Exercise

Never think that i can pick up sports seriously in KL.Since i joined Prudential in May last year, I had not touch on basketball (my main exercise even when my time in Sabah). I have been keep giving excuses like no time, no mates etc.

Recently i had badminton back to my list. I'm glad that i have such determination. Just last weekend, i had 3 badminton sessions and 1 swimming. My colleague had invited me to her condo for the swimming and i found it damn nice. That evening, it rained heavily but the water temp still warm and nice (FYI, that's an outdoor pool). Though it is not deep enough, but still its more than enough for me.

It was a good start anyway. Subsequently, i had two badminton sessions on Saturday itself.I approached one of my another colleague and leaded me to join his gang. This gang was formed through the badminton central forum. Lots of intermediate level players there and i was the worst among there. Anyway i enjoyed a good game.

In between of the second session of mine, i went to my ex boss's house to play Wii. My hand was like not belongs to me. What we played was boxing, tennis and bowling. The time during my second session was totally exhausted. Thinking of having a good rest the next day, but then my friend dragged me out for the third session.

Haiz..anybody can massage for me?

Its HOT!!!!

Every morning im listening to MYFM for their 阳光灿烂， 王宫灿烂，and 茶煲ma宝. Today's topic was about the weather right now. Its damn hot for about few weeks or even months.

The weather is forecasted at this level until month of September. In other words, we have to suffer for another 4months. Why i wanna highlight this in my blog? Coz all the while, i heard lots of adjectives to describe the weather and they are really damn funny.

The people who called in today:

1) 晒到脱皮。。。。 （under the sun till my skin peel off)
2) 晒到阿妈都不认得。。。。 (im tanned untill my mom cant recorgnise me)
3) 热到发瘟。。。。 (its a bit rude here in cantonese and im wondering that guy really dare to have this kind of words on air, and the funny part is the DJ repeating his words somemore)

And after these, i heard another version from my housemate which is funnier:

'the weather really hot until my underwear is wet every morning coz of sweating at midnight'

I really let him 'zha dou'. I repeated his 'adjective' to my team and my AM told me that boys' underwear is wet in the morning not exactly because of sweat, it can be lots more other reason. Haha, Im firm and tell her that, we know whats going on and what causes the wetness. Definitely not coz of the dirty one!!! LOL

Few months ago, im longing to have one water heater since it was so cold in the morning to take a bath and eventually turned up that i din bath. However, for now, im longing for one air conditioner. I continued my bathing habits and the temperature is really damn nice. Warm enough and i need not to 'dance' while bathing.haha.

The world is urging to save our environment, our ozone layer by reducing the usage of materials which cause harm to it. Lets look around the city, how many buildings we have? How many hotels we have? How many supermarkets we have? Just the air conditioner in these locations are enough to damage our ozone layer. How can we save?

No idea!!!

Mahjong with Technology

I cant believe that we had incorporated technology into our common game - MAHJONG!!

Yesterday, my ex-boss organised a small party at his new house inviting some of his close colleagues. His new house located just nearby my house - Sunway SPK, 3 storeys house. A pretty nice house.

They bought KFCs as dinner, wines, etc. We chat, drink, play Wii, and of course Mahjong as mentioned earlier. 'Gambler' like me sure opted for the mahjong. LOL. (and im the big loser)

Lets focus to the mahjong part. The mahjong set is not complete and the chips are not enough. Rather than playing with cash, my boss suggested to jot it down on a piece of paper to keep track of all the transactions.

After few round of games, the paper seems not enough for the record. Hence, we planned to use technology - Laptop. By using a simple excel spreadsheet, we can easily keep track of our cash flow.

Advantage of using excel(as an alternative of chips) :

- to avoid police detection
- to save paper
- to easily track net cash flow position
- to check the transactions to have zero sum
- to see the trend of our cash flow (pending template building - a chart)

The objective of the game:

TO fill in all the entries of an Excel spreadsheet (we are using microsoft 2007), which means the total entries available will be 1m. For simplicity, assuming no 'gong', no 'draw' game, each game will have 3 transactions, (A-B, A-C, B-C), hence we have to play at least 300,000 games to complete the spreadsheet. =)

Outcome:

One of the player complained that it is troublesome as she was the one who do data entry. When we are keep playing, she has to enter the data. LOL. We able to finish about 100rows of the spreadsheet. LOL

My coursemate

Yesterday night I received a call from my coursemate when I was with my friends having my dinner at market hawker stall. I was so shocked to hear the news that one of my coursemates had passed away suddenly.

