The days are longer now. And the weather is so unpredictable. UK experienced an earthquake, measure at 5.2 on the ritcher scale. This is my second year in UK and I had never known that earthquake do happened in UK.

One of my colleague said that it’s really hard to find suitable clothing to wear each day. The weather has been crazy and usually, it’s freezing in the morning and night but hot in the afternoon. But sometimes, it’s cold for the whole day.

My sister will be coming back tomorrow after a month in Malaysia. It must be relaxing and enjoying throughout the month for her; except for the weather which is HOT.

——————–
I find that Need for Speed: Carbon is a boring game to play. The career mode is short and not challenging at all. The graphic, in my opinion, is worst than Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The introduction of crew members does not make any difference. The city is always at night and the map is small, nothing much to explore. I felt the urge to become the No.1 blacklist when playing NFSMW but there is not directions when playing NFSC except winning matches. The only good thing is the addition or should I say re-addition of drifting.

I have stopped playing NFSC for two days in a row now and have switched to Ridge Racer 2 on my PSP. Just a few more races and Ridge Racer 2 will be completed. I guess I will install Midnight Club 2 this Saturday. Previously, I had completed 99% but due to my old computer specifications, everything slowed down at the last race. Having completed NFSMW and also finding the NFSC boring, I think I should proceed to Midnight Club 2.

‘Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anybody driving faster is a maniac?’
– George Carlin

I read this article from techrepublic.com. I must say that I agree with the author’s saying but the reason for me, posting here, is that I have some other things to add.

I believe that a lot of support staffs face something similar to what the author has described;

‘The best engineer in our office, for example, might be challenged with a computer issue that I might consider rather simple. He/she might call me when faced with the simplest of problems. On the other hand, there are those who are actually very computer savvy, and they require very little (or no) support; if they run into a glitch, they delve into it until they figure it out on their own.’

Even if it’s not the best engineer, IT support staffs will have the similar issues among themselves too. A friend of mine once asked what I will do should I not able to power up my computer. My immediate answer is to check whether the power cable is plugged properly or switched on. That was the question he got from an interviewer earlier and he couldn’t think of the answer at that time.

Well, this simply indicates that, I will always try something simple first before going into details, but my friend works differently. Eventually, we may find the same answer but who is quicker?

Sometimes, the problems do not depend on whether you are driving fast or slow. Indeed, everyone cannot be treated the same but as long as making everyone driving at the same direction, things will be different. However, that is equally hard to achieve, especially when the organization is huge.

Favoritism influences. It is somehow very hard for human to not judge a book by its cover. There are always things to comment and things to complain about a person who you do not favor much. No matter how fast or how slow that person drives, he/she still looks idiotic to you. When that person solves a problem, you might say it is by sheer of luck. When that person offers a helping hand, you might consider he/she busybody. Thus, equality is even further away. When a person’s mindset is fixed, somehow, it’s hard to change.

Even though we couldn’t create equality, but we are able to treat everyone with the same attitude which I believe, the same as creating equality in ourselves. The hardest thing of all, admit our own mistake and give credits to the one who deserves.

I am really fed up with the IT department here. First of all, when I first came to work, there wasn’t any instruction as in the IT equipment here, the application, where do I look for support, e-mail and stuffs like that. When I was an IT support previously, I spent at least 30 minutes explaining IT stuffs to new staffs. We later decided to even join in the induction which is organized every month for new staffs. But here; nobody cares. Problem-solving takes ages. They will call it day with 30 minutes left, and leave it until tomorrow.

And to add oil to the fire, one of the support just restarted my PC while I was at lunch without even informing me of anything. My flash drive is still plugged on the PC and Windows is locked when I left AND OBVIOUSLY, I HAVE NOT LOGGED OFF. They are here since morning, accessing the computers here just to install printer driver. Can’t they just inform us, users, to log off before going for lunch? They like to talk a lot but they can’t even make a simple announcement.

So, my files are not saved, but luckily my browser allows me to restore previous session. I am really speechless but I still want to say. I do not like to exaggerate things but it’s not how IT should operate, especially support staffs. They should understand that when the computer is locked, it should be left untouched. Otherwise, why should I leave it locked? As I said, it is only a task to install printer drivers and utilities and they had been doing it last week. They don’t even send emails but just coming in and out from the office.

Initially, I told Mee that the people here seemed to be more educated in terms of IT and the IT support staffs should have some easy days as they do not have to give very clear instructions. However, after today’s incident, it looks like even the IT support staffs do not even know their responsibilities. They certainly ruined my day.