For those who work in the support/service field, I believe they definitely face the same issues as I'm facing almost everyday. People just tend to runaway from their responsibility and always push the blame to other people. Just like few moments ago, an IT guy of one of my client called me to ask for the reason on why the error occurred.

IT: "Can I speak to xxxx?"
Me: "Sorry, he is not in the office. You are?"
IT: "I'm blah blah blah from blah company. I have some issue with the payroll system."
Me: "Ok, may I know what is the error?"
IT: "The user cannot login. I have created a new userid with administrator access."
Me: "Could it be the permission prob...."
IT: "NO! I have given the administrator permission."
Me: "Err....well"
After I paused for a while...
IT: "Ok, nevermind. I will call back again tomorrow."

Few moments later...

IT: "Hello, I'm blah blah from blah company."
Me: *thinking* that moron again. "Yes, may I know what is the problem?"
IT: "Yeah I'm having blah blah problem...are you the one whom I spoke to just now?"
Me: "Yes"
IT: "Oh ok. Well I did try to login using the previous userid and it works."
Me: "That mean could be something to do with the user permission..."
IT: "No! It is exactly the same permission."
Me: *thinking* I'm going to kill this moron... "Ok, if like that case. I will need to use the remote access to check but not now." (main reason is it only left 15 minutes to off work time)
IT: "Ok, when will it be?"
Me: "Friday. Is it ok?"
IT: "Yeah sure."

Call ended.

Who is escaping the responsibility now? Me or him? You tell me? I'm trying to help him by giving suggestion and he kept on talk like the fault definitely on our software. How could it be? Oh man...whatever.

Today, I had a look back on my current life. I got to use the word I always use, MESS! Nothing to be impressed of. Overall rating: BELOW AVERAGE. LOL. Let me break them into three main categories: Career, Spiritual, Relationship.

a) Career
I'm working at my current post for almost a year and I like my job for the firs. t time ever. I'm enjoying what I'm doing now but financially I'm still sucks. I always stick to my dream to start my own business and my brain thinks nonstop 24/7. I couldn't or never had a proper sleep since I joined this society. And now recession strikes the world. You can see jobless people everywhere. Anyway, I'm thankful I still able to sustain my job. A lot of business ideas ran through my mind but none of them being brought to the reality. Hanging over there...because I have no guts to do? May be I think.

b) Spiritual
I'm happy because I found a cool church to serve to. I did my very best to please my heavenly Father and He did bless my life. Now, I put more responsibilities on my shoulders to spread His gospel. I try to do it on my favorite way which is through sports ministry. So far not much being done and I'm still not sure whether I'm able to accomplish the missions I promised to do for Him. All I can do is pray hard and do everything with my heart.

c) Relationship
As usual, rejection after rejection. As time goes by, it just never gets better. I'm so easily fall in love to a girl. I did my best to court her but in return, I took all the embarrassments. I always said to myself "I can take it" but the fact is I'm badly hurt inside. Nobody knows, only God knows. Hit after hit and it's getting harder after one another. Yet I'm standing still. I'm not sure how long I can stand it anymore. Perhaps one day I should just fall to the ground and take a good pause on it.

However, life still goes on.

This will be my first post for this blog for the past three months. You might not realized this, actually time FLIES. For the past few months, I describe it as the periods to rebuild my relationship with God. After I moved to the new house, the challenges just came nonstop. I was given more responsibilities in doing God’s work. I learned so much on how to be a good servant for Him. However deeper in my heart, the eagerness to have my own business is never decreased.

The world is facing the economy crisis. Almost everyday, you can see or read from the news. All the big companies are doing everything necessary to cut off the costs, especially in production and manufacturing. That means more and more people will lost their jobs. In November last year itself, more than 500,000 Americans lost their jobs. Who will be next to being fired? God knows that. Same to me, I’m worry to lose my job as well. For those who have commitments, such as car loan, house loan, personal loan, and so forth, they have to worry if the bank will take their property away because they didn’t pay off the loan. Another famous killer would be Credit Card. More and more people became the slaves or victims of credit card. You don’t pay, bank will go after you.

Everyone is predicting what would happen in the new year of 2009. What do you think? Most of them said, year 2009 would be a tougher year compare to last year. All of us are preparing for the worst to come. The funny thing is, my mind never stop spinning and thinking. What business can be run at this kind of circumstances? Haha, perhaps God will give me some hints.

Anyway, I want to wish all the best to all of you out there. Do not give up and keep moving forward. “Where there is a will, there is a way”

I saw this advertisement in the newspaper this morning when I was on the way to work. I found it really creative and interesting. Actually I knew it few months ago regarding the control released by Microsoft in order to fight the software piracy, but I never pay any attention to it (I'm using Windows Vista now). Today this advertisement really attracted my attention.

In fact few months ago, not long after Microsoft launched the control, the "experts" all over the world straightaway responded to the threat by posting all kind of solutions to "clear" the black screen. Indirectly, they are showing Microsoft that no matter what they do, their software still can be pirated. Therefore, Microsoft responded to the challenge by came out with this advertisement. >>>Find out more here about the black screen.

The software piracy of Windows XP is really common all over the world. Consumer can just get the pirated copy everywhere, through the market or can be downloaded online. I just wonder, why only after so many years then only Microsoft decided to stop this? Funny right? Anyway, I wish all the best to Microsoft, as well as to all the users of the pirated Windows XP.

Have you found your real soul mate? How did you know he or she is the Mr or Ms right for you? What aspects will you put into considerations before you make your choice? I believe a lot of people struggled to get an answer for this question. In fact, there is no right or wrong answer. All I can say, it is all depend on you. You choose how do you want to live your life. There is no life such as happy ever after. That only happens in fairytale.

Daddy
My dad, one of the guy in my life who impressed me so much in a lot of thing. His advice for me is "Get a job with stable pay. Then find a girl and get to know her better. Next, get married and form a family". I'm sure this is the perfect plan for most of the parents. But, try to stop and take a look at the circumstances around you. Financial crisis is everywhere. If you take the wrong step, you will drown in your own debts. Do you want to get your love one to suffer with you? I share with my dad about my thinking. He always disagreed with me and said that, one of the main purpose to get a soul mate is to share the burden with you. Both of the husband and wife must work hard together to overcome the difficulties. So what can I say? His explanation is make sense and reasonable. Do I have a better suggestion than him? The answer is NO.

Perfect soul mate?
I always want to stick to my own mindset which is having my own business before I engaged myself into a marriage. I used to discuss with my friend about getting the suitable soul mate for ourselves. Both of us agreed that having the similar mindset is one of the important aspect. If both of the husband and wife having similar mindset in working out something together, then the marriage will be blessed. Besides that, encouragement and support is significant in sustaining a marriage. If one party keep on complaining on what has being done by another party, endless arguments will happen and most of the time will be ended up with a divorce. Therefore, mutual agreement is needed.

So, Conclusion?
I don't really know how to conclude this article. Think twice before engaged yourself into a marriage. In Asia, divorce is not a common thing to do. So most of the time, we will think more and much longer. What I mean is in US, the divorce rate is much higher. No offend to anybody but you guys knew that right? I'm not bluffing. See below.

The divorce rate in America for first marriage, vs second or third marriage
50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.”

According to enrichment journal on the divorce rate in America:
The divorce rate in America for first marriage is 41%
The divorce rate in America for second marriage is 60%
The divorce rate in America for third marriage is 73%

Or see this: http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/countries-by-highest-divorce-rate.html

So think wise~