Priestess of the Moon

Around a month ago, paper models suddenly became the latest bug to hit almost everyone in the office. It was pretty interesting, considering the fact that none of them has ever knew of its existence all the while.

I collaborated with Wei Hong to build the Warcraft 3's Priestess of the Moon model.


Warriors of the night, ASSEMBLE! *rawr*

In case you find it ugly, kindly note that the 3D sprite as provided by Blizzard is more or less of the same quality.


Blizzard's Priestess of the Moon GIF.

Building this particular paper model is certainly not an easy task to accomplish. We took approximately a week to complete it, gluing it piece by piece between taking customer calls and replying emails.


Front view.


Side view.

We even built a black-and-white prototype to get some rough estimation on its difficulty level.


Meow~

My colleague, Rudy liked the concept so much that he built another 2 paper models all by himself.


Demonic form Illidan Stormrage.


Pandaren Brewmaster.

There are so many various paper model templates available on the Internet! Perhaps you can try your hand on one? :)

Too tired to get sick of the same shit

I know I have not posted anything for quite some time. Heck, even the Weekly Work Schedule has been frozen in time for the past 2 weeks.

The thing is, I am just too tired to do anything.

Too tired to play computer games.
Too tired to even spare a few minutes to celebrate colleagues' birthday (sorry Alan).
Too tired to even smile when colleagues are attempting jokes... which are pretty lame most of the time.

By assuming that I only sleep 6 hours each day, I have approximately 18 hours of uptime. 9 to 11 hours are spent in the office and that accounts to a minimum 50% of my daily life time saying hello to Shit.

The Shit that I am referring to are not the customers. I have been serving them for more than 2 years now and I would have left very much earlier if I failed to come to terms with their never-ending amusing demands. The Shit here are people that are either proud or not ashamed of their wrong-doings, faults, total lack of discipline, laziness, lies and I will run out of breath if I were to go on any further.

Shit A is the catalyst that prompted my transfer from Silver team to Gold team. Based on the date as stipulated in his contract, he is a senior. Take the contract out of the picture and I see a guy with not only 0% role model quality but also an ever-increasing liability to the team. He has been let off the hook so many times that I was not even surprised when he got himself promoted not too long ago. Thanks to his new position, we are currently experiencing mass exodus of experienced analysts.

Shit B is one of my colleagues in the new team. This guy is the epitome of an absolute idiotic moron. He put himself under busy mode when he noticed that he will be the next analyst to receive customer calls even though he is doing nothing but standing around chatting about nonsensical stuffs. 2pm shift analyst has been allocated an hour of dinner time at 5.30pm but he intentionally takes his meal at 7pm when he is supposed to start his email shift at this particular hour. Despite all the misdeeds that he has committed, he acts all friendly with everyone and thinks that the world will welcome him with open arms. After all, he is the angel of the team, for he believes that either everyone will forgive and forget all his wrongdoings or he is too good in covering all the shitholes that no one will sense any immorality in him. I, for one will definitely love to welcome him with multiple jabs to his face if there was to be an open-for-all going on in my office.

Shit C is a person in management role; simpler term would be my boss even though I have more than 1 boss to report to. Unfortunately, I do not see any leadership value in him for everyone under him is totally detached from his control, degrading the whole team into a state of anarchy. As long as the team metrics are not affected, he will mindlessly perform his daily tasks of pulling reports after reports, like a zombie, oblivious to all the chaos that are going on in the team. He has absolutely no idea which analyst is supposed to fill into which shift even though he is the person responsible for planning the team work schedule. It was due to his incapability that Shit B is allowed to run rampant without a care in the world.

-sigh-

In case you were wondering, no, the list does not end here. :(

I simply cannot understand why on earth can't they just do what they are supposed to and put an end to all the torments that are plaguing the team.

It is getting so stressful that I just want to collapse into my bed and think about nothing (and that includes updating this blog of mine) each time I reach home from work.

