3rd Anniversary

Today is my third anniversary in my current company. Never ever would I dream I would stay in this place for such a long time. Happy 3rd Anniversary to all my MSC friends. It's been a long journey for all of us, some left, some stayed, some got promoted and some went further than we ever though we could. But most of all, we still remember the 1st day we meet at 29th Dec 2003.

All the best to everyone as you are the one that crossed my path and left a unforgotten memory.

Met an old friend

About a week back, my company was doing some corporate video shooting in the office. Since my department's kamcheng very good with the communications department, I was forced to say some funny phrase in front of the camera. What's the phrase ar? Hmm... forgot, some mushy mooshy words that meant to present that I love HSBC.

Anyway, that's not the main thing I wanna say here. What happen was, when the Comms people (Noreen) was bringing me to the temporary studio setup in the office, she intro me to one of the guy taking charge in the shooting. And OMFG!!! It's my highschool mate. It's been years since I last saw him. Though I accidently bumped into his blog bout 1 or 2 weeks before I met him, such coincidence.

He's changed a lot. He used to be like a "close to nerd" but not. Maybe because that time he was mixing with all those nerds. He has become today someone who works in production and creative line. I couldn't even believe my eyes, but I have to. Ohhh... by the way his name is Isaac.

Anyway, am glad to see him. Couldn't chat much with him, but still happy can catch up a little and exchange our phone number. If you still have not know me enuff, I'm someone who don't like to lose touch with friends. I love my friends. After all no man is an island. Friends are important. But of course I love my sweetie too ler. :P

A day's life of a man who don't work (100th entry)

I'm clearing my leaves for the year of 2006. Hence I'm off from work this whole week till Jan 1, 2007. And what can I do at home?

Here's what I did today.

Throw garbage.
Wash clothes.
Sweep the floor.
Mop the floor.
Clean up the flower pots (like a bush) behind my house.
Now Blogging.
Later reading.
Later than later, go to Bangsar for dinner with colleagues.

That's 1 day. A fulfilling one. Most of the time sweetie do house chores. I help with a little. But whenever I have the time, I clean everything up all (at least most) at once.

p/s: This is my official 100th entry in blogspot. Yeah!!! Not much compared to others, but still quite proud of it. Bwuahahaha... Actually wouldn't have know until blogspot update their hostings and show it by the side. :P

Malaysia back to zaman kolot

It's actually the internet linkage of some Asian countries to the outside world got disrupted. This is has got something to do with that earthquake in Taiwan. Do know why. Go read here.

So, don't be surprise if you can't log on to your MSN Messenger and any website that is out of Malaysia. It's either damn slow or not accessable at all. Bummer... I will just have to go back to me's Freakonomic now. Fun book to read though.

Secret Santa

It's Christmas, my office area put on a really heart-warming tree last week. Since the tree was so heart-warming and doesn't have any decoration at the bottom of it, someone suggested to have the "Secret Santa" thingy. What's secret santa? It's actually getting everybody's name and put in a box. Once all the name is in the box, all will have to take turn to draw a name. Without announcing the name you draw, you will need to buy a X'mas gift (everyone agree to make sure the gift is below RM20). Then everyone is not supposed to sign off the X'mas card with their own name, instead is encouraged to sign off as "Your Secret Santa". Sounds fun, some people still wouldn't be able to guess who their secret santa is even after years.

So, I got the name of the person whom I should buy a gift for. Although it already passed Christmas, we all agree to exchange gift on Jan 2, due to last minute execution (hehehe). So I went gift hunting today.

I think book is the most ideal gift. After all, it's knowledge. And this is what I ended up with.

Yes, it's called SUMO (Shut Up, Move On). It took about an hour to decide. And I was still having doubt if this book makes a good gift. So when I reached home, I search in Amazon. It's 4.5 stars out of 5. I think it should be good. :P Actually heard of this SUMO word some time ago, thought it should be a nice book.

Alright, anyone in the office that sees this book, please keep a secret from the receipient aite. :X

Curse of the Golden Flower

My Rating: 6/10

My sweetie wanna watch this movie because of Kong Li. I wanna watch this movie because the theme song is sang by Jay Chou. It's quite a good movie. I like the content, I like the who cinematography. The only disappointment is some of the actor used. Chow Yuen Fatt is fantastic, but some of the china actors looks purely cinapek.

