Unix Lust

This is one of the things I miss so much about HP, my banyo moments

But seriously I miss HP and I miss my work there, earlier I volunteered to do the “on call” duty on Saturday night which will mean that I’ll be working for 16 hours because I’ll be coming from EMEA shift so I will have to work two shifts straight, then people seem to find it odd that I’m willing to work 16 hours straight, then I told them it’s ok because I am used to it, I do it with HP and sometimes it’s more than 16 hours, one guy said that it’s not acceptable because I might make mistakes because I won’t be able to function well because I’ll be too tired and too sleepy but as far as I remember I did well working 16 hours straight doing 30 to 40 changes, patching heaps of servers, changing kernel parameters, doing maintenance reboot, software installations and so on and after all changes you have to do all necessary sanity checks then do your post change report, it was indeed tiring but after you have done all the work and did it well, everything is worth it.

So I just shut up when the guy said it’s not acceptable because I don’t want to sound too confident, anyway it’s a good thing they don’t tolerate it here but I miss the feeling of doing so much work and at the end of the day you will feel good because you know that you’ve done a good job and you just have to treat yourself for a two bottle of ice cold red horse beer

I can’t say I’m workaholic but I enjoy the challenge of what I do, I sometimes do procrastinate

Finally! I’ve finished reading it, and for some reason I just couldn’t stop crying after reading it.  It was not quite as I expected because I was expecting that somehow the book will tell that a long distance relationship could really work out, but it didn’t, it was more realistic than I thought it would be, it was really heartbreaking, but anyhow it was a good read.

Fave qoutes:

When I think of you and me and what we shared, I know it would be easy for others to dismiss our time together as simply a by-product of the days and nights spent by the sea, a “fling” that, in the long run, would mean absolutely nothing. That’s why I don’t tell people about us. They wouldn’t understand, and I don’t feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you, I can’t help smiling, knowing that you’ve completed me somehow. I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again. – Savannah

You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me.  You were my best friend and my lover, and I don’t regret a single moment of it.  You made me feel alive again, and most of all, you gave me my father. I’ll never forget you for that.  You’re always going to be the very best part of me. – John

I hate goodbyes, well who doesn’t?!? Now I can’t wait for the movie, I even forced a friend to squeezed me in her schedule to come with me and watch it

I’m so so so so tired, I spent my off at my cousin’s place because his brother and the wife came last sat night and we went straight to a bar for beers. Then Sunday went strolling and tried to find an iPhone worth $300 for my cousin-in-law and she did found one, hahahaha, well actually my other cousin had an early re-contract of plan that is worth $300 and in his current plan the 16GB iPhone is free, so there, she got her iPhone too, I got mine for corporate plan, and the stupid battery doesn’t even last a day if you keep using 3g, what the hell?? I can’t even play my music there because it will drain up the battery so I still have to use my iPod, deym! Plus I can’t seem to sync this blog to the stupid phone!

Been here for almost two months now and yesterday and today was the first time I really went mall strolling, sabi nga nila parang ako pa yung turista at ako yung pinasyal nila, hahaha, well the thing is, my place is quite far from the city and I don’t usually go strolling anywhere alone, I find it really sad, so I better stay at home watch something or read a book than sweat strolling at the malls alone, but maybe they were right when they said I need to get used to it, I need to learn to go out alone and enjoy the place or else the homesickness will be worse.

Now I just got home, did the laundry and took a shower hoping I’ll be able to fall asleep fast, but however tired I am, I still can’t sleep! pfft!

My team is becoming my family here. I celebrated Christmas and new year with them, and now I celebrated my birthday with them and at work, it’s really nice that those who was not in shift called me to greet me.  I’ve made new friends here in SG and it makes the homesickness lesser because of them.

27 years… I feel so old and yet still immature

I hate birthdays! I am really not in the mood to blog, but I always post something when it’s my birthday, so this is just random, actually it’s late, my birthday was yesterday but I was so tired and so I just went to bed early.

Learn SVM and RHEL Clustering. I tried reading SVM by doc from Sun and I got too bored reading it and I couldn’t understand and I learned it from one of my team mate who showed me how to create mirror from scratch. I am really not the type who learns by reading books, well I do, but I learn more with hands on, my brain seems to remember things if my hands are also working. It’s like, if I don’t execute the commands myself, I won’t really remember it :p

Learn how to cook. I hate the food here, it’s either too spicy or too oily, even the rice is sometimes too oily, Why the hell did I just learned how to cook pasta?!

Revamp this site template. I actually have a lot of time to do this but… yes, as usual, I’m lazy, all I do after work is watch, I have finished 1st season of Vampire Diaries, 3rd season of Gossip Girl(all episodes that was aired), 5th Season of Grey’s Anatomy and now I’m on the 6th season of Grey’s Anatomy, O’Malley died?? Seriously??!!

Finish reading “Dear John” before it come out to Cinemas.

Update my playlists. I haven’t updated it for almost a year now, I only add new songs every once in a while but it is really a mess and I really need to work on it as my ear is also getting tired of the songs I listened to everyday. I have an 80GB iPod, and my songs were like just 4GB and the rests are all files, hahahaha, I made it my personal external HD also I usually use all the space for movies, now I only have 4 old movies because again, I’m lazy to convert movies.

Downgrade my laptop from Vista to XP. Yes I am still an XP fan, I hate Vista and Windows 7, well as they said, when you are techinal and you are into Unix, you care much less about graphics

But this weekend, I need to do the laundry and clean my room.