Bollocks!

The service I have been using to get my weekly Running Man fix has turned horribly craptastic today.

Gotta be some twisted ploy to make money.

This is unacceptable! This is infuriating! This is bullshit!

Bollocks!

Time to look for alternative. Again.

Good reliable service is so hard to come by nowadays, what's wrong with the world?

Bollocks!

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Note to self

Nastiness is alarmingly high.

Tolerance to idiots and stupidity dangerously low.

Temper is short, anger and displeasure long.

Sarcastic remark is becoming the default response, often tinged with spite.

Should pause to take deep breaths.

Or ignore and give no response.

Or just walk away.

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有感而发：无语

二零一八年七月二十八日。

命贱的我一起床就开启电脑查看工作电邮。

有一封美国同事送来的电邮，看了我真的很无语。

说和其他美国的同事讨论后决定我做着的那部分太复杂（现在才知道啊？），要交给供应商先起个头、做初稿。

要我暂停所有，等供应商给那份初稿后我才继续。

忙了几个星期，甚至周末都工作那种，我的初稿都已经审核两次了，你才和你其他的美国同事讨论？

不是应该一早就讨论后才通知我开工的吗？

到我都已经在修改更新我的初稿成正式报告了，你才叫我暂停？

能不能再废一点啊？

好无语…

真的，不怕神一样的对手难题，只怕猪一样的队友队长。

有感而发 |系列|

就是不爽

今天起身就是开启电脑工作，显到…

星期天嘞。

上星期也是这样，很不爽咯。

忙到中午暂停吃午餐，吃饱后真的很没劲再开工。

很叛逆的不想再做，明明周末就是自己的时间才对的嘛。

总是认为我很有空的拼命给我添加工作量，真的是勾叉零蛋三角形！

先写这篇文章发泄下，等会再看看有没有心情继续工作啦。

我就是很不爽！

今早还刚巧看到一篇文章说研究报告四十岁以上的人应该一星期只做三天工，我在做六天工啊！勾叉零蛋四角形！

随兴随想 |系列|

Good job!

Been meaning to write this entry for many days, but workload is crazy lately, I have to do overtime again this weekend.

Bollocks...

But that's not the point of this entry, I just want to record and share the joy I experienced seeing the police officers on their big patrol bikes doing a fantastic job.

Everyday, in my two hours plus commute to and from work, I never fail to see some drivers who really shouldn't be driving. Everyday.

My usual pet peeve of dissing those selfish drivers who jumped queue, brain dead lanes hoggers, dumbarses who don't use indication light aside, the worst offenders for me are those irresponsible reckless drivers, them fish head duck tailing idiots.

And there is this new brood who uses their smartphone while driving, not just talking on the phone, which is already dangerous enough, but actually looking at and typing on their phone while driving. Freaking shitheads.

Those vehicles that sway from one side to another, or even to the other lane, those that slow down or brake for no apparent reason, those that just run into other vehicle even though there should have been plenty of time to stop, yea, those.

I have no qualm if those morons want to kill themselves, just don't endanger the other road users.

So I am absolutely thrilled to see not once, but twice, this week where police officers on their big patrol bikes checking the drivers while they rode passed them, and stopping the offender immediately to issue a fine when they spotted any.

Fantastic! Well done! Please keep it up. =)

And I hope it's a hefty fine, and double up for repeat offender.

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Confession

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

Don't know why that Marauder's Map activation phrase just popped into my head right before I write this entry, but fitting in a sense, I supposed, since this entry is going to be a bit of tongue in cheek.

I have been working since I woke up, on a Sunday, shame on me!

Well, as a self-respecting slacker extraordinaire who also respects the weekend, I haven't been up all that long but still, I have been working till lunch, and then after lunch till about half an hour ago. 

Since I had to send out meeting minutes, release note, reminder and such, in which some involving colleague friends who may call me out on such un-slacker-ish behaviour, I figured I may as well admit it up front.

Yea yea, I am working on a weekend, and I still have a major task to do later that will take hours, so it's really an overtime working day in essence.

I know, I know, I am absolutely ashamed of myself. slacker point -1

It has gotten to a stage where there no longer is any point bringing up my bandwidth concern because it does me no good whatsoever, in fact, it usually followed with me getting more work and tasks assigned.

So yea, bollocks!

Alrighty then, "mischief managed."

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At long last... (3)

After submitting my thesis in January, had a few email exchanges with my supervisor and then the long period of silence, which is all too common in this long journey.

A journey that started off with an offer of a fully funded PhD degree when I was in the final year of my Master in Engineering degree in University of Nottingham.

I jumped in without hesitation, it's fully funded after all, including my living cost.

And thus began the mistake, the misery... 

Five and a half years in Nottingham after the four years for my first degree, so I almost spent a decade of my life in England. Did the research, as well as wrote and submitted the thesis draft before I left England for good.

And then there was silence, for months and years, with sporadic email exchanges in between the silence bouts.

Throughout the years I eventually got the feedback I needed to modify my thesis accordingly to meet supervisor's approval. But alas too many years had passed that some requirements could no longer be met because I no longer have my prototype and the necessary research facilities to run the experiments and simulations for the additional data my supervisor requested.

So it's goodbye to the PhD degree. Life is cruel.

After all these years, getting the PhD degree is no longer the point, it's all about not wanting that period of my life, those years and hard work, to be a complete waste. I put in the time and effort, how could I just leave empty handed?

