that time of the year

tomorrow we'll get the annual bonus together with the monthly pay. that is to say, 3 months salary at one go. 3 months salary!! that'll effectively sums up to make an extra digit out of the normal month.

cool right? i wish i could get this more than once a month. every quarter at least would be great. god knows i deserve it.

or do i? i worked very hard today at work to modify this perl script program. i was getting it ready for this newly coming device due next week. hit into error in the process and it took me half a day to find out that i accidentally replaced '$' with '@' sign.

urghh... i feel so stupid. i blame the keyboard maker for putting these two buttons near each other. They definitely do not deserve any bulk 3 months pay.

after work just now i went to for a dinner treat at olive tree grand continental hotel in bugis. remember the wedding that i became the videographer last month? our friend, the bride, gave us the treat as a thank you gesture.

it was a mediterranean buffet dinner. i've never considered this place for dining before because it's so expensive. i heard it's $50++ per head! and it's for mediterranean. i don't even know what kind of food they serve. is pasta mediterranean?

anyway, it's lucky that she got a friend working there, so she had like a 50% discount off the bill. which is really lucky because my verdict says, it's not worth dining there. unless you're, well, someone from the mediterranean and been eating this from inside the womb.

one thing that showed us we didn't belong there, was that they never labelled their food. so we kinda been left guessing the whole night, whether that piece of white dry squarish thingy was chicken, or fish, or even a very very pale piece of beef.

seriously.

so tell me if i'm gonna be upbeat to go for another dining event tomorrow at lunch. it's the annual lunch treat we throw to the engineering assistants who help us through-out the year doing all those crappy too-much-hassle work stuff we think not worth doing ourselves.

because it's gonna be italian. sigh. frankly i'd rather go to pizza hut but what say do i have in this matter? we might as well come to work the next day with the word 'cheapskate' printed on our forehead.

no matter how nice a combination it would be with the dollar sign in the middle of my iris after seeing my bank account total tomorrow.



...ed