I'm sitting here sipping a coke, smoking a cigarette in the living room, in an interlude of Life playing on tv (I have no idea what channel it's on). The ads are weird, just like the signboards that adorn the shops and sit atop street poles. Like the houses and low-rise apartments that look almost too nice to be real. Like the cars that aren't ( Read more... )

I'm in one of those ADD fueled maelstroms of thought that you can only have when nothing in particular is happening and you're idly sitting, cradling an iced venti hazlenut mocha - jiggling it ever so often to fling off the condensation. And when you have four Firefox windows open with a minimum of five tabs in each - one bookmarks folder each for ( Read more... )

I have a front row seat to the roaring Mig 31s that have been doing practice runs over Dataran Merdeka. I love jets, I used to love 'em to bits as a kid. Not sure why I never wanted to be a pilot so I think it might just have been gadget envy. Oh yeah, afterburners ( Read more... )

The axiom of tackling the easier problems before the harder ones doesn't apply in the support line. While we can prioritise personal tasks and delay those that need the least attention till later, all cases in support are of equal importance and have the same objective. Fix the problem, address the issue, get what the customer wants. So the one ( Read more... )

I'd always thought that Curacao was some place in South America. Must've gotten it mixed up with Caracas in some Freudian pattern recognition slip ( Read more... )

Two weekends ago I drove down to Ipoh with jaclyn on a day trip to attend her extended family's reunion dinner. It was multinational. Literally. There were Americans, Germans, Ceylonese, Indians, Chinese and North Borneans. Make that just the one North Bornean. Quite a bit of an eye-opener, since my extended family is quite the homogenous norm ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to write this post for at least two password expiry resets.  I'm not sure how many = signs I can append to my work login password that I can remember, but it now numbers three.

Suffice it to say, I've been contentedly going about daily matters.  Working long and hard.  And filling time away from work with all things needed to ( Read more... )

How the hell could they confuse a VW beetle with a bloody Camaro?
That and many inconsistencies says that Michael Bay is full of shit. ;)

But the special effects alone were well worth the effort.

It's almost surreal being here, almsot free, almost idle, while everyone else toils away at the daily grind of work. 'Course, I should be studying (and I most certainly will be) for my exam tomorrow but I think I shall take in the complimentary day of study leave that I have today. 5 days exam leave and 10 days study leave, in addition to my ( Read more... )

Australians are a laidback bunch. I've already had 3 of my customers go away on holiday in the middle of a case and a good barrel-ful of them are content to let a case stretch for days on end, working on it a bit at a time. I've even had one tell me he'd been drinking the night before and if I could call him later once his mental facilities ( Read more... )