I use computer.. loh..

The other day.. my boss was caught in a meeting and couldn't attend an interview session arranged by HR earlier. He had no choice but ask me and another coll of mine to interview the candidate on behalf of him. 

Well, this is not my 1st time and since the candidate is a fresh grad anyway, should be no problem for me to handle it. 

I could still remember how pathetic i was during my own interview session 2 years ago, untill today, i still couldn't understand why i was hired.. given the fact that i did very badly on the test paper, and i appeared to be verbally disabled whenever my ex-boss asked me a technical question... well... 2 years later.. i finally got it...

During the Interview Session : 

Me : "So.. you have a very interesting internship program, you were training the in geology department of Malaysia, so tell me about it.. " 

xxx: "ya, i look into the data generated by computer everyday"

Me :" what sort of data? "

xxx: "it depends, the data is use to analyze and predict earthquake"

Me : " that's interesting, how you analyze it?"

xx : "My senior will analyze"

Me : "Okie... then what kind of data that can tell us about the earthquake?"

xxx : "erm.. computer data lo."

Me : "i know.. but then, what does it indicate, the wave? the magnitude?"

xxx: "ya... it tell us the magnitude of the waveform... of the earth movement"

Me :"so, do you understand how the data magnitude being measured?"

xxx " By using computer lo"

Me : "erm.. could you be more specific, may be you can explain what is the mechanism that give us the measurement"

xxx : "erm... is.. by using computer to measure lo... "

Me : "Okie, i understand, but the computer is just part of the whole system, im sure the computer receives the data from some sort of measurement tool, the PC is just use for manipulation and display purpose, am i right. "

xxx : "yes.."

Me: "So, i want to know if you can explain what's the architecture of the measurement system, what are they and how it works, in general.."

xxx: "by.... using a computer lo..."

"_" |||

   

why?

Why?

Why people never come to be meeting without being late?

Why people never prepare their data before the meeting?

Why people never execute their own action item before they come to meeting?

Why people never follow the meeting agenda?

Why people never stick to the meeting agenda(may be there's none)?

Why people always talk a lot of craps during meeting but become so quiet when some big guy joined the meeting? 

why? why? why???

还是酱。。。

最近high yap 西北勤劳的更新他的部落格。。。林伯在博客界里身为他的前辈，岂能比他 lele...?? bok ko leng!! 跟他拼了!!

昨天闲着没事做，翻阅了自己以前的post，想起当初写部落格的目的。。。就是想利用这个空间去磨练下自己的文笔。非常有自知之明的我，认为自己当年的华文和英文书写能力真的是有待改善。。所以我的“作品”是穿插在两种语言之间。。。有时还有马来语tim! (一次就放弃了)

经过接近四年和一百多个post 后。。。发现。。这几年来的“努力”果然是。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。白费了。。

Mr Me...

Have you every find yourself caught in this kind of situation?

A group of ppl was having dinner in a restaurent with a Visitors from US headquarters.. some 1 tried to break the ice by beginning a topic..

Some1 :"So John... heard that you like dogs.. is it true."

John : "ya.. that's right.. i actually have 2 dogs. It's a BD gift for my daugther but end up im the one who is taking care of it now.. but i enjoy it so much"

Mr Me:"Icic... talk about dog.. i had a very bad experience with dog.. i remember when i was small... i .. yada yada.. yada..."

.................................................................................................
Some2 : "John, do you like spicy food? "

John :"well... not so much. But it depends on how it is prepared. I can handle hot source and tobasco source .. but nothing more that that."

Mr Me: "Icic, talk about spicy food. I actually can stand very spicy food.. i can eat raw chili without a sweat ... some more... yada yada yada......."

............................................................................................................

Some 3: "btw, how you find the traffic condition here in Malaysia"

John: "Oh well... i can never dare to drive here.. because i am trained to drive properly.."

(hahahahaha)

Mr Me: "haha, but then i remember last time when i was in Taiwan, the drivers there are really nuts.. yada... yada... yada......"

..............................................................................................................


^&*(&)^*&)(%*!! i mean... what is wrong with this Mr. Me... how he manage to squeeze himself into the center of every discussion?

