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Yea…it’s a bit late, the movie has been in theatre for a while, but I just watched it. The movie was alright, not that exciting, actually kinda boring. If I were to watch it an hour or two later I’m sure I’ll fall asleep. The plot was rather thin. I think there are better ways to make use of all the fairy tales to compose a great movie. In Brothers Grim, it was like a mingle of fairy tale snippets. A bit of this, a bit of that. It’s pretty far from what I expected after watching the tele commercial.

Went out to the company bbq this afternoon…well not really the company bbq, more like Ford’s automotive promotion bbq at the company parking lot. Anyway it’s getting chili, for most people it’s a sad thing because the summer warmth is passing by. For me, I love it, because autum is only season when you can really mix and match your winter/summer clothes. Like my fav shirt, pants, scarf and a light jacket. I like scarfs, scarfs, scarfs, scarfs…(<-if you dont’ get that, rent Anchorman and replace scotch with scarf)

wow…friendster finally have the who viewed my profile function. Some time ago I was in one of these network services that has a simular function. It was alright then, since most of the people only view profiles of their opposite sex. It’s kinda freaky seeing these people you don’t know checking you out, and don’t even want to start figuring out what their motives are. (just being paranoid)

….hmmm…good reason to update the photo.

It’s great when people listen, especially when it makes a difference (unlike the real world). I was wondering when staff at friendster would finally read my request to have customizable colors. Now that I have control over the colors, I’m a step closer to getting my bumble bee color theme. Got the yellow background going, just can’t get the text color right. There’re also some blocks that didn’t take the color to my liking. I bet there’s probably some tutorial or documentation to it but you know me I’m too lazy to look at those. Just view the source and change the tags. still, great change. thanks friendster staff ^_^

After work today…(around 3:45, I bet not many web developer can say the same), I was looking for a place to waste some time before heading home. So I drove a little over to the east and sat at the beach.  ….life is good. 

I think I just about had it with organizing dinner with friends. People way too often cancel at the last min. 2 days notice is a bit short but hey it’s more than enough time to tell me you are busy at noon. Uncharacteristic of me, I will denie to attend to anything tomorrow night. >.<

A strange dream woke me up this morning. For some reason, memories from my past haunted me. Someone who rejected me, someone who I had an extreme disagreement with, all rolled up in some sort of mega mall with a designer’s touch. She was in this fancy dress and somehow I just walk by as though I was in a rush. Don’t really know or care what it means but I’m pretty sure I don’t feel bitter about that incedent.

it’s been a while since I added an entry. Well I’ve been pretty busy, work then work after work, then work while I dream…  Don’t get me wrong, working at OPG is great, not a lot to do, no immediate deadlines. It’s all the other work I do besides work that’s tiring me out.  Back to the topic, working at OPG is great. I never knew being in the union would be so good. Come into work, do your 7 hrs and you are free to leave. People who come to work at 7am can leave around 3pm. It’s insanely good. What else? My cubical is so big, it’s a 2.5X2.5m area with 3 and a half boards. Each board is as tall as I am. So it feels more like a mini office than a cubical. Heh heh it’s actually about the same size as my manager’s office when I was working in GI. The equiptment is a bit old but who cares, I’m a programmer, I just need a machine to code. Eventhough everything is great, I do wish the avg age isn’t so high. It’s not like those young companys where people like to stay after work for LAN games. Oh and security is great, so safe that people do just leave personal stuff around the desk. I sometimes do that too.  Heck, if you know how they get a security card to enter the building, you will feel safe too.

It’s almost the end of my first week and I’m adapting to my job, mostly the work culture. The work culture is so different from what I’m used to. At 4:30 most of the staff already left. The whole place is so relaxed. No tight deadlines, good benifits, pension plan, health plan, it’s got everything. This is the type of job I should get when I’m at the end of my 40s and starting to think about retirement.  The people there are really nice. It’s funny, the other co-op students there are so much in the mind set of what I used to have. Want to leave work before sunset, don’t care about pension plans or the future. I don’t think like that anymore, I got too used to the "abuse" if you can call it that. I need the long hours and piles work. Those make me feel alive, like I’m contributing 100% of myself to work.

Got off work at 5 today and 4:30 yesterday….doesn’t feel right.

I’m still in the training process of my job. Even in training there’re some quizes to complete. The minimum requirement is 80% to pass but I can’t help but to do my best and get 100% on each one, even when it means to retake. I think my chase for perfection has gone up another level. Is it turning into a sickness?  don’t really know…but I can’t stand getting anything less than 100%.