Seeing the totals of my blog entries each year, obviously it is on a decreasing trend! This year I only managed to write 16entries and half year has passed by so quickly. 6 months worth of time... and another 6 more months 2010 will be gone soon. Then 2011.. 2012..
And I am not excited on the coming days .... Wrong move... :(( - I thought I'd be ok but I still feel sad that I am stuck... ok let me get back on this when it's over. As usual, I only blog when I am a bit down.. and when things have passed.
Ok time for dreamland. Let's continue blabbering some other time... Goodnight...
And one last thing.. to all the carriers of virus around me..!@#%#%! leche kayo! Sneezing sneezing... zzz wrong timing.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Most Expensive Movies
#1:
I cancelled a movie because of overtime work. (as blogged earlier). that is 20sgd. I felt bad to my companion, I had to apologize several times for not being able to make it. (and I have to shoulder the losses coz I booked it!)
Finally, I went to watch it myself, another 10sgd. I dont want to drag people again this time. I just need to watch it before if offloads from the moviehouse.
This is none other than Ironman2.
It wasnt so bad as other people commented. In fact I only glanced through my watch very few times. I heart Tony Starks and Pepper. Tony exemplifies an asshole yet with a heart (ironic with the palladium thing in his chest).. I like it that he never fails to save Pepper last-minute.
#2:
Another booboo from me. I was so excited that SATC2 will be back on screen and for the final time together. I've been watching out for it. May 27th is the screening date worldwide. However for some strange reasons, I saw SATC in the online booking site of GV for May 24th screening. I was surprised and immediately called my friend up, let's go I said. Who cares if it's a 7pm showing time, all the seats are running out fast, left with the first front 2 rows. Anyway, I will make all palusot to sneak out early.
I was rushing and losing breath, running from Harborfront to Dhoby, from Dhoby cross to Circle Line, get down at Esplanade, then walk to Marina Sq, in a span of 20min. Reached there 7pm, got the tickets and left one in the counter for my friend who was late.
I was in the moviehouse, sent an sms 'ei take your time, nagflaflashback pa ng part1'. I sat for 10minutes and it was still part1. Anoter 15min and still the same. I looked at the ticket.. OMG it's SATC. not SATC2. Why on earth is it a practice for SG to bring back the prequel back to the big screen? Why are there so many idiots willing to pay 10sgd to watch an old movie that has been aired over and over again for free in TV? How stupid can I be and what on earth was I thinking or did I even manage to look carefully? :p I sent an sms 'ei sorry, mali pla, part 1 ito, my bad, i'll pay for the tix. up to you if u wanna watch it again :)'
So we did part1 again and went home. Come May 27th, finally I did things correctly and managed to watch SATC2.
To be fair, the movie is a stupid chick flick! hehe who cares, it's just about watching the glamorous four back on the big screen for the last time. Movie reviews said this movie is so bad that is is promoting ignorance as a lifestyle. hahaha movies like this are for relaxing, not really meant for you to dig any substantial or significant values out of it ok... chill.
Crap 30+30 = 60sgd gone so fast. I should have gone for buffet instead.
I cancelled a movie because of overtime work. (as blogged earlier). that is 20sgd. I felt bad to my companion, I had to apologize several times for not being able to make it. (and I have to shoulder the losses coz I booked it!)
Finally, I went to watch it myself, another 10sgd. I dont want to drag people again this time. I just need to watch it before if offloads from the moviehouse.
This is none other than Ironman2.
It wasnt so bad as other people commented. In fact I only glanced through my watch very few times. I heart Tony Starks and Pepper. Tony exemplifies an asshole yet with a heart (ironic with the palladium thing in his chest).. I like it that he never fails to save Pepper last-minute.
#2:
Another booboo from me. I was so excited that SATC2 will be back on screen and for the final time together. I've been watching out for it. May 27th is the screening date worldwide. However for some strange reasons, I saw SATC in the online booking site of GV for May 24th screening. I was surprised and immediately called my friend up, let's go I said. Who cares if it's a 7pm showing time, all the seats are running out fast, left with the first front 2 rows. Anyway, I will make all palusot to sneak out early.
