Appreciations

前兩個星期是公司大廈的 tenant appreciation day and this week is the company’s employee appreciation week.

先說說上年的 appreciation 吧.

2013

Tenant Appreciation
上年在大廈的 main floor 擺 continental 早餐，有 muffin 呀，cookies 呀，水果呀，果汁呀，croissants呀，coffee呀等等等等.

Employee Appreciation
上年有早餐，almost a full breakfast, 有蛋啦，french toast 啦，bacon 啦，薯仔啦，果汁咖啡啦。我差唔多到個早餐時段就黎完先去食，都仲有好多選擇。
There was also a pizza lunch last year, I think. Nothing too memorable but at least there was nothing to complain about.

2014

Tenant Appreciation
安排了幾個 vendor 喺度賣 discount 嘢，eg. crossfit gym membership, some sort of skin care products, jewelleries, some discount entrance to places like paintball, legoland, wild water kingdom etc., some health booth that show case their massage and other services.
It’s nice to have discount, but the thing is, why do they want me to spend more money on tenant appreciation day?!

Employee Appreciation

1. Got donut and coffee one morning. Definitely a downgrade from last year. I didn’t get there late or anything but when I got there, there’s no trace of coffee and there were only three little Tim boxes of donuts. I was actually expecting some muffin as well but it really was just donuts ONLY.  And the choices were pathetic.
2. There was also a pizza lunch. There’s a station set up on each floor. But the problem was that someone was serving out the pizza. They were those square pizzas cut into little squares. They gave us only two pieces each and no more.  There were only choices of either pepperoni or veggie. I didn’t bring lunch that day cos I thought there’s pizza lunch.  Me and my colleague were seriously thinking about having to go buy some food after those two little cheap ass squares.  Luckily, after a while, they announced that we could go for second because there was then some leftover. We went over for another two slices but they gave us one normal size _small_ piece and then one other piece that was half the size of the normal small piece. I could eat that tiny piece in two bites. I’m not kidding. It was so small. And half of that tiny piece was the crust!!! My colleague, who is a guy, said that he needed to eat 20 pieces that size in order to get full.
   And the way they set up the station in the hallway is that we went to get our pizza and then we went back to our cubicles to eat. There was no standing room, didn’t create any opportunity for socializing. It’s ok for me cos I don’t socialize anyway. But before we merged office, we used to have BBQ (hamburger, hotdogs, salads, chips, cookies etc.) and we sit at the picnic tables to enjoy the summer heat.
3. Ice cream day – got an ice cream sandwich. Not too bad. At least it was what was expected, which wasn’t much, given the disappointment in the last two events.
4. There was also lucky draw throughout the week but being me, having no luck in any sort of draw, won nothing. So it was as if it never happened.

Seriously not impressed this year. I don’t feel appreciated and I definitely don’t appreciate their appreciations. I mean, 咁 cheap 不如唔好做啦，要做就唔好 cheap 得咁緊要好唔好？你唔做我冇 expectations 就唔會唔高興啦。

唔駛做架?

The way I watch FIFA is to time my gym time at work to roughly the match I want to see. I can only see part of a match this way because I can’t take that much time working out during office hour but it’s better than nothing.

Guess I’m not the only one who does it. The gym is usually empty at those hours in the afternoon (I don’t go at regular time. Just whenever work is slow so I can sneak away) but when there’s a game, ppl will show up.

The thing is, some of these ppl I have never seen in the gym before. And most of these ppl don’t even pretend that they are there for the workout. There are a few types of ppl who show up:

1. Ppl who come down in their dress pants and dress shoes, simply standing right in front of the TV to watch the game.
2. Ppl who pretend to be working out or stretching. Some hold on to a dumbbell or some other equipment but they really are just taking up the equipment and not really moving. Some of them really just treat the exercise bench as a chair for them to sit to watch TV.  最頂癮的是那些 chinese dudes, who just do the 轉腰 (like those 晨運客 in the park). They probably think that they are stretching, 但佢哋真係可以扭腰扭足四十五分鐘，好腰力！
3. Some uses the stationary bike or the elliptical.  Almost look like they are working out but the ‘workout’ intensity, I suspect, is no more than, say, walk to the washroom for a pee.
4. Most of the above are men. There are also a couple ignorance ladies who came but know nothing about soccer. I am not talking about the technicality of 越位 but one of them still thinks that Beckham is still in the UK national team… And they do not know how long is the game or anything. They really just came down to comment on the 靚仔 and to chat up the other ppl in the gym. Altho, to give them some credits, these ladies do actually do some exercise while watching and they work a little harder than Group 3 above.
5. Ppl who are regulars and simply switched their time of workout to game time.

