Forgive me, Blog Father, its been 4 days since my last confe..... wait up, I'm not Christian... But I've been doing some bad things... like spending $$. This time, I've gone and got a webcam. Yay! Actually, I don't know why I got one... I feel stupid. But hey, if anybody wanna see me in a dark siloutte, feel free :D Installation was a bitch tho... I install the drivers, they don't wanna install. I plug the camera in the usb port, it won't recognise the camera. Then I figured that I need to plug the camera into a different port, not from the keyboard (cos that's sucking up power). Hey presto, it worked. And since its so nice and sunny outside, all I can see is my black head shadow, in front of a white background. Fun right :P All for $40. Plus its got microphone too... but... My MSN doesn't really like my computer net settings for mics... so will have to see what's the deal there.
Why did I go get the webcam? After getting the laptop, I feel that there isn't any more consumer devices left for me (maybe a palm/organiser, a newer mobile) but I think... I don't have a webcam. My 5mp digicam doesn't function as a webcam, so this el-cheapo has to do. Apparently it can do 30fps, which isn't too bad. 640x480 res is actually almost DVD quality. You think this is gonna make a movie? hahaha if I'm bored... maybe. :P But I had the opportunity to get the webcam cos our car rego is due... Jan 12. Green Slip (3rd Party Insurance) is the most expensive, and then Pink Slip (car mechanic check) is around $30... and then another license thingy costs more $$, but lucky my dad is a pensioner so don't have to pay that. But yeah, thats quite alot of $$ for a shitty car (more than $500). Also we finally took the car to a electrical shop, just to fix the blinking indicator. It blinks too fast cos there's a short somewhere, and it got fixed by the guy for $5. Thats good, now the light blinks normally... woo more spending... :P
After that, drove to the computer store, and also got a 20M Network cable for $23... which is 'ok' except that a 15m cable costs $15, and a 10m cable costs $12. Go figure. Also tried to get a USB Optical mouse for the laptop, and then finding out that the el-cheapo model I got WAS A PS/2. WTF... They ran out. -_-. So I guess I will give the USB to the laptop, and then use the PS/2. Aren't I so generous. :P Well, this computer is a heap of shit... I will upgrade it maybe in 2005 if I feel like it... if not, it'll suffice for another year... its already 2 years old... :P But its been upgraded with a *gasp* old Video Card, a new 512mb stick of Ram, and a *gasp gasp* 160GB HDD. Plus a plethora of LCD monitors, keyboards, speakers, DVD-Writerers, and power supplies. I really do think my computer is my gf... isn't that sad... :P At least I can use the comp for a long time... :P
2 more days till the new year. What resolution? :P
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Friday, December 24, 2004
Merry Christmas
and I'm a little poorer. Or richer, depending on the way you look at it. I just bought a laptop. Why? I don't do a lot of travelling. Or needing a laptop. But I got one. I guess the opportunity was too good to miss. Plus it was a staff discounted unit... sub $1000 (including GST). Cheap!.
I had that deducted from my salary, so yeah... I will be poor this coming pay packet.
And I lent my bro my digicam, since he is going on a week's worth of holiday down country NSW to Melbourne and back, by road. With his gf and some friends. So he should have plenty of pics.
Today was the last day (official) of work for 2004. There are three more days (29, 30, 31st December) but I think me and my colleague will not go. And our supervisor will be back before Australia Day next year. So yeah... it's just me and him... plus a few slow learning casuals who cause a little more trouble than expected. But they are learning, hopefully.
Ah holidays here I come. Well, I'm not doing anything exciting actually... :P So I wish anybody reading this a Merry Christmas :D
I had that deducted from my salary, so yeah... I will be poor this coming pay packet.
And I lent my bro my digicam, since he is going on a week's worth of holiday down country NSW to Melbourne and back, by road. With his gf and some friends. So he should have plenty of pics.
Today was the last day (official) of work for 2004. There are three more days (29, 30, 31st December) but I think me and my colleague will not go. And our supervisor will be back before Australia Day next year. So yeah... it's just me and him... plus a few slow learning casuals who cause a little more trouble than expected. But they are learning, hopefully.
