Johann Low

木曜日, 4月 29, 2004

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Anyone wanna get a normal ball mouse ? I got one extra mouse going on for $5 thanx for being careless when i bought my new keyboard which is working great. It is 100 times more comfy than my old Jpn keyboard which is practically useless in my Win XP cos it can't work as a Jpn keyboard like in my older windows.

Oh yeah, does anyone find the Spicy Siblings interesting at all ? The entire show is abt Wen Qing being bitchy and bitchy and bitchy and bitchy and being a bitch for the entire 1 hour ! Is this character designed to be having her period for the entire year ? the only nice things abt the show is Le Yao and the little daughter. Somehow Le Yao's chin seems alot more natural now...and did her boobs got bigger ? HWAHHAHAHAHAHA opps...

I am turning 24 this coming Fri !!! 24 !!!!

elow at 12:25 午前 | (0) comments

日曜日, 4月 25, 2004

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My contract is ending soon, cant believe i hve worked there for almost 6 months. Prior to this, I was being confirmed by my managers. I thot once that I was confirmed i will enjoy benefits such as paid leave n such but NOOOOOO...said HR. I can only enjoy those "benefits" only IF i signed a new contract with them which will be a one year bond. 1 year ? No way...then i thot i could continue to render my service to them by continue to work as normal but nooooooo said my manager and HR. This is becos if i do so then the HR will have difficulty defining me under "contract" or "fulltime" . So another viable option is to continue another 6 months w/o benefits...well this will only be to their advantage right ?

There, i will be jobless soon. Come to think of it, the only place where i enjoy working was in British Council, good pple, good location, good time !!! My 1st job as a DTP artist sucked badly, 12 hours of work !!! Then i got this no pay no office position as a graphic designer...well i was offered this position but i nv took it up. Then i went to work for singnet..which is a job where i was paid to get scolded. Half of my colleagues who had undergone training with me quitted within 3 weeks.

Just traded in my faulty T610 to a brand new samsung X600 this evening ! whhahaha...The screen is a tad bit small. No icon interface and i need to get used to it. Well my 2nd phone was a samsung back in 2001. Just hope i can get some nice wallpapers and nice ringtones..frankly speaking the ringtones sounded better than the T610. At least it is louder.

elow at 1:21 午前 | (0) comments

月曜日, 4月 12, 2004

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Was ghasted by tonight's NKF charity show. Besides seeing some of the pple whom i dun really like, I felt empathy for those local artistes. Tonight's charity show is NKF Charity Fear Factor's Style. Are all those acts included in their contracts when they renewed them ?

1) goddess sunny ho took 5 or is it 4 darts onto her back - Is this necessary ? I get the point of having needles being poked into the veins of the kidney patient but having ur back being used as a dart point is totally out of context.

2) Why is Sharon "Aw" taking on such a dangerous act just to get money coming in ? Those are katana blades ! Seeing her face wringed in pain and hearing her "aw aw aw" is not entertaining.

3) Jacky Neo with bees, last year he slept on glass fragments with someone jumping down on him. What shld i look forward to next year ? Human cannon ball ? Fly across suntec city ?

This is not entertainment anymore nor is it charity. I have no words to describe it tho i was impressed by their courage to do such feats. I dun think they r 100% willing but they did it. And greedy me made 5 days while secretly wishing i can win something. I felt a disheartening taste of "cheapskateness" for the Mediacorp artistes. They dun need to do all these shit work just to rake in funds for the show.

There will be Singapore Idol !!! What's next ? Oh yeah, the show which starred Rach*** Lee (bikini babe) trying to find a bf is totally tasteless. It is just like a C grade of The Bachelorette !! It is utterly boring. The guys are eeks..well e reason i caught a few glimpse of the show is for the bikini babe. Obviously, the guys r there for her boobs.

elow at 12:00 午前 | (0) comments

土曜日, 4月 10, 2004

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At long last a long weekend. Good Fri was spent with cuteball at the cinema watching Hellboy. Its quite good ! Well one of the reasons I watched it was becos of the special effects. I particularly like the blue flames effects which are some pyschic flames from Liz. I wish i can have her powers, in this way i can burn all those people i hate to ashes. HAHA !

