Me : Hey, is that HDD X on your desk or is it is it HDD Y? I need harddisk Y.
Coll. A : Uhhh.. HDD X I think.
Me : It can’t be X, cuz the one sitting on MY desk now is X.
Coll. A : Then it must be Y then.
Me : ….
Coll. A : THAT WAS A TRICK QUESTION! D:
Me : NO IT ISN’T! D:<

But we switched HDD anyway.

~*~*~*~ 5 minutes later *~*~*~*~

Me : HEY WTF THIS IS HDD Z!
Coll. A : Uhh.. then I guess it’s HDD Z then.
Me : If this harddisk here is not so important, I would had hurled it at you =.=
Coll. A : 8D

Damn you whiterabbit, I can’t stop reading Client From Hell now.

The best thing is that, I can feel the pain each and every entry there oozes out ”orz

Also, my personal experience of a Client from Hell. One among many. From the same person mostly ;__;

Client: You know what’s your problem? You don’t show much enthusiasm to learn new things. If it was me, take design for example; I may not know much about design now, but if I’m to attend classes starting today, I’m sure I’ll be better than you in 6 months time
Me: Why yes, I believe you can try…

In reply to my my answer in telling said person that it’s impossible for me to learn how to ‘master’ AutoCAD by calling long distance to the HQ in China, talk to the engineer there in Mandarin (which I am not all that good in) in two weeks time.

What happened right before lunchtime next to my workstation…

Colleague A : So what is this movie you’re copying from him?
Me : Let the Right One In :DDD
Colleague B : It’s good shit and she knows it.
Colleague A : So what is it about?
Colleague B : Vampires.
Colleague A : You mean like Twilight?
Me & Colleague B : IT’S NOTHING LIKE TWILIGHT!
Colleague B : *launches into a tirades of reason why he thinks Twilight sucks*
Me : *thinks Colleague B is my new fave. person of the day*

Colleague A : So… you two watched it and hated it?
Colleague B : Uhhh no?
Me : I read the book and thought it sucked. No puns intended.
Colleague A : Well as teen movies go, I thought it’s lame as intended, but I really can’t stand the hype that surrounds it though.
Me & Colleague B : *nods nods*
Colleague A : Yanno, like the hype with Lord of the Rings.

Me : OH FFF YOU DID /NOT/ JUST COMPARE THAT PIECE OF CRAP WITH LOTR!
Colleague A : D:
Colleague B : I kinda knew she’ll blow up ha ha.

So yeahh now they know I’m a LoTR geek who remembers the movies in details ”orz

- sleeping only to wake for breakfast; napping only to wake for lunch, and before you knew it – dinner was served

- obsessively playing Tokimemo GS2 for another ED because you can’t stand to hear Majima Tarou on the intro screen

- alternately, obsessively playing Final Fantasy IV which had been abandoned for goodness know how many months. Got out of the Underworld, only to fall right back in. GJ, Cecil, GJ ”orz

- being ambushed by my dogs unexpectedly. In my own room, in the living room and pretty much everywhere else in the house.

- learning how to play Poem for Everyone’s Soul / ???????? on the piano. Had not touched the piano for a good 9-10 years. My fingers are like bricks one moment and jelly the next ”orz

- making my Mum got addicted to playing Monopoly Deal XD

- learning how to solve the rubik’s cube. Finally.

- good :Dbbb

So this is the last week of the year 2009. Somehow, it feels kind of sad .. ???????????????how did the year 2009 went for everyone?

Ah well, I’m still an hour before the day is over and is now soooooo…. everyone had your ??/tang yuan?

Image shamelessly stolen from here

There’s this saying that everyone should at least eat one tang yuan/tong yuen per year as an indication that a year had passed and you’re older/wiser by a year. A story I heard since I was a kid, but never really paid all that much attention to mainly because I get stuck in University and work most of the time during these season since I got out of school and never really had much of a chance to celebrate it with the family.

Anyways, what kicked me out of my blogging funk is an adorable message from my GrandAunt. I texted her about 7p.m. earlier when I realised that today IS supposed to be a rather big celebratory day for the Chinese community ( though even though it’s called Winter Solstice, I’d NEVER experience winter in all my life. Woes ). In which I said :

“Happy Winter Solstice! I just realised I haven’t had any tong yuen for YEARS!”

… and she replied about a minute after my message went through ( I was really rather surprised that she can text this fast! I was the one who taught her how to text message, so I have a small bit of happy teacher’s pride there )

“So, I guess u r still 22 then!”

Awwww… my grandaunt says the most adorable thing (;A;)/ ( Also, note her usage of U R as short form! I AM IMPRESSED XDDDbbbb )