Robbie CD sampler... yay :P 

Mochi... yum :D 

So what did I do today... oh yeah, nearly fried my brains because I used it to sponge up every bit of information that was thrown at me. Of course, I've progressed to be actually doing something i.e doing the 'repair' and 'pack' stages. But then, I have this nagging feeling that if the guy wasn't watching over me... I'll probably be helpless... so I need to remember a lot of stuff...

On other news, my Robbie CD arrived. Yay. :D

And I was eating some mochi. Yummy :D

And hopefully I won't die (with the A/C on full blast) in the 42 degree heat.

Sydney Metropolitan Forecast

Sydney Metropolitan Forecast....

ITS GONNA BE 42!!! Hopefully nobody'll die.

Hot...

It was around 36 outside today... while I heard NZ was a comfortable 8. NOT. Thats quite a difference. Of course, they have a mountain that's still got snow... and we don't have any mountains that have snow now... so yeah... a big difference in temperature, even though both are southern hemisphere islands, separated by a few hundred kms.

I woke up at 2pm... thats after going to bed at 2am. So hot it was. Hopefully today it'll be cooler today. But yeah, yesterday it was frigging hot... the washing machine was fixed, I hung the clothes after 'breakfast', parents were out to meet the 'future in-laws'. At the rate they are going... yeah... they came back about 3:30, and they already had lunch... so I had some water legs for 'lunch' at 4.... and of course, dinner at 7:30. I'm just such a machine. No wonder I'm fat. :P Anyways, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was on tonight... watched that, and then switched between that and Total Recall... but I spent more time on TR because I just love it more than HP... Arnie's accent is still funny... :D

I am still playing NFSU2... its an addictive drug. And since its such a easy game to play, I don't even need to cheat.

Listening to the ED song for Mai-Hime, and ED song for School Rumble. Both are good... recommend them both highly :D

D'oh!!

Rant...
Damn him to hell. David, who is in a high position, has (ab)used his power and scored some 19". Who the hell wants 3 19" at once, I would like to know. He basically bypasses the purchase chain and all the hard working grunts who put the order before him gets pushed aside. So I don't have a 19"... for now. But when the opportunity comes I will get one. :P

One of the guys who does our QI decided to call it quits after a few years. Traditionally, we have a free lunch for the departing. This time it was pizza. Except that with around 30 hungry stomachs, the one who ordered the pizzas only ordered... 5. A measly 5. I can practically finish a pizza by myself. And you got to think either the budget is wrong or something got miscommunicated. 5 Pizzas between... 30 people? By the time I got there, there wasn't even a crust left. So I got to go to the local food shop... and boy was it packed. I didn't realise how many people was actually still hungry, so I only got 2 orders of fish and chicken... turns out only some people were still hungry, so yeah... lucky? But still, its a very bad company... :P

Also we were meant to have a dinner for the QI, since he's one of the service guys. Except that the organisation went downhill, so its been cancelled. So, I got home around 7:30 because we did some OT. Bloody parts. Stupid Product Specialist. Product specialist my ass. Who the hell is dyslexic enough to make a "61.k0810.001" confused with a "61.k0801.001"... It just means that there's more work for us. And more $$. Bring on the OT, baby.

Gaming...
And Need for Speed Underground 2 simply... ROCKS. (Addicted to it... -_-... Need to break my addicition... -_-).

Listen to..
"Twista - Sunshine" is a nice RnB song. "Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning" is a nice remake...

Hmmm

Today, didn't go in to service engineer... simply, there is too much shit going on in the warehouse... lots of stuff going out and stuff... so yeah... I won't be going in tomorrow either... since our supervisor will be taking one day off. So it'll be me and colleague, plus another casual. The funny thing is, this casual actually taught my colleague and he's forgotten how to process the stuff that comes in. Its only been 8 months ago! Well I guess its easy to pick up... If only that life was simple. But its not...

CSI: New... I mean Miami, the cross-over between Miami-NY is alright I guess. I actually missed the first couple of minutes of the show because I've been slowly addicted to Need for Speed Underground 2. Needless to say... its a DAMNED GOOD driving game. Fun and runs at a nice pace on my crappy machine.

I'm officially poor now. No money on hand, and not much in my account. Sad. (Just got myself a 19"... plus a dodgy mp3 player for my bro. And some blank media. :D) Oh well... a few hours of OT should cover some of the expenses. Not that I have much of a life, so its all good...

