随想

我真的是很孤僻的人。

或许说，我很习惯独来独往。

换工至今，没有主动去交际或参别人，但也没有特地回避啦。

今天老板带我六个月的伙伴来互相介绍，整个过程可以说是很精简的嗨和掰，嘿！

反而希望伙伴是那位以前就认识、我已经问了好多东西的那同事朋友，那就可以用公司的钱每个月和他吃一餐好的来答谢他。

Oh well...

工作上有必要时，我当然会跟同事交流接触，不然我就静静的在我办公位，戴上耳机一边听音乐一边看网上资料。

不是开玩笑的，我这几个星期复习和学习了很多东西，很有成果的自修。

我甚至有了好几个挑战自己的计划主意，是跟工作息息相关的。

不过没有一些成果前不会跟老板说，以免变成在定时内要完成的任务和压力。

早餐和午餐，我常常一个人吃。多年自己一人用晚餐，我已惯已为常。

不是同部门的同事没有邀约一同吃早餐，只是怕输、怕没泊车位的这儿，午餐时间偏早。

太迟吃早餐很快又是午餐时间了，感觉怪怪的，生理时钟不太顺。

同事吃早餐的时间对我来说偏迟了点。

加上我把工作时间移前来避开车龙，蛮早就到办公室了，吃了早餐开工，就不必做到一半中断。

欸，我绝对不是工作狂哦！ 主要还是不想早餐和午餐之间太靠近啦…

自己一人吃其实也比较容易和省时间，没有模棱两可、没有拖泥带水，说走就走、要去哪就去哪。

午餐我还是会问问把我加入圈中的同事朋友的，我有时还会邀他们下午茶，但那些大忙人，我对他们没有什么期望。

工作慢慢开始上轨道，等能做模拟的电脑办妥了，就可以做很多东西了。

哦！今天拿到了柜子抽屉的锁匙，终于可以把东西搬回办公室了！

但跟之前的办公位相比，这柜子超小的，无法容下很多东西。

应该是之前的八分之一吧？

看来要好好清理和决定什么该搬回办公位才行。

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Addendum

A few things to add to the first entry of 2019.

I am back to a work place with many ladies keeping their hair long and wearing skirt or dress to work. Wonderful.

Pleasant to the eyes and conducive to stress management.  ^_^

Also, I am back to many choices for lunch, I particularly like having many hawker centres to choose from, since I have 'cheap' taste and like hawker's food more than all those restaurants.

If you are too busy to have lunch, then your priority needs some adjustment. Why work so hard that you forget to live?

Don't we work so we can afford to live in comfort? If there is no time to live, why work?

But I gotta add in a negative thing though... the traffic sucks!

Big time.

Took me an average of 50 minutes to get home, a 18km journey.

And that's on a normal day with me leaving around 17:00 hours. On a bad day like yesterday, it took me 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Da suck!

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First entry

First entry of 2019, let me try to make it a positive and cheery one.

No promise, I am the grumpy old man after all. =P

And while a recent online article indicated that I am a very positive person, I often feel that I am full of negative energy, so...

Whatever.

Got my cubicle to myself today, yay! No more sharing with the contract worker, and the surface was cleared of everything. Clean start. =)

They also came and changed the incorrectly spelled cubicle name tag, so finally the name is spelled as my parents intended it to be.

Though I still don't have the key to the cabinet locker but hush! No negative stuff!

I actually went and sat with the other colleagues in the cafe this morning, despite already had my breakfast before that. Small talks and mostly listened, I am a listener after all, but hey, I went to a social thing with strangers.

Crazy or what? =P

Of course I don't remember any of the names, goldfish memory for the win!

I started to get tied in into stuff and got things assigned to do, woohoo!

Nothing major yet, more like getting me sorted with the relevant laptop and software, and getting to know the project, but at least it's a start!

While I have no qualm reading up on stuff that I think is relevant, which may or may not actually be relevant to the project, and I still have many subjects I want to read, I am also eager to start getting involved.

Tomorrow, I will start to bring stuff to my cubicle, and do a proper cable management.

Then go bug the colleagues if they haven't sent me the project material.

One step at a time, go go go!

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2018 in numbers

Another year gone.

2018 was a year of big changes.

Mom's rapidly deteriorated condition, and the scare. Civic, nursing home, huge expenses and financial burden. The ever changing job roles, and finally the plunge.

Things lost, things that never will be, and unwanted things that happened.

