Hilarious Jelly

Jelly is a crazy and mischievous boss. Yesterday when I tidied up the project folder, I found a file called Having a bad day.ppt. in a sub-folder where with all the reports and presentation decks. There is a picture you see here.

I checked out that no one had made such silly thing except Jelly. Then I asked if he felt trapped by the work and should express his emotion in such way.

He laughed loudly and replied me that actually he made this picture and send to his friend simply for fun.... I guess he then mistakenly saved it in the job folder. He is such a crazy person.

Doing analysis as a hobby

Yesterday we had phone conference with an oversea client, she wanted us to do a regression work. The lady told us that she had installed the program to her home PC to run regression, and doing analysis as a hobby in her leisure time.

A hobby!!!! My left eye brow raised when I heard about this.

She told us that she was also a market researcher before. Now I know what bosses always mention that 'Be passionate in market research and you will not mind to work 24x7'. Frankly speaking, doing a modelling (I mean statistical modelling, not fashion modelling) is not entertaining to me...

Feel so tired but so get back to my work..

IT

Even though the whole world is experiencing a warmer winter this year, Hong Kong IT industry seems having a bitter cold winter. HSBC had laid off a large number of IT staff right before the Chinese New Year, which will probably further influence other professionals from the same field such as the overall income level.

The corporation cannot not guarantee if they will further downsize any of the supporting departments.

It is very pathetic that IT was one of the hottest subjects in University ten years ago, and Richard Li was an icon and a remarkable legend at that moment – elite school educated, young, wealthy and most important – an I.T. guy. The public obsessed to his everything including his dressing code and hair style.

The world is really flat. This is not a problem of Hong Kong education system; it just proves that globalization does affect everyone, even those highly educated professional workforce like us.

The message take out from this news is, never force your kids to take any subject you think it is good for him/ her. Let them choose what they are interested in. There is no guarantee that students from which subjects can get big bucks and which will end up unemployed. You can offer comment to them but do not force them to follow your wish; everyone gets the right to walk the life as they wish. You can never tell how the world will change anytime.

I have long sight at my left eye

Now I know how come I feel tired easily all the time. I just discovered that I got 175 degree of long sight at my left eye, in the last many years, I mainly depend on the right eye to see things... The sales person in that spectacles shop told me long sight is usually inborn, which has not relation to the deterioration of vision. However I don't feel this problem until I worked after the first year in my current job, and the problem seems getting intensified recently.

I just wonder whether those mistakes I made in reports are mainly located at the left hand side.

I will get my glasses tomorrow, I tried to avoid those styles which make me look like a fierce teacher - I call it Ms. Leung style. I cannot say the one I had chosen flatters me butit makes me look more like an OL and more gentle (this is what Jeff said). It even magnifies my eyes. No worry, I will post my book after I take the glasses from the shop.

It is really strange that while my vision is becoming blurred, Jeff's short sight improved. He has checked his eyes that day but found that he got no more short sight. We wonder the problem is offset by the aging of his eyeball muscle.

Luckily I do not have to wear the glasses every moment, I only need it when working and reading books.

Don't get us wrong, not everyone wants to marry tycoon

I am annoyed by the Hong Kong media. They think that every girl in Hong Kong is jealous to Cathy Chui because she can tie a knot with Mr. Lee, the son of a tycoon. It seems that the press believes marrying a rich guy is the ultimate goal of all Hong Kong women.

Amy is one of my favorite magazines, but I cannot believe the editors are so shallow... in the current volume they teach readers how to do a make up that can attract sons of billionaires… I feel so disappointed to them.

In Fashion and Beauty magazine Jan 07 vol., the chief editor wishes that all readers can become another Cathy Chui. She really overestimates the number of tycoon in Hong Kong.

Some insurance and financial institutions promote that an education fund for kids is important because Cathy’s parents spent so much to send her to study oversea, in order to cultivate a charming and intellectual lady, and eventually get a chance to marry someone who has good fortune …. Those financial ‘experts’ claim that this is a high return investment because the parents had only spent HK$5,000,000 and then receive more than a billion bride price. What the hell is happening in their mind? What is the ultimate goal of education? What kind of value that Hongkongese commonly believe?

Some newspapers and magazines attack Cathy and her parents and try to convey a message that they are greedy people. Well, I do think marriage is a person’s or two families’ business, can you guys mind your own?

I am not a feminist, but I do think all these tips and information belittled women. We are not born to marry an affluent person, especially nowadays.

It is so disgusting.

iPhone

Those apple guys are gurus of product design. iPhone is definitely the most fabulous gadget and change the concept of mobile phone from now on. Its innovative design plus the captivating outlook no doubt captures the hearts of 86% of men and 74% of the female segment of age groups 12+. (well I make the figures up, don't take it seriously)

I bet that in the soon future guys who used to use laptops in coffee shop will no longer show off their computers, because it would be perceived as outdated. Instead, the majority of them will be watching Prison Break in their flashy iPhones in a cozy big sofa, especially when there is an English-speaking young lady with gigantic ear rings sitting in the next table. The flavour of that cup of coffee is, as usual, not that important at all.

This is the essence of coffee culture here.

An unusual sense of humour

Sometimes I think my female boss Kelly Larry is bitchy (She admits this point, she says all women are bitchy), but I do admire her unusual sense of humour.

It is about a girl in our department who has 'special' art sense especially on colour combination of clothes (at least 3 different and contradicting colours appear on her body everyday). She forgot to send out the report to Kelly and made up a story that the Earthquake in Taiwan blocked the file delivery in the email system. Then Kelly threathened that girl if she could not send out the report in the next day, she will not allow her to wear colourful clothes anymore....

This is the most painful punishment for that girl, but is really amusing to all of us.