Somersby- there's a new animal in town

We got another T-Shirt from my boss while he was on his holidays.

I sometimes thought that, i was still in the picture (like getting t-shirt) because i am very close to both my senior and junior and there is no way that they could hide anything from me.

Job title- is it important?

My senior has been promoted to Engineering Design Manager. My junior has been promoted to Deputy Engineering Design Manager. Where does that leaves me..? I am still a Project Engineer. 

I was a little taken aback by their sudden promotion, especially my junior. How can she be promoted when she used to always be late for work and took sudden half days leave? She has made a great effort to change though and it shows. I really have nothing against her. I do agreed that she has strong theory. It was always apparent that my boss favours them. I said that i didn't care, but sometimes he made it too obvious and i did get a little jealous.

I sometimes think that part of it was because i don't try hard to suck up to him. I don't do small talk and i don't have a warm personality. What do you expect from a Capricorn who is socially awkward and raised a loner. 

At first, i do not really care about the title. But today, it hit me hard how important a title was when i went to lead a tender interview with my other junior (replacing my boss who is outstation). They asked me, am i the next in line after my boss? And i said 'no, we also have a Tendering Manager'. Then they asked, 'then after that it's you?' I said 'no'. 'Don't you have another Director?' I said, 'We do have another Director.' They asked'And he couldn't make it to this interview?' 'Yes.' 'Don't you have a Project Manager?' 'We do, but our Project Manager does not usually attend tender interview. He is mainly in charge of Site matters.' 'Are you a QS?' 'No, I am a Project Engineer.' 'A what?' 'A Project Engineer', i repeated. They took a second look at my card and nodded.

I do think that it is better to just be a Project Engineer and are able to answer all of their questions. While stil have an excuse for not being able to answer some of their questions. Not that i wasn't able to today. 

My heart beats at a weird pace while writting this post. It Felt constricted. 

My senior has actually told me that i used to really show my emotion whenever i do not agree with my boss' instruction. And i have also improved a lot in controlling them. She even used me as an example in dealing with my boss. My solution, keep my mouth shut. My boss also always compared my senior with my junior telling my senior to take my junior as an example in how to deal with people.

I noticed that everytime when my boss is comparing attitude or personal traits of his employees, he would always take others as example and never me. Never. 

I don't think he knew me very well. He still thought that i am a Dayak.*face palm.

When i told him that i have planned my Chinese New Year Holiday for 2014 without following the company's approved date. He said, 'waa.. Might as well don't come back.' *sigh. I ask him, 'are you sure?' And he just laughed it off  And didn't answer me. My senior told me not to put it to heart. 

Why is he creating all these office hierarchy? To create competition? 

When i first joined my company, i always thought that he hated me. 

I love that my senior giving me all these motivational talk. And my junior has her own problem in dealing with office politics. 

But It won't matter what your title is, as long as he knows who is pulling their own weight.

I still need a bossom for a pillow..:(

Love this! My first lappy.

My new handme-down lappy. Yay! Thanks G. Just so you know, I did most of my online reading on this baby.

Are we adults yet?

Okay.. We are all in our 30s except for my younger brother. But we are all working adults. 

Just now, my older brother texted me saying that his toddler baby was accidentally scalded with hot water and suffered a 1st degree burn on his left foot. This all happened while the son was in the care of my SIL sister.

And here we are worried that my dad would find out. We can tell our mom. But not our dad. This goes to show that dad is still the man around the house. Or the man of 'The family'..

When we were little, My dad used to scold us when we get mosquito bites. This is the same way he treated all my niece and nephews.. So naturally, scalded with hot water is a serious thing. 

When i was in secondary school, i fell on the rough cement court and scrapped the whole left or right side of my calf while playing basketball.. I had to hide it from my dad and wore long pants everyday in my house until it heals and scab free.

Hard Rock T-shirt

I received my first 2 HardRock T-shirt yesterday. 

Oslo and Copenhagen

Though both in L size. But the grey one looks bigger on me. I can't really advertise it on Facebook. Only 4 of us got these with different designs from my boss when he went to 11 days trip to Norway and Denmark.

Fortress of Solitude- Missing

What would you do if the place you considered home for almost 6 years is no longer a tranquil and welcoming place? Feeling like an intruder more and more each day.

I used to be able to do almost anything at home without having to bother about, is there someone in the bathroom, if there isn’t anybody in there why is the light still on? Why is the door locked? I’m almost late to get ready for work and the door is still locked. I had to go out of my room to see that they have left their room door open for me to go into their room and to the bathroom and use it. Why is there hair in the sink? Why is the toothbrush and toothpaste wedge between the tap and the wall? I can’t turn the tap with ease.

Why is the rag not hung to dry properly? It’s all twisted set on the tray with the rest of the products. 

Can I use the bathroom now or the others would want to use it when I was using it.

Can I use the washing machine now? Can I hang my clothes to dry today?

They ate my food and drink my drinks. Fine, I resorted to storing some food in a container in my room now. 

But I can’t use the fridge anymore and that’s where I put my Vitagen/ Yogurt drinks/ Chocolate milk.

I could not find the solitude that I seek after a hurricane pace day at work. The time when I use to be able to sleep soundly interrupted with banging of doors, hinges on door being latched on, talking voices almost to a point of shouting, lights turned on, smells of food prepared in the morning. Some of these may seem miniscule but to me it amplifies whenever I am on verge of sleep and wakefulness.  

My heart races when it is suppose to be calm and dreaming instead of anticipating when the next time when the hinges latched and the door banged shut and again when the latch unhinges.

I have done what I can on the hair on the floor trap and clumps of hair stick to the wall. And thank goodness that they left the wall all alone. They still left some hair on the sink and on the floor trap. But I can turn a blind eye on that.

I never had this problem living in the same room as LP for 4 years! Why is it so hard now?! We only shared bathroom.

3 days activities in 1 day

I don't go out much. But when i do, i like to write about it.

I went out yesterday with my colleagues for the 1st day of the 3 days long weekend. Apparently, America is also having a 3 days long weekend.

It was suppose be like a company get together. We went bowling. Only 4 of us showed up. And we were spontaneos in our decision of what to do after the game. 

So after the game, we went and have a look around Endah Parade. The place is like a recreational place for youngsters. It is an old building, but it has indoor rollerblading, badminton court, karaoke joint etc. They don't have any cinema though. So after a brief walk to Endah Promenade, we stopped by a coffee place to quench our thirst. The afternoon was so hot and humid. 

On the spot, we decided to go and watch a movie. When we saw that it was about to rain, we ran off to my car parked around the corner to my colleague's house.

We barely made it, and it started pouring heavily while we were on our way to Desa Petaling's MBO to watch a movie.

I can barely see the road while i was driving. So we made it to the place and were in luck as the next session won't start in another 30min. One of my colleague wanted to watch StarTrek, the the 3 of us went on to watch Furious 6. The time difference is only 15min. So it was perfect. In the cinema, again a kid kept crying all through the movie and annyed a bunch of us. Parents, please don't be selfish by again subjecting your

child to the loud action sound and also subjecting the rest of paying customer by your child's scream of attention. I think they left 15min before the shows end.

It was already 8pm when we left. And again spontaneously head to Wester Cowboy Restaurant. We had a bad experience there the last time i brought 2 of my colleagues there. So we went again the 2nd time to write a better memory. And we did have a great time all through the day. I managed to get everyone back safe and sound.