So I pleaded for a downgrade to MPhil degree, and my supervisor agreed to it. And thus we took out a few chapters from the thesis, slimmed down the content to make it appropriate for a Master of Philosophy degree.

The rest is history.

And today I received both an email from my supervisor, as well as a postal mail sent early of this month, saying the examiners have agreed that I be awarded the MPhil degree.

Really, finally, at long last.

There are also copies of the examiners' reports in the postal mail. The internal examiner had nothing bad in her report, while the external examiner had some nitpickings that pricked the perfectionist within me. But since both of them recommended the award of MPhil without conditions, I am going to live with my thesis not being perfect but not needing any change.

Just gimme the degree already! I don't care about other stuff anymore.

As a last step, I have to upload an electronic version of my thesis, but I got a hiccup since I have forgotten my university login and password, so I gotta resolve that before I am truly done.

If all goes smoothly, then I should be able to graduate by the end of the year.

I don't get to say "trust me, I am a doctor", but at least I have two Master degrees.

The long journey: | 1 | | 2 |

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I believe I can fly

World of Warcraft next expansion, the 7th, Battle of Azeroth, is coming out next month, and I final freakingly can use my flying mount in the current 6th expansion, Legion.

finally revered with Armies of Legionfall

Reputation grind is da suck!

Actually, any grind is da suck! >_<

Of course all these tedious, boring, mind-numbing, time consuming grinds are for the sole purpose of monthly fee, it serves nothing meaningful in game storyline or content.

Instead of content that keeps the players playing, they use all these grinds. Bollocks!

Must have been working since they continue to do so, I guess I am the minority that got so sick of it after a while and have to go on hiatus from the game to reset my grind-tolerance meter.

Pfft!

They even force players to group up to do dungeons or group content for progression, hate it so much! What's wrong with me enjoying the game on my own, solo, at level appropriate content?

Bollocks!

rather be playing another class than grinding

Anyway, I lost my level 90 boost when I purchased Legion, so this time I used my level 100 boost before the next expansion, which I probably will not buy for a while yet since I am going on hiatus after the current subscription runs out.

I like this loading screen =)

Used the level 100 boost on my Horde Death Knight. I don't have enough time for my Horde characters, no thanks to the stupid grinds.

Much rather be playing another class or another faction than grinds, do you hear me, Blizzard?

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成就感

我常说周末就是要睡到太阳晒屁股的，因为周日要做工，没能这样。

如果周末都不睡到太阳晒屁股、睡到自然醒的话，不是很不尊重周末、很不尊重自己咯？

不要急着喊这是什么歪理什么的，要懂得每个人都有自己的观点、自己的人生道理的啦。

早起的鸟儿有虫吃，早起的虫儿被鸟吃。

什么才是对你好，要看你是鸟儿还是虫儿咯…

我是虫，呵呵！ =P

所以今天很有成就感，因为虽然一早被两个瓜冲凉时吵醒后，我坚持赖床，又睡睡醒醒几回，一直到靠近中午才真的起床。

爽！

真的为自己感到骄傲，呵呵！ ^_^

随兴随想 |系列|

Image change?

This is the fourth day wearing my beret to work, in accordance to my impromptu resolution this month.

The monthly impromptu resolution has always been about discipline training for me, to see if I have the mental strength and perseverance to see things through.

There are two parts to this month's resolution, but the stubble part is pretty much a non-issue. Having facial hair is not new for me, it's more often than not a conscious act of defiance, like this time...

Since I cannot control the shits life threw at me these few months, I figured I can give fate the finger by having facial hair. The amount of shits I have in life recently is such that not even wifey's dislike of my facial hair is going to sway me.

Weird thought process, perhaps, but that's just how I am.

The true challenge for this month's impromptu resolution comes from weathering the expected funny looks, jibes and ridicules I knew will come my way with the beret, that change of image.

"Is it to cover up your baldness?"

"Is your head cold?"

"You look like an artist."

"Are you growing your hair back so covering it up in the interim?" 

"You look like a detective."

"Your stubble is too long."

"You look like a writer." (But... but... I have been blogging for ages, that doesn't count?)

"You look good with the cap." (I kid you not, a colleague actually said that!)

"Cool, you look like a Japanese!" (Huh? Looking like Japanese is an 'in' thing?)

"Is it for the condensation to happen inside the cap so your hair can grow?"

...

To be honest I don't really know why exactly I started thinking about wearing a cap, perhaps it's a subconscious thought of changing my image, but why would I want to change my image anyway? Hmm...

I brought this up with wifey and she bought a beret for me during one of her online shoppings, it arrived end of June.

While I am usually okay with close friends poking fun of me, but as I said in the previous entry, sometimes, depending on the mood, those bald jokes they made at my expense got old. Like, really old.

Anyway, I am sticking to image change as the reason why I am wearing the beret, so that's that.

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Random behaviour for July 2018

Guess my break from monthly impromptu resolution has lasted longer than I initially planned, hehehe. =P  slacker point +1

I let my facial hair grow throughout June, initially wanted to see how long it can be, but eventually couldn't stand the messiness and started trimming the edges, and yesterday I decided to just trim everything down to stubble instead.

On another note, the online purchased beret cap has finally arrived, not really what I expected (yea, that's the thing with online purchases...) but since already bought it I may as well follow through with my image change.

You know, at times, could really do without those bald jokes at my expense. Never seem to get old for them jokers though...

So, anyway, for July 2018, starting tomorrow, my impromptu resolution is: wear the beret to work and keep my stubble.

Because I can.

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