Happy New Year 2026

Finally last day of 2025.... To be honest, this year really flew. A blink and we're already at the end of it. 

It was an uneventful year for me. I'd wish for it to be more excited and fun like last year, but uneventful year means nothing really bad happened. A boring year means all was good and manageable. And for that I'm grateful.

Work was busy but not overly busy. I actually felt this year was the best balanced year I've had in years. Work was busy, but not crazy. Home was stressful at times especially at the beginning of the year, but somehow i detached better later this year i think, so i could still keep my cool and not stressed out. I slept better too. And made peace with my diet progress, at least I'm not overly chubby, but I'm still watching what i eat, exercise and try not to stress. 

I became lazier though. So many diy projects i started but didn't finish. I only just finished the Sakura train yesterday coz my friend gave me that for bday and i felt obligated to finish it. It was easy too. 3 days done. 

I kept on learning Japanese with Duolingo. Currently on 384 days streak. I'm sure i still can't converse with Japanese, but at least I'm learning more vocabs and hopefully can catch up bits n pieces when i go there again. 

I watched lots of series, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and anime. The only hobby i keep on doing coz I'm too lazy to do anything else lol. 

In terms of friendships, there was an old colleague who reached out to me again after years. We met few times, but then her life got busy and i was tired to chase again and again. I'll let her decide what to do with it. But at this stage of my life, i really can't be bothered to put effort on relationships, coz it usually ends up to be a waste of time. 

When my boss told me i could bring a plus one to Xmas party, doesn't have to be husband or boyfriend, can also be sister or friends, I had The Business Proposal moment "I HAVE NO CHINGGUUUU" moment lol but it wasn't in the pity party mode, it was more like romantic comedy moment. So i guess I'm really okay with my situation now. I really don't understand why people like to post "I'm going to restaurant alone for dinner. That's okay right? ", man of course it's ok, why do you even need to ask? 

Threads was probably the number 1 app i used this year. I've always been annoyed with reels and shorts where i have to watch the whole thing slowly to get what it is all about. I really prefer to just skim the caption and see if it's relevant to me, but most reels don't have that. So threads is perfect for me. Lots of stories and i can skim to see if it's relevant to me before concentrating on it. 

I went to Indonesia again, with 1 of my sis. Jakarta and Bali. It was fun, tho Bali one was a bit disrupted due to my bestfriend's hubby sudden gallbladder. But it ended alright and well i got to stay in quite a few of different hotels in Bali. I pretty much booked hotel every other day back then due to the uncertainty lol but lots of interesting memories this time. 

We also went on a cruise to Moreton Island with our whole family and cousin's family. It was awful. I hated every minute of it and don't wanna get on it again. Prob until I'm damn old and just want to relax. But even then I'm not sure, sounds like going to Japan and just stay in hotel and go out to konbini appeals to me more than cruise. It was so boring. I didn't get the internet plan, expensive and i thought there's plenty to do, but no, there wasn't. Food was just pub quality and not that great. True i didn't pay extra. But i mean it was so underwhelming for me to the point i didn't wanna spend another cent coz i didn't believe it was gonna change it. 

Dad had small surgery. It was 1 night stay only, thank god it was only 1 day. It was already stressing me out. I couldn't fall asleep that night coz i worried of getting a phone call from hospital in the middle of the night like 3 years ago. Hope there's nothing like that ever again. 

I took a week off from work a month after cruise. It was supposed to be the original cruise date, but my cousin forgot she was going back to work that week. I didn't cancel the leave but instead went all over Sydney eating meals i usually can't go coz of work, and trying cakes at cafes. I thought it was gonna be boring, but actually it was fun. A week went by so quickly and i actually didn't get to eat all from my list. 

On my birthday i took a day off. I planned to go to the zoo ($2 bday ticket) but the weather was awful so i didn't end up going. My sis and I went to a cafe I've tried during my leave and i ordered the cakes i wanted to eat. Then went window shopping, used my bday vouchers and had Japanese BBQ lunch and shokupan Japanese/Thai desserts. Oh my IT colleagues actually called me on my mobile and sang me happy birthday. It was really sweet of them 😊

Lots of not so good things happened to people around me, be it money loss, or relationships issue or just too hectic of life. So I'm grateful for my non eventful year. 

Hopefully next year I'll be braver to face all challenges in life, more diligent. And hopefully life will be easy, peaceful but fun and enjoyable in 2026.

Happy New Year 2026.

Hospital Playlist

 Hospital Playlist is really good in warming our hearts, isn't it? 

 There's this scene when Chuchu fainted because of stomach cramp, then her professor that she's been crushing on for ages come running to visit her. She thought she was delirious and seeing things and broke down happy crying when she realised he really came. How nice it is to see someone you love coming to see you when you're sick. It reminds me when my bff was sick, her then bf came and dropped a bag of bread in front of her door. He just left them there and didn't come in. He didn't buy her the bread she liked, he didn't know her preferences back then, but it was still so sweet.

Then, the scene when Chae Song Hwa was down for all day after hearing her mum had Parkinsons. Just laid there all day and didn't want to do anything. Ikjun blocked her door and turned everyone who came to ask for her help away. Making sure she had all the time she need to be alone. Then when night came, only then he knocked on her door, bringing her food her intern gave and he also bought her the BBQ grill she wanted to get. She cheered up instantly. He knew her so well. I think...i know quite a lot of people so well, yet I don't think people know me well. Probably my fault, I let people know some pieces of me I want them to know, but not everything. What's the purpose anyway? At the end of the day, we're alone. When I have problem, the most they can do is respond to my text. If there's a time that they need to choose between me and someone else, they won't choose me.

Then there's this scene when Jaehak saw Junwan coming in. Jaehak was SO happy to see him, and his colleague noticed it too. He said, he's always happy to see Junwan. I thought, hmmmm must be nice to have someone who's always happy when they see me. But then I thought.... that stalker..... ew... ok no, nevermind. I'm good not having one LOL

1 thing I really wish I could have is the relationship between Rosa and Jong Su. Purely decades of friendships, they take care of each other and have fun together, teasing and scolding each other. I wished I have friendships like that when I'm old. Must be so nice.

I also envy the 5 of them doing band practice regularly. It's really fun to play music in a group. I only did ensemble during high school, but even that was fun!!

If I was asked to choose out of the guys in Hospital Playlist, I think I'd choose Jeong Won. He's the most attentive and perceptive. He also communicates well, he's not afraid to tell her girlfriend what he feels and willing to discuss about it. He gives space, but he also shows that he cares about her and acts on it. I woudn't need to do guessing game with him. Ikjun is fun, my days would definitely not boring with him. He's also perceptive. But I don't know, Ahn Jeong Won seems more assuring. Seokhyeong is calm, but too calm that he's a clam. Will definitely have lots of misunderstanding with him. And so far, he can't stand up to his mum. So Jeongwon it is.

 

My Life is Damn Boring, But At Least I Love Eating

I was thinking just now, what should I have for lunch tomorrow. Then I realised, my life is boring, but at least I look forward to my lunches. At least I love eating good food. It would be so sad if I had nothing to look forward too.

There was one time I had bad food poisoning. I was pooping out every thing I ate for 2 weeks. I had to eat plain congee, couldn't have anything else for 2 weeks. If I ate something heavier than those, ie a piece of biscuit, rice, a glass of soymilk, I would be running for toilet within 30 minutes.

 That was damnnnnnn sad... My life felt so plain. I thought, what if I have to eat like this for the rest of my life? I won't be happy for the rest of my life.

 Few weeks ago I had a week off. I spent that week trying out restaurants and cafes I never tried before. And also revisiting a food court I used to frequent back in uni. I had no other plans that week. My colleagues gave me confused looks when I told them my plan, but that plan was enough to keep me entertained and relaxed. That week went by soooo quickly, and I actually thought it wasn't enough.

