Recap of 2008

Lame way to do this but its the format that stuck to my head @ 2.30am after i returned from a drinking session with some friends

January
Full of hope in the new year to have a new scope of work and hopefully be involved in a big project.

February
Not a really good CNY, perhaps that is the beginning of my bad luck for the year

March
The project doesn't seem to be doing so well anymore BUT another project arise and more hope arises
Leaked information about promotion candidates whereby yours truly is expected to be one of those to be promoted

April
Officially received promotion letter on April Fool's Day which was backdated to January.
Received retrospective pay increment and dumped all into paying credit card debts.

May
News of a 'higher power ' (aka Management) are taking matters into their own hands for the project which im involved in and is the complete opposite of what was evaluated by the User and Technical Team

June
Closing of the FY for my company and the project is really something which i have no eyes to see anymore.

July
Decision made by Management on the project is firm and there goes my hope, job hunting begins again.
Have to used a stupid system to clock in what i do, i don't even fucking have a project, how am i supposed to record down what i do???

August
Again not a really happy birthday + a bitter goodbye

September
Speculation and sadness about how much would be announced by the Management on bonus payout. Lowest in all my 5 years in the company.

October
Company stock prices halved compared to its prices in January. Sayonara to the remaining options given to me by the company which will expire in June 2009.

November
Several drinking sessions which did its job of whisking away my mind from my miserable life.
Missed several relative's weddings on purpose to not want to explain of my singleness.

December
An array of weddings, 2 of which have already blocked my calender since last year :p Frankly speaking, i wouldn't miss it for the world!
Went to both and it was a BANG! Congratulations and may you have happiness forever together!

Summary :

1) Alcohol does not really KO me, it just FUCKING mess up my body clock. KO-ed to sleep at 2-3am only to wake up at 5-7am and never able to continue sleep.

2) Made many superb friends via online games, went to 1 of their wedding dinner but missed out on being a fun heng dai :(

3) First taste of being 5 digits for credit card debts. It was all down to my own stupidity, very expensive lesson learned.

4) One cannot drink away sadness/loneliness, one cannot afford to buy companionship long enough to get through the night BUT one is very lucky to have many good friends.

5) Least sleep time in a year.

6) Most alcohol consumed in a year ever.

Interesting signs at a place i had lunch ...

What the sign says :

Raju Restaurant
* Please pay when food is served
* No pets allowed
* No outside food
* No direct selling
* Mind your language
* Sit at your own risk --> @_@|||

What the sign says :

We have no quarrel with competitors who charge less
After all they know what their food is worth

Well, its not overly expensive if you know what to avoid when eating at Indian type restaurants :)

Goodbye my preciousssssssssssss......................

After years of being with me, i have to say goodbye to my precioussssssssss. Why are they preciousssssssssss? Its not really the monetary value amount they carry but more to their serial number. Notes carrying serial numbers with repetition of "8"s are of particular interest for me to collect them. Just as The-One-Ring was precioussssssssssss to Gollum and its other owners, its with a heavy heart and very unwilling feeling to be apart from them.


Where are they going? To my account for about a few days and show up as an increase of balance to my current account. That amount will then begone from my account :(

What is it for? For hope, hope that i can resolve 1 of the items in my wishlist but it seems unlikely to be resolved by the timeline which i set T_T

Goodbye my preciousssssssssssss......................

Not so special anymore =(

A contact added me using my spanking new Live ID and the following was what happened :

[10:05] Sun: hello
[10:06] Sun: not need to work ha
[10:06] Sun: HAHA
[10:06] Lawsh: work also can on IM one mar
[10:06] Lawsh: may i know who is this?
[10:06] Sun: U NT MEH
[10:07] Lawsh: yes i am
[10:07] Sun: I
[10:07] Sun: U STAY AT SEREMBAN?
[10:07] Lawsh: i stay in LK
[10:07] Lawsh: KL i mean
[10:08] Sun: UR HOMETOWN FROM PAHANG?
[10:08] Lawsh: i was born in johor
[10:09] Sun: OIC.. THEN I HV ADD WRONG CONTACT. SORRY
[10:09] Sun: I TOT U R MY BROTHER
[10:09] Lawsh: haha
[10:09] Sun: BECAUSE I JZ ADD HIM
[10:09] Sun: HE OSO LE
[10:09] Sun: HE ASK ME TO ADD HIM
[10:09] Lawsh: my name is too
[10:10] Lawsh: exactly same spelling
[10:10] Lawsh: that is new for me
[10:10] Sun: TAT Y
[10:10] Sun: SORRY
[10:10] Lawsh: its ok, nice to meet you
[10:11] Sun: SAME TO ME..
[10:11] Sun: BYE

First of all typing in all caps is rude.
Secondly, just said nice to meet you then bye bye liao

Oh well, what a way to find out that there is someone who have exactly the same name as me.