Im annoyed but yet impressed...

"领" Ye~

Fee : "halo, 么事?"

XXX：“ooi, 有无去XX家姐ge婚礼?”

Fee：“有gua... 做么le?”

XXX：“你包几多?”

Fee:“哇。。。lei个问题好深。。”

XXX:“妈hai, 上次边个边个结婚，我无去都要五十蚊，呢次又来ye..”

Fee:"我上次都包八十啦，不过我有去啦。。。。"

XXX：“gam呢次几多?”

Fee :"你几多我几多罗"

XXX：“五十蚊好似太少，一百好似太多”

Fee : "75 罗~"

XXX：“75 好似吾好意头。。。。78好似吾错。。”

Fee:"OK lo... 就gam决定"

XXX：“我地两个一样，好似吾是几好”

Fee:"nia sing... gam一个78，一个88 罗。。。。。我78。"

XXX：“妈hai 呀”

Fee：“我上个月80，yi家又八十，一个月没到就160唑。。。。好烂伤”

XXX：“ok la, 到时算啦。。。。”

Fee:"我地真是肉酸。。哈哈哈哈!!"

XXX：“没变。。穷hai是gam ge..”

回"祖国"记

是时候交代一下，为什么去不成河内。。。

一切都是因为。。。 它

排场干领“中国”

是的， 去了一“水” 中国苏州， 去参加一个电子展览会。 就是因为它， 就是因为奥运，害我的签证得花多余的时间去搞。。。 所以河内之旅被迫延期。。。

勉强也可以很幸福!

最近不停的有朋友来访，马六甲果然是个好地方!

被人说这个部落格已经在“winning”西北久。想想下也觉得没有错。随便上来分享一些小趣事。。。。。

突然觉得好久没拿照片去相馆洗， 万一电脑坏掉后果不堪设想。 反正越南之旅postpone去明年(说来话长) ，就开始整理和筛选一下照片。 发现一张三月时在三番市的日本区所拍的照片。。

竟然有人把店名取成 “勉强堂”， 不懂里面是搞什么领的。。。。

Winning..?

I've been reading this book...a book which suppose to show me how to win..

But... i still lost Rm100 at Genting last Saturday.. i wonder what went wrong.. chibai! (ok... wrong interpretion..)

Anyway, thanks Mr High Yap for organizing the gathering, the concert, karaoke, sin ka laning and food were great! I enjoyed it so much. Looking forward to the next one!

Im leaving!

No kidding!
I've been looking forward to this day since i the day i arrived here. i finally finished of what im here for and although things were not perfect, but let's call it a day shall we?

This trip actually hasn't been really bad so far, the reason i kind of not enjoying it is because i've been working my ass off for literally every day.. and most of the weekend. is not fun when you caught in this kind of situation, especially when you are abroad.

Life in US is totally different... i wouldn't say better but is kind of... u know.. not suitable for ppl like me... who love Nasi Lemak and bak kut teh so much. I always hate the fact that ppl in Malaysia are every rude and service are really bad, which i still believe in., however.. when im getting too good service and being treated too politely by the ppl around me.. i'm actually felt kind of awkward.

For example.. when i was wandering in Citibank Lobby and waiting for my colleague to settle his bank stuffs... every freaking staff in the bank would ask me whether i needed help. I couldn't stand the overwhelming hospitality and end up waiting for my colleague outside of the bank to get some air... phew... kind of culture shock.. or may be, in Chinese.. "cheap bone".

Im actually having some hard time with the money here.. could you tell the value of the note at a glance? chia bai they all look the same!

i did have some great time in this trip. I manage to squeeze some time out of my tight schedule and been to some really nice places...

San Francisco

As usual.. San Francisco again... But this time i get to really walk around in the city... and it was a nice feeling.. clean and organize city.. just a little bit hard to get a parking space.. but still.. ppl here are so relaxing.. lying down and sun bathing on the park down town is nothing special in this place..

North Beach

And im considering my self as a pretty lucky person... i have a very friendly counterpart. He has been touring me around and even loaning me his GPS. Too bad i din have enuff chance to use it this time.

