BBQ Chicken Rice plus Rice
Running out of lunch budget for the month. Almost a week of lunch on slightly bourgeois lunch. My norm would be under RM5.
But today, I had a well spent RM6.50 of the month. BBQ Chicken Rice + Nasi tambah, at Chow Food Court, The Weld.
First of all, the juicy and well-marinated sweet BBQ chicken is simply delicious. I have very little vocabulary for gourmet. The rice by itself is already a meal on its own. Multiplied by two. The chicken lasted the whole two bowls of rice, with one piece saved for the last bite. The nasi tambah was actually more than the “original” rice, and costs RM1 more, hence the RM6.50 price tag.
People who takes more rice on lunches have to try this one. It will make your day.
Laws of Work
Productive employees Robots have three laws.
Three Laws of Robotics
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
- A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
* replace “human beings” with managers.
And for the rest of us normal humans, we have more laws.
Dilbert’s Laws of Work
- If you can’t get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights.
- A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
- Don’t be irreplaceable; if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
- It doesn’t matter what you do, it only matters what you say you’ve done and what you’re going to do.
- After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
- The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
- You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
- Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
- When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
- If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
- There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the boss asks for a ride home from the office.
- Keep your boss’s boss off your boss’s back.
- Everything can be filed under “miscellaneous.”
- Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.
- To error is human, to forgive is not our policy.
- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he/she is supposed to be doing.
- Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
- If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
- You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
- People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn’t.
- If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
- At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.
- When you don’t know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
- Following the rules will not get the job done.
- Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules.
- When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, “How would the Lone Ranger handle this?”
- No matter how much you do, you never do enough.
- The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.
- And lastly, ‘responsible management’ and “hands-on management’ are both oxymorons
So, it’s actually harder *not* to be productive. Really.