I felt so sorry to hear that. Reason being I just saw her last 2 weeks in KL, when I was having coursemates gathering at KLCC. I was told that she came to KLCC to watch movie herself and she do this quite frequently. I was wondering why she do things alone without any companion from her friends?

Some background story telling, her body shape is quite fat and round (forgive me for being so direct as I dunno what other words can replace). Because of this, behind her, I was calling her 波波 (BoBo) as she looks like a ball. To be frank, I was not so close with her during my time at Sabah, and when ppl referring to her, I have no idea when they were using her name. Hence, I named her that way to ease me for reference.

My source told me that she had a disease (unknown to us), which she knew that when her time in Sabah. Again, because of this disease, it caused her to be in that shape. Besides, during the time, she was admitted to hospital few times during her study period. I totally have no idea bout that. I felt so sorry for not concerning my coursemate, plus calling her with that nickname. If I knew this earlier, I wont called her such way. In fact, I will convey my wishes and concern to her.

Concluding from this, I finally understood why she was watching movie alone. My guess was, she knew she have to fully utilize her time and not wasting it. Though watching movie is not any beneficial thing but still, as long as she gain her satisfaction over that and happy with it.

She just worked nearby my office and past two weeks I had promised to date her for lunch when I was free. But now, I would not have the chance to meet her in future not even to say have a lunch with her. I was impressed by her strong will to stay alive and continues her live happily. Knowing herself troubled by the disease, she still determined to finish her degree, to seek for employment etc.

I cant imagine how her parents feel. Were they prepared for this long time ago? I have no idea. 3 of my coursemates are heading towards to attend her funeral. Hope her parents can recover soon from her death. As I need to work tomorrow, I really cannot attend her funeral.

Basically, there were few reasons which I feel so sorry:
1. I have no concern over her during our Sabah time. (even her absence time?)
2. I din understand her family background at all. (I only knew that she is from Kedah when I intended to attend her funeral but its really to far)
3. From above, I cant attend to her funeral.
4. I have no chance to fulfill my promise to her which is date her and have a lunch at least?
5. I din really have a photo with her alone.

Im listening to Lim Fung’s song when im writing this post which is “爱在记忆中找你” And there is one lyric part which brings out all my sadness, which is we will only can find you in our memories. I dun wish this. I hope I can see you face to face. I wish we still can chat on our life in Sabah, chat about our Prof Zai, chat about how we survive during our FYP period?

Everything in memories for now…

(right side)

My FM

这一次我又写华语的部落格， 但是别担心，这次绝不是因为气愤或伤心。

很难得今天我能够在还未天黑前就离开公司。想到应该能够7点之前就回到我的安乐窝。很可惜就因为一个错误的决定，我用了1小时40分才会到家。 就觉得好像浪费了我的时间。 为什么我要选择走mrr2呢？除了在jalan ampang 塞了一段路，mrr2也在同一天发生车祸，导致大塞车。 我一个人呆在车里无聊得很。

就在将要到达的时候，我听到了myfm猜歌名的环节。无聊的我，就只好发送sms去myfm参加环节。那一首歌，我很清楚我是懂得的。为什么只是区区的一小段音乐， 我都能那么肯定的是我心中的那一首歌？就因为我唱k时，它是我必唱的一首歌。

很可惜，我却忘了歌名。印象中它仿佛是张智霖的祝君好。犹豫了一会儿，我终于发送出去了。paiseh 的是，我竟然忘记了chilam的华语名，我还特地拨电话给我的朋友确认他的名字。满心欢喜的，等待答案，还有等他说出我的名字猜对了。因为就要到达，恐怕等不及答案就要下车了，还准备了耳机，打算用手机聆听myfm.

很快的，myfm要公布答案，当中我知道我的答案错了，一直担心着我的名字将会宣读出来。但是我知道大家都在指同一首歌，因为大家的答案都蛮接近的。幸亏我的名字没有读出来，要不然我就paiseh了。 哈哈。

到底答案是哪一首歌呢？

它就是：” chilam 的 相爱无梦“

以后一定要记住歌名了。。。。=（

Stress Out!!!!!