During my 1st weekend here.. he brought me along with his friends to go for a hike in Big basin, it was a 18Km hike and OMG... it really tiring and i still remember i leg almost soar to death.. but at least i made it and did gald that i was there... the view was simply awesome and hiking in a cold weather was not as tiring and sweaty in like those that i have in Malaysia... i would go there again if i have another chance.. ofcoz.. if somebody would let me piggy back... it would be better..

RedWood... or... huge and tall tree

Really nice waterfall... better after you hiked for 12KM to get there

And last week was some really special day... coz a sua gu Malaysian like went for a skiing trip! yes.. skiing trip! it cost me about 90 freaking dollars .. close to RM300! OMG! that was the 1st thing i had in mind was my colleague mentioned about skiing trip. But then... look at this...

Kirkwood

Snow!!! a real snow scene..! not like this... but a real one! i got kind of excited at the beginning but i was not alone...someone actually stole my thunder as a 1st time experience with snow, there was another really cute gal that was on the same trip with me... keep on saying this: "Snow!! Lots of snow!" for like everything single time she see some snow! if she wasn't that cute.. i would have choked her to death! but then... look at her... how sweet she is... i could never do that so such a cute gal..

Hannah Yao - Ain't she cute?

I did not enjoy the skiing at the beginning... i almost loose control and fell down everytime i made a movement.. it was harder that i ever thought. It's hard to walk uphill with the ski boot on, hard to stop once you start sliding down. and was even harder to get up once you hit the ground. however.. after literally kissing the snow for like 20 over times... i manage to ski down all the way from the beginner slope without a single fall. It got really fun in the end...

this is what you gonna see when you dun wear sun glasses.. believe me..you are not going to enjoy this.

woo hoo!!

Alright... not a bad trip anyway.. but i still miss home now... eating some real food.. speaking some real language and laugh on some real jokes.

Jetlag,,,

shoot!

Experiencing jet lag again, damn! when i hate jetlag, especially during mid night and late evening... energitic when im supposed to be sleeping... and sleepy like hell when im supposed to be working.

After a dreadful journey from home ,4 hours wait at KLIA, 1 hour flight to Sg, another 5 hours transit in Sg, followed by a 4 hours flight to Hong Kong, yet another 1 hour transit in Hong Kong and finally a 13 hours flight to San Francisco... and you thought that was it? 1 hours queue in SFO airport to check out, a 45 minutes wait before i could get my rental car, and another 1 hour drive from the airport to my hotel... chi bai!!! a nearly 28 hours journey...

This trip hasn't been excited so far, may be bacause i've been here for 2 months before. Just counting down the days and waiting for the time to go home. Let's hope that the project went well and no extension is needed.

Whuat!??

This could easily be the luckiest day of my life...

Was in a bad mood...slept around 2 am yesterday.. and woke up 6am in the morning. Going to US for project assignment. which i really do not have much confident that it would succeed. The more depressing fact is.. im going there all by myself this time. Yes, almost a 24 hours journey including transit.

Knowing that myself is not good in sleeping on any vechicle, is going to be a sleepless 24 hours again. damn it!!.

As usual... i reach the air port like 3hours before the flight... i checked in earlier than the ground crew was expected. I was routinely handovered my passport and related document to the ground crew, checking in my lugage and after a short moment, as always, the ground crew handed the passport back to me together with a boarding pass... nothing was special untill...

Wait a minute!

FIRST CLASS??!?!!!

Apparently, for what ever reason, my flight had been upgraded to 1st class! Chi bai!! nia sing!! woo hoo!!!!

Not exactly sure how this could be happpening.. but then who cares? im in the 1st class lounge now! haha!!woo hoo~~!!

General Election! 2008大选后遗症。。。。

以为我要讲股票跌leh~~


btw... 今届大选实在是si beh精彩，搞到我没有好觉睡。。。 每天追新闻和报章。看看谁在抹黑谁，谁人又在车大炮。最令人咋舌的事。。。 连某某什么华政党的电台广告都sibeh搞笑。竟然大声地宣布自己的丰功伟业，什么领在过去八年，为华争取到2300个 JPA 奖学金。。。他妈的。。。 你以为现在的选民不会数学啊？ 一年都没到三百位。。 我随便丢一粒石头，都可以丢中一位没得到奖学金的高材生。。 就算有。。搞不好还是私人机构赞助的， 关他领事么？花钱去打广告来长他人士气，灭自己威风都给他们想到。。 支持它不就显得我们很笨？？ 幸好。。。。 Well... voters are not as stupid...

