Friday was a pretty fun day for me, coz' I taught another Mad Science camp at Taman Pertanian Malaysia (Malaysian Agricultrue Park), and there were only had 7 kids. After having to deal with 50-odd 4 to 6 year olds at the IBM camp just a few days before, trust me, a camp with only 7 kids was like a walk in the park for me. The most tiring thing about it was just shifting the equipment here and there, and the rest of the day was pretty fun for me and the kids coz' they were all well-behaved. The only problem was that one of the kid's tooth decided to pop out that day while we were having an activity where they got to eat some jelly worms and his little tooth got stuck on one. And one of the other kids had a bad tummy ache and had to poop several times, once on the way back in my colleague's car too (she had to go detox her car seat after that. Poor her!). And during one of the games where the we all had to chase each other, my two other colleagues who were there helping me out were almost ready to collapse coz' they never exercise, and chasing the kids around for a few minutes was too much for them! But other than that, it was a fun day... everything went well and the kids enjoyed it. We went to visit this Four Seasons house at TPM too, which is a building that simulates the same season that it is during ther time in the US. So right now, it simulates winter time, and when we went in there, we got to play with snow and freeze our tooshies off for a few minutes. It was seriously superbly cold in there, and I didn't have any extra clothes, so I wore my Mad Science lab coat in there. The other people in there must thought I was really mad! The really good thing was that it didn't rain the whole day until right after we all packed up and left, coz' our camp venue was this open air sheltered place, and I was a bit worried about what whether or not it would rain. Fortunately, it didn't. Whew!
After that camp was done though, it was back to the grind coz' the next day (which was yesterday), I and another colleague had to do a birthday party event for some 7 year old Japanese kid who had about 30 kids at her party and we didn't have the time to prepare for it before the camp. So we had to stay at office until 8pm to prepare for it, and even then we still didn't finish preparing everything, so yesterday I had to prepare some more stuff before we left for the party. And then, on the way there, I realised that I forgot something important and had to go back to office to get it. And coz' of that, we were late. Then, as there were only two of us doing the party event (all my other 4 colleagues were on leave yesterday for various reasons, so there was no one else to help us) and there were 30 kids, we were there longer than we expected. Two people trying to make slime, super science ball and cotton candy for 30 kids is no fun, I tell you that. And we also had to do some party games, where the 1st game was a major disaster coz' we had to get the kids to blow up some balloons, but the balloons kept popping. And then later, when we doing the cotton candy, smoke started coming out of the machine, which got me worried coz' I didn't know if that meant the machine's wires were frying. But fortunately, it still worked, so I just kept going. I really pray and hope that the cotton candy machine still works!
And if all that wasn't bad enough, after getting back from the party, I had another problem to deal with... my car had a flat tyre! I think it was flat since the day before coz' as I was driving home, my car kept going left when I let go of the steering wheel. At the time, I thought it was because my steering wheel was out of alignment, but on Saturday morning, on the way to work, I suspected something really wrong, so I got out of my car to check and sure enough, my front left tyre was flat. And since I had to rush to work for the party, the only thing I could do was drive to the nearest petrol station, pump it up with air and get to work first. So after the party was over, I had to figure out what to do with my flat tyre. My other colleague also had to rush off to pick up her relatives from the airport, so I had no colleagues to help me. It was a Saturday afternoon, so there was practically no one else around. So there I was, alone in my not-so-well-lit office parking basement, half dead after the party, and wondering if I could actually change a tyre on my own coz' I'd never done it myself before. If ever there was time I wished I could crawl up in a hole somewhere and disappear, that would've been it. :Þ
So anyway, I thought it can't be that hard. I learned this in driving school. So I rummage through my car boot (which has quite a bit of junk, which I must clean out one of these days...) and haul out the spare tyre, jack and other tools which I have no idea what their names are. Then I sat on the spare tyre while I looked at my jack and read the instructions to make sure I didn't screw anything up. And then I had the tiring task of turning the jack to lift up my car. I used one of those tools which I have no idea what the name is (I'll just call it the Jack Turning Thingy) to turn the jack, but I didn't know how to use it properly. So everytime I turned it, the long end would hit the floor, so I had to pull in through and push the other end round again. So it took a while just to get my car jacked up.
Then, I tried to unscrew the bolts using that other tool which I have no idea what it's name is (I'll just call it the Bolt Unscrewing Thingy). I tried to turn the first bolt one way. It didn't budge. I tried to turn it the other way. Still didn't budge. Then I remembered that the way to unscrew the bolts was to step hard onto the Bolt Unscrewing Thingy til the bolt came loose. But I also realised that if I tried to take the bolts off while the tyre was off the ground, I would probably break the tyre off my car! So I had to use the Jack Turning Thingy again lower the jack down so the tyre would be on the ground!! Argh!