As it is a quarter end now, lots of reporting stuff are coming in and everything flows into my team's job scope. A small team comprising of 2 slaves, have to handle all the reporting and ad-hoc analyzes.

A newbie like me, be with the company for half a year, is currently dealing directly with chiefs and regional office. However, me,myself has no enough confidence in meeting their requirements or answer their questions.

The most detail and full pack will be the quarterly reporting. This is my second time involved in this kind of reporting. Even my first submission for last quarter needs alot of amendments and changes plus additional slides from my AM, but now i have to handle myself. Why?

1. My AM (previously senior) is taking study leave for two weeks. She is the one who knows the business damn well and guided me throughout the time.


2. Another AM also taking study leave, though she is not engaged with my current work but at least i can ask for her advices when nobody around.

3. My boss have to go for a business trip and before he goes, i have to settle this report two weeks earlier before the deadline which means i have few days left for it. (Nothing started as at now.)

Some of my friends know that, recently i am so busy and working overtime everyday and weekends. Without so, i cant even finish some other ad-hoc stuffs. Coupled with weekly reporting and monthly reporting, i am so suffocating!!!

When things and results turn out to be not matching, i was frustrated and my mind jammed. No one helps. No one listens. Rarely have enough sleep nowadays, even i slept, i still dreamed of my working tasks, all the numbers, initiatives, projection, analysis bla bla bla...

I love the feel of speeding now. When im driving alone without anyone talking to me, my mind will automatically connecting my 'office's server'. I just need a feel of release by speeding and opening loud music inside the car. Hope by doing so, i can just concentrate in my driving without other distractions.

Hope that i can complete the things before deadline. Im half-prepared to be scolded for this round. Haiz!!!

Downgrading

Found a good virtue of my uncle (living next to my house). He is damn patient!!

I lend my car to him as he needs it to drive back to kampar. All his cars are old and not suitable to drive long distance anymore. Thats the reason why i exchange my car with him. But, at the point of time i agreed to exchange with him, i have forgotten that i need my car today (Saturday). I will be going out for whole day to release my stress and unhappiness.

No turning point, and i have to use his old kancil with a big cop of driving schools address at the side. Tested out yesterday night:
- 650cc and really no power.
- Gear box with 4 levels.
- no power stereng.
- no radio

But at least there are few things that i favour of:
- it is manual, it gives me the feel of driving.
- its air-con still functioning!!! yeah!!

For this weekend, i dare not to date people who stay far from me, or somewhere that is far from my house. I intended to drive to sri petaling to have dimsum as dinner but luckily i did not. Driving that with 70 - 80 km/j from my house, i think i will only reach after 1 hour drive. Better not!!!

Not really used to the car, driving slow on the road, turning hard the driving wheel, no radio but i still have to drive it to 1U later!! lol!!

Think i wont downgrade myself in the future as i cant accept those perform worse than my current.

SQL

For the whole last week, i rarely touch on my regular management reporting task, but i involved in data extraction, data analysis, data verification. Performing all these, i need to know SQL (Structured Query Language) application to extract data from the database.

Feeling myself with damn low productivity as i just able to get 2 analysis done. Due to my stupidity and limited knowledge of the system, i redo the things and amend my code for more than 3 times. Just because of setting wrong condition, taking from wrong tables, having wrong understanding towards the columns etc.

Therefore, im playing around with the codes for whole week and actually im quite new to this language as i did not learn this in my Uni life. As i know so far, statistics from UM offered this subject to their students. While learning from website and my short notes, i completed it at a slowest pace.

Ya, i did learn something on that which i appreciate much. Since the analysis directly requested from my CFO, and he started to chase me. Day and night im thinking of my codes, thinking of what went wrong, how to get a more reliable data etc. It turns out that, i even dreamed of it at night.

I can recall just after i woke up, my mind still with the codes. OMG!! Im going crazy with that. My nightmare started yesterday. Why? Because of the data verification that i did, found out some potential issues and errors in which I have to verify all the reports given by agency admin team in future. In other words, i serve as the auditor for that. Argh!!!! We just have 2 ppl in my team and now another new regular task.

