Breaking the Inertia

Over the weekend, heard a gossip about Ass See Ass going to buy over National Cockup Schedules. Tried to verify from Mr J, who denied it, saying such word, and the opposite has been going on since dunno when. He mentioned that National Cockup Schedules is not in a very good shape, having made a loss and the CEO stepping down.

PM in a meeting till almost 11am. Reminded her about our appointment, but she said she's busy, but still found time to go out for lunch :\ Lunch more important than me! Like this sure cannot give reply today already lor.

Only got to meet her at 3pm.
Me: What are the plans for me after the expiry of my contract?
PM: We will extend it.
Me: (Sounds like a standard reply?) Still on contract basis? Can convert to permanent?
PM: I don't think so.
Me: O. Not at all?
PM: What would you do
Me: (只好以quit相逼了! But throw 1 bomb first, save the other for when I throw letter.) I might resign.
PM: Hmm let me ask the Manager then. Have you talked to him about this before?
Me: I have raised it to him, but we haven't discussed.

Ok. Manager went out already, so I don't think they would talk today. Tomorrow talk, 1 day to think. So reply by Wednesday? How to drag reply for 2 more days?? Help!

With M's suggestion, I self-issued 2 days MC and told National Cockup Schedules that I would be able to discuss with my boss only when I return to work on Wednesday. You can never have too many 损友s.

From Mr R, the guy who helped me submit my resume, I learned that an old bird from my previous company is joining them too, to the same project. I will get to work with him if I accepted the offer.

I feel that AiFalm has a brighter future ley... and it has been profitable. The people are nice, although they are mostly ah nehs, so I don't click so well with them. But the horrible thing about here is that they like to 拖拖拉拉 on HR matters. Last year, 3 weeks before the expiry of my contract, nobody seemed to know about it. I signed the renewal contract only like 1 week after the start date and I had half a mind to disappear until the contract was signed. This year, the same thing happened to an IA student they are absorbing. Then, I found that my RO should have received a notification 2 months before the expiry. Knowing my RO, I trust him to have escalated to the Manager, but he is still dragging his feet. Maybe he feels that inaction will solve problems? Like, drag till the last minute, I will be so desperate that I will accept all the terms in the offer? So sian lor, have to resort to all these to stop the inertia, on my boss' part and my part too. Better offer me perm now, so it will be the last time I have to do all these things. Or I won't stop trying to leave.

I don't know who is the last developer they converted. I thought they are expanding the team? Maybe they mean the outsourcing to country C and by contract staff locally. If no perm, how?

If only here is like Acensor, which thinks money will solve all problems. People throw letter, offer more money, so automatic.

National Cockup Schedules... tempting offer, work with familiar people, nearer to home. But I can't help but feel they are desperate. The horrible interview too. I don't know if I will die of overwork. I don't know if I'll still have a job after the contract for this project expires, like what happened in my previous job.

If I really throw letter, 2 weeks buy out + 7 days of leave = 3 days to last day! How to bring all my stuff home?

Desperation Detected

Woke up so bloody early for the interview. 6.40am lor! But for once, the interviewer was not late. She really is the HR.

HR: So this is your second interview?
Me: This is my second second interview.
HR: O, so who did you meet the previous 2 times?
Me: R and A. I haven't met the PM yet.
HR: Let me try and call him, he might be here already.
Me: (Ya, he might really be! Overnight, overnight!)
HR: It's a pity, he's on his way to a meeting.
Me: O.

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HR: Are aware that the working hours may be long?
Me: Yes, it has been highlighted in the previous interview.

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HR: If given, the opportunity, would you like to work here?
Me: Yes! (Take first, think later!)

The next thing that happened, is that she took out the contract, checkup letter etc!! *SHOCK*
HR: The offer is a 15-month package of $x per month. We are looking very urgently and with your relevant experience, this is a rather high offer. It excludes any performance bonuses that you are eligible for, which can be up to 2months. If you join now, which is before 1st April, you will be eligible for the performance review and salary review, so you might get an increment from there. You are also eligible for the choice benefits of $450 per year, which you can use to visit the dentist or go on holidays. But from experience, we find that people do not have time to visit the dentist or go on holidays, so we just give it to them anyway.
Me: !!

