Breeze on By

25th April 2005, Monday

Taking referance to the recent Donny Osmond's single (yes that brother from the Osmonds is still around and kicking... ~don't love me for fun girl, so let me be the one girl, love me for a reason, let the reason be love~~)
My Sunday did breeze on by especially when I manage to correctly format my newly-acquired notbook harddisk after calling the tech support from Best Bargain, Aliff was a great help... but so is Rahimu san, Chin san and whoever appears in the Japanese textbooks..heehee
Well it was simple, I just need to run a command on the "RUN" option in the startbar, it was quite evident that my harddisk is uninitiated and lying dormant... However I could never understand on the fact that they promised you 80GB of wonderful hard disk space but i truth you only get 74.5GB!?!
Do you know how many goodies can I stuff within that 5.5GB of space they cheated me off... more anime epsiodes, more mp3s, more jpgs/gifs/bmps of Celest and Linda, more useless old emails my friends sent to me in the past, more porn...ahem... arts-related documents...
Well I can never win can I...

Talking about can't win, spent my entire day, well almost the last 10 hours before I call it a day, engaging in my highly-stressful managerial appointment at Barcelona.. with fixtures coming fast and furious and a limited squad to choose (somehow those fictitious 15 years old wonderkids I created are ineligible for every damn competitions), I had to conjure and salvage whatever results from multiple fronts (Champions League, Primera Liga and Spainsh Cup) to appease my board of directors in the Nou Camp...

There was one tough tie against Man Utd in the Champions League group stage... It seems like Ruud van Nisterooy and Wayne Rooney are on steriods or something, they just couldn't be stopped , and Paul Scholes got like a magical midas touch, as wherever he shoot, maybe even in Zimbawe, the ball would always resulted at the back of the net..But in the reality now if Man Utd is to play Barca , even at Old Trafford, Barca would most probably come on top... But not so in this game when the Red Devils just couldn't be held, let alone beaten... of course Trazanspor from Turkey could hold them 0:0 and Aston Villa can beat them but my team of on-form superstars seem to go jelly when they face their opponents from England.. Fortunately unlike Rijkaard in real life, I could always "Quit Game" at any point and restart the duel... (yes I'm a no-good sore loser, bite me monkey-boys!)
Even stooping that low, I got sick of spending 2 hours on one measly game without any joy, so I was pretty okay with a 1:2 loss, and swore to get my revenge on the home leg...

This game, under the meticulous concoction of Sports Interactive who knew what the fans want at all time, is sure more addictive than the Eidos one...So more of me biting my nails in front of the monitor for the next few days/weeks/months/years/centuries...

Back to work today, knew I had a truck load of plates to process, plus the usual Monday machine maintainence that would keep me preoccupy for the entire morning...

But once again JxMMy D just had to get into the mix...

1. He forwarded an email to me regarding a new product which resembles the kits that had been discontinued, he stated each reaction would cost 0.90 Singapore cents.. oh come on, the previous kit cost around 40 cents per reaction, and this is so much cheaper, I really doubt so, perhaps he had typed the email in such hush (as he always does, full of grammatical errors and structural problems in his sentences), that he mistyped "dollars" with "cents"...
2. Realised he copied my template for the notice to inform all the ingrate users that we would be going for a product symposium on coming Firday (WOO HOO!!) and we would be close for operation till next Tuesday after the Labour Day holiday (WOO HOO HOO!!!) ... He even wrote that we would be back on Monday ( calling JxMMy D back to earth..hello...) and in such unprofessional scribbles that even a kindergarten kid would do a better job... So to save some face to our department, I did a fast Microsoft Words document which was pretty much hassle free and looks so much more presentable...

For the rest of the day I would be residing peacefully in that robot room ($800,000 white elephant ladies and gentlemen) , doing what should be done, surf the internet and even typing this post...

Oh yeah not to forget wishing I could be home now playing my Football Manager 2005....

Japanese Word of the day: そよ風　~so-yo-kaze~ (Breeze) Life can be a breeze at times... but really really rare ocurrence for myself.