My Life...

All abt my life and recent happenings. ORDed on 22nd September 2005 so it's like i'm starting my life anew. Dunno how long i can keep this blog going but really hope it can go on for as long as possible. Got a very poor memory so hope i can record down those memorable moments so tat i will still be able to savour them months later...

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ehhh i'm just a typical Cancer person i guess... hiding in my crab shell most of the time... a home-loving kind of person... and my fav. quote - sHeN JinG bInG!!!

Friday, March 24, 2006

interesting scenes in the morning...

hey now everyday i'm taking company transport to work so can say really saved a lot of money on transport already. then it's after the school holidays already so the bus always comes later now and also i've gotten used to the bus timing so for this week, i din miss the bus at all.

and then this also means everyday i spend ard 5-10 min at the bus stop waiting for the bus. then normally, i will see pple jogging along the pavement. most probably they had woken up earlier to do some exercise before going to work. wah really admire these guys cos for me, i'm really too lazy to do this. every morning, i'm already struggling to get out of bed so dun tink i'll be able to get up even earlier to go for a jog.

then these pple tat are jogging, they come in all age groups and some are male and some female. then sometimes u'll see this guy just sprinting with all his strength and i'll tink "wah how long can he tahan at this kind of pace?". then i'll realise, ehhh how come his attire is so different? shirt, pants and leather shoes?? then i'll also realise tat he's actually carrying a laptop too!! oh.... so actually he's just trying to catch the bus to work lah...

Friday, March 17, 2006

1 week already!!!

hey wah so fast my 1st week of my new job is over already. haven't been doing much in the office. only troubleshooted 1 laptop tat belongs to our financial controller and reformatted another pc and then reinstalling everything and checking some of the data backups for the servers. then rest of the time is following my shifu ard to either learn things or help pple troubleshoot their pcs or reading all those software or hardware manuals, then sometimes just daydreaming(once in a while only lah). then actually i realise our pcs actually can use the web msn messenger lah. then i saw at least 1 user using it also. so like blocking it also no point.

wah then actually after the 1st day, i haven't been lunching at our own canteen liao. not tat the canteen's food taste so bad but just tat there's no variety at all so very boring. then i've been joining some of the guys from the finance dept for lunch (dunno if i can say it's the finance dept of the company tat i'm in also cos the company's structure like really quite confusing). we will walk to a nearby hawker centre which takes ard 10 min. quite far but then at least more varieties. then on thursday, the sales manager drove us out to jurong west there for lunch. actually i was advised before to not go too far for lunch yet. i tink it's perhaps cos going so far usually means not being able to be back in time. so being still under probation, maybe i shldn't be trying anything funny yet. and then toking abt lunchtime, actually i was briefed on the 1st day tat our lunchtime is only 1/2 hour. ermmm like quite ridiculous lah. then after tat i was told tat the trend is tat everyone in the company will usually take 1 hour for it. so actually 1/2 hr is like just on paper only lah. haha then this is like totally opposite of the case with my temp job. cos on paper the lunchtime for my temp job was actually 45 min but then there's just so much work and also due the fact tat pple usually come with their questions and other stuff during lunchtime tat lunchtime was usually ard only 15 min. haizzz sad man.... i'm just glad tat those times are over already.

then after working in the it dept of a company for 1 week, i feel tat being in the it dept, actually can say tat we are like cut off from the rest of the company becos especially for the case for a company dealing in businesses tat is not really it-related. cos wat we do doesn't actually deal with the company's business processes directly. maybe it's becos i'm just still doing the basics only so i dun really noe wat's going on. then also maybe becos of the place tat i'm sitting at, which is like quite secluded. i feel tat maybe tat place was initially meant to be a pantry instead. then another thing is for my company the it dept only consists of 3 pple, the it manager, an it administrator and me, the it assistant. and then all guys also, but this like the norm, so nvm. but actually, potentially, we shld be able to get to know almost everyone in the company with a pc. which is like almost 99% of them. maybe only the security guards, the cleaners and then canteen pple would not have pcs. in fact, we shld be among the 1st few pple in the company to come into contact with a new staff becos we would be configuring the pc for him/her. so, can say tat it's actually quite an interesting dept to be in. hope tat i can enjoy my work in this dept and in this company.

