Learned Helplessness, developed by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman. This theory, backed up by years of research, is that a great deal of depression grows out of a feeling of helplessness: the feeling that you cannot control your environment.

The more you feel that you can control your environment, and that the things you do are actually working, the happier you are. When you find yourself frustrated, angry, and upset, it’s probably because of something that happened that you could not control. – Quoted from Joel Spolsky

At times I’ll find myself whistling, humming a happy melody on the way to work, and I couldn’t wait until I get my hands start punching away the keyboard working on the program I stopped half way yesterday. On the contrary, at times I feel like a deadman dragging myself to the office, and THAT is the time I wouldn’t be productive at all the whole damn day, surfing forums, reading blogs, chatting and ranting about life and shit.

I just realized I’ve this Learned Helplessness after reading Joel’s article. The time when I’m so eager to goto work, there must be a program that I’m very eager to look into it; The time when I’m like a dead living corpse, it’s when I hit some damn program bugs ( or debug SAP standard ) which I’ve been debugging for the whole day and couldn’t find a solution.

So by knowing myself better, I know how to farking deal with it when I came across myself acting the way I shouldn’t be. =]

Okie…back to debugging…

P/S: I hate IE and user exits. Cheers.

Firegesture is one of the Firefox extension I can’t surf without, it has totally blended into my daily surfing life that I’d feel handicap without it.

You can execute various commands and user scripts with five types of mouse gestures:
- Mouse Gestures (Move mouse with holding right-click)
- Wheel Gestures (Scroll wheel with holding right-click)
- Rocker Gestures (Left-click with holding right-click and vice versa)
- Keypress Gestures (Mouse gesture with holding Ctrl / Shift key)
- Tab Wheel Gestures (Scrolling wheel on the tab bar)

Additionally, you can install and make your own scripts to add functions

Summary: It offers mouse gesture commands which you could trigger easily without having to click on the exact buttons on your browser to execute a command.

Say you wanna open the search result in a new tab:
- right click on the link
- move your mouse down
- release right click

There, you got the link opened in a new tab, easy?

You can also write your own scripts to customize your own needs, or just head over to Fire Gesture official website for some predefined scripts. There’s a whole list of commands you can execute just by your mouse, I’ll leave it for you to explore.

Oh wait, you’re using IE? Then you really should really try out Firefox, there’s a reason why Firefox overtakes IE6 in market share

* IE got plugins for mouse gesturing too, go google

A lot of you asked how my office looks like, well just imagine your primary or high school back in the old days…

Similiar..isn’t it? Reminds me of Chung Ling haha

So I work in one of the room inside the ’school’.

I’ll have to walk until the end of the corridoor and turn right to reach the toilet, why I will not be surprise if there’s poo along the corridoor one day wahhaha

I miss my previous company toilet…a lot of people like to sleep inside the toilet, it’s clean, dry and air-conditioned, you know who you are!

I followed my cousin to Johor today as I’ve never been there.

Poor motorcyclist…hot and f*cked…

We went to a few mall and there’s this shop…

This shop sells lotta fake branded stuff…from TAG, Omega watches to LV, Prada, Couch etc stuff, even fake Zippo lighters haha

See the mirror in the middle of the pic? It can actually be opened up and once you stepped inside, you’ll be surrounded by all those fake branded stuff.

I take these pictures of cause without the shopkeeper’s consent, I wonder if he saw me taking pictures or my skills are so 1337 ?

Anyhow it’s not cheap too…it costs a few hundreds at least for a medium bag there.

Stupid Brandy the dog popping out its head to ‘tangkap’ the view from16th floor ==

8th Nov – Finally I’ve gotten my employment pass from the evil time waster MOM, thanks to my cousin and his wife who fetched me to MOM early in the morning on a wet raining Saturday. As an appreciation to their kindness, I treated them breakfast. Dim Sum! I’ve forgotten the restaurant name, Red Star or something?

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I had this for dinner…I couldn’t finish it anyway…

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And this is Brandy the stupid dog’s face looks like whenever you’re eating something…

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I started working onna monday, which coincidentally my boss is on MC…no one else knows if a laptop is allocated for me or even where should I be sitting. So I spent my first day of the day reading stuff on my handphone and the farking battery dried out not long after lunch, so I switched to my k800i and browse around the pictures in it until…my k800i’s battery also almost dried out! fark…

To summarize, I spent my day drying out 2 handphone batteries to entertain myself from boredom!
I had dinner with my cousin etc at Botak Jones western food, I was damn hungry that I ordered a large fish n chip which costs SGD12.50, and later on I was cursing that I was damn full…haha

Lesson of the day: Always bring your charger out…and don’t order large fish n chips at Botak John!