拍拖天

今天拿了假和情人去看电影。

星期三有便宜票，能省就省嘛。

难得两个瓜都是下午班，可以和情人拍拖，享受下二人的时间。

明年就没有这样的机会了。

说了要注重自己生理和心理的健康，工作其次。

反正最近工作也只有烦，休工一天只会是好事。

保持快乐是有助健康的，衰在自己有忧郁症，唉…

超人和蝙蝠侠大量破坏建筑物和危害路人甲乙丙丁等等的互殴，管它那些没有逻辑的地方，娱乐罢了嘛，不要太认真。

重要的是和老婆仔一起，牵手闲逛、吃同一盒爆米花、喝同一杯汽水、交头窃语讨论戏情。

很好的感觉。

随兴随想 |系列|

心的频道：心情杂记

周末开始，忧郁来袭。整个人灰蓝低落，一点都不好。

今天在这样的心境下，很意外的在槟岛的公司偶遇干妹。

她转了一圈又回来公司了。

很惊喜雀跃，但就是无法保持着那开心。

闲聊几句，问问近况后就和她说掰掰，毕竟我还得赶过海去自己的办公室。

不知怎么的，有那给她一个拥抱的念头。应该是因为她看起来有点迷惘失落的样子，和她诉说的种种。

但毕竟我们都已不是在英国了，好像不合适，所以我只是在离别前拍了拍她的肩膀，为她加油打气，也欢迎她回来。

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一整天在写那把我自己取代掉的文章资料。

像写论文一样，还要是一个把自己变成多余的东西，真的超级抗拒。

原本是想可以交货就好啦，但写写下又犯贱，想要把它做到好好的。

勾叉零蛋三角形！那要命的责任感和完美主义…  >_<

*****

工作至今最差的薪调，很难忘怀。

又要我写那取代自己的文章，是不是一个暗示？

是不是应该在还没被淘汰前先走人？是时候换工了？

唉，烦…

心的频道 |系列|

An aeroplane a day, part ten

Copyright:

LEGO is trademark or registered trademark of The LEGO Group in Denmark and/or other countries.

All original work on this site is copyright C.K. Goh and may not be copied or reprinted without my express written approval.

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In this series: |part 1| |part 2| |part 3| |part 4| |part 5| |part 6| |part 7| |part 8| |part 9| |the making of part 9|

Workshop: |1| |2| |3| |4| |5| |6|

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Been a while since I created something with LEGO, realised that so I set my monthly resolution to do just that. Gave myself a push so to speak.

Well, made two things: a commercial aeroplane and a robot, and here they are.

It's after I made these that I realised two things.

Seems like I tend to make aeroplane and robot, and that I think my creativity is running out, because the robot looks very similar, like a combination of what I have made previously.

Backlogs #12

This one is dated 25th of June 2014, it's titled "turtle".

If you suck at badminton that nobody would ever invite you to play, what do you do?

You organise your own badminton session and invite the others, of course. =P

Well, at least that's what I did and it works! Ever since September of 2009, in fact. Anyway since a session won't happen if there isn't enough players, so I would send a gauge early in the day and based on the replies, a confirmation of either the session is on or cancelled, later in the day.

Usually those who bother to reply will send a brief 'in' or 'on' or 'out' or 'no', that sort of reply which serves the purpose just fine. Then there was this reply...

So yea, according to this lady, if you said you are coming but don't show up then you are a turtle. =P

In this series: |1| |2| |3| |4| |5| |6| |7| |8| |9| |10| |11|

生活点滴：妻子太多

几天前手机挂了，换了一部。

昨天午餐回途中「闲慢王」问：

“CK ，新手机嘞？拿来看看。”

“不是新的啦，是 Karen 的旧手机。” 

拿出手机解码后稍微迟疑了下才把手机传给「闲慢王」，马上加一句：

“你不要乱乱送短讯什么的哦！”

「闲慢王」是出了名会做这样的事的，什么‘越看自己越英俊…’、‘明天我请客！’、‘我要结婚了！’、‘某某，*吻～*’等等。

“哈哪，不会啦！”他说。

我不是很相信的留意着。

“做么你用和我一样的 wallpaper ？” 他把两部手机并排给我看。

“妻子放的，我都没有改任何东西。”

“哎呀，放你妻子的照片嘛。”

“你自己又不放？”我回。

他想也不想的秒答：“妻子太多，不知道要放哪一个的？”

大伙爆笑后，「梳打饼」说：“可惜没有录起来那句话。”