Monday, March 13, 2006

1st day of perm job!!!

hey today is the 1st day for my perm job. wah but due to the fact tat i stayed up for the arsenal-liverpool match and then witnessed tat unbelievable gerrard howler, causing me to suffer from insomnia, so i was really trying very hard to keep awake today.

ok the day started with this orientation for me by this lady from the hr dept which includes an introduction abt the company's profile, subsidiaries and then all the company's policies. then i was showed the route for this company bus and fortunately, they have one tat stops rite at the bus stop in front of my block. so, great! i will be saving on all those transport fees. hmmmm but it's like kind of boring to be just traveling between 2 places for most of the week. but well, can't have the best of both worlds all the time.

after the orientation, i was brought to the IT dept which i'll be working in and there was another briefing by this IT manager which i had met during the interview. i was then given some manuals to read thru when there was nothing for me to do. so after somemore briefing in the server rooms, i started to read the manuals which was quite agonising as i tried hard to stay awake.

then after a while, i was given my pc to set up and to install all the softwares. but somehow, no matter which cpu we used, there was always this beeping sound coming from the cpu. then after changing quite a number of cpus, we unplugged the keyboard and turns out tat the problem actually lies with the keyboard. then while installing the softwares, my colleague showed me how to configure this firewall tat we are using and then he showed me the applications tat were blocked and msn messenger was one of them. haizzz sad, no msn for me in the office liao.

then it was lunchtime and i went to this canteen to eat and there was only one stall. hope to be able to go somewhere else to eat tmr.

then after lunch my colleague started to explain to me abt the processes tat the pple in the company do and all those eventually ends up in files being stored in the server. so all those data needs to be backed up every week so tat's just 1 of the things to be done. and then after somemore explanation of the processes and stuff and somemore installation of softwares, it was time to go home.

ok so actually it was a fine 1st day of work and then the things tat i'll be learning are quite interesting to me. but i tink maybe i need to be revising a bit on my poly sch work to get back the knowledge and all those basic configurations stuff.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Finally landed a perm job

Phew! After so many resumes sent and interviews attended, FINALLY I have landed a perm job and will be starting work on the 13th. The salary's decent and the office is near my home too. Seems to be quite near the place for the NDP mobile column rehearsals at tuas last year. wah really brought back some horrifying memories... I can actually take 1 direct bus there but the bus stop is ard 10 mins walk from my house. But seems like there's a company bus which I can take. Just have to see where the pick up points are and if I can take it to work then I can save on my transport expenses as well.

had just reached home after signing the appointment letter. somehow i feel tat half of the reason why this job application was successful was becos of my vocation in army. cos the hr manager told me tat he was actually an army rsm before and during the 1st and 2nd interview, half the time he was toking to me abt stuff in the army and he kept on quoting examples and relating my work to the army. so maybe he actually trusted the way tat saf chose pple for different vocations and maybe tat had increased his confidence in my abilities, which actually worked to my advantage so no complains abt tat. but i'm glad i won't be working directly under him or else he may just adopt his army ways and expect the same level of discipline. then maybe i have to conduct 1st parade in the morning, then last parade when i go home, then need to conduct water parade, then when i make a mistake need to go sign extra...

haizzz but then still have to finish the temp job tat i'm doing now 1st. haizzz still have to go back later in the afternoon... initially, i actually had this tinking tat even if this is a temp job and not really in my area of interest, i shld finish the work nicely for them before i leave. tat i shldn't be making any enemies anywhere i go. but now i feel tat it's a harsh fact tat u can't please everyone and offending some pple is really something tat can't be avoided.

initially, i was told tat i will only be working until next tuesday cos the perm staff taking over from my duties will start work on monday. i was fine with tat. and then this tuesday, i was told tat i had to leave on the next day, which was wednesday becos someone from another dept was transfered over to help out and i wasn't needed anymore. so i was fine with tat too cos i was really quite tired of this job already. so i was more than happy to leave earlier although it could have been better to inform me earlier than just one day before. then on wednesday, which was initially supposed to be my last day at this job, just 2 hours before i knock off, i was told to stay until tuesday to hand over the duties. so i dun really noe wat they are treating me as. maybe they feel tat i'm desperate for this temp job, like i needed the salary tat they are giving me so much? tat i will be starving to death without it? but i'm just glad tat i won't be staying in tat place for long. just 3 more days and it will be over. so just like all the sucky things tat had happened before, i will just be tinking tat everything in this world, either good or bad will have an ending. and i am really looking forward to this ending.