Anyway, once I was done expending what little energy I had left on lowering the tyre again with the Jack Turning Thingy, I tried to unscrew the bolts again by stepping on the Bolt Unscrewing Thingy. And I didn't even know which direction to unscrew them. I certainly didn't want to make them any tighter! So it took me a few tries til I finally got the direction right, and got all the bolts off. Even carrying the tyre out was a pain. Do you know how dang heavy this chunk of rubber is? Well, the rim probably adds a lot to the weight. Anyway, I did manage to change the tyres, screw the bolts back on, lower the jack and throw everything back into my boot.
Then I drove back to Subang and got my car checked at the mechanic my dad usually sends the car too. That was also my first time sending my car to the workshop on my own, but at least the boss there recognises me coz' I'd been there with my dad before. The problem was that he can't speak English, so I had to explain in my half-past-six Cantonese that my tyre needed to be checked and fixed, if necessary. Turns out that there was a gigantic-O hole in my tyre, so it was beyond fixing. So the boss suggested that they change my spare tyre over to the rim, and I buy a second-hand spare tyre coz' new ones cost quite a bit. The new spare tyre would only cost RM50, so I thought that was ok to me. He says he didn't charge me worksmanship fee, which I dunno whether is true or not, but I hope it is. The really good thing is that nothing was wrong with my tyre rim, which I think it a miracle considering I was driving at normal speed on a flat tyre the day before. Buying a new rim costs a bomb, so I REALLY thank God that it was ok! So while, the guys are helping to change the tyre for me, the boss told me that my tyres have another 5000 km left in them, after which I have to replace all of them (which means more money...bleh...). He also told me that the Kelisa tyres can run for between 65000 to 70000 km.
He also told me a lot of other stuff, but I couldn't really understand what he was saying in Cantonese, so I just stood there and nodded my head every now and then. *grin*
Anyway, now my tyre problem is solved, and today, I finally had a good rest coz' after church, I came home and had a nice long nap in the afternoon. Tomorrow I have to wake up early AGAIN coz' of more school holiday camps. Dunno how much longer I can take of this, but the good news is that I complained to my boss about working such long hours, and my boss said he'll give us a few days break from work at the end of this month, and we won't have to claim for leave for it. Woo hoo! Thank God I have a nice boss! Anyway, it's time for more shut eye. Cheerio!
Monday, December 04, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Carol's Busy Schedule
Several weeks before last Friday:
At work, I was busy preparing for upcoming Mad Science school holiday camps. This involved preparing materials for various camp activities, preparing timetable, preparing camp notes, and thinking what the heck I was gonna teach. I also went out shopping so often after work to buy stuff for camps that now I am quite sick of shopping.
At home after work, I was busy preparing for Discovery Days that was to be at my church on Friday and Saturday. I was in charge of getting people to help do carnival game booths, prepare my own carnival booth, prepare songs to sing along with the kids and think of actions for the songs (and remember all of them too, of course). I also had the bright idea of singing the High School Musical theme song (We're All In This Together) for DD, as this is like the Disney movie that all the kids are going nuts over these days. I also had the brighter idea of asking some of my church kids to dance along with me, and initially although I thought of having only 4 dancers, so many kids wanted to join in, I ended up with 8. So I also had to spend a few days to learn the dance. Which involved a lot of playing and rewinding of the movie vcd (which I borrowed from one of my church kids) in order for me to scrutinise all the dance moves. Then I had to teach the dance moves to my church kids. That in addition to learning the actions for the other songs I was gonna sing for DD. And then I had the even brighter idea of doing a Mad Science show for DD. Which meant more work.
During this time, I also came down with a bout of food poisoning, where I had to take MC half day, but went back to work the next day coz' there was too much stuff to do. Then I came down with colds a couples times over the past couple of weeks. And since my bout of food poisoning, I would every now and then feel like throwing up whenever I ate oily or dairy foods. I think it was also because I was so busy running around like a mad chicken doing stuff. Apparently, it wasn't just me, but one of my other colleagues felt it too. Fortunately, I never actually chucked up anything.
Last Friday:
Discovery Days was on, and I had to wake up at 7am or so to be at church by 7.45am. I spent the first half of the day doing the sing-a-long songs with the kids. And due to the actions, it involved a lot of jumping around on stage. By the end of the 3rd song, I was ready to konk out, but I couldn't coz' I had to help take care of the kids for some games. Then somehow or another, I also ended up having to keep about 30 of the kids busy by guiding them to complete their activity books. So I had to use the mike and talk to the kids for about half an hour, guiding them to find the answers for the activities, and of course had to deal with some noisy kids.