 Human is weird isn't it? Or is it just me? 

My Ideal House

If I could choose, I'd want my house to be:

• Facing north.
• 2 stories.
• A stand alone house. If can't, then totally totally clearly separated duplex with fence separating us. 
• Have a bit of land I can grow maple tree and cherry/plum blossoms tree and crabapple tree.
• 4-5 bedrooms. 4 is ok, but extra 1 study would be nice.
• 1 bedroom with ensuite bathroom on the ground floor.
• 1 bedroom with ensuite on the 2nd floor for my sis.
• Decent size bedroom at the back of the 2nd floor for me.
• Plenty of storage.
• Decent size pool just for daily exercise. Not plunge pool but also not a big pool. Just enough.
• Shared bathroom with a bathtub, the rest just shower. All bathrooms compact size. I really can't get why people have huge bathrooms, such a waste of space. I prefer Japanese compact size bathrooms.
• Island in the kitchen. 

 

It Was Not a Boring 2024 :)

So I skipped writing last year huh? Well 2023 was a very hard and tiring year for me. No wonder I didn't have the mood to write.

My wish for 2024 was to not have a boring year. I wanted to have a fun and exciting year. I also thought 2023 was such a boring and gloomy year, hence the wish for 2024.

And I did get a fun and exciting 2024 :)

Don't get me wrong, it was a busy and tiring year too. But at least there were some stories, new experiences, and few trips for me, to enjoy and spoil myself.

January, I was busy with work. I started having to do more work as a Team Leader - the tasks I have never done before and had to learn as I went. Plus the normal development. In this month also, 1 of the bathrooms in my house leaked, so I had to call plumbers/developers and discussed about repairs/ renovation. It was a very hectic month. To make it worse, my online friend who's been friends with me for the past 2 years was getting more and more suffocating. A little context here, I just quit my game as of 1 Jan, and got slammed into busy work straight away. Hence, I didn't chat with him as much as before. While he, I think worrying that we'd grow apart, kept bombarding me with texts and stalker behaviour. The whole month I was busy with life and work physically, and mentally busy dealing with this guy. Everyone told me to block him, but at the beginning I felt bad for ghosting (since I knew, I couldn't talk it through with this guy. He'd just pity party again). But towards the end of the month with all these things going on, and him creating another account just to test if I blocked him on discord, I exploded and finally blocked him everywhere. He still tried contacting me with other means until Feb I think. Oh I did have a meal with a guy my auntie introduced this month too. But nothing afterwards.

Feb, I still had to deal with that guy's attempts to reconnect. I even got a hand written letter through.... can you guess it? TRUCALLER!!!! I didn't know that app has got chat feature. NONE of the people I knew knew about it as well. Damn. Everytime I remember this, it pisses me off that I was actually the one who INTRODUCED this app to him. *bang head on the wall* 

Then, it was full of doctor appointments. I've noticed a lump for the past few months, but I didn't want to deal with it before Chinese New Year. So once it passed 15 days, I booked for doctor and started doing all those check ups.

Mar was full of doctor appointments and I had my surgery booked just 2 days before Easter. I planned it that way so I didn't have to take too many sick days to recuperate. And guess what, the renovation started the week before my surgery :) talk about bad timing. I was already busy and had to deal with this too. Mostly just phone calls, but I also needed to go to shop to choose tiles etc. Oh but I managed to get some tickets for &Juliet Musical. It was very enjoyable!!!

Apr we learnt how to paint :) the reno apparently doesn't include painting the ceiling -.- It was gonna cost $800-1200 to paint the ceiling. So, of course I, refused to pay and instead asked my friend to drive me to Bunnings and buy paints etc. Just bermodalkan watching videos + asking the staff, I, a week after surgery, with my sisters, painted the bathroom ceiling. Man... how painful were my shoulders and neck after that. I took 2 panadols that night. But then, painting skills unlocked! We also went to see a play, not musical, just a play. So it was our first play. And my online friend from Canberra came to visit at the end of the month.

May we went to see a solo musical performance. And I booked flight tickets to go to Indonesia alone!!!!!! And we booked our tickets for Japan in November yayyyyyyy ^^

Jun - The month I realised that I'm actually rich :| On a Saturday morning while I was sleeping in like a pig, my sister woke me up and asked me to book tickets for our parents to go back to Indo. My dad's depression was getting worse and he wanted to go see his doctor. So there I was searching for flight tickets literally a minute after I opened my eyes, and booked it within 10 minutes after waking up. For the next day. I'm not bragging, but seriously at that moment I realised, I was actually rich enough. And grateful that we had enough money to be able to do this.

I've been grateful for this more since Feb actually. Eventhough Australia has Medicare and I'm covered, but it doesn't actually cover for everything. Ultrasounds and biopsies are not 100% covered and sometimes, you need to pay first and claim after. If you don't have cash on hand, then how would you pay for all these? 1 scan is already hundreds of dollars. So yeah, this year I'm more aware on this, and really grateful that at least... despite all these problems, we have 1 less thing to worry about. It's true, money cannot buy happiness. But if you have money, at least you can focus more on the other things.

I also realised how great I am in sleuthing ;) 1 of our Sydney friends got married. We talked about him and then I googled the wife. Then... I found some interesting details... ho ho ho ho.... But yeah, I always know I'm good at investigating, but this year I realised that even more as my friend asked me to help find info hahaha...

Jul - Guess what. I got my first ever covid 1 week before my flight. Oh man, I got to frustrated. I so blaming my colleague for spreading it to me. And we only talked for few minutes once??? I guess my immune system was really low then. But in order to make sure I got well before the flight, I pumped up my vitamin c, drank coconut water and ATE A LOT. As the result I got well 2 days b4 the flight, but 2 kilo heavier :| Great. Just. Great.

Anyway, then I was off to Bali for a week. I was worried I'd somehow bump into him at the airport initially. But, once I saw the crowds of people trying to pick up..... Yep, there's no way either of us can recognise each other. There were so many people!!!! Even my BFF and I had trouble finding each other.

I stayed with my BFF in Bali and enjoyed that week with her, her hubby and also her cousin who flew to Bali to join me. It was really a nice time to just be me. We did Pandora Escape Room together too, the most difficult one, and we finished it 10 min before time was up (with plenty of hints hahahaha). But it's ok, we managed to get out is the important thing. There was 1 time when my bff thought she saw him, and I froze. Thank god it wasn't him phewwww

Then another week in Jakarta with my cousins and uncles/aunties. Oh I also tried the new fast train - Whoosh Whoosh to Bandung. It was really fast. Feel rugi paying expensive only for 20 min ride lolllllll That week was really just meeting friends and families and full on eating. I gained another 5 kilo in Indo *hopeless smile*

Aug - I went for coffee with the guy Denny's introduced. Nothing afterwards too. Then, Metro Sydenham - Tallawong Opened yayyayyyyyyy Now I have a lot of lunch options!!!!! Guang Liang's concert woohooooooooo!!!! It was such a great concert. He sang so well and very stable!!! I hope I can go to his concert again in the future. And Conan the Movie Million Dollar Pentagram was out in the cinema yayyyyy and we were going to the places featured in the movie hehehehehehe...

Sep - In the mood of sending food to my friends overseas. And started booking accommodation for Japan.

