Saturday, January 24, 2009

Time For The Sun To Set

Just done browsing the web. Replying comments in friendster, check mail, read blogs and download some new movies.

At last, my working time at 88DB.com has come to an end. Today was my last day. Well, not exactly today but you'll get what i meant. ^^ Start February, i will be going back to SNS Network to work. This time i will be under Miss Sue, the new supervisor. Kim was working for the last day at SNS Network today as well. I was shocked when i actually know that. Well, will be missing her since she was a good supervisor and she treated me and my colleagues like brothers. Well, perhaps not that close but what can i say, i am lucky to have her as my supervisor. Her guidance will be missed.

So, how actually was my work at 88DB.com this week ? Everything seems nice. I had experience a little bit of office life and i must admit, it is quite boring to actually just sitting in your own cubicle with only the furnitures, phone and PC as companions. Luckily there is Gmail to save me from my despair. I get to chat with my friends through it. Blessed^^ However, boring it might seems to be, i still find it challenging to call and ask the people to verify their email. Different kind of people needs different kind of way to communicate. That is what i believe. To make things harder, you can't actually know the expression of the person who you called. At least, when you can see your client's expression, you know what to do next. Prediction from body language.One of the skills that i developed through selling computers at SNS which i still have much to learn. Learning to communicate with people is a skill needed when i do come out to this world to craft my own path. Another thing which i found quite a fact of life. Haha. Besides, i get to know a few more kind of people in the office. Broaden up my view toward personailities and how complex it is a human can be. Bad and good. Well, we are all born with two faces. It is how we used these two faces at the right time that will determine how successful we will be in our life. Well, at least ... that is just my opinion ^^ Honesty may not be everything but lie too may not be anything.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were used to finish Pei Seen's leftover list. Later on, i move to Xiau Sa's list of customers. Monday and Tuesday i did an average of 120 calls while Wednesday and Thursday i did an average of 80 calls. Today, i did 160 calls. Why ? Because my person in charge, Emily, asked us to try as fast as we can to finish up the list that is in our hand. Qin Zhi has around 200 people on his list and he has done a great job covering half of it while i have around 580 people to call which i only manage 160 calls. But we finish our work at 4pm today due to Chinese New Year, so if i was given another 2 hours, i will be able to make 200 calls. Let's just say i am doing Emily a last favor before i leave the company ^^. Well, she treated me quite good when i first came in and she guide me through all those calls. I am once lucky again to have such good leader. *smile*
Later after work, me,Qin Zhi, Ming Han, Lim Shi, Siew Ling and Jia Yiing went to Midvalley for a sao gong dinner. The weird thing was we paid this dinner by ourselves and not by our boss. Anyways, had a great fun eating and chatting. Sit in the restaurant for a good 2.5 hours. I just hope the manager of the day does not hate us for doing so. Haha. Went back at around 10. Send them home one by one. Back at my house 2 minutes before 12am. Bath. And now here am i. Blogging. Lol

Yes ! Two more nighst including this night, i will be going back to my hometown and celebrate Chinese New Year. Well, i must have fun and enjoy another few times of CNY as much as i can since i am growing up. Next time when i will be starting my career, CNY will not be as much fun. My guess. Too much problem in the head. But hey, enjoy these prosperous days now and let's just say, i still want to enjoy it till the day i will never wake up from my sleep. Haha. Because i can only find this feeling of contented when i am truly with my family members and my friends. Once every year ? Why not ? Let's have a postive idea of the coming future CNY. Ho Ho Ho

Wish all my friends a very Happy Chinese New Year. May you all enjoy these prosperous and great days with your loved ones to the fullest. May this year will bring you all many good luck in everything you all take part in especially your study career. ^^ May our friendship prosper as well and last for a very very long time. A new year may bring us new experiencse and new challenges but i do hope this very thing will last as how it will always be...