By the middle of the day, I was so zonked out, I took a time out after lunch and slept on the couch at the back room of the church. And then some of the kids found me and decided to amuse themselves by poking me here and there. And I was too zonked to bother to react. Fortunately one of my friends came in and chased them all out (Thank you, Kelvin!). After my short-lived break, I had to set up my booth for the carnival games, which turned out to be quite a popular game with the kids. Which also meant I was kept quite busy too.
Later on, there was some spare time, so I was asked to do song leading again to keep the kids busy. One of the church aunties also decided it would be nice to have the kids to do a small presentation for their parents the next day, and so I had to teach them the actions for one of the songs til they all got it. So there was more jumping around there for me.
Towards the end of the day, I started sneezing badly and came down with a bit of cold. So I went off home.
Last Saturday:
It was second day of Discovery Days, but I was not there in the morning as I had to go back to office to finish off some work. Fortunately, I had recovered from my cold. And the kids were going to the zoo in the morning, so as much as I wanted to go, I had to opt out. I did go back in the afternoon, once the kids got back, and I performed my Mad Science dry ice show. And at several points during the show, whenever I went off stage to show stuff up close to the kids, a bunch of them would crowd around me wanting to have the first try. And yes, I kept telling them to sit down and wait for me to come to them. Unfortunately, some kids fail to understand the meaning of obeying instructions. So essentially, I was mobbed by the kids quite a few times during the show. But they enjoyed it, and that's the important thing.
Later on, I practiced the song with the kids again, and before they went back, they performed it for their parents, who came for a tea party at the end of the event. After that, all the kids went off, and I had my own private dry ice show for the big kids, a.k.a. the youth and young adults, at the back room of the church. Apparently, even the big kids like to play with big carbon dioxide filled soap bubbles. :P
So all in all, for DD, it was a really busy but enjoyable time. I'm glad it went well, and a lot of non-Christian kids learned about the gospel. And I'm also glad it's over, so I can get some rest after work!
Last Sunday:
I was suppooooosed to perform a birthday party show at One Utama in the morning, but went there and it turned out that the show was moved to 4.30pm, and I dunno where the miscommunication came from. So I went shopping for camp stuff (again!) and then went to office to prepare more camp stuff before going to the birthday party later on, where I had to help make slime fore about 12 kids to take home. Yes, it's as messy as it sounds. After that, I went home, but not before taking 5 minutes out to play Para Para Sakura at the arcade (where I played two games and lost on the 3rd round each time. I think my arms were tired from waving around too much. :Þ)
Yesterday (Monday):
My company had our first school holiday science camp for kids at the National Science Centre. I had to wake up at 6am to be at office by 7am and help the instructor for the day pack things into the van for her camp, then go there and set up everything for the camp, then I was there til 5pm helping out. Fortunately, there were only 12 kids, and they were reasonably well behaved. And it was a simple and fun camp about flying machines, where the kids got to make their own paper aeroplanes, paper boomerangs, wooden planes and some other flying stuff. And the kids all decided to use me as target practice for their boomerangs at one point, so I also just let loose and had fun running around with them.
Once we were done, we packed up and headed back to office, where we had to prepare for our big day the next day (which was TODAY) coz' we were going to run 3 camps concurrently at the IBM tower. And there would be 50 kids at each camp. Which means we had to prepare a LOT of materials. So I was at office for quite a while to prepare stuff. And my colleagues wanted to go shopping again and asked me to go along, but in the end, I decided to 'fung fei kei' them. And this was because I had to go back and pluck flowers (in illegal places. Don't ask me where. Hehe) to be used for my camp. So I was busy up at night plucking flowers around my area, after which I went home and finalised the timetable for my camp before crashing into my lovely bed.
TODAY:
I had to wake up at 6am AGAIN to be at office my 7am and do all the packing and transporting and preparing for my camp at the IBM tower. At 9.30am (half an hour before the camp is supposed to start) the kids start coming into the area. Did I mention that the 50 kids I was teaching were all between 4 to 6 year olds? And some of their parents decided to 'kaypoh' and stay for the whole camp to help their kids (or maybe just had nothing else to do at work). So not only did I have to deal with controlling 50 little kids, but also dealing with noisy parents standing around. Ugh.
The first half of my camp went ok. The kids did their activities and sat quietly while my helpers and I went around helping them do stuff. But after lunch, I'm not sure exactly how much sugar their parents fed them, but they turned rather uncontrollable and were running all over the place. Didn't help when I had to do Plaster of Paris casts for them for one activity, and the plaster made a huge mess, so I couldn't watch the kids and that made them go even more haywire. I dunno what the other parents or IBM workers there were doing. But I was too zonked again to care, so I just finished off my plaster casts, finished off my camp, packed up everything and went off.
