sick.

hey,

How's everyone?. just realised that i havent blogged for the past 2 weeks. been quite busy at work (yea right). am currently down with a cold. been sick since last week, so decided to stay home and rest today. Went to the clinic today, but wasnt sick enough to get an MC (Medical Certificate(??)), but got some medicine. So, i'm technically typing this under drug influence. hhaha

Nothing much to update on my side. Don't really like being sick. I tend to be abit edgy when i'm sick. Get annoyed really fast with whatever. Those around me would know what i'm talking about. Even my dad managed to annoy me this morning (haha), and he was just being concerned. oh well.

work's been like its usual self. full of crap. Had a few redundant meetings here and there (will save that for another day) but mostly just sit around look busy.

Managed to hang out with my nephew and niece over the weekend (love them to bits!!!). There was one part where i thought was sweet.. i was lying down on the bed with my niece (2 months old) and the brother came over (2 years) and gave her a peck on the cheek, and kinda just brushed her hair with his hand. thought that was cute. hahaha..

besides that, didnt do anything much over the weekend. just rested and watched tv.

well, gonna head off for a nap.. drugs are kicking in. yaaawwwn...

gnite!

f

tired.

Hey,

how's everyone? i had a very tiring weekend. had to help out at my cousin's wedding over the weekend. i was the cameraman, driver for some relatives, the guy who puts up the signboards and overall errand boy. Very tiring but was a good wedding ceremony.

anyway, besides the weekend, last week was quite a good week. had a friend come down from penang (miss you already C). Originally she was suposed to stay for a few days only in KL.. but we kinda managed to 'convince' her to skip her flight back and just stay till the weekend. ahahha.
she even had to make a false letter to her boss saying she got food poisoning or something.

since she was around for the week, everyone kinda just adjusted their times to be with her. mostly spent the time eating (we also managed to go karaoke on one of the days).

was abit sad when we had to send her back at the busstop on Sunday. next time we'll see each other will probably be in August. oh well... (sob sob)

All in all, it was a great week. hope everyone else's week went okay!

f

p/s - shall stop here for tonight. it's monday and i don't really feel like typing about anything!!

belly-filled weekend

hey people,

how's everyone's weekend coming along? mine's kinda okay actually. didnt really do anything much. spent most of the time eating good food. had some great choices of food this weekend and feel really stuffed. guess i'm just trying to enjoy the weekend as much as i can. hehe.

holiday's over, so everyone's back to work. fortunately, the previous week was only a 2-day week. hmm.. just realised that i've blogged before (on my other blog) about having 2-day weeks.. wait let me look for it.. k got it. instead of linking you people to the site.. i'll just extract it.. easier to read. enjoy.. (some of you might have read this before.. oh well) -

"If i was king, i would change the working days. We DONT need five days to work. seriously, if i total up the amount of work i do within a week, it would be about 2 days. dont believe me, just time yourself. The fact that you're reading this kinda kills off about 15 / 20 minutes of your time. Imagine doing actual work within that same time... now take that to a bigger scale of let's say.. hmm.. a week.. and you get my point.

so imagine a week where its only 2 working days. We need the country to keep on moving, so i would suggest a rotational policy rather than everyone taking off on the same days. (see? forward thinking). in the line of work that i'm doing, that would fit just nice!.. we've got about 30 people doing the same thing, so having one person off on one day wont really make a difference to productivity.

Which leads me to my next point - unemployment. Take my previous point of having more than one person handling a particular position. So companies just need to hire extra staff for those positions with only one person in it... and when that happens at a national level, imagine what it would do to Unemployment Levels.. exactly!!

Well, i guess the next thing that people would be asking is 'what about salary?'. It's simple economics!.. the reason why they cant pay employees high (or employ new staff) is because companies dont have enough income. Companies dont have enough income because the public arent buying enough! Therefore, the simplest (therefore the best) solution to this is to hire new staff or increase salary (wait, it'll make sense.. just read on)..

When you hire new staff, ur technically giving him / her a buying power by providing them with a consistent salary. This salary would then be used to purchase things. When zoomed out to a larger scale, you can see that everyone wins!!!.. people will have more income to spend, they will spend on companies, and companies will have more revenue to pay the employees!!!.. and to add to the brilliance of this, now that people only work 2 days a week, they've got more than enough time to spend on products!!!..