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Updated

One week has passed by. That is how long since i last update my blog. Haha. Well, been busy actually lately. Just started a part time job at Wisma UOA this Thursday. RM 7 per hour and working hours is from 9am till 6pm. It is ok compare to the one i interviewed at Puchong just a few weeks back. This time around, i am working in the telesales line but note here, i am far beyond doing sales through telophone. Just calling up interested client of the company to verify their email with a purpose of enlarging our company's membership.

So, just a little bit of background check on the company i was working at and will be working until this coming Friday. Name is 88DB.com which is the sister company of JobsDB.com. Never heard of it ? You can go to their respective website to search to know more ^^ I do not know how the company makes money but i was being told that 88DB.com is a free online service portal which provides or prepare a platform for its members to advertise their products or business for free on their website. So, to make it more English. 88DB.com is a website which allow you make public of the product you which to sell or provide *kinda like ebay stuff* and broaden out your business aspect through the internet. For free as long as you do not go over the limit of two advertisements. That is the only downturn of this whole thing. Two advertisements for free and more than that, ... ahem ... Please call our customer service hotline to know further more on the details ... That is what i basically called and explain to our targeted clients since there is a list of people from our company's database. Got it from fairs and field events organised throughout Malaysia., said Miss Emily *person in charge*. Haha. A good lady i must say. Back to what i was saying then. By the end of each call, i will need to ask if our dear client will be interested in joining our membership. Since it is free and we are not a syndicate or whatsover, there is nothing to lose ^^ Mostly, yes is the answer and what they need to do next is wait for the verification email to verify their account and WALA, you are a member and you can start using the services provided at 88DB.com.my. There ... End of a call ... And this procedure keep repeating until the whole list was over. I think i still have around 500 calls to be made for this week. Well, god bless my left ear then. Haha

Oh ... Chinese New Year is just around the corner and i can barely wait for it to come. Not because of the prospect of the ang paus i will be receiving. Every year will be the same. Rm100++. But, the reunion with the whole family is the best. The feeling is just great and thinking of it now makes me feel excited and happy. Ho Ho Ho. Anyway, 7 more days to go. Slowly and gradually, the day will arrived. Weeee. In the meantime, all i need to concentrate on is my work. Lo lo lo

Well, that's all for now i think. I had finished reading two Eagle series by Simon Scarrow. It is time i make myself endulged in Kite Runner. Recommended by my friends. Haha


Friday, January 09, 2009

Tagged

Second post in one day. So, thank you Aaron for giving me my first tag. Not upset but just ocnfused at first because i do not know what i need to do with it ... LOL ... Anyways, since i am so free so i ....

1. How much do you spend for clothes per month?
- I don't go shopping for cloths much unless it is necessary. Just merely window shopping with my parents. But i'll give you the average amount. My guess is around RM10 or less per month.

2. Who is more important to you?Friends or boy/girlfriend?
- In my opinion? For now, i will pick my friends over my girlfriend because i do not have one now ! ^^

3. How often do you think about committing suicide?
- Suicide ? Nope. Never once think of it ...

4. Do you think you have enough confidence?
- Hmmm ... This is hard ... LOL. I have confidence in doing things i did before but i will have only half of it when i venture into things that i had never done before. Well, i must say i fear the unknown.

5. How many babies do you want?
- Wow ... I am not that far yet but i'll give a guess ... 4 if i can afford to raise them. Mix up of boy and girl ^^

6. Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
- Definitely because the theory is there and it is logic !

7. What is your goal for this year?
- To pursue my tertiary education at a reknown university with an engineering course ^^

8. What kept you of being who you are?
- Me !

9. What's a perfect girlfriend/boyfriend like to you?(List 10)
- Let's see ... No one is perfect but i will list them down according to my own opinion :
1. Confident in being who she is
2. Appreciate what life has to offer
3. A good attitude
4. Optimistic
5. Kind hearted
6. Able to share my point of view
7. Willing to learn to share an understanding in our relationship
8. Able to respect herself and the people around her
9. A good cook ^^
10. Caring and loving

10. What are you really afraid of?
- Myself and the things i can't see or feel with my senses in life.

11. What are your bad habits?
- I take things for granted sometimes. I joke when in some situation seriousness is needed. I sometimes tend to judge people at first look. I take life in a too easy way.

