Saturday, February 28, 2009

Pet shopping!

I had been running all over 26th floor today disturbing people -- what they all responded when they saw me was "Shin!! You don't come near me! Or else I kenakan you balik!!" hahaha... almost everyone laugh when they saw us fooling around making fun of each other :P

It was a fun day at work -- semi-casual -- but the main point was that we all were having fun and laughing throughout the day. The biggest jokers were me and Faeez! :P

So, we had fun and it's time to say "Have a great weekend!" again but unfortunately I have to get back to work tomorrow :S

Went out dinner with Kenneth and before that we dropped by at the pet shop to look for a colar for my cat, Baby. There were so many cute puppies in there and I fell in love with them instantly :P Hehehe...

Had a great night out and am exhausted now :)

Nite nite everyone

Love,
Shin :)

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Good Feedback :)

Sree called, "Shin, you free now? Can you please come over to IT coz I had something to discuss with you"...

"Sure! Am coming over now!"...

So, I walked over to Sree's cubicle and he asked me to go over to the lounge area and we had a short talk. It was indeed a great and motivated talk I had with him. He was giving me feedback on my job performance which I really glad to know -- the goods that I have to keep and work harder on and the bad that I need to improve on :)

He told me the bad one first... I need to work on more on my ability to say 'No' to those who is trying to bully me by pushing work to me. Haha... because normally when they asked me to do this and that, to handle this and to follow up on that, I will just give in and do everything. Not that I dont know it's not actually my scope of job but I felt I have to learn more than anyone else for me to carry myself better. So, Sree said that I need to learn to say 'No' to these lazy bullies... I asked him why suddenly are we having this conversation? He said actually he and Surin (my boss) were having meeting in EKL and Sree brought up the matter that my contract is going to end in September -- that's how this conversation started.. So, that's the bad thing they commented on me and here are the good one...

Surin commented that I am good in following up on issues -- fast and friendly -- but need to be more stern on some vendors --> kalau perlu marah, kenalah marah! Hahaha...

Generally supervisors and managers from all over Malaysia (the service centers and gateways) are glad to work with me... phewww.... I'm sure glad to know this... They commented that I am easy to work with and am friendly and helpful enough (hope I do) and the best part was they said that I always made them smile and laugh with my silly acts! Ouch :P

Sree commented that I am hardworking but he also warned me to not work to hard and have my own social life rather than just work. He said working in DHL you will lose most of your personal life that's why I must learn to balance it :)

Today, big boss, GSM told me that he is trying to move my name from the temp staff listing to the permenant staff listing and he's justifying on it -- I'm not sure whther it's tru or not but to tell you all the truth, I am glad to know all these and they are indeed great motivation for me to strive as I am now very hectic with my projects.

Lately, Kenneth had been volunteering to fetch me back home every night but just felt segan la. LRT is just convinient enough :)

OMG... am very tired now.... just manage to submit my OJB report to the regional office and configure the accounting application this evening... :P

Sleeping now... miss ya all

Love,
Shin :)

Sunday, February 22, 2009

A fruitfull week... :)

It's been a hectic week -- the whole week of 16th to 22nd Feb....

Been rushing off the OJB audit report from Monday till Wednesday where I almost come home around 10pm everynight -- IAS Storage Charges project was a lot to be learnt -- CIP project has to be carried out soon and I was the PM (Project Manager) for this and I have to get things ready... Till Friday, we were actually relaxing back in office, not doing anything much but having a fun time at work by ordering in Dominoes for lucnh... :P

Friday went out dinner with Kenneth, and to my surprised this 'big' friend of mine get me a belated Valentine's present -- it was a Italian Doll (he said he asked his friend to buy from Italy -- I think so) and I had placed it in the office. Now my cubicle is almost full with soft toys from people :P

Saturday went back to office early in the morning to work as we all had forgotten to send out a communication informing users that the network will be down and the declaration process would have to be done manually. So, I sacrificed my morning and rush to office to do so. Then after that rush home and get ready for a session of rock climbing in Camp5!! Me, Kenneth, Ker Soon, Hun Ni and another friend of hers climb for around 4 hours when our stomach started to growl and we took our shower and headed for dinner :P