I thought after a hard day's work, we would all just chuck all our stuff at our office then go home to get a good night's rest. But for some reason, my supervisor who sometimes seems to get PMS (he's a guy, by the way) made us stay back at office to discuss who was going to do what for the next one week. And he was giving me a silly lecture on what things I had to do for another camp I am going to run this Friday at Malaysian Agriculture Park. I dunno why he was talking to me like I was retarded or something, but he said some stuff about making sure when the kids go to toilet, they need to follow an adult AND be with a partner. And also some stuff about giving them cleeaaar instructions on what to do and where to go and this and that, to make sure they didn't get lost. Right. And all this major security for a current grand total of 6 kids going for my upcoming camp. I suppose he was lecturing me because the kids of my camp today were running around a lot, and he thought I didn't give them cleeeaaaar instructions on what to do in order to keep them under control. He didn't seem to take into consideration that I was handling 50 small 4 to 6 year olds, and there were a bunch of 'kaypoh' adults in the room as well making as much noise as the kids. So when I did give them instructions, not all 50 kids would've heard everything I was saying.
Anyway, I was pretty annoyed with my supervisor for giving me such a dumb lecture, but was too tired to say anything. And my other colleagues were all also ticked off with him too for making us stay back to discuss stuff which we could've discussed tomorrow. We were all just waiting for him to let us off. And the funniest thing was that he then asked much longer we were planning to stay at office, and if we were staying, he would order pizza for dinner. All of us said goodbye, grabbed our stuff and ran outta there as fast as we could.
So yeah, after so many weeks of prepping for DD and camps and stuff, and finally having one night free to blog stuff, all I just wanna say now is "WOOOOOOOaaaOOOOOaaaaOOOOOOYAAY!".
Ok, stress relieved. Time for bed.
At work, I was busy preparing for upcoming Mad Science school holiday camps. This involved preparing materials for various camp activities, preparing timetable, preparing camp notes, and thinking what the heck I was gonna teach. I also went out shopping so often after work to buy stuff for camps that now I am quite sick of shopping.
At home after work, I was busy preparing for Discovery Days that was to be at my church on Friday and Saturday. I was in charge of getting people to help do carnival game booths, prepare my own carnival booth, prepare songs to sing along with the kids and think of actions for the songs (and remember all of them too, of course). I also had the bright idea of singing the High School Musical theme song (We're All In This Together) for DD, as this is like the Disney movie that all the kids are going nuts over these days. I also had the brighter idea of asking some of my church kids to dance along with me, and initially although I thought of having only 4 dancers, so many kids wanted to join in, I ended up with 8. So I also had to spend a few days to learn the dance. Which involved a lot of playing and rewinding of the movie vcd (which I borrowed from one of my church kids) in order for me to scrutinise all the dance moves. Then I had to teach the dance moves to my church kids. That in addition to learning the actions for the other songs I was gonna sing for DD. And then I had the even brighter idea of doing a Mad Science show for DD. Which meant more work.
During this time, I also came down with a bout of food poisoning, where I had to take MC half day, but went back to work the next day coz' there was too much stuff to do. Then I came down with colds a couples times over the past couple of weeks. And since my bout of food poisoning, I would every now and then feel like throwing up whenever I ate oily or dairy foods. I think it was also because I was so busy running around like a mad chicken doing stuff. Apparently, it wasn't just me, but one of my other colleagues felt it too. Fortunately, I never actually chucked up anything.
Last Friday:
Discovery Days was on, and I had to wake up at 7am or so to be at church by 7.45am. I spent the first half of the day doing the sing-a-long songs with the kids. And due to the actions, it involved a lot of jumping around on stage. By the end of the 3rd song, I was ready to konk out, but I couldn't coz' I had to help take care of the kids for some games. Then somehow or another, I also ended up having to keep about 30 of the kids busy by guiding them to complete their activity books. So I had to use the mike and talk to the kids for about half an hour, guiding them to find the answers for the activities, and of course had to deal with some noisy kids.
By the middle of the day, I was so zonked out, I took a time out after lunch and slept on the couch at the back room of the church. And then some of the kids found me and decided to amuse themselves by poking me here and there. And I was too zonked to bother to react. Fortunately one of my friends came in and chased them all out (Thank you, Kelvin!). After my short-lived break, I had to set up my booth for the carnival games, which turned out to be quite a popular game with the kids. Which also meant I was kept quite busy too.
Later on, there was some spare time, so I was asked to do song leading again to keep the kids busy. One of the church aunties also decided it would be nice to have the kids to do a small presentation for their parents the next day, and so I had to teach them the actions for one of the songs til they all got it. So there was more jumping around there for me.
