New Life.

I feel that I am really blessed, because I manage to rent a comfortable room near my workplace just a week after I started working. It only takes me 20 minutes to get to work, which really makes my life easier. Sure $650 is not cheap, but it comes with air-con and included everything from electricity to internet connection. And the room is spacious and well maintained by the landlord. Considering all aspects especially the location, I think it's a really great room.

But without any friends here, my life besides working is really lonely. Sometimes I didn't have to make a voice for whole morning or whole evening because there is not even work related stuff to talk about for a newbie like me. Sitting in front of computer as soon as I got home like the old days really makes me miss my Melbourne life with friends. I wish I have some friends to share a house together, making the place I call home in this strange place feel warmer and livelier...

That said, it's not miserable at all. Just a little lonely. I am glad and much appreciate to have this opportunity to begin a new life with a job exactly I was hoping for. More importantly being paid in SGD. Even happier to have a lovely girlfriend who webcam with me at night to cure my loneliness.

Love Life : )  

New Work.

Very fortunately, I got the Design Engineer job in Panasonic AVC Singapore. And hence started my new life in Singapore. Job wise, I appreciate it a lot. Even though everyone said Panasonic is not the best company to work with. Be it because of their long working hours or their shrinking market values. But after working for a week, it does seem like the kind of work that I would enjoy. To be honest, not that I mind working overtime because I will just be sitting on my desk for my work anyway..

As design engineer, our job is to draw the structures of electronics appliances. Sure it still involves many paperworks, but definitely gave me better impression than my previous job. I have some good colleagues too in the office. But the downside being all are seniors. Guess that the situation for a shrinking company - less new blood. Not a big deal in work, but it makes me harder to get to know new friends here in Singapore as working is my only window to the society.

I Quitted My First Job After Two Days

So I went Unisteel to start my first job in my life. But after two days, I regretted and decided to quit the job. Yes, it is impulsive and immature. I always believed that I will be more fond to raw material process than product assembly because assembly seem very monotonous and processing is more technical.

But after two days in Unisteel, I realised that I am wrong. I don't understand myself enough. For someone who has been living in a greenhouse, process environment is too hard to getting used to. Call me racist, furthermore being a lone Chinese in the whole department made me felt worst. I compared the job with the experience as intern in Flextronics which do product assembly, I decided to pursue the route of assembly field.

I don't know if my act was rational thinking, or I am too picky and refuse to face the hardship as an adult regardless what job I get. But I gave myself a chance. I have regretful moments in life because afraid to act and I hope this is not another time.

Luckily right after I resigned from my Unisteel, my brother's friend brought good news from Panasonic that the mechanical manager has approved me and submitted to HR. I guess I still need to get approval from Singapore's Minister of Manpower because the Panasonic still yet to give me a call. But it's a step forward. On the other hand, surprisingly Sony Singapore also called me 5 weeks after my resume submission. It's a manufacturing job, but it has me excited enough to work in Singapore and more importantly working for Sony being a fan of the brand. Besides that, I still have another interview appointment in Dyson Malaysia which is well know to be a good company.

Afterall I am really a fortunate person to have these opportunity. And again, hopefully Panasonic will call me soon.

Start Working On Monday

Today is another bad day. The feeling of given hope and taken away.

When I got job offer from Unisteel, I accepted with open heart. Although it's a Process Engineer post, not exactly what I'm hoping for... At least making mini sized metal parts sound interesting I guess. And the pay is not bad at all for fresh graduate.

But then I was given hope to interview at Panasonic Singapore as Design Engineer, which to be honest my dream job. It's not about the salary, but mechanical design is really much more interesting for me. I'm all hyped for this job. My excitement multiplies when my brother's friend who introduced me to this vacancy told me that the design department's manager who interviewed me said that I will most probably being hired.

But now after 7 working days, I still not receiving any news from Panasonic. And Unisteel work will be starting on Monday. I don't know if I still have chance for Panasonic. Base on my previous interviews, if I have not received reply within a week usually means I was rejected. Who knows if the manager was being honest that he really gonna hire me, or he just feeling impolite to blatantly tell that I was rejected?

It doesn't means Unisteel job is not good. I just really hate the feeling of gaining hope but then losing it again... Anyway, I will be start working as Trainee at Unisteel. At the same time, I hope that Panasonic just having some delay and will contact me next week to offer me the job.

Hello Blog, Long Time No See.

It has been really a long time since I wrote a blog post. Somehow I've become more and more lazy in writing stuffs. I spent some time reading back the blog posts, and realised I really have to keep updating. It's a dairy, helping me to remind myself of my old self and my experiences.

Hello my blog. I am back. 

Genie Day. Not happy

Third post on this blog for Genie's Birthday, marking my 4th year being her fan.

Although it is really one of the worst day of my life. My project supervisor said he does not think I'm qualified to graduate, and will fail my final year project if I cannot convince him (by talking) on Monday.... Which I have no clue about what should I talk about.