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HR: When is the earliest you are able to join us?
Me: Erm 1 month later?
HR: How many days of leave do you have left to clear?
Me: Very few ley, I cleared them last year.
HR: How likely is it for you to join us earlier?
Me: I don't think it's possible, my project is rushing now.
HR: Has anybody in your company got their notice waived off before? Or do you know how it works or whether there is such a policy?
Me: Not that I know of. (So many funny questions!)
HR: Actually, we would like you to start ASAP. When you talk to your boss, can you first ask whether they can waive off 2 weeks of your notice. If they can't then ask them if we can buy you out for 2 weeks.
Me: O_O (Actually, I was thinking wouldn't it be fun if I kept quiet and just disappeared and joined you guys after my contract. I bet nobody would know.)

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HR: Any questions?
Me: Well, I wanted to ask if it's possible to join after my contract expires, but I guess I don't have to ask already.
HR: Why?
Me: For the completion bonus.
HR: You must look at it this way. We are offering a 15 month package, you will get your AWS at the end of the year, which will be pro-rated, the performance and salary review, where variable bonuses will be paid. If you look at the long term, you will get more than the completion bonus.
Me: Right.

So I left the place with an envelope. Off to work!!

I asked to meet the Manager, who decides the headcount, like 1 month ago, but he's always too busy and I admit I didn't chase him also, because it's not like super urgent or that I have a trump card. I was actually almost resigned to accepting whatever Ass See Ass was going to offer me. What should I do, now that I have gotten an offer? Take it outright? 以quit相逼? Dump the envelope and stay anyway?

PM on leave. Manager not in. Why wasn't anybody there when I needed someone to talk to? But Monday need to reply already ley, where got time for my boss to counter? So I called my PM, but she said talk on Monday. Sigh, ok.

During lunch, I examined the contract. The 15 month thingy is not mentioned in it. Shall take it as maybe don't have.

I can't help feeling that I'm the spare tyre for some person(s) who has rejected the offer. If not, why the delay?

I agree the salary offered is quite high for my job scope. Like trying to lure me with money. Sure sounds delicious.

I lied about the number of leave days I have. The truth is that I have 7 days. Luckily I never say! Imagine using my leave to help National Cockup Schedules save money! No way lor! I'll rather get them encashed or sleep them off.

Miracle From National Cockup Schedules

Miracle! Miracle! After I got pissed off at my last interview at National Cockup Schedules, I didn't hear from them again. 1 week later, I felt it was safe to assume that I had buanged and my resume has probably been fed to the shredder. But today, 20 days later, I received a call from them! But I already sian diao lor, I was even contemplating to reject it outright already, so I was slightly more difficult than usual.

If I heard correctly, the lady who called is the HR. Should be lah, it's always the HR doing the calling. She wanted to invite me to a second interview. Wanted to tell her that I've already had a second interview and ask what happened to the previous second interview, but nevermind lah, the truth hurts. I'm right that it's a waste of time meeting that A guy, that they voided the whole interview! *V*

Ok, so it's a second second interview. As per HR's usual style, the lady proposed the next day.
Me: Sorry, I cannot make it.
HR: How about Wednesday?
Me: I'm afraid not this week. How about next Thursday? (Sotong is scheming again! I remember what I promised myself. I won't burn my leave for this crap anymore!)
HR: Next week is too long. Not this week at all?
Me: Evenings only. (You cannot, nevermind, we can scrap this.)
After some discussion, it seemed that evening is too late for her.
HR: How about early in the morning, 8am?
Me: (Har must wake up early ley!!) But I need to go to work. Approximately how long will it take?
HR: Shouldn't be long since it's a second interview. About 30min?
Me: Ok then.
HR: So I'll fix it on this Friday?
Me: Ok sure.

I was told to contact her upon arrival. Odd ley, not the PM? So HR is interviewing me? Great if it is! No more questions I cannot answer! Yay!

Now I have a problem. Friday is dress-down day, but interview have to dress formally ley. Do I have something that looks casual, yet formal?

If they dare to be late again, I'll be gone!

The Bio Disc

7pm and I was still at work, doing support for a tester, L. Meaning I cannot go as long as she's not done yet. She walked to my desk. Something to explain in person?

L requested me to make a data change for her and I got to it immediately, so that we can all go back earlier. As I was typing the query, she started asking me about my condition, gingerly, like all people, if they do dare to ask at all. The usual questions like what's the name, how did it affect me, when did it start, how did I know it started, yada yada. No harm letting her know.

