At a local store’s checkout counter, a plump little boy spent his time deforming bars of chocolates with his elbow while waiting for his parents paying for their purchase in the next aisle.
The couple in front of me glared at him, but in typical singaporean fashion, we tend to keep quiet instead of confronting [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 29, 2008
Why do people dress up in capes
September 20, 2008
Shit management revisited
After 3 weeks in my new job as QA of a software development team, i think i have confirmed my theory on shit management. People pay you because they need shit to be cleared up.
Maybe there is another line of work where returns are much higher, but i’m not doing that, for some reason. Maybe [...]
September 18, 2008
My new life in QA
life as a qa manager involves stopping my teammates before they screw up and shoot us all in the collective foot, among other fun and worthy tasks that my job scope encompass.
This aspect of the job was especially highlighted by my counterpart today who sits on the other side as the client. He told me, [...]
September 11, 2008
Camera-less Nokia E51
My new job does not allow phones with cameras. Rather than to spend $68 on a simple 2g phone that i do not want to use, i extended my 2 year contract with m1 and got a nokia e51 for $98. It’s my first 3g phone, so m1 had to give me a 3g sim [...]
September 3, 2008
The heater is not working!
It is a sign of how used we are to modern conveniences such as the instant water heater, that we had so much fun boiling water for bathing on a cold day.
Sunshine was screaming in the shower last night when she came home from work late and found that the water heater has broken down. [...]
