ridiculously expensive wishlist

As of now, I have two items on my wish list and together they cost close to $2k. Extremely material for a poor soul like me.

And well they are just wants, not needs and I can do without item A for a long time to come....item B I can do without too but I would like to have it asap for some practical reasons.

So that leaves item B! :)

I'll work towards it.

Sick at home

Had a really bad cough for the whole of last week and I thought I recovered by the beginning of this week cos the cough kind of subsided...but the first 3 days of undue stress did its toil on me and now I landed myself with the full package - flu+cough. And it was totally unnecessary but of course I can't predict the future else I won't have tried to work myself to death to meet with the unrealistic deadline. On Thursday morning, the client decided they couldn't deliver (and neither could we when we were the ones being pushed at the beginning) and they called off the interim 6 months audit...when I was already half-way drowning in my sections. Brilliant isn't it. So we packed up our stuff, left the client's place (the only good thing was that the place was just a freaking 5 min ride from my home) and went back office. Knew I would be arrowed once more and I was already too sick then, I told the AO I'm gonna take mc. For half of yesterday and today.

So here I am at home with my still-runny nose and a really bad throat. Watched 'Click' in the afternoon and it was just another typical feel-good family-man-has-it-all-but-decided-to-squander-his-life-away-with-a-powerful-remote control-that-controls-his-life-instead-of-the-other-way-round. Then he regrets but it still ends nicely cos right at the beginning, there was already a hint that this show ain't gonna end tragically. But boy would I love to have that remote. Ha it would be quite nice to mute my managers altogether.

Kill me already

I have been coughing non-stop. Especially in the early morning and nightfall and I am still drinking tea and eating spicy food. How's that gonna help? It was a sore throat that evolved into a whooping cough. I didn't see a doc though...the temptation to get an mc was extremely enticing. But I gotta save my mcs for rainy days. Sigh. So when I'm actually sick, I will live with it and drag myself to work.

This week ain't half as bad cos it was all brainless chores. Next week onwards I'll be complete dead meat. I'll know it once I'm at the client's place. But the prelude is hereby preparing me for the very worst. My first job as a second year assistant. Argh. Greater responsibilities with sections I have never done before. And not sure if there will be a nice soul to guide me should the need arise or I'll just end up screwing up the job. Lovely isn't it. Think inventory and deferred taxes. I was nodding off during trainings so kill me.

I can't believe that it was only last week that I was having fun in Taipei. It seemed eons ago.

Dead Man's Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has a rather unsatisfying ending. Never mind that I badly needed to go the loo plus enduring a cough that won't go away. However it was a good thing that channel five showed Pirates 1 as yours truly didn't catch it when it was in the theatres else I would have been just a little lost. As was my friend who missed Pirates 1 too. Johnny Depp was a joy to watch especially when he was uttering gibberish to a bunch of cannibals and fluttering those painted eyes of his. And of course the fruit fiasco where papayas, watermelons and what not were flung all over the place from what looked like a kebab stick with Depp stuck in the middle. Orlando was a doll as usual but Depp stole the limelight naturally cos he was simply too hilarious. And Keira Knightley got to smooch the two leads in this sequel. Lucky girl indeed


And I saw Spidey 3 trailer!!! I'm so happy since Superman was disappointing. I think I'll just end up comparing all such comic-related movies to spidey since I personally enjoy Spiderman alot and the others seemed to pale in comparison aka boring.

On the whole I enjoyed the movie although I found it a little too long, perhaps due to my uncomfortable state and also that ending (why?????). Do stay till the credits roll finish...and when is Pirates 3 coming?

Note: The middle portion are potential spoilers that might hurt your eyes as with the colour of the font.

arrowfied

I don't know why I kena so many arrows this week, okay in fact it started from last week when I was recalled back to work from my negative toil (which I rather work than take). I was pushed into a job that was half-done with alot of outstanding points. Furthermore I was the third person to take over the job and needless to say, I was totally lost on the first day, trying to grasp what the other people were doing before me and it didn't help that the senior was clueless about what her other assistants have done. Brilliant isn't it. This is all too familiar. I was doing it half-heartedly not knowing that I would kena direct review by the manager. Brilliant again for she raised her voice at me even though it was no fault of mine. It was only when I reasoned with her that she lowered her volume. Argh.

Midweek I pulled out of the job and thought I could breathe but NO, I kena some admin shit which was to update the soft copies of a dozen companies and also to zap the what-nots in the files. Might as well zap the whole file. It didn't kill my brain cells but it was very tedious. And very straining on my poor eyes. Thank goodness for the intern. I was quite optimistic and thought that we could finish all FY02-05 (three bleeding years' worth of audit) stuff by this week but turned out we couldn't. But it was thankful that the senior didn't insist else I foresee myself not going home tonight.

I'm so very tired. Perhaps I should have just taken mc on Thursday and give myself some well-deserved rest before I fly in some twelve hours' time. Gotta go try to make sure that all my stuff are in the luggage and dammit...I forgot to buy saline. Drats!

realism

I had an out of sort dream last night. It was all jumbled up with pieces of reality that I just had to blog about it. In fact it was a bad dream....

