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anyone?

2 hours after waking up,

i feel so dead tired. *take a long breather

waking up today was never relaxing as it used to be on other sunday morning. I had 1 task pending from yesterday - vacuum and mop floor. Aiyoeeee.. can we do this another day? i finished the task anyway. and next, i need to cook myself lunch. The ingredients were prepared by sis. Guess what i had cooked?

Char koay teow.
however, hui hui's version of char koay teow is kind of 'dark'. guess i put too much dark soy sauce. lol. it still taste good i tell you. just that it needs a lil bit more flavours. heee~

The Resilience Factor

i read it and would like to share it.

Here's a list of practises that can help you beat and ward off stress
1) Plan to plan
- Planning is key to success. Plan by day,week,month and year. Check your daily schedule every morning. Preview your week on sunday nights. Furthermore, preview the next month on the last few days of a month. Moreover, prioritise tasks using A-B-C theory. As need to be done. Bs ought to be, Cs can wait [facebook]

2) Use the buddy system
- Ask a buddy to pull you aside when you're raising your voice. This can make you aware of the behaviour you are trying to avoid.

3) Call time-outs
- When you feel anger/frustration, go to a quiet place to regain your composure, cool yourself down. Think what do you want to change and your options again.

4) Develop healthy arrogance
- Nurture your self belief by reviewing your past success, the times when you overcame obstacles

5) Delegate ruthlessly
- Relinquish tasks other can do, focus on what you can do.

6) Prioritise you
- Make sure sleep and exercise are your biggest priority. Stop working after reasonable hours.

7) Respect the unexpected
- It's important that you are able to recognise your mind/body signs of distress, such as muscle tension, rapid pulse, sweaty palms or irritability. Identify the causes if they strike.

that's it

tomato-sauce: men's health 09/2009

happy 21st Su!

It will not be Arthur's Day, it won't be an ordinary friday either. It's SuYing's Day! yayy~

Happy 21st birthday susu!

it's sad to know that wisdom tooth have given you a lot of pain lately =( . And, i hope that it fades away ASAP. i do not want to see you lose any more weight girl. Besides, your parents are taking you to flemington, it wont be fun if you can't indulge ya, hee~

uhh.. there will be a mysterious gift waiting for you. heee! Happy birthday SuSu!

what the hell?

nerdy me.

the thing that i touch most daily, paper

the object that i caress most daily, book

the entity i'll become soon, nerd.

sad. =(

oh god, help.

do you really know what i hate to do the most?
household is still okay, dish washing is okay, cooking is not that bad, baby sitting is acceptable. hey! i take care of my niece sometimes, although she's a naughty niece, comparable to dennis the menace. do you know what she would do?

last time i slept in the same room with her (when i stay overnight @ bro's house). and when morning comes, she will just wake up and stare at you at an extremely close distance, almost gave me a heart attack when i opened my eyes.. shushh... last sat i stayed overnight there again and there she was, doing the same old thing at 9.07am. -____-

naughty as she can be, she can be cute too. kiut? wait. whenever i sit on the couch, she would just climb behind and hug me ... and she wants me to be her 2-x-50cents-machine you often see in shopping mall.. her own human recreation machine. at the same time, she would just open up her mouth and stick to your shirt. well, there wont be lipstick stains, but saliva stains. when she's satisfied, she'd just hop off and laugh. zzz. maybe this is what i got from calling her 'dua bui bo' (in hokkien).

i thought of something that she did last saturday. my lappie has built in microphones, left and right arrays. i tempted her to speak something.. then she got excited, and kept on shouting 'papa' toward the laptop. Hahahahahaha..

here is the link: Pa Pa!

okay, the thing i actually hate to do the most is to iron clothes. damn it! the wrinkles just wont fade. satu kali tak boleh, i ma try 3 kali lor, 3 kali tak boleh i ma try 10 kali lor. when i hang it up, then i realise there's a mark somewhere on the shirt. thus, i have to remove it from the hanger and iron again. jialat-ness!

oh my. Choices.

i was flooded with information lately. and, i must admit that i slacked during working hours. but the time i've wasted paid off.
i have had chit chat sessions with my technical team lead, dennise and a system admin, kok wai.
after the conversations, i come to know that i need to put in more effort to improve myself. i know so little compared to them. Field experience really helps if you're working in an IT environment.

honestly, i'm .... kind of lost right now. lost as in i dont know which path i should take. i can be a network engineer, system administrator, database admin, web developer or multimedia developer. i may choose to be on the consulting side too. me myself, as a system analyst or consultant maybe? Are you confused? I AM!

even if i choose to be a developer, there are still many branches left.
Java? PHP? Oracle? or .NET? even if i have chosen the language, i still need to choose the platform. Mobile or Enterprise?
on the other hand, a consultant's work is not easy too. i've heard that fresh grads who are required to work from 9am to 11pm. talk about recreation, huh?!
besides, you have to do a lot of talking (filifala, filifala.. filili falala) . If you fail to persuade your customers, kantoi la kau!

okay, developer and consultant aside. System administration. this time you'll be dealing with the terms like virtualisation, servers, setups, system monitoring, routing, troubleshooting and security. It might seem easy, but hell, it's not.

just to give you a glimpse:The Papers

but hey, i still have a firm idea of what i want to do. Multimedia development :D
audio, video, image, data indexing, clustering, Flash, Actionscript, it should be fun. (if the job is not fun, you wont even pay 100% into it)
Besides, i drafted a plan for myself. After i graduated next year, i wont search for a full time job. Instead, i will find a part-time job and sit for qualification exams. Hopefully, those qualifications increase my value, then i can sell myself at a higher price. wuahahaha!

ciao~!

tuesday.

i just like tuesday. it's not just girlie's night. it is a good night for me as well.
there's this 'Cupid' showing on 8tv from 9.30 to 10.30 every Tuesday. man, i just love to watch this. it has wonderful storyline in each episode.
You, yes you! you should watch this too.

working on tuesday is less stressful i'd say. i dont know why but everything seems relaxed from tuesday onwards. monday to friday, intense to relax. or perhaps, my stomach is feeling weird today that i went to the toilet countless times eventually. Haha!

and uhhh.. that's it.

'... it's okay, if you had to go away, oh, just remember the telephones, they work the both ways...' remember this song? =]

tomorrow's a public holiday

birthday girl and i

Awesome! there will be no monday's blue tomorrow and i wont be dosing off in the office. heeee~

The party mood carried from friday's night party is not fading yet. I still have the urge to dance and shake. speaking of that party, it was heck a lot of fun. it has been so long that i met 'baga jo'. and uhh.. my nickname PM has became 'Personal Maid' thanks to jo. i participated in the singing competition organised by them. it was so embarassing. -____-
i guess Sam had a wonderful time too. she was very very very happy. you could see it from her eyes.

and uhh.. i finally met Anjoe, my supervisor after 5 months. :X . me and ck updated her with all the design diagrams. furthermore, we had a chit chat session after the meeting. she even offered us her homemade cookies! it was good.

women that can cook and bake are so attractive.

[p/s: anyone wants to go out hang kai, yum cha, coffee session, meal or movie tomorrow? ]