Wednesday, December 01, 2004 ;
11:47 PM
Ah, my first day of work in the holidays. Wake up at seven, had my breakfast then sleepily into the office in KL. A quick car's drive would take me like 20mins to reach there, so u can imagine how far is that. However, I did passed by Midvalley but then it din call out for me, i guess it is no longer special to me any longer. Even Sunway Pyramid is getting too small ! There is just nothing to do there. The last time i went with Jun and gang, we could actually brainstorm ourselves on what to eat for dinner. One says no KFC another no McD, then all these trickels along like no fat food, no oily food, no deep fried stuff. I got kinda bored and i was so hungry ! So i said, Sushi King, no fatty food ( at least not those that can be seen ), no oily stuff and no deep fried thing, so better have the food raw, have sushi for dinner instead.
Oh wait, i was at about my work today ! Well, there are still many car park plots outside, i assume that the office would be like empty and dark. Little did i know that there was already someone in there ( the office is in a tower building by the way), so ask ask a bit, can u guess what time he was there? 5 am !! My goodness, this is the first time i have seen such a guy and he is not even the boss....i wonder how early still the boss would start work. Oh yeah, i haven't explained what i was hired for. Well, u know transcribing? I'm doing exactly that for a court case ! An old friend of mine was the assisstant to that workaholic recorder guy, part time job also and for me, i'll just wait in the office for the CDs and the tapes to arrive usually after lunch break. The case starts at around 10 but out recorder people had to be there almost like 2 hours early to set up the PA system. Well, that must be an excuse, i think the more likely reason is to find parking space. Hmmm, i helped them to pack up and sent them on their journey.
Then i went back to the office, now this time, i can observe for myself how the company is. Okay ~, it is still quite empty like a forgone place but that could be forgiven considering that most offices start operating at around 10 so i just hide myself in the conference room (hehe). After 10 mins i got bored of looking at dogs chasing each other from 16 stories above, so i went down to get myself a newspaper. Headlines : Modus operandi to nab illegal immigrants in the country this January. -.-''. This is the most absurd thing i had seen coming out from our government. It's like hey, you announce now by the time January comes all those illegals had already gone out of the country the way they came in. So, no one to catch, utter waste of time and energy. I meant to keep the rest of the news for tonight but i was soo bored, well, i got my mp3man but do you expect me to sing when i'm hiding in the conference room? No way ! I like the chairs here. But should i say that it is a blessing in disguise ? My dad found me hiding here but then he got with him the histories of the current court case that i was to work transcribing on. One by one, he brought me something else to rid of my boredom so i can save my papers for tonight, second, he could have gonna grilled me for hiding in here. Should i be astonished that he found me or should i be happy that he brought me work? I don't know ! He gave me the file then went off, no words. Hehe, now that is what i call a father.
So now, the histories. The Judge becomes my Lordship and one of the lawyers is Raja Aziz. Hmmm. Okay, nevermind. Now let me see how these lawyers talk. "...so are you acting as CEO or Directors?.....cannot separate the 2 roles....bank statement....authorizing cheques...so are you acting as CEO or Directors when you authorized the cheques?.....i think i am both the roles...." Now i see, they talk in circles, great ! Now i know why our court system works so slow. Then i came upon a very interesting conversation. " How many employess you employ now?...Six...more than 100 during the boom time..." So at this time, i peek out to look at the office cubicle area....still dark...time is 11.30am...asoska ~, no wonder my dad din stop me from getting into the conference room, the boss is the defendant here so no meetings. Then another one "...there is no money left in the accounts.." Now this time i really freak out! No money left ! Now look here, i believe most people in this world works for money and when you found out that the company you work for has no money, that is a real disaster ! I was wondering how the hell my dad could pay my credit card bills when the company he works for has no money at all ! Arrggghhhhhh.......( fading ~ ) jeez, i freak out too early. There are inter-company accounts and this company here i'm working for is a subsidiary of a parent company. Now i know where the money is coming from now, i can finally heave out a relieving sigh.
