cyber the jaya

so this was my second interview....

i've been going to interviews and tests in the company i work with so many times, that i don't even feel the pressure... but then again, no matter how many times or how comfortable u can get in an interview at the same company, u're sure to be nervous when the time comes...

anyway, i got this call from a company in cyber the jaya.... and i thought.. hey.. why not! maybe this will be my chance to leave home...

so i managed to find the place... OMG!!!!! cyberjaya is freaking huge... and empty.. hahha yea... when i saw the place... it was like from a sci-fi movie.. where the land is vast and far... there's only grass and trees scattered here and there.. then there's HUGE buildings... one here one there... and roads just like the country roads... traffic lights are a few, and NO TRAFFIC JAMS!!! well i wouldn't know for sure cause i was there at 2pm.... and i saw ppl walking around, like it wasn't HOT *rolls the eyes* (i'm sure they were cursing about the heat) and like as if they were in a park!! how nice is that uh?

hmm... let me see... there's TM hq, Sony-Ericsson hq, Shell hq and the ever so famous HSBC Call Centre.... and these buildings are not just your average big building type... they're HUGE!!!! as huge as Mid Valley Megamall.. and maybe BIGGER!!! damn!!! and don't get me started about Lim Kok Wing.... i was invited to go in and have a look at the uni but i was intimedated by the huge-ness, the grand-ness and the wow-ness of that place, so i didn't go in........ (and now i regret...)

ok ok.. back to the interview... so we were driving, reached Cyberview Lodge and purposely went in there to ask for directions (well i did know that the place was just 5 mins away, but what the heck)... so i went in there and fuhh.... it's like a resort-spa-like place (though IT IS called Cyberview Lodge and Spa...) i'm sure it's like above 5 star type....

then managed to find this place.. at the first glance u will think it's like a cheaper type of hotel with 2 floor blocks.. like a resort type... but then it's actually office lots... u can see trees and palm trees swaying around the buildings, with water fountains, ponds... sigh... just imagine working in that environment.....

the co. is a small company, though it's based in the US... about 100 ppl working there... the boss who interviewed me was nice.. very casual... he started off with where i could stay, what transport i could take to work, like as if i got the job.. hahahah.. actually i did.... but after doing some thinking, i won't take the job... weighing the weight between this current job and that, it's about the same, same basic, same ot, same working hrs (but actually the other job it's fixed - 40hrs per week, here i'm working absolutely more than that) but the difference is that if i took that job, i would have to move out, pay for room AND travelling AND food and i can't save as much as i can save here... which means, getting the car would be further away.... so i guess i got to let this one go.... until another one comes along, with a definate higher basic.....

but the experience is good, i wished all interviews would be like that... ahhahaah i was practically making the boss laugh (without me knowing i was, of course...)

so, everything's fine, i still got my job and it's another excuse to take leave (and loose 1 hr of OT) and go to KL.....

:)

u gain some... u got to lose some.. sometimes..

at one time there were so many ppl coming to join our team... we were complete and had to decline some applicants....

we were fine... everything can't be fine ALL the time, so now 2 or 3 is about to leave around the same time... one had her last day yesterday... and i think one or two more is leaving at the end of the month... so now our "boss" is busy finding for ppl to fill the empty slots...

anyone in penang who can speak english and is finding a job, interested? let me know....

talking about fine.... nothings fine.. u think u'll be fine in what u do or say, but that's not enough... u got to go more and furthur from that, out from your comfort zone

be MORE friendly (whether u like it or not), talk to MORE ppl (whether u like it or not), say what PPL want to hear not what u want them to hear and with all that u will be able to get better jobs, more $$$ and be on the "ladder"... if not.. u'll be stuck to where u are right now and won't even have the chance to even "see" the ladder....

in other words, don't be yourself....

sigh.....

and i thought college life sucked

i miss...

blogging!

i know... i can't believe it myself...

have been so busy at work.. actually just tired .. 10 hrs infront of the pc, and going home to look infront of the pc again?....

so what have i been up to.... quite a number of things actually... i mean a number of cerita to write but now i can't write cause i'll be going home soon...

all i can summarise is

1- some ppl in the team are leaving

2- went for an interview in cyberjaya

3- got kicked out from SEFA comittee (whine whine whine)