Damned supervisor. :P

My Duality

I went inside to help the service engineer for the day... And my head is ready to burst. There are so many ways to process stuff... its just that if I was to be trained for a week and then he's off to holidays... I'll be pretty much struggling. But hey, its not my official duty... I'm still just a lowly wage slave in the warehouse... I wouldn't be getting extra pay for this... so yeah... It'll be good experience. Plus since I knew 1/2 of what he was talking about, so it shouldn't be too hard over a few days... But the bad thing is... I still get called out now and then just to help in the warehouse because of stuff in there... So I'm sorta like doing 2 jobs... or will be when the time comes for me to take the chair for a few weeks... ah... the drama :P

WTF... Who's copying who?

I just got informed on S.H.E having a new album ("Encore") out. And then I was listening through it, and then... WTF. Who's copying who? Track 3 (Don't say sorry) is the same melody as Britney's "Everytime". I wonder if u can copyright a melody... or something to that effect... but its rather weird isn't it.... :P

Matrix :D

Yahoo! Australia & NZ Movies - Yahoo! Australia & NZ... Wow... I want~~~... But its about $140 - $160 with the caddy... :((

Sunday

Mum's been slaving over the stove today... since my bro and his gf came back and had dinner. Thats the second time now... Pics available on my Wretch. On other news, watched some CSI and Cold Case (yeah they had a special today) at night, and "Without a Paddle" in the afternoon. Needless to say, its very stupid, and should be seen by people who are drunk or something. Otherwise the cringe factor will be VERY HIGH. Its like "Road Trip"... misfortunes and adventure galore. Ok for a rental movie, at best. I still wanna see National Treasure, with Nicolas Cage. Looks to be an interesting action adventure movie too. Anyways, go see my wretch to see what I had... 10 of... (wrapped...).

Wasssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!! :P

(waaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!) :P

(Yeah I'm nuts.)

Review: House of Flying Daggers

It is an alright movie. 'nuff Said.

Actually... I can go on about many points of the movie, but I prefer not to. Instead, I shall cap it in words. Incoherent words.

Movie starts: Um... theres no English translation! WTF??
Dancing Girls: Teehee we're pulling on a rope with wine in the middle. WTF?
Andy Lau: Hey I'll make the Blind girl play the 'Echo Game'. WTF?
Drums: WTF?
Drowning girl: okie... she didn't die?? WTF???
Escaping with girl: um... ok... badass soldiers... WTF!!
Arrows: Cool. Except bro comments that its impossible to shoot with the arrows on the wrong side of the bow...
Guys hit with Arrows: Um... they just hit our clothing, but we jumped into the air and looked like we died... WTF??
Field of Cotton: Ok... WTF... HIS ASS! ITS BEEN CHOPPED! WAHAHAHAH!!! And he's still hobbling around like he doesn't have a problem with his ass!
Plot thickens: Yeah... WTF is going on...
Escaping into GREEN BAMBOO FORREST, while wearing complete GREEN: WTF??? THESE GUYS CAN DO ORIGAMI WITH BAMBOO!!! Some really 'holy f*ck' sequences in it...
Flying Daggers: Ok thats just... WTF is that supposed to be.
Fake Flying Dagger: Yeah... we knew ALL ALONG SHE'S NOT THE ONE! Stupid script :P
Love Interest: WTF... guy takes a dagger into the shoulder and doesn't even hurt... tough guy.
Love Triangle: Other guy is released and they make out in very tall grass... WTF.
Escape: Nuh-uh... you can't escape. You have to get a dagger into ur heart. WTF? Still alive after that??
Battle: Snow doesn't come that fast. And thick. AND WTF, she's STILL ALIVE! hahaha its getting better and better. Fight scene was like street fighting... Mad and violent. And then it ends.
End: Ok... its a sad ending. But still doesn't explain WTF happens to the guy. I suppose it does. BUT WTF ANYWAYS! :P

As you can see, I don't really know WTF this arthouse film is supposed to represent, but its alright watching. Better than Hero, thats for sure.

And thats the end of the review. Thanks for reading my review. I hope u can go WTF when u watch it too :P

Hmmmm...

