Possibicity - HK?

Well folks, looks like I may be heading to HK as early as end August.

Might spend a week there.

Nothing's confirmed though... hmmm...

SPH, you SUCK

So there I was waiting to buy and read the latest Hairy Porter book, and what does Life! do?
Run the cover page..

Essentially proclaiming that the fella DOES NOT DIE.

Shit you SPH. Do you arses even know what is called a Spoiler?

Chicken Pie!

And this is why I read kennysia =D

rb the hedgehog

Strangely enough although I'm not supposed to be handling sensitive stuff... oh well.

In the words of a fellow batchmate,

"You is becoming a hedgehog"

Why? Cos when all the arrows stick out of your back, they look like spines right?
Maybe I shouldn't have had that SPINElli coffee at lunch. Ok sorry. Lame joke.

Even more strangely, the stuff I'm doing now seems more important, more relevant and above all more interesting that the other stuff I've been doing.

Other thoughts are that the higher ups DO know about the problems within their departments, and that sometimes, its just more important to get the freaking job done.

Won't elaborate more, and this is because as a recent case has shown, blogs are not really all that private, AND this might be viewed as... unprofessional.

What to do? Can't fight with some of the porfessionals in there right? Don't want to either. Just leave me alone to do what needs to be done. Don't waste my time with petty politicking.

Don't waste my time with silo mentalities either. If the information is wanted, and such information is with another department, then why the hell am I almost stopped from contacting said department for said information? Am I seriously supposed to comb through the financials of EVERY SINGLE FREAKING BANK IN SINGAPORE to consolidate the data (which even then might not be available in the annual reports)?

Time for a wake up call.

After all, some are so fond of saying

"Don't re-invent the wheel"

But apparently there are wheels and then there are square wheels. If the wheel you're currently using is SQUARE, then its time to invent a different wheel right?

BANKAI!

Shamelessly ripped from beA's blog:

It came down to a tie between Ukitake, Byakuya and Ichimaru... but..

I is SCHEMING!


You scored as Ichimaru Gin, You're Ichimaru Gin, Captain of the Third Division!
There's something that twists the insides of people when you smile in that certain, creepy way. You also might have a few people that you get to do your 'dirty work' for you. After all, it's easier to look uninvolved and keep your hands clean while you pull strings behind the scenes!

Which of the Thirteen Division Captains (from Bleach) are you?
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Looking forward to the weekend

Ya I realise its about 5 days away but still, am very much looking forward to next Saturday.

$2 for breakfast + a screening of that movie where there's alot of people (both children and adults) grabbing something long and hard which shoots stuff out of one end. In certain cases, they even fight with those long and hard things...
Sounds like a really wild movie...

Ya I know its quite late, cos the movie started screening a few days ago, but what to do? Not as... privileged as monster, who's already watched it.

More than meets the eye

So it was that we went to watch Transformers today.

Must say it was pretty good...

Except for one part which really had me laughing.

No it wasn't the part where the call center guy insisted on the credit card..

But rather this particular decepticon:

Starscream!

Guess what the chinese subtitles were for the name?

"星星叫"

Really.. makes you scream with laughter.

Of wtfiswrongnowsadays

Nowsadays. The new catchphrase.
Its the most cool word EVER, with the exception of those that are cooler.

But anyway... this isn't a crapping post. Its just about the lady who passed away after giving birth to twins.

this is the cleaned up version of the story posted on channelnewslater:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/287449/1/.html

Quote:

"Her family is appreciative of the hard work put in by hospital staff, but they felt that the process of withdrawing blood was too slow."

Go. Check it out. Then watch the TV coverage of the bereaved father screaming

"救人还需要批准的？！？！？？！"

Ah. The wonders of sanitation.

Seriously. WTF is wrong with nowsadays?

"Madam Swee's husband, Jason Low, said a hospital staff told him that a request for more blood would have to be approved by higher authorities.