Life's unbearably suck, when thing turned out worse than your worst case scenario... Fuck My Life.

Last Sem Break

...

This is one sad blog post. Last semester of my uni starts tomorrow, which means today is the end of the last semester break in my life.

Semester break - the time you have no goal and spend time slacking and wandering around. The happiest period of life. Meaningless but feels so good. Maybe this sounds really irresponsible and childish, but I really gonna miss these moments...

Farewell sem break. Wish me get a job soon and have a wonderful life as a working adult...

She and Her

5^th April 2011 – Without realising, 2 years had passed since she and me re-engaged. Well technically speaking, it’s since she had re-accepted me. I always think it’s almost a miracle, that I can have this second chance to be in love with her. To be frank, I know myself is a weirdo. Immature, bad tempered and timid. I always joke with her that she has a weird taste to fall in love with me, actually i really do think so. Even I can’t think a charming aspect of myself, yet she accepted me for twice. Especially after I’ve hurt her so much before.

Asking myself why I was attracted to her, it’s really not about a specific reason. Honestly speaking, the reasons I’m so fond to her now are not the same to when I first attracted by her. I am a person who doesn’t believe in love-in-first-sight. I’m glad that the more we went through, the more reasons for me to like her. All things happened between us in this 2 years period - no matter it’s having her worried and took care of me when I was sick; or even having a big quarrel because of some small issue, had made our engagement grown stronger.

2 years might feel like a long time. But in fact that we I are 6360 km apart between Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne most of the time, the actual time we spent together is not even 5 months. Long distant relationship is not easy. And I really appreciate the sacrifices she made for me, sacrifices for not having a companion beside herself to share happiness and sadness.

The ‘she’ and ‘her’ I mentioned, called Siau Ting Fong. This post is dedicated for her. Before ending this post, I would like to tell her that: “I love You.”

Friends, I almost burnt the microwave!

It's as idiotic as I always be, I forgot to fill water before sending the pasta into microwave and got away from kitchen. By the time I smell burnt, the kitchen had flooded with thick smoke. Everything in house smell burnt and the container is gone. Luckily the microwave still functional.

Sorry to my house-mates and owner of microwave, Teck Hong.

Ok, for your amusements

A Washed Chinese New Year

So after 2 years forced to stay in Melbourne for summer semesters, finally I'm able to enjoy a Chinese New Year with my family again. However, this was not an enjoyable one because of another big flood happened exactly on Chinese New Year.

Fortune enough, my grandparents' home is not affected. But the road to town was cut-off by flood. The worse, electricity was cut-off too for safety reason because another village nearby which shares the same source is flooded.

Even the new year eve "团圆饭" was cancelled because my family was the only ones that made it home on that day, by leaving our car behind and walk across flooded water. I regret that I was unable to take a photo when we walking across the flooded road as my hands were full of packages. And because of the flood, there was almost non visiting between relatives too.

This year, was the least festival atmosphere Chinese New Year I have experienced...

However, there was one thing good about that actually. Without television, computer and quite bad reception of mobile phone, everyone spent more time gathering and interacting each others. I'm this year's new year was the one I talked the most to my cousins whom I usually meet once a year. Like the advertisement I watched awhile ago: Disconnect to Connect!

Happy Genie Day!!

Another new year, another Genie Day!!!

This should be 3rd post about Genie's birthday in my blog, marking my 3rd year being a mild Genie fan...

All Hail Queen Genie!

A Hectic Day In Work..

Diagrams for easier understanding.

For few days, I have been working under the young engineer again for a new prototype test production. So today I went work casually as usually as I will just be doing some "lite" works, but soon greeted by my Ast. Manager that the Engineer I followed went M.C. today and he asked me to "look after" his station. Heck I know how and what to do!

Prototype production project will include an engineer for my company while overlook by an engineering from HP for each station. So my Initial worry was no idea how to face the picky HP's engineer. But soon it turned into a "shitstorm" when HP team arrived and told that the engineer for my station, also went M.C.!

The worst of the worst, today was the last day to get all units from my station to be done. So for whole day, I had been bombarded by management questions from the act leader, and technical questions from operators which both I had no idea at all! The worst part is when I had to rush up and make request from other department as act engineer when I know nothing at all...

There were some jerks I met, but I'm really grateful that most people are helpful knowing i am a practical engineers. Engineers from other stations helped to troubleshoot, a supervisor who wasn't in my station at all came helped to speed up operators work, and few operators that teach me things or show me directions. All actually, not a bad experience at all. This might be the day I learnt the most stuffs from my internship...

Art of Work

My practical work is a boring one, as I mentioned last post. So boring that Microsoft Paint can no longer sustain me. Hence I would like to present my mascot of all time MashitMaro, this time drawn in Microsoft Excel!

Original MashitMaro

Practical - 1 Month In

Drawn by WhyWai out of boredom in office.

