2015 in numbers

Spent the last day of 2015 bedbound. Fever.

My temperature finally got down to the low 38 Celcius around 17:00 hours, which I felt more functional. Despite being bedbound for the whole day, I still feel very tired.

But anyway...

125 blog entries, this is the 8th year in a row. I am disciplined, consistent, persistent.

186 days of commute to ulu place recorded, which covered 18796.7 kilometres, giving an average of 101.1 kilometres per day.

51 petrol filling recorded. My 8.5 years MyVi is still giving an average of 15.5 kilometre per litre of petrol.

35 days of worked till overtime-worthy late. A few days less than last year, a healthy trend.

19 days of leave taken.

52 badminton sessions attended, out of 73 that happened. 71.2%, I should do better.

33 tabletop gaming sessions held. A combination of 23 board and card games played. Lost the momentum and steam towards the end of the year, I hope it's just the workload and not because of players losing interest. Would be a bother to seek new group of players...

38 novels read. 9.6 days for a book, reading speed improved from last year. Started posting my short review of each book on Facebook some time this year. I figured people can spam their selfies and photo of food, I can spam too. At least mine has some values.

38, 11, 8, 6, for my own reference.

Happy New Year dear reader, wish you a healthy 2016!

Work/Life

First drafted on 2nd of December 2015, after hearing about the fatal cases of overworked people.

We work so that we can afford and enjoy a better life, don't let work become your life.

We work so that we can afford our meals, so that we have a place to sleep, so that we can maintain a comfortable lifestyle.

If you are sacrificing your lunch or dinner for work, your every waking hours for work, or even your sleep for work, then you gotta ask yourself: what are you working for? Why do you work?

So that you can die rich but have never lived?

There is a whole lot more to life than work.

Like most things, moderation is key. Work/life balance.

Don't skip meal, don't deprive yourself of sleep, don't stop doing exercise, don't forget to have fun.

Your health is more important. Say no to job that jeopardise your health, physically and psychologically. It's just not worth it. Period.

Live your life.

Day out

Long weekend thanks to Prophet Muhammad's and Jesus' birthdays.

Took this opportunity to go to the beach for some quality family time.

Past bad experience taught us to avoid evening time on public holiday as some crooks would be out collecting illegal parking fees. If it's a reasonable amount I might still just pay, but the bastards wanted at least RM5 so it's "up yours!" then.

To avoid that, we went early morning instead. Not only were the crooks still in bed, the beach was less crowded, too.

this is the shell art that started the guessing game

Sand castle building is hard labour I tell you. Especially if you were someone who doesn't want to get wet as well as get stuck with sand everywhere.

I spread my legs wide and bent my back throughout instead of just squatted down or sat on the sand. The short attention span of the two little monsters, who were supposed to help build the sand castle, but ended up more interested in throwing sand into the sea, didn't help.

only artistic person can identify this masterpiece

Anyway, after two sand castles ruined by the rising tide, I gave up and turned to shell art instead.

I shall not name the masterpiece in the second image above, as wifey is running a 'guess the art' on Facebook and nobody has got it yet. I can only say that wifey couldn't work it out while my younger son took a glance and gave the correct answer immediately. Artistic boy, that one. =P

this is a heart, or love. Easy peasy

It's also worth mentioning that wifey couldn't work out what the younger son made while I took one glance and gave the right answer immediately. What can I say? Me and my younger son, we are artistic people. =P

It's a smiley face, it's obvious

I then filled out my elder son's heart and made it bigger, and we took a family photo, my travel photo style, hehe.

this is how I take my travel photo...

Wifey took some more conventional family photos, like this one here:

That quality family outing was two days ago, and I am still hurting all over especially my thigh muscles and back. Old fart, me.

