Seems like nothing much had happened in my life for the past month. Updating this as a way to remember the last day of August, and to welcome September as it comes.
Shit has been happening at work without my knowledge. This politics stuff is getting on my nerves and I am going to do something about it. Although I would want to put the whole story up here for all to see, its a long story and I also don't want to remember it when I read back my blog when I grow older. All I can say is, never trust the people you work with, even if they seem to be your good friends. You never know what they say behind your back.
School is gonna end in two weeks' time, after the math exam which I am stressing out about. Apart from that, the school fees came early and I am more than broke now. Luckily, Bjorn borrowed me some money to pay for the fees (Thanks bro).
Sometimes I do wonder why I put myself under so much stress and spend the money to study and upgrade. You'll question yourself, Do I need to be up there high on the ladder, or do I want to be up there?
I just want to do it because I CAN.
On a lighter note, I wanna wish all teachers an early Happy Teachers' day, bask in the appreciations from the students and forgive all the naughty things they did in the past to a new start.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
more, more, more!!!
Ok, I was bored. So I decided to do a mouse mod in addition to the speaker mod. Check out the video. It's cool.
Done!
Done!
enjoying my holiday......
Since the peepz at work wants me to enjoy my holiday, then I will.
Nothing much happened on saturday except for sleep, eat, sleep some more. Went for dinner with Bjorn and friends at Joo chiat bak kut teh in the evening.
Its Sunday today, so I took the chance to clean up the room and also started to do some modding work. As far as lights are concern, I am a blue person. Blue is cool.
The JBL speakers that I have been using for my desktop is getting boring. The power on light is green in color and i have been wanting to change it to blue. Luckily, I still got leftover blue leds from before, so I did not need to shop for more. (Actually, they were kept for future projects)
Took the speakers apart and started work on them. Easy job to do and it took less than an hour to complete. Now, I have got all the lights on my PC in blue.
Before disassembly
Right speaker with amp circuit
Left speaker is empty
The original green led
blue led wrapped and ready
Blue led in action
The complete set in blue lights
Nothing much happened on saturday except for sleep, eat, sleep some more. Went for dinner with Bjorn and friends at Joo chiat bak kut teh in the evening.
Its Sunday today, so I took the chance to clean up the room and also started to do some modding work. As far as lights are concern, I am a blue person. Blue is cool.
The JBL speakers that I have been using for my desktop is getting boring. The power on light is green in color and i have been wanting to change it to blue. Luckily, I still got leftover blue leds from before, so I did not need to shop for more. (Actually, they were kept for future projects)
Took the speakers apart and started work on them. Easy job to do and it took less than an hour to complete. Now, I have got all the lights on my PC in blue.
Before disassembly
Right speaker with amp circuit
Left speaker is empty
The original green led
blue led wrapped and ready
Blue led in action
The complete set in blue lights
Saturday, August 9, 2008
To err is human.
This is one of those shitty weeks where u have to live life in shit and u have no idea how deep it goes till u lived it once.
I made an error at work which became a *BIG* issue since it was noticed by a supervisor and the unit involved was supposed to be urgently sent out. I went the extra mile to do more work but instead, got shortchanged due to it.
Anyone can make such a mistake and if the same error was caught by other colleagues, it would have been rectified and gone un-noticed with minimum cost incurred. There were more senior guys who made more serious mistakes and incurred much higher cost to the company. I was just unlucky.
This situation, however, made a whole lot of difference to many things. It showed me some very interesting things at work and in life.
The respect for THAT supervisor went down the drain. So much for thinking he was HIGH level, impartial and flexible. He was just another coconut hanging on a tree along the beach. I also confirmed that he had disliked me the moment I joined the department. He is the typical example of "When in power, abuse it". When we do work, he thinks it is of low quality, but he just need a few knocks and thinks it acceptable.
The bad blood between the supervising engineer of my department and me got to the next level. He told me off the next day when he knew of the situation. He asked me to look for the senior who worked with me the previous day, to have a talk. When I walked to the other side to look for the senior, he asked me to walk faster, with a very bad attitude. This act of disrespect is uncalled for.
I made a mistake, but I am not a dog for him to order around. I do not get paid by him but the company. No one wants to make a mistake deliberately. He also thinks of the newer guys as incompetent and always thinks he is far superior than others.
I work with the best interest for the company but if these people continue to run the mid-management, then I think there are other companies out there that will appreciate my work attitude and skills. The higher-management will never understand why the employees come and go all the time.
For the record, my OT for the weekend has been rejected, probably due to the incident.
For this small mistake I made, many people got told off, especially my cell leader, and I wanna apologise to them. They know I work hard and that this is a very small incident which can happen to anyone.
On a lighter note, I got through my flap peening course and passed the practical exam today. Now just need to wait for the certificate to come and I can start working with the newly aquired skills.
I made an error at work which became a *BIG* issue since it was noticed by a supervisor and the unit involved was supposed to be urgently sent out. I went the extra mile to do more work but instead, got shortchanged due to it.
Anyone can make such a mistake and if the same error was caught by other colleagues, it would have been rectified and gone un-noticed with minimum cost incurred. There were more senior guys who made more serious mistakes and incurred much higher cost to the company. I was just unlucky.
