new job, new life, but more of the same wacky stories

So with the new job, I’ve been determined to work on this so-called “Work-Life Balance”. <insert blaring trumpets> It seems to be this huge craze in the corporate world. Something about a healthy mind brings the top game. Apparently, working 20 hours a day as per the Chinese culture is not healthy, but I wonder what does working 9-5 then scheduling exercise, dinner with friends, drinks with friends, movies, shopping for the occasional event gift, going to do more drinking at friends’ place is really that much healthier. Mmmm somehow, it feels like I’m trading off early blindness and arthritis with liver and diabetic problems. (Yes, drinking doesn’t ONLY entail alcohol. There’s alot of bubble tea involved as well.)

Nonetheless! I still have my funny stories to share. So here are two particular email exchanges that I have promised to post:

Personality Test
This came from an email thread that discussed a personality tested, posted by the individual that is described here. You can find the personality test here: http://www.kisa.ca/personality.

Of course, to preface this conversation as well, we have a certain individual in our social group (*coughs*CaptainKirk*coughs*) that is rather fond of tazers. Now this is a sensitive topic due to the near-recent events of a man that was tazered to death at the airport, so I will treat this topic with care and say no more. But our dear Captain Kirk, on the other hand, seems to have developed an even more unholy passion for the little device afterwards, as demostrated by this convo that Chyly described, later on in the email thread. (Don’t ask me how we got from personality test to that.)

From Chuly
Here is my imagination for [Captain Kirk] on the big screen…

Anchor woman: In today’s highlight, we have a suspect running…
[Captain Kirk] : Tazer him.
Anchor woman: Later Prime Minister Chu…
[Captain Kirk] : Tazer him.
Anchor woman: Translink board decided…
[Captain Kirk] : (With Cramer’s mad money scene) *press buttons&* Tazer them, tazer them! Tazer now!
Anchor woman: Our special guest today is…
[Captain Kirk] : Already tazered.
Anchor woman: ICBC today announced…
[Captain Kirk] : Tazer them!
Anchor woman: The airport authority…
[Captain Kirk] : Used tazers appropriately?

And Captain Kirk’s response to this:
WOW.
I just hurt myself laughing out loud.
That was epic [Chuly], epic!

Promotion

No, I got a new job but not quite a promotion so this conversation wasn’t about me. This was about Mr. Chuly who sorta got a promotion, taking over for honjai’s previous team lead position. Of course, I sent an email right away to congratulate him. His response:

“I will go through a workout, then become lean, then I will join the seven sigma methodology to develop a bigger, fatter, and spikier head than our boss’s.”

Now, honjai has has spiky hair that he likes to gel up every morning. (Somehow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it otherwise, except for baby photos. Yes I’ve seen baby and kid photos. Bwhahaha!) He’s also joked about how he can develop into a pointy headed boss (pointed head sideways, aka Dilbert’s boss. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. So that puts the previous comment into some context I hope.

Of course, I had the pleasure to forward this on to honjai directly. And honjai’s response?

“You might not be able to handle it. We wouldn’t want you to turn into Timmy with A.D.D. and a wheelchair. There are also known problems with disproportionate head to body ratios and you’re as skinny as a stick already.”

And attached is the following pic:

And that’s it for now! More updates to come!

~ by darksilvercorbi on June 16, 2008.