And if the family wanted more blood, they would have to round up others to donate some at the blood bank. "

One suspects that somewhere there's an OPM that says

"There should be in excess of xxx litres of blood in storage at all times. Any deviations will have to be approved by *Insert signing authorities for different levels here*."

Whereby the lowest ranking nurse will do up a nice email requesting approval, run it through a dozen ping-pong checks with her nurse leader and then print out the final version for the appropriate signature/email confirmation.

Should what. Later they get a comment sheet or auditor saying that they don't have a *quote* maker-checker process *unquote* that will ensure adequate supplies of blood at all times how? Or that they *quote* don't follow OPM *unquote* how? There goes their bonus for the year man.

Is you a Humhubber Part II

Well, the jokers got back to me.

Essentially saying that they were sorry to hear that I'd lost my phone, pointing out that marketing would not know about it since they only had the data available on their databases.

Like HELLO?

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. A VOUCHER THAT CAN ONLY BE USED WHEN I RECONTRACT, WHICH EXPIRES BEFORE I CAN RECONTRACT??!?!?!

Since they can't get it from the descriptive, lemme sum it up.

YOU ARSES AT STARHB SENT ME A BLOODY USELESS VOUCHER. I DO NOT FREAKING BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE UNAWARE OF ME BEING UNABLE TO RECONTRACT.

TAMADEI

Is you a Humhubber?

As regular readers will know, I lost my phone recently.

And was thinking of not blogging about the repurchase process, but what the heck.

All statements here are true.

Went down to Starhum's customer service center.

"Oh, you lost your phone? We'll give you a $100 mobile phone voucher, but we can't give you the additional early recontract voucher until September."

Meaning? Yes. I have to pay the retail price for it. Needless to say, I did NOT get myself a phone or a contract from Starhum that day.
Here's what's even better. The voucher expires in ONE MONTH. So. BIG. FAT. USE.

Had to get my brother to recontract Singtel EARLY for me, so overpaid abit for the Nokia E65. But that's ok I guess. Love the phone although it would have been SO much cheaper with a recontract and IF I hadn't lost my bloody phone.

To add insult to injury, I got another letter from Starhum today. To THANK me for being their loyal customer, they sent me a $100 voucher that can be used IF I upgrade my contract!

Expiry date of this voucher? 29th JULY 2007.

$200 worth of BLOODY. USELESS. VOUCHERS.

F87KING BRILLIANT.

I am seriously reconsidering my stand as a "loyal customer".

In other news, turns out that the bloody arse is a scholar. Apparently from another arm of the civil service (i.e. not a scholar from my organization, just that we suay kena him on secondment. I think secondment is like a way for them to temporarily get rid of people they don't like sia.). I think they have to take a long close hard look at the scholarship granting process, especially if this type of cannot make it bloody arse also can be scholar. Like that, lim peh can be President liao understand.

Of D&D

Yup. Yesterday was the company's dinner and dance.

And... got all sorts of people.

From the nice, to the freaking deserve to get slapped kind.

FOR EXAMPLE.

Got this idiot, who last minute want to bring guest, then send separate email. Why can't you finalize the freaking order before creating chaos? Especially when one of the guards is supposed to sit at that table, so CANNOT have 11 people, much less TWELVE.

Then turn up on the night WITHOUT his ticket.

And gave us such a condescending attitude, to boot.

"Why can't I be eligible for the lucky draw?"

Cos obviously its being done by ticket number, and if you don't have your ticket number you can't claim the prize right?
So we offered to let him purchase an additional ticket if he die die also must take part in the lucky draw. I mean, prizes are not bad lah, but seriously.

His response?

"Does it seem reasonable for me to buy an additional ticket?"

Well, depends on whether you want to take part in the lucky draw lor. Fittingly, we IGNORED the b*stard. We is not here to cater to your selfish wants. Where possible, we'll do what we can for you, but we are not OBLIGATED TO FULFIL YOUR EVERY NEED. Bloody arse.