22 March 2007
It has dawned on me that I seem to have slipped into some kind of a work vacuum. Every day consists of schlepping to work, dealing with stupid people in high quantities and then schlepping home again. This week, particularly exacerbated by my spectacularly dull and ineffectual temp who has some kind of verbal diarrhoea. She spends the day giving me a blow by blow account of everything she does while she's doing it - only stopping to ask me inane and annoying questions like 'Is the Park Hyatt Saigon in London?' or blathering on about the weather, her journey to work, her inability to find a fulltime job, blah, blah, blah...
This all has the effect of making me unable to do or think about anything else due to complete mental fatigue. I must forcibly quell the urge to just eat and fall into bed when I get home and actually go to the gym a bit more frequently or write my blog. Still managing to squeeze in a couple of gym sessions and several Chinese lessons so all is not lost quite yet.
This all has the effect of making me unable to do or think about anything else due to complete mental fatigue. I must forcibly quell the urge to just eat and fall into bed when I get home and actually go to the gym a bit more frequently or write my blog. Still managing to squeeze in a couple of gym sessions and several Chinese lessons so all is not lost quite yet.
18 March 2007
Watched the first 18 episodes of Heroes on the computer last weekend. It was great! I ,so, want to be in an American Sci-fi cult TV series. Now the show is on hiatus till April 23rd, there is nought to do but play Sudoku online and go back to listening to 5 Chinesepod lessons a day.
I wish I could bend the space-time continuum. Although a hero shouldn't use their superpowers for their own benefit, I'd be able to give my boss a few hours more in the day to fit in some work which doesn't involve meeting with people. Then, maybe I'd sneak forward to April 23rd and watch more episodes of Heroes as my reward.
Saw a great film on DVD yesterday - Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles. Finally purchased a copy with English subtitles. It was all funny and sad at once.
A new 'fusion' Malaysian restaurant has opened in town called Suka. Why must they mess around with Malaysian food, when the kind that comes from the street is perfect as it is. I mean, Malaysian food is already a fusion of several cultures, so why fuse it with anything else? They have oyster omelette with caviar and ikan bakar with sambal foie gras, which no doubt will make both dishes hideously expensive and I suspect is a waste of perfectly good foie gras.
I wish I could bend the space-time continuum. Although a hero shouldn't use their superpowers for their own benefit, I'd be able to give my boss a few hours more in the day to fit in some work which doesn't involve meeting with people. Then, maybe I'd sneak forward to April 23rd and watch more episodes of Heroes as my reward.
Saw a great film on DVD yesterday - Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles. Finally purchased a copy with English subtitles. It was all funny and sad at once.
A new 'fusion' Malaysian restaurant has opened in town called Suka. Why must they mess around with Malaysian food, when the kind that comes from the street is perfect as it is. I mean, Malaysian food is already a fusion of several cultures, so why fuse it with anything else? They have oyster omelette with caviar and ikan bakar with sambal foie gras, which no doubt will make both dishes hideously expensive and I suspect is a waste of perfectly good foie gras.
3 March 2007
The refurbishment at work gets underway on Monday. Hurrah! I will be in building contractor hell for the next 12 weeks. The guy who is changing the emergency switches came in yesterday to get his quotation signed off. In the meantime, he said there was some problem with some of the emergency lighting coming off the electrical circuit from the basement kitchen and did I think they needed to switch the ring to which it was connected or should the guys who were doing the electrical testing. I said, I don't know, go and ask our project manager. He said, 'Can I just have a look at the area again to make sure'. So, I took him down and then he proceeded to try and explain the whole thing to me again. I said, 'Don't ask me. Go and ask our project manager. I don't know'. He said, 'Yes, well, it's obvious isn't it. That you don't know.' I restrained myself from punching him. A lot of vicious and uncharitable thoughts were going through my mind at that point, but far too many to list here.
We had KFC for dinner last night. It's just beyond me why they don't do mash at KFC here. So, I bought lots of chicken, some coleslaw, a bucketload of gravy and two corn cobettes and came home and made mash. Mmmmm! Now, that's a good old plate of finger lickin' Southern Fried poor white trash food.
We have a fantastic new 32 inch flat screen telly of the Sony Bravia variety. It's a thing of beauty. We come home and sit open mouthed at the pretty clear picture. We also have an extra seventy-something channels as it has an inbuilt Freeview tuner thing. There's still nothing to watch on telly though. It does mean I can watch University Challenge and the Antiques Roadshow a lot more, which is no bad thing.
My TV viewing of choice at the moment is Never Mind The Buzzcocks which has been lifted to the level of must-see cult watching due to the introduction of Simon Amstell as host. What a revelation! Although, should I ever become any kind of a celebrity in future, I'd definitely avoid being interviewed by him.
We had KFC for dinner last night. It's just beyond me why they don't do mash at KFC here. So, I bought lots of chicken, some coleslaw, a bucketload of gravy and two corn cobettes and came home and made mash. Mmmmm! Now, that's a good old plate of finger lickin' Southern Fried poor white trash food.
We have a fantastic new 32 inch flat screen telly of the Sony Bravia variety. It's a thing of beauty. We come home and sit open mouthed at the pretty clear picture. We also have an extra seventy-something channels as it has an inbuilt Freeview tuner thing. There's still nothing to watch on telly though. It does mean I can watch University Challenge and the Antiques Roadshow a lot more, which is no bad thing.
My TV viewing of choice at the moment is Never Mind The Buzzcocks which has been lifted to the level of must-see cult watching due to the introduction of Simon Amstell as host. What a revelation! Although, should I ever become any kind of a celebrity in future, I'd definitely avoid being interviewed by him.
