Bloglympic Relay
So the baton has passed on to me from Mey, and here tis:

Total volume of songs on iPod: I own an iriver not an ipod with about 10gigs worth.
The last CD I bought was: um.. Bling Bling 2. ok, so I was in Malaysia and it was my sister's choice, that counts right?
Song playing right now: Tamia - This Time It's Love
Five songs I listen to a lot, or mean a lot to me:
1. K-Ci and Jojo - All My Life (well, almost any K-ci and Jojo song..)
2. Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You (damn, she can REALLY play the piano!)
3. Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
4. TLC - Diggin' On You/Waterfalls (R.I.P. Lisa 'Left-Eye' Lopes)
5. Twista feat Kanye West, Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz

(Mey, it did say five didn't it? ;)

Five people to whom I'm passing the baton:
1. Mikey
2. Mukie
3. Tony
4. Nicole
5. Brianna

Labels: blogging

Bon Voyage
My sister's leaving this Friday to work in the UK for a year. Seems to be a rite of passage for a lotta people these days. Work and/or travel around UK for 3-12 months or even more.. Lucky for her shes on an exchange like role within her company, so the only thing she needs to do is find a place to live.

My parents, as would most others, didn't want to see her leave, but this time she stuck her ground and went with it and lucky for her they didn't get in her way. Now she can have the independence she wants, and there are no parents around to nag her all the time!
Am I suppose to feel any different that she is leaving soon? Should I feel that I would miss her? Not any time soon. Maybe on those special occasions where she usually comes up with the ideas of presents to buy for birthdays and anniversaries and stuff. Not that I have much of a brother-sister relationship with her these days. Years even. ah well. I shall enjoy the peace and quiet, as I do nowadays, when she has left.

What is the attraction of the UK anyway? I've never been before, but I don't think I could work there for so long, if at all. Whoknows, maybe if I travel over there I'll get the work n travel bug too. Europe and US is still on one of my travel wishlists. Some time in the future... I'll give myself 10 years. Very optimistic, mm yes I am.

Labels: life

beeping fun.
I didn't think what I wrote in my previous post would come to fruition so soon. In a space of 24 hours I was paged 6 (!!) times. Once yesterday morning at 4:45am, twice last night at 7pm and 8pm, and 3 times this morning at 2am, 3am and 4am. Talk about initiation.

As you can imagine my body clock is now all outta wack. This morning after the first page at 2am, I was still up when the next one went off. I went to bed around 3:30, struggling to fall asleep, shifting around and trying to get comfortable. After what felt like an eternity when I did manage to fall asleep, the pager starts to beep again. I thought I was stuck in a dream or just having deja-vu. I left it alone for a lil while til I realised it was one of those damn pagers that constantly get louder and louder til you go deaf, so I had to crawl outta bed again. Finally went to bed after 4:30, dont know how long til my damn dog started to bark at some bucket or branch in the wee hours as well. Although it did manage to catch the rat that my dad smacked on the head but ran away on the weekend.

Luckily tomorrow is Friday and I get to handover the support to my work mate. Don't think I'll be missing the pager for a long time. Hope its 3rd time lucky and I won't be paged in the morning. *fingers crossed*

Labels: work

Donkey Kong.
After being in my role for the past 16 months and 2 weeks, albeit having 3 different job titles due to restructure, I am now officially part of the proverbial Support Donkey roster.

Required to carry around a pager and mobile 24x7, getting woken up by a (non-critical) page 3am in the morning, dealing with multiple support queues via inefficient, slowass web pages, producing far too many ad-hoc reports and killing user sessions, all come with the territory.

I just hope that this isn't the beginning of the end of everything else. Watching one of my workmates, who’s been in the team for over 7 years, go through a marriage breakdown, losing custody of his child and kicked out of home, with this support role one of the major contributing factors to the relationship, I just hope that it isn’t going to happen to me (well, something to that affect since I’m not married with a kid or own my own home..). My workmates all comment I'm lucky that I'm young and not tied down in a relationship, but I still have to figure out if that’s a good or bad thing.

One of the positive things out of this role is that I get to learn more of the system than I could during my regular day-to-day tasks. Although since my knowledge of most of the system is next to nothing anyway, I’m gonna have to bug my workmates constantly to figure out any problem that arises. Gotta love being the newest member of the team.

Labels: work