Oct - Can't remember much except we were super busy planning Japan trip + tax return. So many things I need to change for Aomori/Hakodate part as the trains and buses stop running from Nov. But so excitingggggggggg ^^

Nov - The TRIP IS HEREEEEEEE!!!! OMG the best part of my yearrrrrrr. We visited a lot of places, tried a lot of things, saw a lot, shopped a lot, it was just awesome!!! I think I really feel alive when i'm on this kind of trip. All the places we went to this time (except Asakusa), we haven't been to before. It's all new. It was hard planning and figuring things out, but it's so refreshing!! We tried a lot of new dishes too. I even didn't get to eat simple things I usually ate there, but other new things. Didn't even get the chance to eat Mos Burger lol. But we had anything else hahaha..

I spent my birthday in Sendai. Visited some historical places and then ended it with trip to the Aquarium xD My bff was laughing when I told her. She said, it's like 4th Birthday celebration. But I didn't care. I wanted to relax in the Aquarium ^^ The dolphin and seal show was so cute too!

We also visited quite a few places featured in my favorite anime Yuru Camp. Felt so blessed and grateful that I could see those places and experience it myself.

And finally we got to stay in the ryokan we always stay at in Asakusa. The owner as usual was very nice and helpful and even walked us to places we wanted to visit to (within the neighbourhood). He also walked us to the restaurant for dinner, sent us map to festival and walked us halfway to the station when we were going to airport. His wife also bought us apple pies *touched* It feels to me that we are more like friends now.

Dec - Back to reality. Straight busy to work but since it's almost Christmas, I only had 3 weeks work, then off 2 weeks for Xmas and New Year xD So nice huahahahahahaahaha I'm still relaxed from the holiday and admiring the cute useless stuffs I bought there, and reminiscing my time there.

I watched 34 Series this year which include 21 Anime, 9 Kdrama, 3 Cdrama, and 1 JDorama. My favourites are The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today, Marry My Husband, Wrong Carriage Right Groom, Queen of Tears,  Frieren, Yuru Camp, Bartender, Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori, No Love No Gain,  and Light Shop. 17 Movies (6 Animations, 4 Anime, 1Hollywood, 4 Indonesian, 2 Korean) - I think I missed some I watched on the plane though. And listened to many many horror podcasts.

I cut quite a few friends this year. No regrets there. I'm tired of people who don't put as much effort into the friendships as well. Relationships be it friendships or love, need both parties to reciprocate. I was too nice before and gave them too many excuses and benefits of the doubt, while they didn't even appreciate my existence. I guess that's it, I will just give them back what they give me.

Surprisingly this year I got really close to this Thai girl. Dunno how long this would last too. I actually thought our friendship would end last Dec as I was quitting the game. But we are still close till now.

Hopefully next year work is getting better and we get new clients. Honestly, work has been my happy place this year. Our department relationship is really great that I feel happy to come to work everyday. When someone said "Nobody likes to go to work", I actually got offended. Because I am happy to go to work. Yeah yeah I am always lazy to wake up, but I'm always happy when I get to the office (Unless I see the people I don't like he he). So I hope we get new clients and we can stay together longer.

I wish for a less mentally stressful year especially within our family. And I hope I get to travel twice next year too. And hope I can lose 5 kilo!!!!!! Ideally 7, but 5 is good enough *puppy eyes*

I wish for a for a healthy, happy, peaceful but fun and exciting 2025.

Bye 2022, You sucked. Hope 2023 will be Better.

 Hey,

 I didn't write anything this year, but I still want to keep a record of what I remember happened this year.

 2022 sucked. Really. It was damn boring and lonely and depressing for me for the first 9 months. NOTHING interesting or happy happened to me. Well.. at least from what I can remember.

 Well yeah, my cousin gave birth to a cute baby girl and that was exciting. I was happy for them. However, it's not really my happy moment right? I was soooooooooooo lonely and sluggish and depressed. I was bored, but didn't wanna move a finger. I forced myself to get out of bed and go to gym just because if I didn't, I'd just lay there in bed all day. I prefer weekdays to weekends and actually feel happy on Sunday night because I get to go to work the next day.

Work wise, it was a good year. I was awarded Best Employee of the Quarter twice this year. And I didn't even think that I'd get it. The other department's new employees were suck, and I unintentionally made 1 of them cry. And when she resigned, she said that 1 of the reasons is coz she still gotten over the issue with me @@

What else hmm... in Oct, my dad suddenly found out he had medical issue. We were supposed to fly home at the end of the month, but the medical issue was only confirmed until a week before departure date. So yeah.. lots of uncertainties, phone calls, changing reservations, doctor appointments and project deadlines. It was damn... tired...

Then, I flew home and it started the whole socialising that I practically didn't have for the whole 10 months. Felt like 10 months worth of socialising was dumped into Nov and Dec. I also flew to Malaysia to meet my game friends of 3 years. That was great. If I didn't go, I'd have what ifs. But now that I have gone, I still have another what if lol. Sometimes.. I think God can be real cruel... I feel like he hasn't listened to my prayers for years. But then.. when he finally answered, it was done... cruelly... I'm still hurt till now... I sometimes think maybe I should poof. But then, I think again... do I want to throw all those away? But I also think, how long can I stand it? Can I... last?

I also think that God is a procrastinator. All my social life and problems, and natural disasters were all dumped into the last 2 months of this year.

My dad had his surgery early December. Then it started a week long of tiredness. Hospital visits to keep him company in between of work and social life. Plus, we had to go to hospital in the middle of the night and stayed there. Which means, loss of sleep. My friend also visited from Canberra during that period, so I couldn't sleep in. Plus, office Christmas party within same period.

However, because of this, I realised how good my bosses are. I took planned and unplanned leaves because of my dad's surgery and they never complained. And the 2nd award I got? Turned out that it was for Q3, but I went on holiday after that quarter, and when I'm back, I kept taking leaves coz of my dad and they couldn't present it to me LOLLL My GM said "It's your fault that it's late". Turned out that it was literally my fault xD I don't have much things I'm grateful for this year (I probably should have more, but the first 9 months were so miserable), but my work is the number 1 thing I am grateful for this year. When that newbie cried, everyone took my side. Nobody blamed me or told me off. They all agreed that I didn't mean bad. It's just me being me. Impatient and blunt, straight to the point. I really didn't know if I should be happy or sad when they said, "It's just her being her. She's like that to me! She's like that to everyone!" LOL

My BFF flew here with her husband for Registry of Marriage. So finally we can hang out for a month here. That was really fun and I also enjoy hanging out with her husband. She flew back today, I'll be lonely... Because she was here, I also hung out a lot with friends we didn't get to meet often. It was so much fun. I think I really can be myself when I'm with them. I can laugh freely, I can act clingy, needy, fierce and shameless when I'm with them. I can't be like that with anybody else...

I dropped a long time friend this year. Such a shame. She's found new group of friends and doesn't have time/doesn't put effort into maintaining our friendships. I also have stopped putting effort in maintaining relationships with few friends I used to put effort into. I realised that it was always me reaching out to them. My cousin once said to me, she's also the type that doesn't do the reaching out. But, for me... I think I'm tired already. Why is it always me? If it's always only me, wouldn't that mean I don't worth that much to them? So, what's the point?

On the other hand, there's this game friend who really appreciates our friendships. He said to me today, "Thank you for keeping me company and cheering me up this year. If not because of you, there might not be me today. And I won't get this far". On the other hand, the other friends made me feel underappreciated, or like I was nothing lol You really don't get the things you want in life, but you get other things. Would be good if we can get both though, lol.

Anyway... I hope next year will be better. I'll try to keep myself busy, so I don't have time to overthink or feel lonely. I'll drink more water and try to prioritise myself more. Hopefully that way, I'll be happier.

 

Purple Lady.

31 Dec 2022 22:29

2021 Went Just Like That, Hope 2022 is More Memorable

Hello,

I'm sleepy already now, so maybe I won't write much. 

