I'VE GOT IT! I'VE GOT IT!!!

My reply for my MBA application is back and "I'M BEING ACCEPTED"!!! Now, with item no. 1 in the checklist checked, it's item no. 2. What's no. 2? To get my funding. :(

Have been searching frantically online for whatever kinda loan and scholarship. Found a good site for all these for Malaysia who wanna continue studies. I think anyone who's thinking of furthering his/her study, should bookmark this website, extremely helpful.
http://malaysia-scholarship.net/

p/s: There's actually no checklist. I just made that up, maybe I should prepare a checklist. :P

Random Pictures

Angeline and Agnes. My colleagues. Someone was saying that Angline looks really pretty that day, hence I forced her to take a picture. Somehow, a phone camera is still a phone camera. The lighting part really spoilt the quality (prettiness) on Angeline's face.

Dusk at Cyberjaya. Taken while driving... dangerous I know but I can't control myself looking at such beautiful scenery.

A grandfather who was sitting at a taxi stand with his grandson waiting for minutes but still couldn't get a taxi. After this picture, they walked away and back home. I could remember my childhood with the same scene with my Ah Kong.



Su Chin's farewell in Alexis Bangsar. She's filling up the Exit Questionnaire which she was suppose to fill up before she leave.

Su Chin's little precious daughter. Cute and pretty isn't she? Yah, my camera sux.

Was having lunch with this 2 fella over the weekend. We started talking about our time in UK. Spent hours chatting about it until sweetie and Keong's gf must have feel bored, since they don't understand a single thing. This is the poster I created with Eric which struck our mind when we saw this 2 poser taking a "Internal Affair" (cantonese: mou gan tou) position during our trip in Blackpool. Yuky did the marketing (by mass-printing it in color and distribute it out to all the classmates).

Bookfest @ Malaysia

http://www.bookfestmalaysia.com/
Date: 26 May - June 3
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
Time: 10am - 10pm
Fees: RM2 (Age 18 and above only)


Went there on Saturday. It's huge. Got so much of books, some of them is really really cheap. Sweetie and I each spent bout RM150. Don't get the wrong idea, a lot of people think this is a chinese book fest, but actually it is a mixture. There's a lot of English books (fiction, business, etc).

By the way, for Japanese and Korean drama fanatic, you might wanna pay a visit there. Original DVDs and VCDs are so cheap.

Emotional Ride

Thought I escaped from the office after giving Su Chin a hug and goodbye. But the ride home in the bus was rather like a ride thru time and uncontrollably, my eyes is filled with... you know what. I could remember the day we started off in the department when we were still strangers. Then the 2 weeks of intensive learning curve and overtime where Hele was the first to leave us and bring a sense of missing an important piece.

Later on, it's the lunch at Nasi Ayam Malaysia in the Street Mall, a lot of chats. Later on it's the listening and singing to Jay Chou's songs. And come the hard time when she has to jump into the project that I'm doing to help me out. The confrontations with those defensive bastards. The late nights and extremely early morning (6am leaving the office together). The part when you have to encourage each others to keep our eyes open even if it's 3am and we are still in the office.

And recently the almost neverending farewell dinner for Su Chin. And finally today...

Leaving on a jet plane...

Today is Su Chin's last day in the office. It's really sad. Even her last day in the office, she will have to do overtime. Has been seeing a lot of people leaving, but the most saddening is still Su Chin's departure.

We had been working together for almost 2 years now. She has been like a big sister to me. Offering career advise, discussion our personal relationship of our own families, gossiping, having lunch together and trying hard to forecast our boss' weather everyday.

Now, she's leaving for a better future. But no matter what, she will be missed by everyone. Yesterday, when all the Senior Managers drop by our place, everyone was so thrilled to meet her, some for the first time. Then I thought to myself and agree, people like her who has made a different in the work she has done, there's no doubt she will be missed when she leaves the company. However, people like me... that's a different kind of story. No relation with any of the big shots in the company. No one can even remember me by name. So, when the day I decided to leave the office, the only person that will notice is the colleague who's sitting beside me whom I disturb everyday.

