Category: Work

• Forgetful Me

  03.24.10 |Work| Permalink | Comments Off on Forgetful Me

  I missed a meeting yesterday night. With my current job, I get a lot of those late night meetings because that’s when US time zone wakes up.

  I double check my digital calendar and I was so sure it was today. You see when I am working the normal hours, I have my notebook or the iPhone to remind me there is a meeting coming up. When I am off work, relaxing on the coach or in the bedroom, no reminder. Yeah I don’t carry my iPhone around the house except when I play games.

  When my PC started up this morning, a reminder can up saying “Your meeting is X hours overdue!” Sigh!

• Dreadful Flight Schedule

  07.27.09 |Travel, Work| Permalink | Comments Off on Dreadful Flight Schedule

  Yeap, I am off to US and my flight schedule is terrible.

  Thurs Night -> Fly to Singapore, stayed overnight at Transit Hotel.
  Fri Morn -> Fly to Narita, Japan. Then head to LA

  In LA, I arrived at 1:30pm, waiting for my Colorado Springs flight at 8:30pm. It was a long wait. There is nothing near by the airport, that I can do. I stayed in the airport and went online.

  Flight delayed until 10:30pm due to technical problem in the plane. They got another plane. I landed in Colorado Springs at 1:30am. Fortunately they didn’t cancel the flight else my plans all go down the drain. A few flights were canceled while I was there. United is really going downhill.

  There was one flight, they were overbooked. They made an announcement to give a free round trip on United in US, to anyone who want to give away his/her seat on that flight. Hotel and next flight arrangement will also be provided. I don’t mind if it was my flight.

  I am so glad that I made a decision not to collect the car on that day. I chose to stay near the airport and pick up the car next morning. At 2 am, no one will be there to hand you the car. It will be waste of money to take a cab to my hotel and back to collect the car. At least with hotel near the airport, I can use the airport shuttle.

  Most of the time, when I reach US, it is at night. I can sleep after that. However this time, I reached in the morning and I don’t have a place to sleep. It was really tiring and went to sleep straight after I checked in.

  Next up, shopping spree and you cannot imagine what I got! Ok, a few of you know because I was too excited to share the news…..

  
  
  

  Here is my rented car, no hybrid car this round…

  
  
  

• Professionalism

  07.08.09 |Work| Permalink | Comments Off on Professionalism

  I admired one of my colleague professionalism. He was impacted by severance package but UK has a good labor law that deferred his exit date. He is in the midst of kicking a project out. He makes everything to ensure that this project is successful before he leaves. He is putting 110% in making it work. He even drafted out a good support plan after implementation to ensure it is sustainable.

  As opposed to my managed service contractor who has tender his resignation. He is leaving end of the month. He has been coming in late, not attending his transition meetings and giving me a lot of problems. He even told my colleague that he is not at his desk doesn’t mean he is not in the company.

  Sometimes I wonder does culture really play a big part in being professionalism.

• Pig Out Session

  03.06.09 |Food, Work| Permalink | Comments Off on Pig Out Session

  I had another great departmental dinner today because my big boss visited us. Of coz when he comes, we usually ask him to treat us a good meal. It is a good to build relationship among the team. He is a great joker because he tells great stories that made us laugh. It was a very good dinner indeed.

  At least we have fun despite all the sad news about economy crisis, retrenchment and pay cut. Free dinner is always a good way to help boost up the morale.

  We went to Spice Market Rasa Sayang for buffet dinner.

  
  
  

• 5 minutes meeting

  10.08.08 |Work| Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yesterday I have the fastest face to face meeting. The project manager invited all of us, asked us if there are any issues. We voiced our issues and gave our recommendations. He agreed and it was the end. We can be as efficient as we can be.

  Lots of time, we go into a meeting and have an hour discussion or even ran over time. Yet no decision can be made. Coming out from it, we realized that we wasted precious time. Who is responsible for that? Now I think about it, it sounds very much like our parliamentary debate.

  It really takes a good team players and a decisive leader to make things go more efficient.

  Today an engineer asked me whether the hard disk cage is lockable? I wonder why she want to lock the hard disk. *giggles*

• Café Food Price Hike

  08.05.08 |Work| Permalink | Comments Off on Café Food Price Hike

  A memo was sent out that there will be a hike in café food prices. I have no complains over the price hike but the way they do it. It is so similar to our gomen’s method. First similarity, they claim that the café food price is still the lowest compare to other cafés. Second similarity is that they send the memo out the day before the price hike. Third similarity, the day before the hike, everyone was eating in the café making it a little congested.

  I wonder will they put a cap on the price hike too. By the way, we do have subsidy for eating in the café. It has been a long time since they revised the subsidy amount. I will called this The Ripple Effect, lets hope it doesn’t bring any Tsunami, if you know what I mean.

• Work The Best Caffeine

  07.28.08 |Work| Permalink | Comments Off on Work The Best Caffeine

  Yesterday I slept for 5 hours only and I thought I was going to be sleepy. I was surprised at myself, I was very alert during work. Nope I don’t drink coffee. Maybe because I was too busy to be sleepy. However when I went home for lunch, I dosed off for a good 30 minutes. It is really good to work close to my home.

  After the nap, engine started slow but when I reached office it was back to the busy schedule. Fortunately I was busy, if not I could have doze off at my desk. I guess work is my caffeine. It is so healthy. 😛

  I remembered there was one colleague of mine who doze off at his office desk. Worst is he snored so loudly. I saved him from embarrassment and gave him a call. He woke up upon hearing his phone ring.

• Motivation

  07.11.08 |Work| Permalink | 2 Comments

  
  
  

• Backdated: Bad Tuesday

  11.22.07 |Work| Permalink | Comments Off on Backdated: Bad Tuesday

  I was supposed to host a meeting on early morning Tuesday. However I arrived to the office, my colleagues told me network was down. I should have stayed at home and host the meeting from there. Sounds like my home have a more reliable network. I know a lot of people complain about TMNet broadband. Frankly, I didn’t face any outage or speed problem in my area.

  After lunch, network came back on. At 3:15pm, Penang power outage. The best part was the other department had a Christmas tree and the lights were blinking so beautifully. Yes we have backup supply for our cubicles. Too bad the supply came back on after 15 minutes and everyone got back to work.

• Workstation

  11.07.07 |Work| Permalink | 1 Comment

  I got this from someone a long time ago, it is really funny….

      A bus station is where a bus stops.
      A train station is where a train stops.
      If on my desk, I have a work station…

  Just don’t let my boss find this out else there goes my pay. 😛