Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

Friday the 13th is never a lucky day..... But today is not the 13th leh! Today, the plan was to take the fast train from Suwon Gumi, go into Samsung plant, have a meeting and return to Suwon by train before the peak crowd kicks in as it is a Friday. Simple plan that is very straightforward and easy to execute.

So in the morning, got to the train station without any hassle, got the tickets that was reserved earlier. Got down to the correct tracks and waited for the train. Then my karchng itchy, and went to ask a local if i got the right track anot? Then he pointed me to another track, and i was thinking to myself, heng i ask ah! if not jialat liao.

Then the train arrived and i got on to it. As the train was pulling out of the station, i couldn't find my seat as indicated by the ticket. So i went to ask the conductor, and turns out that i got up the wrong train loh. Kaoz. This train will still get to my final destination, but will take some more time as it will stop at all the stations. Worse thing is that i dun have a seat in this train so i may have to stand throughout the 3 hr train ride. Then i saw some seats not taken so i just go there and sit first loh. So at every station, damn stress loh, cos scared some guy will come up and say this is their seat. any way, this seat was apparently untaken, so no one came so lucky for me loh.

Anyway, halfway through the train ride, i realised i left my passport in my other jeans! I need the passport in order to get into Samsung plant for the meeting loh! I was thinking, die lah travel so far liao den no meeting meh? But there was nothing i can do cos i'm almost 200 km away from my passport liao loh. so lan lan go there see if there is anything i can do to get in loh. (use my trademake smile?)

At Samsung reception, there was some inconveniences, but still i managed to get in with my trademark smile..... and a call to a Samsung engineer. So I was just on time for the meeting. Luckily got plan in some buffer time in case of this kind of things happening, so on with the meeting. The meeting with our client and their client went smoothly but the conclusion meant that i had to extend my stay another week and i have to move back from Suwon to Gumi again with all my luggages(17kg++). one word to describe loh, SIANZ.

Then the meeting dragged on til after the time the return tickets was booked, no later i had no choice to go to the station to see if there is any available tickets left and possibly had to squeeze with the weekend crowd on their way back to Seoul. At that point I was thinking that i am so damn suey loh. go back room better not bath ah, or i might just drown in the shower or wat ah.

Got a train back at around 7+, reaching Suwon almost 10 already but luckily no other unlucky incident liao. Soooo relieved that the day is finished without me getting hurt loh. think if i eat toufu today hor, chances are that i will choke on it loh. haiz... really bad day man...

What is your breaking point?

I am sure that mine is quite near already. All this stress and pressure from the upper management while they sit there doing nothing. Sure, it is easy for them to say, "So, is there any progress so far?" when yesterday they just called to ask exactly the same thing. Or "This is our top priority project!" when there is only 3 engineers working an project that should be worked on by 15 engineers.

As each day goes by, my patience and endurance is slowly wearing down with each call for status report or progress updates. What the f**king hell is wrong with you all loh. Its not as if we are not working here loh. Here we are, thousands of kilometer away from our home, working hard and we hear words that imply that we are simply not putting enough effort. Stress is one thing loh, being away from home is another and knowing that there is another long trip coming soon is worse loh. Oh yah, and there is the matter of another engineer sitting comfortably in office daily, surfing the net and complaining that there is nothing to do while drawing the same pay as me.

Life is not fair loh. Seriously, sometimes i really wonder what the hell am i working so hard for loh? is it worth is anot? all that i can do now is to put on a strong front and crack jokes constantly to keep myself from breaking down. For those people who think that i have a great job, please loh, comment after you have tried this job yourself lah. and for those who think that i'm strong enough to handle anything that comes along, do remind yourself that i'm only human. there is only that much strain that i can take at any one time. I AM ONLY HUMAN!!!

Okay, thanks for reading my bitching. Time to go back to work. :)

Hello world... again

Hello world! After missing for so long liao, I finally reappear again to write some bits and pieces of my life. My current life is really in bits and pieces (some bits in singapura, some pieces in kimchi land) so i guess it will be easy to relate lah. currently stuck in korea alone for my project with nobody to accompany me and having to work through the weekend. the feeling is damn sian and serious thinking of quitting my job sometimes to get something more stable. stable as in staying in singapore more often.

When i came back to gumi, the korean town that i'm staying in. a surprising number of people actually recognised me, including some of the restaurant owners that i used to visit during my previous trips. i guess the korean looking chap who dun understand any korean is quite prominent eh? on the other hand, when the locals start recognising me, its sign that i've been spending too much here liao lah. oh, and for those people who have been urging me to get a korean chick, no korean chicks recognise me, mainly aunties recognise me only.

breakfast, lunch and dinner alone can be a very boring thing. experienced that on my 1st working trip and i din like it very much. sometimes u just wan someone u can talk to, but here, u can't even understand the language ah. so its times like this that u HAVE to rely on urself. which is talking to urself. for people who that this is crazy obviously havent been through periods of isolation where u really really dun have anyone to talk to. it really has a good therapeutic effect if properly used, u noe. dun believe u go and try loh.

speaking of dinner, this is the menu for the night: Gourmet BBQ Chicken with bits of potato and corn, in a sumptous thick gravy. Sounds solid rite! let me post the picture for u all to salivalate (is there such a word?) on! Muahahahaha!