THIS BLOG IS DEAD!

And I'm here to revive it!

I'm starting my new job at CXXXX next Monday. Looking back at my past, I had changed 4 jobs in 4 years since graduation. Tsk.. really... But my HR friend topped me with her 6 jobs in 5 years, so, I'm not that bad, considering 2 of the jobs lasted 6 months, and the longest being 2.5 yrs.

Seriously, I wondered if I should have leave ST. I was having such a high salary, and now I'm back to fresh grad pay. Grrr...

But then, I was so depressed at my performance in ST, leaving for the best thing because I know I would be a drag to them, I can't have them always helped me.

I felt that this year I had all kinds of wishes came true, I remembered telling an JXX colleague when I left the company that I might want to do system engineer. Well, here I am, starting work as one this Monday.

When I left the last company, I told myself, I have to go back to being an engineer, but not software. Tadah, wish came true.

It was really ironic, as initially, I didn;t want the job at first, as they required a diploma grad. Thinking that the pay would be half of what I had, I just swayed into the interview with no stress. And I think I kinda aced the interview, personal record coz I wasn't nervous. I was being myself, being a little joker. When they asked if I could deal with stress, I answered: "Yeah, no issue, ST has good stress training. But you probably hear me screaming in the washroom."

Very me right?

Within an hour after the first interview on Monday, 3 Sep 2012, I received a call to get me down for second interview on Wed. Oh, I had 6 panels for the first interview plus a technical test.

I kinda BS my test, but the engineers seemed quite impressed, well, the power of smoking people! Ha ha! :P

I thought I would flung my 2nd interview, as I kinda imitated how the Japanese might talk with not so good English. Heck, the Jap Director was speaking like that, so I thought it didn't sit with him well, although the team lead was very amused and laughed, "Ya ya ya, you are like that!" Then proceed to taichi away the attention by telling the Director and HR manager that I did well for my technical test.

Phew....

So I was offered the job on Thursday, and I signed the contract on Friday, a very good start to September!

I'm now an assisted mouse clicker

I can't believe it what Mr. Lawyer asked me to do... Change the freaking bullet points' font weight!!! OMG, can't you just highlight and then change? What's so difficult? U R A LAWYER!!! U SUPPOSE TO BE SMART!!! AND I"M NOT YOUR FREAKING SECRETARY!!! It's bad enough I had to take your calls... Fine, I'm taking everybody's message anyway.

Then, I had to help him click print, shun bian jiu suan le, but aren't u over utilizing me a bit?

And and and, I'm suppose to assist and troubleshoot your problems, not to preempt your problems. You try liao cannot, then I'll help you. And not I stand there and wait for you to see if it happens.Seriously, the option is there, then it should work lah!

Lawyers!

I don't dislike this guy, I kinda pissed off at him when he did such silly things.

Procrastination kills the deal

So much for putting effort in my new job, my good image was killed because of my procrastination.

I should have known that the bosses are raking in millions, hence, Blackberry is their world. The lawyer in the officer had been receiving his BB mails intermittently. Most of the time happened when he was out of office. My instinct told me that it was something to do with the network, yet another instinct told me it might be because he was tapping on the licensed network (not enough license to go around), hence he could only receive emails when he's in the office. So, I thought I just wait for the license to come then voila, problem solved,

On Fri, he got so mad that I did not solve his BB problem asap, spoke to me in a louder than usual voice. He was very worked up, and seriously, I totally forgot how corporate users can be very mang zhang. And there I was, sobbing silently, getting the only help I could think of, the license vendor.

Seriously, being a lawyer, he was more logical than me. He ruled out all the possibilities for me, while talking to the vendor on the phone. It was there, I discovered a setting I never probed before. His BES was connected on WiFi!!! Which explained why he couldn't receive emails once he's out of office. I'm pretty sure this was the cause, and not license problem.

Really learnt a very serious lesson: Never procrastinate, and dig all means to solve! It's my job!