I dreamt I was at JJ's concert (which I will be going come Saturday) with my bag which had a spoilt zip (yes my handbag's zip is indeed spoilt). And during the concert in its dark setting, someone pinched my wallet, phone and this envelope which contained my Taipei air tickets (they are safely tucked in my drawer). When I realised this in my dream, I was so damn miserable and seemingly lost all interest in JJ who was prancing about on the stage very near to me. One day went by and I found my wallet emptied of cash and cards and dumped at my doorstep without the phone nor the air tix.

Stupid dream indeed. I guess I'm just stressed due to work, being the third person to clear the shit of two others who did it before me and not knowing where the heck the figures came from. In fact I did the whole job almost half-heartedly too...the drive just ain't there anymore.

recalled

I wrote a very pessimistic post yesterday and saved it as draft. Well I think I am not publishing that post...

Anyway, absolutely brilliant, I received a text message from the manager earlier asking (Note: Managers don't ask, you obey so basically that is a just a nicer way of getting things across) me if I could go back to help out with this job for the rest of this week. When I am supposed to be on NEGATIVE toil this week so Hooray, I don't have to subject myself to any more shit from this place. But there is still a very high chance of making me go on leave on the last week of June. Urgh.

rest

After almost religiously catching one match per day for the past few days, I'm not catching any matches tonight. Cos favourite few teams are not playing till the next match which is on Sunday 12 midnight - Italy vs USA. The last match that the Azzurri played...it was too late at 3am but anyway I'll be able to watch all (actually not all but selectively) the 3am matches next week. Why? Because I'm made to go on leave again...brrrrrrrrreeeeeegh. Stupid company and its even stupidier policies. I don't need to go more into this.

People are roaring around my neighbourhood. Must be a goal..ha.

Currently msn-ing with my CLIENT, oh my....she is super curious about my work life which is just about the last thing I wanna elaborate on a friday night. But it's better than she talking about work but I'm sure that's the last thing she wanna discuss too..Ha. It's AFTER office hours and normal commercial firms people do have a life. Unlike us. And also I have already pulled out of this particular job.

Another roar. Another goal?

Let's check the scoreline. As of now, Netherlands 2 Ivory Coast 0.

No wonder.

One can just hear the number of roars to know the number of goals.

Time for my beauty rest once again, goodnight.

England 2 Trini 0 (sweet relief)

I was starting to lose interest in the England vs Trinidad & Tobago match due to the frustrating nil-nil first half and a goaless second half still right up to the eightieth minute. Till Crouch finally struck in the 84th minute and Stevie wrapping up the match nicely with a late 91st minute goal. Both goals from Liverpool players. *beams*

Time for bed and I'm still slightly miffed over what happened in office today but no time for that now, sleep is more important.

geek talk

I am not done with this template but that is the best I can customize for now because I'm sleepy...I'm tired and I don't want to do anymore.

It is still pretty screwed up in the sense that my encoding (I don't know about yours) have to be repeatedly set to Unicode (UTF-8) in internet explorer in order not to have funny characters appear out of the blue in between my postings. And try not to view this in firefox cos it just plain sucks. The layout goes haywire. But at least my humble little blog looks more pleasing to the eye now and perhaps make me more motivated to blog regularly. Ha.

Spain 4 Ukraine 0. Yay. Although I missed the first 2 goals but was compensated with the next two. hee. :D

And yay again for both pairs of birks that I ordered have finally arrived..from Germany! I was beginning to suspect that the world cup has something to do with the delay shipment. Gonna collect them within these few days. WHee.

tae han min guk

大韓民國 ~

pronounced as tae han min guk in korean

The chant they led during World Cup 2002.

And once more 大韓民國 ~ :)

I actually went to google earlier about my lid twitching problem and the web results show that eye twitching is often caused by fatigue, stress and caffeine.

Erm okay, fair enough...I guess I'm usually prone to the above.

stop twitching

I'm not trying to be superstitious but lately whenever any side of my eyelid twitches, something goes wrong. The chinese have a saying about 'zhuo xiong you ji' meaning it is bad when the left lid twitches and it is supposed to be good when the right twitches. On the last two occasions that my left lid twitched, I received some shit news at my workplace. And on the sole one occasion that the right lid twitched, I punctured my palm with a puncher, in fact the two punch marks are still visible today.

And today it's the right lid!!! Wonder what self-inflict hazard's gonna befall me today or anything negative at all.....once again I'm not trying to be superstitious but I'm becoming wary cos of the above very unfortunate coincidences. And dammit it's still twitching!!!!!!

Regarding the Japan vs Australia match yesterday, have to give credit to Japan for their first half performance (despite the fluke goal). They maintained their possession well and did some beautiful passes and good defending. And for the other two matches, I only saw the first Czech goal and the Italian match was too late for me. Still debating if I should watch the S.Korea vs Togo match later (it's at a friendly hour) and 3am Brazil, arghhhhh.

soccer blues

I have decided that it's not worth my while to subscribe to the worldcup channels seeing that I can only watch perhaps 6-10 out of the 64 matches, after discounting the matches I don't wish to watch, the matches that are waay too late for me to watch, the matches that my favoured teams might not advance into....hmm there isn't really alot left. Furthermore I have the option of watching the matches streamed 'live' via the internet. Not that clear but pretty stable after experiencing the England vs Paraguay match.

