its still cold

its been a month or so without mobile phone services. there's no telling if i would managed to get hold of one.i just need the internet services. been asking around with all the secretaries if either one of them were able to bought the simcard for me, since only locals are allowed to register. with new ruling limits it to one simcard per person makes it even harder. some of the locals even selling it for usd100. even worst is that they terminate it afterward leaving us with useless piece of card. its just the way things work around here. i am beginning to hate them. call me racist, i wouldn't mind a little bit. i'll try again later.
i'm so missing my wife now.
its snowing in ashgabat and flights delayed because of thick snow on the lane. few of my colleagues stranded for a day, lucky for those chinese that snow falls yesterday, since most of them were leaving for chinese new year last week. on the contrary, kiyanly been windy all day long, with drips of rain. but there's no indication if its gonna snow here. last year it did thou.
its been a cold day today, with this morning on -7 deg celcius.
finished two books already, the japanese devil fish girl and the dadadesada code, both by robert rankin. not bad thou...quite entertaining as well. but again in this kind of situation, reading dictionary would probably be thrilling. am starting to read the prestige, looks interesting.
gosh, its february already..it would be anytime soon for performance appraisal. i hate it, but its important.. how am i gonna do it with internet like this..
well, internet had been good tonight, probably since most of its user are away on homeleave...

it sucks

big time..with no recent update on when MTC will be activated, my only hope to virtual reality is thru office internet which is neither good as well.
this country is full of idiots...period
it doesn't matter if millions of business goes down the drain, till they get their 49% shares in MTC they will continue to denied access to the network..no wonder the russian gave them their freedom...its not worth keeping them under the federation..

its getting cold now

its getting cold now here..and to make things worst, the wind is blowing stronger..
work is progressing slowly at the moment.
i receive my appointment letter yesterday, which mean i will not be getting my salary in malaysia starting next months...also mean that i am official an expatriate..a word i learnt 7 yrs ago.
i have open my local account number already, as mentioned before its a still developing country and almost everything is a new thing here...they have never seen badminton shuttlecock before.
back to the story, banking system here can be considered at its very early stage. when one opens an account with a bank, you can only save or withdraw money from the branch you open your account. your money is kept there and is not going anywhere...there's no account passbook to keep your transaction..what you have is your account number. ans that is important!!!
you get charged for keeping money and withdrawing money..
there's no ATM machine available and credit card is only in your dreams.
that is just how they do it here, people still prefer to keep their money in piggy bank..
there's no such things as unit trust nor dividen.
got work to do tomorrow...need sleep..