4- managed to go shopping - sort of

5- caught up with movies

6- was THIS close to clubbing

7- was THIS close to going to pangkor

girls night out

wanted to thanni... but then the next day (today) I had to work and we had curfew to follow..... so.. no thanni...

we were like waiting for bloody 5pm to come... waiting and waiting since 7am... by 8am we were talking about where we're going to eat... what we shouldn't eat yet cause maybe later not hungry enough to eat... "kicking and crying" wanting to know why it isn't 5pm yet.... tell u... 9 hrs of that, u'll go mad...

then when 5pm arrived... OMG.. the relief is wonderful! we were all so hyper, active and fresh all over again and a minute before we were like as close as a dead man....

so we went to steamboat-bbq... it's been AGES since i went for that... this was new to them, so i had the honour of introducing and teaching them on how the steamboat-bbq eating is done. and we had a really good time.. we were laughing so much until we don't even remember WHY we were laughing.. if anyone passed us, they would think we were drunk.. but there were no beers on the table...

ate and ate and ate like there won't be any food left... and yet, there were some left overs.... stomach was full, hair oily and smelly, body smelly and sticky from the sweat, heat, oil splattering..... ggrrrhhhh..... but it was all good.. we had fun... i've never laughed that much for quite some time....

then i really needed to get to someplace COOL... so we headed to gurney... planted out butts in Coffee Bean and i had my ice blended... yum yum..... and who did we see there? nick and eleanor... they were so surprised to see us! hahahah....

we hung out there for a while, getting to know each other more, gossiping, talk about life, work, studies... it was all good... untill our eyes couldn't open AND we were yawning... so we left.. that was only 10.20pm!! i have never left an outing so early like that, esp on a friday night... but then wat to do... like i said before, working here u loose your life...

weird week

this week has been abit weird for me...

our "boss" came back.. so everything is back to normal and extra emails of "warnings"....

then there's this 2 days of non stop calls.... terrible!!! no time to eat, no time to go toilet even.... but then i stopped on the 3rd day.. DRASTICALLY!!!....

been sitting in my new place.... yes, all 8 of us had to move, again. this time so much nearer to the managers and the sales reps... u can say nearer to the "actual" team... hahah.. weird isn't it, having half the team sit in two (opposite) places... so now, easily the managers can see what we're doing and also... we're at the walkway to the toilet and pantry... so whoever (from the sales team - reps or managers) wants to go to the pantry or toilet, will have to go among us.... scary at times man....

the cubes smaller but the table is wider (like that made any sense) and it's brighter too... i don't know how that can happen but i feel it is brighter. and i think it's abit cooler here.. which is good for me... :)

then i got a call.. a call from a company that randomly applied for a job at jobstreet... at cyberjaya man... sooo far! i have NOOooo freaking idea where that is, and how to get there... my baby won't be able to come with me (cause no one is at home to jaga the dogs - sheesh) he'll only be able to come fri or sat... and the interview is on FRIDAY!! this coming friday!.... i looked around and found out that cab from damansara to cyberjaya will cost around 40 bucks... oh man!!... how am i to get there now..... anyway it's still early, i still got more phone calls to make, to friends AND to the company itself to find out exactly where it is...

so.... sigh.... everything seems fine with me... i can't complain much, my baby's closer to me than before (he's in alor setar now), works ok... but maybe am not getting much sleep... hmm...

ohh ohh.... i want to highlight my hair.... anyone can recommend a place for highlighting hairs? max budget is RM100..... i know it's impossible.... but i'm sure there are places out there? asap please before my whites comes out again..... (yea, i coloured my hair again to cover my whites.. so better highlight before they appear again)

sigh.... this time i'm really not looking forward in going to KL... 1) interview 2) my baby won't be around 3) SEFA AGM meeting 4) i don't think there will be time for shopping...

like someone told me, no use going to kl for shopping... cause everytime i do go, i won't have time... sigh... true also.... :(

warm surprise

i just found out that my old childhood friend started work at my place... it's like the whole of Penang is working or have worked in this place... this place makes penang a very very very small world.

