Life keeps on getting harder... I got to 'fix' 27 units through tomorrow... each unit is special... *sigh*.
bah.
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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