My Off Day.....

I took a day off today, mainly to go for my medical check-up at the public hospital. I didn't manage to wake up as early as I wanted to be, hence I ended up reaching hospital at 8 am (you should see the amount of people queued up for treatment already..sigh). I got myself registered and paid for the fee, we (my partner and I) went off to grab some breakfast. I had a plate of fried noodle and a pack of Nasi Lemak (yummy!). Ever since I started on the medication, I have been craving for lots of stuff. One of it would be those small pack, wrap with banana leaf in a shape of pyramid type of Nasi Lemak.

Ahhh.....I had it and it was so satisfying....

Call me crazy but I brought along my office notebook, hoping to finish off some outstanding stuff that I could not finished yesterday. I start eating my breakfast while waiting for my email to download. Guess what, my company are still use Lotus Notes.. WTH right?. Who else uses that anymore?!?! Gosh.....they need to get some "fresh blood" to run their IT department coz those ancient dinosaurs needs to seriously retire and take their "old school" mentality out with them. They labeled themselves as one of Multi-National Company (MNC) in the market but here they are, proud of their Win XP, Lotus Notes and manual processes like filling up forms, getting physical signature from head of unit, GM and etc in a print-out form. Damn right you are part of MNC *roll my eye*. People are moving towards latest technology - Windows 7/8, Microsoft Suite, Cloud application, paperless & environmental friendly processes to run the company....and here you are, printing leave form, claim voucher, salary slip and etc. Oh well, enough complaining about their technology and mentality, every time I talked about it, it just make my blood boil. Not that I can do anything about it....so why bother.

Anyways, as I was downloading my mail, I saw a couple of urgent request pops into my mailbox. Apparently some US folk sorta messed up some stuff yesterday and those Aussies were affected. Deep down, I was telling myself, DARN, there goes my holiday. Well, I was right.  Pop...pop...pop.... one by one came in - escalation email, one team copying another team, blaming one another. More and more people from all related functional group were making a big hoo-haa out of this. As expected, my boss called me up and asked if I'm able to step in for a while, just to ensure that our part is covered so that they will not find any reason to pin this down on us. In order not to have a dreadful Monday, I said yes and I start replying emails and working on my part.

By the time I finished doing what I need to do, it was about time we need to head back to the waiting area. So off we go, back to the waiting area and waited patiently for my turn. One thing that annoyed me was, the way how the nurses in public hospital treats the public. They have no sense of urgency, not customer oriented AT ALL, rude, arrogant or even ignorance to the people's needs. Not the best combination out there but in reality, that is what we get in public hospital. What a Shame!

The worker there are slow, hot tempered, no hesitation to raise their voice, very commanding and treating all of us like dirt. Come on b*tches, if it's so difficult for you to do this job, just QUIT. You don't have to let it out on those poor, weak and elderly patients. Just because they asked you twice or trying to clarify things with you, that doesn't give you the right to shout at them and be rude to them. Even when they asked them nicely, they will respond back to them in a very annoying and agitated manner. Humbug.... how I wish their kids will throw them into old folks home when their golden year comes or they get ran over by some bus or lorry.

Well, we waited for 6 donkey hours just to see the doctor for less than 30 mins.  Cool isn't it? The level of service we get here is indeed 'superb'. This is how I spent my off day - spending a quarter of my time working and 2 quarters of my off day waiting and looking at rude nurses mistreating their patients.

Finally, I got home around 3 pm after lunch and straight away, I popped in Diablo disk into my laptop's CD-ROM and let it start installing. I know I will get bored with it after 2 days but, oh well, it's better than having to pay for monthly subscription if I play World of Warcraft.

As I'm typing this post, the CD is still running and the installation process is now at 60%. I think I'm gonna take a short nap for now and start my journey into the underworld when I wake up later.

Till then... happy weekend people. I hope mine will be a good one.... cheerssss....