Spoon feeding

It's not going to happen so suck it up. If you've been with the project for more than a year you should know what data is required. And your job title says Test Lead? No wonder why this company is going down. Might have been too loud but was trying to contain my rage, no wonder why I appear to be unfriendly to some!

No I don't work here... Part 3

So today I got asked whether I am the electrics guy at Bunnings... seriously???

No I don't work here... Part 2

This time at Officeworks... Then I gave this Asian guy the dirty look.

Why would you do that?

What does it achieve? You can't flush it so it doesn't go anywhere, think of the person who will have to pick it up!

No I don't work here

Just because I have a building pass around my neck doesn't mean I work at JB Hi Fi or Rebel Sports.

I was asked once whether I was a manager at McDonald's checking out the staff at Waterloo station in London when I was in a suit looking around because I was waiting for someone. I was informed that the person was very pleased with the staff and they were very efficient. I told her I will pass on her remarks.

The shouting tram driver

This guy screams at other motorists who fail to stop when the tram is about to open the door or want to overtake just after the door closes. Pretty amusing but gets annoying after a while as a passenger. If I'm driving he'll probably scream at me because I would want to take off and overtake when the door closes. He was shouting "hang on, hang on, Oii!" to the car next to him with his PA system. I guess I can't complain since he waited for us when we ran for the tram this morning.

Uh oh

Sitting opposite cockroach man on the tram again!

Use your head

Working with someone who just wants to be told step by step even though the answer is right in front of them. Seriously, 2 tables with only 1 matching column, how do you think you can join them together?

Clean up after yourself please

New neighbors on our floor at work started a kitchen roster because they can't clean up after themselves. We have been on the same floor for close to a year now and never had any issue with the kitchen being dirty because when you finish eating, you wash your own stuff, which is a pretty normal thing to do. Well... apparently not!

Our team opted out of the roster but it didn't stop them from putting us in it. We chose to ignore because we told them we want no part of it and this week it was suppose to be our turn. On Monday when I got to the office a whole pile of plastic containers were dumped in the sink. Today we got an email from the roster task master telling us how dirty the kitchen is and how we should be cleaning it up. We politely reminded them that we are not part of the roster and we got an "oh I didn't know response".

You would think that is the end of it but no, our project manager received a complaint from the other team that we are not pulling our weight with keeping the kitchen clean. Seriously, if you finish eating, wash your fricken plates! Your mum or maid is not here to clean up after you!

Cockroach attack!

The guy sitting opposite me on the tram this morning had a cockroach crawling out of his bag. Caught it out of the corner of my eye. He then flicked it on the ground but it kept going back to him, must be his pet or something! Disgusting!

Am I now a Mac and not a PC?

So I bought a computer the other day and after putting together the components I had to install an operating system. The obvious choice was Windows 7 since we already own a copy of it and the installation went quite smoothly. I then started loading the usual utilities you need for everyday use and what annoyed me first was the number of updates you have to download after the initial installation. I was in the middle of downloading my digital copy of MS Office and while I was out of the room Windows decided that it needed to reboot and I had to start the download again.

The next challenge was to install new games NJLA bought which are in Chinese. By default Windows is able to display Chinese characters in file names and in text files. But when I opened an application in Chinese it displayed all the text in funny characters. After spending some quality time on the Internet I finally worked out how to run Chinese programs properly.

I'm now happily typing on my Mac Pro where things just works. Why can't things just work in Windows? Why does it have to be so hard?

Lazy or not?

Why do people wait 5 minutes for a tram then get off at the next stop to get to the train station? It's not raining either so why not just walk down the road?

Expensive

Needed a snack, can't believe I have to pay $3.95 for a sausage roll nowadays!

Blogger Gets New Look

Looks like Google is making everything look like Google+. It looks like it has even integrated it with Analytics, now you can get all kind of stats for your blog. Interestingly it looks like Google has been keeping tabs on your blog traffic from the start even though you may not have ready access to them (or at least I wasn't aware that you could gain access to it). I'll play with it some more when I have some spare time!

3 Days to go

Mr Wenger please buy someone! 8-2 is an absolute disgrace!

No movement

Still nothing from Mr Wenger. Now that he is banned from the touchline in the crucial UCL game at Udine I think the Gunners will struggle. It might be the wake up call they need though to realise they need to spend some money to get quality experienced players. I don't care how much quality you have brought into the team because as you said, they need time to shine, what you don't have now is time itself. The clock is ticking...

Tumblr

Since I created a page there I have random people liking my posts and following me, not sure if I like it.

Arsenal 2011/2012

Back in Australia means I don't have much opportunities to watch the football live due to the time difference but since yesterday's game was an early I was able to follow the commentaries at least on the internet. Given it was against Liverpool I thought we could at least get a draw but to my disappointment it was not to be. I guess we didn't have much of a chance in a week when we sold our best player, have 2 players suspended, and a whole lot of injuries, but on paper, the team didn't really look too bad.

In Szczesny we have finally got a decent keeper, TV5 is now back as our centre back, Nasri surprisingly was in the team, and RVP was playing up front. Sure, our bench was a bit light but people need to step up to the plate. Although I haven't seen the highlights yet despite the scoreline I don't think we actually played too bad. Unfortunately for Wenger though the fans don't want to see pretty football any more, we need to see results. With the money we received for Cesc we really should be out there buying someone with experience. The bench yesterday had 4 players 20 years or below and when you are struggling you really want your experience players to step up and help guide your youngsters through. Sadly for the Gunners, their experience players like Arshavin was no where to be seen. Following the game online I see 'Arshavin gave the ball away', then I refreshed and saw the same thing thinking hey it didn't refresh but no, he really did give the ball away again inside 5 minutes.

Since it is still the start of the season, I don't think we should panic yet. We do have a lot of good young players and Miyaichi could be the next Asian superstar if he is given the chance. We really need to beat Udinese though to get into the Champion's League otherwise I don't know what the fans will do, maybe another riot in North London is on the cards! Mr Wenger though, has 10 days to spend some money and I really think he should just break the bank and buy an established star. Perhaps he should looking into Wesley Sneijder, Inter probably needs the money, and he can probably have the same impact as Dennis Bergkamp did back in the days! Also getting a star name under the noses of Man Utd should make the fans out there happier.

Toilet Etiquette

If there are 3 urinals, why use the middle one? If all 3 are empty you have to use either the left or the right, never the middle! Selfish selfish people!

Chicken Rice Nazi

Officially known as Oriental Wok is a little Malaysian place in Melbourne CBD. I went there today for the first time in 3 years and I couldn't remember how much it was back then but it now costs $9.90 for what I now think as a rather ordinary dish because I've probably had better.

She was never known for her level of service. I went with some interstate colleagues once and they were after a receipt for expense claim and her response was too busy but reluctantly wrote one later on.

Today as I pulled out a $10 note and 90 cents in coins, I first gave her 90c and then the $10 expecting $1 back. She didn't say anything and dumped my 90c on the table and came back with 10c change.

True story.