End work early

I get headache if I worked long hours.

Yesterday the headache was so bad that I had to retire straight after dinner for a couple of hours before it subsided.

When the five o'clock meeting got cancelled today, I told myself I am going to end my work day early today. I have done enough overtime since the weekend that I feel no qualm whatsoever.

I deserve it.

But of course, there's always more work than work hours, and today, the colleagues seemed to gang up to not let me end my work day early...

One after another and with some overlapping each other, four colleagues pinged me for one thing or another near the end of the work day, when I was trying my darnedest to quickly post-process the latest thermal simulation results and call it a day.

Multitasking is totally ineffective and inefficient for me, I am a focus at one thing at a time kind of person. I am loyal. =P

It's unusual for me to get so many pings from colleagues in a day, even rarer when it's nearing the end of the work day.

It's like they knew I wanted to end the work day early and out in force to thwart me.

Anyway, long story short, when I got yet another ping at five past six (yea, so much for ending work at five), I decided enough is enough.

So here I am, nursing a headache while writing a rant.

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Eighth time lucky

First thing I did after I got out of bed the past three days long weekend (Monday was a replacement holiday), was to turn on my laptop and work.

Ditto before I went to bed.

I know I am ruining my slacker extraordinaire reputation but duty calls, oh well.

The frustrating thing was, I modified a previously working model, with what I considered fairly minor changes, but the model stopped working.

Dammit.

The initial plan when I got the model modified end of Friday and set it to run overnight was to have a quick check on Saturday morning to save the case and set another case to run. Repeat twice and leave the post-processing to today.

But the solution diverged, so I fine-tuned the mesh and tried again.

And again. And again. And again...

Seven attempts, all diverged, arghhhhh!

It's Monday (yesterday) night by then, so I swallowed my pride and sent a help request to the software developer.

Knowing I won't get the support so soon, I tried again to resolve it myself, my eighth attempt, and set the case to run overnight.

And it worked! Very satisfied when I saw the results this morning.

Though I sure felt like I have wasted my long weekend, I was supposed to slack and just be a potato.

Oh well, sigh...

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命贱

州元首生日，所以有三天长周末。

原本打算做番薯，长蘑菇。

就是睡觉、看书、休息、玩电脑游戏这类的事。

但是，每天起身后就是工作到午餐。

虽然不是周日上班的时间起身，但…

唉…

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Still coughing

Went to consult the doctor end of June, for my persistent cough, was given five types of medicine.

Completed the antibiotics course, still coughing.

Took the cough syrup, still coughing.

Used the nasal spray, still coughing.

Inhaled the crystal fume, still coughing.

Stopped taking the blocked nose medicine since I don't have blocked nose.

And yea, still coughing.

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Diablo III season 21

Diablo III season 21 has started, it's the season of the Trials of Tempests, where random elemental powers are summoned during game play.

male demon hunter

I am playing a demon hunter this season, and this is the third season I have participated in, I have pretty much ignored all the previous seasons until recently.

Played the wizard in season 19, the barbarian in season 20, and now demon hunter in season 21.

tornado is one of the elemental powers

The main reason I am playing the season is for the increase in stash size, we get one extra tab for completing chapter 8 of a season journey, up to five extra tabs. I want all five extra tabs so I have two more seasons to go after this one.

Diablo breathe lightning is my favourite elemental power

Since the player have no control over the elemental powers, I just treat them as cosmetic effects since pretty much only the Diablo breathe lightning power can be directed to my enemies, the rest of the powers just go wherever they like and most of the time not where I want them to be.

happened to level up when trying to capture that green meteor elemental power

Still enjoying it so far, but I know the grind will come later, when trying to complete the harder chapters.

First thing is to get my character to level 70, then the item grind will start, heh.

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I went out (6)

Since the previous entry of this series, I was out of the house six times, so my total out of the house count stands at 14 as of today.

9th outing: went out on 9th of June to pick up takeaway lunch for virtual team building.

10th outing: went to office on 12th of June as needed to work in the lab. A waste of time since pretty much did nothing as the system we were supposed to work on was not ready. Got to use up some meal subsidy though, got myself a 24 cans carton of Coke. =)

11th outing: went to office on 18th of June for lab work. Fruitful work this time. Bought lunch home from Batu Lanchang market.

12th outing: went to office on 24th of June for lab work. Again, bought lunch home from Batu Lanchang market.

13th outing: went out for dinner with in-laws on 26th of June, this was the first time out for meal since MCO started. We went to James Foo.

14th outing: went to clinic yesterday (30th of June) for my many weeks-long cough, got 5 medications in return. Wifey dropped me off since the place is notorious for the lack of parking space, walked back after the consultation, took me 25 minutes but I am happy with the exercise really.

As of 1st of July, 15 weeks have past since the beginning of Movement Control Order on 18th of March. I have been out of the house 14 times in 15 weeks, so slightly less than once per week on average.

Here are the main reasons I went out:

- drive around to keep car battery healthy: 6

- work at office: 3

- bank: 1

- grocery: 1

- pick up takeaway meal: 1

- dine in restaurant: 1

- clinic: 1

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这就是事实

雨后才会有彩虹。

乐观的人是这么讲的。

要激励人就这么说的。

正能量就要这么想的。

但其实，不是每个雨后都会有彩虹的。

这就是事实。

我喜欢晴天，但我知道不是每个人都喜欢放晴的。

雨天也有雨天的美。

心态决定一切。

掌控思维心态是各人的修养和锻炼。

只是… 忧郁症时不由我自主。

这就是事实。

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