2021 went away just like that. I hardly remember what happened this year =/

 

It feels like I didn't achieve anything this year. Half of the year was spent at home, working from home since Jun 26 until first week of December. I started going out in November, but that was only once or twice. I was lucky to have been able to celebrate my birthday freely, like Covid was gone already. Then I came back to work on the 2nd week of December but then off for 5 days break. Today, NSW had 21,000 new covid cases...lol we are way faster to reach 25k target in Feb lol. We might even reach it tomorrow.

My game friend asked me today, how long have I been back to the office? 2 weeks? I said, more, but upon checking my calendar, I realised it was only for 11 working days lol he's.. right again.

This year made me an even more hermit. Socialising with people sounds like hard work and effort to me now. And now I don't feel like going bushwalking anymore. And some of my closest friends, well just say I don't feel that comfortable around them anymore. What a shame. Maybe I'm breaking down.

I still play that mobile game, and with the same friends. Back in July, the guild leader poofed just like that. So another guildie assumed the leader position and i still acted as the deputy...but with more work. Finally on Xmas eve we relinquished our positions and moved to another guild, to enjoy our retirement. I was tired already, and my game husband was annoyed already by the guildies too, so he pushed the move, which was good. If it's up to me, I might just be a frog that's being boiled to death and it will be too late to jump out of the pot. But in terms of the friends I've been playing with, it's been fun. Of course sometimes I can feel underappreciated or lonely, but in general it's been fun. I got close to another one too, whom I really enjoy chatting with. 

Last week, we started looking after my sister's work mate's Guinea pig, he's called sugar. Surprisingly we are not that bad in taking care of him (I think). Eventhough today I cut his toenail too deep and it bled UwU sorry Sugar....

My birthday this year was pretty good. Some close friends sent me gifts and they made me feel special. Some pranked me, but well... If I wasnt in their mind, they wouldn't bother to, right? And the people dear to me remembered and wished me happy birthday. So, for them, I'm grateful =) 

I hope next year I won't be like sloth like this year. Would be nice to be out again and moving more and be happier. It just feels like a very lethargic year for me this year.

Is this just another wishful thinking? As I sometimes say, God probably has forgotten about me. It's been years since he listened to my prayers. 

But well... I'm still living hao hao de ma? So, for that, I'm still grateful.

Good bye 2021. Please tell 2022 to be wayyyyy more cooler than you.

Happy New Year 2022 everybody! 

Cheers, 

Purple Lady. 

Like a Drama

Hey there,

I think I jinxed it lol

2 weeks after that previous post, Sydney went into lockdown hahahaha... And coincidentally, it started heading towards it after I called in sick for work. Last year's lockdown was also like that lol

So here I am, on my 10th week working from home. Maybe I'm mouldy already lol

Yesterday I was chatting with a game friend about Mystic Pop Up Bar. I recommended it to her, and she tried watching it, liked it and finished it quickly. She said she likes that kind of stories, slice of life and warms the heart. And she likes that it has a good ending. 

 It is my kind of story too. It shows that there are other sides to stories, that maybe everyone isn't as bad as we thought they are. However, too bad it's only a story. A lot of people in that story received help from the main lead, be it to avenge, to get back what they supposed to get, to find things they lost, or anything really... But in real life, we don't have anyone to help us do all those... all you have, is yourself... Everyone else can only pity you, support you or just looking for gossips without doing anything for you... and there's no guarantee of a happy end...

Sometimes I wished life was like in dramas.

Lucky

Hello

I'm on the train back to Sydney after spending the day in Kiama today. It was such a good day. The sky is blue, the weather was nice, a bit too warm for me actually, since I was wearing extra warm heatech and had coat on hahaha...

Anyway, I just read an article about a letter a pilot left at the tray table at his last flight before covid as a time capsule. That day he flew the plane to desert to park it for 14 days. Who knew it was gonna be 459 days before the letter was found.

It got me thinking, and my friends and I actually talked about this today as we were having fish and chips on the grass under the tree. We have been very lucky to be living in Australia. My friend said that when her game buddies from overseas talk about how it is in their countries, only then she realised that we are still in pandemic. We are very lucky that sometimes I feel guilty for it. When we have spikes of cases of 10 a day, some areas were locked down for a week. I wanted to share it to my friends who were living in Asia, but when I started typing, they said their numbers are up again, thousands a day. I started hitting backspace. Malaysia took 7.5k new cases a day before they had another lock down, while Melbourne only needed 10+ 

We only had 3 months of full lock down. After that, though restricted, we still could enjoy the outdoors, went for bushwalk, did coastal walk, mushroom foraging, shopping, movies, and so on. We can still enjoy all those. And when we get symptoms of cold, we can go straight to get covid tested without thinking about the costs. We are indeed, lucky.

When Your Colleague's Wife Unknowingly Knows You

Seems like my colleague's wife knows me well even without us actually knowing each other... 

Yesterday, a colleague of mine said to me, "Ah, you missed it last night!". I was like, what?? What did i miss?

Apparently, his wife said something while she was about to go out, he didn't quite catch what she was saying, he only caught a name. And since she was taking their youngest, he thought oh, you're going to get ice cream.

When she came back, she said, "I didnt stop by Abla's. The baby was sleeping, I didn't wanna wake her up". Then, my colleague just got it. His wife told him before she left, that she was gonna stop by Abla's to buy me baklava!

His wife and I are not friends lol we even only met once and it was just really brief. But I've heard a lot of stories about her from my colleague, and I guess he must have mentioned me quite often for her to remember me.

This wasn't the first time it happened. Last time, when Woolworths had Ooshies promotion, she also went and asked the staff if they still had stocks of the case. She said to her husband, "I'm going to ask the front desk if they still have the case. Your colleague hasn't got one right?".

Even my colleague was really surprised to hear she wanted to get me baklava 2 days ago lol 

But... I was happy :) To know that there's someone out there, not my friend, not exactly knowing me, but still could think of me.

:) 

Bye 2020, Not Going to Miss You

 So I didn't write anything for the whole 2020 eh :/ 

2020 sucked, it was such a tiring, frustrating and depressing year for me. I blame it to Covid19. Of course, I'm still grateful that I still have my job, didn't get a paycut, even though my payrise was conveniently cancelled *rolling eyes*, talk about bad timing. I guess this year had a lot of bad timing for me *sigh....

I've always considered myself a more stay at home person. Going out tires me out. So, I was happy at the beginning of quarantine and wfh. I could stay up late to play games, and still had enough sleep and woke up in time for work a.k.a. open my eyes, walk 1.5m to my laptop and start working LOLLL But I wasn't happy when wfh those 3.5 months. The internet speed frustrated me (thanks to you damn Optus), 1 monitor wasn't enough, and I had a very bad back/neck/shoulder pain. The good thing that came out of wfh was that I lost a lot of weight and have now achieved my ideal weight. Strange, I know, people said to me that they all gained weight, but I on the other hand, lost quite a few kilos without even trying. The secret, you ask? SMALL DESK SPACE CANNOT ACCOMODATE SNACKS!!!! And I used to eat out a lot, but couped up at home, I couldn't eat out and my portion grew smaller.

Speaking about couped up at home, thanks to Covid, I realised that sunlight does make me happy. When I feel gloomy at home, I go out for a walk and I feel better with the warmth of the sun on my face. So yes people, sunlight DOES CHEER YOU UP! I never considered myself an outdoorsy person, but I still remember the first time I went out for bushwalking after so many months staying home, I was SO happy. Maybe it was the feeling of prisoners after they are released from jail. I felt so happy, so free, so relieved, like I could breathe again. So weird...

