Published on
December 29, 2004 in
Rants.
I’ve got the cool shorts, the will, the technique. All I’ve left to acquire are a nice pair of powered goggles, and a bigger lung capacity. Damned pool has so much chlorine lately.
It’s been a while since I’ve done my laps. Only managed 12 this evening. Why the sudden urge to swim, you ask? Well, I was at the sports complex the whole day today, entertaining 300 users who’ve come from all parts of the country to shoot us down with regards to the new system. Since we were there, why not play squash after that? Call it stress relief.
I lasted only 45 minutes.
There’s a gym right next to the courts, but I’m not mentally prepared to go in. Malu. It was then that I remembered Yakitate! Japan episode 8, where Kawachi starts his rigorous training to gain solar hands, beginning with a daily 10km swim. If he could do it, and if JL could do it, why can’t I?
So here I am, aching all over with irritated eyes. A nice addition to the already troubled mind.
Continue reading ‘blood red eyes’
Published on
December 27, 2004 in
Rants.
Heya. Just got back from a weekend trip to Singapore. The travelling was tiring, but I managed to clock in some great chill out time with great company. Yay for cuzzies.
Took Friday off to make time for the drive, as well as to run some errands around town. By the time I was done, it was already 1.30, and I ended up with some Sing dollars and a bad haircut. QB House is great, except that the results vary with the hairstylist. Looks like I’ll have to be careful the next time I go there. And I think I have to pay more attention to facial detail; I think the person who cut my hair may have actually been my evil neighbor upstairs.
And on top of that, note too much makeup = bad / evil.
Az called the gang out to Starbucks. Got caught up with The Apprentice and missed the few precious moments. Oh well, was feeling a little too tired anyway. It wouldn’t have turned into FFK if I didn’t agree in the first place. But, it’s not easy to decline the requests of an uncle.
Moments ago, I was trying to figure out how to remove the shrink wrap off Hayashibara’s center color album (thank Hemlocke! 
) when we finally got bombarded with news coverage of this morning’s tsunami. 5.4 thousand in countries across south and south east asia dead. About 20 from penang and kedah. Tis truly a tragedy this holiday season.
Published on
December 23, 2004 in
Rants.
A discussion on the effects of coffee resulted in me getting to bed at 3.30am and realising that I’ve been dehydrated lately.
Note to self: water comes first. work, after. everything else, in between.
Didn’t lose much in last night’s game.
Since I was at the office till 8pm last night, I took the liberty to come to work 2 hours late today. 3.5 hours of sleep just doesn’t cut it for me. I wonder how I managed to pull all nighters when I was in college. Besides those anime marathons and last minute assignments, I’m still amazed how I survived packing and studying till morning, taking my last exam, and immediately boarding a plane back to Malaysia right after.
Guess life’s much more interesting that way.
Anyway, I now have copies of Taiko no Tatsujin: Go! Go! Godaime and Taiko: Drum Master, the first US version of this popular game series. They’re still on CD like their predecessors, so my PS2 had problems reading them (gotta send that thing for a checkup sometime soon).
I didn’t manage to catch the entire song list in the 5th edition, ‘cept for the original version of Natsumatsuri which has a slower beat than the Whiteberry remake. The new mini games are fantastic!
The English version on the other hand copies the intro from the 3rd Japanese installment; they didn’t even bother changing the in-menu music. Few differences were the song selection including Tubthumping, Toxic (yep!), etc. and everything reads left to right.
Conclusion: Jap rocks!
Published on
December 19, 2004 in
Rants.
After redownloading and rereading Beck just to get a quick recap of what will happen after episode 8 of the anime, I’m now hooked on Hot Blooded Woman, a manhwa by some manhwaka. 
Woke surprisingly early today at 1pm, due to some freaking noise from above.
Also finished ObsCure. Not as tough as I thought it’d be; just had to grasp the killing concept.
Somehow, Monday doesn’t seem so bad this time. Looking forward to great times with less work. *crosses fingers* Really, really hope I get put into fulltime support mode!
Continue reading ‘*muahhhnnn*wa’
Published on
December 18, 2004 in
Rants.
The past week has been particularly significant to the project, and that includes me as well.
The main agenda was to get the agreement from the HR GMs to allow us to cutover to the new HR system. No more parallel, no more reconciliations, no more mess ups. Needless to say, it was tough, and it was good that these guys knew the pain and suffering that their staff have been going through.
All that’s left is to get all outstanding issues closed to make way for the second phase, which focuses more on employee development, career planning, etc. It’ll be interesting to see this work in line with the new corporate agenda of adopting a performance culture. I can still remember one of my user’s complaints about how useless people are being promoted. It’s just a matter of shaking them after 4-5 years and saying, ‘Hey, wake up! Promotion time!’. Needless to say, it made all of us young chaps feel sad.
It’s great to be in a two-day weekend. Think I’ve managed to recover most of my lost sleep time this morning, which I missed experiencing by 3 hours. The few remaining hours were spent watching Ocean’s Eleven and preparing more downloads for my pleasure tomorrow.
Tonight, gotta call the guys to find out what’s the clubbing plan.
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