swine flu...

well thanks to the latest flu outbreak, i'll be heading down to the airport for work tomorrow. my company's gotten the outsource contract from the government and we staff at the backend are being called in to support the frontend staff at the various checkpoints islandwide. my job scope there will probably include taking temperature and other insanely mundane stuff. but all for the sake of the whole country. but hey i'm not complaining (much) since this is within normal timing... and afterall, what's this compared to what i've undergone in the army right? i've been called to the airport in the dead of the night before, and it's not any less troublesome with the army too.

yes, we'll be given protection masks and whatnot. and yes we've been briefed on what to do. and yes, there're better trained professional nurses there too. i'm not sure if i don't mind doing this because i don't have to go to the office for a day, or that i'm "immune" to this sort of auxiliary tasks assigned to me... either way, it's not biggy. everyone's gotta do their part. :)

ps: we're still having a field day with domo-kun thus far. it definitely is bringing out my inner child lol! but it's so adorable and huggable! xD

car insurance

I've got good NCD (No-Claim Discount) with COM (Cert. of Merit, courtesy of my dad). It was just $939+ last year. And now they're quoting me $1.5k+ a whopping 200% increase?! Imagine without my NCD it's going to be $3k of insurance man...

I've sent out a quotation request elsewhere to see if there's better deals out there...

rawrrrr~!

we were at Central for dinner yesterday and rach decided to buy this for me.



rawrrrr!!! isn't he cute? (okay i know i look like a doofus here but that's besides the point)



so he decided to yell at clarke quay...





here's domo behind the wheel, yelling at traffic.


and more shots of him with us!





i love the domo present... xD

Part Deux: oh goodness gracious no...

here's a sequel to my prior post. as the saying goes: there's more where that came from.

note: the colleague is female and from another department. email content is copy-paste with exact wording.

Hi Ken,

Don’t know if I’ll be dreaming of you again tonight or not? Hee hee…Maybe, tonight’s dream is my turn to inplant bombs in your house! Haha! Just joking!

oh goodness gracious no...

Someone in my company emailed me this just 5 minutes ago...

Gd Morning! I dreamt of you last night. I don’t really remember why you came to my house but it’s like either to repair the wiring, to help me tidy up my house or to implant bombs or land mines, something like that, hee hee, funny lah, of all people, I dreamt of you! Anyway, it’s just a dream. Thank you for reading!

???!?!!

zzz

I've been feeling fairly lethargic of late. Also, I noticed that quite often I end up blogging once a week around this time. Feeling pretty stressed, I didn't exactly go out for lunch yesterday. Had my colleagues pack me some prata. In fact, I've been considering to move on from this place a great deal recently. Everyone's nice and peachy in my department, no doubt. But maybe I feel the need for newer work stimulus.

Or could it because I have reached a plateau in here so much so that the possibility of my getting positive reactions from the higher-ups seem to diminish with each passing day? That, or it's simply that the playing field in this company is too small. If the superiors aren't moving on/up, it'd seem near improbable for any of us below them to barely nudge. Not forgetting I am/was a rookie here, 3 years ago anyway. There are a couple more experienced colleagues than me, that's for sure.

Maybe all that thrash-talking is just my lack of morale. Tiredness of the same stuff day in and out is a strong factor in there too.

Paid To Do It 72 Times

Court case: Man A is infertile. Man A pays Man B to screw his own wife. Man B fails 72 times. Man A gets Man B to go for check-up. Man B is infertile. Man B finds out his wife screwed someone else to get his 2 kids. Man A sues Man B. Man B claims "best effort".

Nerf Vulcan Automatic Heavy Blaster

obviously i don't feel like doing much work this hour of the day so i end up checking out stuff like this...