Nam appeared outside and said "Can I have a word with you? Lets go to Perseverance Room." Wooo hooooo 3 days in a row of 1-to-1 private meeting with the boss. This is indeed my lucky week!
Once inside he apologised to me for the way he handled things. He said that he should have gotten the full facts first before accusing me. (I guess Nor must have talked to him). Anyway I told him again about how it was Arthur himself who told me to send that email, and that the reason I submitted my leave card late was because I wanted to make sure I settled most of the outstanding things first before really knowing that I could go on leave, and that he was on child MC on that day anyway. He just nodded and apologised again. He asked whether my decision to take the SRS has got anything to do with him, and if it is, then he asked me to reconsider my decision. He even said that I can talk to the CDD SA and get him to edit my survery form. He tried to convince me by saying that the job market is bad out there, that the timing is not right cos of the graduates entering the job market in may/june, that my compensation isnt that great either. I told him my decision was made way before this, but he insist I think it through again and change it if I need to. I wont. I know I wont.
I wanted to leave the office at exactly 530 and be home to watch American Idol, but I ended up going to Macritchie first with Shih Wee for a run after he persuaded me. And what a good run today was! I rushed home just in time for Idol.. Ruben and Kimberly got in and joined Julia and Charles from last week.
Oh on a sad note, Daniel emailed the gang to say that his brother is still in hospital and need blood platelets desperately. Its weird, I always get one those 'looking for blood donors' emails and honestly, I dont really pay any attention to those, and assume somebody else will take care of it. But now its from somebody I know. And its a whole lot different. They are looking O+, that's what I am, so I've decided to go donate early next week. Anyone wanna join me?
7, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30
Those numbers meant 2.7 million dollars each for 4 ppl in Singapore tonight. And one got it from investing only $3.50 on a quick pick ordinary. Amazing.
