有感而发：猪队友

二零二一年一月八日。

华盛顿的暴动。
大马新冠肺炎疫情的趋势。
今天公司网上会议里某同事的那提问。

这些，都是人为的。

被煽动的情绪、自愿和非自愿的被利用操控、压抑情绪和行动的不妥当释放？
三观的不同、环境的因素、智商的水平？

我无法理喻那些人的言行举止，他们的思维。

一种米养百种人。
同样是人，但我们都不同。
不同的水准、观念、宗旨、原则、纪律、智慧、信仰。

只是当那大上司被问了那样一个（对我来说超无语的）问题时，他由衷发出的，那充满无奈的一笑里，我突然有很强烈的同感。
“唉，怎么我的团队里有那么一个猪队友…”

三观不同，不必强合。
毕竟自己也是与自己三观不同的别人眼中的猪队友。
只是那些人啊，他们的言行举止对其它人（和他们自己）造成了那么多的危害…

怎么全球人类中，总是会有那些猪队友？
或许只是反社会、反交际的我的观点吧。
很多时候，我就只剩那无奈的一笑。

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怀念

前工作部门认识的同事朋友上载了我们每年会自组的收工宴的照片，看了感触良多。

那一群一起玩笑、运动、唱歌、团聚、吃喝的同事朋友。那一群常常有互动的同事朋友。至少，当我还在前部门时是那样的。

疫情肆虐，今年就算有收工宴，我应该也是不会去的。就当作我是怕死的吧，乖乖宅在家里是我对抗疫的贡献。

很想念一起共餐、一起打羽球、一起玩桌上游戏、桌式足球、一起去飙歌、一起点心时间喝茶讲废话、一起疯癫神经病…

就是很怀念有那样一群有互动联系的同事朋友，那时的我心里饱满。

不怀念前部门最后几年给我的工作岗位和性质，和对我的不重视、不善用。那是令我终于决定离开那一群同事朋友寻找新工作岗位的主要因素。

现在的部门善用我的强项，让我做我喜欢的工作，我觉得很有意义、有实际贡献的工作。这是双赢的情况。现在的部门也给了我新的机会，真的没有想过自己会有专利。

只是我比以前忙了三、四倍，也没有了以前那些康乐的互动和活动。工作与生活不平衡，很不健康。

怀念那群同事朋友，那些互动，但喜欢现在的工作职位。很遗憾不能兼得，唉…

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有感而发：醒醒吧，国人

二零二一年一月三日。

有关注新冠肺炎疫情的国人都应该知道，大马新冠肺炎疫情逐渐恶化。

而那些已不再关注新冠肺炎疫情的人们，请你们醒醒吧！我国还没有疫苗，而且他国现有的疫苗究竟会有什么副作用如今是没有人确知的，接受疫苗的都是第一批的白老鼠。

二零二零年三月头，单日全国少于两百新感染病例的情况下，全国实行了行动管制令。

在政府严管，加上国人遵从行动管制令下，疫情成功受控。数据是最好的证明，六月到九月间我国每日只有双数，甚至单数的新感染病例。

行动管制令当然有代价，很多人的生计成了问题。毕竟这是个非常时期，全球的人都要改变，接受新常态。全球人类都需要跟着时局改变生活起居，跟着变，才会通。

然后政府放宽了行动管制令，很多国人也不再警戒，没有自律，放纵到处趴趴走、吃喝玩乐。马上地疫情迅速恶化，短短一个月就到了每日千位新感染病例的严重情况。

但是政府不管了，毕竟抓一个罚一千块是超好的收入。人民也不懂得自保自重，仍旧还是要外出、还是要逛街、冒险玩命的认为自己不会被感染的。

不怕一万，只怕万一啊。外出的理由真的那么的重要，值得赌上性命冒险？

看一看那些数据吧，看不出上升的趋势吗？现在一个州属的每日新感染病例已经上百了，要到什么程度，怎么样的惨况，才会醒呢？

全国单日数百的新感染病例时大家可以乖乖的呆在家里，现在每天几千个新感染病例时你们还是要到处趴趴走… 我实在不能理喻，只能祈望你们能够醒觉。

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2020 in numbers

2020 was a year of big changes, primarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which impacts the whole world, forcing people all across the globe to adjust their lifestyle.