Ah holidays here I come. Well, I'm not doing anything exciting actually... :P So I wish anybody reading this a Merry Christmas :D
Thursday, December 23, 2004
The power...
I write one simple sentence. Back comes a essay detailing the errors of that sentence. I am too tired to argue.
Today must be the most busy day I had in my entire working life. Which isn't saying much, since I hardly worked prior to march this year. Last of all, I did some OT. 2 hours worth. Stocktake, of course. Fun? Yeah you wish. Before that, I had to fix my supervisor's unit which he bought for his friend. After a month, the panel just... died. So I had to replace it. *sigh*... its like... why are the stuff breaking down at the end of the year? I spent about 2 hours on that. Before that, I had to ship out 27 units. Now that was fun. Can you feel the sarcasm oozing out of this page? I hope so. That wasn't fun at all. It took 4 days to actually get the bad units in, examine them, get new units in, examine them, put them through the system, and ship them out. I HOPE YOU BLOODSUCKERS ARE HAPPY! DAMN YOU! I am beginning to think that agreeing to help in the service position WAS A FU*KING BAD IDEA. 40 units and we've already got 8 units which are not 100%. Yeah... great... bring it on! I'm sick of it all. I should take a holiday, but since I am helping to pay off my parents mortgage, I can't go anywhere. Thats life I guess.
Good thing about tomorrow. We finish at 2pm. Yay.
Xmas break, here I come. :P
Today must be the most busy day I had in my entire working life. Which isn't saying much, since I hardly worked prior to march this year. Last of all, I did some OT. 2 hours worth. Stocktake, of course. Fun? Yeah you wish. Before that, I had to fix my supervisor's unit which he bought for his friend. After a month, the panel just... died. So I had to replace it. *sigh*... its like... why are the stuff breaking down at the end of the year? I spent about 2 hours on that. Before that, I had to ship out 27 units. Now that was fun. Can you feel the sarcasm oozing out of this page? I hope so. That wasn't fun at all. It took 4 days to actually get the bad units in, examine them, get new units in, examine them, put them through the system, and ship them out. I HOPE YOU BLOODSUCKERS ARE HAPPY! DAMN YOU! I am beginning to think that agreeing to help in the service position WAS A FU*KING BAD IDEA. 40 units and we've already got 8 units which are not 100%. Yeah... great... bring it on! I'm sick of it all. I should take a holiday, but since I am helping to pay off my parents mortgage, I can't go anywhere. Thats life I guess.
Good thing about tomorrow. We finish at 2pm. Yay.
Xmas break, here I come. :P
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Monday, December 20, 2004
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Shopping, anyone?
My SS gave me a gift... its a candle holder, with a small candle inside. So in order to repay his kindness, I went shopping today. I wouldn't really wanna get any presents, but its courtesy. So I settled on some choccies. They are more expensive (I hope) than his gift. And since he's getting a gift, I might as well get one for my colleague, and my supervisor. So they will get Cookies inside tins made in china. Cookies are made here in OZ. There isn't much activity today... being a sunday. But I thought it would've been more packed, since xmas is looming. But I guess maybe people are actually following advice and buying early. There was one thing out of the shopping trip. I was told to wait and sit on the bench, because we had alot of shopping already, and my mum wanted to go buy some fruit. And there was this cute chick on the bench. Wow that made my day. :P Too bad, I was only on the bench for a min or two... But not likely I would've expected anything to happen. She was playing with her mobile... probably waiting for her bf or something... haha I'm talking bs... but yeah... spent a few $$ today... :P
The weather was very hot... 30+ degrees in the morning, and then it stormed for about 30 mins. Then now, at 10:30pm, its nice and breezy. All is good :D
The weather was very hot... 30+ degrees in the morning, and then it stormed for about 30 mins. Then now, at 10:30pm, its nice and breezy. All is good :D
Merry Christmas?
Well... Christmas hasn't come yet. A few more days. But we just had our xmas party, held at Sebel Pier One in the city, near the rocks.
Saturday, 18th Dec.
Woke up at 11:30 or so... bummed around after 'breakfast'. Played some games, surfed, and the weather isn't bad. The party wasn't on till 7, but even then, I had better get out of the house before 6pm. Train journey + walk is around 1 hour...
