Mid-Life Crisis

We celebrated a friend’s 25th birthday recently and we talk about mid-life crisis. We were thinking at what age a person would face this crisis. For example, age ranges from 0 to approx. 100 years old so if it is ‘mid’ meaning we’ll face this crisis at 50 years old? Hahaha well this is just a thought. And I was teasing my friend that we face mid-life crisis when we turn 25 and she went O.o hahaha just joking!

Been a pretty hectic week now. I’ve been in the church office almost every evening now. I don’t remember when was the last time I had a nice sit-down dinner with my family. Anyways my family understands it. Looking forward for the short break with my parents next weekend and also the Christmas season. Tis the season to be fat falalalalalalalala…

Ok back to the blog…

I think I’m physically exhausted (but my mind don’t think so). My weekday routine goes like this (for now): Wake up at 6am, go to work at 7am, lunch from 12 to 1pm, go home at 4pm, on my pc or watch the tv or have tea with my family for about 30mins or less, take a shower, go to church at 7pm, go home at 10pm, do some chores or on the pc again, sleep around 11pm or midnight and back to square one all over again.

I also notice that my brain and hand coordination are not functioning that well too. Whatever is in my head turns out wrong when I type it out. So please excuse me, if some words are missing or the sentences are not in order… screw the grammatical errors! And I tend to forget things easily which shows how tired I am :(

My granma is still staying with us. She’s not been feeling that well (due to her age and some other things) and that makes me worried. As you can see I’m juggling between a lot of work and responsibilities now. The term is ‘multi-tasking’. Thank God I don’t have a mental or nervous breakdown in dealing with this entire situations. Hahaha --> Laughter is always the best medicine.

So anyways I’m sorry if I don’t ‘layan’ (entertain) you for the past and next few days. I’m really trying to sort things out for the upcoming big events. I guess you’ll be seeing me running around like headless chicken on those days. Will catch up on lost time when I’m relief of my duty hahaha


oh yah and just for the record, I'm not having a mid-life crisis.


Ciao!

Granma in da house!

Like what the title says... my granma is staying over in our place for the next couple of days while my granpa is still in the hospital. I was surprised to see my granma sitting outside at our porch yesterday after I came home from work. I'm glad that she's here and that we can take good care of her.
Anyways, I went to the CROCS (the famous shoe brand) shop in Pandan 7 after work and I bought a slip-on shoe for my granma. It is highly comfortable and light. I wanted to get one for myself but since I'll be going to S'pore soon I'll just get it there (they don't have my size and the shoe that I wanted at the shop anyways). A well-spend $60 I must say hahaha the moment my granma slip on the shoe she neatly packed her old slippers into a plastic bag and kept it aside. She's now wearing her new pair of CROCS around the house. I never expected to buy it but I wanted my granma to be comfortable while staying with us. And this morning she told my mom that she slept really well last night which make us feel relief! Well u know..it's difficult to take care of old folks.
My granma is 96 (I think) years old and my granpa is 99, they live a very long life. I have a lot of fond memories with my grandparents as a child. I grew up balik kampung every weekend and visit them which I still do till now. My granma will look for me if I seldom visit them and plus she knows how much I love durians hahaha I miss the good old days but some things have change now. Nevertheless I'm glad to be here for them.

TGIF

Thank God Its Friday!!! I'm bored out of my mind sitting in the office all day long not doing anything.

My offshore trip was canceled yesterday due to rough sea (big waves, etc.) . I wasn't looking forward to go because I dread the journey to the platform, it takes about an hour and end up feeling sea sick in the boat :S
I bought a nausea relief tablet from Singapore and took 2 tablets 30 minutes before the trip as instructed. I woke up early that morning to prepare my things and then left home for KB port at 6.30am to avoid the traffic but the traffic was still slow that morning! I don't understand how ppl could stand driving at a constant speed of 60km/h???
After check-in, we had a safety briefing and saw the boat arriving at the port. They told us we can't proceed with our trip due to the rough sea. Some were disappointed because works will be delayed and some were happy... like me! hehehe
Went back to the office as usual and I was very, very sleepy. I took a nap after I came home from work but end up waking up at 7pm!!! My sleeping pattern are so screwed!!

Anyways, I went for a blood test last week and I just got the results today. Everything is normal (thank God) except for one thing... my bp. My dr asked me to start on a medication for the next 2 weeks. Hopefully it'll work!