You know whats so good about the weekend? Knowing that it will come. Yes, TGIF. Finally the order of mice and media came. Its pretty expensive, but then again, its all financially controlled. I finally got in to work with the service engineer. Just to upgrade some firmware and then to repackage boxes. Not too bad, its a start at least. The weather's been undecided lately. First very hot, then humid, then rain, then hot, then god knows what else. Its very undecided. Lucky I didn't have to worry too much, since I was inside, where the temperature was a nice 19 or so. But I did have to go out to the warehouse to do some stuff... I'm just 'in training' for a little bit. But I'm just a lowly paid warehouse guy. Anyways, nothing else is interesting... the mouse is very smooth, not bad at all. Just erratic jumps now and then, but I think thats because my mobile is very close to it. After moving it away, its very good. I think I wanna get a bigger monitor, but then, I don't know what I'll be doing with it. Its only a monitor afterall. I think my brain ain't functioning so well. There's a competition on promosquad (www.promosquad.com.au) that I applied to, for Robbie William's "Radio" single CD. It happens at 10am right. And then guess what, I emailed them at 10:01:45, and then a couple of hours later they say I've won a CD. EXCEPT the Promosquad website doesn't list me as a winner. I got jipped. Oh well... not that I can't just go and download it :P

I'm back from the brink... of non-bloggingness.

I haven't blogged lately... I just get home late, and then watch tv, or just don't feel like blogging. Not that I haven't had much excitement. Far from it. For example, I went out to have dinner with 3 other guys and one gir this eveningl. The girl is from Taiwan, she's an Auditor. The guy who 'called' us out to have dinner (it was just decided this arvo actually) is one of the finance guys who had the (un)lucky task of showing her around after work. Actually, showing around is probably not the right word, since u know how Sydney is... pretty much dead after 8pm... but ok on the weekends. But she was pretty tired on her first day arriving here. And she'll leave on Sun. But anyways, we had dinner at a restraunt in Beverley Hills. Yes there's a Beverley Hills in Sydney. Its pretty busy there, the restraunt we went to opens up to 2am... quite impressive. Seafood restraunt, its not bad, but I was allergic to the lobster... *shrugs* I know I get allergic to crustaceans. But I didn't have too bad a reaction, so I didn't eat anymore just to be safe. It was pretty awakard at the dinner. 3 Guys who were speaking mostly canto, and 2 people who don't know any canto to save their asses in Hong Kong. So yeah... we were trying our best to chat to the girl... but still it was funny. Not too bad an evening. Best of all, the guy paid for us all. Well he has to shout the girl because she's the auditor. But since he asked us to be 'company', I guess we can eat a 'free' dinner.

Anyways, I had the interview (5:45pm - before the dinner). I didn't think I made too much of an impression... So I don't expect to get the job. But if I do, I know for sure I will have to work a lot harder. The job is very much the 'gray area' that most of the other service guys don't wanna touch. So its very demanding.

Yesterday, some damaged 19" LCD were available. So me and colleague snapped them up. :D

Yesterday I was meant to have the interview, but the guy (who I can call the 'supervisor's supervisor's supervisor - sss for short) ran off thinking the interview was on Wed (today). So I didn't do the interview, but OTed. And then watched CSI, and Cold Case. Both are pretty good. But tonight I came home just before CSI:Miami finished (9:30pm). So didn't see it tonight. Not to worry, its not the end of the world. CSI: Miami will have a 'run-in' with CSI: New York on Sunday I think... so I'll watch that instead.

Monday... I was pretty unsure if I'll do well for the interview. But now I guess I don't need to worry. Since they filled the QI role... and the only role left in Service was this. So I guess I am alright in that aspect.

Tomorrow. I will buy 4 mice. 3 for my bro, he wants them for his friends, and one for me. I deserve it. hahahaha :P And then I will also get some media. Ran out, but will get more... :D

Life is ok.

Well well

Well... The DVD drive actually burnt today. After I removed the 'imapi' service. So hopefully its just a software fault. On different news, bro came back today with his gf, since his gf doesn't really wanna live alone in a big house. needs companionship. so he's been there all week. Back for today. Had a big dinner. Then they went back to her place. Maybe he'll be back next week. Or something. Once every week. Till her mum/dad comes back or something. if not, I think he'll be permenantly housesitting with her. Also he tried out the new speakers my bro bought yesterday. The Juster 501. Its very lame, compared to my 3D-602s. Mine was only $10 extra at $40, and with that extra $10, you get 500W extra. Of course, its just a mini sub, pumping out 500W PMPO of goodness. Mine is 1000W PMPO. And its extra table shaking goodness. Didn't watch anything today... but did convert an video from OGM into MPEG2, ready for DVD-Authoring. Now just finding a cheap (i.e free) DVD-Authoring program... not easy. Converting the video took around 5 hours... kinda alright for the speed, because it was a 2 hour movie...