And as for today... I went hiking at Kuala Pilah and OMG -- it took us 1.5 hours to reach the peak and I felt like fainting at the first half of the hike... we were climbing up and up and up non stop!.. But it felt great when you actually reached the top! The worst part came when we were decending. My legs were shaking when going down... And when we were trying to get down a slope with the stupid rope, I hurt my fingers as I sliiped down holding the rope. now my right hand having 4 plaster on -- one on every finger... Haha, I told them not to bring me to hike here again... Bukit Tabur or Broga Hill maybe boleh... :P

Going to bed now... nite nite :)

Love,
Shin :)

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Work -- Dance -- Work -- Dance! :P

I was an early day for me on a regular Saturday -- woke up around 8am, get ready, packing my clothes and heels and head out to office at 9am. I was suppose to be in office waiting for Mann and the gang to give me a lift to KLCC Convention Centre Ballroom (the venue of the Annual Dinner & Dance) but they were late la... They came around 12.30pm! :S Luckily they came late too because as soon as I arrived at my desk, my phone start ringing...

"Halo! Shin? Ini Ahmad from Kluang. SCL tak boleh guna la. Ia hang bila I nak key-in poscode and telephone number. Then I masuk guna login lain, system pulak kata tak boleh edit sebab accessed by another user while I dah logout dah tadi. Apa macam ah?"

"Ahmad, let me login and kill the session first and I'll see what I can troubleshoot from my side. Will call you back soon with updates"

Soon after Ahmad hang up the phone, Raj from Penang called -- the same issue. Then Ghuzal from Melaka called -- the same issue. Guess what! It was on Saturday and it was lucky enough that I was in office. So I attend to the issue and the outcome was -- SCL wasnt connecting to the GRef Server. So, guys back in ITSC - SCL Support have to fix it before anything bad happen to our shipment processing. So, by 1pm, the issue resolved -- occured at 11am and it took them 1.5 hours to detect the problem and another 0.5 hour to fix it... :P

Ok ok.. let talk about the annual dinner then.

Abi was driving and this fellar took the wrong turn and we were heading to Seremban instead of KLCC. Mann shut him up all the time "Abi, jangan cakap banyak dah. Diam dan tengok papan tanda!" Hahahaha... this two fellar really are funny -- they were best buddies. So we managed to arrived at the ballroom around 2.30pm (when Azrin gave the wrong turning direction again - instead of stopping right in front of Traders Hotel, we took a big round around KLCC :P). Rehearsal was on with Pink's dance group then Deepa's band.

Got changed and simple party make-up done. Phone silent and off to work! I was helping out at the arrival hall and registration counter as well as the lucky dip counter. Basicaaly whoever that knew me, saw me that evening was a bit surprised as they never saw me with make-up before. At least I felt relieved as I getting compliments :P

Then I swithed to working in the ballroom, making sure team from North and South are being seated as we wanted them to fell comfy rather than like a stanger in Central. Then I have to standby at the back stage managing those awards by different department. Meeting a Spanner Work staff name Takuya (real name is Azam) who liased with me the whole night.

I saw my boss walking around, migling with people with a glass of beer in his hand. Hahaha, the moment he saw me, "Shin, you want? I go get you one now." Of course I said no as I am still working. Managed to took some photos with some pretty ladies and handsome guys during the party till 10pm.... "Let's heat up the dance floor!!"

The dance floor was jammed pack with people and we had dance non-stop till 11.15pm. My department was sporting and happenning enough as everyone was dancing together that night.

Guess this was the way we all spent our Valentines Day...

Another day at work this morning. Due to that stupid network downtime -- we (Me, Salina, Faeez, Sree and Arujun) have to work on site. Lucky enough that I joined the breakfast function at Armada Hotel to fill up my tummy first before I started working. The work ended around 3pm and I was having headache and my stomach was growling and i was extremely sleepy...

