Latentness... ...

Time zips by, its already the last day of Aug. Winter is coming to an end over here, and the nice, slight warm weather is emerging. Its nice to walk on the street this morning, feeling the morning breeze, and the lovely young sunrays. It just makes me feel warm and cheerie. Yes, even on the way to the office. Not my usual grumpy self that I'm accustom to when I was back home in sunny singapore. I do hope all this will remain -- that brignt, cheerie morning me, even when I return.

*cough*cough* -- I've been diagnosed with asthma over here. Very surprising - I've never had an respiratory problems, never been a sick child, who'll heave and pant after 4-km of run, or 1000m of swim. Never. It was strange having the doctor go : You'll need an inhaler. That will make you feel better. AND WHAT IS THAT FOR??? Too shock.. too stunned... cannot remember why inhaler is in vocab. Why? How? CAN-NOT understand.

His explanations were equally bizarre.. he said that people who are latent asthmatics tend to develop such conditions when they are down under. Durn! and after that, he charged me 60 bucks for consultation and 38 bucks for the inhalers. Man! Medical care over here is expensive. dammit! bad time for lungs to fall dead really.

anyway, whatever it is.. i am still coughing my lungs out -- that m eans, i can't have my comfort food - gelato ice cream. double dammit! argh! how am i going to pass by this weekend.

White Water Rafting

sitting in the office right now and having the buzzling of the office in the background. its always nice to sit and listen to the world go by you. especially on such a morning where everyone's excited about the rafting event that we'll be going for later in the afternoon.

dont really know what to expect out of this rafting... i am excited going white water rafting, but, apprehensive about the cold i'll be throwing myself into unwittingly. Everyone keeps telling me that they'll provide wetsuits... yes, i do know that... but, wetsuits that fit me ?? that's highly unlikely, and i'm regretting about not bringing my booties along for this trip....

keep those fingers crossed for no small wet suits...

bye guys! have a great weekend a heard.. Penrith here i come!

the day after the BIG BUG

it was quite a fit when you stroll into office in the morning, plug on your system, and about to turn it on for a day.... and a colleague rush over to you and say "NOOOOOOOOOoooooooo"... and unplug the LAN cable.

that was what happened this morning... apparently its some preventive measures that US is taking against the bug, cz... we're not patched.. sssssshhhhh... quiet now...

so, it was a good first half of the morning, not doing anything since all systems, mainframes and all other services are off the h ook. Its strange to be sitting around and enjoying the "disconnected condition"... have always been a systems person, and a network down issue will always mean a race against time to get it up. For once, I'm not in that situation... whew! its good to be part of the project team and not systems. *grinz*

National Day without the Holiday ... Grrr..

*Waves* Its national day today, but no, i didn't get the day off. I'm still hard at work, if not more dilligent then before. I have half of my team on business travels, and I'm all alone to man the fort. And, its not an easy fort, having the people that i have to deal with. Ranging from downright rude people to really slow thinking ones. Did take on a harsher tone with those poor souls. But really, none can fault those who are slow in thinking - its those rude ones that get to me. And trust me, there's more then 1 rude banker in this part of the world. I reckon I do need to consider to sign up for a class on Anger Management when i get back to Singapore.

Its 8more weekends before I get back home. I do miss my baybee very much. His probably sitting at home watching more DVDs while I'm not around. Wish I'm with him now over there. Its strange because, 3 months do sounds like an awfully short time, and we were certain that we will be able to manage it passibly well. But, at the end of 5 weeks ( and that's not including the 2 weeks he was here to help settle me in) we realise that we don't seem to be able to manage this all that well. But, what choice is there left for us both - we just have to make it through for the next 8 weeks. Oh man! I wish I hadn't take on this assignment. Oh well, its not the time to regret it, and i'm not about to let myself fall into that regret-party. Will just look forward to the end of the week, and the beginning of the next week....

Though its only tuesday today. *whine*