Stupid Nail!

Well, I have two nail stories today. I'll start with the stupid nail and then the other type of nail. Confused? Read on...

I had a long day today. It started with me getting all prepared for the first meeting with Dato for the year 2008 at the factory. There were 6 of us and each and everyone of us got lectured by him maybe except for my assistant as she is still new. He went on and on from 10.30am to 2.30pm. We were all starving and hungry and he's still babbling away on his missions and visions. One thing for sure, we have to remember his jargons because he told us that he'll be using them to assess our performances. For example, "Don't be in gear 1, you should be in gear 2!" and "don't run on the spot". In short, we have to leave our comfort zone and move up to the next level. Can't believe I got f*cked the most with all the plans he wanted me to fulfill. He wants me to leave all my routine work to my assistant which I'm more than happy too as I'm pretty mush tied up doing all the petty stuff each day. He commented that I'm an overpay sales and marketing clerk. I say, I'm underpaid even for that position! Expectations are high and the worst thing is my unachievable KPI (Key Performance Index - where your increment and bonus is judged on). If you ask me to do RM2million sales for you, I'm pretty confident but asking me to fulfill the impossible, I'm flying the white flag already.

Well, at least someone is smart enough to order KFC for us in the office or I'll die there. At 3pm sharp, a group of students from UiTM Malacca came to my office for an assignment that they're supposed to do. They made an appointment to see me and my chef to get some answers for their advertising assignment on Fidani. Apparently, there are 300 students working on this assignment and so far we have seen 20 of them. 280 more to go if they are coming, phew! This is definitely free publicity for Fidani!

I left the office at about 5.30pm and my colleague told me that my car tyre has punctured! What a day! Lucky my factory is surrounded by many car workshops. When I say many, I mean really uncountable. Almost every row of shop houses are car workshops! I drove to the nearest one, just opposite the road across from my factory and had the tyre fixed. There was a big NAIL in the tyre that caused the tyre to be punctured. This is the first stupid nail story! Lucky my colleague informed me because I seldom check my car tyres before driving it. The patching job is done in 15minutes and it only cost RM5.

The worker inserting air into my punctured tyre

My poor darling have to be screwed unscrewed

The boss of the shop also told me that my tyres are not original Ford Escape tyres. Yeah, I told him that I just changed it from Michelin to the Yokohama. According to him, the original tyres are supposed to be the 245 type but my mechanic has changed a 215/45/17 for me. I didn't know that! I think when the tyres have worn out, I'll revert to the original ones as a bigger base will make the car a more stable and smoother ride. Hmm, I wonder how much they'll cost me.....


My new interest lately is painting my NAILS. Usually I only paint my toenails because I find that painting my nails is tedious and a continuous process as the nail colour gets washed off very easily except for the ones on the toenails. Recently, I have been amazed with Cheesie's work of art on her nails and I decided to discover my untapped talent in decorating nails. I don't think I'm so KuKu in this beauty department. Hence I painted my nails a while ago with a pink coat and then follow by glittering silver on the tips of the nails ala french manicure method. Then I used the tweezer from my sister's scrapbook making tool set to arrange the small plastic gemstones on my nails. The last step is to top it with a coat of the Sally Hansen Mega Shine to give it a shiny look as well as to secure the stones. Taada....

My masterpiece and my sister's Nokia N95

My nail decoration kit

This is the end of the story about nails.