By the time I reached home around 5pm... I saw my bed and directly zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

Hahaha....
Happy Belated-Valentine's Day everyone! Hope all of you had a great one! I had mine and I wish you so too!

Love,
Shin :P
My boss was the craziest one with Kamarul... OMG, they were like nuts when we start having fun..

Friday, February 13, 2009

Working on Valentine's Day!

Oh Shit! All apps will be down on Sunday and you were just going to inform us on this on Thursday? Do you think we are the savior of DHL???

People from the pure IT background sometimes just acted very stupid. When they look at something, they will just look from one angle. They can think from other perspective. So, if you cant think this way, please la let people with better brains know earlier so the problem can be managed well enough. OMG.... these IT people just wanted to show off on how good their IT knowledge is when.. hahah... they cant even differentiate the differences between a server down issue and an apps down issue. How can you 'samakan' the two poor thing? :S

Ok ok... cool down...

Basically this week I worked non-stop and with less rest -- not because that I couldnt finish my work, it's because I was given a lot of emergency workload to attend to. Suddenly Surin came to me and tell me that, I have to push aside all my apps projects and focus on the audit reports. Then Faeez came running over from IT to my desk when I was focusing on my report and asking me to do a RTP for CIP at 11am (when he ran over it was 10.45am) :S .... Then Salina keep bugging me with her LCB project which I langsung tak faham what it is about -- fine, I manage to understand the invoicing part in the end. Then Gab from the Subang Gateway pula sent an email to me why this bond statuses in ACA was said by Singapore as "Not a standard remark"?? When I check in the system, the stupid remark that suppose to be removed was still in the system. Fine. I called the ACA support and was fainted and nearly died of stroke when he told me that he havent remove the old bond reasons yet -- the whole MY thought they had did so since 19th Jan 09... Apalah orang orang ni... you guys are lucky to have a job and it's a permenant status, cant you guys work better? Please grow up and perform yourself!

Been nagging to myself too much this week but however I found this week to be extremely challenging with the unexpected workload coming in. I like it :P ... I found myself to be more quiet and serious when I was occupied with all this and it actually scared Surin -- he thought I was worried and panic. :P

Actually, when all this happened, it will never be a problem if we have a good communication method among each other -- whether it's in a team, in the same department or inter-departmental.. I do not want Salina to end up screaming at CY at the end of the day because of the stupid miscommunication about the network down thingy... Just communicate effectively and it will surely increase our productivity level -- better shipment processing and better monitoring on the issues...

Just got back home around 9.30pm. Tomorrow will be the annual dinner and I have to be there for rehearsal at 12pm. I will be on stage all the time helping out the award ceremony. I think I have to be in the office tomorrow morning la, around 9am perhaps... then the annual dinner will drag me till 1am... OMG... then the next morning I have to prepare for the breakfast function with the North and South Team. After that around 10am or 11am Salina will come fetch me from the Hotel to Subang Gateway for the application testing -- this was because of the downtime earlier... I will be working 6 days for this week.... since last monday was a Thaipusam replacement holiday :P

God bless me..... :)

Anway, tomorrow is Valentine's Day... was hoping to get something at least -- at the dinner of course! Ahaha... maybe a lucky draw or lucky dip prize?? If not I will be so dull coz it's all about work while other people are enjoying themselves :P...

My eyes are half closed d.... nite nite everyone

Love,
Shin :P

Monday, February 9, 2009

Vaentine's Day -- 5 more days to go! :P

Valentine's Day -- another event to be grieved by those who are single... Aiks! I am single too!! :P Actually, there's some bitter and sour feelings deep inside whenever I heard people had plans during their Valentine's Day celebration with their gf... Yes, you are right, those plans I heard came from all my male buddies -- asking each other whether it is good enough to buy this flower and that teddy bear, whether this bistro is better then that cafe for dinner with their gf, and blah blah blah... I felt bitter sour (not bitter sweet k) maybe is because my Valentine's experiences was too short -- only twice! The first was in 2007 -- we celebrated a week earlier due to CNY.. The second was hedious as something terribly unhappy happened between us.. And guess what, it never manage to last till the third... :S

