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Work, work, work…

Sarah — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:56:30 +0000

It feels like I’ve been working non-stop for a long, long time. I’ve been in the office for the past two weekends, and for the third weekend in a row, I’m in the office again. There’s a few deadlines that we have to meet, and we’re understaffed as one of our developers has gone to Italy for two weeks. Taking over his work has been driving me crazy! All his clients calling me, and I have to go and look through lines and lines of code to find the problems to fix.

OK, I don’t want to blog anymore about work, i need to STOP thinking about it. Although that’s going to be hard as I’m on call this week. All the support team have to take turns, perhaps once in two months to be on call for the entire weekend. Although I’m not part of the support team anymore, because I started off in that division, I still have to take calls. *sigh* I don’t like being on call, always knowing that your phone could ring at any second, and you have to turn on your laptop to do work. That’s why I don’t like going out on the weekends that I’m on call, if I’m out, and the phone rings, I need to call around to find people that are at home and online! Enough already!

Well, I took some time out of work to create a new blog. You may be surprised, how many of you knew what my hobbies were? It’s really basic at the moment, not much time to touch it up, but it’ll get better in time!

Chefs in the making!

Sarah — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:59:37 +0000

Not so long ago, my company had it’s annual company trip. We went up to Genting Highlands, and stayed at the Genting View Resort. One of the events that we had was a cooking session, we were divided into two teams, and each team cooked a starter, main meal, and a dessert. Not too bad for amateur cooks, eh?

Team 1: Main course

Team 2: Main course

Team 2: Choc fondue dessert, yum!

Me, with my choc fondue marshmallow

The Malaysian Mentality Part II

Sarah — Wed, 11 May 2005 10:18:01 +0000

The Malaysian Mentality Part I

Here’s a picture of our office entrance. Walk in the doors, and we have a couch for people to sit on while waiting. We’ve got a side table next to the couch, and a plate thing containing Ferrero Rocher for our “premium clients” to snack on.

Well, today, a Malay dispatch guy came to drop off a cheque for us. When my colleague came upstairs to chop the receipt, we so happened to be standing in a position that we could see the dispatch guy from upstairs. As soon as he was alone, he swiped two of the chocolates and put it in his pocket! We were kind of shocked, but we didn’t really say anything. After all, the chocolates WERE put there for people to take.

BUT, a few minutes later, he took another chocolate and put that in his pants as well! Geez…hasn’t he heard of moderation?? I don’t know..maybe I’m being overly critical. Personally, I wouldn’t dream of taking so many chocs, even from a restaurant where they’re all put out at the counter! Especially since he’s a dispatch, not even our customer.

Is this an incident that would only happen in Malaysia?

The Malaysian mentality

Sarah — Mon, 09 May 2005 09:05:16 +0000

A few days ago, the roadworks people came to paint the road outside my office. They painted the yellow and black stripes on the roads to warn cars to slow down at certain spots. At first, I was impressed that they even bothered to come and paint the roads! But then…

I noticed that the job was pretty simple, just painting diagonal yellow and black stripes across the bump on the road, and yellow horizontal stripes before the bump. Now, this job shouldn’t require too much man power, right? Well, I was wrong in assuming that! They had about 3 people painting the road, and about 5 – 6 others just standing by the side of the road, leaning against their trucks, smoking (I would be amazed to find any blue color worker in Malaysia nowadays who doesn’t smoke!) and talking. Now, how exactly did that help them to finish the job quicker?

Not only that, but whilst the 3 guys were painting the road, one of them accidently spilled some yellow paint all over the side of the road near our office. You would think that he would try and clean it up, right? Wrong again! Like I said, the Malaysian mentality…there are just no words to describe it. Instead, what he did, was to dig up some earth, and cover the yellow paint up!!! Well, they left soon after that incident.

But, that’s not the end of the story. My boss came back from a meeting, and he didn’t see the paint on the road, and he parked right over it. Wet yellow paint meeting black tyre…not a pretty sight. This was taken a few days after it happened, after raining heavily several times, after driving for many, many meetings. I guess it’ll be pretty hard to come out! =)

Amusing Work Anecdotes

Sarah — Fri, 06 May 2005 06:35:22 +0000

If you’re NOT semi-IT literate, I suggest that you stop reading, because I’m going to be making fun of people like you! =)

Well, one thing that gets me annoyed, is people who PRETEND they know what they’re talking about, but actually don’t know anything. I feel like it’s a waste of my time.

Case No. 1
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For example, there’s this one person, who says:

“The connection to my website is very, very slow when I use dial-up. But when I use Streamyx, it’s fine. It shouldn’t be like this.”

I mean, HELLO?!? Do you even understand the difference between broadband and dial-up? Of course it’s going to be slower when you’re using dial-up.

Case No. 2
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One day, the phone rings, and I answer.

Person: I think there’s something wrong with my email. When I check my emails, I cannot receive the email messages.

Me : OK, let me check this out for you. (So I check it out on the server, and there are no emails in her
inbox)

Me : I just checked, and everything looks fine. Are there any error messages when you check your
mail?

Person: No, just when I check, nothing comes in.

Me : Well, you don’t have any emails, so nothing WOULD come in when you hit send and receive.

Person: Oh..

??? Maybe she thought she was so happening, that every few minutes an email would come into her mailbox.

*Sigh* This is what I have to deal with…