Kill me please!!! Hopefully another SM can take over this, as she is new to this language as well, i have to teach her before she can perform it.

Faint!!!

Gala Dinner 2009

Here go the description and people in my Gala Dinner. Regret because i was so silent that night and stick to my place without taking any photos with lenglui.


















PRUidol finalist:


Staff performance - Salsa dance




People listing which have direct relationship with me in the office:

Kelly Chung (Ipoh girl that talks anything with me)


Vincent Nga (another vincent which is confusing when we call each other)


Actuarial office (part of them, which contains my dream girlS inside)


From the right, my old boss Eng Siang, his wife Siau Ching


After my old boss transferred, this two serve as my new bosses. (direct supervision is the right one)


Second highest level of boss (Soon Wai - Director)


My highest level of boss (Azim Mithani - CFO)


Acting CEO (Kevin Wright)


Chief PD Officer (Abhishek Bhatia)


My AM's idol - Chief Marketing Officer (Thomas Wong)


Chief HR Officer - Paul Gerald Lim


Chief Operation Officer - Jeffrey


My second round of the night. Scarlet - The Curve

PREVIEW

Last weekend i rushed back for wedding dinner in Syuen, and the next day i back to KL for another dinner. This was it!! A short preview..









Performers of the night..

Syuen Hotel (4-stars)

Last Friday, I just attended a wedding dinner at Syuen Hotel Ipoh. I knew it sounds ridiculous to have it on Friday but not Saturday, but that is not the point i wanna raise it here.

This was my first time in Syuen although i lived in Kampar for so long. It claimed themselves as the best hotel in Ipoh with a 4-star rating. From their outlook, it does looks grand and worth a 4 star rating. However, when it comes to their services and facilities, i will only utter one word: "SUCKS!!!!"

I wont go far in rooms and facilities, i will just focus on what i experienced and what i saw in just a short wedding dinner.

1. The floor of the receptionist is not using the same tiles as the lobby. Theirs are old and dirty.

2. They allow smoking in air-conditioned area.

3. The wall of the ballroom is not furnished.

4. Toilet doesn't have urinal for kids. (normally there will be one down to the floor for kids usage)

5. Simple decoration with 'complicated' price. Be it the reception table, the entrance and even the stage. They are just too cincai to give that to their customers.

6. The table cloth for the reception table is wet.

First 6 items for the facilities. Lets go to the food and services:

7. They have no enough crews to serve us. Once they are delivering the dishes no crews around for servicing. All of us have to serve ourselves, pour the tea ourselves, and serve the table. (4-star service,zz)

8. The crew kept knocking our table when she serves. (I wonder is she not professional enough, or she is too short to serve the table? Out of 10 times, she knocked 10 times. zzz

9. When I asked for a plate change, she even nego with me. "Can i change your plate after next dish? We normally only change plate after serving the chicken but not for now." Wow, faint!!

10. Believe most of you tasted the dessert of lotus and white fungus? And all of us know that the inner part of the lotus seed is not edible.It is bitter in taste. The picture will be the best evidence of their bad services:



Fucking 4-stars hotel. Only for few hours, i found out 10 bad things and it just for part of their services. Would you wish to stay in Syuen anymore?

These are not just my observations. Lets have some review from the travelers who stayed in Syuen before.

Click here!

First day with new boss

Today is my first day without my old boss. He has been seconded to another department within the same business entity. Although i still can reach him, but he no longer in charge of my team's projects.

Another manager from regional reporting (same level) is overseeing my team. Of course, she is not as flexible as my old boss does. As what my senior told me, she is more strict regarding to delivery time of task. And of course i wont exceed the time limit given unless i really totally stuck with the thing. However somebody will guide me if this is the case, be it my senior or my old boss.

My AM had asked me some time in last week:

"How do you feel of the recent change of our team structure?"

"Feeling more stress."

"Why? All strategic planning team members are happening people and this is our culture. We wont change this even though there are others who joining us. She is with us."

"Ya i know, thats the fun part. When it comes to job related parts, i feel more stress as she is more strict then TES (old boss) as she is known with."

"Ya, just learn slowly and you will finally adapt to it."