Perhaps it is time for me to resign and move on to the greener pasture out there.

Perhaps it is time that I book myself a much-needed long leave and escape from this daily labyrinth of madness... temporarily.

I'm not drunk! *hic*

OK, I admit I got myself KO-ed last night. I should have realized that it is never a good idea to drink wine the way beer is drank. :P

Many thanks to Wei Hong, Kar Sum and Chang Chan for getting me home in one piece... and with my anus intact. After 5 hours of sleep, my head is still heavy at the moment. I guess this is what they termed as hangover which is seriously no fun at all.

Since I can sleep no more (tried to for the past one hour to no avail), I surfed around the Internet and stumbled upon The Blog Readability Test. Yes, I do realize that this kind of random survey websites is never accurate but hey, I have nothing else to write since I cannot even think straight at all.

I volunteered my own blog as the first to get laughed at:


High school level? Not bad, but how about Tien Han's blog?


College undergraduate level WTF?! Hey, which blog entries of his that is much more matured compared to mine? Fine fine, let us see what is Phaik See's level then?


Haha... now, that is funny! *ahem* Do pardon my sarcasm but guess what, Kenny Sia is at the same level too so it is not that bad after all, eh?

OK OK, no more alcohol from today onwards!

RM0.50

I am not sure if I am supposed to be happy with what I have grown into especially for these past few years. Is it for the better or for the worse?

I used to be a happy-go-lucky type of person, doing my best to squeeze every single day dry as if there would no tomorrow coming. In short, I was like the grasshopper where daily fulfillment came first before anything else.

However, slowly but surely, I am changing. Working life has inadvertently introduced me to a series of acquaintances such as Ms. Responsibilities, Mrs. Loans, Mdm. Savings, Mr. Bills and many more. All these new colleagues of mine have one thing in common; they love James Bond movies. Their favourite? No, not Tomorrow Never Dies but Tomorrow You Will Die.

The grasshopper, finding the need to do so, transformed himself into an ant to make hay while the sun shines, all in the name of tomorrow.

Some of you might argue that this is in fact a personal improvement, something that I should be proud of. Well, I definitely love to hear that but too bad, everything in this world is packaged together with the pairing of pros and cons tagging along. Take into consideration the following scenario:

Recently, I discovered that my August pay slip was short of RM400.50. I emailed the HR department & CC-ed in my current team boss. A few days later, HR replied that it could be due to my boss approving my OT claim late.


Come red.

Now, do bear in mind that I have changed a few bosses for the recent few months so I was not even sure which boss HR was referring to. From what I have calculated though, HR was the party at fault. With so much ambiguities floating around, I decided not to point fingers around and consulted my current team boss.

For your information, my company will allocate employees on standby an amount of RM50 per day. Boss advised me to claim 8 days of standby in my latest OT claim to clear the debt.

8 * RM50 = RM400.

But hey, company owed me RM400.50! Sensing my dissatisfaction, boss advised me further to forget about the RM0.50. Give and take, he said.

Give and take? Sure, I give company RM0.50 and company take it from me. That is the only give and take going on here!

One of my colleagues even teased me about the RM0.50 and offered to top it up for me from his own pocket. Somehow, I got the impression that no one was able to look at the injustice from my very own perspective.

-sigh-

I do not mind treating anyone to a meal if I feel like doing so for it is a voluntary intention. Heck, I do not even see any problem giving away RM100 to some charity bodies for it is my freedom. Robbing me off my RM0.50 when I worked for it is another issue altogether! It has been my philosophy that if it can happen once, it will happen twice. This time, it is just RM0.50 but how about next time when it involved more than that?

To most of the people out there, I am a damn calculative and stingy person. Yes and no. I am calculative but I am not stingy. At least, I have yet to stoop so slow as to tell everyone that I only have RM8 in my wallet all the time. :D

Frankly speaking, I do not know whether my response to the RM0.50 would have been any different had I continued being a grasshopper. Grasshopper or ant, to be or not to be?