有缘多早或多晚都碰得到
无缘就算再刻意安排想擦肩而过都难...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Sunday, August 27, 2006
My Weekend – 25-26 August
Wat a weekend…
Friday (not really weekend but close la… )
Went to Sentosa Cove to help out at the auction… and of cos, those who went are the super-duper rich pple… Event went rather ok, though I won’t say the same for the logistics matters. Thought that the logistics could have been better arranged… but well, it wasn’t my event, and so it wasn’t really appropriate for me to comment much too.. I was quite pissed off with a staff from Sentosa though..
We were supposed to make photocopies of the identifications of all those who came as bidders, and some staff from Sentosa told me tat someone in the room would help me make the photocopies. But when I went to the room, there was only this guy and a lady, and both of them were not supposed to do the photocopying.. (Not sure where tat lady who was responsible for photocopying went at that moment)… But anyway, the lady in the room was kind enough to want to teach me how to use it, but just when she was trying to figure out, her boss came in and screamed at her, “What are you doing here? Please go out to attend the guests!!!! And XXX (calling the guy), you take care of the back room operations and help her (ie, me) with the photocopying.”
When the door closed, the guy started to vent his frustrations on me.
Guy: If you are doing the running, you should have come in earlier to learn how to operate this machine!
Me: I came early but someone told me that pple from your side would take care of the photocopying and I just have to pass to your staff!
Guy: But if you are doing the running, shouldn’t you learn? (meanwhile, he was trying to figure how to photocopy the IC onto one page)
Me (getting pissed): I repeat. Someone from YOUR side told me that YOU GUYS will handle it. How would I know where that person from YOUR side goes to at this critical time?!
Guy: You guys came earlier just a few secs ago to do the identification photocopying too! When my gal did it for u guys, shouldn’t you guys watch and learn? And I never do the photocopying before, so I am not familiar of how to operate this machine either!
Me (now super pissed): If you dunno, I can do it. Pass me the identification!
But this super idiotic guy refused to budge from his position and while we were arguing, he already finished the photocopying, and so, he handed it to me.
I was also stupid enough to actually say “thank you” some more!! Now I think of it, I shouldn’t have and should have just snatched it from him. What an idiotic guy.
I should have been sarcastic and said “You work here and IF EVEN YOU do not know how to operate this machine.. How the F*** you expect outsiders to know how to operate?!”
Idiot. Throughout the event, each time I saw him, I gave him a super stern stare.
Friday evening
Met Vern for dinner and did some catching up all the way until 12 MN. And then went to meet Ann and her god-daddy for some drinks at Harry’s Bar… Goodness… they really drink like a fish.. one drink after another and ordered the same for us… Each time Vern and I wanted to quickly finish our drinks and leave, before we could even say bye, another drink was already on the table for us… Vern and I just exchanged helpless looks…
And when Harry’s Bar closed at 2 am.. Vern and I felt super relieved… but who noes… we were pushed into a cab and off we went to MOS for 2nd round… nearly fainted… cos I was kinda groggy and dizzy… but I was trying my best to walk straight and appear alert… (told Vern the next day and she actually said Huh? I din noe u were already drunk! Cos u looked damn sober and was talking sense! Haha!)
And so, we stayed at MOS until abt 3 plus… reached home, 4 plus… by the time I finally got into my bed… it was like 5 plus in the morning!! Goodness.. it had been a long time since I slept so early! Grrrr… not good for skin…
Saturday evening
Met Vern, Nan, Yi’er, Michelle and a grp of other frens for Womad. For the past few years, I’ve been ranting that I wanted to go, but somehow, never make it there.. Was glad that I went this year. The weather was quite hot and humid though… We were all sticky by the end of the night.. but guess it’s better than a wet weather… Had fun with the company..
* Michelle really loves to dance.. We were all sitting down and realised Michelle was still standing strong, jumping and dancing to the music.
* Poor Yi’er was dragged along by us… she looked damn bored throughout the whole event. She looked even more bored after Nan and I banned her from drinking another can of beer… and when all of us were standing and dancing to the music, she sat down and slept…
* Poor Vern… Her friend had his drink put behind her but it toppled and she ended up with a wet buttock (or rather her jeans)… lucky it wasn’t red wine nor pepsi.. just plain water… And guessed we all concluded that Vern had a nice, firm butt, when all eyes were on her wet jeans and trying to figure how to dry her in the shortest possible time..