Arrrr... dreading what I would have to do for work tomorrow. Laters

PS. 3 new pics. Yes, count them. 3! New pics in Wretch. bwahahahaha. I need to go out more with my camera.

Pissed OFF...

Far out... Made 7 coasters today. My bro bought a new drive today, a 160 Gig SATA HDD for around $170. Plus a 2.1 500W speaker set for $30. Anyways after installing that and then setting it up, formatting it. We find that there is a problem with the DVD burner. It doesn't wanna burn DVDs anymore. 7 times I've tried, each dying at different stages! WTF!?!?!?! It was perfectly fine for about 10 discs! AND IT BURNT TO CDR(W) media properly between the 7 discs!! So u can see I'm not happy at all. Anyways, this morning I was meant to go take the car for a checkup, but I SLEPT IN. 11am I woke up and went... oh... hmmm... ok can't go now its a little too late. So anyways, the car is a little better with the engine tuned higher. Cos I had to drive around to pick up my dad, who incidentally was calling alot of times just to get picked up at a train station... I didn't quite know what was going on, but then again, my mum and bro was out shopping elsewhere. So as soon as they came back, I went with mum to pick him up. Needless to say he wasn't happy. My bad. But mum said that he was gonna call without $$. To me, thats not calling. Calling without money is to diall 1800-REVERSE on the fone. Anyways, thats over. The afternoon I watched Bleach, and evening I watched Iron Chef, and Genshiken. Genshiken is funny I guess... Bleach is a little better than Genshiken. But they are different genres. Ok I'm not too happy right now, having wasted over $5 in blank DVDs. -_- Nites.

Whats a guy to do...

I feel I'm in a bad position. 3 guys want me. Not in that way, of course. But I just feel that I shouldn't be in this situation. Why? Supervisor, Supervisor's Supervisor, and a service engineer all wants me to help. Supervisor naturally, since I'm in the warehouse. SS, because there's two positions open. He prefers somebody internally than externally. Then Service Engineer, (SE) because he's going on holidays. I will do 2 weeks of training with SE, and then he goes on hols for 6 weeks. Then I will be handling his job for 2 weeks. Well, maybe 50% of his job. Since I have no idea wtf. So yeah... after that, its probably move time for the company. And then I don't know what the hell... if I'll be in service support or not... geez I hate this position... Especially when Engineer goes on hols, my current supervisor will go on hols soon... and then who'll manage the warehouse? I don't know what will be the deal... shit its all going crazy. Also I'll be having an interview next week for those two open positions. If I don't get it, hey its no biggie. I just sit tight with the warehouse job till we move, and see what happens after that. But if I do get the support role... They will have to find somebody for warehouse as well as my colleague, since thats why my supervisor goes on hols... I guess I'm just repeating myself cos I have no idea what I'm doing... blah blah blah. And somebody is an expert in Nero now... I guess I don't need to teach them anything in Nero. I am so good a teacher? Nah, they are just very smart. Can burn before I said anything apparently... so I guess I can shut my mouth about it.

I'll be taking in the car today... its now 1:04. And then go with my bro to Cworld because he wants to get his HDD... then he will have plenty of space to store the crap till we get more blank media. Yay :P

Hmmm.....

Its another one of them "hmmm' days. (You know, things that make you go hmmm... CNC music factory). I got up usual time, found out mum had not woken up. Then she wakes up because I was having brekkie. I'm a little noisy in the morning. She was late already, so I gave her a ride to Regents Park station. Think she made it alright. Anyways, got to work plenty early. And seems like not many people there. But they came back from doing a show up in Brissie. Work was alright, colleague came back today, so it was pretty easy going. I had cold noodles today, so nothing concerning Kitty. And there are new (well fairly new) employees. One is called Carla, the other, I don't know her name. But they are very pretty. The other one is short, my colleague think she's cute tho... I think she has a tattoo on her arm... a big one. Very tanned. Even my supervisor calls them Leng Lui... canto for pretty girl. They came down to get some promo stuff or something. Anyways, a little bit after lunch, my SS walked by with a bunch of papers, and says that I was the most suitable. I don't know if I'm suitable, but that pile of papers look very thick... I have no idea if I'll be getting that job or not. Anyways... the service engineer also pulled me aside.... and says that he would prefer me to take over this job for the few weeks that he'll be on leave, rather than to train a casual to take over... yeah the same casual from yesterday. So it seems like everybody wants a piece of me. Well, I would love to, but if I left my current position, hell will break loose. Especially if in the timeframe that my supervisor leaves for his holiday... and then just me and colleague. And then I go to do the frigging service engineer's job. Or is that before supervisor goes? ah I don't know. All I know its gonna be work work work.

