Bored again and again

Believe it or not I am going into my 7th months with ROSEN. Quite an achievement for myself. Why? Because I have never been very loyal when it comes to work. Trust me I bored with things even worse a girl change their handbags or a tech freak change their gadgets. True story.

First place I worked at is Aquaria KLCC as a part time Customer Service Assistant. At first I was happily working there when suddenly every friends that I have made there quit the job or be changed to another department. I was left alone in the CSA department, moving nowhere. So I decide to find some other places before I got another job in a traveling agency company called Tri-D Travel and Tours.

Sales executive was my position there. What is my role? To make sales for the company from the government sectors. I am a newbie in that area but I guess I was just trying to guess what will be my greatest ability. It was okay traveling every single day and work without any time boundaries. I get to see people and talk about anything to get a strong relationship bonding for me to do my work. Made some new friends and clients. But shit happened and I started to get bored with the work. So I decide, let's go back to studying and finish my degree.

4 years I stopped working and concentrate on my studies. I didn't do any good anyway but at least I have finished my studies with a scroll in my hand. Yeah ho!

Back to job hunting again. JobStreet, StarJobs and almost all engineering companies website is what I looked at every single minute. Until I got a few interviews before I was offered an acceptable salary at Bright Fire Protection. A company which work 6 days a week with some crappy office I must say. Guess how long I was there? 4 days before I got an interview at Matco Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Why leave? Because I think I don't agree with working 6 days a week, in an office. No one does that anymore. Can you please get a newspaper and read some statistics, Mr Bright Fire Protection? Thank you.

Matco Malaysia. An Oil and Gas Instrumention company. Providing instrumentation equipments and services for Oil and Gas pipeline. The post? Sales and Technical Engineer. What did I do? Sales, proposals, documentations, invoices and quotations. I did enjoy learning about instrumentations when I realized my learning curve was very shallow. A lot to learn but limited to only a certain level. And a very confusing management. I got bored with the job, AGAIN. The website is my best friend from that moment onwards. I was looking for a field job actually but my current post in Matco doesn't give me much opportunity to travel and get the field experience that I want. Then I got an interview which I have to lie to get a leave that I am not entitled to. Unpaid leave we all call it. But the risk taken paid off when I was offered a position at ROSEN Inspection as a Survey Engineer.

In May, after going for a holiday with my fiancee's family in New Zealand, I reported to ROSEN Inspection for my first day. A lot of new things that I need to learn when I was nearly gave up. If it wasn't because I want to get married, I would have leave at that time and look for another job. Staying in the company make me actually love my job and I started to love traveling.

Long story short, here I am. Still standing strong in ROSEN. Tomorrow is my appraisal interview and presentation. Slides ready and I am good to go. Few things are in my head right now but I need to do what I have to do.

Morale of the story : Some risk are worth to be taken. Just trust yourself and be strong.

Lastly, I will still love you even for another thousand years to come, Baby D

Beauty and the Beast

The title might fit the story but since I think it is, that's the title that has been chosen for this entry.

It has been almost 4 months working in a new company. New environment, new colleagues and new experience. Everyday is a brand new day when there were many things to be learned and to catch up. This happens not only when you were working for a technology based company, but also applies to other fields. A friend once said that when you started working, you will never stop learning even after you have retired and settle down.

Back to the main reason of why I'm writing this post. Well I guess no one likes working. It is very annoying, very unpleasant and all sort of things that people always whine about their work. Same goes to me. I whine and whine to myself whenever I am working. But that is the reality of work where nothing goes the way you want it to be. But as long as it pays the bill, people decide to stay at their current work. But I am slowly adapting to my work and slowly I fell in love with it. Right now I am still enjoying my work even though it is very tiring and very time consuming. Why time consuming? Because of a few reasons that I decide not to spill it here. Company's private and confidential knowledge property. Well this is the beast part of my current work. It may shift to the beauty part especially when the figure's on the bank account has been changed end of the month.

The beauty? Here what I think is the beauty of my job. Firstly, I was given a chance to earn extra money every time I am assigned for a job outside of the office which I'll be spending 80% of the year. An extra day means extra allowances. Then I have the chance to travel which is very good. Even though it was only limited to the Asia Pacific region, but I guess that is fine for me. I do enjoy traveling and I really wish that I can travel everywhere and see the world. The best thing is I have the chance to travel to places that have never been thought by most people. For example places like Urumqi, Hami, Shanshan, Guazhou and Khorgos in China. I have never heard of these places before until I was assigned to execute some work last month. It was a priceless experience that I can never stop sharing with other people. Beauty? Yes it was a great and beautiful experience and place.