That night Mun Wai asked me is there any good place to bring his gf out for dinner... Actually, I was the one who started the topic with him, I asked him "So, I guess during Valentine's you'll be in KL right? Had you plan out the day event yet? Where are you planning to take her out for dinner?" These are the questions that I asked him and the responses from him was "I dont know lah.." He in return asked me what will I be doing that day / night... I told him if there is nothing on that day, most probably I'll be going over to Camp5 for few hours of rock climbing sessions to occupied my mind or will plan something with my other single friends -- wait! How many other single friends of mine that are left for me to date?
  • Lee Ming
  • Jia Yin
  • Jo Anne
  • Chun Ei (I think he's up to something -- trying to date the girl he likes -- so, he's out from the list automatically)
  • ....
I cant think of any others already.. Haha, I guess I'll just sleep to recover all those rest I had took for granted during CNY and last weekend. Oh wait!! I had company Annual Dinner that night!! Ok, I guess I have to work on Valentine's Day :P

Mun Wai asked me, "Dont you feel lonely?" My answer was, "Why should I be?" The truth was, when I went shopping alone or parking myself at Starbucks in KL Sentral -- the word lonely never came to my mind, as I really enjoyed and relaxing myself by walking around and observing my surroundings. Mun Wai always said that I am weird and he said he's worried of my safety.. :P

Oh ya, I saw a very nice Russ teddy bear and a brown hippo at the toy shop today. So, I had decided to go buy them for my own Valentine's present this year -- since I wont be getting anything from anyone :P The bear is around 93 bucks while the hippo only cost 51 bucks. I still had Bernie and Birdie sitting on my bed with a new friend, Posie, a pink reddish teddy bear which I bought with my first Starbucks salary few years ago :)

That day when I was taking bus home (Raub from KL), I was as usual listening to my iPod, then this song played again and guess what, I just couldnt stop the tears flowing down my cheeks... Never knew that it was this hard to be completely healed... Guess I am lucky that I am strong enough to had move on so far...

Love,
Shin :)

Busy week again.. :)

"Pung!"
"Kong!"
"GAME!!!!"

These are the words I can hear in my sister's home now -- Mahjong! :P

It's been a tiring day traveling back from Raub to KL and have to work again tomorrow. Let me see what is on my check-list:
  1. Meeting / Discussion with Traffic and CS on Tuesday morning, 10am
  2. Meeting with Metler Toledo on our Maintenance Contract on Tuesday morning, 11am
  3. Planning - CIP and PEPA project on Tuesday afternoon onwards
  4. Cleaning and organizing mailbox on Tuesday
  5. Going over to Subang Gateway for a meeting on Wednesday morning
  6. Training materials preparations on Wednesday
  7. Training session preparations on Thursday for Friday
  8. OMG!!!!! -- > Saturday is ANNUAL DINNER -- has to be on stage assisting on awards giving ceremony by the Country Manager, Sam Leong...
Another busy week but I enjoy it :)

Love,
Shin

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Let it go :)

As life moves on, there are lessons to be learnt along the way... We have to let go whatever no longer belongs to us and we have to accept that fact.

I had been thinking this way since the day it happened -- 26th Sept 08. Of course, I never deny the fact that I was really trying hard to hold on to the relationship. Everytime a 'break-up' word was used, I numb myself by fighting hard to kill or destroy that word between us. I had tried many uncountable times. For me, the thing was, I was having this unbelieveable strong faith keep on telling me that we can make it through this time, we will be together and we will be happier tomorrow... but, it's always like a cycle -- when it was up and running again, there will be a day that it will come down again. I believe strongly this is the way of life and no matter what happened, we have to hold on to it and never let go.