My mini-server had a problem with bittorrent remaining in memory after I stopped the file. Anything I started up had a red error message. So I simply turned it off. Came home and bro turned it on. No biggie, just 8.5 hours of downloads not done. Prefer if it all got done but. And then it starts raining and thundering and lightning. And both me and bro's computers rebooted because of a power cut (not surge). The cut was probably about .01 of a second, cos the mini-server didn't reboot. Its because it has a powerpack, and that produces remaining power to a low-consumption mobo. That was good. But since our computers with bigger wattage needs power more, they rebooted. Lucky I wasn't doing anything important. *phew*. Now its still raining cats and dogs, but no reboots. Yay.

I watched "The Incredibles" tonight. ITS DAMNED GOOD. I really LOLed a couple of times. Pixar is really good, they have quality crew. Humour is quite good, the rendering is great, action is excellent, and well, its a very enjoyable movie. The Incredibles as a family is very funny. I love the movie. I even told my bro that I am considering getting the movie when it comes out on DVD. Like actually buying it. :P But then again, I guess its better to watch it on a big screen. A definate thumbs up from me. And thats my movie review for tonight. Laters. TGIF!

Blergh

I'm just in a shitty mood. I don't know why... maybe its because I had to practically do everything today, without my colleague there. And of course, my supervisor being the supervisor that he is, can't really help out without making alot of mistakes, because all that he has been doing was paperwork, and thus doesn't know the status of the spare parts. He couldn't find some parts because the box was partitioned in half. Me and colleague, we would know to look behind that partition. But he actually went to his paperwork and said... 'hey there are 2 left... where are they' and by then I already walked into the cage, pulled out the box, and the part, and left it on the table. I was a little stressed because I had about 10 stuff to ship out, and each one takes about a minute to do. 10 minutes, easy right? Except I had to do other stuff at the same time as well. Such as look for some parts. I was getting stressed, but hey, I finished on time. Besides, the courier companies always comes late. So its all good. Now it doesn't seem like I will be going into the service as support anymore. Why? They've hired a casual called Jimmy. He looks like he's still a high school student. Except that he's actually worked here before, way before my time. So I guess he's either a working kid, or a uni student who just looks short and young. Either way, he was taking apart some units. So I guess he's done this kind of job before. Anyways, the car still has problems now and then, but I had it tuned up (I can't remember if I blogged that). But still, I don't know if its my mind playing tricks on me, but I added petrol just yesterday, it went past the 1/2 mark on the dial. Today it was already 45%. :O I didn't think the car ate that much fuel in one day... it usually takes me about 5 days worth of driving to and from work to reduce it down to about 25%-30%. So I don't know why... But its still managable. Will get the car in for service on sat I guess. If the fuel-line is busted, there will go more $$... Guess we should start considering getting a new car huh.

CSI was ok, for both nights. Tonight had an argument with a friend. I wonder if I should stop blogging for good. Or maybe getting online just to surf, and not to chat. Everytime this subject comes up they have to say something. I don't know why.

Anyways, tired. Pissed off and starting to get a headache. All is well I guess in my life...