There goes my Beauty and the Beast. Until next time,peeps. Heading for bed.

Moving On

Tomorrow is going to be my last day in Matco Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Why? Because I had to move on to develop my career. That was what I wrote inside my resignation letter that was sent last Friday to my boss. And also because I had a better offer in other company which I have attended the interview and also got an offer letter. Well unfortunately I won't have the chance to say good bye to my boss since he extended his stay in Miri for some job that he has to do.

So it was only 3 months with Matco Malaysia working as Sales & Technical Engineer. It wasn't a bad experience after all but I just have to admit that sales wasn't my first choice of job. Not the thing that I was looking forward to do when I decided to take up engineering as my choice of studies. I learned and studied about the technical aspects of pipeline instrumentation mainly on the Actuated Ball Valves. It was good in the early stage but I guess I do not have enough balls to stay and keep reading the catalogue, data sheet and also technical specifications. Ok I'm kidding.

Just need some action other than the fact that I can't rely heavily on the monthly income that I am getting with the company to get married. I am the type of person who can't really understand about things without seeing or experiencing with it.

Day after tomorrow I'll be jet setting to somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere which I count as a gift to myself for managing to finish my studies last year. After all I haven't been on a holiday to other people's place to relax my mind. Then after the trip ends, I will be working with a new company that I had an offer and I have actually signed the offer letter giving my commitments to share my knowledge and skills towards the company's development. I know that what I am saying looks like a cut and paste from the Internet or in the book, but I guess I accepted the job because it offers me better responsibilities, opportunities as well as monthly salary and allowances.

My Holiday Mood will be turned on starting tonight and I just can't wait for the day after tomorrow to come.

Mood

Well. Right now I just don't have the right mood to pack up my things for my holiday trip. I mean I do still looking forward for the trip but right at this moment I don't have the mood to do all the packing. Still thinking of what clothes to bring and this and also that.

Hmmm.

Guess Who's Back?

Well there are many things to be told but I think I just wanna talk about the important thing that I think may have an effect to the journey of my life. First of all, I am in a holiday mood! It was planned long before somewhere in December. I said yes and I have committed to it and now it is a week away. I can consider it a getaway for myself and also a little reward to myself for being able to end my studies after almost 7 years enduring all the pain going to classes, staying up late at night just to make sure all the assignments are done and also drinking cups of coffee every night to study and prepare for final exam. Coincidently, my fiancé's family are planning to go somewhere so I decide to tag along. Our destination? To the land of the Kiwis and more specifically Auckland. It has been a while since the last time I went for a holiday outside of the South East Asia so when the opportunity came, I am not letting it go ever. So nothing else I'm thinking right now other than the Auckland Getaway trip. I will definitely load my camera and take millions of pictures with it. Sorry for exaggerating but I am just too excited for the trip.

Then another story. Someone told me that I'm good with other things which he would not tell me but what he told me is about my weakness that I need to work on if ever I want to be successful in future. He said that I always startled, hesitating and indecisive. So he asked me to be more confident and do not ever be afraid to make mistake. By making mistakes, we can be better in future. So what do you think? I think what he said is true. Any suggestions fellas?

One last good news. I will be working in a new place after my Auckland trip. Just had an offer letter agreement yesterday and also I have to attend the full medical checkup today. More on my new place in my future post.

I promise you that I will write more often after this.

I Have Come Back

It has been a really long time after my previous post. Well I do admit that I was in the transition stage of entering the working world and environment that I have yet to manage my time well to do things that I used to do which is blogging. Well it has been a great and hectic week this time around and I will tell you more about it on my next post. Before penning off, I would like to say that

I HAVE COME BACK...TO LIFE!!!!

Hujan

Ini hari Isnin. Seperti biasa, semua malas mahu melipat selimut di pagi hari tetapi sangat rajin melipat diri di dalam selimut. Sudah 2 hari di Kota Mega-polis Kuala Lumpur hujan. Alhamdulillah. Kurang sikit bau yang kurang menyenangkan yang datang dari rembesan peluh di dahi dan ketiak manusia. Ok no point.

Tapi bila hujan dan hanya satu hari bekerja dalam satu minggu, rasa-rasa apa perasaan anda jika permohonan cuti di-reject? Surat berhenti kerja sudah draf tapi printer office rosak plak. Lepas lunch mahu ambil emergency leave tanpa sebab. Dah nama pun emergency.