There are other benefits of having a 2day week. I'll just sum it up below:

• Less backstabbing in the office, you wont have a chance to meet most of your colleagues.
• Office space would be cleaner
• Companies can really implement the 'shared' cubicle concept
• Countries can cut down on public holidays (hence reducing overtime pay costs)
• Employees (including bosses) would have more time with families

Well, those are the ones that i can think of from the top of my head. But i'm sure if more time and effort is put into it, the list would be slightly longer!!

As you can see, the 2-day working week concept is just brilliant in any way you look at it. Tell it to someone, if that person argues with you (which i highly doubt it) he's just dumb. Who in the world would argue with a movement that would lead to everyone having to work less days and getting paid for it!.. ""

...well, i guess my wish did come true, even for one week out of a year. Unfortunately its back to 5-day weeks starting monday. the next public holiday's gonna be in August. crap.

gonna be sunday soon.. wonder what's on the menu for tomorow. what i ate for the past few days:

• Friday Lunch - Thai food - Tom Yam, Pineapple fried rice, spaghetti with basil and seafood.
• Friday dinner - Pizza Uno (italian, duh) - beef bacon caesar salad, deep fried mushrooms, fetuccine with meatballs. yumm.
• Saturday brunch - Paddington's House of Pancakes - had this thing called 'Full Monty', which consists of.. ready for it... mashed potatoes, beef bacon strips, sunny side up, baked beans, chicken sausage, mozarella cheese, and served on some pancakes.
• Saturday dinner - maggi goreng with fried chicken, and some of my gf's tosay masala (extremely good).

well, hope everyone's gonna have a good sunday!.. take care!

f

worst imitation chocolate.. ever.

hey..


how's everyone coming along?. hope everyone's been having a good week!!.. i've been on holiday since last thursday and ending tomorow (today). didnt do anything much, just kinda lazed around. managed to do my taxes, watch a movie (spirit of the victim), play some pool, futsal, and watch season 1 of 'bones' for 13 / 14 hours straight. hhaha..


you guys should check out 'bones'!!.. amazingly addictive show.


anyway, last week during work, a colleague of mine brought in some chocolate. said that someone gave it to her. well, at first glance it looked like 'toblerone'.. (if you have no idea what toblerone is, google it)..but upon closer inspection, it was actually called 'VOBLERONE'.. here's a pic of the chocolate bar -

well, as you can see from the picture, it bears a high resemblance to a certain swiss-made chocolate, down to the triangular-tube shape. hmm.. this chocolate was probably made in china. we tried to look for any indication showing where its made in..but to no avail. the closest thing was at the front part which says 'voblerone of switzerland'.. yea, i'm sure that's true. haha.

due to our curiosity, we decided to give the chocolate a try.. we thought to ourselves 'how bad can imitation chocolate be?'.. ... we regretted asking ourselves that. here's a pic of how the actual 'chocolate' looks like -

as you can see, it doesnt exactly look like what you'd expect from a toblerone ripoff. you would've thought they'd try to imitate the actual shape of it. anyway, we all took a bite from the chocolate.. bad mistake. it was basically the worst chocolate i've ever tasted!!!.. i cant even call it chocolate!!.. it basically had no chocolate taste at all.. tasted more like powdered milk (cheap powdered milk) constructed to look like a chocolate bar and 1% cocoa powder sprinkled in it.

needless to say i spat the weird stuff out immediately and had to wash off the taste with some water, tea, mints and actual chocolate. (had to buy some from the cafe). worst chocolate... ever.

well, as disgusting as the chocolate tastes, you cant argue the effectiveness of it's immitation!. the company actually managed to fool some idiot (not giving out names) into buying without even looking at the actual label. the imitation kinda creates a perceived image in the buyer's head (sucker!!!!) and manages to make a buck out of it.

anyway, all my life i've seen a few other cheap imitation of well known products (sorry, no pictures.. yet).. some examples:

• ASADI - sells sports stuff, has two slanting lines as the logo. sound familiar?
• SONKYO (really, i've seen this) - sells electronic stuff, radios, 'walkmans'.. hehe.
• JACKER - chocolate coated wafer, if you not sure what this imitates, check out LOACKER.
• PENSONIC - electronic stuff, seriously the name kinda just gives it away. read it 5 times in quick succession and you get the original brand

can't think of anything else, but i'm sure there are dozens out there just waiting for suckers to buy them!. hehehe.. its amazing how these companies have managed to aim at a niche market in targeting customers. suckers who can't figure out the actual brands.

are these imitation items any good?.. hmm.. based on the 'voblerone' test, nope. but hey, who knows.. if they've managed to imitate properly, they might be on to something..

have a good week ahead guys!

f