Friday, March 23, 2007
Insert foot in mouth moment...
Malaysian's police officials have done it. They have dogs that can sniff out pirated DVDs. Unfortunately their brilliance stops pretty much here. They have announced publicly ( why I'll never know) that there are only 2 dogs in the world with this ability and they have it. Now the pirated DVD gangs want the dogs dead. Now maybe it wasn't so much the police officials but rather the PR department who with much hubris thought: wow.. this is great. let's announce this. It'll make us look pretty competent. I pity the 2 dogs who have been trusted into their care..
Malaysian's police officials have done it. They have dogs that can sniff out pirated DVDs. Unfortunately their brilliance stops pretty much here. They have announced publicly ( why I'll never know) that there are only 2 dogs in the world with this ability and they have it. Now the pirated DVD gangs want the dogs dead. Now maybe it wasn't so much the police officials but rather the PR department who with much hubris thought: wow.. this is great. let's announce this. It'll make us look pretty competent. I pity the 2 dogs who have been trusted into their care..
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Shut your mouth and know your role..
This should be the motto of my company not whatever HR hippie crap they put up. If they had this, the company would be functioning more smoothly. The company would be a smooth functioning machine kinda like Nazi germany as they swarmed across Europe.. ok bad example.. but they knew their role. Problem with my office is people aren't doing their jobs. When people don't do their job, everyone else suffers because everyone has to face the consequence of one guy not doing his/her job.
All I know is that if I have to go back to work and get my leave cancelled this coming week, I'm so out of here after my 1 year is up.
This should be the motto of my company not whatever HR hippie crap they put up. If they had this, the company would be functioning more smoothly. The company would be a smooth functioning machine kinda like Nazi germany as they swarmed across Europe.. ok bad example.. but they knew their role. Problem with my office is people aren't doing their jobs. When people don't do their job, everyone else suffers because everyone has to face the consequence of one guy not doing his/her job.
All I know is that if I have to go back to work and get my leave cancelled this coming week, I'm so out of here after my 1 year is up.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Babel Effect..
Just caught this Chinese Production by Hwa Chong Institution called Huang Cheng (Yellow City I think.. I hope.. ) Language barrier aside (couldn't get lots of the puns, proverbs that they use etc etc) the stories were very well done, albeit dark.. even a bit dark for my tastes.. but not for some.. Even nicely placed plot twists. Anyway the night ended quite badly cause when I went back to my car I couldn't get out because some !%!%!^ aristocratic jerk parked his car along side mine. Why do I say aristocratic jerk? Because this was the premier of "Crystal Mirror" and lots of socialites were present and also the royalty of singapore. People who do as they please. Basically we had to wait about 30 minutes to finally move out of the parking lot. And the jerk with the 2 door lexus (should have taken a picture of his car and plate and put up for all to see) didn't even have the common courtesy to apologise. He and his wife just got into the car and moved off. As if it was their right. I need a gun.
Just caught this Chinese Production by Hwa Chong Institution called Huang Cheng (Yellow City I think.. I hope.. ) Language barrier aside (couldn't get lots of the puns, proverbs that they use etc etc) the stories were very well done, albeit dark.. even a bit dark for my tastes.. but not for some.. Even nicely placed plot twists. Anyway the night ended quite badly cause when I went back to my car I couldn't get out because some !%!%!^ aristocratic jerk parked his car along side mine. Why do I say aristocratic jerk? Because this was the premier of "Crystal Mirror" and lots of socialites were present and also the royalty of singapore. People who do as they please. Basically we had to wait about 30 minutes to finally move out of the parking lot. And the jerk with the 2 door lexus (should have taken a picture of his car and plate and put up for all to see) didn't even have the common courtesy to apologise. He and his wife just got into the car and moved off. As if it was their right. I need a gun.
Labels: aristocratic jerks, crystal mirror, singapore royalty
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Which sound is worse?
Was having a discussion during lunch today when I was reversing the car. I didn't reverse all the way back because I couldn't remember if there was one of those stone stools behind me so I said, I'd rather not risk it and hear the most dreaded sound in the world, which sparked off a discussion of which sound is worse (to car owners/drivers). The sound the car makes when metal crashes against something else.. or a nuclear explosion where u can see the mushroom cloud before your very eyes. And we decided, the metal crashing sound. Cause in the former, you're screwed. In the latter.. basically everyone is screwed equally. Ergo: The sound of the car hitting something is worse than a nuclear explosion..
Was having a discussion during lunch today when I was reversing the car. I didn't reverse all the way back because I couldn't remember if there was one of those stone stools behind me so I said, I'd rather not risk it and hear the most dreaded sound in the world, which sparked off a discussion of which sound is worse (to car owners/drivers). The sound the car makes when metal crashes against something else.. or a nuclear explosion where u can see the mushroom cloud before your very eyes. And we decided, the metal crashing sound. Cause in the former, you're screwed. In the latter.. basically everyone is screwed equally. Ergo: The sound of the car hitting something is worse than a nuclear explosion..
Thursday, March 01, 2007
7 mths in a hole...
Today marks my 7th month working. And of course today was an eventful one. New hire came in today. Wonder how long he'll survive. Then to top off the day, some bad news came (naturally). Tomorrow is going to be a late day of work.. (again). Here's to another .. X number of months more in this dump..
Today marks my 7th month working. And of course today was an eventful one. New hire came in today. Wonder how long he'll survive. Then to top off the day, some bad news came (naturally). Tomorrow is going to be a late day of work.. (again). Here's to another .. X number of months more in this dump..
