A Series of Events
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Cancer
My aunt in Taiwan’s condition is worsening by the day. The grip of cancer tightens on her. Last I heard, there is a huge lump on her neck, as big as a newborn baby’s head. A very gruesome image to picture, but there is nothing much we can do for her at this late hour except be by her side. For earlier posts on this see here, here and here.
Work
Recently got into an argument with the bitch in-charge of planning the roster. Including me, there are 3 persons doing my job. We have our permanent shifts and everything was fine. That changed when her son came in. Her son was employed as a holiday relief. What that means is that her son will only get shifts if one of us could not work and the others can’t cover that person’s shift. However, that bitch wants to give her son ‘equal’ shifts and we have to share with him and all. Long story short, 3 of us were extremely unhappy. After much complaining and all, my manager sorted things out and things were kind of fine (still not happy) till recently.
Her son could not work on Monday night because they wanted to celebrate that bitch’s elder son’s birthday. She asked me if I could cover her son’s shift. Since I’m on holiday and extra cash is always welcome, why the hell not? So I said yes. Then I saw her put my name down on Monday night and wanted to remove me from my permanent shift on Tuesday. Waiting for her to do this, I immediately told her that if I have to give up my Tuesday shift to cover her son’s shift, I would have to decline. Another long story short, she wants her son to not lose out of any shifts at the cost of ours and i vehemently opposed till she got pissed and I got pissed. She went to complain to the manager (Kerry) and she got shot down by the manager. Kerry told her that she made a promised to me that my shifts was not to be touched. So she can’t do anything about it.
SHREK the Third
Watched Shrek on Friday. Its kinda entertaining but I feel its getting lame. I still think the first one was the best. The second one was still alright. The third one kinda went downhill. The movie isn’t that terrible, but like i said, its getting lame. I noticed that after the Lord of the Rings trilogy Movie, there seems to be an influx of many trilogy movies. Its mushrooming everywhere… whatever >.>
LOTRO
Recently, I’ve been given a 10 day trial for Lord of the Ring Online: Shadows of Angmar from Tiffany. 10 days later, I’ve bought the special edition for it. Yes, I really do enjoy this game despite my earlier skepticism on a game based on a license because most of the time, they ride on the popularity bandwagon and are usually not polished and are simply crap. I’ve been playing World of Warcraft since launch and Vanguard for a few months. World of Warcraft is getting boring now that its more of a reputation grind. Vanguard is a refreshing change, similar to the old Everquest 2 and its a very hard game. As much as I love Vanguard, its really hard not to notice the stark contrast with regards to how polished LOTRO is. What I really like about this game is the Epic Quests. They are very well written and very interesting. It makes you feel as though you are really part of the story. I’ll come back and give a more thorough review once I get through most of the content.
I think I should stop typing now since I sense another carpal tunnel attack coming (Main culprit: Excessive LOTRO-ing)
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It has been a known issue with Windows Vista that a non-Vista O/S computer is unable to print documents via a shared printer on a Vista machine. I’ve been trying for days to fix it as my Windows XP laptop could not print as well. My sis’ com naturally suffers from the same problem. She asked me to fix it today. So i tried again. The result: I was unable to solve this technical issue as this is new to me. I scoured through forums and websites but to no avail.
Tattooed from head to toe with leopard spots, a hermit who calls himself Tom Leppard is most widely known as “The Leopard Man“. Tom Leppard is a retired military man from the Isle of Skye, Scotland. His body is 99.9% covered with leopard spots tattoo making him the World’s Most Tattooed Man by Guinness Book of World Records… until recently. 
He became the Leopard Man, he claims, through a need to be a freak so that he could make money. ‘I found it difficult to settle into life as a civilian. And having worked in jobs with terrible conditions and bad pay I needed to do something different.’ He chose leopard markings after seeing a poster of two women with their bodies painted in a leopard style. He liked the look. ‘I thought the easiest way to become a freak was to have myself tattooed – then people would pay to see me.’
