Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Listening to: One Last Cry - Brian McKnight

Let's deal with things one at a time. It's going to be another one of those "from work life to love life to game life" posts.

First, work.

(at this moment, YZ is msging me so forgive me if I sound distracted.. or if this part of the post sounds a lil fragmented)

where was I?

Right.. work. I handed in my resignation for the position at NUH last Friday. Reasons for that decision range from the impossible workload to the shitty treatment temp staff get.. and the lousy slave-labour pay. I think I've mentioned once.. that my work comes in boxes. one box a day.. with the exception of mondays.. I get 3 boxes on mondays (coz the hospital operates on weekends, in case no one noticed). so make that... 7 boxes for a 5-day work week. I'm too slow, I think. Coz I only manage to clear about half a box a day.. and it's extremely stressful to know that it's the 27th and I'm only clearing stuff on the 12th.

It's not worth 6 bucks an hour.

And the treatment.. *sigh*
Case No. 1: This girl was suddenly asked to leave. She received a call from the recruit agency telling her not to bother turning up for work the next day. No explainations, no warning. I went to ask around and finally got the reply that she was on her handphone too much, smsing and stuff.
The thing that didnt sit well with me was the "NO WARNING". I mean, if you find she's on the phone too much.. TELL her. So that she can cut down or something. or ASK her why she's on so much. For all you know, she was going thru a family crisis or something. But Noooo.. no such thing.

Case No. 2: This is even more ridiculous. One of the girls fell sick (she was the one replacing said girl in Case 1) and took 3 days of MC. Really really bad flu, I could hear on the phone. By the 3rd day, they sacked her, telling her they couldnt afford to wait for her to get well. I mean, it's not like she didn't want to come. It's not her fault she fell sick.. and she's only been at work for a week too.

Why should I stay? Why should I stay in a company that "professes warmth and care" when they treat their staff so callously? In the 3 weeks that I've worked there, they've changed staff for that particular position like 3 times. And something tells me it's not the staff that's screwy here.

Notice the stint I had at KKH was much more enjoyable and pleasant compared to the stinking hellhole called NUH. Maybe coz the ppl are nicer and are ACTUALLY considerate *Gasp*
For this "temp to perm" position I've just resigned from, ADIOS! Damn Hypocrites.

Now, Love life.

After 4 years of dating the same guy (I dont know if he even remembers when our anniversary is).. well..

THings grow old, ya know. And I find that.. the romance and passion have long evaporated, replaced by the mundane everyday life. I find myself expecting more out of the entire relationship.. and more than half the time, he just can't keep up.
To put it bluntly, things have grown boring. tiresome. and the only "color" that we see is the red haze of anger when we fight. and oh, do we fight. every other night.
It's not to say we don't love each other. Just.. you lose touch, sometimes. you dont feel the yearning to be together. come to think of it, you don't really miss each other as much. the other person is just.. well.. on the other side of the telephone line. Even the "I love you"s seem to be said more out of habit than really expressing how you feel.

*shrug*

(at this pt, he's prolly say something like "you love the attn dont you" or "such a attn seeker" or "stop being so melodramatic") - see what i mean?

Ok. Game life. Warning: you prolly wont understand half the terms.

I've more or less given up on my priest. She's NEVER gonna get to 60 =/ I simply dont have time for 2 characters. I'm more interested in playing my mage than priest anyway. And I dont relish doing BRD a gazillion times trying to do Emp/jailbreak/Incendius. I've also abandoned my warrior at lvl.. 8 i think.
which reminds me.. have to save leather gear for my brother. I keep forgetting.. God knows how much leather gear I've DE-ed.
Aniko's disappeared on me =(
And my guild seems to be coming apart. Note: I've noticed a pattern here.. no matter which guild I join, they seem to come apart in less than 2 months. I've been through about 4 guilds now.. been there, done that.. dismantled a guild, i'm THAT good. that sorta thing. *sigh*
Another note: Try to sound like a guy on ventrilo :p Comments from fellow guildies about sexy voice and the proceeding requests for phone numbers upset the boyfriend.
Honestly dear.. they were only teasing.. no need to /glare the poor ppl..

Anyway.. it's getting late. Midnight now.. I should go to bed, except I'm not sleepy.
Many thanks to Eugene and Tim for the calls a few days back. I'm fine now.. not gonna die anytime soon. And thanks to Andrew (you can just call me ya know, instead of asking poor Eugene to call).

Shimin, lunch sometime hun?

Alrite. Gotta end the post now. WEekend's gonna be tediousome. Lunch with grandma on Sat, then some other obligation on Sunday. Lovely.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Listening to: Pachelbel - Canon in D Major

Merry Christmas Ya'll