I was rushing and losing breath, running from Harborfront to Dhoby, from Dhoby cross to Circle Line, get down at Esplanade, then walk to Marina Sq, in a span of 20min. Reached there 7pm, got the tickets and left one in the counter for my friend who was late.
I was in the moviehouse, sent an sms 'ei take your time, nagflaflashback pa ng part1'. I sat for 10minutes and it was still part1. Anoter 15min and still the same. I looked at the ticket.. OMG it's SATC. not SATC2. Why on earth is it a practice for SG to bring back the prequel back to the big screen? Why are there so many idiots willing to pay 10sgd to watch an old movie that has been aired over and over again for free in TV? How stupid can I be and what on earth was I thinking or did I even manage to look carefully? :p I sent an sms 'ei sorry, mali pla, part 1 ito, my bad, i'll pay for the tix. up to you if u wanna watch it again :)'
So we did part1 again and went home. Come May 27th, finally I did things correctly and managed to watch SATC2.
To be fair, the movie is a stupid chick flick! hehe who cares, it's just about watching the glamorous four back on the big screen for the last time. Movie reviews said this movie is so bad that is is promoting ignorance as a lifestyle. hahaha movies like this are for relaxing, not really meant for you to dig any substantial or significant values out of it ok... chill.
Crap 30+30 = 60sgd gone so fast. I should have gone for buffet instead.
Sometimes the sun still shines...
For the first 5 months in the new company, I was such a loser, always worrying I cant understand what the foreign exchange trading application is trying to do. I only see bunch of exchange rates floating for different currencies and changing every millisecond, and when you place a trade, there is so much logic in the strategy how the bank implements it and manages the risk by hedging it to different ECNs (Reuters, EBS, etc). I really DONT know what is the expected behavior, coz I simply dont know where to start. And yes, so many interruptions in life, and even the boss asked me during a one-on-one session if everything's alright with me. Yes, my focus was so bad obviously. And I was not trying harder.
Apart from the usual stuff, the first ever project assigned to me was actually a no-brainer boring integration project. The bank was acquired 2 years ago by another bigger bank. This project was just mainly checking how the transition goes and login scenario should be ok. There were few hiccups and finally everything was resolved.
Come friday (a day before signoff) sometime early May, a major booboo came out. Functionally I have verified it to be ok. Just that login suddenly stopped working with java1.4 and I didnt know when. (I was using 1.6, what the h*ll do I know about java?) Hell it was so humiliating, I wanted to dig a cozy hole and jumped into it and hide from everybody. The harm was done, I spoiled my name. Last remedy fixes resurrected it. The cost of the nigthmare was that all of us extended till 12midnight on a friday and I had to cancel a movie (of which I already pre-booked online, gone to waste), and I guess I would have had harsh feedbacks thrown on me somewhere in the chaos.
With all the forces working against me, I finally realize I had to help myself. It's no excuse that I still dwell on contemplating that this is a totally new field to me (not my usual data warehousing). They say 'hundred times reading reveals the meaning'. With a mind that is set to learn, and again reusing my common sense (thank God I still have a few left), suddenly I understood. Literally like a light bulb igniting.
The following 3 days was the peak of my learning curve. I was testing the 'engine' and criticizing every logic that I can possibly break and question. Engine is the execution engine meaning the core, the heart of the trading application. Limits, fillkills, maker/taker, bid/offer, all of it. Orders placed using icebergs and snipers strategy, quite challenging. I think even my boss was surprised how in the earth did I manage to catch up suddenly (and I hope he should know by now not to assign me any no-brainer projects anymore coz it is where I usually screw up!). I actually dont know. I just had one thing in my mind back then: Kelangan ko na talagang bumawi. Finally put my name out of the 'useless people' list.
I was glad the saying 'you cant teach an old dog new tricks' probably doesnt hold true all the time. Back in HP, I remembered there were experienced folks hired. And yet it was taking them so long to pick up a new system. And these are the people who would always prefer doing the 'admin work' and not really wanting to learn the functional/domain knowledge of an application/project. I realize I am not really meant for a talkie job nor a people person :p. I'd rather quit corporate world, quit IT, and do something else if I'm totally useless..
That's it. Hope to hear less rants from me about work. And I dont think I would be keen to shift work focus again, it's not always lucky that I can adjust to a new environment.
Sometimes shit has to happen to jerk us back to reality. :)
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