hair

This is probably a sick thought.
You know when you towel yourself dry after a shower, and you'd never be really really dry anyway? Mostly, it'll take a minute or two after that before you really dry off, depending on the humidity of your surroundings.

Here's the thought: What if you're really really hairy??
I mean like, the type where you not only have hair on chest and ass, but even on the back of your arms, your back, stomach... everywhere!
How long does it take for you to get totally dry after getting wet? So do you wear anything until you're really dried? Or do you just sit under the fan naked? Or maybe use a hair-dryer?

softskills training

These 2 days of softkills training were really fun. I didn't really expect it to be so easy. I was just basically saying the logical and boom! the answer was right. :)

There are quite some of the stuff that we had to memorize and go by the rules as the company's trying to protect their corporate/professional image.

Made quite a few new friends here. Mostly, I'd say, are the kinda of friends you say hi to and have fun with only. Not the type to go into anything deeper. Seems like everyone secretly looking after themselves.

It was obvious from how everyone was keeping things to themselves, even when asked to share, and only sharing when there is no way to escape it. Very typical Asian culture. Everyone keeps their own knowledge to themselves. So whoever that has enough to share, but still able to hide enough for themselves, will definitely excel.

Kinda sad that this is happening in an American company.

expectations at work

Internal Process Briefing at noon today. Kinda made things a lot more clearer on what is required of us at our jobs. A lot is expected of us. That's very understandable as huge corporations like these wanna maintain their professional image. Luckily, the company does ranked on the top of the remuneration and benefits lists on the last survey conducted for my job around the Asia-Pacific region. Hopefully, they live up to that.

a new beginning

It's been almost a week since I started work here. Things are pretty OK so far, even though the pressure is already slowly piling up.

Last Saturday I was still pretty doubtful if I'll be able to get a reliable second hand bike at a fair price. Well, I did go a lil over budget, but the bike's pretty good so far. No hick-ups yet. Fuel consumption is nothing to brag about, since it's one of those really fuel-friendly Honda models. I kinda wish it'll go faster before I get to full throttle. :) Anyhow, weaving through traffic to work beats being stuck at a jam for an hour. I just have to be more cautious with it during the night. It's been over a year since I'd last ridden a bike, and now I'm already speeding. :P

The room's getting a lil warmer as the rainy season leaves. I guess it's gonna be all hot and stuffy during the afternoons from now on til at least sometime early march. Maybe getting an aircon unit IS a good idea after all. Still, I'm on a really tight budget here if I really wanna save up for an MBA.

Work-wise, everything is picking up. I'm in a for a month of intensive training. Whether I ace through it or not, I'll know by February 14th. Seeing as how skilled and knowledgable my colleagues, even the new-joiners, are at their work, I think it's time I really put an effort into what I do. Laying back an doing only what's enough to get by won't work anymore.

Goodbye easy life, hello battlezone. :)

Everyone's treating me quite alright, and has been really helpful so far. I'd finally gotten a test system that nobody wants for my own use until I get mine. No one seems to know when exactly I'll be getting my systems. Some of the guys that have joined more than a month ago just got theirs. Some other guys that joined with me already gotten theirs on the second day of work. Being in a higher priority queue does get you stuff faster. ¬.¬

Barely calculated out the OT I can expect to be getting, and it looks quite attractive so far. I guess it IS good money if I get the chance to, and is willing to, work OT. I'm all OK with not having much of a life (as most people put it especially when they mean not getting drunk or getting laid), if it means getting tons of money in my bank. Hell, I wanna have lots in my account so I can either take up more certifications, or just plain travel more on my holidays.

Granted, there are tons of babes in the office. My not specifically liking a certain type makes it ridiculously easy for me to find a lot of them hot. :P Being the realist that I am, I'm also painfully (or maybe luckily) aware that with my current social standing, financial background, and probably even my physical appearance, getting any of them would be difficult to say the least.
Even though Susi keeps telling me some of them are pretty damned desperate. I kinda figured that they're desperate for money, power, or mostly just whites. :)

Anyway, money's the first priority now. It's what I need to get an MBA and probably a few other professional certs so that I can get somewhere higher up on the corporate ladder in a shorter time.

new year. yay?

1st Jan. :) Didn't even celebrate last night. It's not that I agree with the PM about mourning for the deaths of the tsunami incident, it's just that I didn't feel like celebrating in the first place.

I'm not very much affected by the whole thing, although I do agree that it's really tragic. The dead are dead, but the living will have so much more to deal with, especially those who has not only lost their families and loved ones, but also their livelihoods and their future.

Ultimately, it's a very good move for leaders of the region to cancel all official celebrations for the new year. It will certainly make the coutry look bad if they have celebrations that soon after such a huge tragedy. So, fuck you to those who complain about governments cancelling celebrations. You people should think ahead more instead of just worrying about where you're gonna get drunk on New Year's Eve and who you'll be getting laid with.

Sent some money in to a local charity/relieve fund for tsunami victims in Malaysia under mom's name yesterday. It's not much, but it's about as much as I can spare, seeing how my current financial situation isn't all that good either. Any bit helps, I hope.