Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Full Speed Ahead?...

Was just reading Bao's blog about charging full speed ahead and not resting on your laurels etc... For years, I have been complaining about being in lukewarm water and being bored and blah blah blah. And when I finally took the plunge... I want my lukewarm water back... Sighs... humans are fan4 jian4... ok, not humans. I'm fan jian. Haha. Always think grass is greener on the other side. Get lukewarm water so comfy still want to complain... good lar. Now in icily cold water liao then sulk in self pity. Kekekeke.

Ah well, no choice liao. In new waters must learn how to survive. Explore the sights and escape the sharks... I hope. Falalalalala. Sian. Tmr have to go work.

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Free Lunches all through the Week!


Looking on the bright side, leaving a company means you get tons of free meals and interesting stories...

On Friday, my firmware colleague treated me to a nice korean dinner. He leads a rather extraordinary life (by my standards). He studied in Japan, work there as a rather hands on worker, then suddenly discovered his interest in firmware. And started to pick it up by himself, and then manage to find himself a job as a firmware engineer. Got transferred to Germany to work and then came back to Singapore finally.... He told me if China has opportunities, he's going there. How cool is that? I guess that's one of the benefits of being single... you can just go... no strings attached :).

Yesterday, was given a Thai food treat by my secondary school fren ming, who is also my colleague. I kinda envy her easy going and carefree style. She's always bubbly and positive and takes everything within her stride. And she's happily planning her wedding next Decemeber. It's like nothing fazes her. And she's permanently happy =). Wish I can be like her. Yeah Yeah Yeah, I know... happiness is all in the mind. But I think maybe it has something to do with the genetic makeup as well. I have I have a natural tendency to be slightly pessimistic. I blame my parents for my pessimistic genes. Hiak Hiak.

Anyway, today I had Japanese food with my vendor. We worked on projects together for the past 4 years. He's happily married and works hand in hand with his wife on managing this company they built up together. And they have a 2 nice boys, twins somemore! And very goodlooking, courtesy of good genes from mom and dad. Not sure why the conversation drifted to relationships, and he gave a few pointers. That 2 people together have to give and take. I asked whether issit REN (Ninja Skill) and he said cannot say that, it's "giving in" Haha =). And he told me that being with someone is having a person to share your life with and each party should learn to accomodate one another. He said it's inevitable to have disagreements and arguments in a relationship but in time, the couple will change and accomodate one another. Cool. Free Sashimi and words of advice. Starting to see my vendor in a different light.

In case you haven't noticed... I'm bragging about how many different kinds of treats I have since Friday. Tomorrow it will be my team's treat of Chinese food. Shucks. Think my waistline is expanding...

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Who Knows Where the Road May Lead You, Only a Fool Could Say...


The blue building in the distance is the Korea HQ of my company. There's only a week left before I say goodbye. Suddenly overwhelmed by a wave of reluctance to leave my comfort zone, my cube, my crazy colleagues who never fail to cheer me up with their kookiness... I know the system inside out, upside down. I know the people on the different floors. I breakfast with my colleagues almost every morning and drink my cup of tehsi. I can talk and laugh loudly without self consciousness in the office. I shout over the aisle to call linrongbao and macho. I can see the back of Robert's head staring at Aquafanatics webpage in the middle of a teleconference. I turn around and there is SBG hard at work in the middle of debugging or kicking the printers. If Master Khoo is still there on my right, I will probably hear him breathe the "darth vader breathing" and saying sian. And Ben will be there helping out with the soldering and his continual search for the missing trolleys...
OH MAN! I AM SO GOING TO MISS EVERYBODY! :'(