31 August 2016

There is a first for everything


Flying business class, a first for me, after so many business trips throughout the years.

Somehow, this feels more like being on a business trip, heh. =P

personal space

plenty of leg room for my height

The seats are like personal cubicles, with plenty of leg room for me since I am not a tall person.

seat modes

The important thing about the space is that it allows the seat to go into "bed mode", which is a lot nicer compared to trying to sleep sitting. Of course the seat can be in any other form of inclination in between upright and flat.

arse numbing flight distance

For a 13 hours flight, bed mode is very much appreciated. That said, I still didn't get to sleep, the noise (even with ear plugs), the vibration, did not help.

Oh, the three course meals are nice too.

So yea, just wanted to record this down, my first ever experience flying business class. =)



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29 August 2016

心的频道:二十年


前任女朋友,现任情人老婆仔,纪念日快乐!

二十年了。 ^_^

我俩相识拍拖的时间已经长过不认识的时间了咯,耶! =D

谢谢你没有嫌弃木讷番薯的我,让我二十年前走大运捡到宝。

谢谢你的相伴相随、撑腰扶持、同甘共苦。

谢谢你的坦诚相对、你的真、你的好。

有你,我很幸福。

希望你看到这篇文章时,我预定的玫瑰已经送到,呵呵!



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27 August 2016

What a week...


Monday, came home early as wifey said Hsiang threw up a few times and doctor suspected food poisoning or appendicitis. Figured she could use the help handling Young while she took care of Hsiang.

Then Hsiang got worse and we decided to see a specialist. The first hospital we went to, wasted two and a half hours before telling us there was no room to admit Hsiang, and they would do the blood test only if Hsiang was admitted.

Thanks for nothing.

So we headed to a second hospital, emergency ward since by then it's already pretty late. Admitted for an operation to remove the appendix on Tuesday morning, which went well, thank goodness.

Took a day off on Tuesday and worked from home on Wednesday for all the chauffeuring, house chores and taking care of Young, who was on his best behaviour and took all these like a champion. So proud of him.

Back to office on Thursday after the few days of rushing around in a worried state, thinking that things would finally settle down to normal, with Hsiang recovering at home while I go back to my normal routine.

A casual comment at the end of the meeting before lunch triggered a chain of event that ended up in my frantic scrambling to get myself ready to go on a business trip next week.

What we said carries so little weight, while what our oversea counterpart said carries so much. What a sad situation we are in...

Anyway, the decision was made in record time instead of the usual drawn out back and forth justification and counter justification, and the company travel agent proved their efficiency getting my travel booked on Friday morning and ticket issued in the afternoon.

I spent Friday night and Saturday morning completing all the necessary trainings in order to apply for all the accesses I will need while over there.

To be honest my head is still in a buzz and all these have not really sunk in. I still have much to prepare for the trip and I don't have much time.

What a week...



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23 August 2016

好长的一天…


原本是有打算今晚写篇文章的。

但不是这篇。这篇是因为突发事件才写的。

大瓜早上肚痛呕吐,送去诊疗所的途中又呕了一次,回程中再呕了一次。

医生说可能是食物中毒,也可能是盲肠炎。

我在工厂里没有讯号,是午餐时间出了工厂我才得知。

午餐后我就回家了,想必老婆仔需要人帮忙载送、买外卖、和看顾小瓜。

我在家里工作时大瓜又吐了两次。

载小瓜放学时老婆仔决定带大瓜去看专科医生。

所以我放了他们在医院然后和小瓜回家,安顿小瓜的晚餐。

小瓜很乖很自立,吃饱后自己做功课,我问他需不需要帮忙他说不必。我看了看他做好的功课,都没错,我就去洗盘碗和忙我自己的。

小瓜做完功课后就很自动自发的去冲凉,自己吹干头发,自己在床上看了下书,然后就关灯睡觉。

我进去房里和他抱抱吻晚安,他说他可能会睡不着,因为担心我出去载妈妈和哥哥时只有他一个人在家,他怕会有坏人。

我安慰他说不要担心,家里很安全,而且医院不远,我很快就会回来的。

他哦了一声,很快就睡着了。

大瓜在医院里又呕吐,而且开始发烧。专科医生说要验血才能确定是不是盲肠炎。

可是,医院没有病房,而他妈的要住院他们才验血,说什么去别的医院可能又要在验血多一次。

总之,浪费了两个半小时后结果是要去另一间医院重新开始整个过程,而且门诊时间已过,要去急诊。

勾叉零蛋三角形!

