Brain dead and in need of sleep

Sigh. What a day. Wake up early for the Olympiakos Liverpool match, and had to go through 90 minutes of absolutely mind numbing football. And to add to that, we lost. What an absolutely sucky result. And to add to that, Machester United won! Six Two! And Rooney scored a hattrick on his DEBUT! Was REALLY not looking forward to going to work today.

Imagine this. I turn on my Yahoo Messenger in the office in Invisible mode (I put it to go automatically to invisi-mode for these sort of situations.. oh yeah, and also so to hide away from some people, but that slight problem has been solved with the new Yahoo's stealth settings and all). The moment Yahoo is up, i get probably a DOZEN offline messages from those human beings supporting that team from Manchester asking stuff like "Are you there?", or "Are you hiding there? Come out come out wherever you are?!!". What the...?!! After an hour or so, i decide to get online and all hell breaks lose. Sigh.

Oh yeah. And don't get me started on the SMSes that i've received today. Luckily my phone can store close to a hundred SMSes although i am pretty sure it was almost full today.

And you know what? I was working hard the whole day to finish my work early today so that I can go home and sleep, and wouldn't you know it, a whole load of work on my desk at precisely 530pm that needs to be sorted out by tomorrow morning. Thank god for a double shot cafe latte. Oh yes. And Charlize Theron as well. Oh well, back to work then son.

Listening to Joss Stone now, really good. Haven't heard her latest album though, but the Soul Sessions CD is perpetually sitting in my CD tray since god knows when already.

Everything But The Girl

Just absolutely bored currently and decided to play my good 'ol "Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded" CD. It's been ages since i listened to them. Sure brings back some good old memories. (Yeah yeah, i KNOW it's hasn't been THAT long :P)

Anyway, I was at my friendly neighbourhood CD store the other day and while I was minding my own business checking out the "Jazz" section of the place and along came across the "sales rep", noticing I the type of CDs i was browsing through, decided to shove a CD by Katie Melua into my face.

"Aaaa... Ini CD aaa.. manyak bagus ooo... kalau u suka it Norah Jones punya... ini you sure suka punya" (Translated into : This is a very good album. I am sure you would enjoy it if you like songs from the likes of Norah Jones)

With the CD right in front of me, and me thinking "Oh why not, I need to listen to something new, and she doesn't look too bad innit? "

Anyway, I guess the fella does know what he was talking about. After coming home and putting the CD into my laptop while I did my work, I found out that she does have a certain relaxing and soothing feeling to it, although some of her songs do have that borderline "elevator music" feel to it as well. It's somewhat like Norah Jones in a way that is "Light and Easy". Pretty OK i guess to listen to while not actually listening to it. Does that make any sense? Probably not. Ha ha



Photos courtesy of umc

I'm back!! And i have a new job!!

Hahey, havent updated this blog in ages. Just to update on what's been happening in the life of the braindead malaysian this past month or so.

First and foremost, I've finally quit my job. Although I was actually planning on taking a month or two off to just get myself some good 'ol R&R, but within a week or so of my resignation, i received a phone call from someone i was working with before, offering me a job. Considering it was a very tempting offer, i decided to take it, even with the requirement that I join them as soon as possible. SO, there went my one month vacation. Sheesh. I am such a workaholic. Good thing is, at my new place, i dont feel so stagnant anymore. I feel refreshed. I feel as though I am learning again. I get to move around a lot. I go and talk to people most of the time. RUn presentations. That means i dont have that much time to sit infront of my PC and surf the net and update my blog (yes... THAT'S my excuse.. HA HA), which is, in a way, good, since I do concentrate more on my work and feel so much more motivated nowadays. I guess this feeling must naturally come with change. Now, come to think of it, how come I didn't do this much earlier? Why did I subject myself to the excruciating feeling of being so demotivated and lifeless that I was just so not in the mood to work every day and just spent most of the day just surfing the net, and only reacting to what happens at work, instead of being more proactive. I guess its just the feeling of being in the comfort zone that was holding me back. The comfort of having a routine lifestyle (which wasn't really that healthy nor was it balanced) or just the feeling of "superiority" that I had at the job, where, being one of the more "senior" consultants, the sense of "power" that I had was just something that I probably felt difficult to let go. I know its crazy, but I guess thats what I thought. Oh well. Enough about that now. I have moved on to a very "young" company and I am the most junior person there is, which is an absolute change from what I am used to. I know that it's going to be difficult and challenging, but I am just happy that I feel like I look forward to going to work again, and that I am actually learning something totally new now, and also that I find that the hours of the day just flies by so quickly that by the time I get a chance to sit down and check my mail, its already 630pm and it's time to go home. That's also another advantage I see from my new job, which is the fact that I am very busy during the day, but at around 630-7pm, I can actually pack my bags and head for home. Much much better than the 8am to 11pm hours I was going through before this, because although I was working very long hours, if I were to compress the actual work that I used to do, I could probably get everything done within half a day, but the rest of the day was spent waiting for people to sort out their own shit first. At least now, for my time in the office, i spend most of it actually doing work, and I can go home early (ish) and wonder what to do for the rest of the night.