Sick on a holiday

It is the worst when you fall sick on a holiday, which you longed for some time...

Flu visited me, and I am in a mess now.... TT_TT

Presentation Slides

I know there are many managers out there, who will get their subline to prepare their presentation slides for them.

I have always disagree with this act. First of all, if you do not know the content of the slides, you won't be able to deliver a good presentation. I define good as informative, and useful. There are many presenters who open up the power point, and started blabbing useless things for 10 minutes without even changing the power point slides.

Anyway, our MD gets Cockroach to prepare project costing presentation for him, which I think it is fine, if you need his input on project costing, since he is an operation manager. However, I disagree having Cockroach doing the whole presentation. Nonetheless, I do not know much, so I have no further comments.

Today, our HR manager, get Twoheadsnake to prepare her Regional HR meeting next week. She gave Twoheadsnake the information, and Twoheadsnake was fiddling with her power point slides, while telling me that he has no time to pack up the nuts and bolts from our store for a project. (I was asked to help out, and I latter found out that he did not want to pack up the nuts and bolts, cause they are rather dirty, after being stored in the room for quite some time.)

I did not find out about the slides until when I returned the store room keys to his desk, and noticed an organisation chart on his monitor screen, with my name greyed out from the others. I asked him several times to flip back to that org. chart, he just ignored my requests, acting as if he didn't hear anything, or accidentally rolled the mouse one page too fast, and has no mean to roll it back to that page again.

I later found out that the task was initially handed over from HR to Ms. Azreal, who is now working under our consultant company (but still sits in our office). Ms. Azreal then pass it onto Twoheadsnake.

To me, HR is dealing with confidential information, and it should not be handed over to someone else outside the department.

Let's see what will happen... I am curious about the greyed out name of mine...

First day of the week

I arrived at office as usual, parked my car as usual, started practising violin in my car as usual.
But I realised no one has arrived before me, there is usually three person arrived before me.

As I practised, there wasn't anyone, until about half an hour later, Ir. Twoheadsnake's car drove in, parked and he walked out of the carpark.

I practised until the usual time, and walked out of my car, took the lift to go to the office, knowing well that there will be no one there to open the office door. And I was really hoping that there was no one there, so that I could start practising my violin in open space.

So, there was really no one, I opened up my violin case, and the cleaning lady arrived. I played my violin while she was sitting there.

One by one people arrived, yet no one has the key. Until my boss arrived, he called up the HR manager to bring the key over, and we were expected to wait for about half an hour before the HR arrives.

We went down to the ground floor to join Twoheadsnake, Woodchild and Azreal for tea. After finishing the newspaper, my boss and I decided to leave, cause there is no point sitting in the restaurant and do nothing.

So we went up again, and I continued practising my violin, until 9am, when the HR arrived with key.

We were one hour late starting our day, I had been waiting for more than 2 hours for the office door to open! This is not the first time it happened, similar things happened two three times before.

What a way to start a week.

Anyway, for the whole of December this year, all Fridays are holiday! YAY~~~~

Voice Animation

I have participated in another voice animation again, this time is for a Christmas short story clip.
The cartoon clip consists of 4 episodes, and we all done it for free. It will be out when Christmas is around the corner.

I was the background narrator, and also a small character which only come out in the first episode, and got bullied all the way...

Went for the first recording last night, finished my part, except the narration on the other episodes.

Anyway, just something out of my ordinary routine, thought it would be fun to get to know more people from other backgrounds.

Office goods and facillities

Well, as we worked in the office, there are supplies of stationeries, food, utilities, connections etc.

Everyone is using it for some personal stuffs to certain extend, for example,

• I am using the office internet connection to update this blog.
• Some are using the office internet connection to pay their utility bills.
• There are others who used to office phone to make personal calls.
• There are people who used the office fax machine to settle their credit card documentations.
• We also have people printing off some novels / colourful manga off the colour printer in the office, and bind it in the office.
• Then there are these who take the biscuits from office pantry and keep it for themselves.
• Some are guarding the office pantry stuffs like their own.
• Some are taking the office newspaper home.
• Some are copying the company purchased design codes for their own use.
• There are also some people making use of the office conviniences to work for the other company.
• Some are taking water from the office to go home.
• I have also met one person who regularly takes kitchen towel from the office, took the toilet papers, sugar, coffeemate, printing papers, even utensils etc back home.

Anyway, I guess it is inevitable that we would use the office facillities for our personal things. However, there must be a line drawn, to identify which are severe, and which to ignore.

Citibank Scam

There have been various calls from someone, who claimed that they are representing Citibank / from Citibank, offering me some insurance.

It was mentioned that all I need to do is to pay a small fraction of my monthly credit card bill, and continue for 10 years, the insurance will help me to cover all my credit card bills if I were not able to clear them.

Upon rejecting the offer, they will then ask if you have any other insurance covering the same thing as them, and asking how much you paid for it etc.

They even get to the point of activating the scheme for me, if I were to say ok over the phone.

I have called to Citibank for clarification of this scheme, and they are not aware of such a scheme. But Citibank has not been taking any action against this activities, or else these nonsense won't recurring over and over again.

Anyway, please be careful of the scam, these people are not from Citibank, ask for their details, who they report to, and how they get your information from Citibank. I suspect someone from Citibank are selling out the customer details to outsider for money.

Also, I have received some letters, with Citibank letterhead, claiming that I have won some prizes, and asked for my details and participation. I bet these are not from Citibank as well, otherwise they would have my details already. Anyway, just be extra careful and don't get excited over free money, there is always some traps behind it.