Won RM960 from Genting Casino over the weekend. This is by far the most I have won from my trips to Genting. Stayed at the First World Hotel for 1 night. Not so many people on Saturday even in the casino but lots of people on Sunday. Left Genting approx. 3.30pm and reached Penang island about 8.00pm. Yea, we drive very slowly. Had dinner at Super Tanker food court in Lip Sin garden. This place is usually packed during the weekends. Reached home at 9pm.

Woke up at 7am the next morning. It was raining and it's so hard to get up when it's raining...ARGH... How I wish I could sleep the whole morning. Boss is on leave today. Time flies in the office cos I had to catch up on work as last Saturday was off day. George W Bush is in Istanbul to launch the Nato meeting today. Agent in Istanbul is close for 2 days. This gives me some space to breathe.

No good news in the job market. Still have not received any calls from prospective employers. Just got to keep on trying.

Just finished watching Malaysian Idol on tv. This time the crew were in JB after the audition in Kuching last week. Boy I can't believe how bad some of those contestants were. They really got the balls (for guys) or breasts??? (for girls) to go for the audition. Don't they know how bad they sing? To all those really really bad singers who auditioned in Malaysian Idol in Penang, Kuching and JB....I salute you! Can't wait for next week when they go to KL to find more bad singers to make me laugh next Friday.

I received a feedback from Kew today telling me the pictures I had put up in my earlier posts are not showing. Yes, I have been trying to figure out how to put them up here and I was pointing the pictures to my long abandoned geocities website which I had the pics uploaded there. Kew is a fellow blogger from Penang and he has set up Penang Blogger, a Penang Bloggers portal and currently in Beta Testing.

I received the following email from Kew and when I checked his portal this lousy blog is already linked to it.

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Hi,

I have come upon your site from the Blogger.com Penang State listing. I have created a Penang Bloggers portal and currently in Beta Testing. The purpose of this portal is to syndicate the blog postings from around penang and to give your site more hits.

If your blog is personal and would like to be removed from this portal, do let me know. Alternatively, if you have other friends blog that would like me to include into this portal, just reply to this mail(shagalot50@yahoo.com) with the blog address. The only criteria is that the blogger has to be from penang.

http://penangbloggers.uni.cc

While we test out the site and improve on the look and feel, do drop by once a while to check out what your neighbours has blog about.

Cheers
Kew
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Kew, if you are reading this - thanks for setting up the Penang Bloggers portal... Well done.

Earlier as I routinely visit Michael Ooi's heavenly blog I noticed how Michael put up his picture on his blog. I registered with Photobucket.com and then "wala wala" the pics appear as they are supposed to. Thanks to Michael and to Photobucket.com.

Tonight England will play Portugal in the 1st Euro 2004 Q-finals. For the past few day, I have been trying to stay awake till 2.30am to watch some of the matches but I always fall asleep around 1am. Too tired from running like a dog in the office. Thank god tomorrow is Friday!

This is the main entrance to my new apartment. The apartment is expected to be ready in 1 to 2 month's time. It costs me a bomb to purchase this apartment and this will be my new home in time to come... I am impatiently waiting and so looking forward to see how it is when the OC is obtained. It has a swimming pool and a gym. Nice, isn't it?

Here is how my day was

7.00am Woke up
7.45 - 8.25am Got into car and drove to work
8.30 - 9.00am Read through emails, archived some and deleted unnecessary emails
9.00 - 12.45am Replied emails and checked production status for P's orders
12.45 - 1.30pm Went out for lunch at Taman Nagasari
1.30 - 2.00pm Replied emails
2.00 - 3.00pm Went down to production to check on P's order
3.00 - 4.45pm Replied more emails and P called to lecture...yak yak yak!!!
4.45 - 4.50pm Got next sem's timetable for Finance. Called ITD to recfm re-attendance.
4.50 - 5.45pm Finished and wrapped up today's work
5.45pm Left office
6.45pm Arrived home and showered
7.15pm Got online to check yahoo email - deleted many junk mails.
7.45 - 10.30pm Had dinner, watched Astro Wah Lai Toi till 10.30pm then logged in to blog

Another day had gone ...Sigh...