Compared to all years that have passed, I think I got to know myself more this year. And honestly, I do not like it hahaha... I've been very sensitive and moody this year. And guess what, I was so damn happy when I went back to the office to work. We started going back to the office way earlier than other people, and I would have thought that I'd be cursing my bosses for being so conservative and not let us wfh longer, but you know what? I was relieved. My first day back? I was cheerful and happy. I never realised that I enjoy those banters I have with my colleagues, the arguments I have with my colleagues, and them teasing me for any faults that happen eventhough they are not mine. I actually enjoy those social interactions! I said I got to know myself way better right? I did MBTI test and I was identified as ISFJ, which they say the most extroverted introvert, and the type that craves attention from their loved ones (not in an attention seeking or spotlight hugging way, just in a love and care, emotional support and conversation sort of way). I guess I enjoy social interactions but only with people I'm comfortable with?

This year was full of Covid related things. I lost 2 granduncles, 1 from Covid, 1 from other disease. There was also a distant relative that passed away due to Covid. My cousin and 1 of my close friends got married on the same day in Oct. Thank God, 1 got married on Zoom only, so I didn't have to choose which one to attend.

I cut my hair short. I haven't cut my hair short since I was in 2nd grade LOL I got tired of washing and hair drying my hair, and since I didn't have to meet people, I asked my sister to cut it short, and I actually love it hahahaha... I've been having it short most of 2020. This is 1 of the good things Covid gave me.

It's really hard to think what I did this year.... I played games most of the time, watched Netflix, anime, sleep, lazying and procrastinating. I really haven't done much this year...

In terms of friendships, I got closer to my gaming friends. They made me laugh a lot, though they also are the reason why I didn't get enough sleep, pissed or sulking till next day, however... it's been fun, real fun. And I'm scared of when this all ends. I also got closer to my uni friends here. I was surprised to know that apparently they don't have a lot of real life friends too... I've always thought I'm the one with least friends.

I haven't been a good person this year. I also realised that being a good person doesn't give you great return most of the time. You'll be used by other people. Of course I've known that, but I thought I'd be able to pick up the signs and stop it before it happened. Turned out that I was wrong. Who knows if karma actually exists.

What else did I do... I got addicted to reddit for a while, obsessed with MBTI for a while, and went on a phase of buying gifts for people, sent 1 to Spore, 2 to Indo, and 1 in Oz I think. I also treated my colleagues. Something I don't really do often.

I have been unlucky this year. I only won 1 competition for movie premiere, The Croods 2. But guess what, the premier happened on the same day of company Xmas party and I couldn't go. Asked my sis to go instead, and she fell ill on that day. I couldn't even get the goodie bag -.- And my drops in game? very scarce. A lot of annoying events...

So yeah, here's me wishing for a better year ahead. A luckier year, a happier, kinder year, a more exciting year, a more loving year, and people to be more understanding, value, spoil and appreciate me. Is that too much to ask?

And hope I'll be better in 2021, either for the sake of me, or for other people.

<3

Happy New Year 2020!

Hello =)

I'm in the Philippines now!!! To be exact, I'm in Palawan right now. We're currently on the road from El Nido to Puerto Princessa. This is our 11th day in the Philippines. And, tell you what, it's been better than what I expected (maybe coz ppl have been telling me bad stuffs only b4 I came hahaha).

This year has been...weird..and fast. It's full of ups and down, I had fun and wonderful moments, but also got in troubles sometimes. It's a pretty interesting year really, I don't think I regretted it. I wasted a lot of time yes, but I also gained a lot of friends! Like this ph trip, I'm with 2 new online friends! I never imagined to visit Philippines, even more with online friends!! I did chat less with my usual friends and relatives, but I got to know new people in depth too! So I guess it's not too bad.

Actually yeah it wasn't bad at all! I've never imagined to swim with the fish and see corals, but I did yesterday! And the day b4! I was really really surprised when I looked at the bottom of the ocean and saw corals! I never thought I could see great barrier reef and then there I was, swimming in the middle of El Nido sea, surrounded by the tall majestic rocks, with magnificent corals and fish underneath my feet! I am thoroughly grateful. It's worth all my troubles! The only thing I regretted was that I couldn't take photos of the underwater view, but I saw it! And I'll engrave it in my memory hopefully forever =)

Remember the Chinese fortune prediction my bffs and I usually read? I read it recently to check if my year was correctly predicted, and I came across this line:
"You will attend social activities and chat with internet friends often." Wowwwwww that's so eerily correct! My online social world indeed has been very active this year. I found good and fun friends I clicked with and hope to be friends for many years to come, and I also found annoying and weird people. There was hours of fun chatting, and I also was ignored a lot. But then, i think I'm getting better at being ignored now lol you know I don't like not being replied? I think I handle it slightly better now. Don't want me? Fine, I go find someone else! I also get better on ignoring chats. My FOMO is less too. I think xD

Work is the one I had troubles with lol. I had my demotivated moments. Colleagues I was close with were mostly gone. Somehow I wonder if I'm surviving, or am I actually a frog that is being boiled to death...

Family.. I am definitely lacking there. Hope it gets better next year.

Hope next year will be even more fun and exciting, and not stressing me out! XD

Happy new year 2020 everybody!

Xoxo
Purple Lady in Puerto Princessa, Palawan, Philippines.

Lost in Translations

The other day, my cousin told me about the mistake she made when she started learning spanish. And i thought, this is going to be in my blog xD

She was dating a spanish speaking boyfriend. Since it was getting serious, she took Spanish lesson so she could communicate with his family in the future. Then it got to the point where she started talking and texting his relatives, in this case, her future mother in law...

So she sent this text to her, basically saying nice talking to you. But i feel embarrassed when talking to you (since she's still learning). You know how some Spanish words are similar to English, just with Spanish touch to it? So she said embarasada. Embarrassed, embarasada right?

She sent it, and later on told her boyfriend about the call and showed him the text. He LAUGHEDDDDDDDD xD coz what she typed actually meant "I feel pregnant when talking to you" LOLLLLLLLLLLL xD

The mum in law on the other side was also laughing. But she knew what she meant, coz apparently her daughter in Brazil also made the same mistake when started speaking Portuguese lol

Her husband then told us his story too. He said when he first came to Australia, he went to a doctor for an appointment. But instead of saying "I have an appointment with the doctor", he said to the receptionist, "I have a date with the doctor" HUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA xD

The receptionist burst out laughing lol and his uncle who came with him also laughed xD

I can't remember if I made a fatal mistake like that when I started speaking English. But i remember one time, my flatmate was overseas, and she left fruit that started to go bad. So I texted her boyfriend, asking what should I do with them. The boyfriend replied, "Chuck it". My best friend and I looked at that text and discussed for like 10 min what does chuck mean lol i think i even checked my dictionary xD mind you it was during the time when google was not at your fingertips!

Another funny one is my auntie. During her early years in Oz, she got invited to dinner. The host told her, please bring a plate. She literally brought 3 plates!!! xD 1 for her, 1 for her husband and 1 for her son xD while what it actually meant was for her to bring a dish lollll

Random Blabbering - Work and Laplace M

Guess what?! 1 quit again yesterday la..la.. Not really a biggie for me since she's only been here for a week and half, but still.. Again??? That makes it 9 ppl who quit this year a.k.a in 4 months, or if we count last 12 months.. 11 people. Oh well... Drama is good as long as it doesnt relate to me.