This situation, however, made a whole lot of difference to many things. It showed me some very interesting things at work and in life.
The respect for THAT supervisor went down the drain. So much for thinking he was HIGH level, impartial and flexible. He was just another coconut hanging on a tree along the beach. I also confirmed that he had disliked me the moment I joined the department. He is the typical example of "When in power, abuse it". When we do work, he thinks it is of low quality, but he just need a few knocks and thinks it acceptable.
The bad blood between the supervising engineer of my department and me got to the next level. He told me off the next day when he knew of the situation. He asked me to look for the senior who worked with me the previous day, to have a talk. When I walked to the other side to look for the senior, he asked me to walk faster, with a very bad attitude. This act of disrespect is uncalled for.
I made a mistake, but I am not a dog for him to order around. I do not get paid by him but the company. No one wants to make a mistake deliberately. He also thinks of the newer guys as incompetent and always thinks he is far superior than others.
I work with the best interest for the company but if these people continue to run the mid-management, then I think there are other companies out there that will appreciate my work attitude and skills. The higher-management will never understand why the employees come and go all the time.
For the record, my OT for the weekend has been rejected, probably due to the incident.
For this small mistake I made, many people got told off, especially my cell leader, and I wanna apologise to them. They know I work hard and that this is a very small incident which can happen to anyone.
On a lighter note, I got through my flap peening course and passed the practical exam today. Now just need to wait for the certificate to come and I can start working with the newly aquired skills.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
A ride to remember
Somehow, the title seems too deadly. Anyway, I am going to work OT on Sunday, so we had to abandon the plans for Malacca to another day. On this short rest day, I wanted to go ride and enjoy myself with the little time I had.
I asked Bjorn to go ride off road since he got the XR4 but I am always busy or got no bike to go. Decided to bring the phantom regardless of logic and meet up at Bjorn's place.
Bjorn was trying to straighten the XR4 sub frame which was caused by a high side when he crashed the other day.
Much time was lost in waiting to get the bike done. In the meantime, Bjorn offered me to ride the BMW and I accepted it. If I can decide to use the phantom for off road riding, the BMW is gonna be much easier to ride since its an adventure touring bike despite the size and weight.
After we got into the riding area, we started to ride around all the trails except for the steep hill area which I don't think the BMW will survive if I crash there. The BMW tackled all the areas fine even on the road bias Tourance tires.
Apart from the soft sand areas, the bike handles well for it weight and size. The torque of the bike also helped in easing the ride. The suspensions were somewhat acceptable though its meant for road riding. The bike was averaging 40 to 50km/h on the hard packed areas with ease.
As we were wandering back to the start area, we went into long stretch of soft sand area and just before reaching the end, I couldn't hold my act together and the bike went down gently. I probably could hold on for a while more but decided to put it down since its so heavy and the terrain is soft sand, which will not do too much damage, if any.
The bad habit of the usual big bikers is to try to save the bike and end up hurting themselves in the back or worse, get trapped by the bike. Sometimes, its safer to bail off the bike.
No damage was found except a broken ego of mine, since I am known for not crashing in a trail ride, no matter what bike. (this part is somewhat exaggerated)
Anyway, after this we went out and got to the usual place for kopi before heading to bike wash at near my place. Overall, the ride was fun and one of the things I have always wanted to do.
The aftermath of high siding the XR4.
Mr Bjorn.
The BMW in its natural habitat, with cats giving it due respect.
I asked Bjorn to go ride off road since he got the XR4 but I am always busy or got no bike to go. Decided to bring the phantom regardless of logic and meet up at Bjorn's place.
Bjorn was trying to straighten the XR4 sub frame which was caused by a high side when he crashed the other day.
Much time was lost in waiting to get the bike done. In the meantime, Bjorn offered me to ride the BMW and I accepted it. If I can decide to use the phantom for off road riding, the BMW is gonna be much easier to ride since its an adventure touring bike despite the size and weight.
After we got into the riding area, we started to ride around all the trails except for the steep hill area which I don't think the BMW will survive if I crash there. The BMW tackled all the areas fine even on the road bias Tourance tires.
Apart from the soft sand areas, the bike handles well for it weight and size. The torque of the bike also helped in easing the ride. The suspensions were somewhat acceptable though its meant for road riding. The bike was averaging 40 to 50km/h on the hard packed areas with ease.
As we were wandering back to the start area, we went into long stretch of soft sand area and just before reaching the end, I couldn't hold my act together and the bike went down gently. I probably could hold on for a while more but decided to put it down since its so heavy and the terrain is soft sand, which will not do too much damage, if any.
The bad habit of the usual big bikers is to try to save the bike and end up hurting themselves in the back or worse, get trapped by the bike. Sometimes, its safer to bail off the bike.
No damage was found except a broken ego of mine, since I am known for not crashing in a trail ride, no matter what bike. (this part is somewhat exaggerated)
Anyway, after this we went out and got to the usual place for kopi before heading to bike wash at near my place. Overall, the ride was fun and one of the things I have always wanted to do.
The aftermath of high siding the XR4.
Mr Bjorn.
The BMW in its natural habitat, with cats giving it due respect.
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