OMG, I'm still working at this hour...
Going to turn into walking zombie soon..
Friday, May 18, 2007
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Grandma's Ok now
Grandma got discharged from hospital today. Think I should get everyone to bring her out for a walk or meal if possible. Probably this or next weekend, especially when bro is back, and before he flies off again to Germany.
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Done a customer visit today together with my AE, and through my own analogies to the customers, then I unknowingly realised that the demo instrument I was using, was going to get a 1 month holiday in HK!! And I still do not have concrete holiday plans of my own! The instrument has got a better life than I do! Stupid isn't it. Ha ha ha.
Actually I felt a small sense of accomplishment today, that I'm starting to see myself slowly improving my presentation skills in today's visit. Guess I do like the attention that comes when I'm able to capture my audience's focus and click with them. Hopefully I'll get better and better as I grow more and gain more experience.
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Just saw the most disgusting thing that can ever happen to my stuff in my room. Why must this happen on Monday?.... I still have to wait through the entire week to get some time during the weekend to clean up the whole room... damned.... dun even feel like sleeping in my room now...
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Oh ya, watched Spidey 3 on Sunday with dear. Pretty good show, but it was a bit over-elaborate on the drama and love scenes. I mean come on, guys watch Spidey mainly to see all those web swinging and bish bashing stuff, not too much lovey dovey stuff. I liked the final fight though, a mass fight with plenty of action. Reminds me of the good old video games (dun get to play em anymore...)
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Done a customer visit today together with my AE, and through my own analogies to the customers, then I unknowingly realised that the demo instrument I was using, was going to get a 1 month holiday in HK!! And I still do not have concrete holiday plans of my own! The instrument has got a better life than I do! Stupid isn't it. Ha ha ha.
Actually I felt a small sense of accomplishment today, that I'm starting to see myself slowly improving my presentation skills in today's visit. Guess I do like the attention that comes when I'm able to capture my audience's focus and click with them. Hopefully I'll get better and better as I grow more and gain more experience.
~~~
Just saw the most disgusting thing that can ever happen to my stuff in my room. Why must this happen on Monday?.... I still have to wait through the entire week to get some time during the weekend to clean up the whole room... damned.... dun even feel like sleeping in my room now...
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Oh ya, watched Spidey 3 on Sunday with dear. Pretty good show, but it was a bit over-elaborate on the drama and love scenes. I mean come on, guys watch Spidey mainly to see all those web swinging and bish bashing stuff, not too much lovey dovey stuff. I liked the final fight though, a mass fight with plenty of action. Reminds me of the good old video games (dun get to play em anymore...)
Friday, May 11, 2007
I need some rest!
I still have much to learn in my job. Still not being efficient enough, ending up having to work/read till late every night, which isn't the right way to do things.
A colleague told me that having enough sleep is critical in our line, so that we will have the focus n concentration to chiong at work in the day.
Some times when we are overwhelmed by tons of work, it is easy to overlook such simple stuff. The old way of doing things simply cannot adequately address my increasing workload & stress. I must change my old mindset of sacrificing sleep for work.
Visited grandma again after work today. Think she looks a lot better now, and can talk more to me already. I hope she can recover quickly and get discharged from the hospital. Though I was never really that close to grandma, but the look of despair and resignation in her eyes when i see her so bored and lonely in the hospital ward really pains my heart. I guess it hurts her even more when other patients always have large groups of people visiting and she has few or none.
I really love to see her eyes light up whenever I mention something that makes her happy. It really brings me comfort to be able to know that she is happy whenever we do something for her, irregardless of how simple the task is. Looking forward to bring her out for dinner when she can return home!
A colleague told me that having enough sleep is critical in our line, so that we will have the focus n concentration to chiong at work in the day.
Some times when we are overwhelmed by tons of work, it is easy to overlook such simple stuff. The old way of doing things simply cannot adequately address my increasing workload & stress. I must change my old mindset of sacrificing sleep for work.
Visited grandma again after work today. Think she looks a lot better now, and can talk more to me already. I hope she can recover quickly and get discharged from the hospital. Though I was never really that close to grandma, but the look of despair and resignation in her eyes when i see her so bored and lonely in the hospital ward really pains my heart. I guess it hurts her even more when other patients always have large groups of people visiting and she has few or none.
I really love to see her eyes light up whenever I mention something that makes her happy. It really brings me comfort to be able to know that she is happy whenever we do something for her, irregardless of how simple the task is. Looking forward to bring her out for dinner when she can return home!
Monday, May 07, 2007
Hope Grandma will be ok
Grandma has been going in n out of hospital with alarming frequency recently. I really hope that nothing bad will happen to her this time. Though I'm not particularly close to her, but afterall she is my grandma, and I hope that she will be able to see her grandsons get married.
I'm on quota with effect from this month on, so life and work will gather even more speed as I work harder to let my career take off!
Still haven managed to catch Spider3 yet...
I'm on quota with effect from this month on, so life and work will gather even more speed as I work harder to let my career take off!
Still haven managed to catch Spider3 yet...
Monday, January 22, 2007
US trip
I will be leaving for US for 2 weeks of training!
Will be visiting Colorado and Santa Rosa for a week each.
Let me know early if anyone wants me to tumpang anything back from US.
Bek has finally got his dream job today!
Was pretty concerned about his situation cos it looked exactly like what I was going thru 6 mths ago. Slow calls, little news, considered abt taking masters/PhD, going for SIA pilot interview. Its really too much of a coincidence. Hahaha.
Good thing he has got his desired outcome. Congrats Bro!
Went for Choon Yin's wedding dinner last night. It was nice meeting up with my ex-colleagues at DSTA. My ex-bosses were also glad to see me enjoying my current job. Its a pity that some of our young engineers gang were not present at the dinner, and too bad it was on Sunday night. If not we could have went for some KTV after the dinner.
Guess thats abt all for now. Will update more after i come back from my US trip.
Will be visiting Colorado and Santa Rosa for a week each.
Let me know early if anyone wants me to tumpang anything back from US.
Bek has finally got his dream job today!
Was pretty concerned about his situation cos it looked exactly like what I was going thru 6 mths ago. Slow calls, little news, considered abt taking masters/PhD, going for SIA pilot interview. Its really too much of a coincidence. Hahaha.
Good thing he has got his desired outcome. Congrats Bro!
Went for Choon Yin's wedding dinner last night. It was nice meeting up with my ex-colleagues at DSTA. My ex-bosses were also glad to see me enjoying my current job. Its a pity that some of our young engineers gang were not present at the dinner, and too bad it was on Sunday night. If not we could have went for some KTV after the dinner.
Guess thats abt all for now. Will update more after i come back from my US trip.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Fruitful Year of 2006
Its only 1 more day to the end of 2006, time to consolidate and evaluate this year's major landmarks:
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 !!
- Finally graduated from NTU with a 2nd Upper. All my dedication and hard work has paid off.
- 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
- Made lots of fun frens in DSTA !! (it doesn't matter if my blog gets picked up by the HR again)
- 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.
- Got into my dream company, and in a very sought-after position!
- 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 !!
Monday, December 25, 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 !!
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 !!
Saturday, December 09, 2006
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*
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!
===
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*
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