E weather is really unforgiving + the fact im having a hard time typing on this Japanese keyboard which have its "S", "N" keys not functioning properly and its a very "hard" keyboard to type. Sometimes it felt comfy n soft, other times it feel like im punching through the keys. Its hurting my wrists and all, no doubt. And I cant find another jpn keyboard in funan anymore. WTF ?

Shall tok abt my present working place "again". Apparently many of the "older" birds are leaving batches by batches due to the now more fucked up time n management. More will be leaving for greener pastures soon. For the executives, now the time schedules suck, pay also suck, management suck ( e director and CEO apparently are dwelling in the 80s era, they prob think Pentium II and Pentium are very new, Pentium IIIs are top n fastest processors, they prob never heard of E-Filing, dunno what are Wi-Fi, DVD writers, CD writers. They prob dunno there is something called Pentium 4 now. They r prob using 486 DX4 100Mhz at home running Win 3.11 with 4MB RAM and a 200MB HDD. WAH 200 MEGABYTES LEH !!! They prob still count in kilobytes. They prob dunno there is an OS called Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP. Do they know what is Gigabyte, tetrabyte ? Nanotechnology ? DDR Ram ? Serial ATA ? PCI Express ? Digital Camera ? Megapixels ?

They prob think T*** is one of the best equipped private instituitions in Singapore !!

For ur info, the CEO, so called Dr C*** cant even speak proper English. I was simply "astounded" by his command of the language at the D n D 2 weeks ago. He sounded as if he was trying to tokk and breathe at the same time. *snort snort* Try it and you will get what i mean.

Had my appraisal done after being 3 weeks late. The 2 managers did tok abt students retention. Yeah I fully understood what they meant. But the whole fucking root of the the huge decrease in sales in becos we are not working to the fullest potential. This is becos we are so fucking outdated in our organisation, management and everything ! There is no efficiency at all. How can u expect to have good student services when our machines like to put on strike like once every 2 weeks ? To help cope wif the dipping sales figures, the desperate higher management employed one con-man who made a decision to divide my office into "Sales n Marketing" and " Operation-Student Affairs and Services" I dun think it will help in improving the overall sales at all. Its like doing a patch for a faulty OS like Windows 98, e core is already so flawed so what's point of patching here n there when the problem is the core itself ? Cant they think ? Can this fat, pale senior manager called T*** think ? Mayb he can sell his BMW and use his butt to think. Can the old man think ? Can e old woman think ? No they cant.

T*** wun last til 2010 esp with strong competitors like longterm rival Informatics and upcoming private schools which offer better pricing, better management and better services and better lecturers. T*** employs Bollywood lecturers which reeks of onions, goat milk, curry n spices and everything nice. I have feedback from most students that the lecturers cant teach. Well who can understand their obscenely strong accent ?

"Canru underrrrsutand wharuthe imu tokking aboruut ?" - something like this.

elow at 1:13 午前 | (0) comments

土曜日, 4月 03, 2004

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My WHOLE sat is gone like that. Today i worked an entire day thanks to the new time management. From 8.30am to 7.15pm.
My colleagues and I practically did nothing for the entire day. I was helping out to slot in letters into envelopes n the usual stuff.

Yay I bought my 1st audiophile level headphone from Grado Labs !!! Well its the cheapest model at $120. The flagship model costs a whooping $1200 !. The cables for my SR60 is rather thick and thick...haha...compared to the oh-so-thin ear phone which come with the ipod. Naturally the sound quality differs alot too. The accessoried original earphones dun produce much bass n treble. Its rather flat and make ur ipod sound not too good. Plug in a proper headphone and u will hear the difference.

Anyway one thing to say. my SR60 sound better than my hifi.

elow at 10:32 午後 | (0) comments

木曜日, 4月 01, 2004

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Fcuk

My work place just got restructured. The executives are seperated into sales n operation sides..causing a upheavel of unhappiness among the staff as some who wished they cld be in sales ended up in operations (more to admin) and vice versa. Well this does not add on to the fucked up time schedule they r facing. My department will be working until 10.15pm the latest, there will be 1 ops staff manning the office until 10.15pm. For me and the AEs, there is not much of a change except that i will be working from 12-8.30pm on weekdays and a full day on alternate weekends...fuck ! from 8.30am-7.15pm !!!

I can foresee quite a no. of people tendering their resignation soon. Fucked up management.

elow at 1:19 午前 | (0) comments