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Friday, Dec 15, 2006 - 23:59 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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For Whom The Dell Toils

Been on an 8:30-to-5:30 gig since Tuesday, as a Data Entry Zombie ® on a project basis. Watched A Battle Of Wits on Monday at Jurong Point after a Mos Burger dinner. Didn't know what to expect since I didn't look it up, and ended up five minutes into he movie before I realised that it had started and was not just another trailer. Wanted to visit the library before that, but found that it had moved. Sheesh.

So it was about an Ink-man (okay, Mohist, but literal translations like Simon the Snow-Blower for 西门吹雪 are still best) who arrives alone to help defend the City of Liang from the big bad Zhao Army passing by on the way to invade the State of Yan. History tells us that Qin will crush them all pretty soon, so it was of no consequence in the larger scheme of things.

An interesting observation was the steadfastedness of Mr Ink-man in refusing to surrender or even negotiate, despite his school seemingly having a pacifist bent. Perhaps the prevailing practice of the day was for the invaders to loot and burn the capitulated, so it was never an option in the first place. A millenia later, Genghis Khan got the right idea - for the paltry sum of a tenth of everything (standard package) and tribute thereafter (support plan), the Mongols would leave the place unscathed. Resistance was rewarded by wholesale slaughter, excepting the customary handful of wild-eyed survivors who would spread the news (word-of-mouth marketing). Well, it was that sort of age.

Dragged myself up at the unearthly hour of 7 a.m. the next day for the first day at work, which I soon learned was little more than mindless button-bashing. Ah well.


Extremely rare video of person at work, actually working! (Credit Alvin)

Got a lift to Settler's Cafe by wm together with triceo, colin and smk that night. Tried out the classic Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride and Blokus. Settlers in particular gave me some inspiration. Hopefully I can get onto it soon.


15 PGP, chalet-like on the outside
(from my phone, thanks to new CA-42 cable)

The working environment's decent enough; We get our very own cubicles with Dell terminals, with good air-conditioning, vital since I really seem to operate better when the temperature is cold. Internet access too, so we won't get too bored; It's on a project basis though, so slacking off will just extend our tenure - not that good an idea. Still, four days of copy-paste-tab-tab-enter-code-tab-update-date-tab-enter-attributes is enough to make one go mad. And we're only half done. More to come on this, surely.



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