Can only hope 2019 will be a better year, but deep down I sensed that it will not be.

*Sigh...*

Anyway,

125 blog entries, no surprise there. This is the 11th year in a row. It's called consistency and discipline.

185 days of commute to ulu place recorded, which covered 18445.2 kilometres, giving an average of 99.7 kilometres per day. Guess I have found a shorter distance route compared to last year. Since I have changed department and now working in Penang island, this will change for next year.

37 (MyVi) + 9 (Civic) petrol filling recorded. My ex-good old 11.5 years MyVi was doing an average of 15.8 kilometre per litre of petrol. Good car, that MyVi, consistent performance all these years it served me. Based on limited data, the Civic is doing 16.0 km/l, will see what the mileage becomes next year, with primarily horrible city traffic.

23 days of worked till overtime-worthy late. Least for the past five years, fantastic!

16 days of leave taken.

67 badminton sessions attended, out of 73 that happened (while I was still working there). 91.8% attendance rate, one of the highest attendance rate since I started the badminton session nine years ago. I will miss the badminton sessions...

40 tabletop gaming sessions held, highest since I started TTG in 2014. A combination of 17 board and card games (including expansions) played. I will definitely miss these...

28 novels read, slightly better than last year but I have primarily been rereading Forgotten Realms novels. 13.0 days for a book, was really hoping I can get back to about 10 days for a book, oh well.

41, 14, 11, 9, for my own reference.

Happy New Year dear reader, wish you a good and healthy 2019.

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The plunge (5)

So, one week at the new job.

I was thinking of posting something like "I survived my first week..." and joke about getting a "I survived" t-shirt, that sort of things.

But then I figured that would probably send a wrong message, since it's really a very quiet and uneventful week.

After all, it's a four days week with many colleagues out on year end holiday.

Even knowing that it doesn't matter what we put in it, that the management has decided beforehand and it's just about the formality of going through with the process, I still spent three days writing my annual performance review.

Oh well, I am a perfectionist and I had nothing better to do...

As usual, first thought that popped into my mind was 'I can lift 20kg' when it came to writing about my strengths, hehe. =P

Still don't know what I am suppose to do in this new role, asked the manager to plug me in and link me up with the relevant people. He did, but the colleague he linked me up with is out.

So after I was done with the write-up, I spent the day viewing and learning stuff on Wikipedia. Stuff that I hope is relevant to the new job.

And the more I read, the more I realised I need to read up on. Internet is a dangerous place! =P

I probably should put in some effort to get to know the teammates, but the antisocial trait is still winning thus far, oh well.

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叉烧

两个瓜今天做功课时犯牛劲、耍脾气。

他们的烂态度和臭脾气真的是叫我很看不过眼。

一早哭闹做作到下午三点四十五分才终于结束。

辛苦了我可怜的情人老婆仔。

我一直压制自己，不要过去赏他们几个耳光巴掌，或去拿藤条鞭几下。

除了不想打孩子，希望可以用爱的教育之外，也想到毕竟多数时候他们做功课时我都不会在家，不能靠我的惩罚，而是需要老婆仔自己就能解决的方法。

实在忍耐不住时警告了他们几次，但过一阵他们又打回原形，仿佛知道我是不想打他们的。

这两个瓜，偶尔就是要犯贱，真是的。

让我想起岳父岳母说过的那句：

“早知道生块叉烧还好，至少可以吃。”

唉…

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Salvaged time

Things didn't go as I wanted to.

No surprise, they seldom do.

So instead of getting two days and three nights to get myself rested and ready for the new job, I get one day and two nights.

Well, really just one day and one night since I am tired as it is now after the drive, and there's not much productive time left of tonight.

Don't think I will get much rest time tomorrow anyway, need to deal with the aftermath of leaving the house vacated for a week, need to wash the car, go through all the emails accumulated through the week, and there is a dinner date.

Many tasks and things to do, not much time.

Basically a busy and tiring day tomorrow.

So, a break from work that leaves me more tired.

Oh well.

But I shouldn't complain, I should be grateful, since initially I don't get any time to do anything at all, just directly drive back home in time for dinner.

On a side note, I made a mistake in my previous entry, my goldfish memory failed me (no surprise there!), I thought I started the blog in an airport but it's actually just a short, unfinished story that I wrote in airport instead.

Not that anyone would notice, heh.

And I am still just dreaming about being a billionaire...

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