I'm losing sleep again lately. I was chatting to my game friend last night. I said, when it wasn't daylight saving yet, I wanted it to come so badly so I could sleep longer. Then daylight saving came. But then we changed game to Laplace M T_T their guild wars are also at 11 Sydney time T_T

But so far it's been fun though! The game is cute and it's pretty fun growing my character's strength. The only annoying bit is, most of the time you need to team up with other people. And since I'm still a weakling, it is pretty hard to find a team to take you in sometimes. Lucky i've got friends from previous game who can help me when they're free. If not, eventhough I'm actually in the number 3 guild of the server, it'd still be hard. Plus, I have a weakling friend too, so we help each other :)

The game takes SO MUCH TIME though! If I play during the weekdays after work, basically my night is gone. Doesnt matter if I tell myself to only play for 1 hour, err... That has always been a plan *rolling eyes*

Ok thennn off to work!

Half of The Company is Gone!!!

Now is still the first week of May, but can you guess how many people have resigned from our company this year?

8.

Yeppp a lot huh? You can say that the other department is pretty much restructured now :l I really feel sorry to the most senior girl there now, she's only got less than 1 year experience, but they will demand A LOT from her in the future just because she's the longest there now.

3 of them are from our IT department. I think i've written about Creamer right? He's still in our company actually, but only as a contractor. The other 2 were actually Barbie's bf replacement. 1 wasn't great and due to personal reason he left. Honestly, Little Missy and me were a bit relieved when he left. It was so hard to teach him as he kept forgetting things. His replacement was great, but he was smart and escaped as soon as he could LOL

Anyway, what I wanna tell you is, Birdie was 1 of those who quit. She's dedicated, deligent and smart. But sometimes working with her becomes SO complicated and stressful! She wants everything perfect! (Even when it's not really worth it). Can't really blame her, afterall she was taught by Prick and works with him all this time. 应该的。

She's been saying she wants to quit since a million years ago. Seriously. Even when I mentioned "Birdie says she's quitting this week", my sister replied, "Again? Will she really quit??". At least I never said when I will quit :P the reasons behind her quitting are quite a few, from the low pay, long working hours, too far from home, overexcited-overtalkative-overmicromanaging boss, Prick, and so on. But when she quit, the bosses (overexcited) believed (and still believe) that Prick WAS the main reason of her quitting.

Combined with the complaint that Crown Prince made on behalf of all the other employees against Prick, the bosses called Prick into a meeting and basically told him that everyone hates him and please stop being a prick. That is okay, he was really a prick. I fought with him so many times, ignores him so many times and provoked him so many times. I did have plans brewing in my mind on how to get back at him (which I never carried, unfortunately). He is a bossy, lazy, anxious manager who likes to take his time working on 1 thing, and then dump the other work to his minions. Then, when the due date passed, he chases the minion and gets angry if the work is not done. Even though.. sometimes he doesnt even tell the minions when the due dates are *rolling eyes*. He did that to me too. So when that happens, what I said was always, "Well I did that 2 weeks ago and you didnt give any feedback. Why did you only come today when the due date was yesterday? I didn't even know the due date was yesterday!". I did complain about him during my reviews too, but nothing happened.

He's the reason Birdie becomes very on edge, detailed, stressed and always tries to pick the smallest mistakes on our project. I tell you what, a couple of times I come over to Water Tap's desk and notice a little too much or too little spacing, and tell him to fix it. He refuses and days, "Noooo I put it there, just so Birdie, Prick or superexcited can pick up a mistake! So they are happy to pick up something and not come up with something more difficult to change!". Do you get what I mean now? Apples don't fall far from the tree.

But really, Prick WASN'T the only reason. But since superexcited thinks he is THE reason, superexcited becomes very rude and sensitive towards ANYTHING Prick says. I was in a meeting with those 2, and I could see, on every suggestions that Prick made, overexcited either brushed him off, told him off, and just being rude. Even when all Prick just wanted to do was to explain what a paragraph meant! After the meeting, I told him that I understood what he wanted to say. He was right. Superexcited was wrong.

Then, there was another issue between him and the bosses, before the bosses made a role specifically for him. That role will enable him to work with minimal interaction with the colleagues. Not long after, Prick handed in his resignation.

I have a feeling... Superexcited might not be too unhappy about it... Prick and him are actually quite similar, so they usually argue their point a lot. That's why their programs are usually very complicated. Because they stand their ground and force us to do what they want! So maybe with Prick gone, superexcited can have all he wants now.

Goodbye 2018, Helloooooo 2019!

Hi guys!

Just as I usually do on 31st Dec every year, I'm writing a reflection on what 2018 has been. I know I didn't write much this year, and it's to do with all the web novels I read when commuting XD but I still wanna write this one for a quick 2018 summary :)

2018 was full of TV series and web novels lol In total, I've finished 10 TV series this year. I think my mandarin should have improved a bit from watching all those :P I also attempted to sub last 15 min of Yanxi Palace on Youtube as I couldn't wait for someone else to sub it. After doing it, I now have respect to all those freee subbers out there. Even if English and Mandarin are their main languages, the translating, editing and timing takes A LOT OF TIME. So guys, please don't be a jerk and get mad when the subbers miss the schedule time. They have real life to do and it's good enough that they spare a lot of portion of their life to let you enjoy those dramas.

I think the drama that I liked this year was The Eternal Love. It's light and funny and made me feel happy and forget all my worries. It was low budget, but the crew did their best and it was very enjoyable. Another one would be Ode to Joy 2. I think it was comparable to the 1st season. It was realistic and kinda opened the can of worms of things that people kind know not to do, but still do anyway. Hopefully that show can touch the hearts of some of the people and make the world a little bit kinder place to live in. When a Snail Falls in Love was good too, I liked it better than Love Me If You Dare. It's good to see Wang Zi Wen play a role that's total opposite of Qu Xiao Xiao (eventhough I really wish I could be more like Qu Xiao Xiao). She's really an underrated actress. The King's Woman was so so, but Zhang Bin Bin was refreshing to my eyes lol Not that handsome, but still eye candy lol

None of the web novels I read was finished this year. I'm currently reading The Concubine's Daughter is Poisonous, Princess Medical Doctor and Rebirth of the Malicious Empress from Military Lineage. The Concubine's Daughter and Malicious Empress are GREAT! I really enjoy them. Malicious Empress is nearing the end, and I'd be sad when it ends :( The Concubine's Daughter translation is of very high quality. Again, respect to all those translators and editors :) Thank you.

We finally had our second trip to Japan this year :) We visited Tokyo, Nikko, Yokohama, Takayama, Shirakawago and Gokayama, Kanazawa, Tsumago and Magome, Kyoto and Osaka. I tried the Onsen too!!! And surprisingly I enjoyed it so much! If I go to Japan again, I'd like to go onsen again hehehehe... I also went all out in Disneyland and USJ. I didn't get on outdoor roller coasters, but I did ALL of their indoor dark roller coasters!!! I'm very proud of this hahahaha... And we got on almost all rides we wanted in Disneyland on a 50k visitors day (the red indicator day)!!! VERY, VERY proud of this achievement too hahaha... and we tried the night bus from Tokyo to Kanazawa. It was very comfortable :) This time in Japan, we splurged more. Afterall, we're all still single and we usually are thrifty anyway. So I let myself buy more cute stuffs, Conan stuffs, Sailormoon stuffs and tried more expensive snack food lol XD No regrets!

My cousin got married this year, and I got to help her set up the wedding hall. That's an achievement you know! From blank canvas, we transformed the hall into what my cousin had in mind. The end result was an on time really gorgeous wedding :)

Honestly I felt I was really lazy this year. We had a cold winter. Even it started getting really cold in Autumn. So I pretty much hibernated from Apr - beginnging of Nov :/ and that's how I managed to watch all those dramas XD Hope I won't hibernate that long in 2019!