I left the house 5:20pm... got to the station in 5 mins, but the next train was at 5:50... never fear... I had timed it well... got to circular quay at 6:40... and it took me about 15-20 mins to walk the street around the shoreline... making it perfectly 7pm. We had appetisers out on the balcony... and the sun was about 1.5 hours away from setting... From then, I think I realised that this party wasn't gonna be that much fun... Each 'section' of the company basically stuck within their own circle. Service in their own circle, sales in theirs, and management in theirs. Only circles which drifted was probably finance, and a few of them pic-snappers... One of them is Annie, she loves getting in people's faces and snapping. The other is Sam, and the other is Kitty. Kitty is an extrovert, she was the only person in the entire company to bring her own reindeer ears (like those hairbands thingys). Also another funny thing, Sam was driving along the road to the hotel, and who should be on the side of the road flagging him down? Kitty... I think something will develop there. :D Anyways, Sam actually dropped Kitty off first, (she was late, we were nearly going in) and then we went in, and then Sam turns up about 20 mins later... Parking's a bitch in the city... Seems like they are already a couple? hahaha... Anyways, the Entree was alright, really tiny portion... Duck on vermicelli (rice noodle)... the alternate was Prawns on avocado puree.
Main course was Turkey with ovened veges. Or Lamb with sauce. I had the turkey, it was very filling... My supervisor had the lamb, and that was also filling... The piece was as big as my fist... quite big.
Then there was the comedian... "The Doctor". I think I've heard 20% of his jokes before, but obviously the people in the audience didn't, or they were too drunk to notice... Good reactions, lots of funny stuff. 30 mins of material. And it involved music alot. Our table was beside a speaker... and I think if I was sitting 2 seats closer, I would've been deaf... it was that loud that one of the staff's partner had to go outside with their baby. It might've given the baby hearing damage if they stayed inside. Anyways after that, we had the prize giveaways. No surprises there, the prizes were won by upstairs people... Not one from downstairs. Damn them.
It was 5 prizes in total too. Miserly pricks.
Dessert was either pudding or jelly. I had the jelly... it wasn't that great -_-.
After all that, Karoke was the ending event. And dancing, which some people did do. But the Karoke was in the system of 'I sing, I get to choose the next person to sing.'... And guess who was chosen to sing after the second person? You guessed it, me and Sam. Hell no! Sam was already going home, to drop off our SS... and I went off with my supervisor plus two others... so, sorry mate, no singing for me tonight :P Maybe if my mood was better.
I can see that this event is pretty un-exciting. If they held it on a boat, maybe it would've been more fun, like chucking a few people into the water :P But otherwise, I think it was a 3.5 hours better off doing something I enjoy, like playing games... I got a lift with supervisor, and then got on a train home. The train took express route, but didn't go past my station. So I called my mum to pick me up... Ended up going home at around 11:50.
All I got from this experience was boredom... and sore ankles. I'm not used to wearing leather shoes...
But its free grub. So its ok.
The pic below should show you how bored I was. :P
Back to the grind...
Saturday, 18th Dec.
Woke up at 11:30 or so... bummed around after 'breakfast'. Played some games, surfed, and the weather isn't bad. The party wasn't on till 7, but even then, I had better get out of the house before 6pm. Train journey + walk is around 1 hour...
I left the house 5:20pm... got to the station in 5 mins, but the next train was at 5:50... never fear... I had timed it well... got to circular quay at 6:40... and it took me about 15-20 mins to walk the street around the shoreline... making it perfectly 7pm. We had appetisers out on the balcony... and the sun was about 1.5 hours away from setting... From then, I think I realised that this party wasn't gonna be that much fun... Each 'section' of the company basically stuck within their own circle. Service in their own circle, sales in theirs, and management in theirs. Only circles which drifted was probably finance, and a few of them pic-snappers... One of them is Annie, she loves getting in people's faces and snapping. The other is Sam, and the other is Kitty. Kitty is an extrovert, she was the only person in the entire company to bring her own reindeer ears (like those hairbands thingys). Also another funny thing, Sam was driving along the road to the hotel, and who should be on the side of the road flagging him down? Kitty... I think something will develop there. :D Anyways, Sam actually dropped Kitty off first, (she was late, we were nearly going in) and then we went in, and then Sam turns up about 20 mins later... Parking's a bitch in the city... Seems like they are already a couple? hahaha... Anyways, the Entree was alright, really tiny portion... Duck on vermicelli (rice noodle)... the alternate was Prawns on avocado puree.
