Take leave?

Yeah, the 1st 50% explains how i feel. However, the after-vacation part is not the same. Tons of email have to be cleared and tons of work to be done. Therefore i serious don't like off-in-lieu and i love public holiday. Thanks deepavali for its arrival and thankful that hari raya haji is on a sunday that give the following monday a public holiday across the whole singapore. My users/clients/colleagues don't work, so work don't build up.

Since now is november, it is the usual season that my boss will nag nag nag regarding clearing leave, but in fact he started long ago.
I started to clear alot of leave just before the start of the new project, bringing the number of days to clear by december to 9 days.
Still as issue. =(

9 days to clear by December 2011
9 days to clear by March 2012
6 days to clear by 21 Apr 2012 (wedding leave)
Then, if i stay on in the same co
9 days to clear by December 2012

How to clear 9 days within 2 months when
1. Cannot take long leave >> scheduled meeting on monday & thursday morning (Project C)
2. Cannot take full day leave >> key user only works in the morning/half-day (Project B)
3. Afternoon are packed with clearing work (Project A, B, C)

In fact, the best option is to clear on afternoon (option 03), but considering that i cab to work, it would be a $$-saving if i take a full day leave. Haizzzz

Worse still the OT returns, not that frequent, but enough to make me feel sad coz i'm generally alone or with ah boy who OT becoz he got nothing to do even he goes home =S.

I want a good break... why work recently no low-peak at all? =(

Hubby bday celebration - food story

Saw from online about a shop call shin yuu which offer japanese buffet at pretty affordable price. Hubby like the food, but i find it so-so. He thinks i'm totally spolit.

But the sake is pretty good. so i was wondering that it should be izakaya instead

Just images of food....


Nice mentaiko prawn with eggs


complmentary from restaurant


best of the 3


complimentary oyster that i dun like


sashimi - soso


nice chawamushi


Good dory with cheese


Super good fried garlic rice!!


weird tasting pork


mentaiko scallop that i dun like


fried bean spouts coz i want veg


shioyaki saba


nice fried dory


horrible grill yellow tail


pretty good karaage


decent tempura

Dun think i will go back again.... As i age, buffet is pretty meaningless to me.

Hubby bday celebration - cake story

I ordered cake from metrocake which is freaking good! So good that i told hubby, no need surprise, just give me "dark knight" for my bday. LOL

I bought him "duke of earl" which literally suit him alot due to his liking for tea.





Each cake is place on a leveled box, where knife & cutlery were given,



Very thoughtful!! *BIG SMILE*



And hubby finally reach 30 years old which i'm pretty amused it. Feels like a different gen.



Last but not least i had my slice of the lovely cake. =)

Time to Migrate

Recently, there are more than 7 cases of ppl resigning around me. From friends to co-workers, I see them leaving and it gives complex feeling.

Issit the time for me to move to some other places? I have alot of messy thoughts, and i came out with the list below.

Reasons to stay

1. I need a GOOD new job.
I envy ppl who can quit w/o a new job. No matter how tough the work is, i can't say immediate good-bye. Having commitments that do not allow resignation w/o a new job is serious a rope on my neck. And at this point of time, i cannot accept a lower annual pay either, therefore i either need to find a good/high paying job or i have to stay.

2. Boss is not idiot.
My biggest worry will to be to have an idiotic boss if i change job. I heard of many stories on how horrible my friend's boss can be, or how mean their supervisors were. My side, so far so good. Most of my friends would have commented that i have a good boss, since he dun pick on me or give me trouble. (But he bully me T__T )

3. Work satisfaction.
From the current project that i'm doing. Though i know that the business knowledge is not very useful in the future, but at least for the moment i'm happy coz i completed some complex logic/

Reasons to migrate

1. Coz i'm in the middle.
Our co have 3 types of ppl. Type A, ppl who are damn good. high flyer. Type B, can do, can deliver, not the excellent kind. Type C, can't make it. I'm obviously a type B. In my co, the treatment towards A & C is better. Type A get all the advantage such as doing what they are good in and do not need to consider the deadlines of the projects. They tend to be flattered as a guru. Type C, since you cannot deliver in time, they will assign you simpler and lesser work. So who do the bulk of the work? Of course is Type B la.

2. Underpaid.
When a friend who grade is lower than me but pay is higher than me, i know i'm underpaid. Considering that i'm doing more work/responsibility than her but with lesser $$, the most i think, the more sad i feel. Though decided not to ponder on this, but fact is fact, i'm purely stating now, with no hard feelings. Does this means co policy got some issue?

3. Bad co-workers
In particular, ppl who appear nice when they need ur help, but treat u like shit or transparent when they dun need your help.

Migrate or not. Thinking in progress.

CC Club Potluck + Failed BBQ

Beautiful Fireworks

CC Club Chairman aka President jio me for the gathering at Ros place. It is a 3-level house with the root-top at level 4. We had fun that night drinking & eating @ the rooftop.

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Food from ppl on time

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Alcohol

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Soju

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Cheesecake made by Ros Bro

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Nice agar agar from kkg

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Korean bean sprout w Baby Octopus & Pork from a Korean friend (do we spell as Molly?)

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Ros pretty variel who is camera-shy

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Tomoe w her sg bf(left), Naka & Vincent (right)

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MX(left) & mayu (right)

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(from left) Vincent, Naka, Ros, miya

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miya & molly(?)

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super nice back view of pretty EJ

It is really fun to have ppl who drink with you. Most of my friends can't drink much. When i say drink much, i mean drink to drunk or drink at least half a bottle of hard liqor or 1 bottle of wine. Glad to have these ppl who drinks and we had fun mixing the different type of weird drinks together. =)

Jaemin, who invited me to join CC Club, din come. =( I heard she went back to her mars, venue or jupiter. Hope she don't launch an attack soon. =P

Definitely looking fwd to the next outing!

P.S.: Failed BBQ becoz Jaemin din come, so no grill!

Safety @ Work?

would you consider this as safe?

I won't say that this is my office but is a place i need to go monthly. i was ok when i heard about renovation being done, thinking that i will be in server room and generally no much issue. but the server room is also in a bad condition to work. while i was doing my job in the server room, there were bangs outside the room due to the renovation, and the construction workers even came into server room to do their job. At one point of time, i got abit freak out that i started to talk to myself to keep sane. Imagine abt 4-5 workers in a less than 5 sqm room with server racks & servers, and they sound like they are tearing down the room?

Then i had to walk through the debris a few time to go to the other end to talk to teh users etc. each time i walk past, i was praying not to fall. the 3-4 x to-&-fro probably gave me enough prayers to not pray for a month (but i dunno who i praying to sia). Some workers were painting or drilling when i walk past that i think i'm also slowing down their work pace.

Urgh... i hope the renovation will be completed by the time i go for my July job.

Breakfast with the users

Last thursday was my 1st attempt to have a breakfast gathering with the users. A friendly invitation from the current users, i would say it is interesting yet awkward.
Yes, i felt i was in quite an awkward position. As you can see, the food is nothing great, but i still swallowed abot 50% of the food and stayed through out the whole thing.

Felt better when take it as eat-snake. But yet 1.5hours of working time gone. =(

shrinking responsibility

i want to do so!!
i want to push all to other people..

so angry.. why now i keep feeling is my fault that make everyone so busy.
that make everyone's schedule in a mess?

i din do anything wrong..... (T_T)

or at least let me blame on the stupid machine la..
why the smaller machine no problem, but u supposing stronger and better give me weird problem.

i dun like the current situation... (T_T)