The perennial problem with PR

No one leaves office on time.

And it's not that we're all workaholics right?

So we've planned this great CEO outing to do some bowling, after dinner at Chillis. But..despite ML's marching back and forth and shouting "Get off your PCs!"no one bothered.

Argh. Stuck in Kuching Airport.

Guys, I am coming in late tomorrow.

See this:

Lights Off. We're Going Green Today!

In conjunction with the Global Earth Day, we've decided to help save some energy by working with natural lights. You know, we've got ample (burning hot) sunshine here in Malaysia and the way our office is designed allows for that to happen. All lights are switched off, until it's about to rain when it gets quite dark.

Quite cool. How much energy we actually saved, I've no idea but I've done my part. We've all done our part. Someone has suggested the followings as an extention of this exercise, which other companies can easily adopt, but there are some limitations:

• Switch off the aircon - I'll be the first one to object, coz the office would stink like a post-office
  
• All go out for lunch, switch off lights, switch off aircon - nobody's moving their ass when this was brought up
  
• All work from home - "you'll still turn on the lights at home, what's the difference?" plus, you'll slack
  
• Plant trees - our China office did it, isn't this Bandaraya's job?
  
• Ditch a car day - haha, comments from someone we know, "I can't. I have meetings, if I take a train I won't be able to make it back to the office on time." Hello... it's collective effort.

Well, well... we're supposed to celebrate Earth Day, but why it sounds like it takes a lot more energy to save some energy? :D

(P.S.: This is written while I'm still in the office after work, with lights turned on. Looks like I'm not contributing at all...)

Front or Back?

It was 8+pm and we (Sashi, Eevon, and myself) were leaving the office after a long day on Monday. As it rained very heavily the whole afternoon, the outside corridor of the office was flooded and had an inch (or more??!?) of water. Not puddles, mind you. Crap!

Seriously, I don’t know how our colleagues who left earlier walked out without getting wet. The three of us looked at each other, thinking how not to get wet. We’re not prima donnas (Sashi, don’t worry, we know you’re not a prima donna :P) but really, Eevon and I were on high heels and long trousers and we hate to get our feet wet.

So, what we did was ...

Yes, inching our way out.

Eevon asked me a question. And a difficult decision to make. To sacrifice boobs or my bum. -_-

I’m usually quite proud of my well endowed assets but in situations like this especially, there were three seconds of regret because the more endowed a persons’ assets, the chances of getting across to the other side of the corridor, pressing flat against the wall, is likely to be low.

So, yeah, I had my boobs pressed against the wall, trying hard to balance myself on the mini space between the wall and the flood water. *Sigh* In my efforts to inch my way along the wall to the other side, I heard my two beloved colleagues laughing their heads off. [Eevon, Sashi : I’m glad I provided you with the entertainment. :P ]

One lesson learnt : Nothing can put down a Textie ;)