313 : POOF

Yeah i know, don't even remind me...

Been conciously telling myself to stay away from a computer, because at work, i'm just mindlessly typing and printing and fixing problems for everyone, sitting infront of a PC seems a bit phobic for me already... So been doing some other stuff using recycled paper from my office...

Random Lady 1, Chinagraph on A4

HL's girlfriend's passport sized photo, Pencil on Crappy random A4 printing paper

Random Lady 2, 0.3 Felt tip marker on yet another A4 scrap paper lying on my table

Past 2 weeks been tweaking my system yet again, my XP is running kinda weird and slow laterly, decided to give windows7 a go for the RC version... Startup seems a bit faster in which you get to "control" all your applications right after login. Prettier too i guess... hmm maybe that's because i always turned off all the animation and graphics on my previous PC... until now.

I like my thumbnails extra big, good on the eyes.

Top left: More cardboard boxes, Top Right: Ok... my first graphics card with 2 fans...
Bottom Left: A super heavy motherboard... at least twice as heavy from my previous one..
Bottom Right:Power Cables mania. Cable tie works wonder here.


Bottom: Complete working DIY PC. Notice the graphic card is longer than my mainboard.


Some might say "wtf, in ahmi still buy komputah, wait till ohardeee la!". Well, prices are a bit lower now, and i need the rendering power of an i7 cpu. Nothing like converting a 2hr DVD file in less than 15mins, and transfer it to my ipod and watch in my office.

Oh and don't talk about gaming and me playing zombie vs platnts, i've tested crysis on up up up settings and lag was a thing of the past. Only complain is the room is a freaking sauna while the GPU and CPU goes full throttle while playing games and running renders.

I'll be away for another 2 weeks due to much more glorious ahmi admin jobs and weekends burning for the future of our nation.

Blah.

312 : 1 year, 1 freaking year

AHMI RANTS BELOW. RAOR (read at own risk)

I like how time passes so quickly, you don't even have time to strike off the day box on my table calender. Yes, i have a table calender that comes free with those issues of men magazines with some pretty naughty pictures. One of my fellow buddies in the ahmi didn't want the calender even though he subscribes yearly for the magazines, because he "didn't want to destroy his pure and innocent image" in front of his superiors by using it at work.

And so he gave it to me, to destroy my clark life by super-gluing it onto my table. Strangely my superiors didn't question the obnoxious calender, and flipped through the months to see all the pictures from time to time. MEN.

2009 is past its halfway mark as we welcome the next half of the year with more shit coming our way. July... which is the month of orientations and fun stuff that goes on in universities in Singapore, and when 2010 July kicks in, i will be a freeeee man. Though i am officially done with my FT job in the ahmi in september, i am so not gonna wait for another freaking year for uni to start.

Which means, if comparatively with my JC friends of the same age, well, guys, say... GAYRY and pravarataratnamvin and rui-ge, i'm just 1 year behind by following the more "practical" route of the poly kias. If i had continued archi, i'm on par with the with my 1 year advance standing, which i am gladfully not.

The ladies of course, are still gonna totally own our asses for many years to come, until when ahmi is gonna be just "around 8 months" in 2025.

Hmmm... at this point of time, i'm sure many of us inside the protective walls of the ahmi camps feel the same shit as i do, and those out there with your preeehhhhshasss pink IC probably hummed on the same note as i.

Oh wait, my report just came in.... and its thankfully only 11 pages to process. During the feverish hell week last week the daily report hit an amazing 30 pages... and peace times its only 3-5 pages. Time to crunch more data and words and appease the great generals sipping tea on this sunday afternoon with the report from my side.

END OF REPORT.



