Old friends rekindled

Met with Mark yesterday evening. It was good meeting him this time round. Two years ago was our last face-to-face meeting. Previous meeting was not good. I explained the reason for my not-so-good meeting to him and he was pretty understanding. Sitting next to him, I feel like I'm a neanderthal. Okay not so primitive; a barbarian. My manners, in most aspects, paled in comparison when I engaged in conversation with him. However, I feel really good and I did have a good chat with him. Keeping in touch of, whatever information lost during those two years, friends, families and pretty much everything in between. Starbuck's coffee felt good too. I had a regular latte. He had one of those fancy-shmancy drinks (banana frappuchino with whipped cream or something like that). I felt reall good at the end of the meeting. He's leaving this friday, so all the best to you Mark and your wife, and God bless you brother.

Other than that, I've just been warned by my boss for leaving the switch on. For switch I mean a LAN, Fast Ethernet, 12-port, smaller-than-my-VCD-player-but-bigger-than-my-Palm machine on. Yes I know that the switch takes up like I don't know, very little (I mean if you leave it on for a week I don't even know if it sucked up enough juice to power-up a light blulb), but the management's been edgy because of the recent 12% power price hike. So I got a warning and this means I got to be more careful and yadda, yadda, yadda. My fault, so I owned up. I do remember the rules and so I just got to obey them. Even if I find it rediculous.

Other than that, I found a few more cases of virus attacks. Special thanks to the idiots in class that downloaded stuff without permission and installing them without permission. Sigh. Good thing I've kept the anti-virus definitions and system patches up to date on all the machines. The infected file is only found on the local machine and not spread to other machines and got quarantined. But, I still got to go through the whole procedure and make sure everything (or should I say PC) is clean. Trainer cum technical support. It just added on to my job description last month either that or it's the fine print that I've missed out when I signed the work papers when I first joined in a year and a half ago. Oh well, I'm rambling again. Got to go, so this barbarian's signing off. Bye.

June 5th, 2006

Monday. One word says all. I got a full class today. Meaning I got like 20 Pax. Halfway through, my sales told me, I got 22 guys. I just stood there looking at her and she obviously did not see my eye brow twitch. I set up my class for 20 pax that means having 11 routers (10 for them and 1 for me). We (my beloved company) does not have any spare routers. even if we do have it, I can't connect any more because there's just 10 serial connections to one core router. This would mean the extra two guys would not be able to participate in my class because they have no PC to use and no routers to configure. Needless to say, the extra two were hopping mad. Then after a few phone calls (and lots of dead brain cells later), we found out that the Human Resource on the customer's site was at fault. Apparently, the HR sent the wrong memo to the two. The two gentlemen (even after they were boiling mad, they were still pretty much in control), were "ordered" to leave by the HR Head of Department.

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Yesterday, I went for a church visitation and visited a church that I haven't been in a long time, City Discipleship Presbyterian Church (CDPC). Good to visit the kids again, I missed the people there and the kids. I felt so touched when the kids remembered me. The people there, very warm and very friendly (made me feel so fuzzy inside). I went there with my girl and another female friend.

I ate quite a fair bit on food yesterday (heavy breakfast, heavy lunch and afternoon tea and then dinner). By the way, the time difference between the heavy breakfast and heavy lunch meal was only 45 minutes difference. Oh boy, I feel a bit bloated this morning. Sigh. Penance later on I'm sure.

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Joke of the day (actually I've heard this one before but it's nice so I'll post it up)



IMPACT OF JOB-CHANGE

A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the footpath, and stopped centimeters from a shop window.

For a second everything went quiet in the cab, and then the driver said:
"Look mate, don't ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!".

The passenger apologized and said, "I didn't realize that a little tap would scare you so much."

The driver replied, "Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver - I've been driving a van carrying dead Bodies for the last 25 years .