*Office Irritants*

Most of the people reading this blog are probably already working. In fact I think most of you reading this blog are doing so from the office! Betul tak? Most of us spend a good chunk of our time in the office or getting to/from office.

There are a few things in the office that irritates the hell out of me. Some of them beyond one’s control and other are. I’m sharing my peeves here and see if you agree or disagree with them:

Missed Calls: If you’re going to leave your mobile at your desk, do put it on silent please? No one else likes your ringtone and no one wants to hear yours on repeat.

Paper Jam: Just when you’re pressed to submit that proposal, the copier machine jams or the toner finishes or something breaks.

Staples Depleted: Irritating isn’t it? Especially when the staples are across the office in the store room.

Washroom Closed: Even worse! When the urge comes there’s not much you can do about it, you have to go there and then! Even worse when your cubicle is on the other end of the office, walking all the way to find it closed is depressing!

Blinking lights/lamps: When these flicker you’re transported to some dance disco with strobe lights. Irritating to the max!

Let Me Breathe: It’s normal for people to come to your place to show you something or have it reviewed but please, not too close even though you have impeccable BO.

Bone Dry Markers: There’s like 20 whiteboard markers in the meeting room but not a single on of it works.

Where's My..: Most of us tend to have issues when our stationary is taken/borrowed and is not there when we need it.

Care to add friends? ;)

Cheers!!! :D

*Old Slang Sine*

Pardon the title, I know it makes no sense whatsoever but it just crossed my mine the minute I launched notepad to draft this blog post.

I spent 10 years growing up in the northern area of the peninsular, Penang to be exact, Lorong Batu Lanchang to be spot on but I don’t have the exact GPS coordinates if you wanted to know :P

Spending my formative years there meant that I had learnt the northern tongue or slang or in it’s 1Malaysia form “pelat”. Malaysia is unique that almost every state except for KL & Selangor will have their own slang to the same lingo.

I’ve since spent the last 19 years of my life back in KL. My parents decided to retire in the city instead of a nice and quiet town. I remembered when I first moved back to KL with a thick northern “accent” and had my school mates wondering what on earth I was saying.

I do suffer from momentary lapse back into the northern slang once in awhile, especially when relatives or friends start conversing in it.

I went back up north last weekend to meet up with some relatives and yes, I came back to work with the “pelat” thick as hell with some wondering if I’d hit on my head too hard. Try and see if you can figure out what these words mean.

Ayaq

Mampuih

Cerok

Meghelit

Lip-lap

Teghuih

Tang

Cengeh (silent H)

Ketegaq

Try also to find on any maps or Google maps and see if you can locate these locations.

Tanjung

Bagan

Best of luck to all ;)

Cheers!!! :D

*Program Jejak Blogger*

I finally finished the awfully painful and irritating task of copying my Haloscan comments into Blogger (yes, manually) as I got tired of having JS-Kit ads on my site. If you haven’t notice, I’d like to keep my site ad-free.

Of course the entire exercise also meant that I was able to read back all my older comments from my earlier posts circa 2k5 to 2k6. That was the time when this blog was alive with vibrant posts and comments.

So, the next phase would be surrounding the same theme and it is called:

Program Jejak Kasih Blogger

I’m going to try and track down the bloggers who have posted comments on at least 2 occasions to see if they’re still blogging and the location their current blog. Of course this means I get to stretch this idea to a few “series”; which means it’s a cheap way of maintaining a constant steam of posts for the blog.

It’s also a way to say thanks to all those people who have supported me and this blog all those years ago ;)

So stay tuned for Projek Jejak blogger part 1 coming soon.

Cheers!!! :D

*Ironic Rain*

I sincerely believe I have found the solution for dry spells that hit this country from time to time. I believe that next time Malaysia goes through a drought again all I have to do is wash my car and magically it’ll rain the entire day.

I’m not sure what about the rain or what it has against me but every time I decide to wash my car, it rains. It’s almost as if the clouds are watching; waiting for the time where I part way with my cash before it lets the heaven’s open up.

I can’t remember any occasions where I have enjoyed more than a day of a clean car before the rain comes falling down on me. It must be one of the most frustrating things for most people when it happens, it is to me :)

So the next time your area of the country is facing a long dry spell fear not, just let me wash your car in your area and chances are likely that it’ll rain soon enough there ;)

Cheers!!! :D

*Painfully Irritating*

I've been trying to look for a way to get my Haloscan comments out from Haloscan and into Blogger but I haven't yet found a way or tool to do it. So now I'm going through the painful process of copying out each posts' comments out and than creating a comment on the posts and pasting it all back in.

Yes, I know that it is a painful job but I have scoured the net and can't find a proper way to do it. Using scripts might render as an "attack" by Haloscan and block my account altogether while I don't believe in paying them to export my comments out and than still unsure of how to import it into Blogger.

The job isn't made easier having the fact that Baine's World in its earlier days (when posts weren't so serious) had at least 50 comments for each post. It is painfully irritating but it's part of the blog and I don't want to lose it.

If you happen to know any other way to do it, please let me know because I've only gone through a year's posts and I'm beginning to lose it :)

Cheers!!! :D

*Fruitless*

Have you realized that there’s no more fruits season per se? I mean there used to be a time when selected fruits only tend to be available for a certain period of the time during any given year.

These days it does not seem to be the case anymore. Fruits like durian and the like are available throughout the entire year and everywhere too. It is almost hard these days to drive and not find roadside fruit stalls selling fruits.

I guess when things are common like fruits are common throughout the year; it tends to lose its specialty somewhat. Too much of a good thing is normally never a good thing.

Not that I’m complaining though.

At least fathers to be would not cringe when their significant other craves for a specific fruit in the middle of night with fruits now being a season-less treat. Imagine if your significant other wanted to eat a fruit that was done for the season, you’d be in some trouble.

So there is some good in too many of a thing indeed.

Cheers!!! :D

*Cuti Is My Break*

*Rage mode ON*

I'm out of office between 19/09/2009 and 27/09/2009 and will have limited acccess to my email. I will try to respond to you at the soonest.

Bahagian mana dari statement di atas yang anda tidak paham? I believe that the statement above would be a clear indication that I won't be working throughout that time right?

Habis apa pasal susah sangat bagi anda nak paham? Awak klien saya dan bukan ibubapa saya so harap maklum bahawa my priorities are as such.

You wouldn't like it if I was to call you during your festive holiday or break right so apasal you sibuk nak cari I time-time raya nie? Tak paham bahasa or to tengok iklan raya yang diulang-ulang on the damn TV?

Minggu depan saya start kerja balik and unless my boss calls my mobile, there's nothing earth shattering that can't be dealt until then. As such, tolong faham saya ada beberapa lagi hari untuk holiday so please understand and respect it.

Cuti is my break ok? Tak paham bahasa.

Sekian.

Cheers!!! :D