Fire Drill!

I was busy looking at my screen and preparing my presentation for the meeting when suddenly this alarm went off; behind me.
I was sitting near the emergency exit area in the Penang building and I heard its shrill scream.
Then it hit me, we received this email from our admin last week to be alert for the fire drill this week.
*Slaps myself on the forehead*

Then came another shrill sound as the crowd made their way towards the exit; and everyone walked past my cube...haha, and they pushed it off to get out.
The thing about some of our doors here is; it's not meant for you to get in or out; they are only for emergency exits. We follow the standard entrance and exit doors; so if you happen to so much as touch or push it accidentally; haha...there goes...you will be famous in no time.
The alarm will go off; triggering the sound in the whole company.
And then, you will probably be held and questioned why you used that door.
Name will be noted and a mail will be sent to your manager...haha, how about that?
All just because you pushed a silly door!:p
And if outsiders (vendors, contractors,etc) are here, sometimes, they may mistakenly push this door and trigger the alarm. (Oh ya, this alarm, when triggered, will also signal evacuation of the building...after all, it's the emergency exit, right? hehe....so, when you hear the silly noise; get off whatever you are doing and get out!)
So, if these outsiders accidentally did this, haha, whoever is responsible to bring them in will be held....(policy: no outsider is allowed in without any escort from the company:)

Okay, back to the fire drill story, while everyone was making their way towards the exit, I was going against; haha....asking me why?
I had to lock up my bag in the pigeon hole!!
Hehehe....lucky me that it was not a real fire...but if it was real, I won't have to keep it in the little pigeon hole anymore....I will be grabbing my stuffs along with me and run!!!

So we went down; with everyone taking their own sweet time, strolling out of the building.
Yeah, they really strolled; discussing and chatting at the same time.

Soon, everyone in the entire building was assembled at the car park.....and may I add, under the hot sun!!!!
Aishehhh......this is more like the fire rather than in the air-conditioned office.
Also, another thing, one of my colleague even said, if it was a real fire, think most of the people will still take their own sweet time, thinking that it's a drill.....or another false alarm.
Now, how true that is.....isn't that food for thought? :)

After that, *burning us in the hot sun* for about 5-10 minutes, we were allowed to re-enter the building.....sighs.
Back into the realm of the cool air-cond world!! Haha....

Happy Mother's Day!

It's Mother's Day this weekend!!!
To all the great and loving mothers out there, wish all of you a Happy Mother's Day!!

It is a great day to remember and show your full appreciation for your mothers; who have done a great deal in our upbringing and molded us to who we are today:D
However, important though Mother's Day is, it is also one of those days like Father's Day, Teacher's Day, etc etc.
It marks the commemoration of mothers' sacrifices but it is not the ONLY day in 365 days that we should appreciate our mother, right?
Mothers are there for us since our birth and have gone through the hard days of raising us and also ensuring the best for us.
Most of us take our parents for granted sometimes; and if you are an avid listener to Mix FM, you would hear Serena C mentioning about being an excusaholic...where we always find excuses for everything and can spend time with friends; prioritized over parents.

Why do we wait for this one day in May every year to splurge and spoil our mums?
Do it every day, show our Mums how much she means to us and that we do know how much she has done for us.
Tell your mom you love her today...

To all the moms, you are the BEST and greatest!!
This is specially for my mum as well; you rock my world, MUMMY dearest and I really LOVE YOU!!!

** The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world**

Boyfriend Award

I am going to have a new housemate; the latest addition to the house.....but she's gonna be here for only 2 months.
She's due to move in this week; Friday (today) to be exact.
However, I have yet to see her yet BUT, I have seen her boyfriend.
Yeah, he works in the same company as me, but I don't mean seeing him around in the company (although I did see him yesterday:p )
I have been seeing him in the house (or rather, in the room) for the past 2 days since Wednesday.
What is he there for, you may ask? (My housemate, the master tenant, does not allow guys staying overnight).
Well, he came over to the house on Wednesday night, after work; with mop, broom, pail and cloth and yes, he cleaned up the room.
He was so diligent and he spent hours there. He was alone, mind you.
I was impressed and wowed that a guy would do so for his girlfriend.
And yesterday, after work, I went home and took my bath and was resting and heard the main door clicked.
Thinking it was Sara(the master tenant), I didn't bother to go out until I heard the alarm being switched on.
Surprised that Sara will never make this mistake(in fact, she was the one who reminded me not to activate the alarm or trigger false alarms for the security office), I hurried out of my room and saw that it was him again; he thought nobody was home.
One thing he didn't realize was he had turned on the alarm instead of turning off (his intention was to turn off when he comes in).
Hahaha....don't blame him:)

