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Cotton Hugs

I was surprised at the words that came out from her. She must have done a lot of thinking. Given the time she has to herself, I wasn't surprised at how far her imagination takes her, but I was stoned when she conveyed her thoughts at dinner table. It revolves around Life, Death and many other unfortunate events.

I was confused.

It struck in many way and I find myself overwhelmed by the mixture of emotions; was unsure which to react to and I was left dumb founded.

I didn't know what to believe. It was scary. Perhaps Death is still a taboo subject, I don't think I can openly discuss about it without being rattled. Regardless of whom it affects. A part of me just feels drained.

*

I watched V for Vendetta for the n-th time. I love the lines. I like the way V spoke. It was fictional, yes, but still it was brought to life in such a way that got me hooked and will continue to watch it for n times to come.

Happy National Day, Malaysia.

On and On

The rain had not been such a blessing.

The temptation to just fall asleep at work in such cool weather is so difficult to resist.

Me: Hello..Good morning.
Guy: Eh, hello. Wanna ask you something about this. I have been having problems. I can't see the rates panel..I've tried everything, logging in and out, rebooting my computer but still I can't see it.
Me: How long has this been happening? And can I have your Id please?
Guy: Not quite sure. The last time I logged on was last month, so perhaps my colleagues had been using it. Usual thing, I just had my password reset yesterday. Too many passwords to remember.
Me: Yeah too many passwords to remember, and they expire at different times. At least 8. Okay, I've checked your Id, you should be able to see this this and this. Which is missing?
Guy: I'm seeing none of those you mentioned.
Me: (-__-") That's odd. Is any of your colleagues experiencing the same thing? Very much appreciate it if you can check with them.
Guy: Okay. Hold on a sec.

1 minute later ...

Guy: Hello hello .. theirs are working fine. They can see all the panels.
Me: Okay. In that case, I will need to raise a ticket stating your problem and have them check the settings for you.
Guy: Eh. Like that ar. Eh wait. Since they are gonna check it anyway, can you just use my ID and log in?
Me: We're not authorised to do that.
Guy: I'll give you my password. It's Geram@455.
Me: What?
Guy: Geram. G.e.r.a.m.@.4.5.5.
Me: Geram tuu.
Guy: Frustrated sebab kena tukar password selalu. Dan lepas tukar pun lupa selepas satu hari.
Me: Okay, I'll see what I can do. But pasal password, I tak leh tolong.
Guy: I'm learning to live with it. And thanks!

A very small part of my job is to make people's day. And it often swing both ways. =)

Test Water Dulu

I want to laugh at such shallowness.

What is so hard to push a bit harder?

No no, not push you around. The f-ing door.

We cannot tolerate such chienness.

My Brethren, Ants, we shall carry this edible matter out of sight.

I am

Testing.....
This is live blogging from my mobile. Pretty convenient.

It is difficult when options aren't really options. It's worse when you were made to choose one out of the non-options.

At a point, you will just need to make that non optional decision, and make up a big fat white lie out of thin air just to make things right.

One cracked brick won't bring the entire Great Wall of China down. But when one faulty component is consistently battered by the elements, it soon give way. It's easier to mend than to rebuild the wall.

P/s: Thanks for coming. =)

Unknowingly

Let the wind carry the leave where it may.

Babbles

I babble. Alot.

But we shouldn't worry about bringing certain topics up. It's not something we can avoid forever. Someday we'll have to face it. It's just a matter of sooner or later. I can't see how we can go around and bypass the whole process.

When it touches people at its core, that's when a babble is no longer just meaningless talks. We automatically switch from babble-mode to take a look at it more seriously.

The swiftness at which I go from babble-mode to serious is no surprising. I had always been like that.

I was Tagged!

Rules:
1. Each blogger must post these rules first.
2. Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. Blogger that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged, and to read your blog.

Disclaimer: What I’m about to write is my personal opinion. Any objections to what I’m about to pen down, can be voiced out in the ‘comment’ page. Thank you.

1) My appreciation for music has gone to the next level. =)

2) Very much a thinker. I have a lot of time to myself.

3) I subconsciously watch Oprah everyday.

4) Chuck aside books that I find hard to read and only pick them up when I ran out of books to read.

5) PD (public display) of nose digging annoys me. A lot.

6) Sucker for Japanese food and Starbucks.

7) Is contented with life at the moment but never shut doors to new opportunities.

8) I'm a learner. Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Tagged:
1) Thamby!
2) Thamby's other half, the invi man *grins*
3) Zu can i tag you back?
4) TZ, you're the man.
5) kesatria gelap gas kecil tikus

Siapa siapa yang nak di-tag. Sila tag diri sendiri, and drop me a comment to read them. =)

Sniffs

Where are the civil people?

If you do not take care of your customers, others will.

I had just came face to face with the most uncivilized foul mouthed man. Someone who was assigned to write a report on a fault that caused a major downtime on the system.

He dared ask me how I can tolerate my "Muhibbah" team; being the only Chinese there.
I shot him that cold stare the mata once gave me (hey I learned something from mata!) thought WTH?!

That very question really set me back 10 years in trying to understand why certain people just couldn't accept people from other walks of life.

Other than that, I just wanna slap him.

"I don't care about your damn settings, your damn servers and whatever damn configurations you have!"

Watch your language.

"You know what's the problem with you people? You cannot use that kind of mindset if you want to solve this thing."

We're not solving things here. This thing happened 1 month ago, and it's not the first time we explained to you what happened on that day. It was the third time you are asking for the same thing, and do you expect to walk in here saying you need this report by today, and expect all of us to stop whatever we are doing and help you finish up that report? this should be done a month ago. Do you see anything wrong here?

Problem with him was that he came with his bloody mindset of finding fault with the system so that he can save his own sorry a**. I chuckled when he angrily said that I was using my mindset against him.

Uncivilized tactics.

I was holding an print out with correspondences from Microsoft saying that there were things to be done post-deployment. Conveniently left out. It was as simple as 1+1 = 2. He made it sound as if it was 0/(x + y * z)= error.

Wtf.

But I was kinda proud of myself for not blowing my top and cooled off fast enough and counter him with facts.

We need more civilized Chinese people, don't we?

Thank you All.

Hugs.

TL Factor

If you follow my blog often enough, you will notice that I absolutely lorrhh mata.
And my brush with them today didn't mend anything.

So as usual, I was patiently stuck in a jam that was finally moving. I was so accustomed to the bad traffic that I have stopped complaining about it. It's an everyday thing. As common as potholes on the streets.

From my rear mirror, I can see white and blue rotating lights. *rolled eyes
Like how Moses split the Red Sea, that's the effect of the audio and visual warnings to other road users. Splitting for someone in a bloody car so much lesser than the divine. Bah.

I damn TL okay. Not like I'm gonna stop just because that bloody car is passing. I was moving along slowly since the rest had opened up enough for the entire convoy to pass. Then I heard this constant honking from behind, turns out it was one of the policeman on his expensive bike, angrily gesturing at me to STOP MY CAR RIGHT THIS MOMENT. Frantically "flapping" and pointing. Damn ahgua okay. You look ugly flapping in that white uniform. Gah.

I actually laughed at him flapping.

Then he shot me a long cold stare. *watch where you're going dude...

And then continue "flapping" and pointing.

I didn't slow down one bit. I so wanted to give him a finger. Damn flapping cop.

After his stuck up VIP drove past, so did he. If he actually stopped me and slap me with a saman, I'd be happier than to stop for him. Bloody hell.

Woi stop! *flaps and points



Stop or else! I shoot you arrrrrr...

*nah..