Dull

I think its been a very unproductive day today (for me at least). Woke up, had brekkie, drove to work (still need to get the car tuned up... the revs really suck (maybe I'm losing a cylinder or something... feels no power in the acceleration...)) And basically did the usual. Except that alot came in today, it being a Monday. So, time flew by REALLY quickly. Before I knew it, it was already 12:30. And then colleague went to get lunch, supervisor went upstairs to microwave my and his lunch, and when he came down, he told me that Kitty said that it would take her 3 days to eat what I had for lunch (come on its only 3 bowls of rice + some vege/meat). Well good for her. I need energy, since I do alot of moving around in the warehouse. Unlike her, who sits and chats all day on the fone. Anyways, colleague with a broken foot was doing spare parts all day because he's trying to recover, and I forgot to do the shipping out for one of the engineers. Plus the pickup guys (both of them) were LATE. Like 30 mins late. It being a Monday must have caused some major traffic problem. But anyways, I OTed 1 hour today. Because SS asked me to. Its not like a offer that you can't refuse, but hell, I've been doing alot of OT recently... Might as well earn some extra dosh and see what I can spend. Probably not much, since its only a few hours of OT anyways. Got home, and its a dark sky... so I feel like a moody complainer.

An update on the situation with my bro... he sent me a msn message just then... and said that there's a get together arranged by his gf... blah blah blah. Dude, I knew already, whats the frigging deal. I said no, and he just can't take no for an answer. So I just said that he's a retard, and thats the end of that story. I don't wanna go meet any new girls just because my bro/bro's gf wanna play matchmaker. Thats the end of that story. (I guess I'm a strong believer in fate... if I have to be introduced to a girl... that means thats not fate. Therefore, its forced :P)

Do I look tired? :P 

I'm SJB! 

Bender 

Money Spender...

I've just spent $99.00 on my mum's credit card. For a 512mb SD card made by Lexar. Hopefully its worth it, and won't get lost. If it gets lost then I'll be pissed. Why did I go for this option? Because its one card for $89, inc GST. If I got 1x 256mb and multiply it by two, it would be $110. Then add on the freight, quoted at $10. ($10?? Not bad. Last time online shopping they quoted my delivery at $15... booo). $120 compared to $99. I think it should be good. I can apparently take 222 pics at 5mp quality with my camera if there is a 512mb SD inserted. If I had a 256mb, it would only take 105 pics. thats 210 if I went the dual 256 option. Where did the 12 pics go?? :O Weird... It also means that now I got a 512mb DDR ram on my machine, and soon I'll have 512mb SD flash memory in my camera... can't wait :P No more taking 20 pics and then 'out of memory' :P Hell I get more with a conventional camera (24 exp or 36 exp) :P

On other news, I've watched the 13th ep of Elfen Lied (End). Its a mysterious ending. Did Lucy die? And the visitor at the end, were they out to claim the grandfather clock? I have to wonder if they'll make a OAV or something... Of course, Nana is alive, Evil Girl + Director gets blown up, and everybody else involved dies of 'vector' manipulation. Kouta will marry the girl, and all is well. Then what... What was the point of that evil guy taking off his wig and saying that he's a diclonious (sp)? Too much storyplot left hanging.

My bro went out in the morning and came back later on. Gave me a empty box. WTF @_@. He goes 'you can now make your own Vulcan 300'. Ha ha. Yeah, its a empty box of 'Pocky' If you don't know the reference, you need to go watch Konjiki no Gash! more :P I guess I should take a pic with my Bender doll. :P

I found somebody got married last month and they didn't tell me about it. This was after they asked me to check their SOP. What is a sop? Son of Peach? I had no idea until they told me it was 'Statement of Purpose'. They were doing a PhD in the states and then asked me to check it because the Prof didn't think it was good enough. Then I discovered that they were married. Wow. Not that I talk to that person much, but hey, its like... huh u got married? And didn't tell me? Wah what kind of friend are u... and yet u ask me to check ur stuff... damn I'm being used... :P Guess I should go find a gal soon and get married... then people will either be A) shocked or B) indifferent. Probably B, since nobody really gives two hoots about me :P But then thats not fun, to get 'settled' just to shock people... is it? :P Oh well.

