Awww.... look at that silly grin! He's sooo cute!

Finally, a picture of my baby on my blog.

The end is NEAR!

Lord, with recent disasters here and there, then yesterday tsunami disasterin the SOuth Asian region that killed more than 11,000 people, sone can't help but wonder if we are living in end times... Hmmph, then this had to happened...


There was a ferocious storm outside the office today towards evening and with a mighty boom, the lightning struck something and the wiring tripped. Everything was pitch black and there were startled screams in the darkness. When the electricity was restored, everyone calmed their nerves and everyone started booting up their computers. I press the Power button and nothing. Geeze, don't tell me my CPU got fried?!! ALL my work!!! Gone??! Please- nononononononono....And when it successfully booted, the screen was blue and red and with stripes of black. I let it complete its scanning then rebooted again. This time it went into safe mode.I tried to change my display settings back to the originals ones but It. Just. Wouldn't. Change! I restarted it again and again after it prompted me to restart my CPU after changing the settings! It kept booting up in safe mode and when I changed the settings, it still remained the same despite it all. I was nearly ready to tear out my hair. The CTo was no help as he disappeared elsewhere. I was ready to tear hishair as well. I tried to fix the problem but this is no task for a non-IT service personnel. It's just so DARN FRUSTRATING that I can't fix this myself.

Since there were no one around to help me, I made some calls to try to find out what's wrong with my PC. Had to call a few people before I hit paydirt. Apparently my display card is attached to my motherboard and it prob got fried by the lightning strike, OR the monitor cable was the one who got fried. Don't know which is which and I can't open up my CPU to fix the darn problem. Lord, my eyes hurt using my PC in safe mode. I really hate this. It seems like everything on my screen is leaping out at me like a bad nightmare. All the pixels are in tiny X's with terrible colours - it's like being stuck in a cross-stiched world!

Let me outta here!!!

The frenzy continues before Christmas

It's amazing how many things a human can do in a day. The amount of work I finished this week truly boggles my mind. It like everyone is trying to get EVERYTHING done before their Christmas break. Everyone rushing everything, and I too got caught up in the frenzy. Of course I have reason to be frenzied too - they put me in charge of the company newsletter and it has to roll out by January.

I'm happy that my pile of 3 feet high of newspaper has dwindled to zip. *GRIN* That is at least a load of my mind and I managed to vet and photocopy four sets for out internal circulation. Phew. I was already late by one week.

One shining star in the very touchable horizon is that Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming! Hee hee... I know I don't celebrate it but I can't help being cheerful about it. And Erica the receptionist got me a very nice Christmas stocking, and she added a Chritsmas-Tree shaped body shampoo inside as a tiny surprise. It was certainly a pleasant surprise. =) Nancy also got me a nice gift.

Family's planning a nice dinner on the eve and I've just bought two fantastic reds to go with mom's yummilicious cooking. Hee hee... Zona and I took a long lunch to go to the Wine Cellar to get some nice wine for Christmas. Well, she went there with the intention to buy some... Me, I couldn't help myself. Come on, I was in a wine shop with an amazing selection of reds. Of course such impulsive behavior can be excused... it's wine for heavens sake. =P It's like citing the Fifth Amendment or something, with the clout to boot. WINE WINE WINE!

Plus the very nice woman, Noelle gave us a nice box for buying two bottles each. The box itself cost RM39.90 and it's a wooden box especially made for Wine Cellar's customers. I bought a bottle of South African Red that I'm dying to try out - Le Riche's 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot. If it's good, I'm definitely going back to buy a few more bottles to keep. You can check out the site at http://www.winecellar.com.my.

Yummy. ^__^

A bolt out of the blue

The last few weeks, as evident from the tortured postings in my blog, have been hell for me. The fact that I was continuously reliving each hellish incident did not help myself much. But something happened last week and I feel as though a great burden has been lifted. You see, I realised that all these weeks of torture and humilation is nothing as I've just been granted one of my wishes. During my review with my boss two months ago, I asked for more challenging rolls and guess she granted my wish after all. *laugh*

I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to do my papers - I've been allowing them to pile up to 3 feet high and goodness knows when I'll ever finish this never ending chore. But I do try to read them and get my circulation out to the bosses by Tuesday the latest. So there I was mindlessly photocopying the news articles when all of a sudden, out of no where, this thought "My job is more challenging now" hit me square on. I was stunned! I think I stood there a few minutes after the photocopy machine completed one cycle. I was so miserable before that I could not see or think straight. But with this new self revelation, I was sort of freed from my own vicious cycle. I was stunned and relieved.

Later when I told my Lee Hoon about it, I actually laughed about it. I felt that much less burdened.

So yes, my job is tougher now but at least I'm learning again instead of already doing a job that holds no mystery to me. I want to learn more to be good at my job, so much so that I'm willing to take some more crap from certain irritating people.

*grin* I wonder how long this feeling will last? *wink*