There is something magical about warm water.

First, it never arrives. Go to any dining place and order it. It’ll probably be last order to arrive on the table. It’s as if we were being punished for having bad taste in drinks. The process of boiling water and serving it is a very tedious if not perplexing task. It’s actually easier to make Caramel Macchiato than warm water.

Second, perceived as cheap. Every time you say the magic word, they’ll look deeply in your eyes, begging you to change your mind. I’m pretty dead sure  their commission for the night depends on what their customer ordered or maybe penalized by taking any orders of warm water.

Third, not served everywhere. I’ve been told off by many fast food franchise when I ordered warm water including KFC, McDonalds and Old Town (now they charge you for it). “I’m sorry sir, we only have mineral water.” Like hell I’m going to pay RM3 for a small bottle of mineral water.

I guess I have to live with this stupidity over an insipid drink, oh well..

ps: My batchmate got stabbed twice yesterday, he’s alive and kicking. It wasn’t a robbery, just some psychopath. Live well and prosper Amin!

I think I confused myself. Hahaha.

“The AMS comes with SPOC, specially tailored for BOD. The license can be purchased based on CI. This reduces the HW/SW costs and ROI within 6 months.”

My God, what have I gotten myself into? I hate abbr. Buat pecah otak je.

My office has this weird thing about timing, the time to clock is really up to you. I know once this guy who only clocks in once in two weeks and he’s supposed to be at least 50% desk bound. Anyway, that’s not what I want to write about.

Normally, I’d clock in at 10am, depending on how busy I am. Ten in the morning is a good average so we’ll stick to that. Most of the time, I’d either leave early or hang outside of the building, like Old Town or some place with Free Wifi.

I hate going to the office. They blocked all these social websites, Facebook, Youtube  and Twitter (the main ones). The Internet is super slow, average downloading speed is about 10kbps, and we’re amongst the biggest IT company in Malaysia. Since I’m on the Sales floor, it makes the environment even worst as most of them have meetings outside. Only a handful of Sales people are in.

Today, I was awaken by my dear wife, she told me the power is out and she had to work outside to finish her AutoCAD design.

As we were about to leave the house and had gotten things in car, we realized, we had an automatic gate and the backup battery went kaput years ago. We had to wait for hours and it certainly doesn’t help as the heat builds up internally.

I left the house around 2.30 pm after battling with iOS 5 upgrade. Seriously, Apple is one hell of a schemer or in my own words, a marketing prick. They promised all this user-friendliness in the end, they made a whole lot of mess. I guess I wasn’t strong enough to deter far from Apple’s stuff. And Apple isn’t the story I want to get into, at least in this post.

These past few weeks and until year end, I’ll be focusing a lot on next year’s strategy and catching up the latest Telco trends. Personally, it doesn’t really matter what time you clock in or out, as long as you deliver what you promised, that’s good enough. If achieved 12-folds from last year’s result, I doubt anyone has the audacity to tell you what to do.

I guess I’m better off as an Entrepreneur.

I had nefarious thought on Sunday while waiting for my car to be washed while reading HBR. Apparently, you can steal a car with just RM8.

The car wash place around my housing area has a warung nearby, about 2-5 minutes walks (depending on how fast you walk or cat walk). Normally, customers would just drop their key at the counter or sometimes leave it in the car. The operator usually (99% of time) parks the car to washing (wet) bay or interior cleaning (dry) bay.

Most of the time, customers would walk over to the warung for an evening tea. This is where the loop hole starts. Once the car is done, the worker usually hangs it on the pillar.

Anyone can claim the car when it’s done. Just give RM10, tip the worker with the change and you could drive home an Estima. But if caught, I don’t know what’ll happen to you.

Thank God, I’m not so desperate.