She said she has something to show me. She sees me walk like this everyday and she feels for me, so she has been thinking whether to share with me something that might help with my condition, or even cure me. She was really hesitant, but after discussing with a colleague whom she shall not name (and I can guess who, must be her best friend), the colleague encouraged her to tell me and here she is.

Upon hearing this, I knew it could only be something shitty.

L made sure nobody else was around me, saying it's not good to let people hear us. She seemed to be more ashamed of my condition than myself? She googled "biodisc" with the general name of my condition. Then she clicked on The Bio Disc. The website is about water.

L: Do you believe that water molecules have energy?
Me: Of course! (废话, in Sec 1, the school already taught that particles in solids vibrate about their fixed position, so why wouldn't water have energy?)

She clicked to play one of the videos there and asked if I have turned my computer's volume down. What's she trying to do! I don't want to waste my time watching a video with her! Luckily she decided to skip it and scrolled around instead. I saw words like "MAGIC WATER", "Messages from Water", "Structured Water"... looks like some quack water thing I have read before, something VERY shitty!

Presenting The Bio Disc:

Diameter 9cm, thickness 10mm (i.e. 1cm, I smell an attempt to inflate figures)

What she wanted me to try is very simple - just drink water. But we cannot just drink any water. We must drink good water. Special water energized with scalar energy. Bio Disc will change the molecular structure of water (I always cringe when I hear this) such that it will be more easily absorbed by our cells. Her sister's dunno-who in Country I (she's from Country I), who's also a young woman like me, fell down one day and and became paralyzed. She took this water and soon, she could get up and walk! And many people have had a host of health problems cured just by drinking this energized water.

I wasn't impressed. I wanted to ask what scalar energy is, but restrained myself lest she mistook the question for interest in the quack cure. I don't believe any medicine can cure me, much less miraculous cure-alls. I wonder if the case of that woman who fell and became paralyzed was supposed to sound like me. Don't think so lor. Talk about gene-altering water! Can get from the stream beside the nuclear plant.

L: To make this water, all you have to do is to pour the water over the Bio Disc. I am not trying to earn money from you, and I do not ask you to buy a Bio Disc right away.
Me: Ok. (Why did she talk about earning my money?)
L: I have this Bio Disc at home. So what I will do is, I will provide you with the water, you drink it.
Me: O.
L: You have to drink 2L of this water everyday.
Me: (Horrified) 2L??? I can't drink 2L of water everyday! (It is possible, but not 2L of PLAIN WATER in 8hrs! I still want to drink coke, coffee, tea... where got space? I will drown!)
L: Yes! You can! I do and you should!
Me: (I think the bigger question is how to make my father take this water for me every morning.)
L: You will have to drink it at home too. I tell you what, you pass me some containers, I will fill up for you and you bring home.
Me: I can't! My mother will throw it away! (Not to mention that I will have to answer my whole family when they ask why I'm drinking somebody else's water. And where will I find the space for my mother's soup and my brother's junk drinks? Even if I do get cured, I'll probably get depression in exchange.)
L: Well, explain the Bio Disc to them!
Me: I don't think they will believe. (Don't expect me to talk to them when I don't believe myself.)
L: You can see this website. (Bookmarks it for me and clicked on some other results in the google search.) There are many other information here, you can google and see for yourself. I just want to help you. You look through and think about it
Me: Ok.
L: I also want to show you what this Bio Disc can do. I will bring it, and we will go to the bathroom, I will rub it on the part of your body that you think is weak, and you can feel its effects. We can't do it here because others will see us.
Me: (This is getting bloody ridiculous!) I don't think the bathroom is a good place. There's no place for me to sit.
L: It's ok, you don't have to! You can stand, it will only take a while.
Me: ...
L: We will have to find a day that less people is around, like now this time. I only come at 9 in the morning.
Me: So do I. (I dread staying back at work now.)
L: Do you have a religion?
Me: (Proudly) No! (Notices a subtle change in L's expression.)I believe in myself. (What's next, god? Now you can't say that I must have faith and god will help me, hehe!)
L: That's good! You must believe in yourself so that you will recover.
Me: (Wa this person good at 看风使舵 hor?) Yes.

She went back to her table. I continued doing what she asked me to do, only to find that she bloody went home! Meaning I wasted 30min of my life, my Valentine's Day, listening to her!

While waiting for my father, I surfed around that website.

Technically engineered natural minerals have been structurally bonded in glass, at molecular level, using several high heat fusion methods. This combination of the techniques causes a catalytic energy conversion creating a long lasting, specific natural Nano resonance in the BIO DISC.

