Bitching about work

What is worst - having a job which works the hell out of you or without a job at all at this difficult time?? Tough call, right?? Same here.

I just landed this job a couple of months ago and I was being briefed that I have to double up two role for the salary of one, telling me that it's a breeze. But since I'm familiar with both role and being confident that I can handle both roles with ease, I took up the job. Honestly, I needed the job also, having been jobless for a month and debts to repay. Besides the workplace is near to my home and there is company transport almost from my door-step.

On hindsight, I should not have believe them on just their words. I dunno is it due to my bad luck or bad decision, this job is much more difficult that I have thought it to be. Maybe I was having such a good relaxing time in my ex-company that I was not able to adapt to this new environment. Maybe this is an MNC while my ex-company is a local small establishment (although public listed but then again it is not run as a public listed company).

In any case, dealing with colleagues and superiors in such big MNCs are kind of tricky and you have to be well-versed with the chinese kungfu - TAI JI. Otherwise you will be taking over new tasks which should not have happened in the first place. But being new to the company, one is usually vulnerable to getting new tasks, which happens to me. So the previous secretary is merely doing half of what I am doing now. Sob... sob... sob....

But there is also perk... just enjoy 2 year end lunch sponsored by company, which is about it, nothing else. Well time to work now... ciao, bye, sayonara... till the next time I write, see ya....

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For a very short period of time only - 5 Dec to 8 Dec 2008....
So HURRY!!! Dun miss the sales....

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10 Most Creative Business Cards

This is really interesting, I just wish I am just as creative. This sure leaves a strong impression on people who received the namecard. I especially like the eatable one, as it's more environmentally friendly. So what about you? Which one is your favorite?

Office Reality - Bad Superiors Everywhere

Through my past work experience, I gather that you will never run out of terrible superiors who makes your already difficult workplace a living hell. So you can't escape one for long.

My current starts well till my new job scope kicks in and I have to report to a superior who is not making life very easy for me. How professional is a manager if he/she makes damaging comments in front of your colleagues behind your back in a meeting? Not too professional I gather... haiz.... think I just have to live with it and deal with this manager's demand.

Luckily I have a trump card - our division boss, who is a good boss to work with and listens to his staff. So I think I will survive and I am not going to throw in my white towel soon. I will stick around longer that she is. I believe the sweetest revenge is to work happy, disregard his/her unreasonable demands and not let him/her gets their way.

Rather than to be sulky about it, fight back when necessary and be on the happy side. The more happy you are, the more upset they will be. One day they would just back off and leave you alone. The trick is strike back when necessary and strike where it really hurts. It works for me before and it will continue to work.

Warning - Avoid Drinking Fresh Sugar Cane Juice

Please take 2 mins to read this. This email was sent by a friend whose father is working with the Ministry of the Environment in Singapore.

Health News - About Sugar Cane Drinks

A friend whose father works for the government health inspection passed on his info. Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their cooked food, their store hygiene, etc. They found sugar cane juice has the highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has exceeded the set limit.

Hence, these guys had to find out why. They went round all sugar cane stores and watched the way the hawkers handled their sugar cane, wash their glasses, their entire procedure. But they couldn't find the problem.

One day, they stayed till losing time and discovered some shocking facts! Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would wash the floor with detergent. As we know, the remaining sugar canes will be placed at the back of the store, vertically standing and as sugar canes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around them.

Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots, cats' urine, etc, will all be absorbed?? Now, whenever I eat at a hawker centre, I would warn all my friends about this and of course I stopped drinking my favorite sugar cane juice.

A friend, who loved sugar cane juice, was pregnant. She was always drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried and the foetus was already like 6 or 7 months old, I think. When the doctors did an autopsy to find out why all of a sudden the foetus had died inside her, they found traces of some chemical substance, which was found in cat urine. Large traces of it.

While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremely toxic to babies, what more a fetus? So they tried to determine how this cat urine thing could have ended up in the fetus. This meant that it had to be digested by the mother, right? And the only logical conclusion they could come up with was that since these sugar cane juice stall holders just leave the canes lying around on the wet and dirty floor, it would not be impossible to think that stray cats could have peed on those sugar canes or near those sugar canes. So think carefully the next time you order that favorite sugar cane juice!

Please pass this on to everyone you know in Singapore & Malaysia. Let's take action to make this world a better & safer place for all of us & the generations to come.

My Honeymoon Working Life is Over.....

Hey... just a few weeks back I was always complaining about not having enough to do, dozing off in work... blah blah... Now I really regret that, because things have changed and I am so busy that I hardly have time to drink water.

I think it must have been my karma or my retribution for having such good times during my first 2 weeks in work.

Sometimes I wonder if my boss gets to know about my blog or he's been reading my draft which I send back to my personal mail via company email. Stupid of me to do that.... Well I guess I just have too much confidence in others on respecting my privacy.

Well I guess I just have no choice but to spend more time on work and now less time on my blog. Good bye my honeymoon... time for real shit work. :((

Correct way of cooking INSTANT NOODLES

The correct way to cook instant noodles without harming our bodies and health. `Normally, how we cook the instant noodles is to put the noodles into a pot with water, throw in the powder and let it cook for around 3 minutes and then it's ready to eat.

This is the WRONG method of cooking the instant noodles.

By doing this, when we actually boil the ingredients in the powder, normally with MSG, it will change the molecular structures of the MSG causing it to be toxic.

The other thing that you may or may not realize is that, the noodles are coated with waxand it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to excrete the wax after you have taken the noodles.

CORRECT METHOD :

1. boil the noodles in a pot with water.
2. once the noodles is cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water which contains wax.
3. boil another pot of water till boiling and put the noodles into the hot boiling water and then shut the fire.
4. only at this stage when the fire is off, and while the water is very hot, put the ingredient with the powder into the water, to make noodle soup.
5. however, if you need dry noodles, take out the noodles and add the ingredient with the powder and toss it to get dry noodles.

Please share this info and help save a life.