Towards the end of the day, I started sneezing badly and came down with a bit of cold. So I went off home.
Last Saturday:
It was second day of Discovery Days, but I was not there in the morning as I had to go back to office to finish off some work. Fortunately, I had recovered from my cold. And the kids were going to the zoo in the morning, so as much as I wanted to go, I had to opt out. I did go back in the afternoon, once the kids got back, and I performed my Mad Science dry ice show. And at several points during the show, whenever I went off stage to show stuff up close to the kids, a bunch of them would crowd around me wanting to have the first try. And yes, I kept telling them to sit down and wait for me to come to them. Unfortunately, some kids fail to understand the meaning of obeying instructions. So essentially, I was mobbed by the kids quite a few times during the show. But they enjoyed it, and that's the important thing.
Later on, I practiced the song with the kids again, and before they went back, they performed it for their parents, who came for a tea party at the end of the event. After that, all the kids went off, and I had my own private dry ice show for the big kids, a.k.a. the youth and young adults, at the back room of the church. Apparently, even the big kids like to play with big carbon dioxide filled soap bubbles. :P
So all in all, for DD, it was a really busy but enjoyable time. I'm glad it went well, and a lot of non-Christian kids learned about the gospel. And I'm also glad it's over, so I can get some rest after work!
Last Sunday:
I was suppooooosed to perform a birthday party show at One Utama in the morning, but went there and it turned out that the show was moved to 4.30pm, and I dunno where the miscommunication came from. So I went shopping for camp stuff (again!) and then went to office to prepare more camp stuff before going to the birthday party later on, where I had to help make slime fore about 12 kids to take home. Yes, it's as messy as it sounds. After that, I went home, but not before taking 5 minutes out to play Para Para Sakura at the arcade (where I played two games and lost on the 3rd round each time. I think my arms were tired from waving around too much. :Þ)
Yesterday (Monday):
My company had our first school holiday science camp for kids at the National Science Centre. I had to wake up at 6am to be at office by 7am and help the instructor for the day pack things into the van for her camp, then go there and set up everything for the camp, then I was there til 5pm helping out. Fortunately, there were only 12 kids, and they were reasonably well behaved. And it was a simple and fun camp about flying machines, where the kids got to make their own paper aeroplanes, paper boomerangs, wooden planes and some other flying stuff. And the kids all decided to use me as target practice for their boomerangs at one point, so I also just let loose and had fun running around with them.
Once we were done, we packed up and headed back to office, where we had to prepare for our big day the next day (which was TODAY) coz' we were going to run 3 camps concurrently at the IBM tower. And there would be 50 kids at each camp. Which means we had to prepare a LOT of materials. So I was at office for quite a while to prepare stuff. And my colleagues wanted to go shopping again and asked me to go along, but in the end, I decided to 'fung fei kei' them. And this was because I had to go back and pluck flowers (in illegal places. Don't ask me where. Hehe) to be used for my camp. So I was busy up at night plucking flowers around my area, after which I went home and finalised the timetable for my camp before crashing into my lovely bed.
TODAY:
I had to wake up at 6am AGAIN to be at office my 7am and do all the packing and transporting and preparing for my camp at the IBM tower. At 9.30am (half an hour before the camp is supposed to start) the kids start coming into the area. Did I mention that the 50 kids I was teaching were all between 4 to 6 year olds? And some of their parents decided to 'kaypoh' and stay for the whole camp to help their kids (or maybe just had nothing else to do at work). So not only did I have to deal with controlling 50 little kids, but also dealing with noisy parents standing around. Ugh.
The first half of my camp went ok. The kids did their activities and sat quietly while my helpers and I went around helping them do stuff. But after lunch, I'm not sure exactly how much sugar their parents fed them, but they turned rather uncontrollable and were running all over the place. Didn't help when I had to do Plaster of Paris casts for them for one activity, and the plaster made a huge mess, so I couldn't watch the kids and that made them go even more haywire. I dunno what the other parents or IBM workers there were doing. But I was too zonked again to care, so I just finished off my plaster casts, finished off my camp, packed up everything and went off.
I thought after a hard day's work, we would all just chuck all our stuff at our office then go home to get a good night's rest. But for some reason, my supervisor who sometimes seems to get PMS (he's a guy, by the way) made us stay back at office to discuss who was going to do what for the next one week. And he was giving me a silly lecture on what things I had to do for another camp I am going to run this Friday at Malaysian Agriculture Park. I dunno why he was talking to me like I was retarded or something, but he said some stuff about making sure when the kids go to toilet, they need to follow an adult AND be with a partner. And also some stuff about giving them cleeaaar instructions on what to do and where to go and this and that, to make sure they didn't get lost. Right. And all this major security for a current grand total of 6 kids going for my upcoming camp. I suppose he was lecturing me because the kids of my camp today were running around a lot, and he thought I didn't give them cleeeaaaar instructions on what to do in order to keep them under control. He didn't seem to take into consideration that I was handling 50 small 4 to 6 year olds, and there were a bunch of 'kaypoh' adults in the room as well making as much noise as the kids. So when I did give them instructions, not all 50 kids would've heard everything I was saying.