12. Is there anything you wanna tell the people who hate you?
- Hmmm ... I'll will prefer to know what is the reason that the person hated me. If i am on the wrong side, i am more than willing to apologise to that particular person. Otherwise, i think i'll just go on with my life because there is a fact that the world contain too many people and one person cannot possibly make all of them to love him as much as he love them ^^

13. State a random fact about yourself
- I am a PreUniversity who had just finish his exam and is now waiting for a job call from his previous employer ^^

14. What does flying means to you?
- Engineering has done great benefits to mankind...

15. What do you crave for most currently?
- The will and mind to overcome challenges that life will befall on me in coming days. Life is a challenge rite ? Amitabha

16. Most unexpected gift you received so far and when?
- A family like mine and a bunch of friends who shares joy and sorrow with me until now. When ? I never did remember the date because time passes so fast i barely have the time to write it down ^^

17. Describe the person who tagged you.Honestly.
- Smart, joyful, kind hearted, a good friend, an old friend of mine since primary, specky yet handsome. All these are honest words ^^

18. What have you done to yourself that makes yourself happy?
- Telling myself that life does not always goes the way i wanted it to and learning to treasure my family members as well as the friends around me ^^

19. What will you become in another 10 years to come?
- An engineer who knows what he do best

20. If you can choose how you want to end your life,how would it be?
- Never thought of it. What comes around will come. Death is nothing but another journey in life. So ? Let my death take its own course by its own fate ^^

Jobless Again ...

Jobless !!! That is my life status now. Somehow, i did not felt the pity side of not getting the Puchong work. Let me ellaborate my point of view on the reasons why i resign myself from the work. Some might said that when one do not want to work, there will be many reasons. So, i'll just state down the reasons and let it be review by you.

Salary
This part is not a problem for me since its salary is quite the normal standard considering that we are inexperience and the company is not a giant or listed company is Malaysia. RM 1100 per month. Overtime for weekdays and Saturday is 1.5 while for Sunday, it is 2.0.

Working Hours
9.00 am to 6.00pm for any day. 7.00am reach office for a briefing then reach KLIA at 9.00am to start work. Finish work at there by 6.00pm. Come back to office for debriefing. So, you might be guessing what time is our working hour starts and ends ?

Project Manager version: Working hour start at 9.00am although we check in at 7.00am. Working hour ends at 6.00pm but we still need to go back for debriefing.
My view: This is the information given by the PM who interviewed us. It is fine if u gave us around RM5 or more for an hour since that is the normal rate for part time workers considering it is non-listed company. But heck, wanting us to check in at 7am but the salary started to count at 9am and the salary stops at 6pm while we still need to be back at office for any debrief which i expected the time to be 7pm by the time we reach the office. It is working 12 hours a day with only 8 hours salary.

Director version: Working hour starts the moment you reach office and ends the moment you leave office. Anytime you work more than 8 hours will be count as overtime.
My view: This version sounds better but then, it is too late already by the time i know this cause we have all tender in our resignation. No regrets. Just confused why the version by both PM and Director differs so much. Aren't they under the same company ? Give me an impression that this company have a serious problem in managing its staff.

SOCSO
Most of you should know what this is. It is a government sponsored insurance to protect the health care of the workers when they are working. Tripro Technology does not provide us with any SOCSO because we are working as temporary staff.
My view: Was told by the director that this can given some thoughts if we requested for it. Only after when i called her. She was blaming it on us for not telling it her about it and discuss it with her. She may be right up to that point. But here is a piece of my mind, why do you not in the first place ask us if we wanted SOCSO since we will be travelling from work to KLIA via our own car ? Why is it that costly for the company that asked us to work for it to actually give us a SOCSO ? Since you do know the fact that we are all inexperience, why you do not actually ask us that but just blindly state in the letter that we do not have SOSCO ? I admit it is my mistake for not asking but i do have this thinking as well, why work for you since when you said you are being considerate to your workers yet you are not to us ? Aren't we your workers as well ? So, bulls*** it is.