Main course was Turkey with ovened veges. Or Lamb with sauce. I had the turkey, it was very filling... My supervisor had the lamb, and that was also filling... The piece was as big as my fist... quite big.
Then there was the comedian... "The Doctor". I think I've heard 20% of his jokes before, but obviously the people in the audience didn't, or they were too drunk to notice... Good reactions, lots of funny stuff. 30 mins of material. And it involved music alot. Our table was beside a speaker... and I think if I was sitting 2 seats closer, I would've been deaf... it was that loud that one of the staff's partner had to go outside with their baby. It might've given the baby hearing damage if they stayed inside. Anyways after that, we had the prize giveaways. No surprises there, the prizes were won by upstairs people... Not one from downstairs. Damn them.
It was 5 prizes in total too. Miserly pricks.
Dessert was either pudding or jelly. I had the jelly... it wasn't that great -_-.
After all that, Karoke was the ending event. And dancing, which some people did do. But the Karoke was in the system of 'I sing, I get to choose the next person to sing.'... And guess who was chosen to sing after the second person? You guessed it, me and Sam. Hell no! Sam was already going home, to drop off our SS... and I went off with my supervisor plus two others... so, sorry mate, no singing for me tonight :P Maybe if my mood was better.
I can see that this event is pretty un-exciting. If they held it on a boat, maybe it would've been more fun, like chucking a few people into the water :P But otherwise, I think it was a 3.5 hours better off doing something I enjoy, like playing games... I got a lift with supervisor, and then got on a train home. The train took express route, but didn't go past my station. So I called my mum to pick me up... Ended up going home at around 11:50.
All I got from this experience was boredom... and sore ankles. I'm not used to wearing leather shoes...
But its free grub. So its ok.
The pic below should show you how bored I was. :P
Back to the grind...
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Playing with the big boys...
Wee... now I have my very own 19" ... groovy :D This hasn't however made any dent in my pessimism. Company is asking me to check about 35 units to get 27 units without defects.. *sigh*. Lucky for me, another casual has joined the warehouse. Woohoo, he is fresh bait... but hey, any extra help is welcome. I get to 'boss' him around (actually I just tell him to do this and that...) and its not all bad... he helps to any extent that I think won't ruin anything... and then all of these past few days... I've been OTing like crazy. Today included... so yeah... would have another big packet next month I hope. After all, its the season to splurge. :P
Monday, December 13, 2004
Do you need assistance?
Well... I am providing it... for a short time only. I am now a temporary service engineer. Yay. Not that its anything exciting, since I still get my low wage. And then next week, when my supervisor leaves... GUESS WHAT. i'm doing two jobs at once! WTF... I'll be trying to solve the daily hassles of the service side, and then, I have to do the warehouse as well... I think I probably will die. If I die, hey, they get screwed, so its all alright. They aren't paying me enough for doing two jobs. Actually, I'm probably doing this service engineering job just to get the experience (can write some lines in the good old resume), and then when the company moves in the new year, maybe they won't need me anymore and then I can go piss off and do something, since its gonna be a year (shy of 3 months) that I've been a casual... About 8 people have been added in as permenant staff after I joined... and about 4 have left... so what about the service people... sigh... I guess I have to find another job if I wanna grow... :P
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Overworked?
You know when you're overworked when... you wake up around 8am and then you're trying to find the alarm button, except the alarm never went off and its a saturday. Well thats how it was. Its raining today, and it rained hard yesterday. On the way home. The washer blades were going full bore yet the visibility was very limited... 20 meters. But I made it alright.
Yesterday, my order came through. Big Fire Sale, I spent a total of $150 for 4 products. One DVD-ROM ($5!!!!), one DVD-Writer (DW822A... come on, its $35! :P), one Keyboard ($8... can anybody say "Hey thats so cheap!!") and a MP3. This time its a 256mb model. For $90. Yah, I think I did alright. I spent about 20 mins de-installing and installing the drives. And burned my first OWN DVD. It took nearly 30 mins for a full 4.5 gb going at 8x. So yeah, a bit slow on my machine, but hey, I can now burn... :D
Went shopping, got rice. Rice gets more expensive... strange ain't it.
