A long time since I last blogged. This was supposed to be a most ideal week since I am off work for training. That means a regular 9 - 5 (sometimes less) hours where I can spend more time at home and think less about snowballs, skylines, DRAs and volbonds. Then Murphy's Law came in.
The internet went down.
I have been expecting this for some time since I terminated my subscription back in early Nov last year. However, the ISP has not cancelled the line and I have since been using it for "free" (some problems on the payment but too lengthy to share). And it finally came back or so I thought on Monday. I "crashed". No news to read, no emails to check, no blog to write - I ended up getting a better rest every night! In my desperation I went to sign up a new contract with another ISP which I thought was a good deal. Suddenly, last night...
... the connection resurrected! Now I am back to less sleep and more surf! Carrying a vociferous appetite to devour all news that I missed over the last 4 days, I went onto BBC, CNN, ABC, Asiaone. This article caught my attention for a longer-than-usual time. Unlike Singapore, London is a huge contractors' market where a number of people prefers to work as self-employed and temporary instead of going permanent on the pay roll as the salary is significantly higher. This is so as staff benefits such as insurance, healthcare and holiday eave are crystalised into cash benefits and imputed into the hourly/weekly rate. Taxes are also much lower as cash flow management is done via the set-up of a limited company. As I am posted over, I can't choose this option. Ms Wee however is one such example.
Most of these staff are paid weekly (usually on a Friday), so this technical glitch is bad news. Bad news especially since I need Ms Wee to pay off the rental, buy the latest gizmo and my weekly MacDonalds treat.
Sigh, I just have to wait for my toys.
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