Glasses

I can't live with them and i can't live without them.

Without them i can see beyond 10m clearly, something i dearly miss. Having 20/20 vision for more than 20 years, i really could not adapt to having my vision reduced to just a few meters. Not only am i limited to that, i have to look through 2 pieces of small lenses 2 inch by 1 inch.

Strangely though my diagnosis by the optician was just around 75-100 of short-sightedness and astigmatism. So this really does not explain why my vision have deteriorated so much T_T

Even with glasses i still need to get to a very close distance to clearly read road signs, was my sight's diagnosis wrong? This have bothered my driving quite a fair bit as i lost my confidence in driving properly.

Sigh im really not used this. Ever since i worn the glasses, i feel that my range of clear sight is reduced even more. Perhaps this is why people who wear glasses will almost never have their power reduced or reversed back to the way it was.

I used to be very proud to have perfect vision and can see so many things so clearly. I could spot something far away and proudly exclaim that i found it while everyone else (who wore glasses) were looking high and low for it.

The weight of the glasses are already leaving its mark on my nose :( Too bad im not a fan of contact lenses, the idea of having my fingers wriggling and touching my eyeballs gives me the chill.

I am ..........................

I am Alone and sometimes do feel very lonely

I am Bored as there are many things which i cannot do

I am Curious, sometimes too much that gets me into alot of shit

I am Delusional on many things as i currently can only dissect things from my point of view

I am Emotional and therefore sometimes found in an emo state

I am Friendly but oddly i don't have much friends

I am Grateful to have met many wonderful people in my life so far, of course there are also many nasty people whom i have now chosen to avoid

I am Honest but is hated for it

I am Indecisive and therefore im in the mess that i am now

I am Jealous of many other people, what they have and what they can do, especially what i don't have and/or cannot do

I am Knowledgeable but is translated to be a bad thing by many.

I am Lazy and its a known fact

I am Melancholic but not overly depressed

I am Nasty when the need arises

I am Overweight according to the BMI scale and my doctors ask me to drop weight

I am Patient but i claim myself to be short-fused

I am Quiet but too bad for me, its a bad trait too

I am Restless because i have not solved many of my problems yet to see a brighter light at the end of the tunnel

I am Stupid because i really feel that way

I am Truthful but its hurts people too much that im considering quitting

I am Understanding but not very well understood

I am Visible but feels invisible most of the time

I am Weird in many ways

I am Xhausted because there are many problems banging on my head when i need to sleep and yes i cheated on this one.

I am Yellow-minded but so is every normal man

I am Zany but almost always with the wrong timing.

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What-Bug-Me Tag

The rules

• List out 6 things that bug or annoy you.


• Tag another 8 persons to do this.


• Strictly no tagging back!

The list:

1) People who asks your opinion on things which they want to buy BUT in actual fact they have already made up their mind on which one they already want. So you end up looking like a bloody idiot with your valued and well thought opinion is treated like garbage chucked out even before it left your mind. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO OTHER'S OPINION THEN DON'T FUCKING ASK FOR THEM!!!

2) Queue cutters especially when i had been at the end of the line from the beginning. Be it while im driving or buying something or lining up to get freebies :p

3) People who displays their high end gears and then complaining that they are broke and can't afford even higher end gears, all the while flashing that fancy high end gear in front of my goddamn eyes.

4) To be asked the same questions over and over and over again by different people. If i don't wanna answer then there is a fucking reason why i haven't do so. All shall be revealed in due time.

5) When you are in a rush to get somewhere, you will meet hurdles upon hurdles upon hurdles to reach there on time. Whatever that you do not wish to encounter will fucking happen just when you wished with all your might that it would not =_=

6) To be ignored or boycotted for reasons unknown.

7) Nobody ................ oops, list is not long enough to list out more what-bug-me things :(

Chain mails always end with me, so i guess im a killer for these kinda things. For those who are interested to rant out your list, please do so :)