Lisa, my childhood friend from Bayan Baru got in the sales team. we went to the same kindergarten in the Rukun Tetangga kindergarten. her parents, mine and another family became good friends and every year we would have a weekend holiday at a big huge bungalow at Batu Ferringghi. the bungalow (Bayu Senja) was my dad's company holiday house. he booked for us to use for one weekend at the end of the year during the school holidays. we used to go every year until we started to sit for Form 3 and other exams.... after that, we stopped cause exams were more important, but our parents still do meet up at each other houses. though i seldom see them anymore, it's nice to see that two of us kids are working in the same place...

so, Lisa, i wanna welcome you here! and good luck!

cloud 9

ahhhhh...sigh..... late yesterday it was like as if i was back in time.... 5 years ago... what happened was.... it all happened exactly the same

i was half-napping, half watching tv on the couch..

he calls, asking what was my plans for the day...

i go back to the couch....

he calls again, asking what i was doing (his background was noisy) and then i knew he was coming to see me, but i buat-tak-tau...

i go back to the couch...

he calls again, saying he was just 3 minutes away and thought he had "surprised me"

i go wait at my gate, heart pumping and skipping beats

he reaches, with a big smile on his face, he says "hello....."

we talk at the gate, i asked him to come in, he shys away, he tells me to get ready cause he's taking me out on a date

while he goes to the nearby coffee shop, i go get ready, with a smile on my face most of the time

i call him telling him i'm ready

he comes in a minute, i get in the car....

he says to look at the side of my seat, "something fell".. so it seems...

i look

i turned back to say that there was nothing, i saw flowers infront of me!

THAT, i was surprised.... 3 beautiful red roses... for ME!!

i was speechless.. he did the SAME thing nearly 5 years ago.. and i FELL for that trick AGAIN!!! hahahahhah

i was all so warm, fuzzy, in cloud9.........

ok ok.. back to earth

and we went out for a date...

that was what he used to do when he was staying in Alor Setar, he'll come to my hse.. in the evening, we go out on a date, he'll send me back, and he'll drive all the way back to Alor Setar... all in about 6 hrs..

i'm still in a daze.... staring at the flowers at work... it's so nice going back to those times.....

interesting week

not that anything INTERESTING happened *rolls eye* but it was different...

our so-called-boss went on leave for nearly a week... wed to sun... and 4 of us each had to take over some of her jobs... it was some sort of funny doing that...

he was...
"CP is not in. Will inform later"
"CP is in"

she was...
"Any shift changes/ OT please let me know"
"... so and so will be in later..."
"... so and so has changed shift..."

she was....
"...login and call track report.."
".... so and so! why are u putting cust on hold so long?.." (jokingly)
".... so and so! why aux so long?.." (jokingly)

i was....
"PLEASE NOTE for DESKTOP/LAPTOP is to....."
(warning warning warning)

so since we weren't exactly getting loads of calls... we could fool around abit.. hehehhe... don't worry "boss", we still did our jobs... i think.. hahahhaha ok ok ok!! we did our jobs properly... hhaha.. got u there didn't i? :P

monday will be back to normal, everyone's back to their own jobs... and.. sigh..... i REALLY need to get out of this....

Day for WOMAN

yes a few days ago was International Women's Day... well, ppl i know doesn't really know about it but it seems it's a big hoo haa in KL... it's all over the blogs.... so i've came up with what has happened... or what happens on International Women's Day in Malaysia (KL in fact!)

Unleashing Potential - Celebrating Woman in Music
5th March
La Bodega, KL

the article The Star refused to publish by Marina Mahathir

Writers for Women's Rights Program 3
by AWAM (All Women's Action Society)
11 March
The Curve, KL

-info taken from Lainie-

then The Star finally published Marina's article here and more of the article here

-info from Jeff-

3R Rexona All-Women Futsal Playoffs 05
19 March
Sports Planet Subang Grand

-info from 3R-

and i'm sure there are more..... hmm.. wonder if Penang has anything on....

work stuff

so it was estimated that we're gonna get LOADS of calls this week and next week.. and we've been asked to work extra 1 to 2 hrs (which is claimable of course)... so i took 2 days of extra 1 hr each.. and i'm not sure if i want to do that tomorrow... calls are low though but then, who doesn't want that extra $$.... it's said that next week will REALLY be high calls... but then again it's an estimation...

i went back online to Jobstreet and i just realised i haven't updated my resume for 6 months!... so i updated and searched for jobs... though most of it needed "experience" which i don't have and expertise in SQL and other programming languages (which i also dun have)... so it IS really hard finding a job... i did apply for some, but am not sure if they'll even noticed that i applied cause u can see how many ppl applied for that same job.. and the numbers are in 3 digits... so.... not putting any hopes there...

