So many games, so little time

I am a gamer, very casual gamer, not hardcore or competitive whatsoever. I primarily play computer games.

Don't always have time for gaming, but I get my fixes whenever I can, when the mood is right.

There are so many games I want to invest time in, but too many games, too little time! >_<

Remember that Baldur's Gate saga that I hope to complete through to Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal? Well I got to Baldur's Gate in the original game, that's chapter 5 if I remember correctly, and I stopped there since.

According to my blog, which is really my online diary of sort, I went back to playing World of Warcraft and got my Legion flying.

And then there is a period playing Diablo III where I found Mjolnir.

In between these, I have been keeping up with my Neverwinter daily praying, and played some of the Heart of Fire campaign.

And there was that Dungeon Siege that I got further than my previous attempt to complete that game, but have stopped in, I believe, the early chapter still this time round.

Some time among all of these I also replayed the Starcraft campaign, I think it's because Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty became free to play and I wanted to revisit the stroyline. I was sporadically playing that, when in-laws started a Starcraft II multiplayer group that made me fast forwarded to Wings of Liberty.

Yea...

So, I really do want to complete the Baldur's Gate saga, complete Dungeon Siege, replay Starcraft I campaign, as well as Starcraft II Wings of Liberty campaign.

And I just found out yesterday night that only in January, Diablo III has this Darkening of Tristram event, so that bumped up the priority since else I will miss it.

Annnnnnnnnnd~ eldest brother is coming back for Chinese New Year with the World of Warcraft game time cards I exchanged with my soon to expire mileage points, basically free game time subscription as far as I am concern, so...

Yea, so many games, so little time.

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"Noble people"

Instantly understood if I wrote this in Chinese, but I don't feel like writing a Mandarin entry today so I shall use the term I learned from Joey Yap's BaZi series of books.

"Noble people" (贵人), someone who helps you, your benefactor (usually does not mean in material or monetary terms), someone who makes life easier for you.

I started getting names of colleagues to reach out to for sharing and guidance regarding this new role in the new department, and one on one meetings are gradually happening this week.

Had two thus far, both pleasant, both beneficial, and both ended with me filled with gratitude.

Thermal engineers unite! =P

Goodness knows we are few enough.

Really glad to have friendly and helpful colleagues willing to share, guide and teach. Restored my faith in humanity somewhat.

Let's say I am cautiously optimistic. (Jeez I am such a gloomy pessimist...)

Also glad to find out that all that studying in the past few weeks had been the right move, for I don't sound like a complete idiot and can actually have meaningful discussion with the colleagues. I did my homework right, hehe!

Felt good. =)

Really grateful to these colleagues, hence decided to write about it.

Will give them recognition when it's over, of course, to show my appreciation and really, that's just good manner.

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心的频道：累

和变成朋友的同事们过了一个很开心的星期五。

美味佳肴、谈笑娱乐、唱歌一起走调、破音、失声，把好好听的歌唱烂、大伙一起笑垮。

爽。

然后累了整个周末。

身心都累。

身累，因为人老了，不能玩太夜，要早点睡觉。

已经很久很久没有一觉到天明了，每晚都会醒来至少两、三次，睡眠质量非常差。

加上又换了工作时间，很早就起身了。

心累，因为惆怅吧？

聚会后散场离别总是会心里沉重。

本来就是重感情、容易感伤的人。

情人老婆仔说，大瓜像我，也是这样。

可怜的大瓜，注定一生人常常会心累了。

这是命。

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Efficiency

Took me an hour and forty five minutes to get home last Friday. Unacceptable.

Granted I had to go pick up my son and there was an accident on the bridge that caused the traffic all the way back to the industrial zone, but still, that was a freaking long time for 18 kilometres distance.

Seriously, could have driven to Ipoh in that time.

Complaining about it would achieve nothing though, so I changed my working hours earlier again this week.

I was doing 07:30 to 17:00 hours last few weeks, this week I changed to 07:00 to 16:30 hours.

Time from home to work is still around 25 minutes, but the average time from work to home has reduced from 50 minutes to 36 minutes.

More importantly, the frustration level has reduced significantly, and that's immeasurable.

On the days I have to pick up the children, guess I will just wait there instead of in the office, so I can be away from the industrial zone choke points before the traffic starts to build up.

Probably means I will be wasting some productive time waiting but at least I can avoid the frustration.

Still a win in my book.

Only hope I can sustain this, but figured that when the work load starts building up, leaving at 16:30 hours may not be feasible.

Oh well, will see.

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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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