Yeah, looking forward to full-fledged premiership action in August.

mid-week update

As at today, I'm definitely not plotted on the Tianjin job and of which I wasted one day leave next week trying to avoid this calamity. However from experience, calamities can't be averted just by taking leave cos leave can be cancelled involuntarily. But I should have known chances of me being sent there isn't exactly very high because firstly, I'm not the manager's pet. Mostly only pets get her job. Secondly, I'm perhaps the rare few without the overseas experience which I don't relish either. Seeing that my days in this department are pretty much numbered. Who gives a damn really?

On a different note, it's only the beginning of the month and I see alot of frivolous cash outflows that has already happened. Shopping both on and offline. Yeah so gotta curb that for the next twenty over days before the next pay check. Gotta save up if i were to go Taipei in August. :D

please don't let this happen

I'm so very afraid that I'll be sent to Tianjin on the second week of May!!!

OMG, please don't ever let this happen......I probably should have taken leave during that week. But I didn't want to waste my precious leave when I'm not going anywhere.

I need to cross my fingers.

unpredictable

Holidays are always too short. Came back to work on Wednesday and was immediately seconded out to another department. Seconded out indefinitely per say. Which is not exactly a bad thing considering how suffocating my unit can be. We are like caged animals under the close scrutiny of the monstrous management team.

So life now once again is totally unpredictable with me not knowing where I would be sent to each day. At least the people in the general department have something called a schedule of which I have never had. I even feel like a commodity for sale. Don't get me wrong. It's not a bad thing honestly. They can just second me till Aug'06. That would be when I'll pack my bags and go. Or even earlier.

On another note, Hong Kong was great. :) Unfortunately, the Easter sale didn't ease much of the expensive price tags. Not till the great HK sale in June-Aug'06. But still I spent quite a fair bit on footwear alone. :p

Next stop: Seoul. But whether I can successfully take leave in the late second half of the year remains a big question. And that would be dependent too on whether I'm still in the audit line.

Ha. Everything is so unpredictable.

rainy saturday

I looked like a corpse this morning.

After nursing a sore throat for the past 3 days and getting irritated over the slightest things over the past week, life hasn't been that good. That is an understatement because week in week out, I feel like crap too. That's my life for ya. So even when I'm flying to hk next week, I don't feel the excitement cos hello I'm sick.....and I really need to get well before I screw up my much needed hols.

Just like the way I screwed up the interview earlier this week. I was simply no match for the fresh blood. I think audit kills off creativity after a while. How embarrassing. I should not attempt anymore of this unless I'm fully prepared.

Currently chewing on a lozenge now and not wanting to pluck figures into the bloody audited combined.

That is not the way I want to spend my Saturday.

stupid blogspot

I have tried like 3 or 4 times to get a customized template in here but they have all failed. Each time I tried to insert the blogspot coding, something screwed up when viewed on ie. What is wrong? Anyway my patience is running low and it's Monday morning, meaning the whole bleeding work cycle is gonna repeat itself once more. I'll put this on hold till next weekend. If I'm alive.

I don't even know if I'm going HK anymore. Wails. *curses the hotels*

And currently suffering from goong withdrawal symptoms. Took me 24 episodes to realise that JJH is actually quite dishy. Oh well. Nowadays it's the fickle minded me at work. Whatever happened to My Girl's LDW?

it's been six years!

Happy birthday to you.

2000 - 2006. Wooh..six years since I have met you although I lost you somewhere in the midst.

Knowing full well that you'll never come back into my life again.

But it was good.

Happy birthday once again.

sad

I might be sleeping on the streets in Hong Kong. Hm, if given a choice, I think I'll sleep on the pavement at Paterson Street, Causeway Bay....

They did offer me a hotel in Causeway Bay but it's like a whooping $1k over per pax for the whole trip. Mad, mad, mad! No I don't need to stay in a four star hotel in the prime shopping districts. I just want jordan or the mongkok area but they are all fully booked?!!!! wtf! When I went online to surf those hotel sites, they are available with instant confirmations. So what the hell is the travel agency up to? This happened last year when I booked my Taiwan trip at Natas fair and AGAIN, Natas is really screwed when it comes to free and easy packages. What the hell....I'm not going to fork out that extra 300 bucks and reduced my shopping budget by the same amount.

So the alternative they offer me is some ulu hotel in the tsingyi region which is like freaking near to the airport and disneyland so you can very well guess, it's not within walking distance of any SHOPPING AREAS.

What about I just get the air tickets and book the hotel myself?

A much anticipated getaway is turning out to be a complete nightmare plus my neverending shitload of work to clear. Plus me going off early on Tue for that thingy...

Mucha hire purchase to amortize later.

My life is so sad.