2007年05月27日Sunday

Attack of the *&^#@ ants!!

Ok, so I am no expert but I figured teeny tiny ants are no big deal so I see a few crawling around in my room. And here I was on a VERY hot afternoon today taking out some CDs to listen with my old Sony walkman and happily took out the walkman from my cupboard and put on the table and flicked it open and WAH PIANG EH!!!! There was a MOUNTAIN of ants with white matter crawling all over inside!!!! Super gross lor!!! My recently eaten lunch threaten to exit at that very instant. I didnt exactly scream but I certainly yelled eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks! and thank my lucky stars (or not so lucky) that I didnt just drop the whole thing on the floor and run OUT of THE HOUSE. So my very wonderful sister has to help me use the table cloth and wrap the whole NEST and I was just SOOOO tempted to dump it all in the toilet bowl lor - that is what I do to bugs what. But this is a walkman!!! I cant use water to wash the stupid ants and white stuff out. So my sis had to use toilet paper to brush them off. I really love my sister lor, she is the BEST! And after banging it, brushing it, whatever it, there were still ants crawling out of the walkman with white stuff!!! At first I thot, urgh gross - maggots!! But later I realised it looks like grains of white sugar!!!! I highly suspect the sugar came from this box of rock sugar that was placed next to my walkman which was on the living room table last week, then as my mum needed the table, I kept the walkman in my cupboard. Grrrrrrrr........ cant believe the ants conspired to spoil my walkman....yeah, it is spoilt now. Wun play any CDs and btw, the stupid things are STILL crawling out of the walkman power points and earphone plug in points. I mean this is after we tried banging them out, brushing and using hair dryer to 'heat' them out. These tiny things just wun die and stay dead!!!! If ever there is a nuclear explosion and all humans are wiped off the face of earth, I think there will be ants and cockroaches crawling out of the crevices after......
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Brain diahorrea

Kept forgetting to blog after coming bk to Spore :) I used to keep a diary and would write down every single thot and when I read bk, they always seem so interesting to me. How I have changed from then. Why I did I ever even think like that...even thot of leaving all those precious memories for my future daughter (if ever) but now, it is so tough to find time to organise my thots. All excuses of course. From writing a diary to writing postcards to myself, esp when I was on the ship pgm and no access to like a book. I have a half filled box somewhere. Then to writing here.... I really shld go bk to writing a diary again, even if just to compare to what I wrote in Pri 6 :) Just now, my grandma asked how old I am and I had to say the truth - cant hide from your own kin yar? *wink* And wow, I'm actually 31 (ok ok, so I am 32 this year but it aint end of the year YET!!!!) Used to think I have a lot of time on my hands to do whatever I want and now it seems a third of my life is gone and where am I now? What have I done that I am proud of? What regrets do I have? I mean, I am jobless (temp is NOT a job :)) and in debt (just wait till I sign on that dotted HDB line!!) and I realise SHIT!! I have reached that point in life when I have to admit DARN! I am grown up and become a typical Singaporen. Not that I expected otherwise but it seem I got here without even knowing how I did it or how to be otherwise. Some of my frens are still trapising all over the world, some have obeyed the govt and popped a few little ones *wink wink* and some more others have become your typical ADs, VPs, Mgrs, etc etc etc. We bitch abt life and work and definitely THE *&^%$%^&* WEATHER and secretly wonder what it would have been like if we chose otherwise. Je suis etudient du la vie!!! And I have so much more to learn....
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2007年05月03日Thursday

Admin is lower than poo sometimes

I think this stint as admin is giving me new perspective in life. Always knew admin was impt but never imagined the frustrations that go with the job. Frankly, it is as tedious as my prev job - repetitive, overwhelming info and data, ctr of info but seriously far more crap. I think I am too used to having my own way in my own work and being given the power to direct pple to do things. Admin is really the scumscrapers of any organisation - impt scumscrapers but still the LLF (lowest life form). Shudder to even consider doing this for more than 3 months..... actually it is a dilemma: there are too many organisational structures to learn in this job - each info is properly processed and filed away and any lapse can cause confusion. Yet these structures make the organisation roll on despite itself. I find myself still cursing at my lack of patience, making silly mistakes and learning the value of being meticulous - becoz any small mistake like a wrong code, a wrong text can roll on to create BIG POO!! And also becoz there is just no system of checking and double checking. A case of over-empowerment? Possibly.... esp if the staff (like me!!) is only 2 months old!!! Anyway, we all learn on....

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