2019 in numbers

Another year gone, going into a new decade.

2019 was a year of heavy workload and many, many overtime, my work/life balance was thrown out of the window. It's also a year of growing distant, getting more and more disconnected from family and friends.

Here's hoping 2020 will see some improvement, but honestly not holding my breath.

Anyway, 2019 numbers...

125 blog entries, this is the 12th year in a row. What can I say? I am disciplined, persistent and consistent.

218 days of commute to work recorded, which covered 7893.8 kilometres, giving an average of 36.2 kilometres per day. That's about 36% of the distance compared to when I had to commute to ulu place to work. No complaint here!

19 petrol filling recorded. My one year old Civic is doing an average of 14.5 kilometre per litre of petrol in urban traffic. My ex-MyVi was doing 15.8 kilometre per litre, but that's a mixture of about 70% highway and 30% city traffic.

98 days of worked till overtime-worthy late. More than double the highest of any previous years, and more than quadruple of last year's. This is simply horribly disgustingly shameful! My slacker extraordinaire reputation is totally ruined. This new department is definitely not conducive to my work/life balance and my health! >_<

8 days of leave taken. First ever single digit day off count, lowest since I started recording this. My goodness, this department is a slave pen!

18 days on business trip. Nope, hate them still.

No more badminton nor tabletop gaming session. My work life is absolutely dull nowadays. Sad. =(

30 novels read, 12.2 days for a book. I probably reread more old novels than I read new novels this year, didn't improve my read rate though, oh well.

42, 15, 12, 10, for my own reference.

Happy New Year dear reader, wish you a healthy and smooth 2020.

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I swear

I solemnly swear that this is the last weekend that I am working through.

Next weekend I will ignore everything work related.

Actually, it's next Wednesday onward, beginning with the New Year holiday and follows by the two days annual leaves I have applied for.

Then the weekend.

Five days to do whatever I want, like sleep, read, be potato, grow mushroom, grow spider web, et cetera.

Anything but work.

While I may not be in the office these past weekends, I remotely logged in to check on my simulations, post-processed completed cases, made changes and set another case running every few hours.

Basically, working.

My workstation is running 24/7, and I am babysitting it seven days a week without pause. It's solving the 24th case at this moment, which I will check later tonight.

And then keep trying until I find the best possible solution.

But enough.

This ends by the time I finish work next Tuesday. If I don't have a solution by then, too bad, so be it.

Next Wednesday onward until my break is over, project can burn to a crisp and I wouldn't care less.

This I swear, and I will do my darnedest sticking to it.

Other |temperamental thoughts| category entries.

天马行空：平安夜妄想曲

平安夜，失身夜。

都忘了是听谁这样讲过。

不过这样色色不正经的东西，最有可能就是他了。

失身夜哦，太可怕了！

都是宅在家里比较安全。

当然是在家里失身比较安全的嘛…

不是吗？

因为情人老婆仔也在家啊，呵呵！

*坏坏* =P

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爱的代价

整个十一月没有洗车，闲懒月当然不做洗车这样不闲懒的事咯。

十二月还没有来得及洗车就出差去了。

住的公寓旁有大型的填海建筑工程，车停在公寓停车位十天没动过，集了一身尘埃。

这周末是回来后第一个周末，虽然病了，但实在无法忍受车的脏，所以今早洗车去。

里里外外冲洗、清理、抹干用了一小时四十分钟。

踮脚、弯腰、全蹲、半蹲，和不停在抹的手，我是准备好腰酸背痛了的啦。

我认老，午餐后睡到四点才起身。

虽然累，但看着干净发亮的车心情好好的。

值得啦。

老天爷，你不要很「衰款」我一驾车出去就下雨哦…

真的我会比中指骂粗话的咯！

随兴随想 |系列|

Dragon and phoenix, part deux

After I got my dragon (cloud serpent, whatever!) mount in World of Warcraft in September, the grind continued for the phoenix mount.

And finally, on my 64th attempt, it dropped. ^_^

finally!

Woohoo! Mission accomplished.

It's called Al'ar in the game, the item to summon the mount is called Ashes of Al'ar.

But whatever, to me it's a pretty phoenix mount.

Guess I will stick with levelling up my many characters until the next grindy item struck my fancy.

Other |geeky gaming| category entries.

Surprised, or not

Went to departmental annual dinner yesterday night.

Surprised (and annoyed) that I forgot to bring along the gift for the gift exchange. So much for going through all the trouble to get one.

Surprised to find the relatively small number of people. Guess I still don't have a feel of the department size.

Not surprised by my lack of sense regarding the department headcount.

Surprised by the venue chosen for the annual dinner. It's just not suitable in my opinion.

Not surprised by the quality of food. No great anticipation anyway.

Not surprised by my unease and discomfort. It's a social event after all, too many people, too few known well enough.

Surprised that this department usually do annual lunch instead of dinner. It's always dinner in the previous department.

Not surprised I was bored and wishing to be home soon after I was done eating.

Not surprised I didn't get any lucky draw prize.

And not surprised that I am sick today. Haven't been feeling well ever since returning from business trip. The travel stress and work stress finally caught up.

Other |temperamental thoughts| category entries.

Sucked in

So I got back yesterday night.

My luggage didn't.

Never happened to me before, until I travelled with a colleague who told me her delayed luggage experience.

Darn jinxed.

Oh well, at least it's on my return trip instead of outbound.

Gotta think positive.


Anyway, thought I am finally back to my 06:50 to 16:20 hours routine.

And no, we don't count those hours where I work after I got home since it's not conducive to my slacker extraordinaire reputation.

My working hours are from 06:50 to 16:20, since you know, I am allergic to traffic congestion and all those selfish idiotic drivers who emerged at those rush hours.

Not conducive to my mental and emotional well being, them traffic and idiotic road users.

But life is cruel, the aftermath of the business trip doesn't let me off.

Not only had to rush a simulation in between all those (what I feel) unnecessary meetings, had to get all worked up by the traffic and those darn selfish road users since I got delayed past my 16:30 window, I got dragged into a late evening meeting when I got home.

First evening home where I could sit down with the family to have dinner, ended up in meeting while they ate without me.

*Sigh...*

Really, where the fish and duck is your work/life balance people?

Darn workaholics, just let me go, let me go~



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