Don't You Just Hate Meetings!!

Who likes to attend meetings? It's just a time to waste time, where people talk and discuss and assign actions. At the end of it, you'll get more work to be done, on top of the work that you already are struggling to complete. I have to admit I'm struggling at the moment with the burden of work. I don't want to sacrifice the limited time I have with my family, so I try not to bring work home. And then, this week we had the 'pleasure' of a sudden appearance by people who want to wreak havoc on our already critical computer network. And we had to just drop things and attend to these people. It really sucks when you have to attend to unplanned work. I suppose I'm in the business of attending to unplanned requests and work. Everything is urgent and needs to be done yesterday. Perhaps it'd be nice to get some recognition and understanding by people that I only have two hands and one brain. It's hard enough to compartmentalise between e-punchcard system, the ZEN deployment, the network upgrade, the security system, the CEO's iPAQ and even someone's stupid Notes Mail. The work is fun but at times these people really make me mad inside and I would like to e'punch'card someone's face. :)

Sometimes I really think it must be great to have loads of money so that I don't have to work like a dog anymore and just go on a cruise or take rides in Disney World for endless times. It's not wrong to dream, right? Anyway, at the end of the day, I can just switch off the PC, get into my car, put on No Doubt 'It's My Life' at full volume and drive home at 140 km/h, which I don't think many KL people can do. Too bad. Tell me if any of you KL-lites want to switch places with me....

Confused with Bottles

Awi put me through a series of tests today....to match Haziq's many bottles with the correct caps. I'm sure you all know about milk bottles for babies. They come in various sizes and colour, some are even branded like Mothercare and Pigeon. I suppose Awi had noticed that when preparing Haziq's milk I sometimes put the wrong caps on and when the bottle was shaken to mix the milk powder with water, some of it will spill out. Each of the bottles has its own corresponding cap, depending on brand, type of bottle and colour. At first she showed to me once the right match for all of nine bottles. During the first try, I only got three bottles correctly matched. Hehehehe, I can remember the names of all the cabinet ministers or the jersey colour of all Premiership teams, but when it really mattered, I just can't pull it through for Haziq's bottles. On my first try, I only scored 33%. Awi had set for me a passing mark of 7/9 correct matches. So, I sat down, put on my thinking cap and finally, I managed to get them all correctly matched. Hurray, I am now certified in matching Haziq's many milk bottles. I just hope Awi won't buy more bottles for him, I might have to go through a refresher course. Nevertheless, I still am not sure I'll get the bottles-cap combination correct when I am preparing milk with eyes half closed at 5 o'clock in the morning. I suppose that is why God got it right by making women to be mothers and not the men. :)

ROTK at last

Went to watch Return of the King at the cinema yesterday, after more than 2 weeks being shown on the big screen. Thanks to Am for making it happen. Actually he wants to 'belanja' me for my birthday. I had to leave Awi and Haziq in Kerteh (I wasn't too happy about it but I told Awi it will be just this once. Hehehe). It was good to hang out with the guys once in a while, doing something together for one day. It has been a while, I have to tell you that.

A bit on the movie. To me after you strip off the story about the ring, Gollum and Sauron, it all boils down to friendship. It's about sticking with your friend no matter what, like what the man (Hobbit) of the movie, Sam did with Frodo. Rescuing him in his moment of needs, even fighting and risking his own life. It's also about not letting your friend being left out in the limb, even though by helping him it would result in yourself being in danger. This was portrayed by Gimli and Legolas when they accompanied Aragorn into the realms of the Undead Souls. Heartwarming indeed but can we emulate such noble acts in real life?

Not sure when my next trip to the films will be. It kind of sucks because Kuantan is almost 2 hours drive away from Kerteh. I suppose Awi won't mind too much if I can just go off for a few hours to catch a movie and be back for lunch. Instead I had to be away for almost 12 hours. Hmmm, another reason to......