B.I.T.C.H.

What kind of colleagues do you have in your workplace? Those whom you form cliques and go for lunch together, those you complain to about your boss or those whom you meet up to go shopping even on weekends? For me, I don't make close friends out from colleagues. Maybe it's some kind of self-defense or you may call it, wary of others. Most of the things a working person talks about are related to work. You may not mind your friend from another company rattling on and on about her office flirt or that pain in the ass from her department. But, how can you stand listening to anything relating to work on the pathetic 2 off days?! Also, I cannot live my personality in front of my colleagues; I find it weird. Imagine one moment you are giggling over the hot bum next door and the next you are sternly discussing about meeting the next month target over the board meeting.... and the person whom you are questioning about the slow output is your "friend". There is a limit to how friendly you can go with a colleague.

I have this pair of colleagues in my department... both about the same age as me... different gender... both wear glasses... and both whom I dislike! They are always going for secret tea-breaks together, gossipping to each other and when the girl comes back to work on a quiet saturday, he would sit at another table (not his usual table) next to her with back facing each other and happily talking away, oblivious to the rest of the world. Sounds romantic right? Very sweet right? Happy for them to have found each other out of the 4.2 million population in the small office right? BUT... halt! The guy is married! And the girl is a religiously devoted person, or so it seems then. Is it utterly disgusting?!

One type of people in the workplace whom I detest are those with no email etiquette. Those who command people to do things without a word of thanks, those who have no manner to sign off properly or those who purposely cc to your boss some minor mistakes someone did and putting the person down in the email in front of the whole list of colleagues just to show her capability.

Another type of hateful people are those who don't pay when we eat in a group. I have this colleague who simply take for granted when someone offers to buy drinks for the group when out for lunch. When most people starts to dig into their pockets for coins, she pretends to be unaware of what is happening. I can't stand such people! One word to describe them - DIRT cheapo.

All the examples mentioned above is the girl who is having the scandalous relationship in my company... B.I.T.C.H.

It's a FINE country

Damnit! Got my 2nd parking ticket this month!.....after 1 over years of driving. Can you beat it? 2 tickets in 2 weeks?! Argh!!!!

Mahjong Queen

Won $100+ bucks in a mahjong game... really lucky... I feel as if I am Stephen Chow in Saint of Gamblers. Haha!

Big money, Big money!

Just came back from a short trip to the capital of our neighbouring country... went with a group of 7, with Superboy as well.. We were packed with a BIG aim - eat, eat and EAT! The thought of us mindlessly stuffing ourselves with the street-delicacies gave me an adreline of excitment! It was simply awesome. I love to eat.. but I can be choosy with my food. One disappointing thing though is that I only get to eat chilli crabs on one night! And I was carried to the dining room half-asleep after a day of shopping to be surprised with a mess of chilli crabs on the coffee table. Thankz for waking me up Superboy! :) Anyway, was overall a fun trip.. hehe.. load of laughters and bitching... tsk tsk.. ;p

A trip to M'sia is not complete without my frequent hunt - the CASINO! Oh well, I am not that of a gambler... I just love the thrill. It's just like some people enjoy taking thrill rides... alright, the casino is my substitute for that. I don't fancy those rides... be it the roller-coaster or the viking. I don't mind the ferries' wheel. Anyway, I always think if you take your time to observe and perservere, the casino is a place that hands out money. I always think it's so much easier than betting on 4D or toto. Let me ask you.. what is the probability of striking 4 numbers? Ya, the pay out cash may be higher in 4D compared to betting on big or small/black or red in Roulette but hey, the main purpose is to win money right? PATIENCE is the key to winning my dear friends... If you lose 10bucks in the 1st round, double up in the second. I don't believe it can turn out big numbers in 10 rounds of games! Now, I am proud to tell you that I found 1 loophole in Roulette. You see, there are 2 types of bets. One is to bet either #1-18 or #19-36 and the odds is 1 is to 1. But there is another odds that pays 1 is to 2 and you place either #1-12, #13-24 or #25-36. So, if you are betting on big or small, place your bets on 1st or last 2 sets of the latter 3 groups of numbers. You still win 1 time your bet, get it? Ok, looks like it's quite hard to explain... anyne interested to know, you may leave me a message but half of your winnings must be credited to me. :) So to summarise, for those with cash I think it's a damn good way to win money at Roulette. If you can win $50 a day, you can win $1500 a month! Wow! Without having to work! But then, no CPF lah.

The One

Are you currently having The One.. job you dream of? And have you ever been to job interviews where they ask you to rank Job Satisfaction, Money, Distance, Environment, Job Security, Status in order of their importance to you? If you have put job satisfaction as the most important factor and money as lesser importance, you most probably would have gotten the job - congrats to you.