By 1 plus, we all packed up and Vern wanted to go to the other stations to look… apparently, there was this area playing house music.. But Nan and Yi’er wanted to leave already, and my feet were bitten by mosquitoes and itched like hell.. so the two gals persuaded me to leave with them… Wat’s more, we got someone to drive us back too.. not bad, save on transport... hehe.. And so.. sat night.. I slept at abt 3 am..
Not bad for a weekend huh? **smile and zzz**
Friday (not really weekend but close la… )
Went to Sentosa Cove to help out at the auction… and of cos, those who went are the super-duper rich pple… Event went rather ok, though I won’t say the same for the logistics matters. Thought that the logistics could have been better arranged… but well, it wasn’t my event, and so it wasn’t really appropriate for me to comment much too.. I was quite pissed off with a staff from Sentosa though..
We were supposed to make photocopies of the identifications of all those who came as bidders, and some staff from Sentosa told me tat someone in the room would help me make the photocopies. But when I went to the room, there was only this guy and a lady, and both of them were not supposed to do the photocopying.. (Not sure where tat lady who was responsible for photocopying went at that moment)… But anyway, the lady in the room was kind enough to want to teach me how to use it, but just when she was trying to figure out, her boss came in and screamed at her, “What are you doing here? Please go out to attend the guests!!!! And XXX (calling the guy), you take care of the back room operations and help her (ie, me) with the photocopying.”
When the door closed, the guy started to vent his frustrations on me.
Guy: If you are doing the running, you should have come in earlier to learn how to operate this machine!
Me: I came early but someone told me that pple from your side would take care of the photocopying and I just have to pass to your staff!
Guy: But if you are doing the running, shouldn’t you learn? (meanwhile, he was trying to figure how to photocopy the IC onto one page)
Me (getting pissed): I repeat. Someone from YOUR side told me that YOU GUYS will handle it. How would I know where that person from YOUR side goes to at this critical time?!
Guy: You guys came earlier just a few secs ago to do the identification photocopying too! When my gal did it for u guys, shouldn’t you guys watch and learn? And I never do the photocopying before, so I am not familiar of how to operate this machine either!
Me (now super pissed): If you dunno, I can do it. Pass me the identification!
But this super idiotic guy refused to budge from his position and while we were arguing, he already finished the photocopying, and so, he handed it to me.
I was also stupid enough to actually say “thank you” some more!! Now I think of it, I shouldn’t have and should have just snatched it from him. What an idiotic guy.
I should have been sarcastic and said “You work here and IF EVEN YOU do not know how to operate this machine.. How the F*** you expect outsiders to know how to operate?!”
Idiot. Throughout the event, each time I saw him, I gave him a super stern stare.
Friday evening
Met Vern for dinner and did some catching up all the way until 12 MN. And then went to meet Ann and her god-daddy for some drinks at Harry’s Bar… Goodness… they really drink like a fish.. one drink after another and ordered the same for us… Each time Vern and I wanted to quickly finish our drinks and leave, before we could even say bye, another drink was already on the table for us… Vern and I just exchanged helpless looks…
And when Harry’s Bar closed at 2 am.. Vern and I felt super relieved… but who noes… we were pushed into a cab and off we went to MOS for 2nd round… nearly fainted… cos I was kinda groggy and dizzy… but I was trying my best to walk straight and appear alert… (told Vern the next day and she actually said Huh? I din noe u were already drunk! Cos u looked damn sober and was talking sense! Haha!)
And so, we stayed at MOS until abt 3 plus… reached home, 4 plus… by the time I finally got into my bed… it was like 5 plus in the morning!! Goodness.. it had been a long time since I slept so early! Grrrr… not good for skin…
Saturday evening
Met Vern, Nan, Yi’er, Michelle and a grp of other frens for Womad. For the past few years, I’ve been ranting that I wanted to go, but somehow, never make it there.. Was glad that I went this year. The weather was quite hot and humid though… We were all sticky by the end of the night.. but guess it’s better than a wet weather… Had fun with the company..
* Michelle really loves to dance.. We were all sitting down and realised Michelle was still standing strong, jumping and dancing to the music.
