by-election day in permatang pauh -- massive jam in penang island!!!

today i reached my office at exactly 9.26am (that's the precise time shown after i scanned my tag to enter the premise) due to an unexpected massive jam. it was very considerate of my colleague to call me at 8.05am to warn me about the jam, when i was just about to turn into the junction that will lead me to the starting point of the jam. unfortunately, even after trying to use another alternative route, i still could not escape the jam.
it was everywhere!!! arrgghh…!!!
you see, whenever there’s a traffic jam leading to where we work, almost everybody would be receiving the same warning from their friends and colleagues to avoid certain routes. the smart you may have already guessed it, that is why they say smart ass think alike; in order not to join the already known jammed-route, everybody would end up taking the same alternative route, and eventually the supposedly-to-be-free alternative routes would end up having massive jam as well. thus, yours truly was innocently stucked in the jam for an annoying 1.5 hours (normally, i would take about 20-25 mins to reach my workplace). i got really mad because i left my house a little late today since I anticipated that the traffic would be clear as it was supposed to be a public holiday! no school and not many factories/companies were working today! I was hoping that instead of taking 20-25 mins to reach, I would probably only need less than 20mins to reach my office, park at my favourite spot, take my own sweet time to come into the office and enter a good trade or two with much enthusiasm.

whilst in the car, i really felt like turning my steering over and headed back home instead of wasting time getting stuck in that stupid jam. however, heading home would mean that i would need to take a day's off today and taking a day’s off would also mean that i was gonna be taking, nay wasting my precious leave unnecessarily. do i have to sacrifice my precious annual leave simply because I wanted to avoid the jam? moreover, it didn’t sound so practical as I was already wasting 1 hour of my lifetime getting stucked there and my workplace is oh, so near yet so far away. in addition to that i haven't got much annual leaves to spare (i mean carried forward leaves from year 07, I haven’t touched this year’s leave, yippie!!) and now we're only in the month of August. 4 more months before year end and I just cannot afford to simply waste my leave. Finally after some battle of the thoughts, i reached my office, parked far far away from the entrance and had a lots of sun bathing while rushing to get into the premise.

I was feeling sweaty all over…yucks!!!

the e-mail that has just killed our mood

finally, after so much anticipation, HR has just killed our mood for the day with this e-mail:

To : All employees
Date : 25/8/08
Subj : Permatang Pauh by-election
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This email is to inform all employees that xxx company will NOT be observing 26/8/08 as Public Holiday.

However, as in the past, the Company will provide our support by giving 4 Hrs PTO to employees who were involved in the by-election.

On behalf of xxx Management
some HR big shots

now back to work everybody...and remember to come to work tomorrow.

is 260808 a public holiday at my workplace?

last nite, cl's colleague called him to ask if tues, 26Aug08 is an off day for the company due to permatang pauh's by-election day. i didn't know what was going on, so the first thing that came to my mind was probably his colleague was just pulling his legs. having a sudden day off during a normal working day would be a wish come true to every employee on earth, but it's just too good to be true.

early this morning, upon reaching my office, everybody was talking about tomorrow's public holiday. it seems that everybody came to work today just to find out whether or not are we off the next day. we waited the whole morning...no news from the HR yet. we went to lunch and back, still no news yet. my colleagues were getting restless, after having found out which & which company are going to be off tomorrow and our curiousity grew stronger & stronger with each passing minute. we kept on checking our outlook, hoping to get some good news before we call it a day.

it's 2.54pm now and we're still waiting for some good news before we call it a day.

my blog...finally...

i've been wanting to get a blog on my own, especially after being an avid blog reader for almost 2 years. however, the lazy me was just too lazy to start one, you know what people always say about taking the first step is never easy...unfortunately, yours truly live by this phrase - all the time (oh no! this is my first ever post and i'm already revealing the bad side of myself!).

oh wait! i managed to break through this time (please applaud for me...*thank u...thank u...*) okay, enough of craps. :)

the actual reason that i wanted to start a blog on my own is of course because i've heard of some bloggers earning a freaking rm5-FIGURED INCOME by writing paid posts!! (yup, that would be my ultimate goal!!!). ermmm, i'm not that ambitious actually, but i wouldn't mind earning some USD to cover some little expenses here & there (yea, this sounds more realistic and perhaps a little more acceptable, isn't it?). well, besides that, i'm in the process of having a baby soon. This little humble blog of mine would serve as a documentation of my life journey as well as journey to parenthood. wow...i like the word 'parenthood'. **BIG GRIN**