I remembered I was telling my interviewer how I want to meet with challenges everyday in my job and money is not a factor at all if I like what I am doing, blar blar blar.... Do I really mean what I said? Hell no! Whoever don't think money is the No. 1 reason, he is a BIG liar! Take a scenario, there are 2 job offers for you now... (1) To work in a super fast-paced environment with thousands and one problem waiting for you to solve and after every issue resolved, your boss will commend on your good work, you feel very satisfied with yourself but there is not a single penny pay rise for 10 years (and your pay is already peanuts). (2) A very boring job, doing the same thing over and over again... no challenging issue for you to crack your braincell and you are taking home 2 times an average person is getting per annum. SEE? An excellant illustration there.

I am always thinking... do we work to live or we live to work? But sadly, a lot of Singaporeans are dragging themselves to work on the MRT every morning. We have 24 hours in a day. An average person sleep 8hrs a day, work 9hrs (without OT that is), travelling time to and fro work 2hrs, meal & bathroom time 3hrs.. how many hrs have we left?? 2 HOURS! What the hell can you do? That is why Singaporean past time is to watch the TV (and goddamnit our TV programmes sux).

Are only Singaporeans like that I wonder.. cos what I heard was the my fellow sister companies in Europe are working at a very slow pace. Task which we are expected to do within 1week, they take 1month. And not to mention, their average wage per person is 3 times more than us and mind you, we are working for the same organisation. Their working hrs are from 9am to 4pm.. and no meeting after 6pm. Their dinners last for at least 3hrs, starting with appetizer, soup, entree, deserts and end off with a cup of coffee; not like us gobbling down our food in foodcourts or rushing to finish our dinner so we can start to tutor our kids on their surmounting school work, wheras they have the luxury to catch up with friends on jolly good times or cultivate family ties at the dinner table.

The best thing that could ever happen in life is getting an occupation which you don't feel it is a job at all. A sportman would be the ideal occupation ya? An NBA player - people pay you for going for their trainings, you get free apparels; don't have to waste money on corporate suits or make-ups... and you are earning more than an average joe is in his lifetime. People cheer for you on games.. you get occasional scolding from the coach but that will not threaten your career at all. When you score, SENSE OF SATISFACTION overwhelm you. The best part is, you get paid when you are injured and off the season; basically is you do nothing and people sympathise with you and you even get free first-class treatment from the specialists. When you are on MC in our world, you get scrutinisation on whether are you faking your illness (screw them!).

As a human being brought to this world, do we live Life or do Life live us? *sigh*

Shitty Biz

I have received numerous responses from my previous topic "Holly Shit!" and here I am to share with my audience some bazaar contributions, some of which you may identify with. Ha!

Remember I mentioned about the balancing act of squatting on the toilet bowl. I have recently found out the secret of mastering this stance and also give me the glory to discover this gymnast talent in my friend. It all boils down to locating your CG (Center of Gravity) - Support yourself using your hand to hold onto both sides of the cubicle walls. Isn't it amazing?! Moreover being a good citizen, she is not one who dirties the toilet flap. She risks her dear life by squatting onto the toilet bowl with the seat up! I dunno about you but I am surely impressed. Haven't try this out thou... Still bear the fear of falling into the toilet bowl.

Did you noticed that the seated toilet bowls in our country comes in 2 designs? One of which is the one we usually have at home, i.e the water level us about 1-hand deep (Doubt my measurement? Go try it) and the other type are the ones with a whole pool of water with depth the length from your fingers to the elbow. You will most often find these in big shopping centres and hotels. Seriously, what advantages are there for these categorization. Isn't the latter a worse option? More water in the toilet bowl = more chances of getting the water splash up your ass? Anyone knows the reason?

Most people will be embarassed when they shit in public toilets because of the noises they made when the waste dropped into the water and creating a "plat"sound. Hence various methods are adopted to minimise this sound especially when you know someone is using the cubicle next to yours. One method I heard is to control the feces - flush everytime you feel the shit is reaching the water. Another method is to put a lot of toilet paper into the bowl so that it will create some kind of sound-absorbing effect. Maybe the Save water and Save paper campaigns should start from the toilet users.

I personally like the toilets in aeroplanes. They do not have a pool of water in their toilet bowls. Instead, their flush is so strong that no waste will be left on the toilet bowl walls. Kudos to the inventor of this type of toilet. Hope they implement this soon to all the public toilets.. or they can have audible music in all the public toilets to save users from the embarassment of shitting/peeing too loudly. We should think out of the box. A toilet is not necessary the one we see everyday. More effort should be put into inventing one which provide a comfortable and stress-free 15min of toxic release.