* Poor Yi’er was dragged along by us… she looked damn bored throughout the whole event. She looked even more bored after Nan and I banned her from drinking another can of beer… and when all of us were standing and dancing to the music, she sat down and slept…
* Poor Vern… Her friend had his drink put behind her but it toppled and she ended up with a wet buttock (or rather her jeans)… lucky it wasn’t red wine nor pepsi.. just plain water… And guessed we all concluded that Vern had a nice, firm butt, when all eyes were on her wet jeans and trying to figure how to dry her in the shortest possible time..
By 1 plus, we all packed up and Vern wanted to go to the other stations to look… apparently, there was this area playing house music.. But Nan and Yi’er wanted to leave already, and my feet were bitten by mosquitoes and itched like hell.. so the two gals persuaded me to leave with them… Wat’s more, we got someone to drive us back too.. not bad, save on transport... hehe.. And so.. sat night.. I slept at abt 3 am..
Not bad for a weekend huh? **smile and zzz**
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
天才与白痴
Going thru some extremely juvenile, yet for some reasons, super upsetting moments for the past week… Some of you would already knew about it, but I do not wish to mention this anymore… So for those of you who noe, and is reading this now, and is thinking of leaving some comments, please, please make it extremely subtle! I can’t suffer another blow/shock any time now…
What makes me feel worse is I am absolutely amazed with myself, or rather with my emotions, which went through a roller coaster ride just within a few days… Was so affected by this incident that (in no order of sequence):
* I was not really paying attention at work… so I am still struggling to do my newsletter… damn.. keeping fingers crossed my boss won’t ask me for it so soon… but theoretically, it’s already late for a week… jia lat….
* One fren was rather worried that she came down to lunch with me to make sure I was alright.
* Another fren took pains to console me, even though I know she’s not in tip-top condition too…
* I knocked my forehead against my desk when I was picking up something I dropped. It was such a loud knock that my colleagues around me turned and stared at me, eyes wide… and started laughing when I gave them an embarrassed grin…
* I walked right into a door and knocked my elbow… and this happened right after I knocked my forehead… yes.. I have two bruises now…
Told my fren last week I have confidence I’ll stop thinking about the incident and will recover by the time weekend was over… but it din happen… sigh… damn useless… I just hope I’ll snap out of this s-t-o-o-p-i-d thing soon… pretty soon… I have to make it happen… Guess it just boils down to whether I want to or not… urgh…
What makes me feel worse is I am absolutely amazed with myself, or rather with my emotions, which went through a roller coaster ride just within a few days… Was so affected by this incident that (in no order of sequence):
* I was not really paying attention at work… so I am still struggling to do my newsletter… damn.. keeping fingers crossed my boss won’t ask me for it so soon… but theoretically, it’s already late for a week… jia lat….
* One fren was rather worried that she came down to lunch with me to make sure I was alright.
* Another fren took pains to console me, even though I know she’s not in tip-top condition too…
* I knocked my forehead against my desk when I was picking up something I dropped. It was such a loud knock that my colleagues around me turned and stared at me, eyes wide… and started laughing when I gave them an embarrassed grin…
* I walked right into a door and knocked my elbow… and this happened right after I knocked my forehead… yes.. I have two bruises now…
Told my fren last week I have confidence I’ll stop thinking about the incident and will recover by the time weekend was over… but it din happen… sigh… damn useless… I just hope I’ll snap out of this s-t-o-o-p-i-d thing soon… pretty soon… I have to make it happen… Guess it just boils down to whether I want to or not… urgh…
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Random…
• Been "struggling" to produce the internal newsletter… Kind of different from what I used to do... Now, I have to write the copy, think of the design, etc,etc.. ie, to produce the newsletter right from scratch to the finished product. Last time, at least, some one would propose the design to me, and I would have my other expert colleague to do these layout/designs for me. All I have to do is to sit back, shake leg, and wait to see the final layout… Oh boy, Cen and JH, how I missed the 2 of you.. hahaha.... It was tough in the beginning since my ex-colleagues all know I have no patience to sit in front of a computer trying to figure out how to draw a straight line, insert, crop, images, bla, bla, bla… but well, now, it got kind of fun… so I am enjoying it now… It trains my patience level as well, which is a good thing. Mum said I have been rather quick tempered these days…
• Something “major” happened at work on a Friday though… I caused, be it directly or indirectly, the whole company’s server to shut down at about 4 pm, after sending a super huge email to everyone…
Well, the thing is, that email was supposed to be sent by my boss... but she was rushing out for a meeting, so she asked me to send it instead… It was an email to tell everyone about adopting some new designs (which I came up with) for all their proposals, submissions and external reports. There was a link for them to access but boss wanted to let them see the different images, so asked me to copy and paste the images onto the email… Well, both of us totally forgot that I used super hi-res images for the designs.. and yes, you guessed it.. the email I sent was of 27 MB… to everyone (including my MD) in the office… **Faint**
And so, my phone started ringing every minute... the secretaries of some depts came over to ask me what "the hell" I sent… **Panic**
I ran to my IT guy but he told me that it was not due to my email that the server was down… so that was what I told everyone and anyone who came to me… but somehow, later, I realised that the IT guy said that so as not to worry me too much… Guess I had this super stressed look on my face then.. and worse, my boss was not in office… Sms-ed my boss, and she called back and joked that I will now be infamous in the office but everyone will thank me cos they can all leave early on a Friday evening!
