Little-Wonder.Net - Personal domain and blog of Brenda Tan

Ries was right. She mentioned in the comments that notepad could be my best friend and sure enough - it really was. I’m currently drafting this entry at my workplace on notepad, to be uploaded when I reach home where I have a certain heavenly right called internet access. (Why didn’t I think of this earlier?) And later, I think I’m going to take a walk.

In between coding (mySQL, mySQL and more mySQL plus new syntax I haven’t seen before in my entire life - which means I’m learning a lot, which is good), stoning and taking walks, I’ve resorted to scribbling and drawing random objects on loose paper I see lying around.

Sample reports given to me by the assistant manager all have scribblings all over them. They were still nice and fresh and clean when I first laid my hands on them but when she walked in to take a look several days (or even hours/minutes) later, she was rather astonished to see things like Chicken Little, little boots, smiley faces and random quotes and ridiculous ‘witticism’ scribbled all over.

Thankfully those sample reports are no longer important and they are going to be discarded once I finish coding the permanent, nice new reports which they are going to use in the future. Which means I can still scribble and draw some more! (Yay.)

So it pretty much seemed to be a subtle warning to everyone else around not to leave their important documents lying around where a pen could be seen, because I just cannot resist grabbing said pen and scribble anything that comes to my mind.

Examples on what’s on some of my sample reports at the moment:

1) A self-portrait, with a caption beside it which says “This is not me!”

2) A statement written in anguish - at a time where my codes didn’t seem to be working, which says “SO MANY BUGS!”, with an elaborate border made up of ladybirds, big bugs, little bugs and cockroaches.

3) Scribbled quite obviously in the middle of one particular report, with a pink highlighter pen I happened to spot lying around - was a statement which screamed “PINK IS GAY!” (Ironically, my assistant manager had waved said pink highlighter pen around, proclaiming that pink was her favourite colour.)

4) Well, yes. As mentioned earlier. A not-so-little drawing of Chicken Little, surrounded with several scribblings of “Numa numa numa eh“-es and “Maya Hee, Maya Hor, Maya Har, Maya Har Har!“-es surrounding it.

5) A rather elaborate drawing of a boot and scribbled beside it was a childhood poem - “There was an old lady who lived in a shoe, she has so many children, she didn’t know what to do!”

6) Smilies of all shapes and sizes. Happy smilies, sad smilies, bewildered smilies (drawn when I was in the midst of debugging) and grouchy smilies (when my codes refuse to work). And on some of the bigger smilies are attempts to decorate their faces (a.k.a ‘makeup’) with the pink highlighter pen such that they end up looking totally hideous.

7) A scribbling of the words “Going Bonkers” on one corner of another report, surrounded by pictures of bouncing balls, and smaller ‘boing boing’ captions.

… and many others.

I should take a picture and put it up someday, as some of them look pretty hilarious. Plus, I could possibly frame them pictures up and tout them as my masterpieces - the outcome of boredom. (Creative juices flow best when one is completely bored, so they should be of some value aye? Hahaha.)