确定第二间医院有病房后我放了他们再次回到家里等。悄悄看了看沉睡的小瓜,一切安好。

然后我开始写这篇文章。

大约一小时后老婆仔致电说确定是盲肠炎,要留院观察和准备明天早上的切除手术。

她说会陪大瓜过夜,叫我等她安排妥当后再来电通知我去接她回家冲凉和带过夜需要的东西过去。

我等她的电话期间开始帮她准备过夜需要的东西。她再次来电时我已准备得七七八八。

来回医院,老婆仔说大瓜告诉她可以不必倍他过夜,但最好是可以。孩子真的长大了…

冲过凉再次来回医院,今晚的第四趟。

再回到家后安排明天请假的琐琐碎碎,然后继续写完这篇文章。

好长的一天…

累了,也不多写了,希望明天一切会顺顺利利啦!



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20 August 2016

有感而发:奥运羽球


二零一六年八月二十日。

好久没有看电视了。有几年了吧?

今年里约奥运会,大马羽球队混双、男双、和男单都进了决赛。

所以我破例看了电视,追这几场球赛。

感谢羽球健将们的努力和拼命,给我们带来精彩刺激的比赛。

三个决赛,三个银牌。遗憾无缘夺金。

最靠近金牌的,应该是男双了。好可惜。

大马混双和男双,你们可以的,下个奥运会里把冠军带回家吧!

李宗伟,感谢你那么多年的拼。你和林丹给了我们好多高水准的漂亮球赛。

我想这应该是你们最后一个奥运会了吧?

我只能说,你们是一个时代的传奇,谢谢你们。

很惋惜宗伟没有夺冠,不然那将是多么完美的谢幕啊…



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15 August 2016

Tummy-building


Today is the day, the tummy-building day!

To take it up another level, some of us arranged a pre-tummy-building breakfast. We had dim sum to have a head start at tummy-building, hehe.

Well, if you cannot beat them, join them. So feast we shall! =P

Then it's to bowling we went.

I consider the bowling a small victory, in the sense that today's event had that bit of teambuilding element in it instead of purely tummy-building. 

We were split into two teams, competing each other. The alias they used were just... oh well, it's my resolution this month to not react to it, so I shall not.

I am in a team mainly with a pokemon and tough theme, while the other team had a soft theme. My team lost both games, we cleaned many "longkang" in the process. =P

Scored 106 in the first game, about average of my (lack of) skill; then 115 in my second game, which was better than usual for me.

We then proceeded to the buffet lunch.

Which was just so so. The food lover was disappointed, I am indifferent since I know I got cheap taste. As I can't eat much, I perceived buffet as no value for money.

A starter, a main course, a dessert, and an icecream, and I already had too much and went into food coma. -_-

We went for movie after lunch, watched Suicide Squad. Didn't really have any expectation, the movie turned out alright for me. The extra money paid for the motion seat was another no value for money in my case, but at least I have experienced it.

All in all, I love the dim sum and I enjoyed the bowling. Movie was okay and lunch was so so. It's a day without work so all is good. =P

I didn't have dinner since I am still full. A friend gave us some durians though, so maybe I will eat that later in the night as dinner/supper. ^_^



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12 August 2016

Dominant personality trait


Followed a sharing in Facebook and got to this blog entry: This Abstract Image Test Will Determine Your Dominant Personality Trait.

I have no idea how the system works but here's what I got after going through the test:


Wisdom eh?

I can live with that.



I knew it! =P



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11 August 2016

农历七月热门歌曲


农历七月,地府大门开放,“好兄弟”到阳间接受普度增加冥福。

每年这个时候,我居住的社区都会有七月歌台来娱乐“好兄弟”们。

歌台表演都是在我宅在房里的时候开始,一直到凌晨。

我房间的窗夜间是开着的,所以每晚都被逼着免费听歌。

不是全部免费的东西都是好事来的咯…

有些歌手还好啦,有些就会,呃… 让我「毛鬼唱起来」,让我觉得我可以唱得更好咯。

偏偏我还是给钱去唱歌的人,而他们却是收钱唱歌的人…

世界是不公平的,看开点。

自从七月歌台开始演出到这星期一,我每晚留意唱过的歌,做了些小笔记。

当然可能会因冲凉啊、上厕所啊、精神恍惚啊、看「跑男」啊、等等的事错过一些歌曲,但有些歌就是比其它的还要热门咯。

以下就是我这几天留意到的,我社区七月歌台歌手们选唱的热门歌曲排行榜。

依照唱的次数多到少来排名:

