四分之一个世纪

亲爱的情人老婆仔，拍拖纪念日快乐！

我们已经在一起二十五年了，四分之一个世纪。

感谢一路的陪伴，相辅相成。

让我们手牵手继续我俩一同的人生。

一直这样。

爱你呦！

心语细述 |系列|

Potato mode on!

Taking the whole next week off, so it's going to be a nine days stretch including the two weekends.

I was told not to when I wanted to take the first week of August off, so I postponed my break till now, and even if I was told not to again, I would do it anyway, else I would burnout. It's that bad.

So potato mode is on, yippie! ^_^

To all colleagues and especially managers and project leads, please take it as the 'do not disturb' sign is up, I do not want to hear anything about work these nine days.

I am not that important. Whatever it is, it can wait a week.

It has been exhausting and stressful for a prolonged period. Time for me to catch up on my sleep and my mental wellbeing.

Let the recuperation and rejuvenation begin!

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27:30

一周前那个周末还好，只是加时工作了五个小时半。是属于好命的周末。

两周前那个周末是催命的周末，做了二十三小时六分钟，比周日还要伤。

刚过的周末是夭折的周末，做了令人怀疑人生的二十七小时半…

周末前的星期四做到晚上十点十五分，星期五做到晚上九点五十三分，昨天星期一做到凌晨十二点零一分。

是的，我根本没有生活，就只是整天工作的丧尸。

丧尸也会累！所以跟老板说我需要歇一歇，他让我今天补假一天。

为了项目经理明天可以跟客人开会提议新项目，我今早还是得工作，准备相关的资料和报告。忙完已是午餐。

命贱如我，半天假也好过没有啦…

随兴随想 |系列|

Rubbish out rubbish in

Despicable scumbag replaced by another despicable scumbag, equally contemptible, equally vile and rotten.

Bunch of morons. What a circus. What a joke.

This country is so screwed.

Makes my blood boil.

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愚者多劳

聪明的人，懂得讨价还价，懂得说服老板设一个正常合理的期限。

愚蠢的人不懂得说不，就靠卖命加时工作来赶在催命期限前完成工作。

聪明的人明白越卖命赶工，就会换来更多的工作和催命的期限。

愚蠢的人陷在恶性循环中，而且还不断变本加厉。

今天，愚蠢的我暴走，不到六点半我就下班了。

总得突破那恶性循环吧？

会不会因此丢了工作我就不知道啦…

唉，家里唯一收入来源和责任感太重的人的悲哀。

随兴随想 |系列|

I went out (12)

Since the previous entry of this series, I was out of the house eleven times, so my total out of the house count stands at 74 as of today.

64th outing: went out on 1st of June, intended to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy, but the battery was flat again, less than a week since I last drove. Jump-started the car for the second time and proceeded to drive around.

65th outing: went out on 11th of June to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy. The old battery was dead, tried in vain to start the car on 2nd of June, a day after my previous outing, but no dice. So I replaced the battery between then and 11th of June. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

66th outing: went out on 20th of June to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy.

67th outing: went out on 26th of June to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

68th outing: went out on 3rd of July to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

69th outing: went to office on 6th of July to hand in legal documents for patent filing. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

70th outing: went to office on 9th of July to work.

71st outing: went out on 12th of July to chauffeur wifey for books and lunch purchases. Also went for my first Covid-19 vaccination.

72nd outing: went out on 25th of July to drive the car around for a bit to keep the battery healthy. Took the opportunity to buy dinner home.

73rd outing: went to office on 2nd of August to work and to get my second Covid-19 vaccination. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

74th outing: went out on 15th of August to drive the car around for a bit to keep the battery healthy. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

As of 15th of August 2021, 515 days have past since the beginning of Movement Control Order on 18th of March in 2020. I have been out of the house 74 times in 73.6 weeks, so 1.01 times per week on average, or about once every 6.96 days.

Here are the main reasons I went out:
- drive around to keep car battery healthy: 18
- work at office: 25
- bank: 1
- grocery: 1
- pick up takeaway meal: 9
- dine in restaurant: 1
- clinic: 2
- customer service: 1
- car service: 2
- pet shop: 1
- chauffeur duty: 11
- law firm: 2

Stay home. Stay safe.

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Mashed potato

I would love to go into potato mode in the weekend.

