Bye Royce

Today is Royce last day. Royce is, or I should now say, was, MyFM's DJ.

I listen to MyFM whenever I am driving, a Chinese radio station that is my main source of information on new songs, and the occasional news.

Since my commute is over an hour each way, I have grown used to the MyFM DJs whose hours coincide with my to and fro work hours.

Royce is one of them.

He is witty, funny, and talented. I enjoy listening to him on the radio, so it's rather saddening that he has left.

I do sincerely wish him well in whatever his future endeavour is.

Ever since closer colleague friends started leaving the company due to company's headcount reduction or personal choice last year (or was it the year before last?), my circle of friends gets smaller and smaller.

Royce's departure feels like another friend gone from my daily life. =(

I should get to know more new friends, yet somehow there's an unnamed reluctance. Perhaps because sometimes I feel that friendship nowadays seem so... hollow, shallow, superficial, and fleeting.

So instead I tried, perhaps I am still trying, to get to know my existing friends better, hoping to develop a deeper, more meaningful relationship.

Not sure if that effort got anywhere, I do know I am tired.

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生活点滴：（再）结婚戒指

打完羽球回到家，我一副「根本就是那样，很理所当然」的样子问老婆仔：

“情人，我的结婚戒指缩水了，总是在无名指上留一圈的印，怎么办好啊？”

老婆仔忍着笑问： “还可以脱下来吗？”

“还可以的，只是紧咯，不会切断我的血液循环的吧？”

应该是很废的问题所以老婆仔只是说： “拿去加大咯。”

“可以加大的咩？” 我疑惑。

“不然就是时候买新的结婚戒指了。”

老婆仔的眼睛好像有发光。

“好啊！我们再结婚一次！”

结婚十周年时我有想过要这样做的咯，但老婆仔不要。

“不要。” 她果然还是很坚决。

过了一阵，我独自吃着晚餐时老婆仔进厨房跟我说：

“情人，等下我会网上买飞机票，收到银行的短讯不要紧张。”

“哦，要去哪里？”

“离家出走！” 她坏坏的笑说。

“要这样咩？我只是叫你再和我结婚罢了喔…”

“很恐怖的！”

我们一起笑开。

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Acceptance?

After the reorganisation many months ago, I have finally got a clear expectation from my new group manager.

There are still ambiguity in my job scope and responsibility but at least now I know what my manager's manager expectation is.

Basically on top of the majority of the work that I am doing now, I have to be the local content expert on things that I have no part in design or development, and the designer and developer are miles away in another time zone where all this time I have never been involved or tied in to any of their work.

I just have to somehow know everything they have done and be the expert in resolving issues that are related to all that areas. Three major and different areas that took different teams of people to design and develop.

So I guess I just have to go bug at least three different people and hope they can somehow pass their kung fu to me through some suitable communication channel that link two sides of the globe.

If only all that knowledge and skill can be directly downloaded into my brain...

My manager's manager also said I have to learn to say no to some of the job requests related to the work that I have been doing all my career thus far, when there is bandwidth constraint, in order to focus on the new role and responsibilty he gave me.

Funny because before he said that he said he heard many who said good things about what I was doing, and wants me to continue utilising my strength, and yet he wants me to say no to those requests if my bandwidth is taken up by the new expectation he has for me. My bandwidth will definitely be taken up, since I have to learn from scratch on things that don't really interest me!

I guess I already failed when I didn't say no to this forced role change.

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天马行空：本小姐的日记

这篇文章纯属虚构，如有雷同，纯属你的幻觉。也许可能但不一定是，有一点点真实的虚构，但乖啦，不要想太多，看了笑笑就好…

二零一七年二月十七日，热到趴零倒的有云晴天。

哈喽亲爱的日记，今天有几样事要八给你听。只是给你听哦，才不要跟那个整天烦本小姐分享人生故事的怪叔叔讲！

昨晚没有去偷鸭，只是乖乖的和小情人宅在家里，所以今天很有精神，YAY！

早餐时又有位同事叫本小姐美丽，本小姐第一百零一次的纠正他说：“本小姐的名是「本虾美丽」，你要么就叫全名，要么就叫本小姐！”