Wedding bells chiming away...

"From this moment…life has begun
From this moment…your are the one
Right beside you is where i belong
From this moment on
From this moment…i have been blessed
I live only for your happiness
And for your love i’d give my last breath
From this moment on..." - Shania Twain

I have always wanted this to be my wedding march song, although several hundreds of weddings would have played this song. I deeply believe in the lyrics; believe that marriage is sacred, marriage means the union of 2 person from different background to come and live 1 life together, to bring new lives into this world and to grow old together.
What triggered me to write about Marriage is that many of my friends are getting married or already had. I am 25 this year... one-third into a normal human life span. 1st one-third of the life would be to learn and cultivate to become the person you want to be for this lifetime.... which is why we get ourselves an education, or to learn skills for survival. 2nd third of a human life would be to put your skills into use for survival sake. In the midst of it, most people would feel pretty aimless doing all these everyday and decided to find someone to share the joy, laughter, woes with and this is when we, get married. The last third of our life would be to reap what we had painfully havested for the 2nd third of our life. So technically speaking, I should be entering into my 2nd third of my life! (*alarm*)
Marrying someone is not as easy as just saying a "yes" and signing some documents. There are many other factors to take into consideration besides the presence of LOVE. People always say if you love him, you will accept every part of him. Well, lets be practical. Can you accept and willing to be assocciated with his everything - his character, height, weight, family, friends, job, his pet turtle, his fetish for women stockings, etc? There are countless things to ponder upon... That is why we have the "trying period" which is what we called the boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.
Of course love is important, and complicated too. Love is not measurable. How much do you love him? It's not possible to count. So when you believe there is love between the two of you, it is time to put ticks on the "Acceptance Form". (Perhaps being an Engineer, figures are important to me) Can you tolerate his snores every night? Can you understand his love for his Jack Russel? Can you communicate with him even without talking? (Hey, I'm able to do that with my friends!) Can you integrate into his family - aunties, uncles, cousins?
There are other cases as well, where there are all ticks on the Acceptance Form but something seems amiss in the love section. Since it is not measurable, we'll adopt Einstein Theory of Relativity... i.e how much you love him compared to your previous boyfriends. So what if there are 2 person who score full marks in only one of the section? How do you decide? Then here comes the flow diagram technique. (Wish i could draw the flow chart to illustrate) The last question: Who loves you more relatively? The above example is only applicable to those lucky ones who has at least 2 person to create that flow diagram. For those who hasn't, they would only be seaching and searching for that ultimate someone to score full marks in their Marriage Test.....

Holly shit!

I always have this thought when BIG nature calls for me in public places... What kinda position would you choose - the seated one or the squatting one? In case you dunno what I am talking about... it's shitting, or "da bian" in chinese, "pang sai" in hokkien. I try not to shit in public toilets if i can help it. I mean... look at those toilets... damp, stinko, with all kinds of things found on the floor... tissue paper, strips of receipts, sanitary pads, comb and handphone, if you are lucky!

Ok, the position. In terms of comfort, of course it's the seated method; those with super strong legs will take the squat method, else it would probably give you a cramp in your thighs after about 10mins of releasing those waste from your body. I'm referring to squatting at the toilet bowl dug in the ground, not squat ON the seated-kind of toilet bowl. I think only a gymnast or someone who is damn good at balancing will adopt the latter method. Despite the comfort in the seated position, don't you think it's very unhygienic to sit on a plastic plank where minutes ago, there maybe just someone who had just finished a cross country run and decided to take a poo there? Imagine sweat dripping from his forehead... down to his back and drip from the waist and land on the support of the toilet bowl???? I've heard of placing toilet paper around the seat before sitting down... oh well... quite an acceptable method I must say... but there are other things to worry about - the LANDING of the feces.

Even if you are very satisfied with the cleanliness of the toilet seat, don't you worry about the way your waste land in the toilet bowl? What if it's a super heavy piece of last night's dinner (smoked turkey with bacon and ham plus a bowl of Caesar Salad) that falls into the pool of toilet water, causing a loud "splat" sound and not to mention it splashing its way back to your a**? So in retrospect, the squatted position would minimise such consequences. Why? Because you can choose to position yourself slightly further away from the pool of water in the toilet bowl (do they have a term for that by the way?) and allow your feces to land on the walls of the toilet bowl... erm if you know what I mean. But as I've said, it's not an easy task to squat throughout your "nature-calls journey". So perhaps the best method worth considering is the "horse-stance" pose. Think chinese kung-fu. When a pugilist needs to master some kind of swordplay which requires substantial amount of qi, he would adopt the horse-stance in the beginning. This position will not make you suffer legs cramps as you can choose to move your body vertically up and down during the process, and you can avoid the water from splashing onto your a** given the reasonable distance between your a** and the toilet bowl.

