MeRrY ChRiStMaS !!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS.. had a pretty good christmas eve session with my family this year. you cannot imagine the amount of alcohol and cigars and God knows what other "home-forbidden" articles that we consumed that nite. But of cz, i'm not about to bore everyone on that. . logged in today to jot something that i thought really funnie and cracked me up quite alot.


(this was an incident related to me by a fren who encountered this) Christmas shopping - wonders of wonders - loads of jostling, pushing and being smashed up in the crowds. my fren and her companion was at this particular tolietry shop ( that's become a pretty popular place to visit to get gifts this year in singapore during this festive seasons. Simple reason being, they have beautifully gift-wrap gifts catered to office gift-exchanges and such. No more sleepless nites over what to get below $10 or $20. )

Alright, with the background of the story build up - here goes. this fren of mine's at this shop, and her companion, Rach, bought a couple of articles.The box given was a wee-bit tiny, so they feel, and hence, they approached the nearest sales person, asking if they could have a slightly bigger box.

Rach : hi, do you have a slightly bigger box in exchange for this ? the items
that i've picked seem to be a little too big for this one.

sales : but, that's the most proper-less box we have.

At this point, Rach would probably get quite confuse - is the lady telling her that that's the most appropriate box available, or, hmm.. let's see. . proper-less - proper would mean appropriate. . but, adding the "less" behind the word proper - would that mean "not-proper" ?

It is really amusing how people can make up with the most "proper-less" words.. opps, i mean, most inappropriate words.

To make matters worst, my fren has instintively laughed. a really loud laugh. (we do agree that she was being really mean by laughing out loud like that. Her defence : "But i really couldn't help it! its soo funniee.. *non-stop laughing* again) This was what happen, well, at least, that much i gather, amist her laughter.

Fren : (disbelief) eyes dilated, and when into a spasm and grew into a non-
stop, laughter (yes, those that are very can't be held in, so she claims)

Sales : (sternly) Are you laughing at my vocabulary ???

Fren : (chickens out) Ahh.. no, no, i'm not laughing at you.. hehehhehehe
*giggles*giggles* I'm laughing at something else.

There, conclusion - my fren - she's crowned chicken queen for the year for that.

Part II - will do it later.

9 to 5

things have been moving fast i have to say - was away from the datacentre - and for the past 2 years with my current company, i've never felt that free before. . Free as in, not the typical local singaporean's reference as in "nothing-to-do", but free, as in... freedom!!! well, you have to know that my office adminstrator was quite anal about the 8:30 to 5:30 office time. I once challenged her - so, does that mean, that as long as i come in at 8:30, i have to stay only till 5:30 ? i sure wouldn't stay till 3am in the morning and come in at 8:30 that same morning if i've got everything fixed up, and my purpose of going into office is to "clock-the-time". It doesn't make sense does it?!

Anyway, i thought that i'm left very much on my own now - i have free reign.. muhahah.. but saying that, i wouldn't abuse that. I guess, its the nature of my job. I ain't really bitching abt the "8:30 to 5:30" thing, but, really, if i need to get up at 2 am in the morning to fix my servers, you sure as hell don't start counting on the lost minutes the company is losing when i'm not at my desk at 8:30 in the morning. I don't mean to go on-and-on on this, but, if the nature of the job demands it, then i think people shld be punctuate for work, say, a cashier's job, or a bank teller's, or an office receptionist, however, if for a 24/7 job, you sure don't expect that.. do i make sense ? did i get my point across ???

gosh! i sure did have to do alot of "look - let me explain this to you again so you can get it" speech with my office admin lady. She's so rigid!!! and, as if its going to make the company more efficient. she doesn't realise that she's making it less efficient this way! gosh! the only person who needs to be in time-structure is her team.. the rest of us, Research, IT, Corporate Finance/Advisory have flexi hours. . tell the analyst that he needs to abide by this time structure - he'll tell u "to hell with you!" - by the way, they monitor the US mkt too - that'll explain their grounchiness in the morning.. ;) heheheh...

anyway, there - it doesn't take a 9 to 5er to balance up the efficiency equation - it just depends on the nature of job in subject. any one have opinions otherwise ?