Rain on my love parade

I could write your name in the sand,

and the rain would wash it away.

But the good times you gave,

are forever engraved in my memories.

V day

Okay so I thought it's been a really long time since I 'celebrated' V day. And U wanted to know how long, so I actually checked the previous blogs. The last time was in 07, just 2 years ago. I thought it was like more than that.

And I realize, there's a V day entry for the past 3 years. So this be the 4th. V day was spent going to the Zoo today. Grace, Gary and R. Told him about it and he said he was interested, so I asked him to come along. And he was game for it. I thought that meant something?

Getting really old, about 2 years back, the Zoo wasn't such a tiring event. Maybe it didn't help that i was luggin 2 1.5L Evian and 2 Pringles.

Got some nice pictures. How bad can DSLR pictures turn out? The wait for them however is going to be really long. :(

There was a wedding though. Neat! Was literally a fairtale wedding. The 'jie mei' where in angel wings. There was Peter Pan, Fingstone. The couple was on a horse carriage.

Ended up meeting R for supper again. So that's 2 times this week. I honestly don't really know what to make out of it and I'm not sure if I want to.

2 conflicting statements. 1)I hope i didn't embrass you. Which when probe i didn't really get my answer. So I'm wondering if he used the right word. 2)Said least I now know you better as a friend/I treat you as a friend.

I don't really know what I want out of this or where it's heading. And yes, I'm enjoying the ride. But the thing is I don't want to led anybody and so I do need to know where this is going. But it'll be akward if I'm the one assuming that something is going on when there's nothing.

Spoilt

Now that i can drive, I'm reluctant to go anywhere further than a 30 min public transport ride. Of course this didn't happen overnight. The spoilt process started about 2 years back. Thanks Nic!

Losing count of projects

I actually losing count of what and the number of projects I'm doing. Just lots of small ones now. 2 new ones this week.

Major:
1)IHS IT system + CM workbaskets
3)Sigma 6 + Underwriting Manual

Minor in process
5)U1,U2 letter enhancements (almost done)
6)EBH Online
7)U1 ICB

Minor completed
8)SAF guidelines
9)IHS Current CM workbaskets
10)IHS Flow Charts

Canon DSLR

Played with one today. Quite fun, though a bit complicated initially. There's lots to learn though, all the effects and what not.

Did the basic, played with the focus, aperture and shutter speed.
Then there's the wide angle lense and whatever not. Can be placed on manual or pre set auto functions.

Learnt that IS= Image Stabalizer.

Gossip girl E16

The thing about new beginnings is that

they require something else to end

Some endings take a long time to reveal themselves.

But when they do,

they're almost too easy to ignore.

Some beginnings start so quietly

you don't even know they're happening.

But most endings come when you least expect them and

what they portend is darker than u imagine.

Almost reality

Had a dream last night. Setting was a different company. Boss was the same, i screwed up somehow. Didn't managed to pull off my projected. Got demoted, sent pack from HQ to some service center.

There was some IT testing to do today, needed to sign off and put to production on Monday. The IT people are not around tommrrow, so it had to be resolved today. Got the email after i left work yesterday. saw it this morning. Decided to get it done with in the morning so I'll have the rest of the day to do other stuff.

Problem #1, my comp decided to crash on me again. So it was pretty much a switch on, auto shut down game for the whole morning. Managed to try the system, to realize I can't even get it to work.

Highlighted to the IT people, they only managed to edit it the bugs/reports/software/system so i could get in. That was 5pm. Went in, realize everything doesn't work. Wrong alignment, wrong salutation, can't print. Tons and tons of errors. What should have been an 1hr wrap caused me to OT for 2 hours, and it's not yet fixed!

Dropped an sms to boss about it. She's not going to be too happy. There's going to be a 1 day delay to it. And to her it's chicken feet, just some cosmetic changes. So it's quite uncanny how the dream almost became reality.

4 day work week

Got an email yesterday, Company is doing a survey on having a 4 day work week instead of 5. What that means is that instead of an 8 hr work day, it's now 10 hours a day. No changes to pay scheme.

Not much details being given. But Boss gave a briefing on that today, saying it's hot desking and prolly you dont' get to choose yer day off but might work on a rotation basis.

Not sure about that. Not too keen on the idea of hot desking and not being able to choose the off day. (I'm going to choose monday off. Friday is already casual friday, no point missing that. )

I don't think it'll be implemented but I've got to give credit for exploring something quite unprecedent. This is very Euro style and totally not Asian.

Superficial

I'm sorry that I'm superficial enough to

-want stay clear of tourist hotels, mass produce markets
-want stay in hotels that people will go wow, where's that when they see the photos


and to myself,
I'm sorry that I spent hours scouring thorugh goolge images searching Taipei hotels.
clicking every decent hotel picture, reading up, checking location, MRT approximity, comparing prices over all the various hotel search engines, emailing direct asking for better rates. Throwing out anything that seem out of budget. When all i could have done was jus to go to any, ANY tour agent tell them i need a hotel and get it done.

I'm sorry I spent half a year mointering air ticket prices, reading up on jet fuel trends, checking on air ticket prices periodically across airlines when i could have just gone to any, ANY tour agent and tell them i need a free and easy tour package to Taipei.