Let's recap the method of shitting. (1) Seated, (2) Squat - on seated and non-seated designed toilet bowls, (3) "Horse-stance". Not easy being a human being.... we have to make decision every second. So, what are you having for lunch later?

Hitch!

Superboy went for his "super-training" and here I'm blogging before I go to bed... It's a Friday, yes I know.. but goddamnit I have to work on Saturdays!!! Anyway, enuff of my shit.

Went watched Hitch last week and it was a pretty funny flick about how this guy set up this agency to help hopeless blokes find girlfriends. Hah! One of his tactic-> initiate actions on the girl but behave as if she is the one going after you. Haha! I sure had a taste of this.. and apparantly it works! Next, 1st date kiss; Move your head 90% towards her but stop short there and wait for her to complete the job. Tsk tsk... clever huh? Speaking of tactics in hitching a girl.. I'm sure every guy has his own never-fail moves. And I'm sure every girl has her list of experiences encountered. Some are foolproof while others are just plain lame. While watching Will Smith display his showcase of 'bright" ideas, my mind wondered off to how Superboy and I first met (in pri sch), and talked (as acquaintances), and dated (after a dinner with mutual friends on Vday), and being together (in a foreign land)... The feeling is... sweet?... awesome?... ironic? I have yet to find an exact word to describe it after 1 and a half years. Hee.. not important lah... :p

Oops, getting late... need to wake up early tomorrow.. looking forward to Superboy's matches on Sunday. Playing against SAFSA, the supposedly big boys. But i still think Superboy team will win them over with experience and skills. Shucks, they lost to HU last week, but Superboy played well. He'd only perform if he sees that there is no choice or his teammates are not in top form. He is too "magnanimous" in this aspect. I would love to see him "qie" into the zone and do fake-away lay-upS. Will be looking forward for it on Sunday! =) (*hint hint*)

Nocturnal me

*yawn* 8.15am in the morning... No, I did not just wake up. in fact, I just came back from work and while waiting for my hair to dry, decided to do some blogging. Wonder what kind of strange job I am doing that had me sleeping in the morning when everyone is just awake from their slumber? haha! I am in some kind of industry where I must ensure the correct recipes are used in course of operation and if there is some kind of mishap in the process of generating the output, I'll have to inspect the affected compound and then decide the best way to salvage it. And of course if there are also opportunity for me to improve and develop some recipes to make the output more profitable and appealing to consumers. Confused by now?? Go figure out. :)

Just got arrowed from my boss to do some "stock-checks" on my off days. Argh! Wanted to go shoot some hoops with Superboy with our new basketball but guess the most I can is squeeze out one day. Damnit, there goes my exercise regimen. Been eons since I actually exert stress on my hand and legs muscles (minus the walking around at work) and this has to happen!

Alrite, finished my "kuah bulu" and OJ... time for bed.... *yawn*

Log me up!

Haha! Finally got my blog created after hours of thinking of some cool name for my blog... "janice.blogspot"...taken. jlogs.blogspot"...taken...."scribbles.blogspot"...taken.

ARGH!!!.... "lifeinblogs.blogspot"... sounds so pathetic! Heck! With the help of Superboy, i shall announce the launch of "jmonologue"(of Janice).blogspot!!!!! Geez.... =)

Been rather a late participant in this blog thingy.... Still remembered my first introduction to this blog was when one of my friends sent me a link to someone's online journal... it was www.opendiary.com back then... I dunno that girl who was writing in the journal but the people and stuffs she mentioned are so familiar, especially when she narrated about IVP basketball matches which I also happened to watch back then. Saw a couple of friends name inside... and not to mentioned some gossips of people whom I have not heard for a long time. How ironic.

Recently realised there are actually a lot of my friends meddlng with this blog thing and decided to join in the trendsetters. Wouldn't it be weird to let people read about my thought?? I have the habit of writing my diary since my teenage years but I swear that all that were written in my diary will go down with me in the grave! I will kill myself if someone gets hold of my diary! But why am I doing this? I guess there are limits of private stuffs that can or cannot be written in blogs.. hee... so i guess all those "juicy" (*wink*) stuffs will not shed their light in here afterall. :) Hmmz... but then again.. who knows?? Superboy, don't get frightened. Haha! :p