Anyway, I was pretty annoyed with my supervisor for giving me such a dumb lecture, but was too tired to say anything. And my other colleagues were all also ticked off with him too for making us stay back to discuss stuff which we could've discussed tomorrow. We were all just waiting for him to let us off. And the funniest thing was that he then asked much longer we were planning to stay at office, and if we were staying, he would order pizza for dinner. All of us said goodbye, grabbed our stuff and ran outta there as fast as we could.
So yeah, after so many weeks of prepping for DD and camps and stuff, and finally having one night free to blog stuff, all I just wanna say now is "WOOOOOOOaaaOOOOOaaaaOOOOOOYAAY!".
Ok, stress relieved. Time for bed.
Friday, November 24, 2006
M.I.A. due to D.D. and I'm about to K.O.
Yesh I know I've been MIA a.k.a. Missing In Action. I wanted to continue my story about that super annoying colleague of mine who didn't want to come to work and diverted our office calls to my phone, but the day when I wanted to post my entry, Blogger went haywire and I couldn't post. And for the week after that, I have been so superbly busy at work and preparing for Discovery Days (which is tomorrow, so I should be asleep now!). But I did save my post on what happened with the guy on my laptop, but right now I'm using my desktop so I still can't post. So maybe later on, when I somehow or another find the time to waste time on the internet again, I'll post the continuation of that little drama.
As of now, it's off to bed for me. Tomorrow I have to wake up at the ungodly hour of 6.45am to prepare for Discovery Days, which is going on for the whole day. And considering the lack of sleep I've been getting due to lots of stuff to do at work as well as prepping for DD, I won't be surprised if I pengsan tomorrow. Do pray for my alertness and energy, and most importantly, my sanity as I help to on over 60 ruggamuffins at my church tomorrow for the whole. XÞ
As of now, it's off to bed for me. Tomorrow I have to wake up at the ungodly hour of 6.45am to prepare for Discovery Days, which is going on for the whole day. And considering the lack of sleep I've been getting due to lots of stuff to do at work as well as prepping for DD, I won't be surprised if I pengsan tomorrow. Do pray for my alertness and energy, and most importantly, my sanity as I help to on over 60 ruggamuffins at my church tomorrow for the whole. XÞ
Monday, November 13, 2006
An awful witness.... >:(
Things are getting superbly busy for me right now as my company's school holidays camps are coming up soon and we're still not all that prepared. In addition to having to run a booth at some kid's charity carnival at Bangsar Shopping Complex, and also having to conduct our usual classes, birthday party shows and workshops, I think all of us are being stretched pretty tight. And after office hours, my work still isn't done coz' I still have to prepare for upcoming Discovery Days at church. So if you guys don't hear a peep from me on my blog for while, no need to wonder whether I've fallen off the face of the earth.
It doesn't help that we recently had new colleague come into office last week, who really isn't much help at all... AND he did something so incredibly irresponsible. He's only 20 years with only SPM qualifications, and even though he seemed like a nice guy, he did his work superbly slow and annoyed everyone by asking lots of really silly things. Like once I told him to put a file anywhere in between some other files, and he kept asking me "Here ah? Here ah?". Like, duh, I already said put it ANYWHERE in between. Doink.
But that's not the reason I and my other colleagues are really ticked off with him. This weekend, my colleagues were supposed to help take care of a booth at this children's charity carnival at Bangsar Shopping Complex, and he was supposed to be there too. He should've already known that it is part of the job to work on weekends sometimes as required...but this smart aleck decided that he just wanted to go home during the weekend...just for the fun of it. Of course, when he told my supervisor that, he was pretty annoyed and told the new guy that he either had to find a replacement or work during the weekend and forget about going back to hometown. That happened on Friday.
The next morning, I wake up to go to work (we have to work half days on Saturdays) and I get an sms from the new guy that he's not coming to work on Saturday or Sunday, and he asked me to tell my supervisor for him. At this point, I'm appalled that the guy has the gall to refuse to even go to work half day and can't even tell the supervisor himself. So I sms-ed him back and told him that he had better go the office and tell my supervisor himself or else the supervisor AND our boss would blow their top. He didn't reply to me. When I tried to call him several times, he didn't pick up. And to top it off, when I was at office and my supervisor tried to call him, the call came back to me! Which means the idiot actually diverted the call from the office to my phone!!!!