Work.... a lot of drama in terms of the work itself, and in relationship department. It ended up in eruption just 2 weeks ago. I'm still a bit down if I remember it. Hopefully there's a way out for me next year. Someone please save me... I'm too scared to leave eventhough I know I should leave. So please save meeeeeeeee

I did help someone for a weekend for his website. So I kinda had a feel of freelancing. Man it was hardwork. I don't think I wanna go down that path. I like my weekend reserved for refreshing!!! A local bus driver mentioned that he wanted to have a website and may ask my help for it one day. Oh man, I was SO SCARED of bumping into him! I even went as far as to go earlier to gym, and walked home to avoid his bus! Unfortunately, all those exercises didn't do much help to my figure >>>>___<<<< My weight stays the sameeeeeee TT_______TT

This year I'm more lenient towards myself in terms of money and things I want to do. Some people I know, either personally or through someone else, were affected with cancer this year. They were all young, probably only few years older than me. It kinda shocked me that it can happen to anyone anytime. Therefore, don't always think about the future, of course future needs to be prepared, but don't always think about the future and not enjoying your present. We all hope there's a future for us, but at least if there isn't, you won't regret it at the end of your life...

Not much craft, not much language learning. As I said, the cold winter made me snuggle in bed for months, so forget about getting my fingers to do craft :P I did start listening to Audio books for language learning, and they actually work. It gets your brain to actively work even when you're walking on the street. I'll continue doing it.

I had the opportunity to experience the power of teenagers in social media. My 13 years old cousin, actually managed to make me one of the winners of photo competition by getting her friends to vote for me!!!! It's pretty astonishing how easy it it to get her friends to vote for me, someone who they don't know, for a photo that's just okay, to end up being in top 3! I'm still dumbfounded until now. But thanks my dearest cousin *muachhhh*

I met my cousin and his wife who I haven't seen since 10 years ago in Melbourne. It was not planned. We just happened to be in Melbourne at the same time and I checked in on Facebook. He saw it and arranged to meet up. We ended up meeting for breakfast and dinner and now talk to each other sometimes on whatsapp. What a great coincidence :) For that, I truly grateful...

And last memorable thing this year was the game I am recently hooked on, Royal Chaos. What started from just curiosity, ended up giving me headache and joy and refreshment when I need some distraction from real life. I've got into a great community that's fun and supportive. Most of them are youngsters though, that sometimes make me feel old. But they are all very nice people and we can just talk about random stuffs or bitch about our common enemy XD I remember there's this list about what people should do to enjoy their life, it's to spend time with the elderly and kids. But I think spending time with people a generation younger than you is great too. It makes you see life in lighter way and not to take things seriously ALL the time. But man, I also didn't think that game can have so much dramas and politics too!!!! Sometimes I'm wide awake at 1 in the morning because of the drama or fights we have with the other party -_- But I won't wish to not get involved in this game in the first place.

So that's it for 2018 reflection. I need to prep the dish for tonight's dinner!!!

Bring on 2019 and please be kind but exciting and memorable and HAPPY!!!!!

Happy New Year 2019 guys!!!!!!! *hug hug kiss kiss*

Pre-Christmas Drama

So, Christmas is in 2 days time. But this year's Christmas is filled with drama in the week leading to it. Let me tell you what happened this week.

Last Monday, Strawberry Cheesecake resigned. We, the girls, were so worried for her. As my readers would have known, my boss who shall not be named, has never ever ever ever ever handled resignation well. But surprisingly, he actually handled her resignation so well and even very supportive! The girls who saw her entering his office was confused as 1. the meeting didn't take long. And 2, where's the yelling???

Even Strawberry Cheesecake herself was confused. She said she couldn't remember much of the meeting as she was thinking "why he's not angry? Why he's taking it so well???" during the talk.

So it was good for her, and we're so happy for her.

Mon arvo, Prick came and talked to Creamer and Lao-er. Straight after, he dashed out angrily and went home. Creamer then asked me about the status of a task, to which I replied, I was working on it. He then said "It's due today". As typical of prick, always comes the minute it's due and angry coz its not done. Anyway we tried to do it, but it was too complex to finish in 1 hour so we left it.

Tue morning, just when we finished the stage 1 of yesterday's task, Taizi Fei came and told us that a bunch of emails to the new audience were sent out that morning. Shit. Creamer and I looked at each other and wondered how it could have happened. We went live with something yesterday yes, but we've gone Live 2 weeks ago with the same thing and all was fine.

The problem was, the client specifically requested NOT to send those emails to this new audience. We can't send ANY emails to them as we haven't officially launched it to them.

I straight away checked the code that sent out those emails, and I found that the code was correct. However, the placement of those codes was WRONG! Those emails should not be sent at that point in time!! I showed it to my Creamer, his face turned grave and said "This is bad, Purple Lady..." I said, "I know, but at least we now know how it happened". What I didn't know was, that it was going to be THIS bad.

You know who was extremely upset when he heard it. He was blaming everyone on how could the wrong code could go into the Live site. The person who coded it was Barbie's boyfriend. Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but he quitted some time ago. I can't believe how lucky he is.

However, the people who could have gone live with it were me, Water Tap and Creamer. But honestly, and this was confirmed by the 2 of them too, no matter whoever goes live with it, he/she won't notice this issue. As we only code review the changes, not the original code.

Creamer had to run around explaining to the one who shall not be named, and Lao-er. And who knows if superexcited actually got what the problem was. After all he's not an IT guy. Just an old man who thinks he's very knowledgeable. *sigh...

Anyway you know who was very angry. And he wanted to have a meeting with the whole IT department re this issue. The meeting didn't happen on Wed, not Thu either. Honestly, me and Little Missy were feeling safe when it didn't happen on Thu. But who knows Fri just b4 lunch, we were all called for a meeting *sigh

It turned out better than I thought. Superexcited seemed to listen to our issues and suggestions. Yes he still ranted about the incident. But it was way better than me and Little Missy expected. So we thought all is fine.

However that night, Creamer said to me, "I know you like to talk to everyone. And I know you can't keep a secret(WTH????). But you have to keep this one. You cant tell anyone" I said, "O.. Kay..? ". He then said, "I've just resigned". First thing I said was, "No... "

He then said that he's been thinking about it for a while. And he's been trying to talk to Lao-er for a month, but Lao-er was so busy and couldn't talk with him. He said this week's issue wasn't the only reason, but it was the deciding factor. He said he's doing 5 ppl's work and felt not appreciated. Everytime someone's PC breaks, he's called. When someone only has 1 monitor, he's to blamed. When Crown Prince's personal laptop breaks, 5 times, who did they call? Him! He's a manager, but doing web developing and IT support as well.

He said he's so fed up with everything. He said, during today's meeting, this was what annoyed him the most.
Super excited: "New guy, do you know why we're here? Do you know the problem? "
New guy: *turned to Creamer*
Superexcited: "don't look at Creamer. He doesn't know the answer. Look at Water Tap, he might know the answer. Look at Little Missy, he might know the answer".

He's had enough. He doesn't think superexcited understands what the issue was. How it could happen to anyone who went live with it. How there is no bug free software. He just doesn't understand.

He said sorry to me, for leaving me behind with the websites that are still not 100% done. And he's sorry for all the time he dumped stuffs to me without properly explaining. He said he wanted to explain, but he didn't have the time. And he knew I would figure it out in the end. He also regretted, not supporting Water Tap's idea that much before.

If it wasn't because of the one who shall not be named, he'd have stayed on.

I don't know how many times I've heard that now. So many good employees have said that when they left. The best people we've ever had.

I think about things a lot. I was down a whole day yesterday thinking about this. There's nothing I can do, but I just can't help thinking.

I hope I can still have peace this Christmas.

Random Blabbering of the Day

Nowadays people are so into their mobile phones and don't care about other people and courtesy anymore. I think I liked it better when apple was only a fruit.