"i know, just that with tes, i can learn relaxingly.. Under her supervision, i have to learn under stress. Dunno is this an advantage for me to learn more things or it makes thing worse. Everything is unknown till she come."

"Ya, hopefully you wont have any hard feeling. Anything just let me know and we will help you."

"Sure, thanks."

Today, my senior was absent as well. There is one trainee joining my team today, but im the one who 'jaga kedai'. My new boss have to take care of her own team as well.My CFO had requested something from me, and in fact i know how to do it but i just lack of some confidence. Whenever there is something urgent to me (due in short time), i will panic and will have careless mistakes here and there.

I knew that this is one of my weaknesses as well. If i am more familiar with what im doing, i should be confident enough to be questioned by any of them. I should be able to dig out any info fast and accurate. (something i have to learn)

I have to submit the thing before lunch time and i have a date with both old and new bosses. I sought for my new boss's opinion before sending the file and she said that i can escalates upward directly to regional office without her going through it by one simple but stressful sentence.

"No need, i trust you."

With this, i check twice, thrice, ......... until my old boss came. He knew bout this and he have a quick check for me. During the lunch time, TES complained my new boss:

"Why you so terrible one? You asking your ppl to do things but you din giv them any support." Horrible la you.. "

At this point of time, i really found out that, he is indeed a good boss. Although he is not serious all the time, but he is knowledgeable and capable in doing things. Somehow as a mentor, he definitely qualified!!

In the other hand, one of colleagues from actuarial IM me:

"Wei, your boss NG FONG SUM you ar?" (some more she uses capital letters)

"nola, just he was nearby and have a quick check of my work."

"wa, he is so nice.."

"but mayb u r true as well, mayb he ng fong sum me."

I need to be more independent and pick up the task as soon as possible. I cant have them worry bout me anymore. Only through this, i can reduce my senior's burden.

Gambate wjiann!!!

Like and Dislike

There are two radio advertisements that i extremely like and dislike. Guess which one?
Erm, lets begin with the bad end one...

The one that i dislike the most is:

Hotlink 365 -

"Do you know how long is the effective date of Hotlink 365?"

"I don't know."

"It is one year loooooooooOoooooooooOooooooooooOooooooooooOooooooooooOoooong......."

I wonder who approved this kind of advertisement to be released. It is pretty annoying.

On the other hand, the one that i like is:

Natural oil -

The story behind is a son calling his mom who are working at the moment. The son keep on requesting something which his mom feel annoyed as she is working. Finally, his son still pick up his courage and utter out a last sentence:" Mommy, I Love You!

His mom's heart is melted by this simple but magical words. Her attitude changed 180 degrees. Promising his son of preparing him a good meal with natural oil. Feeling so warm.

Driving Academy

As many of my friends know that im quite racist and dislike some other 'races'. However i do agree that some of them are really nice and good enough to be friends. However they might be the high end of their group. (i assume)

Today i fetched 4 of them in my car.Not at my wish but i have to. Although all of them are girls and that's one item of my wish list. =)

I helped my auntie to fetch the students from the driving academy since she have to go back kampar to help her sister on some marry occasion preparation job. Nobody else that know the way to the academy and she is quite worry if her daughter to pick this duty up without my GPS. But im still in the office today, what i can do was to offer myself to pick the students up.

Along the way to the academy, besides hoping the students im going to pick up would be chinese young girls, i have alot of thoughts and feelings. Why? Because i got my license at this academy as well. I was tested on this route and i failed in this route!!

Recalling few years back i was so confident that i would passed my driving at my first attempt without giving under table money. And finally i failed at my first attempt due to i overtook cars on those kampung kampung roads. The traffic there is slow whenever there are students who are learning at the time. They drive extremely careful and chibaily slow.

My second attempt of my driving test, it was a different tester and he was those kind of impatient type. I did not dare to overtake any cars this round, i cant bear the cost of re-test indeed. However, the tester questioned me:

"What should you do if the car in front is too slow?"

"Wait and follow behind."

"If it is really too slow?"

"Still wait."

I get his meaning of wanting me to overtake it, but i dun wan to take the risk. Finally i passed. =)

This time, i was driving my own car, speeding on this road, overtaking cars like hell. I forgot those principles and laws of the traffic. I just want to reach on time and finish my task asap. Looking back at those learners, i am just able to have a smile.