That is the three main reasons why i decided to pull out from the work. I even had a quarrel with the director of the company. Not proud of it because i had made myself an enemy eventhough i have yet to come out to society and start work. Well, the content of the conversation matters no more since it was filled up with what i think is childish talk. I was trying to let our dear director know what is our situation and plead her to see into our situation through our eys. Yet, i was given the cold shoulder and b***s*** about me not being humble to the boss, respective toward the company, and my bad attitude. Am i expected to really be good to the company after knowing you are bullying our inexperience in working ? Scolding up one of us, hold up when one of us called to tell you that we wanted to resign and speak to us as though we own you the whole world.

Enough with the director stuff anyway. Haha. Makes me realised that by the time i come out to work, i will need to ask for all my rights as a worker. Be it in a good company or a bad one. Salary does not necessary matter most but it is your right as a worker that really matters. Salary will come by with experience, qualification, performance and good working etnic. Another lesson learn. So, things are right when my father said that the young ones will always got bully when they go out to work because that is a part of a learning process up the administration ladder. I can't say he is totally correct but from stories i heard and read, he is almost totally correct with that view.

Since i am not in hurry or need to find a job, i have nothing to lose to actually resign from that Puchong job but with a lesson learnt of course. On the other hand, i never intended to work during the holidays. If there is work that comes by, i will just take it up ^^ But for the Puchong ones, the thing i called dishonesty has somehow cancelled out the excitement i felt before.

In the meantime, i will be waiting for a reply from my previous supervisor for any vacancy at SNS Network which she said there is one come end of January. Somehow, i still like doing sales because i am able to come in contact with people rather than just sit in the office or anywhere else facing the wall and the colleague around you. So, for now i wait. What if there isn't ? Aren't you gonna find any other work ? Most of my friends will ask me this. Well, let's just say i am taking things easy for now. Like i said, i do not intend to work in this holiday. Just to fill up a bit of time and get some extra incomes. So, if there aren't any. Perhaps i just opt to go out to my father's work place and work as a car dealer. Do not want to think too much about work now because it is not time yet. When is the time then ? I do not know, but i will know when it is when the time comes.

I expect critisicism from most people because i am giving out an impression that i am being a lazy bum or someone who does not care about anything around him. Well, each of us have our own point of view and opinions towards how to live our life ei ? Well, i have my own but i will still open myself to any others except nonsense. That will be an exemption. :)

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Random

Porridge ... Nuggets ... My combination of dinner for tonight ^^ It does feel a bit weird since i am eating fried stuff with something plain. However, it is not totally plain. I did add some light soy sauce and some pepper to give the porridge a bit of kick ^^ Who cares about the weirdness anyway because at the end of the day, what matter most is the stomach. Ho Ho Ho. What can i say ? I am full !!! A happy lad again ... LOL

Errr ... Boring-ness is starting to get a grip on me. Tomorrow's event really came as a good news. At last, the long awaited letter of appointment. I will be going to Puchong and Walla, it does seems a bit far. From my house to my working place, 25 km by MRR2 highway while it will take me 23 km by the Serdang road. I actually did the measurement when i went to IOI Mall today with my family. LOL. Silly of me... Haha

Anyways, i do hope to start work as soon as possible cause i am feeling a bit rusted at home though i am filling up my days with novels, games and sleep. Seems boring though. Just like studies ... Fuiyo !