I spent the whole day at work entertaining a customer from Dubai and his customer from Iran today. This Dubai guy is okay and he is a happy guy. He placed some orders today and everything went on pretty well in the meeting. Just had dinner with two of them and my boss at Kashmir, the expensive Indian restaurant in Penang Road opposite Cititel. The food is very expensive but it's on ah kong's account so it's ok.

Half way through dinner, P called my boss' handphone to give me some lecture. Damn! It's only Monday and it spoils my whole week! My job motivation is all time low now and I am just looking forward to Saturday. I will leave for Genting and taruh all my frustrations out at the gaming table!

Shit! I changed the template for the blog and screwed up the layout of the profile. I guess I better stick to this very basic template for now in order not to mess anything up.

I found another picture. It's a cake and no I don't work in Dell.

Still trying to play around on the settings for this weblog and added a basic nedstat tracker.

I have seen, met and dealt with many types of customers. Some are smart, some not so smart and then you have those really stupid ones. There is this customer which I have been working with for the past 2 years. Let's just call this bird brain P.

The orders given by P is insultingly small for the manufacturing concern which I am attach to. Quite frankly, we have been performing badly in terms of delivery for P not once, not twice but countless times. Giving P sleepless nights have become a norm for us. I am just waiting to see P go screw up another supplier!

I spent the whole day yesterday entertaining a customer from Switzerland. I had some time to catch up on my work today. Tomorrow, I need to spend some time with some guests from Dockers together with a japanese colleague.

I waxed my car today. I signed up for the priority job application in jobstreet. It cost me RM50 and I paid by credit card. Yea, I am kinda looking for a new job as the current one sux.

I stumbled upon some pictures taken during my holiday in London about 3 years ago. This is one of them. Here's a pic of me taken in Trafalgar Square in London in Feb 2001.

Today is Saturday and the first match of Euro 2004 will begin in Portugal. I am watching wrestle mania XX vcd loan to me by my colleague. Didn't have the time to watch the vcd until after the exam. I am also in the midst of downloading some new mp3 and to burn an audio cd for my car. I have not washed my car in the past 2~3 weeks. It has been collecting durt and dust so I will give it a thorough bath later today.

Hooray... Strategic Info Systems exam is finally over. Tough exam and I am only hoping to scrape thru. 40/50 or 50/50 chance I reckon. The objectives questions (difficult) cover 40 out of 150 marks and the balance is all in the case study. I have not got a clue what one of the case study questions is all about. Damn it cost me 10 marks there. Anyway, that was over and I can't do nothing to change it. Just to keep on praying and hope for a pass.

Got back home at 5.45pm and immediately I got online to delete my office emails. I got more 250 mails for being away from office for a mere 2 days.

*Klik*Klik*Klik* and I continue to delete those stupid emails!

I took today off from work to do my final preparation for exam tomorrow. Went to the General Post Office today to buy 25 pcs of the Star Cross Word puzzle post card and greeted the lady at the counter good morning. It went like this...

Me: Selamat Pagi... Can I have the Star Cross Word Puzzle postcards?
Lady at the counter stared at me as if I was cursing her mother, father and entire fwacking family when I greeted her.
Lady: Berapa?
Me: 25
Lady: 12.50
I paid the money, grabbed the postcards and went off.

I guess it's that time of the month for that post office lady!

Today is Saturday, the 5th day of June in the year 2004. 3 days to go before my 2nd last paper for my MBA degree. I have not been spending much time in this semester for the upcoming exam. This is probably caused by the stress I get from my work. This time around I am only sitting for one paper - Strategic Info Sys. It covers 8 modules... with lots of theories to memorise.

While I try to do some revision in the very last few days before my exam, I blog alittle to de-stress. The weather is rainy today so I guess it is good for my revision but before I hit the books again let me say a few things about my job....

I have been working in this organisation for a little more than 6 years now. This job has taken me to a few places like Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong and Shanghai in Asia and Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Friedrichshafen (that's in Germany in the border of Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and Zurich in Europe. Others may think what I do is quite glamorous coz I get to travel a few times a year but the actual job in the office is a real pain in the a$$. The salary I get is not above the industry average. The bosses here are idiots and dickheads who only know how to complain with no leadership qualities whatsoever. That's a very brief overview of my workplace.