On the mend
08/01/2004
Back at work
So after spending a good day at home resting yesterday I dragged my sorry ass back to the office today, only to give in to a few fits of really violent coughing. But I think those cough drops are working. So we’ll see how it goes.
Getting my memory back
Oh guess what, after like almost 4 months of waiting, Alan Photo finally gave me a memory stick replacement. I sent it in maybe end of September because the 128mb Lexar was giving me a data error. I brought it in for a replacement, but they ran out of 128mb Lexars. They said I’d have to wait maybe 2-4 weeks for new stock to come in. Well, it took 4 months. I got a Hagiwara in replacement instead. Since KF was going to Sim Lim with the office folks, I got him to check up on it for me, and he brought me the replacement instead. Talk about efficiency. Check it out.
Hagiwara 128Mb Memory Stick – doesn’t have an access light
Fantastic. Now I can alternate between bringing my Sony and my Canon out.
Strawberrynet.com
Was looking around for an alternative facewash, since the Origins Checks and Balances is kinda pricey. And I found StrawberryNet instead.
It’s an online store, and they sell skincare and fragrances pretty cheap. Shipping is free, which is another plus. My stuff arrived within a week (and it was over the New Year holidays) so I’m pretty pleased.
The downside: they don’t carry very many brands that matter to me, and there is not a lot of product description. And the navigation can get quite funky.
When I get around to taking a pic of what I bought I’ll post a review.
Getting back into the swing of things
So, after weeks of dragging my feet around the office, I’m finally getting back into the swing of things and am making a real attempt to take my work seriously. Right.
Over lunch today, a visitor from the US office mentioned he’d been working at the company for 8 years and it was the longest he’d been in the same job. My boss said he has been at the company 6 years and it was also the longest he’d been in a job. I’ve been here 3 years and it’s also my longest stint in a job. The visitor then said, “It tells you something about the company.” I’m sure everyone at the table felt that things were changing, and it wasn’t so much what it said about the company now, but how those last 8 years have been. Ok, I won’t attempt to speak for the 2 living legends in the company, but maybe what’s driving me on is what I’ve been hanging on to, not what it’s like right now.
Or maybe a part of me really knows that for all the crap we take, it’s still lightyears from the sad real world outside, and I should be a little more grateful.
But for sure, in part all I want to do is outlast all those f**kwads from goggleland. >:)
