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I hate sales meetings

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

I would like to stab myself and fade into the dingy blue carpet when I see my numbers, especially next to my sales managers’. My colleagues have asked if the sector was that bad.

I hate this shite. I love my job, almost 100%, but I hate this shite. It is enough to make me want to quit because no sales = no pay, no pay = no money, no money = no food.

You have no idea how shitty this all is and how crap I feel.

And the ever edging stress contradicted by the increasing draining of motivation… that’s a very peculiar and interesting feeling.

Yea, all my fault. Perhaps I am fooling myself. I’m not meant for a job like this.

Argh.

getting it over and done with

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Lucky for me, my meeting later would be a simple and hopefully price-negotiation fuelled discussion and not so technical in terms of HR, requirements and IT. I can’t drink any coffee now, cos then tonight I won’t be able to sleep either. I am a semi zombie, unable to do much constructive work with request for quotations and my own lack of sales pounding me.

I am a zombie.

I can’t wait for my meeting at 4 later, so that after that, I’ll just leave for home and nap. I’ll walk past the mess, and straight into my room, switch on the aircon and ignore everything and nap. I just hope that it wouldn’t trigger more insomnia though!

Talk about the irony.

I’m supposed to meet Monkey after work though. Ah well.

yet another story

Friday, May 4th, 2007

an insomnia story, that is. Light flickering on a plastic box with random images are entertaining me now.

from Boston Legal Season 1 Denny Crane: You left me! For a secretary?!
Shirley Schmidt: It was the Secretary of Defense!
Denny Crane: Still a secretary. I’ve got an image to upkeep.

It’s 5am and I’m awake. Yay! And my brother is coming back tomorrow night means I’ve got to clean the house before he reaches home. I spent like 20 mins preparing for my meeting tomorrow (which will turn to mush since I won’t have enough sleep) and the rest of the time stoning out on the recliner, the norm for the past month, with the Friends Season Two on. I think my bills are flying up again. I seem to be relying on the tv and the living room again. At least when my brother is back I slink back to my room, which isn’t a bad thing. Sleeping, however, is another matter altogether though.

I am guess either I won’t sleep at all tonight or I might nap for an hour or two. I am quite tired but not sleepy. Whoopee.

abso-fucking-lutely miserable

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I would be a workaholic, if I was able to. I was one when I was in the F&B. But I was never stressed at work. Seriously. I love to work and I’m always happy to be tired and busy.

But now, I am fucking stressed, ok? How to explain? I just am.


QC - not that this is exactly how I feel but ya, all this shit and no results.

ah hia you bloody head

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Dear Uncle Colleague (not to be confused to with this colleague),


domestic abuse: destructive relationships

I am aware that you are a old bird in my company and you have the friendship of our boss. Not that it’s important when it comes to results. And I am also aware that you are an alliance with my other team mate and are very buddy-buddy with him. It doesn’t matter to me. Really. You spend significant time walking past me to talk to him next to me, and I’m indifferent to it totally.

I can tolerate it when you ask me, “why not you come to my team? I need a young pretty girl.” and can bear it when you joke about my dressing and stuff (since it’s not much) but you really crossed the line when you, out of the blue when I was just at my desk minding my own business, suddenly used the paper that you were holding and slightly stroked my face and called me “Ah Hia”. What the fuck was that for?

kanina loh.


via flickr: if he had a middle finger, he’ll show it.

blue bird

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Because of Kenny’s post, I am reminded of this rather funny incident in my office.

My colleague, an Indian-National-turned-Singapore-PR-who-married-a-chinese-girl (INTSPRWMCG) was listening to a MrBrown podcast, suddenly uttered this word:

lan jiao

Another colleague (AC) and I looked at him in shock. He looked at us, as shocked as us at our shock, and asked what that meant.

INTSPRWMCG: what does that mean?
AC: something vulgar
me: erm, a blue bird.

image courtesy of bluebird-electric.net

INTSPRWMCG: ya, but what vulgar word does that mean?
AC and I look at each other, trying not to laugh.
AC and I (simultanously): Ask her (pointing to each other)
Me: or.. you can ask boss. Hahahahaha.

So that happened around 5 plus, 6. As I was leaving work, he was still uttering “lan jiao, lan jiao” with a perplexed frown on his face.

Dear Colleague

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

I appreciate your help over the months. In fact, without you, I might not have made any headway at all. I’m sorry that I seem to PMS with you, but I really do not want to tell you that your calling me “Baby” all the time is bordering on sexual harressment.

Funny thing is, I always thought I have had a flat chest. As much as I am delighted that it seems to have erm, liked to boasted itself (even though still small), please remember to speak to my face, and not my boobs, although I’m sure most of the time you’re simply trying to find them since I am flat.

Besides, I’m wearing a shirt with a singlet inside! Wah lau, not some sexy sexy top leh.

So, please, my face is at your eye level, not chest level, ok?


the meaning of lila (amended to fit)

so.farking.screwed.2

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

I’m taking a fiver before I clean my house. I just reached home, like, 10 minutes ago, because the sister is flying back tomorrow and she demanded I sing karaoke with her. I am nice and sweet to my family despite of potential trauma (don’t preach. seriously. you’re not me and you don’t have them) so I agreed, despite having to rush on some major work.

So I’m going to clean the house later, beginning with neatening the house, then cleaning the floor and mopping it, and then the room, because I wanna be able to sleep there tomorrow. I can’t vaccum because it’s too late so the sofa-chair has to wait (damn itchy). Then I got to mop the kitchen, wipe the counter tops, change the cat food paper. After that which I have to clean and wash the pantry and the cat litter. Lastly I got to wash the bathroom.

If I’m lucky, I’ll be done by 5am, by then I have to do work because I need it to be completed by 8am.

Go to fly to AMK for a demo at 10am then the big project meeting at 1pm at Ubi. After that, I got to prepare for the big demo on thursday morning before going for a movie/shopping (which reminds me… must find my free engwah voucher). I need to get my bed. Shite.

By the way, if you don’t know anything about what’s happening.. or if you THINK you do, there’s the wall. Bang it. Do the world a favour.

most of a person
dieselsweeties

so.farking.screwed.

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I am so farking screwed. I forgot to send this really really important document to my colleague. I’m not going to open my email.

Besides that, the work that should have been done and submitted to another colleague for view before tomorrow’s meeting has not been done one bit. I’m damn screwed.


Pearls Before Swine

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

woke up at 5.45 to do work, except the itch is back! I cannot wait to finish springcleaning later. (*&^%$#$%^&*(

damn itchy can? like got a lot of bites over my body. boy, am I in a grouchy mood now. not
enough sleep and scratching all over my body, not to say the cats are at it again.

let me finish this paperwork and I’ll be a bird!