生活点滴：汤圆记

今天冬至，吃汤圆。

晚间安顿了两个瓜后才想起还没吃汤圆，跑去问老婆仔：

“情人，我们有没有汤圆啊？想吃个意思。”

“哦，有哦有哦，跟我去厨房。”

老婆仔似乎也忘了。

从冰箱里端出一大碗汤圆，她说：

“这是邻居给的。”

我有点疑惑的问： “汤圆不是吃热的咩？”

“不知道嘞，邻居说要吃冷的喔。”

“哦。” 反正只是吃个意思。

小时候吃汤圆是一个小碗，里头四五粒吃个意思而已。今天的可是一大碗，里头至少有四五十粒吧？

“两个瓜有没有吃哦？” 我问老婆仔。

“有，我跟他们讲吃了才会长大，所以他们很勉强吃了两口。”

我吃了两大口，老婆仔吃了两小口，汤圆还剩很多。

“还这么多…” 我又吃了一大口，问： “剩下的你吃得完吗？”

“欸，你再吃多点。”

我又吃了三大口，满嘴汤圆。老婆仔吃一小口。

“喂，我每次吃一大汤匙，你每次就吃那两三粒。”

“这样你才会比我老嘛，呵呵！” 老婆仔坏坏的笑着说。

“我本来就比你老了啦，剩下的你吃完去！”

我用装满了汤圆的嘴吻了她离开。

生活点滴 |系列|

随兴随想

在看着九把刀的《妈，亲一下》，在里头看到了「驾奴」这词。

倒还是第一次在书中看到这词，亏我是个爱看书的人。

记得第一次接触「驾奴」这词是和朋友唱完歌后的即时通讯中，有人说我驾奴了一首歌。

那时都不知道是什么意思。

还是由一位不看书的小妹子讲的嘞…

《妈，亲一下》根本就是像我部落格写日记一样嘛。

只是他是九把刀所以可以出书赚钱，而我只是上载部落格自爽。

近来同事朋友都好忙，大家忙着救火。

不要忘了照顾自己的身体和精神的健康啊。

要运动，要娱乐，要放松，要休息哦！

随兴随想 |系列|

And the lesser evil is...

After the meeting that overran, the meeting chairperson, Mr H, came over to my cubicle to continue the discussion.

I was parched, for I had emptied my water bottle prior to the meeting and didn't get the chance to refill. So I asked Mr H whether he wanted to go get some water, he readily agreed. 

After drinking our fill and filling up my bottle, we headed to the restroom together for a much needed bio-break.

Throughout all these we were discussing work stuff, and when Mr H told me of an issue that remains unresolved, something that can potentially turn real nasty, something that should have been fixed a few months ago when we first discovered it, I advised him to escalate the issue so those who are suppose to fix it put their arses together and get it done.

I quoted the incident that just happened to another colleague of ours (Mr Y): an issue that got escalated by the other to the management that ended up with Mr Y taking the punch, needing to cancel his planned holiday next week and fly to the site in another country to support* and resolve the issue over Christmas.

* I am in danger of being dragged into this as well so all those who have been talking about me going to that site please stop it. It's like a curse that gathers in strength the more you all talk about it! >_<

Mr H and Mr Y are doing similar job scope, if his issue is not escalated by him and made known to the management before others do, then he would likely be in the hot seat as Mr Y.

So I told him to stop playing the nice guy and just raise the necessary awareness to the management. I said we should not be so nice, and that it has been my resolution lately to not be so nice.

Mr H then said I am not a nice person anyway.

Well, true.

So I said I want to be even nastier, and that I am still nicer than him anyway.

Naturally he disagrees. So I said let's ask our mutual colleague friends and see what they said. Mr H is pretty confident, saying I have always been branding myself evil so our friends will vote in favour of him.

I let him decide on the exact question to ask our friends, and he picked the two keywords: (1) nice, and (2) kind. Me versus him, who is nicer? Who is kinder?

We asked our friend to vote based on their general perception of us, without providing any specific as not to influence their vote. The voting period ends at 23:00 hours tonight, as this entry provides the specifics, I will only post this after that.

Who shall turn out to be the lesser evil of the two? Stay tuned, I shall post the voting results in the comment.

Backlogs #8

This one is dated 19th of March 2014, it's titled "grill, not drill".

This is one of those funny typo moments. =P

No salmon was drilled in the posting of this entry.

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