little chilli padi

small size but definitely hot!

looking for travel mate

woohoo!!!!....

i just realised i qualify for a free roundtrip ticket to Tokyo (or Nagoya).

makes the uncomfortable and short of pleasant flights on this airline worth it. i only clocked 3 trips and 4th one is free.

so, anyone interested? i plan to go around oct / nov period. summer's too hot, autumn can enjoy red leaves and hotspring... and lots of yummy food.

look at me i can fly

nabeh!

i went to kinokuniya today after my jap class, and found neko magazine in the same usual spot.

turned and look at the price tag.

nabeh chee bye!

$20.80 for a 880 yen magazine!

hello, kinokuniya, who are you kidding? Yen has devalued to 1.25 ok!

time to switch to amazon.co.jp for my supply of jap literature.

challenges

i've been in my job for a month now, and lo and behold, the 5 staff in my dept i am managing, are all older than me!

it's not easy, i have been accused of "throwing my weight around".

i also segregate the company staff into 2 camps, "new school" and "old school" (it helps me manage them better).

"old school" are all the people who still believe in hoarding information, who draw very clear (and deep) lines on depts, job and responsibility, that if the customer gave wrong part number and that caused a delay in fulfilment its the damn customer's fault.

wah piang eh, dealing with uncles and aunties is a big challenge man. and i am sure 他们吃的盐比我吃的米多。

alas they are so outdated. we are in the 21st century, and virtual team is a buzz word not a myth liao.

醒醒吧，阿伯阿婶们！

my life is back to normal

it has been a bumpy start to 2007.

after 4 months of struggling and coping, i think my life is finally back on track.

i gained some, i lost some.

that's ok. i am now a stronger gal :)

this morning, i am finally going back to my japanese class, which i stopped for 3 months.

頑張って、黒ちゃん！

this company is living in stone age

i realised in the past few days, that this company is just very backward. back in the good old times, logistics always fought with sales.

hello!!!!! 时代不同了。 now it's all about winning teams, virtual teams, collaboration and fundamentally TEAMWORK.

close encounter with the old fashioned Admin Manager (AM)

Dear AM

As spoken, the desktop PC at my workstation has been removed, pending IT contractor diagnosis and solution/recommendation.

According to the IT contractor yesterday, instruction given to him was to swap a motherboard from an old PC and put into my desktop PC. But he seems to be facing difficulty and could not boot up my PC due to incompatible motherboard

AM: I hope you understand that we will usually try to use as much resources the company has before we proceed to make any purchase. For this case, since the spare motherboard is not compatible, we will definitely get a new one for you. Please refer the email from Michelle and put up the CEA form for Manjit’s approval.

The Toshiba laptop that was passed to me by Michelle, persistenly hangs when I boot up and/or use Microsoft Outlook.

AM: We are not informed till this morning when you came over and speak to me.

I will use my personal laptop for the time being, as it has been very difficult to work for the past 1+ week with constant system freeze and rebooting.

AM: As I have mentioned, you should have feedback to us earlier if the loan laptop is not properly function. As spoken, you should have come to us yesterday when our IT engineer is here so that they can look into the matter immediately. Even though they have other tasks to attend but it will be arranged according to priority…

Please expedite on getting a fully workable unit to me.

AM: Of course we will chase our IT vendor to expedite this matter.

Thanks in advance
ksn

win already lor. sent this email cos she was taking her own sweet time trying to recycle a very old motherboard.