Not sure any of you would understand my feeling, but just like a victorious feeling, a feeling like i had grown up much..haha...

Hand Banquet

Watching all the HK series, there must be some love stories and love scenes. The very common and beginning step will be sending flowers to your 'beloved'. It is either florists delivery or you send it by hand.

It is just a simple act and most of the girls will like this. I found it very easy and it is nothing except flower sending is quite expensive. I am 24 age n.b and I have been in relationship before, but shyly speaking, i never send them flowers.

Finally, i bought a bunch of flowers from florist today. Working in KL for more than half year but i do not realize that there is a florist just in next building of my company. Although im not buying the flowers for myself, but i found it quite difficult for me in buying it. It is an integrity of right person, right timing, willing to spend, courage to send and of course a right method...

Im asking myself why i would have such thoughts. Is it because of the flower is not mine? Do i mind that somebody will misund me? I really have no idea. When i went to get the hand banquet, im increasing my pace than normal. Would i have the same feeling when i have to buy it for my gf?

Haha guys, for flower delivery, can click here.

Zodiacs

As appeared in my MSN tagline, "OX year work like OX" for OX ppl, however, there are few more zodiacs that doesn't sounds good to work.

For Tiger ppl:
"Fu" year work hou "fu" (pity)!! - cantonese

For Hare ppl:
"Tu" year work till "tu" (vomit). - mandarin

For Dragon ppl:
"Long" year work till "long". (deaf) - mandarin

For Rooster ppl:
"Kai" year please dun go to be "kai" (whore) - cantonese

Again there will be some exception one.. among the 12 zodiacs which zodiac will be the best?

It is the snake ppl!!!

because they can "seh" during work time!! LOL

A messed up schedule

Many of my friends even my parents questioned me why am i not going back to hometown for a long 3 days holidays. Besides them, me myself wondering why i am here to write this post? Why i am still in KL? A miserable question.

In fact, my schedule was totally messed up by one super idiot who acted as if he is a well planned person. He had blocked my diary since 2 weeks ago. (before cny) He called me up and told me his initial plan as below:

"When will go back to remove the decorations and things?"

"Should be during the Thaipusam."

"I'd a plan in mind, i need you to fetch me back to kampar on 14th Feb so that i can help you in the work and i can board bus to KLIA. What do you think?"

"If that the case, then i will just wait till 14th Feb only back togeder. Its a small matter to me to fetch you."

Ok, now it was settled and i changed my schedule coz of this. I missed the chance to meet up wih my friends since a long stretch holidays many of them went home to gather except me. I can bear with this since i was prepared and mind set to next week if and only if everything went smooth. I received another call on Fri from him again.

"Are you going back this weekend?"

"Nope, you said that we will only be back next week?"

"Oh, coz i wish to go back kampar this weekend, just wanna see that you want to follow anot."

"Im not going back this weekend, as i scheduled my date all in this weekend ady.I thought it would be next week?"

"Actually im not necessarily to board bus from kampar. It is convenient to board near our house there.So now i think of get the job done earlier this weekend."

"Sorry, its too late to tell me this now. I've my own date now and if you are not coming back next weekend, i can remove all the things by myself alone. I wont mind." (a bit frustated)

"Ok, let me see which way is more convenient, just to let you know i most probably going back."

Ok, cut your craps and i really dun wan to hear this anymore. I closed up my mind, prepared to get things done alone. However, received another call this morning.

"How to remove all the lights and lantherns? Is this and that foldable?"

`````answere him accordingly bout the process and as well as where to organize the things nicely.`````````

"I will see whether i can finish all things this weekend anot. If that the case, next week you no need to come back purposely for this since i have no necessity as well."

"Ok, lets see how. I wont back if you done all things."

So, finally, he messed up all my 2 weekends schedule. I wont get so annoyed without him saying this:

"I told you earlier so that u can arrange your timetable and please block your diary. Later dun ever said that i din tell u in advance."

However, what is the point of knowing this so advance? Fuck Man!!!!!!!!!!!!

Along CNY

Preparation on decoration:











Reunion dinner!!






Eclipse on First day of CNY


suddenly black out






My neighbour's good deed.