第三名: 《昨夜星辰》 和 《光辉岁月》

第二名: 《喜欢你》 - 邓紫棋版本

第一名: 《小苹果》

或许真的很多人喜欢那洗脑歌吧?有一晚歌手让观众选歌也是选了这首。

每天都有唱这首歌嘞,不显的咩? -_-

对我来说,是翻滚吧白眼!



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08 August 2016

Pretty like this


Late lunch out with workaholic colleagues, I guess I should be grateful that I still got to eat, better late than never, right?

A colleague friend who had an accident a couple of days ago said her jaw hurts. I asked her if the airbag had hit her in the face?

"If the airbag hit me in the face, do you think I will still be pretty like this?"

She gestured to her face while saying that.

I had to ask her again if she had said what I heard she said. She confirmed it, without a hint of modesty.

Wah lau eh! Banyak beh pai seh lo!

Really, don't know whether it's shamelessness or confidence...


As an aside, we were making light of her accident by claiming it's due to her playing Pokemon Go while driving*, as everything can be blamed on Pokemon Go until the next hot thing comes out.

Making fun of whatever is the current hot that the masses are mindlessly crazily pursuing is what people like me, who are proud of being different to the masses, like to do. I would make fun of myself too if I happened to be one of the silly people. =P

* Don't! Seriously don't. Don't be an irresponsible fool who jeopardises other** road users
** I have no qualm with fools trying to kill themselves, it helps to raise the average level of the human being's intelligence... =P 



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06 August 2016

Random behaviour for August 2016


Not sure if I have succeeded or failed in my July's impromptu resolution, as I mentioned in a previous entry, the first two weekends everything went as planned but the remaining two weekends my parents were back and the kids just glued to their grandpa.

Oh well.

This month's resolution was inspired by an amusing experience a few days ago, it's also putting in action the general resolution I set myself since the beginning of the year.

I sure have friends who can stir up a storm from just about anything, and it's pretty amusing how people (mis)interpret what I wrote and then went off on their own tangent which led to something entirely different from what I meant. I have no idea how they can totally missed the key operative words in a very short statement...

Interesting thought process that I think may have something to do with guilty conscience.

Anyway, for August 2016, my impromptu resolution, something that I have started two days ago, is: to not respond to or clarify any rumour and slander targeted at me, and any misinterpretation or twisting of my word and intent.

Because I can.



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03 August 2016

Softies


Everybody has their preference, and when it comes to teambuilding event, my preference is to do something that, well, actually builds the team. You know, something that involves people working together to achieve a common goal, something that promotes team spirit, that sort of thing.

To me, sitting down together to have a meal is not teambuilding, it's just tummy-building. Neither is movie watching.

Think about it, it's like a lunch meeting really, where we sit down together and eat some food. Granted we probably won't be talking about work but you never know. Then instead of listening to whoever is presenting his or her agenda in a meeting, we sit in a darkened room watching movie producer presents his film on a big screen.

That's teambuilding? Really?

If it is teambuilding in someone's definition, it sure is a super boring one in my opinion. But then again, I don't consider that teambuilding.


When deciding the teambuilding event for this quarter, things started off well with many fun activities involving teamwork on the voting list: both outdoor and indoor physical and mental challenges and activities, a musuem tour (huh?), and the awful lunch & movie tummy-building option.

First round of voting ended with a tie between an outdoor physical challenge course and the lame tummy-building, with some minor votes on other options. So a second vote was held to decide whether we are going teambuilding or tummy-building.

Then the well-known food lover made his move. All it took was for him to send a discouraging e-mail dissing the physical challenge course and tada! My fellow teammates simply gave up and opted for the tummy-building. My goodness, so easily swayed!

Why oh why do they not even want to at least try and experience for themselves? So what if we can't complete some of the challenges? At least we have tried, right? You don't usually go to this kind of place on your own, you know? It's a place for group of people.

Wasted opportunity, such a shame.

*Sigh*

Bunch of softies.



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