BBQ Party With S&M Dept @ 11/8/2008

I was being invited to join the S&M Dept BBQ Party to celebrate their recent staff promotion + salary increment joy after work today at the Canopy Club. There was nothing special about the barbeque, just a normal one with kampong fish, prawn, lamb, sausages, chicken wings etc. As usual, gals need not to do anything extra where they can just pick from those ready cooked food / place an order since guys were barbequing it. : P Apart from these standard / ordinary varieties of food + services, we also had numerous of durian + mangosteen as our dessert. Thanks to those who being promoted + salary adjusted for this little departmental barbeque party treat so that I can save up my dinner. : )

One World, One Dream @ 8/8/2008

The long awaited day has arrived and the whole World cheered especially the Chinese. Yes! It’s the 2 weeks+ 29th Olympic Y2008 themed One World One Dream 同一个世界 同一个梦想 that is finally official opened on 08/08/08 08:08pm in People Republic of China. As what most of us did, I rushed back home as soon as I off work to catch the grand opening ceremony with my family on Astro channels. Hehe… : D Unlike the 30min delay live telecast on local TV channel, we were all amazed by the grand welcoming + opening countdown formed by 2008 performers after 13 months of hardship / exhausting training especially the human digital clicking countdown clock which was really spectacular and amazing… Bravo! : O Perhaps, as what my bro-in-law said, the more people the easier to get things done duh…

Apart from the great countdown, the Olympic flame lighting moment was also meaningful as if athlete ran and completed the whole Olympic torch run journey. Guess PRC must had put in tons of effort to get this done all the way from conceptual to logical study, from logical design to execution. Real salute to these Chinamen high spirits, I’m glad to be a Chinese and I’m proud of my motherland! ( /‘.’)

Eco Picnic Day At Setia Eco Park @ 3/8/2008

A month+ after Eco Family Day back in end of June, Setia Eco Park held another Eco Picnic Day on this date. This event was held to welcome our invited expatriates from Germany, England, Australia etc who intended to purchase a second home in Malaysia to Setia Eco Park. As spelled out in the event name, it’s a picnic event at the Canopy Club. We provide coach transfer to registered expatriates from Amcorp Mall and Great Eastern Mall, prepared BBQ, Wine & Cheese Tasting, Neck & Shoulder Massage, Petting Zoo etc programs and sport activities such as squash, basketball, swimming etc making full use of Canopy Club to welcome our guests. Nevertheless, the major activity is still marketeering our products and also help ourselves barbequing + enjoyed the food lar… : P

Euphoria By MoS, Sunway Pyramid @ 1/8/2008

Me and my fellow colleagues, Sennie + Eric + BG + Cecil and ex-colleague, Sam went to this newly opened night spot, Euphoria by Ministry of Sound recently. Emm… Just as how it’s named, there is definitely no doubt that the sound system was good. : ) Euphoria has two rooms, The Deq at the Mezzanine outdoor area and the main dance area at 1st Floor. There is no specific room’s theme as both the rooms allow patrons dance to different tunes 7 days a week including hip hop, house, breakbeat, experimental, tribal house etc. That night we had our drinks and chit chat session at The Deq and enjoyed our dance at the main dance area till it closed at 3 in the morning. It was really a long forgotten good + fun time for us who has been work + work + work and stressed + stressed + stressed without rest since the last hang out.

5 Days Work… Finally @ 1/8/2008

Hurray…!! After many years of persistence request, SP finally declared its 5 working days system. : D Having admire my 5 days work friends for ages, I can also now practice this 5 days work scheme >>> : P However… this change of work system which supposed to be good + happy doesn’t seems applicable to some of us ( including me ) after having see that we still ought to rotate for sales / club duty during weekends. : ( And, worst still… the club duty time shift has also been changed to morning shift ( 7am-3pm ) and night shift ( 1pm-9pm ) instead of the initial 10am-6pm for both type of duties. Wuwuwu~ Have to scarify my zzz time, pity me… : S

Battling… @ 31/7/2008

This is one of the most difficult project implementation that I handled throughout my years in IT field, not because of system complication / toughness but managing the people. : S

I’ve been advised + heard from all angles before that this particular woman from Finance Dept is hard to deal with and, this time is my turn to experience it. I have no choice but ought to deal with her + her favorite subordinate recently simply because the system involves money collection and account elements although the system ownership belongs to my department for Canopy Club. Guess what has happened? They initiated a battle since the first day both of them stepped their foot into the system implementation stage until everyone else who involved in the project also cannot stand both of them, planted in hard feeling and avoid to deal with / talk to both of them even though it is essential. Why it is so? Because both of them, particularly the subordinate acted as if she is Project Manager giving out instruction to vendor + end users ( my department’s gals ), acted as if she is an Internal Auditor checking + digging fault done by end users, report straight to Senior Manager whenever she succeed in fault finding without knowing the actual picture that has to be tolerate, created a fear factor at workplace until my department’s gals don’t dare to execute operation work due to fear to be caught etc lor… Haiz… Seriously, I have never come across with this kind of project team member before of which, all my team / dept mates from top to down also cannot stand both of them. What a miserable life lately that I have to prepare myself going into battle field almost every day. Sigh… : S