I guess i'm a bit naive thinking that there would be a bell or something that rings when lunch hour comes. I was waiting for that precise moment to get out of this freezer conference room. Of my wildest dreams, my father could actually pop out from the door with chicken rice nicely packed. Ah well, another classis example of not getting what you wished for. Good thing the lunch is still warm ^ ^. Then all of the sudden, he told me i had 20mins or so to get it all down into my stomach and get going to the court ! Oh man, did he just forgot that i am a slow eater ! 20 mins is not enough for me to savor my food ( if it is Audwee working sure die la...chicken somemore). I had to stuff it all down and follow my dad out, only to find myself in KFC to buy snack meals.
Having to fight with food is bad enough but having more food in front of me is giving me the feelings that i had lost the battle. Argh, i am not going to keep it on my lap, i rather hang it on the car lock and look out for KL scenery. We were heading for the High Court to get my tapes and these food to our hardworking recorder guys there. When i was going to take the food out from the car, my dad mysteriously tells me to take the trolley along too. You know, that kind of trolley that aunties used to take with to the pasar malam and then stuffing those vegetables into the trollet till like the meat at the bottom could become fillet. My first deducement is that this could be a gift to the judge but then again it could only happen when pigs could fly. So maybe its for me to put the KFC and roll it to the guys. Again it cannot be, because they are in those plastic bags. So could it be that there are vegetables growing in the High Court garden for us to pick ? I peek inside, answer is no. Oh well, i see no point in carrying it but eek, part of the job isn't it? Sometimes, absurd things do happen just like the headlines today. I tried to walk in casually, hoping that...aiks, the guards stopped me. I must have seemed to be a very very suspicious guy who of all things is carrying KFC and that stupid trolley into the High Court grounds. Worse still, i could not even answer a single question from him properly ! He asked which court, i said i dunno. He asked what was in the plastic bag. I said food. ( Is he blind?!? ) Then again asked what is it for. Me : makan ( eat ). I think another few moments more like this i could end up in the police station when my wonderful saviour had arrived. My good old friend sure knows when to appear to full effect. He got his food, i got my tapes and we left for our jobs but he gave me a tip before we parted, the less you talk to the guard the safer you will be. Ermmm -.-''
Now back to the office, so i plug in the laptop to start to transcribe from the CD. From the thickness of the laptop i think it is much more ancient then my eldest sis's former pre-historic laptop. It is a 2.3 whole inches thick ! My goodness, a laptop 10 years old could only be 1.6 inches thick, i can't imagine for this laptop. And good to its name-..wait...age-sake, i cannot hear a single sound coming after playing the CD. I think even the charity homes would have better laptops than this, at any other time throughout the years ! I ditched it aside, and went into a room to use their desktop. Hmmm, classic desktop..the speed? i searched around the casing for some sticker but my inquiry stopped just there, " Powered by Pentium Processor". Oh gosh, not even a Pentium 2. But really, a business desktop is just amazing. It is running on WinME. But still i am not satisfied with it. Since the recording has 4 mics, so i opened 4 programs to listen to them. 1 finished importing...2.....3.....4.... done. Start playing. Good ! Lakshyo lakshyo... this computer is just amazing ! It is able to multitask such a heavy program even on a Pentium 1 !! Once i had reached the word 'multitask' in my mind the computer crashed. Oh great, i just knew it.
Transcribing is hard work. Not only do i need to guess their mumblings, or some extreme loudness( not yet shouting) in that manner, i still had to be put up with some ridicolously roraing vehicles ( I heard the walls are about 5 inches thick ) and worse of all, a slow computer ! To spice up things, we compete. We had 3 transcribers, and i'm great yeah !Most chatters with me knows that i type very fast. You know what, I'm in the top 3! ( Don't throw tomatoes at me >_<). Okay okay, but 'fast' though we were, we could only finished it at around 8, a whole 5+ hours work ! But that is only the morning session, i intended to do overtime at home but then since we are going to be free in the morning tomorrow, so we planned to do it then.
Since it was so late, so it's kinda impractical to cook so I and Dad went to eat. My dad is curious, he opted to ta bao ( take away ) food home to eat -.-''. Now back at home, had a satisfying bath and dinner, here i am writing my blog and dreaming and missing ~
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