Yeahh...its the weekend tomorrow.

When You Wish Everyday Was Like This...

I'm in my office now feeling really bored *yawn*

I don't have any work to do at the moment.

Sometimes I wish everyday was like this but then it really bores you to the core hahaha

I'll be going to offshore tomorrow for a safety site visit so at least I'll be out of the office!

Ok the reason I've nothing to do at the moment is because I'm still waiting for some project files from the engineers. Without the files, I can't start on anything.

So now I just have to show up at work everyday, sit in my office sipping tea, wait for work to appear from God knows where, read emails, watch videos, read bulletins, etc. till it's time for lunch or to go home. Tell me that isn't a boring routine.

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A bit of a sidetrack here despite my utter boredom:

I had my end of year performance review with my boss last Monday and it went really, really well. Thank God for that! All my hard work this year are being appreciated and recognised. The sweats, wearing orange coverall (or pyjamas as my boss calls it) for a week, going to yards in the hot sun and attending meetings every week are all worthwhile! I'm now involves in more project discussions and meetings, which has spark an interest in learning more especially in the electrical discipline (my dad is an electrician so I guess its in the gene). I hope one day I can pursue it and what comes after that... I'll leave it in God's hand.

The Weekend Project

Surprisingly I'm at home today. I've been away on most days during the week so it feels good to be at home now. I was in church this morning to help out in the gotong royong; did few cleaning here and there, polished some metals and got few cuts on my fingers from the sharp metal tip.
I went home after lunch and spend the day upgrading my old desktop pc. I installed the new motherboard, processor and RAM which I bought last weekend in Singapore. I have an existing 320GB harddisk which I bought last year, a dvd-rom (just there for decoration) and a dvd-writer so all that can still be re-used. My desktop casing is quite old now, it's 8 yrs old to be exact! I still have the sticker at the back of the desktop to prove it. It's still in a good condition after surviving years of abuse hahaha I now have more cuts on my fingers from installing the hardware. Took me about an hour to assemble everything and to install the operating system. I installed an original window vista home premium which I bought few months back during an IT exhibition in the Mall. Finally I won't be getting that counterfeit warning from Microsoft!
I still have to install the office 2007 but I don't have the CD for it yet. Anyways, I'm happy with my desktop now. I hope it will serve me well for years to come hahaha

New motherboard, processor and RAM

After assembling it

Installing the O.S.

What does your birthday mean?

I got this from Facebook and its about 90% true hahaha so here it goes. My comments are in red.

Your birthday means that you are an early morning person. (True. I wake up before 6am on most days)

You like water (It depends. I like swimming.) and water sports (err..no) , and your best colors are blue (So true! I love Blue) and gray (Yes for a car color). You are artistic and love to express yourself in many different ways (err... I don't know about this one). While you tend to be more of an introverted person (again true), that does not mean you sit at home (hehehe). On the contrary, you have the best ideas when it comes to going places (oh so true! hahaha) and finding things to do (sometimes). You are very innovative and excel at creativity (err I don't know about this. I would say maybe..).

That was fast...

Wow the weekend have gone by so fast and here I am typing this blog back home. I wish it could be a little bit longer. Anyways I enjoyed my short trip to Singapore. I managed to get some stuffs which I have been longing for quite some time. Bought some hardware to upgrade my desktop pc which I can't wait to install! Finally an upgrade after all these years... (my pc still runs on Pentium 4!)
I must say Singapore are very 'semangat' to celebrate Christmas every year. It's only early Nov and they have already put up the Christmas decorations and trees in front of the shopping malls. Not much sales going on and I couldn't find any nice working clothes :( My luggage was 80% full of M&S biscuits and chocolates hahaha and some other people's stuffs.
Oh yah and I bought my first LEVI's jeans at the airport this morning. I managed to do a bit of shopping at the airport (a request from my mom). I'm tired and aching now from all the walking and I even have blisters on my palm! That was one intense one-day shopping. My advise to you if you want to do what I did.... be physically prepared! hahaha
My parents picked me up from the airport this afternoon, had a short lunch and went back to Seria. Then my parents decided to balik kampung because my granma was looking for me and its the fruit season. I just had one whole durian for dinner, I hope I still have my voice tomorrow for work hahahaha I love durians... thanks granma!
Overall it was a good and enjoyable weekend... cheerios!