And They Live Happily Ever After...

Attended Ling Li and Melvin's wedding a few* days ago. This happy occasion was held at g hotel. (g for gay glorious?)

* slacker time frame

the ballroom where the wedding dinner was held, so very g... grand!

There were 20+ tables so there must have been 200+ guests (woot! I can do maths!). Everything was posh and classy, befitting the lovely couples.

pretty groom and handsome bride, or was it the other way round?

Understandably the bride and groom were busy all night. So many guests to attend to, so many cameras to pose for, cake to cut, speech to give, champagne to pop and toast, and yum seng round all the tables.

So when the bride came round our table we quickly grabbed her for a quick photo.

we kidnapped the bride for a quick photo, the groom came in his shining armour on a white horse to rescue her soon after

We brought His Royal Highness King Baby Hsiang along to the dinner and so we had to leave before the dinner ended as His Royal Highness demanded rest.

Yes, his wish is my command.

we managed to get a photo with the couples before we left, hurrah!

Melvin had a quick word with me before we left, he set me a friendly challenge of having a baby next year, the first for them and the second for us.

Maybe our children can be friends! =)

I was told the next day that besides the few dishes, I also missed the group photo taking as well as a tour to the couples' honeymoon suite.

There is a jacuzzi with clear glass as walls in the suite and Ling Li said they were going to do some steamy stuff in it, Titanic style. You know, the hand on the steamed glass thingy.

*Phew*...

Ming Li: let's make baby...

Lelvin: Yea baby, yea!

I gotta get someone to look after His Royal Highness and get my wife to a honeymoon suite! =P

Photo Taking Chain

what do we do at work? We take photos...

A few* days ago, I took a photo of Polly taking a photo of Nelson taking a photo of his white board.

I wonder if someone was taking a photo of me taking a photo of...

* "a few days" in slacker time frame covers a huge range

Sparkle

Despite the mountain of works and all the last minute changes today (I like things well planned and sticking to schedule), I was told of a joyous news and it brightened up my day.

Thanks for sharing, my friend.

Stay happy, and know that you have our best and warmest wishes.

"Job Security"

I am a thermal engineer, that means I am very hot as well as super cool the person who checks if things are going to burn, melt, or go *kaboom*!

I have spent the last few months doing some modelling (the numerical simulation type, not the cat walk or posing type) to assess the thermal solution options we are exploring for a project.

There are a number of options and for each options, there are variables and uncertainties that I enveloped with some realistic limits based on my extensive engineering experience - copyright of Master Yes Man gut feeling.

The total number of cat walks modelling cases I have run is around 80, give or take.

Just as I was going to post-process the last few cases today, I was told there is a change in one of the critical component.

"Just take off an additional 0.5 mm all round."

That may seem like a small change but for the project I am working on, it reduces the heat transfer surface area to less than 60% coverage.

Trust me, it's significant.

And yea, I have to rerun all the cases, even if I cut corners er... "selective enveloping", I still have to do around 50 cases.

Job security? Yay?!?!

Arrrrrrrrgh!

Catching Up on Slack

Been really busy this week, late night everyday. Workload was a tad overwhelming, even posting this didn't help.

Initially just wanted to post a drawing to show I am catching up on my rest and sleep over the long weekend. Somehow ended up drawing a tag on the snail, I guess the mischievous side of me took over.

Oh well...

there is no rest for the wicked!

So I am making this a caption game instead! =)

Tell me, what do you think is written on the note tagged on the snail?

Slacker extraordinaire is going to slack the whole long weekend to maintain my slacker reputation, don't ka-ka-cau-cau!

天蝎座的工程师是这样的

我跟你讲，有这样一位天蝎座的工程师叻，真是 beh tahan 。

要他做一样东西，他总是烦死人的问东问西，问这问那，问细节，问相连的事，甚至问你的出生日子，问你的腰围等等。

而且不是只是问一次，他可以重复问好几次，甚至好几十次。好像问多几次答案就会不一样这样。要命，以为人家的生日会变的嘧？
更死的是，问完后有时还要实地观察，叫你给他看看这机件啦，那仪器啦，叫你解释他们怎么操作啦…真是很够力。

做工又慢到像蜗牛这样，催他也没用，他会慢条斯理的跟你说什么慢工出细货喔。
而且叻，说什么要深入了解，或是想知道那“假如…会怎么样？”，他会做比需要的多好几倍、几十倍。好像‘西北’有空这样。
但是不用紧，必要时，他是会烧油灯，开夜车来赶工的。
要记得的是，在他忙得大便都没空时你去吵他些无关痛痒的事他会很直接，还很大声的叫你滚蛋的！切记，切记。

要他做言简意赅的报告，他就‘座高高’长篇大论写西游记。好像人家喜欢读他的废话这样。
所以叻，我跟你讲，对这样有点完美主义,爱为细节钻牛角尖的天蝎座的工程师叻，最好的办法就是…
…不要给他任何工作！

以下呈上这可恶的天蝎座的工程师的照片。记得，不要给他任何工作！

Happy Birthday Wen Wen!

Even though she wrapped my car, got caught in the action and blatantly denies it;

even though she kicked my butt in foosball so hard that I am now afflicted with foosball-phobia;

even though she never invites me to any of her fun and happening events...

I forgive her since I get to play pranks on her am such a nice person.

=P

As Wendy's birthday approaches, I decided for a change to do something nice for her, as usual.

Wendy blatantly stated that she wants a gardenful of flowers for her birthday, but with the economy crisis and me being generally poor crisis or not, real flowers are out of question.

Nope, no can do, no money ler!

So I used my whip and forced coordinated the colleagues to make a paper flower garden for Wendy instead. The colleagues responded fantastically and Wendy got plenty of flowers, some garden insects, a monkey that she recently said she wants, chicken little, a candy, and even doo-doo (yea, there are always some weird people).

Nothing says cheap sincerity better than hand-crafted gift!

Her actual birthday is today but we gave her the card on Friday. I think she likes it. =)

I pointed a gun at her to make her smile for the camera

It's 30th of November now, so happy birthday Wen Wen! =)

Since I am not Walt Disney, I don't have to end everything with a happy or cheery ending, so here's what I think will happen to Wendy's garden...

Behold my amazing* artistic prowess! Ending number 1:

* kindergarten standard

Wen Wen's garden of poos!

Monkey and alien poo flower fling doo-doo at each other and the garden was full of shits in no time.

Ending number 2:

pest control anyone?

The snail had a feast and the garden was ruined.

Hehehehee. =P

It's interesting to note that I got some ribbings and fun poked at me for coordinating this paper flower thingy. Apparently there must be something fishy going on between Wendy and I for me to be doing this, since you know, a guy and a lady can't be just friends if they were being nice to each other.

*roll eyes*

As for the fear of me "spoiling the market", all I can say is that if my friends were truely treating me nicely, they deserved to be treated nicely in return.

I treat people the way I want to be treated, I am nice to those who are nice to me. Stephen Covey has a fancy term called the emotional bank account (EBA), those who have deposited in my EBA deserved me spending the time and effort to make their day.

Friendship, similar to any lasting relationship, is a two way traffic.