Needless to say, I am soooo ticked off at the nerve of this guy, and I would fully support the firing of this idiot. There's no way I, or anyone else at the office, would be willing to work with someone can do such a thing. And the thing that really, really, REALLY bugs me is that this guy is actually a Jehovah's Witness! He has the nerve to call himself a 'Christian', and acts all holy holy... talking to some of my colleagues about his faith, saying grace before eating, and going to bible study classes on Tuesday and Thursday (or so he told me). Once last week, this financial advisor came to our office and tried to convince us to join some business workshop, and he went on to tell her that he's a Christian and Jesus teaches us to be contented with what we have... ah bla bla bla.... I was ok with him doing all that... but after his little stunt with ignoring our phone call and using MY phone to divert office calls... I really just feel like smacking him for acting like such a goody two-shoes Christian and then shirking his responsibiities like this. On his first week at work, no less. I doubt he will actually show up at office tomorrow morning, coz' obviously he doesn't care about the job enough to make some effort to keep it. But he's still holding onto our office keys, and if he doesn't at least show up tomorrow to return them, then it goes to show what a real jerk-off he is. Luckily, I even know where he stays coz' I carpooled with him on a few days last week. And if he really doesn't show up tomorrow, I go right over to his house, get the office keys back from him and really give him a good big piece of my mind. For all I know, he would give some Biblical reason to justify why he didn't go to work. Perhaps something along the lines of the Bible saying we are not to work on the Sabbath day (Sunday). By golly, if he did say something like that, I think I really would give him a good smack on the head. Sorry lah, I'm not the model Christian of the year myself, and much as try to be forgiving towards his behaviour, I don't think I can be when he knows what he did was wrong and inconvenienced everyone at work, but he did it anyway, and probably without any remorse. Ugh. Ick. How sickening.
Anyway, I REALLY hope he'll save me the trouble of sounding him at his house, and come to office tomorrow. For now, I'm off to bed. Ciow!
It doesn't help that we recently had new colleague come into office last week, who really isn't much help at all... AND he did something so incredibly irresponsible. He's only 20 years with only SPM qualifications, and even though he seemed like a nice guy, he did his work superbly slow and annoyed everyone by asking lots of really silly things. Like once I told him to put a file anywhere in between some other files, and he kept asking me "Here ah? Here ah?". Like, duh, I already said put it ANYWHERE in between. Doink.
But that's not the reason I and my other colleagues are really ticked off with him. This weekend, my colleagues were supposed to help take care of a booth at this children's charity carnival at Bangsar Shopping Complex, and he was supposed to be there too. He should've already known that it is part of the job to work on weekends sometimes as required...but this smart aleck decided that he just wanted to go home during the weekend...just for the fun of it. Of course, when he told my supervisor that, he was pretty annoyed and told the new guy that he either had to find a replacement or work during the weekend and forget about going back to hometown. That happened on Friday.
The next morning, I wake up to go to work (we have to work half days on Saturdays) and I get an sms from the new guy that he's not coming to work on Saturday or Sunday, and he asked me to tell my supervisor for him. At this point, I'm appalled that the guy has the gall to refuse to even go to work half day and can't even tell the supervisor himself. So I sms-ed him back and told him that he had better go the office and tell my supervisor himself or else the supervisor AND our boss would blow their top. He didn't reply to me. When I tried to call him several times, he didn't pick up. And to top it off, when I was at office and my supervisor tried to call him, the call came back to me! Which means the idiot actually diverted the call from the office to my phone!!!!
Needless to say, I am soooo ticked off at the nerve of this guy, and I would fully support the firing of this idiot. There's no way I, or anyone else at the office, would be willing to work with someone can do such a thing. And the thing that really, really, REALLY bugs me is that this guy is actually a Jehovah's Witness! He has the nerve to call himself a 'Christian', and acts all holy holy... talking to some of my colleagues about his faith, saying grace before eating, and going to bible study classes on Tuesday and Thursday (or so he told me). Once last week, this financial advisor came to our office and tried to convince us to join some business workshop, and he went on to tell her that he's a Christian and Jesus teaches us to be contented with what we have... ah bla bla bla.... I was ok with him doing all that... but after his little stunt with ignoring our phone call and using MY phone to divert office calls... I really just feel like smacking him for acting like such a goody two-shoes Christian and then shirking his responsibiities like this. On his first week at work, no less. I doubt he will actually show up at office tomorrow morning, coz' obviously he doesn't care about the job enough to make some effort to keep it. But he's still holding onto our office keys, and if he doesn't at least show up tomorrow to return them, then it goes to show what a real jerk-off he is. Luckily, I even know where he stays coz' I carpooled with him on a few days last week. And if he really doesn't show up tomorrow, I go right over to his house, get the office keys back from him and really give him a good big piece of my mind. For all I know, he would give some Biblical reason to justify why he didn't go to work. Perhaps something along the lines of the Bible saying we are not to work on the Sabbath day (Sunday). By golly, if he did say something like that, I think I really would give him a good smack on the head. Sorry lah, I'm not the model Christian of the year myself, and much as try to be forgiving towards his behaviour, I don't think I can be when he knows what he did was wrong and inconvenienced everyone at work, but he did it anyway, and probably without any remorse. Ugh. Ick. How sickening.
