有感而发：有朋至远方来

二零一六年九月十八日。

和远方来的朋友小聚，一起吃晚餐。

是大学时认识的朋友，见面就是很开心的拥抱。

上回见面，已是九年前的事了。她和那时的男友来槟城找我们。

记得大瓜还是小宝宝，很舒服的躺在男朋友的肚子上。

她是心地善良的女人，很有爱心，讲话斯文温柔。

学生时代结交的友情都比较纯，加上大学时大家都是离乡背井，自然而然会互相照应。

也是我还没变成反社会反交际的恶魔之前的事啦。那还是热情、对朋友尽心尽力的好好先生的我…

今天和朋友一起的是一位安娣，一位心很年轻、很好谈天的安娣。

由衷希望，以后我像安娣那把年纪时也可以像她那样健壮。

短短一小聚，意犹未尽，但很开心可以看到健康快乐的她。

希望再相逢期间她安好，一切顺心顺意。

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调理生活

一次工作出差，搞乱了我的生活节奏和规律。

时差的适应期间总是在不适时困倦，三更半夜时清醒。一整天都头重脚轻，很不好的感受。

每天的体能锻炼也中断，几天前才再次开始。

平时的一些活动和习惯也因为错乱的睡眠时间而错过。

我是有规律的人，不喜欢这样。

希望可以快点调理回来，人老了连这都慢了，唉…

我出差回国也一个星期了，那超级败的研究室管理还是没准许我的通行证。我会一直留意几时才会被准许，到时写篇讽刺性的报告。

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Return trip

Sunday, 11th September 2016

12:00 hours Arizona time (Monday, 12th September, 03:00 hours Malaysia time): checked out and left hotel, heading to airport

14:30 hours: checked in, had lunch, passed the security. Settled down to wait for the 17:00 hours flight to LA

16:10 hours: finished reading Quidditch through the Ages

18:12 hours: touched down LAX

18:55 hours: reached international departure terminal, LAX has craptastic signage. Cathay Pacific counter only resumes service at 19:30 hours, pfft...

19:37 hours: done check in, luggage drop, and passed security thanks to Cathay ground crew who started work early and a shorter queue for business class at security, else probably a 45 to 60 minutes process. Had dinner and settled down to wait for the midnight flight to Hong Kong

Monday, 12th September 2016

14:16 hours Arizona time (Tuesday, 13th September, 05:16 hours Malaysia time): landed Hong Kong

20:38 hours (11:38 hours Malaysia time): landed Penang

21:01 hours (12:01 hours Malayia time): passed immigration, collected luggage, passed custom

23:00 hours (14:00 hours Malaysia time): had lunch en route, reached home

Journey from Arizona hotel to home took 35 hours.

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Lazy day

Woke up after six, latest yet since I got here, usually it's between four and five, when it's not two...

Figures, just before I am heading home I adjusted to the time zone so that I have to do it all over again.

*Sigh*

Anyway, second day that I didn't have to work in this trip, so I slept in.

Went shopping on the previous free day, bought a pair of shoes but only found out yesterday evening when I started packing that the store didn't remove the magnetic tag.

So I went to the premium outlet again today to get it removed, and since I had nothing else to do, I went around a few shops to see if I can get anything else.

Nada. I guess I am just not the spontaneous shopping impulse buying type. Tried to get sports attire for wifey, gave up after doubting myself with whether the size will fit.

Oh well.

I spent the rest of the day catching up on sleep. Good hobby, sleeping. =P

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Right versus wrong

Was talking to a friend about her situation, basically she's cleaning up shit but yet she was having fun.

She said it's because of the people.

I understand, and I said: "better to be in a bad situation with the right people than the other way round."

The Chinese saying to this effect, the one that I learned from the China's Running Man, is: "fear not the omnipotent God-like enemy, fear instead the pig-like teammate."

Yea, bad shit but with the right people, we can still overcome. While good situation but stuck with the wrong crowd is just bland and joyless.

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Hug deprivation

I think I did quite well in the first week away from home, away from wifey, since it's mainly work and jet lag.

Then there was that day off after working straight through the weekend and the hug deprivation hit me full force.

I am so ready to go home, to hugs and kisses.

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有感而发：加班

二零一六年九月三日（美国） / 二零一六年九月四日（马来西亚）。

突然的工作旅程，一切都很匆匆忙忙的感觉。

第一个星期都过了，那超废的研究室管理还是没准许我的通行证。

超级败。

幸好工厂的通行没问题，把工作都搬到工厂里去做。每天穿「兔子装」两三回。

星期一晚上才到，星期二开始做工时才知道来着的星期一是美国劳动节，假期。

同事又那么有兴致要在我仍在这里的时候搞 teambuilding，又会少一天。

时间不够用，我可不想延长这旅程，太多天没有抱老婆仔了啦！

我是每天都需要抱老婆仔的嘞…

很担心会做不完工作，所以周末也回去工厂做工。

可是有些工作是需要别人的专长才能完成的，所以只好麻烦两位同事一同周末加工。

很感谢她们乐意帮忙，也感到蛮惭愧抱歉的。打算请她们吃一餐，老板的老板说可以算公司的帐，谢啦！

和同事们约好今天午餐后开工，早餐后我先进去做些我自己就可以完成的工作。

通过即时通讯来来回回讨论叫这里的同事做的一些试验有太多的不明确和细节上的疏忽，所以我干脆自己从头做起。

忙了一整天我差不多都完成了那试验，这次没有任何的漏洞，毕竟是我自己亲手完成的，呵呵！ =P

新的硬件，太多的不知，慢慢在一点一点了解明白。今天完成的研究可有大发现，很有成就感。 =)

可惜和同事一起做的那项工作却很不顺利，因为碰到一些软件上的问题，需要协助却找不到人。

真的很不喜欢这些需要依靠别人才能完成的工作… 浪费时间，降低工作效率。

我还是比较适合做能够自己全程包办的工作，又有品质保证又能保持工作效率又不用整天想呕血撞墙。

不写了，明天还得再去完成今天做不到的工作，该休息了。

我几时才有时间去逛街购物哦？

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