Time to enjoy myself... burning stuff and then playing games. :D
Yesterday, my order came through. Big Fire Sale, I spent a total of $150 for 4 products. One DVD-ROM ($5!!!!), one DVD-Writer (DW822A... come on, its $35! :P), one Keyboard ($8... can anybody say "Hey thats so cheap!!") and a MP3. This time its a 256mb model. For $90. Yah, I think I did alright. I spent about 20 mins de-installing and installing the drives. And burned my first OWN DVD. It took nearly 30 mins for a full 4.5 gb going at 8x. So yeah, a bit slow on my machine, but hey, I can now burn... :D
Went shopping, got rice. Rice gets more expensive... strange ain't it.
Time to enjoy myself... burning stuff and then playing games. :D
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
2 more days -_-
2 more days till I am on my own... with 2 weeks of 'knowledge' imprinted onto me. So I am still learning. The new service co-ordinator guy is also learning. Learning that nothing goes right in the first few days. He has problems with his computer, then problems with the monitor, and then the monitor works elsewhere, not on his comp, then it doesn't work on another place, and then the other computer doesn't wanna scan, and then that computer doesn't wanna connect to the net. The list goes on. Sounds like fun, for the people looking at him doing practically nothing. And then I was doing my own stuff. And its like... so much stuff here and there to sort out, rather crazy.
The company has an advertising agency. This agency holds a xmas party for us, before the company xmas party. It was today. I didn't RSVP, since I knew that the bus was gonna leave at 5pm, and comes back after doing the city at 11pm. I don't think I wanna be around when I'm all hot and bothered, since I've been working all day, while the people who goes on the party bus are just sitting and chatting away all day. On the phone. But anyways, we still have to RSVP for the xmas party. I'll go alone, no partner. :D heheh sounds funny, but then again, its the sad fact.
I got a package in the mail today. Its a Magic Garden, a prize I won from listening to songs on www.promosquad.com.au . Woo. I'll be taking photos of it when I have time, or when my battery doesn't die on me like it did today. (Lucky I didn't go, otherwise my battery didn't hold any power and then I'm just taking a useless camera around... but I think many people took their cameras with them, just for fun... I will try to do that at the xmas party...)
Life goes on...
The company has an advertising agency. This agency holds a xmas party for us, before the company xmas party. It was today. I didn't RSVP, since I knew that the bus was gonna leave at 5pm, and comes back after doing the city at 11pm. I don't think I wanna be around when I'm all hot and bothered, since I've been working all day, while the people who goes on the party bus are just sitting and chatting away all day. On the phone. But anyways, we still have to RSVP for the xmas party. I'll go alone, no partner. :D heheh sounds funny, but then again, its the sad fact.
I got a package in the mail today. Its a Magic Garden, a prize I won from listening to songs on www.promosquad.com.au . Woo. I'll be taking photos of it when I have time, or when my battery doesn't die on me like it did today. (Lucky I didn't go, otherwise my battery didn't hold any power and then I'm just taking a useless camera around... but I think many people took their cameras with them, just for fun... I will try to do that at the xmas party...)
Life goes on...
Monday, December 06, 2004
Life goes on...
The position of 'Service Co-ordinator' has been filled. Not like I was aiming for that position anyways. Its now held by some guy, I hope he can last the distance. He needs to support the support, if you know what I mean. Yesterday (Sunday) I had a haircut. The pic is the result.
Today, I was helping with the outside (i.e warehouse) for most of the morning. Cleaning up the garbage from the Saturday cleanup. And then, they tell us to clean the downstairs 'power room'. Which me and colleague did. A lot of shit down there, I tell u. Half of them haven't been touched for more than one year actually. And its quite dusty too. We cleaned it up, and then a big truck came to take away stuff to be stored at the 3rd party warehouse. And then I had to load all the stuff we cleaned up onto the truck. And then guess what, we were told to go to the warehouse to unload the stuff into our container. What the hell??? We had to go, so we went. And we weren't paid extra, either. But its a huge warehouse, probably over 500 m long, and about 100 m wide or so. Its in the place where the olympics were in 2000... so thats why there's a lot of space. And its waterfront too. Well, the back of it is, anyways. After unloading, we got back, and had lunch. And then I went inside to help with the service engineer, cos there was 4 days left before he leaves, and he needs to impart all his wisdom of servicing the machines to me. The pressure is on.
