SPSS

SPSS: Smart, Pretty, Sexy, Sassy. I wish!

This is one of the few times when I'm blogging cos of boredom. Doing some work now, waiting for some stupid program to run.. so boring... 20 million records and counting.. if 10,000 records take 1 second to process, then 1 million records would take 100 seconds, and 2 million records would take 200 seconds, which rounds down to 3 minute. Then 20 million records would take, hmm, let me see, 30 min?? Shit.. is that why there has been no movement in my computer for the past 10 min??

I'm using two laptops now, one for running the stupid spss, and the other one connected to the net, to msn, to 933. My colleagues like to call the dell computer (which I am using to run the damn program) as 'the Big Boy'. So called because of its processing power. 'Hha hha, very funny...' Wait till you have to bring it home everyday.. Bloody heavy machine.. weighs like a brick.


Went to the supermarket near my place after work today. First time I go anywhere in KL. Usually after work I will be so tired that I just head back home and rest. But after my previous blog, I'm motivated to live the life I have always wanted to. Divya is so nice to show me the kind of things that I can try cooking on my own. Since I may be going back Singapore this weekend (again..), I will try to come home for dinner everyday. Bought chicken fillet, beef steaks and prawns. Also bought some seasonings and fruits. So excited to start cooking tomorrow! Too bad I didn't bring my camera. Else can take some pictures for keepsake.

Now everything is rather uncertain, because not sure whether my appeal for deferment will be approved. But regardless, just live one day at a time.


I wonder if any of you ever experience this: you are assigned something to do. Then because you are so good, you managed to do it in a tenth of the time which a normal person would. The next time you are assigned another piece of work, you are expected to perform the same kind of miracle again. Or consider this: you do the work in a quarter of the time expected, and make it look so easy. Then because you only worked for a small while, when you said that you are tired, people think you are slacking.. Or consider one more scenario: you are asked to do a piece of work, and you mention that you need a lot more time than what was initially planned. Mainly because you plan ahead and can foresee the potential difficulties that you may encounter. And your colleague commented that no way you would need so long to do such a 'simple' task...
Sigh.. Maybe I'm unlucky, or maybe I'm inefficient.. but I face this all the time in my work.. this task I'm doing now is supposed to just take 2 hours. It takes about 30 min just to convert the 50% of the files into a workable format... Hai... A little trust from your colleagues would be appreciated sometimes... :(
Sometimes I think everyone should learn about the big O stuff...

Damn tired... not even halfway through... knocking off... zzZZZZ