真是的，这些人，怎么总是学不会？

还有就是那些很无聊的粉肠，要讲多少次本小姐跟「根本英俊」先生是没有关系的！

只是偶尔暧昧而已。

还有那位，和那位，和那一位，全部都是暧昧而已。

本小姐不认为那是有关系咯。

整个早上开会又开会，幸好本小姐开眼睡觉和神游的功力很高，一直到免费午餐的时刻本小姐才回神。

要不是有免费午餐本小姐早就蛇到别处了啦，傻的咩？

免费的东西就不要嫌咯，但是齁…

那是什么午餐啦！都没有虾和螃蟹的！

真的很过分咯，骗了本小姐整个早上竟然是给这么萝型的食物！

午餐后就是欢乐时光了，呵呵！

和一群朋友玩桌上游戏，很巧妙的用本小姐那“都不知道自己在做什么”的策略把焦点转移到「美金美金亮晶晶」身上。

那些粉肠把「美金美金亮晶晶」的黄金抢得七七八八后本小姐就很容易赢了啦！

本小姐实在是太聪明了，有时自己都顶不顺自己。

「老翁」有回要发难时很帅气的说：“各位观众…”

结果骰子投出最小的一号… *噗嗤*

还有那「无发多亮」大师，每个人至少有四颗黄金他只有两颗，真的是菜到没朋友。

不用讲都知道最后当然是本小姐赢了啦！

过后大伙们去玩桌上足球，本小姐跟你讲哦亲爱的日记，那是今天最开心的时候了。

因为有小鲜肉！

不要傻啦，本小姐当然是和他一组啦！

其它的人也很识趣，这些猪朋狗友还不错哦。

小鲜肉要发功会用些时间，本小姐也不亦乐乎，就站在他身旁胡思乱想。

想些甜蜜的幻景和冰淇淋等等的东西。

游戏结果是什么本小姐不知道，总之就是很爽就是了！

欸，亲爱的日记，本小姐不是 dry 哦，本小姐只是很友善罢了，不要误会。

暧昧不算有关系！

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Cracking

When I am too tired I get headache, then nausea.

The poor quality of sleep lately, combined with the early start and late end of the work day today resulted in just that.

A splitting headache with nausea crept in on my drive home. The setting sun that's always in the eyes did not help.

What a torturous drive. >_<

Hit the bed as soon as I got home, and didn't stir until two hours later, when the nausea subsided and the headache lessened to a more bearable level.

I am taking some sleeping aid these few nights, but looks like the 4-in-1 herbal formulation, established since 1947, is not helping.

I am cracking up...

Bollocks.

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心的频道：突然好想歇

原本是要上载一篇过去发生的趣事的。

但下午不知为何突然觉得好累。

心好累。

就是那么突然…

想把自己关起来。

歇一歇。

关心和在乎很耗心力。

真诚的互动和交流应该是让心饱满的。

不是吗？

是因为我现在病着才这样？

太多天没有睡好了？

还是忧郁症又要来袭了？

是真的希望今年我会开始多交际些。

把心放开些。

让值得的、会珍惜的人进来。

但好累哦…

心很疲倦。

还有那淡淡的愁。

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Favourite place

My biological clock has gone somewhat haywire these few weeks, waking me up early in the morning when I am still tired and don't want to wake up yet.

They say old people don't sleep much, perhaps this is the sign, *sigh*...

Anyway, today I actually managed to sleep through the usual time my biological clock wakes me, only to be woken up by the din the little monsters was generating downstairs. I am sure our neighbours within two stories above and below, as well as two units adjacent left and right were cursing us for the inconsiderate brats.

I am really sorry, they just never listen, never learn. =(

Managed to get back to a semi-unconscious state after going downstairs to tell the kids off, who turned their volume down to a civilised level for the most part, only the occasional shriek and the well-timed scream whenever I was just about to fall asleep again.

Little monsters, really.

I finally gave up late in the morning, resigned to yet another tired day. Got up and turned on my mobile phone, and got a WhatsApp massage from a colleague friend informing me he was at my favourite place.

Huh?

Turned out he was at a dim sum place, a restaurant that I have mentioned before. The thing is, I haven't even been there and somehow it's my 'favourite place' according to this colleague friend.

Anyway, for the record, my favourite place is my bed, especially when I am doing one of my favourite hobbies: sleeping.

Don't judge me, there is nothing wrong having sleeping as a hobby! =P

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