Today, I was helping with the outside (i.e warehouse) for most of the morning. Cleaning up the garbage from the Saturday cleanup. And then, they tell us to clean the downstairs 'power room'. Which me and colleague did. A lot of shit down there, I tell u. Half of them haven't been touched for more than one year actually. And its quite dusty too. We cleaned it up, and then a big truck came to take away stuff to be stored at the 3rd party warehouse. And then I had to load all the stuff we cleaned up onto the truck. And then guess what, we were told to go to the warehouse to unload the stuff into our container. What the hell??? We had to go, so we went. And we weren't paid extra, either. But its a huge warehouse, probably over 500 m long, and about 100 m wide or so. Its in the place where the olympics were in 2000... so thats why there's a lot of space. And its waterfront too. Well, the back of it is, anyways. After unloading, we got back, and had lunch. And then I went inside to help with the service engineer, cos there was 4 days left before he leaves, and he needs to impart all his wisdom of servicing the machines to me. The pressure is on.
Saturday, December 04, 2004
Interestng
I just heard that there's a union between techno rock and rap. Linkin Park and Jay Z. And the song is "Encore/Numb". Its very good, who ever knew these two 'groups' can do duets? Album is called 'Collision Course'.
Mmmm OT...
I woke up 7am, got to work at 8am, worked my ass off for 5 hours, and got home and had lunch at 1:20. All on a Saturday. Am I crazy? Sure. I'm tired. I should be sleeping but I had a lot to eat (he fen) and now mum's cooking dinner, and its very strong garlic. Or was it onion. Anyways, I posted 2 pics of yesterday's RSL trip. And no, we didn't drink, our group was pretty well behaved, even with alcohol...
Threw away some stuff today. Like literally 2 bins full of stuff. Money wasters.
Last nite was RSL, full buffet all-you-can-eat (including some seafood) for $17. And you can buy a cup and refill-all-you-want. So I had three plates and was pretty full. Not bad. Even had a 4th plate full of dessert. For a moment I thought I was gonna throw up, but lucky, didn't. (Lots of chocolate cake... :P).
I'm tired now still for some reason. And wretch is down. Oh well. Wretch is unstable.
Threw away some stuff today. Like literally 2 bins full of stuff. Money wasters.
Last nite was RSL, full buffet all-you-can-eat (including some seafood) for $17. And you can buy a cup and refill-all-you-want. So I had three plates and was pretty full. Not bad. Even had a 4th plate full of dessert. For a moment I thought I was gonna throw up, but lucky, didn't. (Lots of chocolate cake... :P).
I'm tired now still for some reason. And wretch is down. Oh well. Wretch is unstable.
Thursday, December 02, 2004
testing...?
Um... does this work? *taps the internet*. I think it works. Well, it didn't work last nite. And now I forgot what I was gonna say. Needless to say, wretch is still down, so I can't post any pics. And then, what else. It was hot yesterday.. Maybe up to 40 degrees. And then today (Thurs) its pretty good, at around 25-35 degrees. But I spent most of the day inside, cos I was still learning how to do stuff. 5 more days left, since tomorrow (Fri) I'll be in the warehouse, my colleague will go to the 3rd party warehouse to do some QI. They haven't got the 'proper' QI guy yet, so some call center guys and now a warehouse guy will go over and 'write over some label with a pen.' Means I'll be all by my lonesome. With my supervisor. Oh what fun :P Anyways, I will have dinner with other guys for the departing guy (the one we were supposed to have on Tesday last week.. postponed to now) tomorrow. And its on the way home too! Yay :P But what was fustrating for yesterday and today was that the account of the guy who is departing was deleted without our consultation. It was basically the warehouse account, and now we can't log in to the computer. Which means 0 productivity. So we had to work our way around it.... -_- Which wasted 1 days work... Oh well... get paid for doing nothing is good :P
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