4 weeks since I started my practical in Flextronics. My post is actually a Manufacturing engineer post, who responsible for the production of HP huge printer, called plotter.

Yes, this big.

So far I am quite disappointed on this practical job as I don't really learnt anything technical related. Given that I am doing practical for only 3 months, my supervisor doesn't seem interested to teach me anything. For weeks, I have been passing around by my supervisor to his engineers just to do some 'office boy' works. There were even few days that I just sitting in office doing nothing whole day when my supervisor is too busy to bother about me.

Worse, I only got limited access to filters active internet! Erm, Actually me as practical can't even access internet. But luckily my supervisor gave me his username password to help him do some paperworks in 1st week. So I have been using his account to sur,: Google news and Wikipedia... =. I hope my company

My only good experience was in 3rd weeks when I was asked to assist a young engineer close to my age. Maybe he also been through this practical thing, so he is the first one to actually explain to me what he's working on and give a task to take responsible. Not just ask me to print material list or take photos of part.

Well, at least I did learnt 2 things about myself:

- I'm having a hard time speaking and understanding Malay, seriously. When I tried to say "You email to me", it became "you emel ke saya". =.= Luckily, my supervisor talk English to me.

- I intend to smile stupidly when people ask me something that I'm not clear. Which make me really look like an idiot.

Desire HD is kool!

HTC Desire HD hands-On!!!

But it's belong to my brother. I'm glad that I convinced my brother switching to Android family as he got fed up with iphone's reception and battery problem. ^^V

Back to Desire HD, it is totally AWESOME with Android 2.2 and updated SenseUI which makes my Legend no longer feel legendary... =.='''

I WANT!!!!!!!!

Starting Working for Internship Tomoro!

Nervous, yes. but too tire to bother. Travelling 16 hours since 7am with 2 babies & 50kg luggages!@#$%

That's all... talk when I relaxed a bit...

Start the Day Count

Ordered a game online from far Europe due to it's cheap price. And received confirmation email from the store that my order has been dispatched today. Checked the netitzens discussion and informed that the delivery time varied from 1 week to 6 weeks.

Let's see how my luck goes this time. Finger crossed.

Capture the Stars

Awkward. Rushing the awesome load of assignments I've accumulated through the semester, thanks to my laziness. Looking at the sky, I find calm. It's cloudy tonight... I miss the stars.

Everytime I amazed by the scenic of the stars, I wish I could take a photo and capture the moment. But amateur compact camera just incapable to sense the dim light of stars. The photo was my last attempt to capture the night sky in Phillip Island with new bought camera. But still, a compact camera cant do SLR quality.

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I'm not an island-escape type of person, but I do enjoy stare at the night sky when having vacation in a remote island. Look up into the sky at night, and you will realize there are countless galaxies above you. You cant see that many stars in urban area because man-made light have stolen the brightness of the stars. And slowly people tend to forget how beautiful they are.

Have you heard of a legend: Stars are not only guidances for direction, but also guidances for soul. People attracted by artificial light on ground nowadays instead of look up the sky for stars. That's why they are lost.

Look up and go on.

Because you'll become jealous or frightened if you look to your sides or below you.

The one who seek the stars will look beyond.

Stargazer

Khalil Concert

3D glasses a.k.a Khalil glasses

"You fly here, and I'll go with u."

That's what I told Genieve, when she asked us for Khalil Fong concert. I didn't know that she was serious about that.. So in the end, she came and we go for it. My 1st concert ever in my life.

Palais Theater, venue of the concert

I would say that attending a small scale concert in theater is far more my cup of tea than a large concert in stadium. I believe that I'll bee fainted the moment I see thousands of people in stadium.

Fiona & Khalil

Quite a fun experience. But I have to confess that I hardly listen to songs from both the stars of the night. In fact I think there were only 2 or 3 songs that I actually heard before. XD

Scale on our view of the people on stage.

Our seats were quite far behind, but I think it's good enough since I still manage to see the faces on stage. It's fun that 4 of us who went were all 1st timer. And were "wowed" when we saw people in front of us went well-prepared with binocular and super zooming camera.

Clearest shot of Khalil we got.

ps: A busy playing weekends with Genieve visit to Melbourne. I enjoyed a lot. Looking forward for another fun weekends.

I've got an email!

Well, my girlfriend is not a very internet person like I do. So she rarely send emails besides checking student email. After so long, today I finally received the first email from her!

So what actually exactly describing me in the email?

New school semester:


At the first week:


At the second week:


Before the mid-term test:



During the mid-term test:


After the mid-term test:


Before the final exam:


Once know the final exam schedule:


7 days before final exam:


6 days before final exam:


5 days before final exam:


4 days before final exam:


3 days before final exam:


2 days before final exam:


1 day before final exam:


A night before final exam:


During the final exam:


Once walk out from the exam hall:


After the final exam, during the holiday:

Well, yeah... That's me by the way... XD