Here's what's gonna be my standard schedule for my evenings during weekdays and weekends hopefully for my next year left.
1: Clear all outstanding work thrown to me from the higer mortals
2: GYM and producing a sketch of the week.
3: Nights off with my errr... bunkies (see prev post) for L4D
4: GYM and Ninjaaaa warrrioor/PSP/DS
5: GYM and Night Run ... or Go home !
6: Gaming/3D modelling at home/lunch+movie with ka-kias/late night shopping
7: Switch off/go back kamp.

As the saying goes, WORK LIVE PLAY ! I hope i don't get sued for this.

311 : 人多很

They say that in the ahmi.... one would meet many types of people... and i can't bloody agree more.

As a clark working in a training school who handles more than 500 different students every year, you get a nice variety of weirdos. 1 including myself of course.

But for me as a permanent feature in my camp, i get to sleep in the same room with all the other unlucky people who runs the school. And boy, they are more than colourful. If my tehkong life meeting ah bengs and keng-sters are 24 bits colour mode, currently my life here is an insane 32 bits.

A brief introduction to the 5 of them.

1. A 3 roof sarge with a record of both going to the infamous jail for ahmi and getting a silvah bahyonat. He's also a mix blood of peranakan, malay, chinese and some dutch. Speaks malay but looks extremely chinese. Vocalist in a heavy metal band which performs monthly in pubs and other night hang-outs. Works out in a gym 5 times a week just to look more "ROCK" during his performance. Very sweet tongue.

2. Another 3 roofer who's gonna fly back to the states in august to complete his degree. A singaporean who grew up in hong kong but completed his high school diploma in america. Fluent in cantonese and english. He's our quarter master and another gym enthusiast even though he's having some eczema problems since young. Has six pack and loves reading obscure literary titles which no one ever borrows in the library. Consumes 3 200 page books a week. His english is so zai that one would find it a bit hard to understand him.

3. A high caste indian who just turned 18 year old. Being made a logistic assistant because he's having some diabetic problems. Love to eat. Recently came to Singapore with his father and became PRs. Was previously posted to another place but he got pulled out as he lacked the kiasu-ness and kiasee-ness of a typical citizen (in which is pretty acceptable). Insults people by accident due to his mouth not being wired tothe brain. Sent to my company for training as my bosses are all indians. Currently learning english, social etiquettes and not pissing people off. Self proclaimed lance korporal....(he's a recruit). Turning vegetarian but still sometimes succumb to temptation of chicken curry puffs. His belly is bigger than his head. Steals my food during meals when i'm not looking.

4. A former boys school student who landed a position in ITE to study engineering due to his street smarts. Even though he studied engineering and graduated with a cert, he could barely spell the word engineering. Extremely good in DOTA, and only DOTA. Also a logistic personnel to deal with stores and equipment, in which he gives no damn shit about. Talks to me all day about his former glories of fighting in schools and winning fights in which he rarely got injured. Currently suffering from migraine, possibly from an old head injury he got from playing street soccer a few years back. Sleeps 12 hours a day. Only book out at night to play lan with us. Loves my company as i speak mandarine and english he can understand. Loves wang wang biscuits.

5. A new 18 year old malay guy who just came in (newer than me) from tehkong. Fetched him myself from HQ to our company and intro-ed him to everyone. Very quiet and loves doing mundane jobs. Worked previously as a cleaner in a famous publishing company in singapore as he only had a primary school cert. Currently dating a girl he met in the same primary school for 6 years, in which curiosly is the same school i was from as well ! Approached me one day to help him apply from finacial aid but he smokes 10 cigarettes a day to de-stress. Similarly, he's poor in english and only speaks fluent malay. Afraid of answering calls in office due to his disadvantage in the language. Self taught classical guitarist.


As you can read, i'm in a tight situation for communication with my staffs and sometimes it feels like really duck and chikens talking to each other. They sometimes get into fights because of mis-communication and i have to step in to err... mitigate the insults. Its funny to see 2 person of different backgrounds throwing hokkien vulgarities in each other.... Hmm...

Maybe we should make hokkien the administrative language in my company.

Just maybe.