He was there again in the room, cleaning and I think he was setting up some stuffs for the room.
He was there until late at night again....
Wowwwwww....and all this when the gf is not here yet; guess I will see her today :)

Now, this is really one great guy.....so caring for the welfare of his girlfriend, cleaning up for her before she's here?
*Claps*
Extinction....haha.....he really deserves the Boyfriend Award....haha, too bad, my dear friends, he's no longer available for all of you:D

Can't wait....

I was in Guardian the other day and as I was queuing up to pay at the counter, I was surprised by the long queue.
The cashier soon realized that the queue was building up and redirected us to the other end; the pharmacy counter to pay.
I was making my way and reached the counter (I was almost the last in line earlier...you know, as in, the LIFO(Last In First Out).
As I was approaching the counter, I noticed the lady in front of me earlier...just "inserted" herself quickly in front of me.
*Gapes*
Such kiasu-nism!!!
Does it hurt for you to wait a short while?
Looking at the aisles, I guess she must have ran to beat me to the counter.
Some sicko..... I am not interested to bag the first-person-to-reach-counter award-lah!
Furthermore, there's only 2 items to pay up for (her).....sighs, some people!

TGIF!!!

It's finally FRIDAY!!!
YEAYYYYYY!!!!
Thank God for Fridays:D

Well, sometimes I start to think, if any other day were to be the end of the week, would I still love it so much? Hahaha.....a thought to ponder upon!
Fridays and Saturdays have always been my favourite days of the week.....
Wooohooo...Friday.......finally!!~

Hit by a DOG

You didn't read that wrongly; I just recalled that I haven't blog on this yet.
I was in my friend's car the other day; he was driving and we were at this marketplace area.
He was driving real slowly (I can vouch for that:) and as usual, you can see those stray dogs around.
As he was making his way through the narrow road, all of a sudden there was this medium-sized dog (mongrel type) which rushed towards the head of the car and my friend hit on the brakes.
I heard a loud thud at the front of the car....and since I was the front passenger, I could even feel the dog hitting the rim of the car.
He stopped the car immediately while I watched the dog ran off; and he was so kind to get down to check.

Take note that there were a couple of hawkers gawking as they witnessed the whole incident.

Anyway, my friend spoke to them in Hokkien to enquire about the dog's condition and they laughed and pointed that the dog ran off already; don't know where to locate him.
So, yes, we got HIT by a dog.....no, we didn't hit it, IT hit us!

*Now I remember the frustration Rory Gilmore felt in that episode where she got late to the class and was banned from sitting for the English paper because she got HIT by a deer and the teacher insisted she hit the deer and it must due to the late night studying....aaargggghhh!*

Anyway, I was telling my brother and he also shared a similar story about his roomie driving them back to campus and there was this dog which was ran over by their car (his roomie is also a careful driver).
The dog also ran off, and it seems that they had this theory that dogs (or animals alike), when injured, will never stay on the spot. They will find a good spot before they lay themselves to rest.
Interesting huh?

I really pray for the dog that he will be fine....hope he is not too badly injured :(
But with that thud, I am worried about internal injuries thought.....poor doggie :S
God bless you...

Working Day or NOT?

This morning I was dragging myself out of bed; sighs, after a nice weekend at home (in my own princess bed), I have trouble sleeping last night. Furthermore, my housemate was still out of town.
Anyway, I drove all the way to Kulim (yeah, today's Kulim day again) and when I reached the car park compound, I was surprised to see so few cars in the area. I blinked, am I still dreaming or what?
I got down from the car; still very much amazed by the number of cars....seriously, usually when you reach the site, there's plenty of cars and motorcycles (remember those manufacturing operators who work in the production floors?)
I am not kidding; I barely see more than 5 of either cars or motorcycles.

Is this a joke? Was there an announcement that we decided to take an extra day off today as well?
I am pretty sure that my company took Monday off instead of Wednesday as other companies do to compensate for the double celebration of Wesak and Labor Day yesterday.
Well.....I just got myself to work and soon, people start coming in.

As for the factory folks, I recalled their replacement is based on rotating shifts from today till Friday....
Haha....all for the working day for engineers :)