Pics will get posted here soon :P

tug-o-war

I'm not being fought over, but it does feel that there are two sides trying to pull me. One is my supervisor... the thing is, he doesn't want me to get into the service side. And with my colleague out of action with a busted foot, I am the only one there to do all the warehouse tasks with him. Then there is the problem of a service role which was vacant from today. The guy who got that full time position suddenly found a better job with better pay and resigned, in just two weeks. Needless to say the guy who hired him and his supervisor isn't too happy. So this is where I come in, supposedly. Except I have no idea if I'll be in that service role or not. And then there's the problem of one of the service engineer. He will take a holiday for 4-6 weeks. There is no time to find a replacement, so I might be the suitable candidate. Except my supervisor isn't too keen on that happening either. Sooner or later it will happen, and when it does, I can see my supervisor's a bit sour about it... I got that kind of feeling today when its just me and him doing stuff... seriously either that, or he's a bit slow to react to stuff. Like I already done something, and he goes and checks it and go... hang on, you did this already? huh why? and I'm like... yeah I did it, but you didn't know, so you had to go and re-do it again... waste time. Lucky there wasn't too many things like that happening. But I know how to manage my time, he doesn't. He thinks that you need a lot of time to ship stuff out. But when I did it with my colleague, we could do about 10 items in 15 mins. And I had about 2 hours to ship stuff out. With about 8 items. (total items today = 13... -_-). The other items came about 20 mins to the cut off time, so I did have to rush them, but hey, its not like I'm not unfamiliar with the stuff. Our supervisor haven't been putting spare parts in the cage for many months now (yeah thats why he's the supervisor... doesn't do the grunt work) and when he tries to help, he couldn't find the part. And I go in and I find it just like that.... So its better not to have him help, but its no use, he's the supervisor of the warehouse, and if he wants to help (and slow things down) then its his problem... anyways I just feel like bitching about it cos thats the state of mind I'm in right now... You can see that my supervisor doesn't want me to change, but he isn't able to prevent me... because its his supervisor that wants to put me into service... So yeah, he talks with his super to see if I can still be in the warehouse till next year... but they need to fill the position inside... so what the hell am I to do. I think leaving is a good idea... then they are all screwed. :P But I do wanna have a permenant job without the headache of choosing which side... or being used in a game of tug-o-war.

Now thats one expensive HDD!! 

I'm overworked...

Colleague didn't come today (expected). Colleague won't come tomorrow (unexpected). So, its just me and my supervisor, trying to make the warehouse work. It works. But its a lot of effort, especially when I'm doing all the stuff and he just... doing paperwork. Plus the talk of me going into service to work in one of the positions while that guy takes a holiday... his first in a few years. Then after that, maybe I'll be in another position. Who knows. Its a tried and true formula for previous people. They work, and then, they get sick of the work, and then they quit. I think I'm not up to the 'sick' bit yet... but I might get to that bit when my colleague doesn't come in for a long period of time... *sighs* its tough in this role. Also, today, theres a bird in the warehouse again. What makes them wanna come in, fly around in circles in the overhead beams for a few hours, and leave (when we let the roller gates up)? I don't know... nothing good to eat in here, except for some moths maybe... *shrugs*. I'm babbling. Time to sleepy-byes.

Yesterday

Yesterday, it was the day the nation stopped still. Well, most of the nation. The Melbourne Cup, this year sponsored by Emirates (planes). It was a weird day already... it didn't have to get any weirder. But it did. My colleague broke his ankle (yes it was confirmed today). It was his 'Lateral Malleolus'. Apparently its easy to break (think skiing). Its all red from internal burst blood vessels. But that was today. Yesterday, he went to go buy tickets at the TAB (www.nswtab.com.au) and when he got out of the car, he walked into a pothole. In the carpark. And he snapped his ankle. My supervisor saw him go down and didn't get back up... Apparently there was this brutal crunch sound... And of course, he was in pain. They bought the tickets to the races (5, 1, 3). And my supervisor drove back in his car, cos his ankle was really f*cked up. How bad? Where his ankle was, was the size of a big egg. It was that swollen. Pity I didn't have my camera handy. I don't think he took a pic either. But anyways, that was during lunch. So they found a bottle of ice in the upstairs fridge... and used that to shrink the swelling. Thankfully it did shrink, but he couldn't feel the ice at all on the lump... The big race was on... practically everybody (bar my colleague, one service engineer, and supervisor's supervisor, plus call center staff) was in the boardroom. 20+ people in there watching the race. It was about 3 minutes. And then the result was 5, 1, 12. If only my colleague and supervisor picked that, they would've got back $3,000+ from a $1 bet. If you bet $1 on the first four horses, going 5, 1, 12, 3 (yeah if 3 was the third place instead of the 4th place, the trifecta would've been less than $3,000), then you'd get back $39,4xx. Thats literally a car. The bookies lost big time yesterday, because of the 12th horse coming third. Why? They had him in 'place' (meaning if the horse gets either first, second or third place) at $22 per $1. Thats very distant odds. So it bumped up the trifecta and the quad results... Oh well... Me and the supervisor stayed in the boardroom for about 20 minutes, enjoying the free nibblies and alco... well, I didn't drink, but I did take 2 bottles home and took a pic of them with the other bottle still in the fridge (on my wretch :P). Then we were practically running on 2 guys because colleague can't really function at 100%. Needless to say we didn't get much done. On the way home, it was hot. I think either a elderly woman was suffering heatstroke or something, but I was turning a corner, and this lady was on the ground lying face up, with liquid on the ground near her head... and guys were standing surrounding her. And I was turning right, and the ambulance was nearby so they came quickly. About 500 meters later, there was the police and fire engines blocking a road, because of a house fire... So it was a really bizzare day indeed... When I got home I wasn't hungry, but I was playing with my camera. This time there was a Ladybug in the house, on the newspapers. So I decided to try playing with my camera again... Trying alot of shots, all failing because I don't know how to get the macro mode properly (I tried to zoom in and set the macro, but thats requiring 9 cm!! Thats still far away...) But I got some good sharp pics in the end ^_^v :P Then I went out and took some pics of the sky... think it was gonna rain... But it did rain only for a few minutes at around 10pm... so yeah... it was disappointing.

