Friday, February 11, 2011

Mama Florist

Rest the JO aside, this year I have my own initiative. First, I wanna setup the business to keep my mom busy. She is a housewife, taken care of her children and many have left her wings except one still required her to take care of. But other than her usual profession, she is expert in turning the house, or any other place from ordinary to something extraordinary, by using her skill that she gained since her 20s - gardening.

She begins gardening her lawn, and then slowly to the house, and to other houses. Mainly she will use artificial flower, with some accessories to decorate the art piece that suites the desire spot. So far, all the comment we received is very positive, this in return gained her more confidence in exploring this area. My sis even sent her to flower arrangement class and she seems to learn better than expected.

Now, since she is too free, I guess it is time to set up this part time work to divert her focus. I hope she will like it, and of course, bring more fortune to herself so she can help out some of my burden.. muahahahaa.. what a bad son i am..

2011 JO?

Tomorrow (or today?) is the dateline for submitting our JO (shortform for Job Objectives). We have this round at every beginning of the year, where each employee is asked to fill in (or blow?) the task they would like to do, and set the target they would like to hit. This JO will then be used as the objective for a year to measure the performance of the employee and hence the bonus will be allocate according to the post review rating. This is kinda important part for each white collar as it basically determine the income and image of oneself, and therefore it is superb essential to discuss each items with the line manager before it is agreed and entered to the system.

Last year, my manager copied my JO from the previous year. Mainly due to his inability of understand my scope of work, and also negligence of my existence in his team (or even treated me as his staff). This year, I guess the situation is worsen because he didnt even care to reply my emails despite my follow up to complete this action. I guess, this year is the time for me to move on, or otherwise it will definitely a shitty year ahead!

Personal Injury

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Usually we do take extra careful during this period but many of us neglected the importance of the post event, or not even asking ourself "WHAT IF IT REALLY HAPPENS??". Well worry no more, with Austin Personal Injury Lawyer, in any instance regardless if you are injure by any of the accidents, these professionals will vigorously fight for your full recovery. So, have you react?

Bai Tin Gong

It's nin chor 8 today. According to Chinese tradition, especially for the Hokkiens today is the day where they will pray for the skylord (bai tin gong). Usually the ceremony is greater than nin 30 nite (the new year eve) because some says tin gong is greater than chor 1.

This round I am having my first chor 8 at my new home - Kepong. In fact I only get to learn bai tin gong at kinda late age, which is still less than 15 years and all this while I spent it at the old place. Over there people do pray, burn, and play firework but perhaps the area is too distant, I cant feel the tremor-like situation but not now. My ceiling is trembling, each shot feels like a nuclear bomb that tries to tear the sky off. Not to mention the light effect and never ending floating 孔明灯. The night feels more festive than light..

Somehow, I like this very much.. So through this opportunity, I would like to wish everyone, and ofcourse myself a very happy, fortunate, wealthy, healthy, satisfactory bunny year~

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Congratulations WL

It's 6.19 in the morning. Usually I am dead like a corpse in the bed now where alarm, rooster, sunshine, school buses or basically nothing in the world could wake me up.

Somehow, I woke up since 4.30am, with just 4 hours slept from 12.30 last night. I tried to go back to my dreamland but it was unsuccessful. I dont know the reason why but this is not the first time. Usually when this happened is because of something mental happened to me. This round, I think it was because of the wedding ceremony for one of my best friends during college. He is marrying to another college mate of mine, for their relationship that lasts nearly 10 years and finally blooming.

Although we seldom keep contact, and we met tiny few times a year, but each time we met we have laughters and unfinished topics. I think that's why I am invited to be his grooms mate, or what we call as heng dai. The best is, I didnt take leave for today, as i forgot this important date. Thus I am expected to be back to office after the ceremony, which I believe i can only make it with a bottle of red bull..

Replenish

Today marks the 6th day of Chinese New Year for 2011. Many chinese have returned from the long holiday and it was said that it is an auspicious day to start work. For me, I dont have the luxury to delay a day and I started work since yesterday.

To me, CNY is a festive, or rather an excuse for chinese like us to spend money. The amount we spent is unimaginably high as our traditions tend to tell us that we shall keep the money all year long and suppose to spend it all once a year. And i think that's why CNY is 15 days long, lest that we cannot finish our money.

But for people like me, I dont have the additional money that lasts for 15 days, hence I begin work as soon as possible. But even if I have, I will rather spend the money to buy gold coins, at least it gives me return that can fund my trip to japan this July...