Hmmm ... Anything else ? Emmm ... Emmm ... Emmm ... Let's see ... Yesterday went to Bukit Mewah Clubhouse to makan but actually was to celebrate Sze Chi's birthday which we did celebrate it. I am talking nonsense. LOL. The price and the food at here is not bad and it is far better and cheaper compared to Milwaukee. A blessing in disguise. I thought it will be very expensive at first since it is in a clubhouse. Well, don't judge a book by its cover ei ? I am trying to change this attitude. Pity if it will follow me for the rest of my life ... Ish ish ish T.T

So, it was quite a good dinner. Like usual, laughter and chit chatting everywhere. In between, there are people or fellow mates who we knew that went to that place as well. Didn't talk with them but instead smile. Well, not very know ma !!! Some fooling around ... Jokes ... Which end with the singing of Happy Birthday and cake cutting ceremony. I just ngam ngam came back from answering nature's call when they started !!! It is the apple juice's fault !!! Anyways, sing lo ... Still sempat ^^ Aiso ... I forget take pictures leh ... so thuderhead la me ... Ish ! Hmmm ... then cake cutting ... cake eating ... chit chatting again ... then by bye to all lo ... fetch my kai xun home then go home... Man Soon's car at my house ... The back at home ... Zzzz

Oic ... Tomorrow morning play ball lu ... At last, i am able to enjoy playing cum training basketball without the disturbance of the youth. During the holidays there are so many of them and i have no place to play my own ball at all. Ho Ho. Anyway, need to sharpen up my skills. Getting very rusted already since i last perform well on the court ^^

K lo... Till next time ... Adiosssss

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year ^!^

At last, the last day of 2008 has passed. I sound as though i wanted 2008 to passed as fast as possible. Well, kinda but heck i have too much memories left at 2008. A new year, a new resolution. So, i must somehow find ways to leave behind some luggage of the past especially those sad ones and the bad me of course. Ho Ho Ho.Come January which is this very day, i will need to work. I am so excited now although the letter of employment is unsigned yet.LOL. Angan-angan ...

So, yesterday was a great night though i missed out on the celebration of new year eve at Ming Han's house. Sorry to all my friends whom i had flew the airplane. Maybe this year's 31st of December i will join you all ! Looking forward to it with a bit of high hopes ^^ So what's for dinner ei ? Pizza Hut at Connaught wei ... To celebrate my brother's 16th Birthday . Ha ha. A very Happy 16th Birthday to Yan Hao ! WEEEE ... Talk trash with the family like usual just that this time is different with me finding myself in a condition of migraine T.T I felt my head spinning like a roller coaster. So, halfway in the restaurant, i decided to go to the toilet and vomit with my brother as my companion. Brotherhood^^ Bluek ... Bluek ... Bluek ... AAA ... Felt better but the headache still coming and each time it comes back, it worsen. So no good ... So, later after finishing our dinner at around 9.15pm, went back to our heaven *our home is our heaven* and my warm bed is waiting for me. Ho Ho Ho. Send a message to my friends at Kajang just to inform of my absence and tata. I slept. Not fully though cause my parents and brother are at my room looking at the pictures taken at Sungai Lembing and Cherating. LOL. Therefore.... i was lying on my bed talking with them while they are in front of the computer. Ho Ho Ho. Great times we had by comparing who took the pictures nicely and who took the worse angle. Me, my brother and my father. My mom just kept laughing at our nonsense ! Haha. So, later ... i really slept.

Woke up at around 3.30am to answer nature's call. When i look at my handphone to check for any messages, i found i have 15 unread ones. WOW. Happy New Year messages of course with 3 prank messages from Sze Chi and Lim Shi. Well, they did not wrote the messages themselve which is a relieve. LOL. Got hubby de ... Errr ... I wonder who curi their handphone and make the sin ! I was thinking of Jia Hui(kai xun) or Kok Wah( besto friend). Hmmm ... i wonder ...

Later, i slept back and Ta Da... here am i blogging about yesteryear and the beginning of a new dawn. Sooooo .... Sooo ... Hopefully, i will have great days ahead of me lo ... Sayonara 2008 T.T