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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

B***H

I love my job but I hate the client.

Is it communication? Is it the culture? Or is it the environment?

She is extremely unreasonable and extremely childish!

What is the best way to deal with such person? Passive? Proactive? Submissive? Or Aggressive?

I am so at loss….

My current team is very small. Only myself and my PM(Project manager). To be honest, I wasn’t even suppose to be on this project. Their Singapore and Malaysia site had gone live but they still had some issues which caused quite abit of chaos from the previous consultant.

Their next rollout stop is to be Korea, Japan and Thailand. These destinations sound rather tempting don’t u think? It was to me initially, but my boss had wanted me to only settle their issues and assign me to another project.

Ironically, this client requested that I stay for their rollout. It was mixed feelings for me because she is one tough neck to handle.

I don’t mind demanding customers, to me, everyone has the right to be demanding, knowing what u want. But to be unreasonable and childish totally puts me off. And I hate the fact that she loves to threaten us by emphasizing that she is the paying client yada yada..

She thinks she’s shopping in a mall and that we’re all subjected to her requests without any questions asked! Not forgetting that we’re all her slaves just because she’s our client. She easily forgets that we’re all working professionals. If she’s so damn freaking good herself, why don’t she do the whole project herself?

She can’t handle her part of her task but yet blatantly put the entire blame on us. Is she a b***h or what? We are supposed to be in Korea for a demo last week, but cos of her, everything have to be shelved at the very last minute.

And that caused a lot of other shite to surface. I’m pissed because nobody wants to handle her and expects me to do it.

ARGHS!!!!!!!!!!!

Now…even my PM has resigned. Dooms day is so coming for me…

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Friday, October 05, 2007

Parents

Parents have a somewhat a love-hate relationship to me. I love them to death simply because they are my parents, they watched me grow up from a noisy little punk to a mature young lady(fingers crossed) and showered me with unconditional love whenever I needed them.

Times when I hate them is when they don’t respect my privacy, go through my things without my permission and when they take me for granted and always expect me to give and never giving me the benefit of the doubt.

These days I’ve been quite busy and never had the time to sit down with them for a proper dinner. These days I often eat at the table alone….

Last night I went out with dad to get breakfast for this morning. When we were at the lobby, he looked into the mirror and sighed…

“Aiyoh…my hair is getting thinner and lots of white hair….”

I looked at him closely and I realized that my dad has indeed aged a lot….much as I hate to deny this…his perfect eyesight is now failing and he needs glasses now. I had the sudden urge to hug him real tightly and hope he never grows old.

I remember as a kid…when I was notti, my dad would threaten that he is dying blar blar blar…I will start wailing like nobody’s business. I have been closer to my dad since a kid. And whenever he feels unwell and stuffs, he will say those funny things and make me cry. I think he has a sadistic way of finding out if I cared…LOL…

Anyway, as a kid, my number one “dream” was to grow up, be a doctor/inventor and come up with some sort of immortality pill for my parents so they can live forever! Well, that didn’t go very well as u can see…I’m neither a doctor nor an inventor now, only a common striving employee like all others.

As much as I hate to admit it…. my parents will one day leave me and my brother…..I dread the day I have to face that…but life is life…whatever that has to come has to come….

I’m just not looking forward to that day….

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