呵呵！

生活点滴 |系列|

有感而发：动摇

二零一六年三月十七日。

拿表现评估的那天，根本不知道要拿了，所以也没有心理准备。

经理告知薪金调整率时我也不知是好是坏，所以也没有什么反应。

一直到回家查看收藏的历年表现评估报告才知道今年拿的薪金调整率是工作至今最低的一次。

整个人马上不好了。

唉…

上周末才花了好大一笔钱来买书，难得有书展嘛，但心里知道这个月应该是超支了。

很多人不明白像我这样薪水等级，单一收入的家庭，每个月可以存到的钱是多么的少。

还不是每个月有钱存呢，有些月份还要动用储蓄，等有花红的时候补贴。

拿了表现评估后就不时在想要怎么赚多点钱，不然通货膨胀会令生活越来越困难。

烦。

这几天又听到同事朋友们种种诉说：工越来越难，我们这部门越来越被人贱用等等。

唉…

真的认为去年我表现还不错。我一贯的态度是要做就做到自己的最好，不然就不要做。

如果这样的表现仍拿不到好的加薪，我是不是应该找个会重视、会奖励我表现的部门工作呢？

不年轻了，唉… 真的好烦！

有感而发 |系列|

Caveman and 'new' phone

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Caveman vs mobile phone series: |1| |2| |3| |4| |5| |6| |7| |8|

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May 2013 to March 2016, that's how long I have been using my first smartphone. Needless to say, I didn't get any smarter...

Anyway, I would have continued to use the smartphone, despite the battered look, the temperamental power button, and the pathetic internal memory size, if it would still retain its fundamental function as a phone.

But alas, it started to have problem detecting the SIM and SD cards, and lost the basic function of calling and receiving calls. Sorry mate, a phone without this basic function is just not a phone. It's just unacceptable.

Thank you for the many months of service provided, I apologise for the few accidental drops and slips of hand which you took like a champion and soldiered on.

Nothing as bad as what a friend of mine did: dropping the phone into the toilet, real shitty way to treat a phone. I told her she could have asked nicely if she wanted a new phone, not having to go to such drastic measure. =P

Anyway, my 'new' smartphone is nothing fancy, just a hand-me-down from wifey: Redmi. Took me all night to get my second smartphone to the state I like it to be.

As of the previous caveman versus mobile phone entry, the score is Smartphone 4 : Caveman 0, and I have lost track since. I think I have managed the transfer and setting up fairly well this round, so I am giving myself a victory this round, hehe.

Smartphone 4 : Caveman 1

Going home

One week. Over.

One more night, and I am going home.

Can't wait. =)

I did what I could for the business trip, wanted to do more but there's a part that needed someone else to fix before I could proceed, and that fix never arrive before  I ended my last working day.

Oh well.

I did collected 107 configurations worth of data and hopefully that will give me a good understanding of this new system. Probably will take me a few days just to crunch and analyse the data though.

Regardless, I rewarded myself with a bubble bath tonight. I like submerging with my ears under the water, with just the mouth and nose above, and with my eyes closed to take a nap.

Pretty relaxing really.

Well, it's good that I am going home tomorrow, as I haven't been sleeping well these few days, I miss my bed, hugs, and goodnight kiss.

And I am almost done with the novel I brought along, how to sleep without my bedtime reading? =P

Oops I did it again

So there is this new stuff, new system, work stuff that's the reason for my current business trip.

And since I couldn't proceed with the original plan due to an issue that I need support from others to resolve, and the support on the other side of the globe didn't manage to resolve it before it's bedtime for them, I ended up with some bonus time on the system.

I really want to understand more about how this new stuff on the new system behaves so I went ahead to do a bit of data collection.

A bit. You know, just a few configurations to see the response, the trend, that sort of things.

But as usual when I got free reign of the system, I kept having more and more "what if...?" So this 'a bit of data collection' turned out to be 70 configurations, almost 1 GB of data.

Sometimes, I frighten myself.

Pre-trip blue

For some unknown reasons, I am not looking forward to the coming business trip.

Somehow, I think it will be a drag. Not a waste of time per se, but just... uneventful, monotonous.

I have a feeling there would be frustration at not being able to achieve what I want, and there would be that sense of helplessness, powerlessness.

So much negativity before I go. Not good.

I can only do my best.

I hope my best is adequate.

Random behaviour for March 2016

Succeeded in my January's impromptu resolution. It's not like posting on Facebook about new entry will bring in the readers anyway, heh. feel good +1

Didn't set myself any resolution for February in honour of Chinese New Year, hehe. =P

Doing push-ups and legs lifting are becoming a daily habit. Good. I added sit-ups too near the end of February. Also I am again trying my best to remember to greet first in instant messaging, at least when using the work instant messaging system.

For March 2016, starting after I post this, my impromptu resolution is: to make at least one LEGO creation.

Because I can.