I gave only 6 because somehow or rather, the movie is played in cantonese. I think it's only in Malaysia and Hong Kong that it's played in cantonese. I can from the mouth movement that the original movie is in mandarin and I'm sure it will sound more realistic than now. Anyhow, worth to watch.

Basketball Tourney

More than a month ago, a few of us in the company form a basketball team when we got the comms mail of a basketball tournament. And this is the results of that.

Books shopping

Went to Borders on Sunday and bought books worth of RM130. First time in life I ever bought so much of books to read. It's been months since I pick up a book and start reading again.

This is how it happens. My aim to go to Borders was to get the Freakonomics, and have a look at George Soros' new book, called "The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror". I found my Freakonomics with a sticker written that buy 3 for the price of 2. Hence I proceed to the area where the books with this promotion is located. Looked around, seen none that I know of or interested in.

Then I continue to loiter around Borders and saw another book that caught my sight, iWoz. Picked the book up, read the back cover and find it interesting. I had always like to read bout successful ppl's biography and their journey to who they are today. Since this book come with another sticker of its own that say "20% off with purchase of any item", I took it as well.

Then when I met up with my sweetie who is loitering around in the bookstore as well. Asked her if she wanna take a look at the Buy 3 for 2 area have got something interesting for her. She took a look and saw the book "The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing" and it's quite interesting, so she decided to take that book. Since it's buy 2 free 1, or buy 3 for 2, I look around for another book and end up with another interesting book called "Blink".

And this is how I end up buy books worth of RM130. Was really excited when I got home. It's juz like when you go shopping and got yourself something and can't wait to reach home, open it up and try it on.

Why no update?

Reason 1: DO NOT Surf too much in the office
I've got a warning for surfing the internet too much in the office. Hence, to avoid being warned again, do not wanna update any blog during the office hour. Most of the time, when I had something that I wanna blog about, I forgot bout it when I reached home. Yah, I've got really bad ability to remember things.

Reason 2: Busy with work
Part of the reason why I used to surf so much at work was because I was too free. It's not that I'm trying to run away from work, it's just that most of the people that's involved in my project is either not free or just didn't show up for the appointment made. Imagine a VP couldn't even bother to give me a call or mail me to say "she's going for lunch" and have to cancel my appointment. So, most of that time was spent chasing for people.
But all the chasing pays off once I finally got the VP. My project can finally proceed and I am back to focus on my project again.
Unbelievably, it start all over again when I have to take up the task of a PA to arrange the travel plan of a visitor from Hong Kong (my Six Sigma trainer). I have to plan and schedule his itinerary for the visit and worst of all, I have to chase him meeting after meeting because he didn't wear a watch and always overshot his meeting and late for the next. Why I have to do this? Because my boss think that this is priority. Because I would rather believe in myself of doing the scheduling part than trusting my boss' PA. Errmmm... that's what happen when you are afraid to delegate in work... you become the multi-tasker and lose focus on what you really need to do.

Alright, that's basically why I didn't blog for a while now. There's so much to write about but I just couldn't think of everything all at once.

My Six Sigma Class

It's been fun to have gone thru this training class with this bunch of energetic and humble people. It's unbelievable to find that some of them are actually Assistant General Manager of some of the businesses in the corporation.

I'm gonna miss the hospitality, fun, cares and excitement these people brought to my life. I might cross path with them again some time in my life, but I might not at all as well. But with this picture, I'm gonna remember every single one of them, whether they are from China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, UK, US, India, Sweden or Hong Kong. Kudos to the Six Sigma Black Belt Wave 2 class!!!

And now off we go into our own project and save or earn our corporation the USD500k or USD1mil and get forgotten. But it will remain in our life how this methodology has change our life, attitude and perspective in our future job environment. To the future great leaders in the organisation...

p/s: "Organisation" is used in this context due to the fact that all of us come from different company/entity in this huge organisation, which at this point I'm still quite proud to work in (until my next rant about the company again). :P