The author probably dug out all the latest hottest chim words from everywhere to write this junk of a craptology. Reminded me of this prank paper. And what minerals, by the way? How come the thing is transparent? Does that mean mineral miners are a healthy lot?

The website listed many ailments that can be cured by drinking energized water... and they happen to be curable by drinking normal water too.

Bio Disc has a positive spin that overpowers e-smog. Hence, if you have Bio Disc on your body, it overcomes e-smog from your mobile telephone and computer. In addition to that, Bio Disc creates molecular structure in water which will neurtralise e-smog found in water.

I would like to know how.

It is also mentioned that water has memory, defined as "water’s ability to retain residual vibrations of all substances contacting that water". Ok, energy can be transferred. A beneficial vibration is sun's radiation. A bad vibration is forcing it through turbines. Don't understand why there's good and bad energy?? And what's more amazing is that water can tell good vibration from bad vibration and form beautiful snowflake-like structures (must be damn big) and cells will find it easier to absorb them because they are, erm, more beautiful? So the poor, traumatised water will resist being absorbed by a cell because it doesn't want to pass through yet another man-made opening? Honestly, any water being will be traumatised by the dark, moist passage resembling the sewers called the oesophagus, then meet the slimy pouch filled with bubbling HCl...

Here, Diamond Water is trying to break down water clusters, but here, they want water to do the opposite. Who is right?

You cannot 'overdose' on Structured Water.
Water intoxication is real. Go on, drink up, if you want to burst and die a like a Happy Tree Friend.

How does the water structure look like before and after it is exposed to the BioDisc?

Effect of structured water on cells

Looks like some focal and staining difference.

We have been vigorously testing Structured Water and currently have laboratory results which show lower boiling point...
O_O More like they need a new thermometer?

If it's such a disease-sweeper, they should volunteer their Bio Discs for trials. So many societies and associations for sick people lor. Just convince 1 gullible doctor to make structured water for all his patients. And when everybody gets well, it will surely take the world by storm. Wonder why they are not doing this? Sales sure shoot up sky-high. Maybe even the gahmen will buy some to put in our water treatment plant.

There's so much more, it's like a huge joke book.

A forum with an interesting discussion about this glassware. Apparently it costs about RM1000 and can last 15yrs, presumably from the date of manufacture. So if it's been sitting in the warehouse for 5yrs, you have 10yrs left. Didn't say if the energy will dissipate over time.

The best part is, this product is from Questnet, a MLM company. No wonder L don't want people to see lah... and emphasizing she's not trying to sell me something...

I don't believe in it, therefore it will never work for me. I appreciate her kind thought, but I won't try it! Flat NO! The poor people who tried, it's such an expensive placebo. I hope it works for them. A Chemistry textbook is cheaper.

Entertainment Over CNY

A vampire movie of some sort, except that the vampires are quite useless they don't have fangs, colored eyes and special skill, just immortality. Simply spells l-o-w b-u-d-g-e-t. To turn a person into a vampire, after sucking his/her blood, he/she must be raped. Just an excuse for blood, nudity and sex lor. Glad I watched it over mealS.

My CNY eve movie. Yup, watched a 七月 movie on a happy occasion. Didn't understand most of the dialogues and any of the songs, but still, it's very entertaining.

The movie version. OMG which woman will ever want a guy like that? Only in the movies I guess. It's ok that he looks nerdy, but looking at a script on a date?? *Sigh* But 各花入各眼, Miss Hermes can have him.

Not bad! But I wished the makers have stated the year that the remark that bee flight was aerodynamically impossible ( it's 1934 btw). I feel it will mislead the majority audience that scientists are still unable to explain this phenomenon.

A compass that everybody wants 'cause it's sooo cool. Lie to keep it, if you have to! This movie should be kept away from children.

Didn't watch 1 before. Pure, clean songs and dance. Doesn't apply outside the movie set.

New dorama by the cutesy Kyoko Fukada. About a tutor who can see people's future 20yrs down the road when she's stuffed with food. Funny, full of food and played by a cute girl who genuinely looks cute. Watch more before she's not cute anymore.

A fresh source of adrenaline after Heroes. Of course Arnie is not in it, he's Mr Governor now, remember?

And lastly, Galileo SP. Both the male and female leads are missing! Using the name "Galileo" to make people watch only lor! EEKS!