JPJ efficiency

My driving license expired on 15th May 2015, I had no choice but to take off early from my crazy work schedule to go renew my driving license.

Arrived and took my ticket at 15:59 hours, I was number 1306, they were serving number 1292 at that time.

14 people before my turn.

My first step involved documentation check and payment, it was done by 16:18 hours.

19 minutes to serve 15 people. Average of 1 minute and 16 seconds to serve one customer, nice.

I was sent to another room for the second step, photo taking, which was done at 16:20 hours. 2 minutes after step one, nice.

The third and last step was to wait and collect my renewed driving license. Well, they made a new card for me actually, which I collected at 16:24 hours. 

25 minutes for the whole process, not bad JPJ!

Could have been better if you had more than two counters serving the customer for this kind of request, and no need for the split room steps, just do it in one go. Half that time is reasonably achievable.

But not bad really, I honestly expected a lot more time wasted for this.

改变

最近公司有很多变动

很多同事离开，或要离开了

有不少的送别餐

至今我一个都没有出席

我近来能量很低

开始很选择性的运用花在交际上的能量

虽然是有因为只是交情很淡所以选择不出席的

但也有是因为实在离不开工作岗位

送别餐结束了我都还在忙着赶工

连要迟到好过没到都不行

有好些较好的同事朋友

我是真的很想见一见谈一谈的

至今还是没能实现

当然也很可能只是我自作多情

他们不一定想和我见见谈谈的

随兴随想 |系列|

Exercise is good

Missed a few badminton sessions lately, no thanks to the inconvenience called work.

Well, not just normal work, but work that is currently on fire and being highly focused on. Some people in my company called it a 'task force', I called it deep shit.

Anyway, managed to go to both the badminton sessions this week, felt so good. =)

Exercise, sweating, and the laughter, make for good stress relief. Because of my craptastic skill, there are always laughter, and I laugh along with them. ^_^

I have always say, don't confuse passion with proficiency. Just because I like to do something doesn't mean I am good at it. =P

Anyway, feel a lot better after the sessions, physically and mentally.

All good, well, except that I stink horribly after sweating lots. I think my sweat is toxic or something. =P

心的频道：闭关修炼

最近我好累。

没有多余的能量用于交际上。

内向的人会明白我的感受。

我没那么伟大博爱世人，但既是朋友就要在乎关心，这是我的原则。

很想把自己不是很大的朋友圈再缩小些，把有限的能量用于那些真的比较好的朋友群。

同事不用说就只限于公事，一贯如此。

那些没那么好的朋友，或见面嗨掰的朋友就算了吧。

反正若是有心也早就是比较好的朋友了，对吗？

把心扉缩紧点，关怀吝啬点，让自己凝集储存能量。

要自私点，被动的只对我好的朋友好。

心的频道 |系列|

Taming the inbox

This is seriously going to hurt my slacker extraordinaire reputation, but I have just shut down my laptop a few minutes ago after spending the whole day clearing my e-mails.

I admit that I have never been able to get my inbox under control, having more than 100 unread e-mails is considered the norm, I usually have close to 200 unread e-mails.

You see, I am a hands-on practical person, not a meeting person, not a desk worker, and definitely not one who's all talk and no walk.

Being in the lab or the production floor getting my hands dirty most of my working hours means I don't have much time checking my e-mails.

So I usually dedicate Friday afternoon to clear the 'soon to expire' unread e-mails. I would clear a week's worth of unread e-mails, so the next batch of unread e-mails would expire on Saturday of next week. Repeat this exercise weekly.

This means I am usually about one to two months out of date on most e-mails... -_-

Anyway, I took a break a few weeks ago so I don't get burned out and to recover from depression. Coupled that with the crazy workload once I resumed work, my inbox has simply gone wild.

I had more than 300 unread e-mails these few weeks, so I decided it's time I tame the inbox.

Worked till late on Friday and spent the whole of Saturday clearing my e-mails, and finally got my inbox under control, with single digit of unread e-mails, left unread because they are some heavy, important stuff.

Didn't really read all the e-mails, mind. Read most, deleted many, dispositioned some.

The inbox is finally tamed! I hope it will stay this way but I doubt it.

Working overtime to clear e-mails, sad but true. -_-

  

Random behaviour for May 2015

I did good for my April impromptu resolution. Out of the five times I went to lunch having not-so-economical rice in April since I posted the entry, I managed to have more vegetable than meat all five times. ^_^ feel good +1

6th, 7th, 13th, 14th and 27th of April were the five days I had not-so-economical rice for lunch, which begs the question what did I have for the other days? Hmm...

Anyway, for May 2015, starting after I post this, my impromptu resolution is: no Coke.

Because I can.

Er... can I? This is gonna be a tough one. >_<

LEGO workshop (5): fighter jet

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In this series: |part 1| |part 2| |part 3| |part 4| |part 5| |part 6| |part 7| |part 8| 

Workshop: |1| |2| |3| |4|

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This is a March 2013 creation.

When I was going through my archive preparing for this entry, I noticed I did not create any LEGO design for the workshop series throughout 2014. A whole year without creating new LEGO design, not good. =(

Should really pick this up again.

Anyway, here's the step by step instruction of building a fighter jet, designed by me. ^_^

Teaser for next in the series: step by step workshop for building a robot