Fruitful Year of 2006

Its only 1 more day to the end of 2006, time to consolidate and evaluate this year's major landmarks:

1. Finally graduated from NTU with a 2nd Upper. All my dedication and hard work has paid off.
2. Made my graduation trip to Phuket with the guys. Great fun and laughter. I wonder when will I get another chance to go for another all guys travelling trip
3. Made lots of fun frens in DSTA !! (it doesn't matter if my blog gets picked up by the HR again)
4. Finally brought dear to Taiwan for vacation. Plenty of fun and great memories. Made a couple of frens over there too. Probably will be going back for another vacation within the next couple of years.
5. Got into my dream company, and in a very sought-after position!
6. After 3 years of fruitless toil, I have finally managed to break the 5 hours mark for the Standard Chartered Marathon this year (and by a big margin). My training has paid off! Another bonus is that I managed to avoid post run injuries this year. Recovered really quickly this time. I'm feeling good enough for another marathon next year!

Overall, 2006 has been a pretty good harvest year for me, seeing the rewards for all my efforts coming in from various fields. I'm really satisfied.

2007 will be a challenging year for me, I hope it will be as good/ or even better than 2006 !!

Its Christmas again...

Thanks to everyone for being so sporting and making the effort to come for the mini BBQ get-together. Hope you guys had fun. Maybe we can make Bek organise this next year. Hahaha.

Dang...Forgot to take pics....

Wishing..

JS, success in your money making project and finding ur love quickly.
Bek, to get ur dream job and may XL get obedient students in the coming yr, and both of u to quickly tie the knot!
YQ, to settle the germany issue and Lilian all da best in ya job. Finally got to see Lilian in a proper setting after so many years! YQ should bring Lilian to join our gatherings/outings/dinners more often! (of course its after u come back)
Derek, all the best in your job and may promotions and pay raise come your way quickly. (remember to send me your blog..)

May everyone have a Merry X'mas and a Happy New Year !!

1st week of work

Completed my 1st complete week of work at Agilent!

Started work on 1 Dec, which was a Friday, and it happened to be the FY07 Kick Off for Agilent, so effectively the day was cut by half, and almost the whole company spent the entire afternoon at DXO (cool huh, to book the whole DXO for company event).

The first thing that I learnt from Agilent on my 1st Day of work is:

BlackJack & Dice....

"Gambling stalls" were set up in DXO and we were given 10 chips each and told to 'Grow' the chips. It was the 1st time that I saw the banker getting bankrupted by the players. Hahaha.
Nice preparation for the upcoming IR huh...

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Got started off to proper learning and training in office for the entire week. Plenty of stuff to learn and I must pick up as quickly as possible. I had previously thought that I had grown tired of EEE stuff after finally graduating from NTU, but somehow, the product learning had forced me to recall all those EEE stuff that I had learnt over all these years, and I'm actually enjoying it ! It still does feel good to know that the stuff that I had spent so much time learning is useful afterall.

Got plenty of revising of my old lecture notes and reading of new materials to do!!
Must conquer my 1st field battle next week!

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Just wanna say a "Thank You" to all my frens/ex-colleagues, Hock, JZ, Liping, SY, YZ, Junyuan, Zhong Qiang, Wei Siang and Shaun, from DSTA for organising the farewell lunch at IKEA last Thursday.

Hopefully some of you might be reading this, (Thanks to the unexpected free publicity from the HR) and do remember to ask me along for any fun activities that you guys might be organising in the future! Dun forget me hor! I miss you guys... I tink I miss the free table soccer sessions a bit more, hahaha...*kiam pah*