Anyway, I don't know what I'm writing, but it's just sad to see this day has finally arrive. Su Chin, good luck in your new environment in Shanghai. I'm sure with your capability and good relationship management skills, you will be high in the corporate environment one day. Please remember the iPod 30Gb that you had promised. :P
Take care my big sister... :~~( Hope that our path will cross again some day and we shall be working together with the synergy that we have had when we were working together. All the best.

Application

Finally got my MBA application out last Saturday. Checking on the airway bill, it has arrived this morning in Sheffield. Yup, it's my old University in Sheffield, UK. Nope it's not Sheffield University. It's Sheffield Hallam University.

It might not be the best University to provide MBA, but it's the most affordable and quite reliable to me. This is all because of the experience I had there. I think they are teaching the students or more like to prepare to student to face the real harsh world. Instead most uni like Sheffield U. focus on academic.

Anyhow, thinking back. It was more than 2 months ago when one of the company's SMTs (Senior Management Team) talked to me about my plan of furthering my studies in MBA. I've talked to her bout it when I was attending the training with her in the same class in Hong Kong last year. Little would I know, I have sent my application just lesser than 3 months since that conversation. It's not her that really convince me to go for it. It's just that a lot has been happening lately that change how I look at things. Since I'm working in an environment that see changes every 1 or 2 weeks, my mind has to adapt to it shouldn't I.

I think it the combination of the changes of my work environment, opportunities, timing and all other personal stuff that has been happening that prompt me to think of this option. Anyhow, now I'm so much more determined in getting myself a MBA. There's possibility that my application would be rejected, but even so I'm prepared to try it again for the next intake which will be on Jan 08. Touchwood, even this time fail, I can actually get myself a few more months to prepare for GMAT.

Anyhow, will have to see what's installed for me. Just pray hard.

Cloud Nine

Hahaha... Am on Cloud 9 today. Have an early night yesterday... Am so energetic today. I've always known that it would feel really refreshing if I can sleep early and well actually I've always been waking up early... just that I don't sleep early.

This is why, since I spend 2 hours everyday on my journey to/fro office, I tend to arrange my sleeping time at home for 6 hours. Then sleep through my journey to/fro office, which still makes up for 7/8 hours of sleep.

But, I think this proves my calculation wrong... Coz I don't get slumber sleep in the bus during my journey. Anyway, just feel like babbling...

8 Movies to watch out this Summer

1. Spiderman 3
2. Shrek the Third
3. Pirates of the Carrebean 3: At Worlds End
4. Transformer
5. Harry Porter & The Order of the Pheonix
6. Fantastic Four 2: The Rise of the Silver Surfer
7. Ocean Thirteen
8. The Bourne Ultimatum

Spiderman 3

My Rating: 7/10

Not a bad movie, but not a great one either. At some point, it's boring to the stage where I feel like sleeping. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the type that only like action-packed movie, it's just some part of the talking is pure crap. *yawn*

However, I think the part I like most about the movie is the last 45 mins starting from the cool black spidey sitting alone on top of the roof of a gothic church. The bad guy good guy gang up part is great as well. That's more like it as you see some morale teachings behind all those part. Anyway, shouldn't go further, go catch the movie yourself. It's definitely a good start for a series of 2007 summer movie marathon.

Weekend of ....

FOOD!!!
Friday - Went for a hearty but fun dinner with 2 colleagues that's leaving the company (Su Chin & Agnes) and 1 colleague that had left the company, Mei. We had our dinner in Champs, Centre Point, Bandar Utama. It was great. Had some really nice pork ribs with Heineken. The dinner lasted from 8pm - 12am.
Saturday - Since it's less than a month for Su Chin and her fondness to bring people to places with good food, our whole group from Friday night were out again, but this time, it includes my boss. We had our lunch at SOHO in One Utama. It was fabulous. The Shanghainese dim sum is mouth-watering. So, that's the weekend full of food.


p/s: It's sad to lose you all, Su Chin and Agnes. But am sure all of you will be in a better place. All the best!!!