Anyway, I REALLY hope he'll save me the trouble of sounding him at his house, and come to office tomorrow. For now, I'm off to bed. Ciow!
Monday, October 30, 2006
A couple of cute kitties
Well, I had a pretty good weekend. Gerald came to visit me on Saturday and went back today (Sunday) and we went to visit KLCC's Aquaria, which was a really nice place. I'm impressed coz' it seems as good or even better than Singapore's Underwater World. What a miracle! Of course, we took a ton of pics, and as usual, I dunno which century I will put them up coz'I'm not done editing them yet, and posting a ton of pics is always a hassle. Posting a few pics, on the other hand, isn't such a problem. And I'm posting some pics of a couple of super cute kitties I found just outside my apartment tonight after Gerald left. I was about to go out to wash my car and Sassy was sniffing around a garbage bag at the grill when I saw her looking at something inside our shoe rack. And since it was low, I couldn't see what was there at first, and I thought there was something in the garbage bag that caught her interest. Then I heard something hissing, and I looked at the shoe rack and saw a kitten hiding there. And then I saw another kitty hiding under the stools next to the shoe rack! The one in the shoe rack was grey and white in colour and was hissing at Sassy a lot, so I took her away just in case the cat decided to scratch her. The other kitty was orange and white in colour, and a lot less hissy. I guess the grey one is the big sister or something! Anyway, my mum shooed both of them out the door, so they both hid in my neighbour's shoe rack instead! And the neighbours weren't too happy either, and they shooed them out too. The poor little kitties ended up in the stairway next to my apartment, and I felt so sorry for them, I gave them some cooked fish to eat. And they were quite wary of me, especially the 'big sister' who kept hissing at me. But I moved slowly towards them and eventually, even hissy big sister kitty let me pet her and give her a nice scratch. So I decided to grab my camera and snap some pics of the two cuties!
Here's the hissy big sister kitty....not so hissy now, fortunately!
And here's the more good natured 'little' sis. :P
The two of them about to go to sleep...
And here's a cute pic of them sleeping!
Eventually I wanted to try and get them a home, so I called up some friends to see if anyone wanted them, but no one could keep them. But I know a girl staying at my apartment area who's so fond of cats, she keeps about 6 of them! So I called her and she offered to send them to PAWS for me as she is heading there tomorrow to send another cat for adoption. She asked if I was willing to donate RM40 per cat to them though, coz' they need the money to care for the animals. And I got my parents to sponsor one kitty each. :P So I took the kitties home for a while to watch them while I waited for my friend to come back from work, and here's a pic of them invading my territory a.k.a. my room!
It took me quite a while to coax the grey big sister out from under my desk, coz' she was hissing at me again and I didn't want to get scratched. But eventually I managed to grab her, and now they're both safe and sound and my friend's place. She says they're really pretty kittens and will most likely get adopted. I sure hope so. Would be such a waste if they had to be put down! Oh well, I did my bit for the animals today. :P
Here's the hissy big sister kitty....not so hissy now, fortunately!
And here's the more good natured 'little' sis. :P
The two of them about to go to sleep...
And here's a cute pic of them sleeping!
Eventually I wanted to try and get them a home, so I called up some friends to see if anyone wanted them, but no one could keep them. But I know a girl staying at my apartment area who's so fond of cats, she keeps about 6 of them! So I called her and she offered to send them to PAWS for me as she is heading there tomorrow to send another cat for adoption. She asked if I was willing to donate RM40 per cat to them though, coz' they need the money to care for the animals. And I got my parents to sponsor one kitty each. :P So I took the kitties home for a while to watch them while I waited for my friend to come back from work, and here's a pic of them invading my territory a.k.a. my room!
It took me quite a while to coax the grey big sister out from under my desk, coz' she was hissing at me again and I didn't want to get scratched. But eventually I managed to grab her, and now they're both safe and sound and my friend's place. She says they're really pretty kittens and will most likely get adopted. I sure hope so. Would be such a waste if they had to be put down! Oh well, I did my bit for the animals today. :P
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