2 Weeks in Living Hell

2 weeks in living hell, a metaphor i used on the dead line i have to complete a conversion project from a USD400K worth of ATE machine to a 10-years-ago ATE machine worth less than half the initial one. Perhaps i have to make it clear that usually a project fits very well into a time frame of 6 to 8 weeks. And now all 8 weeks worth of workload cramped into 2. That is what i meant.

But i have to give credit to my boss because without him, i WILL still be in the office now. If not because of him, i WILL still be stucked with the same stupid problem i had from last week. If not because of him, i WILL not be in living hell for 2 weeks, but maybe longer than that. Although i hate him most of the time, this is the very few moment that i have to thank him, and feel very grateful that he is around.

It's Thursday already, i'm still not quite done, and i'm still making changes to the schematic at this point, changing resources i want to use on the device pins. That is not a good thing, because that only means i have not finalize my hardware design, and the PCB layout is not done too. Tomorrow is my deadline, and i will need to answer to the higher management & the sales team on the outcome. Apart from that, i've not tested out the dual site program yet. Although the dual site program is simply a duplication of the single site program using different tester resources, but still with this device, i don't think it is going to give it to me easy.

That's almost all about my work in brief. i don't like to talk about work after working hour or when i'm not in the office.

Today is pay-day. Thank goodness. I've been negative RM500++ for the past month, thanks to Australian index fund & repairing my car air-conditioning system. So this month i'm starting the month with the amount of my pay less income tax & EPF less car loan, insurance, last month's over-expenditure less road tax & car insurance less giving parents pocket money less streamyx bill less maxis bill less petrol less credit card debt.......

Voila, i'm almost zero before a week of the new month has arrived.

Desperate for Another Job

Need i say more about what i'm not happy about? i seriously am desperate to get another job.

Really hope the interview the other day went well. Got to pray hard that i got the job instead of the other guys who were on the interview list as well. May the best man wins.

i got all cranky at work today simply because my boss say i wasn't proactive enough. i may not be the most productive person in the whole plant but not proactive enough? Look who's talking to me about being proactive. But fine, i swallow it and continue doing nothing in the office because all my projects are on-hold. Another thing i hated about my job.

Then he called me in to his office & give me shit about me giving him wrong information that he wanted me to get but in fact he gave wrong instructions on what he actually wanted. Fire-cracker neck me just exploded and shouted. Let me just say this is not the 1st ever confrontation i had with my boss with me ending up screaming at him because i was damn pissed with his idiotic idea of doing work.

When this happens one too many times, do you think this is a place you can have a room to grow?

I desperately need another job.




ChiM

Happy Mommy's Day

It's Mother's Day this weekend. Please spend more time with her today. Get back home if you're not already at home. If you can't make it back, please call home & chat over the phone for a couple of hours with her. If you ran our of credit please reload & then change your phone line to a post paid plan. Good excuse to change to iPhone too.

I know how sometimes parents can be too nagging & annoying, but nevertheless, it all came down with the reason that they love you and they are really trying very hard to show you that. So please give them a chance to show you how much they care for you. Take this opportunity, this occasion to take your mom out for dinner, or go on a shopping spree, or get her hair done & colored, or whatever stuffs your mom might enjoy doing.

If you have to work over the weekend, and you do not have much time, here's something you could do. Get her a cake & do a simple cake cutting ceremony with her at home. How about that? That's going to be like a pre-birthday celebration, only that she is not adding another year to her age calender.

Having said so, i brought my parents for sushi yesterday night for dinner. It was great, a bit rushing at the beginning because i had to make a small detour before reaching the dinner place, and i didn't make any booking at the place and the place was packed. But things turn out to be fine, we took a room, which gave us more privacy & comfort at the expense of we must dine with a minimal amount, else we will need to pay extra just for the room. Dinner was great overall, we chatted, we joked, we ate & we enjoyed the dinner pretty much.

Love thy Mom, for they have given your unconditional & untiring love & care to bring you up to how you are now. You have the capability to return your care for her now so do what you can to tell your mom you love her too.








ChiM

The Post about My Weekends

i get this a lot during the weekends, "Didn't go pak toh meh?"

And i normally answer, "Weekends rest day mar...."

Not that i meant that i need a break from my relationship during the weekends, but i really don't know how to answer the question.

The fact is, i meet with SQ everyday after work since i work so near the place she stays. Sometimes we meet during the weekends as well. We'll go out for shopping, or walk around the mall, or catch a movie, or go dive into yummy ipoh food hunt.

So, the question is, does all couples in a relationship go out 'pak-toh' during the weekends only? So i'm all weird because i normally don't?

That is like only celebrating your relationship during Valentine's Day & normal day is normal day.

Love relationship to me is not like birthday; we don't need to celebrate it on a specific day. We celebrate it everyday. We live through it everyday, and be happy & grateful about it because you have someone to love & be loved in return.

Anyway, back to my weekends. Weekends are for my family. It's tradition to spend Sunday morning for breakfast, Saturday evening for dinner, and so forth on the smaller details.

How do you spend your weekends?




ChiM