have gotten my friend who's working here with me to forward my resume to another dept.. hope that would be promising.. and also my cousin to her IT dept... hope there's sound from there too....

i know i've only been here for 6 months.. and i may have to stay longer so that it won't look like i was "job-hopping" on my resume... basic is lousy but i'm comfortable with the OT... and being here for 6 months, is making me have second thoughts to leave if i ever get another job... but then again, i don't want to think about it until i REALLY get a permanent job... sigh....

new job

geez... not me.. (how i wished) but it's my dad...

with his PEA (Penang Eurasian Assiciation) contacts, he was given a job... this guy, he is starting a learning centre (private though) but one that helps unfortunate/poor students... i don't know what subjects or courses they are giving but it's like a learning centre..

so they took my dad in as "administrator/coordinator"... i guess it about coming up with scheduling, how things are to work in the centre... basically paper work... 9-5 job though.. and i don't think my dad likes the working hrs... "no time to cycle" he says.. hahhaha....

i told him, once everything is set up and the centre is ready to start teaching classes, i told him to just teach.. don't do the administration work.. teach for like 3 to 4 hrs a day, 3 times a week or something like that should be ok... right or not?

he was like.. hmm.. see first see first...

now at home, he's always on the pc... writing letters la... creating tables la.. this la that la.... asking me how to do this and that... poor thing.. he's bringing work back home... sigh.. i just hope those ppl who are setting up this place isn't talking cock and using my dad and in the end the centre doesn't work out... sigh... the pay he's getting also... not good...

anyone got a job for a pensioner?

tiring...

so the weekend was spent being out with my baby....

and yesterday i had to get up 1 hr earlier for that extra 1 hr of OT... sigh... bad idea man... then evening, my baby fetched me from work.. his first time coming here... earlier he sent his mum and bro to the air-port.. they were going to Fiji.... so he dated me before he went back to Alor Setar...

what did we do? we ate at FRANCIS!!! omg it was sooo long since i ate his food... so we parked opposite and crossed the road over to Francis, i had Pork Chops - BBQ and he had Chef Special stir fry spagetthi.. lovely.. i thought his was better than mine... then we had a salad.. but this salad is different, there were slices of chicken, ham, cheese, salad leaves, cucumber, red and green peppers and get this..... slices of peach!! (u know those peaches in the can where u serve with desserts, ice-cream and all...) fuhh.. we were both full to the top... wonderful!!!

sitting there eating, we (or shall i say I) eaves dropped on the conversation between Francis and another lady customer.. she was asking why he moved and all that.. then there was something about ppl breaking in his place from the rood.. eating his food and drinks... things like that.. and then after 3 or 4 days, they broke in again, played music, eat, drink...lepak in the shop.. i couldn't really hear well but i got those bits and pieces... don't know if that's the case he moved... what u think Cheryl?

then with full tummies.. i was even more sleepy!!! already so tired... we went to watch YET another movie.. hahahha.. this time was Firewall.. wanted to watch Underworld but it wasn't open yet.. so... Firewall la.... man.. Harrison Ford is sooo old!!! and there were scenes like the ones in Indiana Jones.. where the shots of they driving a car and u can see the background moving, but it's so obvious that the background was like fake and the car wasn't really moving... and he said that it was a movie promoting Dell... hahah dell pc, laptops, servers, flat panel monitors.... :P

after that... man i was soo dead... didn't know if i could drive back.... but i had too if not how would i go to work if he dropped me off at home? so we headed all the way back to work, get my car and headed home....

so tiring man.... at least tonight i can get some early sleep....

but i had fun... it was nice actually having your bf around when u're in a long distance relationship...

yippie weekend...

well last night my baby came!!

YEAY YEAY YEAY!! at least this weekend won't be so bored...

so i fetched him after work and we went to our fav rice and dishes at macalister road... then went to see Casanova... man that movie was hillarious.. and this time, the audience DID get the joke AND laughed!!! though i may have been embarassing cause i laughed too much/loud.. those who actually heard me laugh (really really laugh) would know what i mean.... hahhaha it's been so long since i laughed that hard....

couldn't really hang out last night cause i had work today.... sucks right.. he was pestering me to change with someone and all that.... i told him i wanted to but WHO told me no need? hmm.. so it's his fault that i'm working on sat.... i could have easily asked someone to replace me but he didn't want me to do that.... so not my fault... :P

so today, don't know what we'll do.. maybe go for another movie.. i'm like so behind with my movies... and maybe try to persuade him to go clubbing.... sigh... if not.. hehehehehe SHOPPING!

i can't wait to see him after work!!!!!