人多都唔緊要，我至唔鐘意既就係呢Ｄ唔係做 gym 既人不停咁 comment，超煩囉。你以為自己係講波佬牙？？一係就係嗰Ｄ女既問埋Ｄ白痴嘢，然後個男既就好似 expert 咁解釋一番，煩到爆。

有Ｄ人又開到個電視鬼死咁大聲，痴架咩！聾gar？！

I kinda understand the regulars cos they have budgeted the time for workouts anyway. But what about those that I don’t know even know if they have the gym membership? 佢哋真係喺度睇足半埸架喎，唔駛 do 架？

偷閒日

星期一請了半日假落 midtown 同詹占食 lunch 兼睇 Neth vs Chile.

很有情趣吧！哈哈...

基本是不是太精彩，只係找個藉口放吓自己假。

亦都無睇足全場，因為我放假啫，但要放詹占番去挨騾仔。

但都睇到１球入球，ＯＫ啦。

我蠻like Neth 的，主因係佢哋好橙好耀眼既球衣，哈，其次是我個人覺得佢哋通常都頗主動的，通常 resulting in a pretty exciting game to watch.

Spain 都終於入了球，但好明顯成間餐廳無人睇那同時間進行的比賽，因為入了球到重播的時候也沒喝采聲，反觀 Neth/Chile almost 入球都會有驚呼或喝采聲，我亦都係無意間眼尾看到那間電視才知道他們入球了。

覺得他們好可憐，人情冷暖呀，話知你係上界有多利害，今次出局了，就沒人理了。

但都為佢哋高興，起碼有入球，不用成為第一支上界冠軍但今界一球也沒有而蹄造歷史。

很喜歡偷閒的生活。 可能是因為是偷來的吧...

彊屍先生？！

https://vine.co/v/MtJJp0i1Ebj/embed

真奇怪的辟好。

堂堂一個大男人，幾十個鏡頭影住，唔係會以為人哋睇唔到吧...

聽閒好像不是第一次的事...

爆粗，打人出氣，甚至是施丹當年的頭頂心口，我都尚可以明白，但究竟係乜嘢原因會令一個成年人咬人呢？

諗唔通...

Edit:

詹占 sent me this after I shared the above with him. Some of the older clips of this guy. The writer of the article is pretty funny, too, I found.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_spot/2014/06/13/world_cup_jerks_uruguay_s_luis_suarez_is_the_most_entertaining_horrible.html

FIFA 2014

Finally watched my first match on Monday.  It’s good that I’m in NA, not HK that I don’t have to stay up at night to watch the matches but then the matches happens during working hours so I need to to somehow sneak off in order to watch.

I was bad. I turned on the live stream at the corner of one of my monitor to watch Germany vs Portugal.  To my disappointment Portugal lost 4:0. 有冇搞錯! But it' was kinda nice that I did manage to see two of the goals. Nothing spectacular tho.

Also watched most of Brazil vs Mex on Tuesday in the gym at the basement of the office (more to say about some other time). Brazil 搞乜? I used to be a Brazil fan, 曾幾何時. But they disappointed me again and again and I have kinda given up on them… I still would like to see them do well tho. 加油呀.

Didn’t watch any yesterday. Was planning to but then work got super ultra busy so I can’t get away.

Planning to see England vs Uruguay this afternoon. I’ll see if I have time. It could be the end of England if they don’t deliver. Well… I guess same to Uruguay.

None of the game I’ve watch was particularly exciting so far tho.

Speaking of unspectacular game, this is truly spectacular:

http://9gag.com/gag/aAY8ReZ?ref=fb.s.mw

夏日終於來到了

我通常係唔會抱怨天氣的，但今個冬季實在係凍得過份了點點，又長了點點，連春季都係好凍。

呢兩日終於都熱起來呀，出門也不用著外套。爽耶！

但其實都有點奇怪，一係就好凍，一係就熱到成三十度。

可惜今年踏不了車，又無得去 camping，很慘。

不過可能會同小Ｊ backyard camping 補償一下。

Another Talking Record

granono bar – granola bar

Song:
洗衣衣，洗 toou toou, 洗 poou poou… （一邊唱，一邊還有做動作）

現在還懂說笑話：

In the car, the ball that’s supposed to be taken to daycare was right next to the car seat but 詹占 has forgotten where it was. Half way to daycare…
小Ｊ：Where the ball?
詹占，looked at the passenger seat: Oh no, we must have left it at home!
And then 詹占 turned around, and saw the ball sitting right next to 小Ｊ，"The ball is right next to you. Why did you ask?"
小Ｊ：I made a jokey thing！
然後自己笑。

Another day in the car on the way to daycare…
小Ｊ：Where are we going?
詹占: You know where.
小Ｊ：To restaurant!
然後自己講完又自己笑，吹佢唔脹。