At 6 pm, I guessed I better be out of the office fast, to prevent any more “bombardment” from other colleagues… Met two colleagues (A and B) at the lift lobby... The conversation went as follows:
A (looked at me with uncertain eyes): You are Ching Hsia?
I shook my head and said no, and went on to tell him my name.
A: Oh…
Then he turned to B and me.
A: You are the gal who sent that email, right? (At that moment, I managed a weak smile…) You know what my boss came to me and say when he received that email? (in my mind, **panic**, not again!) There is a 林青霞 who sent me an email!! (then he turned to me) that’s why I thought you are Ching Hsia… Sorry..
Well, those of you who know my full dialect name -- please put my first name, then my last name, and you will kind of know why the "mistake" was made… but he managed to make me feel better and laugh all the way until I met Cen for dinner… and with B shouting after me to tell me not to think about the email anymore and said it’s really no big deal, my day din end that bad after all…
• Something “major” happened at work on a Friday though… I caused, be it directly or indirectly, the whole company’s server to shut down at about 4 pm, after sending a super huge email to everyone…
Well, the thing is, that email was supposed to be sent by my boss... but she was rushing out for a meeting, so she asked me to send it instead… It was an email to tell everyone about adopting some new designs (which I came up with) for all their proposals, submissions and external reports. There was a link for them to access but boss wanted to let them see the different images, so asked me to copy and paste the images onto the email… Well, both of us totally forgot that I used super hi-res images for the designs.. and yes, you guessed it.. the email I sent was of 27 MB… to everyone (including my MD) in the office… **Faint**
And so, my phone started ringing every minute... the secretaries of some depts came over to ask me what "the hell" I sent… **Panic**
I ran to my IT guy but he told me that it was not due to my email that the server was down… so that was what I told everyone and anyone who came to me… but somehow, later, I realised that the IT guy said that so as not to worry me too much… Guess I had this super stressed look on my face then.. and worse, my boss was not in office… Sms-ed my boss, and she called back and joked that I will now be infamous in the office but everyone will thank me cos they can all leave early on a Friday evening!
At 6 pm, I guessed I better be out of the office fast, to prevent any more “bombardment” from other colleagues… Met two colleagues (A and B) at the lift lobby... The conversation went as follows:
A (looked at me with uncertain eyes): You are Ching Hsia?
I shook my head and said no, and went on to tell him my name.
A: Oh…
Then he turned to B and me.
A: You are the gal who sent that email, right? (At that moment, I managed a weak smile…) You know what my boss came to me and say when he received that email? (in my mind, **panic**, not again!) There is a 林青霞 who sent me an email!! (then he turned to me) that’s why I thought you are Ching Hsia… Sorry..
Well, those of you who know my full dialect name -- please put my first name, then my last name, and you will kind of know why the "mistake" was made… but he managed to make me feel better and laugh all the way until I met Cen for dinner… and with B shouting after me to tell me not to think about the email anymore and said it’s really no big deal, my day din end that bad after all…
"Angel" vs "Devil"
Not sure why but I thought of angel and devil the moment i saw this photo.. haha..
