Equation

[Morning X (Singapore + (7 Days a week – (Saturday+ Sunday))) + Rainy] ^{all Expressway} = Terrible Traffic condition

Terrible Traffic Condition + (Red + Kia Rio +manual 1.5L + 15 inch steel rims) = Bloody frustrated driver

Bloody frustrated driver = ME

insomnia

I know, you may laugh at me when you see the timing for insomnia. Wasn't still damn bloody early? Please bear in mind, I am leading a healthy life style ( like real) so must sleep early.

00.00 - sitting on my bed. MSN online - Check who is online, quite a number of contacts but hardly get find a common to start conversation, well minimize MSN, continue internet surfing. Click on firefox shortcut, new brower pop up, type one of the local famous URL... loading... well, someone is scolding someone again. Um.. what a joke.

00.20 - Thinking, when was the last time i update our blog? Anyway, this could be the best time to blog, Kill two birds by one stone - Keep my blog updated + kill time.

00.28 - Again, thinking. Thinking of doing something 'boh liao' (meaningless). What about a summary about myself from 1979 till 2008? This could be a good idea! but, it take too much time and long recalling process. The bio-HDD may not work well at this moment. Maybe some other time.

... Continue surfing net, to be exact - facebook-ing...

00.56 - Played MindJolt game - DESKTOP DEFENSE TOWER from facebook, fun! Out of sudden... Network disconnected. What else can i do other than wait?

01.00 - reconnected to network, 'Signal strength: No Signal'. Who care, it still connect to internet anyway.

01.01 - Network disconnected again...

01.02 - it back, and i continue my game

01.32 - ok.. bye by...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The space

End year mood swing seems to be a cyclic thing to me. I seriously in doubt in this cyclic thingy not only happen to ladies.I remember the last mood swing was about same period of time year 2006. Here it comes again.

So what do i swing about this round?

It is about the space issue. I purposely put it in a confusing manner as the party I will mention in this entry may read my blog occasionally.

1. I totally understand me and my partner has intruded your living. Well, this is definitely not our intention from the beginning. We simply need a space desperately. Frankly, my partner and I are not getting the space for free. Maybe it is just too little as compare with your earnings.

2. My partner and I know you may have gone through some unfortunate incident recently. Well, we 100% understand your feeling we had gone through the stage much earlier than you. Come on! You are still the lucky on as compare to the others, it is unnecessary to behave like a lead in tragedy story.

3.As i mentioned in pt 1, we do not owe you anything. But, you always show the the 'you owe me face' to us, especially to my partner. Frankly, we do not know what had we done wrong or you just do not want us to share your space anymore (maybe you don't even want to at the beginning) Well, you may talk to me directly. Please, please, please, playing tricks is the last thing you should do to us.

No matter how many times i vent my grievances, my partner and I are still in an unfavorable position. After all, you are the still owner of your space. We are nobody but intruder.

It is time for you to fully in-charge of your space.

I would like to clarify this entry does not mean to criticize or vent my anger against you, you and you. If you still suspiciously think you are the person i mentioned in my entry, then you are the one!!!

gnirutcafunaM rotcudnocimeS deretrahC

It is 0221hrs when i entering this entry...

Yv just got back 5 minutes before this. I am damn bloody annoy, thanks to her boss. The most idiotic boss i even seen so far in my working adult life...

To the top management of CSML,

I am very thankful to you for giving my wife an golden opportunity to serve one of the most competitive working environmental in Singapore. I always believe CSML has lots of dedicated managers/ head of department who able to lead the company towards its vision. Therefore, I am glad with her new role in CSML.

However, things do not go the direction as I thought. The junior management in CSML ... sucks! The lousy Finance Manager always makes bad decisions and causes whole team suffer. I seriously has no idea how could the manager change the person-in-charge in less than 24 hours from the submission date and expect the person to accomplish the task within 20 hours or maybe less? The person suppose to to the work --> Shake leg!

Anyway, we can't blame the manager for making bad decision as those decision is made purely based on words-of-mouth (WOM), she just listen whatever people said without thinking ma. We should blame the person who convey the sabotage message.

If possible, i suggest CSML's top management send these WOM people for "Speaking the Truth Course" to ensure she is conveying the truth each time they speak. Seal their mouth if they talk nonsenses again!

There shall no action to be taken to the Finance Manager as managers are always right. But, i would prefer if top management could chop-off her ears. This is to prevent her to 'hear' too much and 100% assure she could make decision base on observation in the future.

Lastly, I sincerely hope the top management could look into the competency of your current junior management staffs. It is really pathetic to have such managers in the organization.

Regards,

Max Ee

What to do? Life still goes on... Yv still have to report to work by 8am later!

To Starhub Customer Service Manager

This is an incident which really annoy and make me frustrated. I really hope I could get some positive responses for whoever and the best from the relevant organization.

Dear Customer Service Manager,

Personally, I have been a loyal customer with Starhub since the 1st day Starhub was established. Even, the company which i am serving now has chosen Starhub as their mobile service provider. All these time, we believe Starhub able to provide the superb mobile service quality as well as the best customer service. But, the incident that happened in Aug 2007 totally changed my perception toward Starhub's customer service quality.

I upgraded my mobile phone in Aug 2007. The phone was delivered to my office while i was away and the payment was made by my colleague's personal credit card. I discovered I was overcharged for the mobile phone.

Without further delay, I quickly feedback to the customer service officer who assist me throughout the entire process. She requested for the credit card number and etc relevant information and proposed to refund the overcharged amount to the credit card.

The proposal was discarded; nobody from Starhub keep me update on this matter; I have written several emails to the customer service, 'it takes times/ longer period to get your refund' was the reply i received. Finally, i received a copy of credit note for the refund after 2 months.

