Archive for October, 2008

Idiot of the day

From today I will be posting idiots that call up. Now remember, these people are not regular customers. These are employees at the company I work at (biggest networking company in the world…hint hint) and it amazes me that they are hired.

This one guy decided to email some personal documents to his email address. He doesn’t bother checking to see if they arrived or not and then DELETES the attachments off his computer. He has not done a backup or thought about putting it onto a removeable disk. I told him to check his Sent Box and he tells me that he was having Quota issues and DELETED the emails in his Sent Box.

EPIC FAIL

Feeling of Defeat

Deep inside I believe everybody is a bit bitter and hateful. I mean I’m sure we’ve all enjoyed the sight of another’s failure or misery. It doesn’t have to be something like “Let’s point and laugh at that guy who just lost a loved one”. It’s on a much lower scale.

I think being more programming oriented in my studies, I’ve taken greater pleasure in other people’s programming failures. Or perhaps, it’s just more elevated since programming is something that I feel I’m good at. Likewise, I feel like utter crap when I fail at a task that I feel I should excel in. (Please do not mention the Database Systems 2 Assignment). Was I born this way? Or perhaps I was raised this way? Was it the school I attended? Not to be blunt or racist…Australian Primary schools…stink. I wasn’t sure what to feel when I first attended school here, joy at the fact that I could pretty much do all the work in my head as compared to the other kids of Western Descent having to use rulers to add. Or did I feel a bit disappointed at the lack of work? Nevertheless, I had to make up for it at home.

But seriously, growing up, are we ever happy at someone else’s achievement? Perhaps with a friend, sure, we like to see them excel but if it was just somebody we knew, wouldn’t you prefer to be that person succeeding rather than having to look up to their glory?

Something else that I’m particularly bitter about is other people’s relationships. Yes I know, I’m a cruel cruel person. But. I would just like to say…don’t you guys ever get sick of those lovey dovey stories you read or hear or witness? Yes, being in love is tremendously great. You feel this warmness, having this protective cover around you knowing that nothing will ever penetrate it…is WONDERFUL. But…aren’t the stories, the books, the films, a bit too over the top? Let me get back to my point. You know that “perfect” couple? (I personally *KNOW* that many people feel that way about Diana and I. I won’t burst your bubble, we are perfect. I am so vain). But yes…the perfect couple. Is it just me or do other people feel this sense of relief when you find out that the perfect couple had their first “fight”. I guess it’s like kicking a cute dog…it’s wrong but it feels so satisfying. (Just for the record I do not condone dog kicking.)

Is this all I have to say for tonight? I seriously have to design a script to automatically post this blog onto my Windows Live Spaces account, manually doing is becoming such a pain.

Also for those people who actually managed to read this…please drop a comment. And to the people who actually manage to drop a comment…please put in a name or alias. Kthnx.

No Longer A Teen

My first day being a non-teen started off pretty badly. I woke up at 5:55am (on time) and made the 1 hour trek to my workplace and got there on time. I approached my desk and…no chair. Great. It’s going to be one of those days. I like my chair, it’s adjusted at the right weight at the right angle. Why do people keep on taking my goddamn chair and not return it?!

I wasn’t too phased about the chair, I just couldn’t bo bothered finding and stealing somebody else’s chair. I placed my bag on the table and place my hands on the keyboard ready to key in my password…except there was only one problem…no laptop. The first though that came to my mind was that somebody stole it. Coming to my senses I realised I left it at home. I was on a trip to Hunter Valley recently and brought my laptop along just in case, however, throughout the entire trip I didn’t even take the laptop out of the bag, I was relying on my iPhone for internet access.

Basically, I had the trek back home to pick up my laptop and then trek all the way back. I spent the first two hours of my morning on the train travelling.

Luckily, I had organised something with my girlfriend and family for the rest of the day. After work I went to Pancakes on the Rocks with my girlfriend (Except it was more like Pancakes on the Darling Harbour :P ). Had an extremely satisfying meal. We then went to Galaxy World and played a round of Daytona before heading to Greater Union to watch a movie. We bought tickets for Eagle Eye, but…it ended at 5:47pm and…she had to get to work by 5:30. We ended up leaving at 5 and I headed back for my family dinner.

Eating 4 hours after a fulfilling meal is definitely not good. I had Seafood Mariana Pasta and couldn’t even finish it, not because it was big or anything mainly because my stomache was still full from my previous meal. After getting home I proceeded to downloading Eagle Eye (although it was only a TS -_-) . I picked up my girlfriend at the station after she got back from work and we finished the movie together. It was a pretty decent movie, it was more “make belieavable” than “fake believable”. It more or less falls into the same old man creates AI, man gives AI certain rules to abide by, AI develops own perception, AI tries to dominate the world.

Now that’s fair enough, I love a good AI movie, but when you take a step back and think about it…

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER

  1. A computer that’s able to monitor EVERY cell phone, EVERY camera, EVERY network in the United States (afaik)
  2. Computer can communicate to people with a human female voice
  3. The computer is cooled by (only) two tanks of liquid hydrogen
  4. The “brain” of the computer seems to be this one eyed snake

At least it didn’t have much over-exaggerated jargon (thank god).

It is hard creating a “tech” movie, the Wachowski’s are probably the only ones who can do it well.

Well that’s more or less how my day went. I have this lovely FCUK bag now and also a new deck of “cards” hehe. As usual like with everybody else, I got a bombardment of Happy Bday’s from people on facebook…surprisingly, half the people I hardly see or talk to but it was nice nevertheless. Several people made the more noble approach of sending an SMS, I even got sent an email.

All in all, I’m no longer a teen. Don’t think anything’s changed, still the same me. Haha.