Roller-skating

A month plus into learning to roller-skate, it seems to have bear fruits. At the very least, I have learned how to stand up on the skates and able to skate!

Initially, wanted to take up a inline skating course at one of the community clubs, 70+ dollars for a couple of lessons, but, guess they couldn't get enough headcount to start a class. So, I was on my own.

Armed with the skates, protective gears, i.e. elbow and knee guards, helmet, I began skating around my neighbourhood.

Just yesterday, I lost focus and fell backwards, two little girls laughed. Well, lesson for new skaters, falling down is ok, don't worry and don't be embarrassed, it happens.

One more guy leaving...

We are going to lose another DBA soon. He got an offer to work in Europe, and a huge jump in his salary. The weird thing is that his wife and baby have recently just join him in this country, he's non-citizen here, by the way.

I guess many foreigners are just using their work experience here as a step board to venture out for a more lucrative career after working here for a while.

Well, if anybody out there is interested to work as a DBA, messing and playing with Oracle, MS SQL, Sybase, DB2, etc, send me your CV only if you are interested to work in this part of the world where I am in. Let me warn you, we don't pay as good as European or US companies, and working at unexpected hours is expected.

Yet another exercise

Went down to the DR site with the Unix admin who is supposed to take over my duty soon.

Day 1, not so bad, although encountered a problem with the setup, the system was unable to detect the tape (use 'mt stat') in the tape drive. Managed to get the site's DR specialist to help swap the drive connection to another SCSI port on the server. It worked! This issue took us almost 5hrs to resolve.

Day 2 ahead tomorrow, heard one of the customer's senior officers will be there....

Free, free, free from toxic wastes

The other time, I wrote about detox, cleansing the body of toxic wastes, and at the same time can lose some weight. The best program that I have found in the Internet so far is from chet Day's 21-day program. It can be downloaded from here --> http://chetday.com/21day.html

Actually, I don't want to lose weight, so, I have not start on this program, but, for the past few weeks, I have to trying out something different, a change in my eating habit.

In the morning, I will have a glass of Soya bean milk and two pieces of white bread, giving me about 600mg of Calcium ( daily recommended is 800mg). I ate a least 2 shares of fruits, apple, orange, pear, etc. and 2 shares of vegetables a day. I also try to have a light lunch, staying away from fried food.

I just want to take better care of myself......

Hand-over!

It's time. What time?

It's time for me to hand-over the HP Unix systems that I have been helping to managed for the past 2 months. Not that I am sick of them, but, I just can't manage it anymore, too much work, too much stress. Haha...

What did I say? I love my job, do my very best, but, I am not perfect. If people respect and treat me well, I am willing to put in that effort to help. Well, probably you have guessed it! Sometimes, it's just not worth it helping some people, they don't know how to appreciate it.

I'm currently researching into Shares investments, may be, in the next few weeks, I will share some of my experience in trading shares....