I thought I had the busiest year in 2019 workwise. Well, I thought wrong, 2020 was way worse... In fact, I just ended my work day about 20 minutes ago, had my shower and now writing this last blog entry for the year.

Here are the 2020 numbers:

125 blog entries, this is the 13th year in a row. Whenever I need some self-assurance that I am disciplined, persistent and consistent, I just have to remember this.

57 days of commute to work recorded, which covered 2091.6 kilometres, giving an average of 36.7 kilometres per day.

7 petrol filling recorded. My two years old Civic is doing an average of 14.7 kilometre per litre of petrol.

123 days of worked till overtime-worthy late. I used to consider working more than an hour beyond normal work time as overtime. There was nothing less than two hours this year, with regular at least four hours in the weekends.

To put this into perspective, 52 weeks of 5 working days = 260 working days. Take away 17 public holidays and replacement holidays we have 243 working days. Out of the 243 days I worked overtime 123 days, that's 50.6%. This is just horrible, there is no work/life balance and absolutely not conducive to my wellbeing. >_<

7.5 days of leave taken. Again, I thought I had the lowest last year... This also means that I only had 235.5 working days and so I had worked overtime 52.2% of those days! >_<

0 days on business trip. For a recluse and introvert this is actually not a bad thing, thanks Covid-19!

28 novels read, a mixture of new books and rereads, average of 13 days for a book. Oh, also reread the Dragon Ball comic, 42 books. =)

2 patent filings, what a pleasant surprise. Good achievement in life.

43, 16, 13, 11, 2 for my own reference.

Happy New Year dear reader, wish you a safe and healthy 2021. Please do your part in curbing the pandemic.

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Hoverboard

Thanks to brother-in-law doting on the kids, we have two hoverboards in the house.

Having always been showered with gifts and stuff from family and relatives, I sincerely hope that the kids learn appreciation and gratitude, and not take things for granted.

Riding a hoverboard felt a bit awkward initially but once you got used to it, it becomes intuitive. At least that's the case for me and my family.

A few days after use, one of the wheels of a hoverboard developed a problem, where the inner tube stem was sucked inwards, pushing onto the rim, making inflating the inner tube impossible.

We never found out what caused that issue, because in my overzealous attempt to fix it, I ended up bursting the inner tube and we had to replace it. Replacing the inner tube was a painful process, at the time of drafting this, the wounds on my hand are still fresh and smarting.

Oh well, at least I have the experience of changing the inner tube and wheel of a hoverboard now. Learned something. Prefer not to have to do it again though.

It's about three weeks now (this entry is drafted on 27th of December) since we have the hoverboards, while the younger son still plays with the hoverboard, the elder son has already lost interest after the first few days. And no, I am not surprised, such is his nature.

Anyway, a tool to replace walking is always good for lazy people like me, kekeke. Here's a video showing hoverboard in action.

Other |geeky gaming| category entries.

Bliss

Initially the plan is to write about either the received Logitech G502 gaming mouse, or the hoverboards.

But then when I was looking up the relevant image and/or video file, I saw this and decided to post this instead.

Snowball in its wood shaving hole, with its eyes closed, blissfully enjoying its carrot snack. ^_^

Cute little thing.

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冬至

今天冬至，愿大家冬至快乐！ ^_^

面子书被汤圆图洗版的今天，两个瓜和情人老婆仔在家里一起做了一锅的汤圆。

虽然最后只有我一个人吃真的汤圆（他们都是吃「麻芝」），至少午餐和晚餐都是一家人一起同时吃，算团团圆圆啦！

哦，也是家里一份子的「雪球」没有得吃汤圆，可怜… 是为了它好啦，因为不知道安全不安全，怕它哽到。

希望可以调整一下我的心境啦，不喜欢负能量爆棚的自己。

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