Today, this morning.

Went to work, colleague went to doctors, and supervisor had half a day leave after 12. We didn't expect my colleague to come back since he said he had a broken ankle and all... but he was crazy enough to come back after 2pm and help me ship out stuff. Thankfully he was able to help just a bit, because without him, I'd been stuffed... A lot of orders came in, and I was flat out trying to pack them up... but with him here, I could do all the packing and he can ship them out... So me and him did all the jobs and we left at 5:45... not bad considering its just us two... We were talking to SS and found out he was actually very good in basketball pre-uni. And he had alot of 'tao hua'... Since he was good in the basketball, and basketball is pretty well played in highschool in Taiwan, the girls know him but he doesn't know the girls... and he was saying that some girl (colleague at work) planned to lure him in a trip to Mt. Ali... but he didn't know she was trying, so he said ok, and didn't think too much of it... because his old home was near Mt. Ali... I just laughed and everybody else in the room did (me, colleague, SS, and another support guy). He obviously was oblivious to girls at that time (even his wife (before they were married) tried the 'oh I was supposed to go watch a movie with a friend, but they've cancelled, so now I got a ticket free... wanna come with me' trick... and he fell for it... ROFL!! He said 'well since its free!!' ahaha... funny. Anyways its a good day today... not too hot and not cold... just nice :)). And soon I'll be going to sleep cos I'm tired as all buggery... :P

Fooking tired...

I OTed again today... 1.5 hours... the 1.5 hours didn't feel long... strange. But when I came home... had some dinner, and just felt really tired.. like really tired... I think if I didn't muster up any energy I'd crash out and not wake up till tomorrow. But after a shower I'm feeling a little better... still, I'll sleep good tonight. Anyways, why did I feel tired? Because of the damed stocktake... From 9am - 7pm, with one hour break in between, all I did with my collegue was stocktake. We didn't leave the 1 meter x 12 meter enclosure more than 5 times in that day... just for a little break... otherwise its very bad, cos we were standing and crouching and straining our eyes just to find bloody parts on the list... in the end we did what we could... but I still think we did about 99% of stuff... why? because some items don't bloody match! Its very weird... some parts are there, untouched for more than a few years, but they just don't have the same number as the list... (how do we know they are untouched? Because the dust is quite THICK and it makes both of us sneeze/cough uncontrollably everytime we open one of them boxes... But its all good... Thats out of the way... for another year at least... :P Anyways coming home, it was raining, but the sky was still light grey... interesting... it was raining for most of the afternoon at work, but not at home... Dinner was ok... My bro didn't eat dinner either, strange. The other bro came home later and then asked if I wanna go to a crepe shop in the city because its new... I'm like... WTF? I don't go out to eat crepes... figures... they are trying to set me up with my bro's gf's friend's sis... the thing is, I don't know anything about her... all I know she's younger than me... well... you're either older or younger than somebody... but apparently she doesn't even get online... or something... *shrugs* I don't know... even my mum thinks I should meet her or something... I have no idea... but yeah... hows that for an ulterior motive... I'm not desperate... if I'm desperate I'll probably be out at nightclubs or something... but nah... I don't need to be in a relationship right now :D anyways, I'm hitting the sack... still tired... :P