P.S

In light of my recent unemployment I will not be able to frequently update my blogs due to limited internet access.

Hima hima seijin ya!

(To be sung in tune of Jingle bells)

I just quit my job, this is my last day
All my stuff are packed, no more work for me
Now I can stay home do nothing all day long
or go play with my cats or play video games all day HEY!

NA NA NA, NA NA NA NO MORE WORK FOR ME~

NA NA NA, NA NA NA NO MORE WORK FOR ME~ HEY!

NA NA NA, NA NA NA NO MORE WORK FOR ME~

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NO MORE WORK FOR MEEE~*

U.N employment

Ah yes the sweet smell of unemployment it's so close now I can feel it, in less than 48 hours I will officially be free, no more waking up in the morning to go to work and no more going through the hellish morning and evening traffic,.....and no more monthly paycheck or free internet(crap!), oh well I guess I just have to find some way to not spend as much money until I find another job.

Now that I've cleaned up my most of workspace I've almost have nothing to do in the office anymore except for training the new staff but then again I can leave that to someone else so now it's time for.........Warcraft 3.

5 more...oh wait.....

I can't believe it....I was supposed to have 5 more days left now it's 7 days, tricky bastards! slipping in work days for the weekend. 

But seriously I'm not upset over it in fact it only means more money for me I mean with a 2 x 10 hour overtime pay when I'll be jobless by next Friday....sweet.

Now, if only I earn the same amount (numerical not value) per month but in US dollars.....

I wanna be a chocolatier!

As I may have mentioned before I'm currently (though not for long) working as a student counselor for foundation year students, this also includes a little bit of careers counseling as well.

I fully understand that it's very difficult for people who have only gone through 10 to 12 years of education, with ages ranging from 15-19, to decide on which university course to do, most of the students are not even certain or even care about what sort of career they want to go into.

I like to think that students today are more exposed to information about the different jobs available to them and have some idea of what the job involves more than I was then, so when I hear "I want to do software engineering because I like video games" unless they can tell me what aspect of video games they like or would like to work on I get a little upset.

More Chinese hilarity

Chuang Tse, A prominent Chinese Taosit once had a conversation with one of his contemporaries regarding what fish likes and it went something like this;

Chuang Tse and Huizi were strolling along the dam of the Hao Waterfall when Chuang Tse said, "See how the minnows come out and dart around where they please! That's what fish really enjoy!"

Huizi: "You're not a fish — how do you know what fish enjoy?"

Chuang Tse: "You're not I, so how do you know I don't know what fish enjoy?"

Huizi: "I'm not you, so I certainly don't know what you know. On the other hand, you're certainly not a fish — so that still proves you don't know what fish enjoy!"

Chuang Tse: "Let's go back to your original question, please. You asked me how I know what fish enjoy — so you already knew I knew it when you asked the question. I know it by standing here beside the Hao."

I may be reading this the wrong way but Chuang Tse's last reply sounded like "I know but I ain't tellin'" which doesn't sound very well thought out to me then again he became prominent Taosit philosopher who thought he was a butterfly while I'm sitting behind a desk making blog entries.

if you ask me who the other guy is I wouldn't have a clue I mean Who is he anyway?

End of week countdown

By the end of the day I will have 13 working days left before I'm NEET, "don't you mean 15 working days since today is the 10th of August and there's still 3 full weeks to go until the 31st?" No my unsuspecting fellow, there's a public holiday next Friday and I'm taking the Thursday off so I have 13 days of working left! and that means I'm going to have a 4 day weekend *glee*

iWant

Once again I'm getting the news late, which is good since I'm not a tech journalist.

First I'm just going to say one thing about iWorks '08........AWESOME! and to have them call the spreadsheet Numbers just made me a prophet, too bad the whole package is beyond my iBook's capacity.

Now a few words about the new  iMac, While the tech specs are quiet expected the design on it's own looks disjointed, it feels like there's a barrier between the monitor and the the rest of the body, aside from that I like the new keyboard design now the only thing they need to do to improve it is make it paper thin so I can place it on an angled surface and play "tactical officer" or "helmsmen" from Star Trek:TNG.


*OK something is seriously screwed with text formating in blogger, I'm gonna have to try and fix this

Because it's notable

I feel like posting something here but I seem to be lacking in topic today, so I'm just going to post about not having anything a topic to post.

or

I could dedicate today's post space to another random wikipedia entry for random information which you'll likely find no use for whatsoever.

Today, 62 years ago....

On this day more than anything we must ask ourselves was it worth it? Was it worth the 80,000 and more in the years that followed? Should today be passed by just like any other day? and what have we learned from it?

Friday night lights

Well this just sucks monkey balls. I started today thinking this was going to be a good day, it's a Friday, end of the week I usually finish the day on a good note with the weekend to look forward to. Sometime between 9 and noon (yes I'm being very particular here) I saw one of the newspaper headline saying something about some big gubernatorial campaign rally planned for today.

During my lunch period as I was walking to buy lunch (KFC naturaly) and to buy a new battery for my mobile phone (which had been dead for the last 3 days) I saw a convoy of busses, cars and bikes carrying the campaigners which is NEVER a good sign in this god forsaken city, at this point I knew that I was never going to get home on time.

The irony behind the campaign (which is expected in any political campaign) was it caused exactly the opposite of what the candidate "vowed" to reduce, traffic jams, hours and hours of traffic jam. Starting from noon until well after 18:00 (that's 6 pm in laymen's term). Knowing this in advance I decided to go to my favorite cafe in the mall just across my office after office hours to spend some time reading only to find out that it was closed, bugger me.

Since new batteries needed to be recharged before I can use it I couldn't call home to say I was going to be late, I also ran out of coins to call from a pay phone so I decided to catch a movie only to reminded that movie ticket prices are double that of the weekday prices.

Eventually I managed to get a cab probably after 7, I'm not sure since my mobile phone's dead, my iPod ran out of juice and so did my iBook so I can't tell what time it was nor did I look at the big round clock in the mall I was in, I also stopped wearing wristwatches years ago since I had a mobile phone.

Ok so it may not sound as bad as what others may have been through but I wasn't happy with my day today but as with all bad things there's usually a silver lining, mine was some chocolate souvenir gift from a very lovely (and very smart) lady, emphasis on the chocolate, that and a big fat Whooper.


Note: that was the first time ever I've met a person who stumbled across this blog by some mere chance.

Begin countdown

That's 3 days down counting today, 4 weeks or 18 working days to go (including 2 public holidays) until I'm NEET , someone said to me that it felt like impending doom, I don't feel anything of that sort, or any sort really probably because I've got things planned ahead or as someone said to me I'm an "emotionless inhuman* bastard"

Then again if I was emotionless why am I angry over my disfunctional taskbar?....


*the state of not being human