*glee*

promises

haha i think i owe u guys a before and after pic of the renovation that was done to my living room..... here it is

ok so maybe this is not a really good before and after pics..

i actually forgot to take a pic before the work begun...

here in this picture is when they ALREADY stripped off the windows...

this is after the renovation

with nicey thingies for christmas

if u look properly u can see the sliding windows

that slides from the middle to the side.....

do u know?

these are for the new graduates out there who just graduated like me...

when u graduate.. do u KNOW exactly what u like to do, what u want to do, what u can or cannot do for a job?

for me... no.. not really... yes i graduated in computer studies... but all i have studied were basic programming, abit of management, abit of this, abit of that... and it's ALL theory... so, what EXACTLY i want/can/like to do.... that's a hard question for me to answer....

yes i majored in networking... but to be IN a networking environment, manning an ACTUAL network, have probs or have meetings on what/where/how to solve networking problems, i have never done that....

i did do programming for assignments, those were really basic basic type of programming and that also i had to get help from ppl and my programs are never 100% working...

then there's the management part of coming up with a system.... all in theory.. no hands-on...

so basically, i don't have a clue what i enjoy best from what i learnt.. cause i didn't have any freaking experience or training or handson!!

is it really THAT bad not knowing what exactly u like/can do? is it bad trying out first before knowing what exactly i can or cannot do? sigh.....

the joys of finding the right/good job....

what routine does to u...

have u noticed what happens to you when u are in your routine...

like me, if i have a routine, like going to a place, everyday at the same time (like work, or last time - college) i realised that sometimes i can't remember how i got there...

yes i get out from the house, drive the SAME route to the destination AND be aware with the other cars and traffic and yet, when i reach there, i then come out from a so called like trance and uuhh... how did i get here? i mean i know how i got there.. but the details of what happened on the way there was all in a blur....

have u felt that way?......

ohh... and i have this habit of planning on which road (and LANES) to take to go to a place (before i even get in the car!!!)... am i a freak?

changes in church

went to mass last night for Ash Wednesday, i went to St. Anne's... boy i haven't been there for quite a while... and when i went in i had mixed feelings...

it was the feeling of "back home" to familiar surroundings and yet feel so new and foreign to that place... maybe it's because the ppl i know are "older" and the kids i know is now the Youth of the church... plus, ppl have been married and with kids... wow.. time did really fly so fast...

and... get this.. there are "pillars" of fans in the isles.... yea!! just like the ones in the Butterworth church... what i mean by "pillars" of fans is that on the isle there are pillars and on the top of each pillar has 4 rotating wall fans.... cause the church is so big, wide and airy, there is no wind from the existing fans cause it's so high up... so they put these pillars in the isles.... looks weird though.. spoil the look of the church.. but then, it's either that or air cond the whole church which is impossible cause the church doesn't really have walls.... i know, those who have not seen the church won't have a clue what i'm saying about the church not having walls, but to those who have seen the church will know why i said that they can't air cond the church....

so at mass, i saw this couple, it's my so called friend's parents... boy his mother was a HUGE lady back then, but now.. fuuhh!!! slim babe!.. maybe not that model type of slim slim, but very much smaller than before... i can dare say, 1/2 of her size.... and she ironed her hair... coloured it... wow.. at first i didn't recognize her, but i noticed she was sitting next to uncle (which obviously didn't change) and i knew it was aunty... don't know if she recognized me though....

there u go... u stop going to your parish for nearly a year and u can see so much changes......

MAJOR diet today!

eh.. no la... just fasting abit today cause it's Ash Wednesday....

nearly forgot about it yesterday till my dad was talking about going to church in the morning and pay bills after that... then i remembered!!! hmm...got to go to mass tonight, wonder what time will mass be...

so it's just one meal today (no meat - just fish) and even that meal cannot big big type.... so yea... in other words it's diet... *whisper - and i'm already feeling hungry!*

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am i feeling sort of ok la (knowing the rage i was in in my previous posts). but then again.. sigh... can't say anything, can't do anything.. so... just have to sacrifice and have to let it be la.. what to do right? sigh....