8 May to 26 May
2021-05-08
Log migrated. Settling down for the day with some piano music at 0434 hours.
Got a bit of programming done for work by 0531 hours. Time to nap.
2021-05-09
Standard drama theory: now looking forward to the Emergency Eid Goodies Announcement from Putrajaya. (Fifty million dollars in e-wallet handouts drops nine days later.)
2021-05-10
Saya tak berape suka dengan orang yang hanya suka melawan.
Orang yang hanya suka tak lawan pun saya benci sekaligus.
Sebab hari ini hari memperasakan isu SK x Ain pulak.
2021-05-11
Very excited ... if I can find an hour to sit down and do it, our outlets will be able to place Transfer Orders from Google Sheets ... and the Procurement Officer can receive a live notification in Corporate IM. 🙂
2021-05-13
Rats. Mechanic doesn't want to fix my distributor timing until after MCO. So I actually have to listen for engine knocking to pedal it off, instead of driving with ANC.
2021-05-15
So I don't know much about TV - today I stepped out of the cave a bit, and learnt that I can connect my phone to a HDMI monitor via any Chromecast device.
2021-05-16
Inbox zeroed, down from almost 10k emails 48-hours ago.
2021-05-19
Reflecting on the first two days of integration into the new (second) job. Just going to focus on not getting fired for now. Up next, figuring out how to make 50k Ringgit/mo without spending more than 60 hr/wk on the job, and without becoming a veblen good (i.e. underperforming consultant).
2021-05-20
So I figured out that since my jobs are split between the online games industry, and the hospitality industry, the unifying concept is that I work in the entertainment industry. Oh.
Nihilism is a question of values, like religious belief. Some religions are humanistic, some are theistic, some are nihilisitic. Being nihilistic doesn't mean I don't care about people ... it just means that I believe that caring is ultimately wrong and the golden rule of do-unto-others means I will reorientate myself away from caring whenever I have spare energy. Lol
2021-05-21
Survived the first week of new job. Time to catch up on work this weekend. Still pretty backlogged on multiple projects.
First up, enforced eating. Maybe a spot of work, then enforced sleep. Hello Friday night lights.
Friday review:
1015. Woke, washed, and selected costume specific to requirements of (P1, P2), my day jobs.
Drove to storeroom to locate item leftover from last year's work (P3a), for sale to some bloke from Facebook Marketplace. Item located.
Proceeded to photocopy shop to photocopy audit reports for signatories of a corporation in transition (P3b). Realised wallet is at home. Returned home, then returned to pick up copies.
P3b is running late, so I needed to slot in a clerical issue (P1a), and a meeting (P1b), first ... quick dash from PJ to KL. Allowed colleagues to prep a little between P1a and P1b, so got breakfast at the outlet, and there withh other colleagues addressed pipelines for social media (P1c) and org chart rationalisation (P1d). Returned to office, sealed P1b.
Dashed back to PJ to complete P3b. On the way, illegally dictated guidance on P1b that I wanted to wrap up. P3b got closed off all at once, due to active participation from stakeholders - highly grateful.
Dashed off of to KL to begin work at P2. (P2a) the first order of the day is systems phenomenology, to figure out the nature of nouminous data structures. But the work day is short as two hours later (P2b) the company annual dinner kicks off. We gather by remote conferencing, then dine together in various local offices. P3a has by now, cancelled his order.
Meanwhile I have tended to (P4a) numerous realestate agents by shoving them into WhatsApp. (P4b) is a mortgage broker who seems fo be relying on a single valuation (ill serving) to apply to multiple banks - I report this to the sales agent handling my purchase. Following P2b's conclusion, I get groceries for bestie (P5) and drop them off, saving some tomatoes and yoghurt for myself.
Back home, I rest a little. Then I tidy up P4 affairs. (P6a) is a former staff who is now my part-time PA - we go over our tasklist, and then (P6b) we do a little coaching on financial planning around professional certification.
I clear small issues branching off from P1 and P3. Then I tidy up my inboxes and wash. Now I write in bed, in a dark room, to piano. 0614.
(I did try to chat up a few women, as usual ... no notable progress at intimacy was made today. Guess that's P7. Ok, to sleep, for real.)
2021-05-22
Bestie requested a flower she was craving - sent a flower - also picked up a copy for a new friend. New friend takes good photos of flowers.
Published a public copy of the real estate data I have been collecting. Hope others maintain it. Unlikely - but I have done what I can to put it out there.
Kicking back for a few minutes before I decide how much work to do this Saturday night.
Ok, the least I can do after grooming is fix up some holes in our marketing operations.
2021-05-23
I need to stop forgetting to take my wallet to the office. I now owe a lot of people a lot of money.
2021-05-24
Today's coffee is ... plujka from a Nespress-compatible pod ... testing this out because I want to do it in office later.
Filed taxes for 2019, 2020.
I am still not taxable.
🙁
Finally got time to read up about my new friends and the alleged sins of their fathers, leading through webs of text all the way up to the Chief Justice herself. So very interesting.
Time for a nap before banking.
A good week, in terms of productivity - remedial productivity. All in, a little zany. Must try not to get distracted. First a short break, then to see if I can get a little work done before bed. Or should I aim for after?
2021-05-25
Hm. Have reached that stage in life where I need to understand devops, UIX, data analytics, finance, and talent management in Mandarin. I guess it was bound to happen at some point. Halp.
2021-05-26
Enforced waking, and work, and wash-up, and car workshop.
Malaysians trying to sign up for vaccines : Selamat Hari Desak
Things my Malaysian friends complain about: you hire a guy to protect you; then you fall sick and ask him to buy medicine; he takes a long time ... it turns out he is setting up a medicine business to resell the medicine to you; you want to hire another guy, but there are no more good guys to hire; they're all afraid of being offed by the bad guys. So you wait. Also your medicine is now very expensive.
Music practice after work.
Checked on my AWS Lambda prototype - it's still there.
Wow. Cabbies in KL now make 30 RM/ just idling. The price of co-working in a KL cab is 30 RM/h divided by occupants. (Used to be RM2 for 2km, + 10sen/150m; now it's RM3 for 1km, + 25sen/200m)
2021-05-27
Banks (etc.) seem to now be offering life insurance up to 100yo. oh my premiums ...
UEM really has turned Kiara into a 3D ghetto after all.
Putajaya is an good term for swearing at politicians. Unfortunately it has somewhat sexist connotations, so not ideal.