I got off a bus just then. I got off from the front of the bus, and tried to walk to the station. Because it was at the front, there were people queueing to get on the bus. However, they were standing next to the side divider of the bus stop, so there's really only enough space for 1 person to walk.

Then, right at the side of that divider, there was this one guy standing not really in line with the other people. So he was taking half of the space of us who got off the bus. He was (of course) looking at his mobile phone with no care in the world that he was taking the space for the people getting off. Us, me included, had our bags bumped to him as we walked past him. He, didn't budge at all. I actually bumped my bag to him purposely. Hopefully I hit him.

This morning we had a high school student doing 1 week work experience in our office. He's probably in year 10, very young. Poker Face took the boy to our IT area and introduced me and Creamer to him.

Little Missy and Drug were away sick this morming, and Water Tap working hours is later than us. Poker Face said, "Where are the others? They are all having a sleep in today I guess".

He said it lightly, making it like a joke. Then Creamer said, "Drug is sick today. Little Missy is having his surgery right now. And Water Tap comes in at 10 as usual. "

Seriously, what was he trying to say??? Both of them were legitimately having medical reason. And Little Missy was having surgery! SO inappropriate!!

Dunno if he saw it, but my look and Creamer's look clearly showed that we weren't happy about it.

Then later on, Poker Face was trying to make a joke with the boy. I guess maybe because the boy was looking awkward. Well what can you expect? He's young and in unfamiliar place. Anyway, this was what happened.

Poker Face: I heard from your dad that you're some kind of computer whiz. He said you might be able to help in the IT dept. So what languages are you familiar with?

The boy: English.

Poker Face: ...

Me: *trying to hold my giggles 😂

Melbourne Cup 2018

Nah, I didn't win anything :( but it was still a nice celebration. The bosses arrange for fruit and cheese platter for us and the cheese was so good! The blue cheese was strong too xD

Just want to record these funny conversations I had yesterday :)


*just before I left from work
Me: Creamer, are you going training?
Creamer: no, why?
Me: Should I go to gym or not?
Water Tap: You had cheese today.
Me: -___-

*on the way home to station with the girls
Me: ugh we didn't win anything
Colleague 1: My horse was the last!!
Me: My horse DIED!!!
Colleague 2: *couldn't stop laughing*

What an Unlucky Day

Let me tell you how unlucky I was last Saturday 😑

It started in the morning when we were at the airport, sending my parents off. We had Subway foe breakfast. The girl who served me heard my order incorrectly. I ordered ham, egg and cheese sub, but when she was about to put my sub into the toaster, I noticed that she didn't put egg on it. So I asked, "And the egg?". She then asked, "so you want to add an egg?". I said yes and she put it in the toaster and the rest went fine.

However, when paying, the total came up to $9.95. I was confused, coz I thought my sub cost $5.50ish. I did order a cookie, but it should come up to $7-8. I still paid.

But the more I thought about it, I felt even more off. So I came back and looked at the menu. The price was $5.85! The annoying bit was, the menu was on TV screen that kept rotating, so I had to wait for a while for it to change and couldn't point it to the girl before. Same thing when I went back to the girl and asked, we had to wait for a while for it to come up.

Then the girl said, it's because I ordered Ham and cheese sub with extra egg. I was like huh? @_@ ham and cheese with extra egg, is different to ham, cheese and egg sub? She called another girl out and she said it's because I didn't say "breakfast". WTF, I ordered an 8:30 in the morning. Your brain should have clicked by itself.

The other girl then asked, what exactly that I said. I said, "ham, egg and cheese". The original girl then said, "Oh sorry. I thought it was ham and cheese".

By this point, the other girl was already looking annoyed. She then said, "Breakfast only allows 4 salad. You had full salad." I was so angry. How would I know?? And I had 5 salad! So I said to her, "I had only 5 salad, so $2 for 1 extra salad?? ". Seriously I can buy a bag of spinach or a kilo of onions with $2!

She then said, "It should be veggie delete with extra ham and cheese". I said, "Ok". Then she asked, "Did you pay with card?". I said yes. She looked even more pissed.

Then, guess what she did? She slapped $2.85 on top of my receipt on the counter, turned around and went inside without saying a word. The original girl went along with her. Without a word. Not a single sorry for the inconvenience. How rude.

I froze there for a moment due to the shock of that treatment. I've never had anything that rude in Australia ever. Even when customer service in Australia is just so so. Then I took my stuffs and started to leave. But I was still so annoyed, so I turned around still in anger, looking to that direction.

There was another male staff serving a customer. Not sure if he saw the whole drama, but he noticed I was looking angry. So he asked if there was anything wrong. I asked if he was the manager. He said, no.. Not really. So I said, don't worry then if you're not the manager. He asked, "Are you sure?". I said, "Yeah, don't worry".

The other girl was coming out from the back and I so didn't want to see her face again, so I left.

Really, I was SO angry to the point I had the urge to throw my sub at them!

Arggghhhhhhh 😤😤😤😤

OK, moving on.

After my parents got in, we went to the toilet and I banged my hand on the toilet paper dispenser, hurting my finger a bit.

After that, we went to take a bus. We already saw that bus stopping in front of us on the way to the bus stop. But it wasn't the designated bus stop, so we continued to the bus stop. Then we saw people running to that bus. Turned out that it WAS the bus!! Dammmmnnn, we then ran back to catch it. So apparently the driver hadn't driven this route for a while, and last time he did, the bus stop was there. He didn't know it had been moved across 😩

OK, so we made it to the bus. I took a seat and OMG... The guy sitting behind me stank!!! 😵😵 can this day go any worse 😑
Luckily our stop wasn't far. We survived by using hand cream.

When I was getting off the bus, guess what? I was stuck between the glass and a guy with a huge backpack!!! The guy was standing in the middle of the door, I was behind him, and there was another passenger getting off in front of him. So, he stepped back to let that passenger off not knowing that his backpack was squeezing me behind him!!

My god.. At this point, I knew it was my unlucky day.

Then we went to the mall to shop before movies. I checked out some leggings in Big W, tried them on and when paying, I just realised that the price was $30, not $12 😕 I went back and check, and turned out that the price was right. It was just because I started browsing at $12 rack and made my way from there, I just assumed that I was still at the same rack. I was already at the register man...

We then went to cotton on. I saw some sunglasses with a sign on top saying 5 for $10. So I thought hmm that's good. So I picked 2, and got some bath bombs too. They were all in the same rack. Got to the register, and the girl said, only the bath bombs are 5 for $10. I said "oh? I thought the sign was for everything on that rack". She said, "The sign says Fizzies 5 for $10". Damn.

Twice in a day. Hm.

Lunch wasn't nice too.

Then we went to buy our movie tickets. The lady serving was an older woman, so she was a bit flustered. She asked which movie and for what session. We said Small Foot, 4:15. She pressed some buttons and asked what time again. We wanted to use 2 prepaid vouchers and 1 ticket using my points. But she said we didn't have enough points. Strange, because when we bought our first movie tickets, the girl said I had 1 free movie to redeem. We weren't fussed at we could the points next time, so we paid. Oh, she asked what time again.

Got our ticket and we left. I checked them and the freaking tickets were for 2PM!!!!! 😑 long story short, we told the lady, but she was in the middle of serving coffee for a customer so we had to wait for a while. She knew she stuffed up and wasn't angry or anything. Just even more flustered. Then finally she exchanged our tickets, but still asking "What time?". My sister was already sick of saying 4:15 so many times. In my life, I've never said 4:15 so many times within 15 minutes.

We still had time before the movie. So I looked for a news agency to buy a lottery ticket. Hopefully after so much bad luck, my luck has finally turned.