By the way, I am officially 23rd today according to the Gregorian Calendar.
I'm thinking of getting myself a birthday present. Maybe an MP3 Player to listen to during my boring one hour journey from home to work.
Happy Birthday to me and thanks to the seven people who had wished me a happy birthday - you know who you are! =3
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Ichigatsu honya de
Started work in the bookstore on August 14th. It has been one month, a week and three days.
Quite an... interesting experience. For one, I am working in a place of a hodgepodge of races. The majority are Chinese so I get a lot of Mandarin thrown at me. A LOT. Not that I mind. Malays and Indians mixed as if there is none of that rubbish called social contract and Malay supremacy. I had to admit I loved it.
My unit, the magazine unit, is made of six staff, three Chinese and three Malays. The unit chief is Chinese. Didn't bother me. He was a gamer, and he played the games I played. It's nice to share experience with people who played your games, especially the games you loved. Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy, Shadow of the Colossus... you name it. He got it. He's a serious guy when it comes to work, but also when it comes to games.
The second longest serving staff is a Malay. She has a stern look in her face, one that says "Don't you even think about it." She's not shy in chasing non-potential customers. But once you get to know her, she's a friendly sort, joking and laughing whenever. Proven - Looks can be deceiving. And she's no bias. She talks to all races. Heh, everyone talks to each other disregarding the skin. Now why I am talking about skin anyway - not at all important...!
Magazine unit is tough. And boring. The most magazines coming in are related to fashion, gossip, and entertainment. They come in large cartons and you had to price them like every time they come in, and they come in the hundreds. Every morning you check to see if there are magazines that needed to be restocked. When the customer come in droves, you need to make sure they browse wrapped magazines at the counter, and you had to put misplaced magazines back in place. Sometimes you sit at the counter and you get to bring their reserved magazines, answer phone calls from some anonymous callers (I'm getting the hang of it, though I admit I sound like the idiot on the line).
But hey, I get to work, I have a uniform, complete with tie and apron that makes me look important, and I get to broaden my perspectives. Plus, the Japanese section is close if I ever want to browse any artbooks or magazines. I love my job =3
Quite an... interesting experience. For one, I am working in a place of a hodgepodge of races. The majority are Chinese so I get a lot of Mandarin thrown at me. A LOT. Not that I mind. Malays and Indians mixed as if there is none of that rubbish called social contract and Malay supremacy. I had to admit I loved it.
My unit, the magazine unit, is made of six staff, three Chinese and three Malays. The unit chief is Chinese. Didn't bother me. He was a gamer, and he played the games I played. It's nice to share experience with people who played your games, especially the games you loved. Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy, Shadow of the Colossus... you name it. He got it. He's a serious guy when it comes to work, but also when it comes to games.
The second longest serving staff is a Malay. She has a stern look in her face, one that says "Don't you even think about it." She's not shy in chasing non-potential customers. But once you get to know her, she's a friendly sort, joking and laughing whenever. Proven - Looks can be deceiving. And she's no bias. She talks to all races. Heh, everyone talks to each other disregarding the skin. Now why I am talking about skin anyway - not at all important...!
Magazine unit is tough. And boring. The most magazines coming in are related to fashion, gossip, and entertainment. They come in large cartons and you had to price them like every time they come in, and they come in the hundreds. Every morning you check to see if there are magazines that needed to be restocked. When the customer come in droves, you need to make sure they browse wrapped magazines at the counter, and you had to put misplaced magazines back in place. Sometimes you sit at the counter and you get to bring their reserved magazines, answer phone calls from some anonymous callers (I'm getting the hang of it, though I admit I sound like the idiot on the line).
But hey, I get to work, I have a uniform, complete with tie and apron that makes me look important, and I get to broaden my perspectives. Plus, the Japanese section is close if I ever want to browse any artbooks or magazines. I love my job =3
Monday, March 10, 2008
music
i've just discovered classical music in youtube, and i'm listening to them right now. for now i've just listened to a sample of bach.
Anyway, how are you doing? I am a bit sidetracked you see, what with the project paper due in 4 days, and not a strong chapter is in sight for me. An assignment which I must send today I have neglected to submit. I will do so tomorrow (Tuesday), before class. But other assignments are already finished. The only ones left are the project paper. That is all that stands between me and the convocation to be held this August. There's not much to be done actually: Conduct an interview with three majordomos, do some research and whatnot, write some methodology and a few strong statements to support my paper, and I'm good to go. Problem is I haven't started.
A lot of stories have turned into films these days. The latest to be in the silver screen is the Spiderwick Chronicles, starring that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory boy, whathisname-erson. While I do like the trend of stories coming to life, I am afraid that such a move will discourage people from picking up the book itself and start reading. Most will feel satisfied to just go the movies to watch the darn storybook for Rm10 and save all the trouble spending many a ringgit just to read a story. Yes, Malaysians are money savvy at that. While I do have doubts that the book reading population won't decline that soon, in this day and age of fast foods and speedy services, one may not be enticed that much to sit down and spend their lazy days reading a book. Though as of this hour, I have yet to watch the Golden Compass and the said movie above, two storybooks to silverscreens.
The latest music by Utada Hikaru, "Heart Station" is up. I saw the PV in Youtube, her first appearance ever since her divorce, I think. She has a new haircut, which looked boyish to me, but hey, the music is still Hikki which is totally awesome. Can't wait to buy the album, ehem.