The matter does not end yet. The payment was made by personal credit card (Not by compnay) but the credit noted was issued to company. How could I transfer the credit note to my personal use? I find the arrangement is really unreasonable:

1. The refund should address to the person who made the payment, not company. Moreover, all necessary information provided for the process.
2. A customer service officer should always shows his/her professionalism and responsibility as a customer service. In this case, she did not.
3. What takes it so long ( two months) to get thing done? Yet, the problem does not solve after such long time.

Dear Starhub's Customer service manager, if you are reading this entry, i sincerely hope you could aid me in the matter. I really want this matter to be solved quickly.

Regards,

Max Ee

Bonus - Part 2

I renamed the previous post 'Bonus' to 'Bonus -Part 1' for continuitity purpose...

Due to the company not so satisfactory performance, everybody including myself though our bonus for this year will go down to drain… But thing turned out to be better. I will get my bonus, a reward for my hardship contributed to the company in year 2006. Glad.

Now, the next thing problem is – What should I do with the bonus? There are many options:

1. Invest in unit trust. Generate more money. ( the amount become lesser is market down la)
2. Save it in bank. Log in the internet banking, see the figure and make myself happy as and when I like.
3. Buy something for Yvonne and myself. What about this http://www.tissot.ch/?mod_collection/colid_0002/famid_0034/subid_0071/refid_T17_1_586_52/action_select

After all, I still do not decide what to do with the money.

Any suggestion from anyone? Your suggestion will definitely be taken into my consideration.

Cheers

Bonus - Part 1 ( renamed)

As part of Singapore working force, what do you expect at the end of the every year?

I believe non other than:
1. Pay adjustment, a more direct way --> Pay increment. The more the merrier, isn't it?
2. The 13th month pay --> Somebody from the cyber did a calculation and conclusion the 13th month is what we deserve but not a reward! But, some poor guys still do not get what they deserve
3. Promotion --> You know, there are people out there like this... get promote, but pay remain. In short, under paid, over work. sad~
4. The BONUS! Yes! This is the real reward for the last year hard works, performance and contribution to the company. Some people get 1,3, 5, 6 months bonus, but some get fart...

The company I am serving has an unique policy. The only pay the BONUS on April. I was expecting some ( trust me, some is really some..) BONUS for myself this year, but till now there is no news or my BONUS at all. I think 冻过水 (Tong Guo Shui)...

My Seiko watches(One for me and one for Yvonne), my additional unit trust shares... 算吧啦(suen ba la)！

ME

handphone

OK, I am just being lazy today. In fact, I started to feel lazy since last Saturday. But, too bad, I still have to report to work, simply just to keep my mind working.

Now, Christmas season, most of my friends around me start to look for Christmas present for either themselves or their loves one. Now, let’s talk about myself, I have been using a Samsung X640C for the past one year nine months, time to upgrade, I though. Searching the 2 mobile service providers for some sort of promotion (anyway, they still make hell lots of money from the calls I make at the end of the day). Starhub, M1 clicking here and there… finally, I decided to get myself a Z400 as Christmas’ gift cum reward to myself for working hard for the past one to clear my debt cum replacement for my malfunction X640C cum… too many reasons. I received the phone today. Happy.

Beside Z400, I intend to upgrade Yv’s handphone as well. Replace her Nokia 7610 to a Samsung D900. Her handphone is same age as my X640C. The new handphone serves as a Christmas’ gift cum my appreciation to her for being such a supportive wife. I am glad to be chosen!

After checking with Starhub, I’ll need to top up a hundred dollar for early upgrade and they do not accept trade in as the mobile number I am using is under corporate account. Spoil my day!!! The alternative, I shall use my personal line for upgrade, if they still do not allow me to do so, I WILL TERMINATE THE LINE. I have been with Starhub since the 1st day they started as mobile service provider, but, I get nothing in return to be a ROYAL customer for the past 7 years (since my poly second year till date). I am SIANZ to be a royal customer with no returns.

Time to change…

Max's Watch

I bought my self a watch during national day. 25 hours watch (ok, the watch does not have 25hours, it just a brand of the watch). The watch is about SGD100++, a rewards to myself for trying so hard to feed UOB bank's worker for the past few years...

But, the watch spoilt after 3 months. Just 3 months, it already gives me problem. Well, after all, i am still a kind soul. I sent it for repair on 12 Nov 2006. The 25 hours' man told me he will call me when the repair is done.

um... now 29 Nov 2006, after 17 days, still no news at all. Okay, they are sooooo effective that require 17 days and even more to fix a faulty chronograph hand.

I solute to them.

Catatan 13 Oct 2006

We are leading a rountine life...

1. Wake up
2. Go to work
3. Go home
4. Sleep
5. Next day, go back to 1.

Life is a bit boring now... SPICE UP!

Do what huh

规划的生活。。。

1. 起床
2. 上班
3. 回家
4. 睡觉
5. 第二天, 重复1.

生活有一点无色了... 加点颜色吧!

Genting trip---No more

I though of making a short trip to Genting on Sunday. But, there were too many appointments... meeting a, b and c in the morning, then d, e, f in the afternoon.

I never though all these will be so tiring.

I missed the Genting trip. I miss the weather; I lost another opportunity for my Kia Rio to climb up the highland. I have been saying wanna make a trip to Genting with it since the first day i got my Kia Rio, but after almost one and a half year... I am still TALKING about it.

I will be to KLG later in the afternoon, then SG at night... Damn tired!!!

Business trip

Another business trip to BKK for next 2 days.

Wife will be all alone. *Sign*

But, no worry i will be back soon.

Stay cool~ my dearest wife.

Love you always...