Without denying any fact, I still do miss him a lot when we just broke off. Till the day I went back and it doesnt seem to turn out the way I wish it would be -- I do admit that, it was that night in Labuan, in my room that I told myself, "It's enough Shin Khai. You have to move on and there's no use for you to keep looking back and hoping for something that is so vague.".... That was the time I really learn hard to let go and set myself free and prioritize on the things I wanted in my life..

I'm proud to myself that I am able to set myself free from this emotional torture fast enough -- somewhere in Dec I guess -- by drowning myself with music, work, gym, climbing and of course jokes with friends and collegues :P That's when I found I am happier this way by being the real me -- doing silly things -- listening to iPod in the station and dancing, taking silly photos with friends, saying silly crazy things and make everyone laugh and most of all, my mom is happy with this 'me' now...

Many guys came into picture since I started working -- even after my breakup -- but I just take a few steps away from them. I dont want to make them confused as I do not want to be something more than friends to them. When I look at these guys -- they are great, with career, car, smart looking and some even have theirown house already... but I dont think i want all these, basically these are not what value to me -- I elieve I can have the same things too in the future, just give me some time :) The matter is, my heart is closed. I cant accept anyone nor anything realated at the moment. When Mun Wai asked me why, I answered him -- fear and confidence. I have fear in them, thinking that it might be a failed one again and I am reluctant to go through that process again. So, I joke with him during CNY that maybe I'll just enjoy being alone :) Silly thoughts he said...

I guss fairy tales just never happened to me -- I would be the Sleeping Beauty or Repunzle that are trapped in the tower guarded by the big dragon (fear) which will kill any prince that come near to save me... haha... guess it's life..

Ok, going to get myself ready to go back Raub. Chun Ei and Chia Chi are already back waiting me to go back play 'rummee' and Mun Wai is perhaps still somewhere in Temerloh -- eh, drive fast fast ah! :P

I knew Chun Ei and Mun Wai since 13 -- 10 years buddies and Chia Chi since we were 7 years old. These are my buddies that I am really glad having them around me. :)

Happy Thaipusam everyone and Happy Chap Goh Mei too!

Love,
Shin :P

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

A fruitfull day... :)

From the moment I arrived in the office, on my notebook, and guess what -- my Outlook start buzzing me "New mails! New mails"... Haha.. of course it doesn't have that sound effect alarming me of new mails but mails just keep flowing in. Actually I had been working throughout the holiday -- 10 days of CNY break. Been accessing my mails at home and the big shit started to happened on last Saturday when the cargo scanner in Subang Gateway broke down... OMG...

Whatever it is, I manage it well -- liasing with the vendor and gateway, making sure everything and everyone is up to date. Though Gabriel, the gateway manager was making noise at me, I just have to turn a deaf ear over at him, most probably he just freak out of worrying that his facility wont achieve 100% reweigh this month :P... But what else can I do? The capasitor need to be chnaged and bad enough it was out of stock in the vendor's inventory -- they have to order from Singapore and it will only arrived on Thursday. Gab! Stop yapping! Surin, please reply Gab's email before I did! I might not know what lecture I'll be giving him :P Hahaha...

The relationship of me and my co-workers are indeed bonding, especially with my boss, Surin. I like to talk to him and sometimes he will make fun of me which all of us like it -- a part of the relaxation in office. Haha... I gained some goodfeedback from people around the office today. Some said they are glad that I'm here as there will always be laughter around and jokes for them to giggle about everytime the humour session begins :P

Today, Surin had finally asked me to fully take over all Ops applications from Salina. It will be my portfolio from this month on while Salina will be my mentor still. Although it a very big and heavy responsibility for me as I still not very sure of the business rules of each and every application there is, but I am indeed excited and motivated about it. I was thrilled! :P

Marcus gave a a block of chalk today. Chalk? Hahaha... You must be wondering what chalk and why he gave me chalk right? Well, it's not those blackboard chalk... it's rock clmbing chalk for the hand :) Guess I need to get a chalk bag soon and Kenneth already said that he would bring me to buy one :P

OMG, I am so tired today and sleepy now... Ok, heading to bed now! Sayonara!

Love,
Shin :P