I've bought the book. it's in my drawer, wrapped neatly.
I must get back to writing my assignments and paper. Until next time.
Anyway, how are you doing? I am a bit sidetracked you see, what with the project paper due in 4 days, and not a strong chapter is in sight for me. An assignment which I must send today I have neglected to submit. I will do so tomorrow (Tuesday), before class. But other assignments are already finished. The only ones left are the project paper. That is all that stands between me and the convocation to be held this August. There's not much to be done actually: Conduct an interview with three majordomos, do some research and whatnot, write some methodology and a few strong statements to support my paper, and I'm good to go. Problem is I haven't started.
A lot of stories have turned into films these days. The latest to be in the silver screen is the Spiderwick Chronicles, starring that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory boy, whathisname-erson. While I do like the trend of stories coming to life, I am afraid that such a move will discourage people from picking up the book itself and start reading. Most will feel satisfied to just go the movies to watch the darn storybook for Rm10 and save all the trouble spending many a ringgit just to read a story. Yes, Malaysians are money savvy at that. While I do have doubts that the book reading population won't decline that soon, in this day and age of fast foods and speedy services, one may not be enticed that much to sit down and spend their lazy days reading a book. Though as of this hour, I have yet to watch the Golden Compass and the said movie above, two storybooks to silverscreens.
The latest music by Utada Hikaru, "Heart Station" is up. I saw the PV in Youtube, her first appearance ever since her divorce, I think. She has a new haircut, which looked boyish to me, but hey, the music is still Hikki which is totally awesome. Can't wait to buy the album, ehem.
I've bought the book. it's in my drawer, wrapped neatly.
I must get back to writing my assignments and paper. Until next time.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
procrastination
Another week has passed and here I am sitting in front of my laptop doing what I am not supposed to so - procrastinate. I declared on the wikis that I was going for a wikibreak, but truth be told, I lurked at the wikis and silently watched them as they go about their activities without me. I was jealous as them for being so active while I'm gone. Everytime I opened the recent changes I had the urge to log in and edit. I declared that I'll be gone for four months. My complex tells me that I should prove to them I'll be gone for four months. That I shouldn't log in and tell them that I'll just be gone for two, or a week. That this wikibreak is for real.
I didn't fool anybody. At wikipedia I declared that I was on a semi-retirement. I cleaned up my talk archived and even displayed semi-retired on my userpage. Just three weeks later I logged in saying I was only going for a wikibreak. Nobody was glad to see me back. Nobody said, "hey you're back with us, don't leave us again, please." Who did I fool? Myself. As you can see, I'm still active, even if it's one edit per day on average.
I'm on the verge on doing the same on the wikias. No, I tell myself, only after April, then you can edit all you want. I have to admit that it is very difficult, considering all those idiots rambling on irrelevant stuff - if I was admin I'd ban their asses for irrelevancy and nonsense. In another wikia, I am one of the six admins. In my absence, nothing was improving in the wiki, or so it seems to me. New users were not welcomed, it's a new month but no featured article is selected, there's not even a cleanup drive going. I'm so mad! Mad to myself for leaving when the wiki needs me! Mad at the admins for not being deserving of their posts.
But I'm also mad at myself for not doing what I am supposed to now. A project paper is due this March, and I'm still not over Chapter 2. Chapter 1 is half-baked even. I can't do it, I lose focus too easily. It's like that mental disorder, what they call Attention Deficit Disorder (they came up with a new term already). And it's true, these things don't interest me at all, probably that's why I am leaving them on the shelf to dust. Project paper, work, term paper, work, assignment, work. I am not cut out to be an academic. Then what will I be in the future? What will I grow up to become? What will my income source be? Oh my God, WHAT AM I DOING?
I didn't fool anybody. At wikipedia I declared that I was on a semi-retirement. I cleaned up my talk archived and even displayed semi-retired on my userpage. Just three weeks later I logged in saying I was only going for a wikibreak. Nobody was glad to see me back. Nobody said, "hey you're back with us, don't leave us again, please." Who did I fool? Myself. As you can see, I'm still active, even if it's one edit per day on average.
I'm on the verge on doing the same on the wikias. No, I tell myself, only after April, then you can edit all you want. I have to admit that it is very difficult, considering all those idiots rambling on irrelevant stuff - if I was admin I'd ban their asses for irrelevancy and nonsense. In another wikia, I am one of the six admins. In my absence, nothing was improving in the wiki, or so it seems to me. New users were not welcomed, it's a new month but no featured article is selected, there's not even a cleanup drive going. I'm so mad! Mad to myself for leaving when the wiki needs me! Mad at the admins for not being deserving of their posts.
But I'm also mad at myself for not doing what I am supposed to now. A project paper is due this March, and I'm still not over Chapter 2. Chapter 1 is half-baked even. I can't do it, I lose focus too easily. It's like that mental disorder, what they call Attention Deficit Disorder (they came up with a new term already). And it's true, these things don't interest me at all, probably that's why I am leaving them on the shelf to dust. Project paper, work, term paper, work, assignment, work. I am not cut out to be an academic. Then what will I be in the future? What will I grow up to become? What will my income source be? Oh my God, WHAT AM I DOING?
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