Near death experience?

As boring as life could be, people would even pay to get their own life threatened more exciting. Like the kenny sia bungee jumping, pixxie do her hair or lunatic watching rotting water melon (FOC).

For RM73 I just had a “breathtaking” experience which whenever I think back, I still can get cold sweat -_-ll

My company management finally realized that their own people are going through lots of stress, especially working with extraordinary idiots or keep training for new people due to the attrition rate. So they have this "Effective Time and Stress Management" training on last Saturday. Since everyone resigned, so I'm the only one that attending (No la, it was HOLIDAY! The rest of the people don't bother to go, so I went). It was a cold and windy Saturday morning where I suppose to lay my butt on my bed. My company LOVE to have training on Saturdays, coz then they still can have their people working during working days. So kiam siap right? that's explain the attrition rate.

Back to the story, so I was driving to KL town and when I reaching the traffic light, it turns red so I step on the break pedal. To my greatest horror, the break is not working. Like, I step the pedal till the end yet the car is still moving. The whole world suddenly feel like freezing, in less than 0.001 second the phrase "Shit, I'm so F*cked this time..." appear in my mind, and I need to react in the next second before some 16 wheeler truck hit me as my car will pass the traffic light soon. Thanks to the Daytona training in the arcade centre during my younger age, my subconscious mind triggers my hand to shift to gear 1 and pull the handbrake. Lucky me, I was able to stop just right in front of the traffic light with the engine dead. Looks like the handbrake is still working partially.

In the 30 seconds of traffic light waiting I come out a route which can safely bring me back to the workshop. It was a blardy long journey where I had to prepare for sudden car stop, avoiding all the down slope by taking longer route, and estimation of how far from the traffic light I have to shift lower gear in order to bring my car to complete stop.

Later I found out some pump spoiled, the break oil was leaking from there. T says must be my enemy tried to kill me, poking a hole there, just like the Hong Kong drama series. I think my car to old liao la... need to change car soon. Total cost me RM73 to fix the problem.

I think my car maneuver skills went up a few level, gonna try out the Daytona again soon.

p/s : Just in case really got someone wanna kill me…

“To whoever that do this to my car, u will have karma
one, coz I know where to poke hole liao… Waahahahahaha… “

Great reasons to stay in my own company

As the year end bonus been given out, the job hunting season has begun. I already heard 8 peoples tender already, this gonna move the company attrition rate of 66% even higher.

Self help books always encourage people to think like how the successful people think, like, the successful people always thinks the opposite. For example, last time everyone think mountain is a dead place, but a successful people go buy the mountain and build a casino, now so famous already. So in order to pave my way to successfulness, I have to think the other way round. When everyone else in my company wanna leave, I will, THINK THE OPPOSITE! Here are my reasons to stay...

1) Since the day I join, already got more than 4 managers left, plus dunno lost count of colleagues. Now if I just stay another few months I'll be the most senior person in the company, and the manager seat is waiting for me.

2) Why change company when you don't have to? With 66% attrition rate, and growing, in another few months all my colleagues will be new, including my boss, just like jumping to new company...

3) There are lots of benefits being senior in the company, coz the newbies will treat you like king/queen, lots of freebies, you got the final say, and when things went wrong you can blame the poor new guy who knows nothing, how nice...

4) Come on, the asshole colleague/boss gonna leave soon, you don't even have to play politics or complain to the HR to get rid of him/her... No need kutuk people from behind, no karma, guarantee promotion, what a good place to be...

5) Company got 100 people, with 66 of them are new, means got 66 morons for me to use. In the name of "teaching" or "giving opportunity" or "better exposure", people will die just to get a piece of my shit workload.. I just need to sit there and shake leg...

6) There is a new girl, an ex-stewardess just join my team and sitting beside me. The first day she came, whole building’s fire alarm got triggered, that’s how hot she is. Some how I got motivation to go to work every morning already :p

7) Due to "system error", my company just cut 33% of my bonus payout. If I would to leave anytime before they credited the remainder into my account, I'll kiss my 33% bonus goodbye. Moreover, I still haven't get my "Star Performer" award money which they promised to give in Dec. This is so f*cking unbelievable. My company, providing payroll solutions to fortune 500 companies, giving 100% checking and accuracy, is having a "system error" on our own bonus payout. May be they forgot the accuracy, skip the checking and release the payment. Yeah right, that can't even convince a 3 year old that they don't have ulterior motives. Anyway, looks like I have to stay till I get all the money already...

Now I REALLY don't feel like leaving already...

** Latest update : Another 2 manager tendered! That means got total of 10 vacancies. Anyone interested?

Company team building - Balok Beach Kuantan Pahang

29-30 July 2006, that was like, 5 months ago. Been saying wanted to blog this for n-th time.

Our company wants to build relationship between the employees, so they come out with this brilliant idea. It's actually a plan to bring office affair outside the office, if not, build a new one :)

So u can imagine how sexcited excited I was to go. When we arrive the Swiss Garden Resort, we were welcomed by a group of...

Damn... I was actually expecting this...

That's when I started to know that there won't be any "fun" stuff happening.

As I had expected, the team building started with some project management game. That was like the worst game to have in a trip where you suppose to be relax and think nothing about work, a get away. Of all the games they can think of, PROJECT MANAGEMENT ! Blardy hell. No self intro session, no ice breaking stuff, no swim suit competition, no beach volley ball match, no banana boat riding, no bikini party....

The only thing close to that will be the Hollywood Night party. But end up only few of us dancing. No late night wild party, so I woke up early in the next morning and decided to have a nice walk at the beach.

My boss got stung by the jelly fish while swimming in the sea before the Hollywood Night party yesterday. After many years of working experience, I mastered the Shao Ling kung fu of "shoe polishing"(?林七十二失?武功之擦鞋大法). So I decided to help my boss to find the culprit, chop the jellyfish head down and send to my boss as a gift. Now you know why my boss love me so much, hehehe...

Some of my colleagues join me for the hunting too.

No deadlines, no client complain, no boss pressure = happy colleagues

It's actually a very beautiful beach. Although the water is not crystal clear, I like it because got lots of hermit crabs, reminds me of 四?妹妹.

I'm so addicted to the comic :)

While walking along the beach, we saw another victim of jellyfish....

Besides the hermit crabs, there are also little crabs that keep making little sand ball covering the whole beach. I bet there must be millions of crabs at the beach, making the sand balls whole night covering the beach, like a crab kingdom. Too bad all the crabs are too small, else can have a crab BBQ at the beach.

Walking along the beach on these sand balls is like having a foot massage like that. You can never get this experience in Penang, coz the sea water is so dirty till the crab all migrate to Kuantan already :p

Days after I come back, a friend of mine send me this pic...

Blardy hell, the mother of all jellyfish, and I killed one of its child. Now I don't feel like going into the sea already....