After all, weekend is the time for us to rest, relax, recharge for the coming weekdays when work resumes.

For something to resume, it has to stop or pause first. So I guess in a sense I am not resuming work, since it has not stopped or paused.

So no potato mode for me, I am just a really mashed potato, close to rotten.

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23:06

Twenty three hours and six minutes.

That's the time I spent working overtime in the past weekend. Basically I worked through the weekend.

That 23 hours 6 minutes included the ergonomic breaks, the bio-breaks, and the water refilling time. It does not include meal time.

It's solid working hours without meeting or instant messages disruption. It's longer and more effective working hours than normal working weekday.

Normal working day is cramped with all sort of disruptions and interruptions, leaving scant productive working time, which leads to working overtime.

Sad but true, and absolutely unhealthy.

Finally completed the thermal model and set it to solve while I catch up on my sleep around 01:00 hours this morning. Thankfully it converged when I woke up, no serious debug needed, giving me the buffer to run other cases before the Thursday deadline.

Sent the now verified working model to the new hire my manager assigned to help on the project, then post-processed the case and sent the report. Heard nothing from the new hire throughout the day so I proceeded to work on the case, on top of the cases for another project.

Can always trust and rely on myself to get the job done.

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生活没了

周日，就一大堆有的没有的的会议，浪费宝贵的工作时间。

明明就是请我做散热有关的工作，却天天变成会议工程师。

不加时工作，就没有时间工作。加时了，也还是不够时间工作，所以周末又得加班。

今天从早上八点半做到傍晚七点，比正常工作天的时间还要长。但今天是星期六嘞，让我休息的周末嘞…

但也因为是周末，没有会议和其他同事的干扰，所以效率好很多。

尽管如此，这样整天周日要加时、周末要加班的工作状况，真的是会做垮人的。

根本没了生活，何苦工作呢？真的，到底为了什么？

唉…

随兴随想 |系列|

2nd dose done

Three weeks gone in a blink, today's my appointment date for the second dose of Covid-19 vaccination.

My appointment was actually at 15:00 hours, but as I had late morning meeting as well as back to back meetings the whole afternoon, and since the company hires me to be a meeting engineer, I went for vaccination in the morning instead.

As a responsible meeting engineer, gotta try my best not to skip all those meetings, right? Attending meeting is my job after all, all those thermal stuff are just miscellanea that don't deserve the lion's share of my work time. It's not like I am a thermal engineer.

Ya, my sarcasm meter broke from overloaded a long time ago.

Anyway, found out that going in the morning ended up taking more of my time. Precious meeting time that I can't have enough of.

Pretty sure sarcasm is not a side effect of Covid-19 vaccination, I have always been sarcastic.

My first dose appointment which I attended around 15:00 hours took me slightly less than 30 minutes, today when I went around 09:00 hours it took me about 1 hour. Primarily because there were many more people this time round.

Previously I didn't had to sit and wait from registration to injection, pretty much a smooth walk through these stages, only at the observation stage did I had to sit and wait. Today I had to sit and wait at every stages, the two ladies who jumped queue (shame on you!) didn't helped.

So ya, not an efficiency issue (which I honestly think is good), but simply bigger crowd turning up at the same time. Selfish and inconsiderate people like me who didn't followed his appointed hour (shame on me!), and people who jumped queue (shame on you!).

I am grateful that I am vaccinated, probably need new vaccine now with the many new variants but really, I am thankful for all the effort done by my company and the many volunteers.

Stay safe, everyone, gotta take care of ourselves because no one else will.

Other |hyped up heads up| category entries.

Liberation

Instead of waking up to work straight away like the past 34 days, today I woke up to not work, and just chill.

Felt strange, and liberating. Strangely liberating.

Besides the weekends, that continuous 34 working days included 2 public holidays and 2 days of annual leave. Yea, took leave, but worked still. So very sad.

I am not a workaholic, far from it, I am a self-proclaimed slacker extraordinaire. Failed miserably these few years. I am truly sorry for myself.

Sense of responsibility is making me feel guilty about not working today, I have to keep reminding myself I should not feel guilty for not working on weekend. I should not have to work on weekend.

The work is never ending, I am just burning myself up not resting when I should be. I have to keep reminding myself that.

The sense of guilt lingers.

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