“Carrots”

July 29, 2008 | Filed Under Other, Photography, Rough Times | 3 Comments 

Thanks to Bryan for the minimal downtime of my blog :)

This is a pending post from four days ago, but since I have my day off, I shall slowly re-type the post:

It was a normal Friday afternoon. I had to drag my ass out of the bed because some potential buyer of my Nissan Pulsar 1990 Hatchback was coming over to check the car. So, I needed to drive the car to the nearest car wash and give it a quick wash and vacuum. I got out of the house and:

There were carrot pieces all over my neighbour’s pavers.

Carrot

Carrot

There were carrot pieces under my car.

Carrot 2

Carrot 2

There were carrot stains on my driver side-mirror. And it was cracked. With carrots.

Carrot 3

Carrot 3

What an insult. The potential buyers did not end up buying the car, of course.

The day followed up with Elvis (the dog) and Monkey (the bird) being sick, not excluding my blog being sick. What a day that was.

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ChanRaymond dot net is Sick

July 25, 2008 | Filed Under Announcement, Rough Times | 1 Comment 

Something is terribly wrong with my blog. I’ll be right back while I get some help from Bryan.

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“I Love my Job”

July 22, 2008 | Filed Under Announcement, Gibberish, Observation, Rough Times, Thoughts, Work | 3 Comments 

Only a few days of lazily written entries and I noticed that my stats have dropped drastically. I guess this is the price to pay when I had decided that this blog become my (amateur) photography cum personal life cum ranting space (not a very good mix when not done properly). But I really shouldn’t complain, as I still have loyal readers who comment on my postings on a frequent basis such as Hwey and Deng, Shan, Feng, Jason, ehon, Clem, Neo and even Lilian. Thanks guys for keeping me motivated to continue blogging on a not-so-daily basis.

Another day, another entry for me to ramble on about my job. Pardon the misleading title of this post, I am merely restating what my colleagues have been saying about me (without my knowledge, of course) - “He seem to really love this job”.

I would have taken it as a compliment, but knowing that people are actually saying it behind my back, this goes to show that it is being seen as a negative thing. Only people like Shan (a manager in the food industry) would probably see it in a positive light, I guess. But why on mother Earth would your colleagues who are supposedly your friends see such a thing as something negative? Are they in fear of their job security, that I will “rob” them of their positions with my supposed “passion” for my job? Or perhaps being such a person with a positive, cheery mood at work puts them off to bad mood?

I had proposed a couple of solutions for myself to tackle this new-found problem at work that I’m facing:

  1. The Reversal Method
    - Title says it all: Reversing my positive, cheery facade and channeling all my negative aura to my face. This method has yet to be tested and probability of success is unknown, but chances of losing my job is exponentially increased with more negative aura. Although I am very much tempted to test this method, I dare not risk my sole income at this stage in time.


  2. The IgnoRaythod™
    - I’m sure many have heard of the phrase, “Ignorance is bliss”. This is an example of when you can apply this method. It has been tested and the probability of success is high. Chances of losing my job is on all-time low and chances of promotion is all-time high.

  3. And more.

As to the statement of where I “love” my job, I hereby openly announce to the whole world that I really, really, really hate my job despite the cheery, positive facade that I have been putting on. The reasons of such dedication and positive outlook for me at work is:

Think about it - why would a perfectly normal person like you and me love a job which you only earn enough to survive on (weekly), and still isn’t enough for yourself to lead a completely liveable life by yourself, more to say your other half? One cannot simply judge another by how they carry themself, anywhere. Just because I’m good with appearing happy doesn’t necessarily imply that I’m a happy person. It’s akin saying that your cat is horny when it rubs itself against you. No, your cat is not horny. You are the horny one to suggest such implication on it.

In short to this lengthy rambling, mind your own fucking business while I mind mine.

Thanks for reading and have a good week while I continue slaving myself for more moolahs to pay off my bills, cars, uni books/carpark, and life :)

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I Broke My Yonex MP-99

July 20, 2008 | Filed Under Announcement, Rough Times | 2 Comments 

I broke my Yones MusclePower 99 a couple of nights ago :(

MP99 Broken

Broken MP99

It hasn’t even been a year and I’ve already broken it. That’s AUD160 gone in a single night. That’s almost ten hours of work. Good thing I have a couple of spares, albeit not as good.

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ChanRaymond dot net Running on WordPress 2.6

July 15, 2008 | Filed Under Announcement, Rough Times, Thoughts | Leave a Comment 

ChanRaymond dot net is currently running on WordPress 2.6. Upgraded today using the automatic upgrade plugin and there wasn’t any hassle at all. Remember I had a problem with TinyMCE? I was hoping that by this upgrade to 2.6, I’ll be able to fix the problem. However, it turned out that the problem was at the permissions in cPanel, so I managed to fixed it myself today.

Here’s a screenshot:

My TinyMCE

My TinyMCE

Today is my day off from work, so excuse me while I spend the rest of my day with L, resting. I’m feeling a little under the weather today - flames in my throat, sorethroat, headache. And it’s been raining all day long too. By the way, WordPress 2.6 is pretty awesome!

Upgrade your WordPress today!

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Ins and Outs

July 13, 2008 | Filed Under Observation, Rough Times, Thoughts, Work | 3 Comments 

It’s been a while since my last wordy post. I’m physically and emotionally exhausted (from work, specifically) as I type this, but somehow I just needed the ranting space. Of course, being a blogger, the natural abode to rant is the blog - and so this rant is of existence.

Work has been taking up most of my social and personal life. My weeks have been filled with painfully long hours, pain-in-the-ass customers, unforgiving managers, and hi-bye colleagues. Money has been flowing in and out, with obviously more outs than ins.

Of course, being on a long holiday, the natural thing to do would be to work and work more, with the thought that by working more, the outs will be hopefully reduced and more ins will be allowed that will hopefully allow me to save up for a trip next year, or perhaps even for emergency use when the need arises.

Of course, if things had been going as planned, this blog entry wouldn’t be of existence.

With reference to the pain-in-the-ass customers, sometimes, I wish I could shove my fist into the customers’ face who deserve the fist. Examples:

Unfortunately, I am still needing this job to make sure I have adequate ins to compensate for the outs that I cannot seem to control, no matter how hard I try. So you have a great weekend while I slave away to earn my ins that will eventually be outs on the same day it goes in.

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Then and Now..

July 3, 2008 | Filed Under Confessional, Rough Times, Thoughts | 4 Comments 

This was then..

2007/S2 Writing For Professional Purposes (EGL150) 62 C
2007/S2 Introduction to Journalism (MCC104) 60 C
2007/S2 Introduction to Public Relations (MCC107) 75 D
2007/S2 Photography (MED102) 80 HD

Now..

2008/S1 Media Audiences and the Public (MCC236) 63 C
2008/S1 Media Law and Ethics (MCC245) 61 C
2008/S1 Professional Communication (MCC246) 55 P

Murdoch University’s 2008 Semester 1 results came out last Sunday. This is bad. I had expected much more from my Professional Communication MCC236 unit. I didn’t quite like the unit to begin with. All my efforts (albeit often last minute) seemed to have gone to waste.

Second semester will commence 4th August, and I’m already halfway through my holiday. This sucks.

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