最搞笑的。。。我本人认为非某某岛的民什么党那几位uncle莫属，什么岭弃州上京， 搞一大堆新闻，说谁谁谁会是下届首长， 然后又不懂谁 又pattern 多多，看到人就叫老板。。好像怕死没有人y要当他老扳酱。。。 结果。。 一算票。。。 yi~~~ 什么上京下海，什么黑马黑狗ma是没有！！ 收皮就有啦!

突然记得！！！以前一位什么华的党员跟我说，玩政治可以帮助做生意。。 人民福利可以摆在两旁。。 ，我先在就要跟你讲，你去看看报纸啦，我们这些人民们，已经把你们摆在两旁啦。。。

后遗症是。。。 没有心工作。。 每天在吃蛇看报纸。。跟同事车大炮。。。 吊。。。schedule 又delay,不懂可不可以以告诉美国的project manager说，You know... General election mood, no one is working.. so.. project need to delay a bit....

How to forget?

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to me! Woo Hoo!!!!!!

(just for the record.. )

HottestDream.Com!!

这个年代什么都讲online, 交电费，水费，学费，看电影，看节目，看咸片，听歌，吹水，交友， 打机，看新闻。。。。。网上世界，你想象得到，和想象不到的都在google里找得到。停水停电都没有比server down 来得要命。

这个现象改变了整个社会的运作，许多以前不可能发生的事情。。。 现在已经变成可能了。。。 以前像我这种人要别人看我的文章。。。 应该是贴钱都没有人要帮我出版。 现在随便吗是有你们这些人浪费时间来读。。。

其实，现在社会那么多变态狂。。 打抢， 强奸。。 什么鬼事都会发生。不管你是年轻还是老。。。 黑起来时还是很难讲， 所以说，能够减少外出，不但可以减低中招的风险。。 还可省钱省油。节省的来，又可以让家人安心。。。。

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www.hottestdream.com

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100th Post!!

This is my 100th post in this blog!!

I hardly remember what had trigger me to start blogging. But somehow.. i managed to have 100 posts in my blog and most importantly.. i think i managed to maintain the spirit of this blog so far (Nothing but craps), though im not sure whether this is something to be proud of.

Anyway, im gonna talk about my work again, for those who are not quite interested in office politics or an engineer's life, well, you guys can go to friendster or youtube now, bye!

By end of this month, there'll be at least 6 engineers from the department im working at, be leaving the company. This is already more than 10% of the total headcount in the department. It does make sense because the department has the lowest score(most negative feedback) in the latest employee survey carried out 2 months ago. All the bosses are pretty concern (upset) about this, everyone of them has been busy trying to understand why the people in this so called "most heavily invested" department are the same group of people who are so pissed off about the company. Well... they should, because in the survey result, the average score for the managers leadership looks a lot uglier than their paychecks.

Well.. what went wrong? I'm not about to comment about the big picture and the company's direction, trust me, most of the engineers doesn't give a damn about this. 90% of the engineers only concern about their own career path and pay rise, perhaps this is big part of the problem. We do not have many "believers" in the office, not everybody is so engaged with the company goal, may be because it doesn't really affect us much in our working life.

I go on and list down what are the things i like about my job, and what are the thing i hate about my job:

Plus+

1. Average pay in my company is quite high compare to it peer from the same region.
2. Learning cycle in my company is very short, I'm able to learn many things in short period of time.
3. I get to interact with some very smart Engineers(on and off site) day in day out.
4. I get to travel once in a while.
5. I have full ownership on my project.
6. I have a group of very friendly peer in the office.

Minus -

1. The management is trying to implement a lot of nonsense rule. eg, no camera phone in office.
2. Travel policy amended to cut cost, no more allowance.
3. There's always insufficient resources for every project... like we have 10 cups but only 8 coaster.
   
4. Office accessories shortage, always need to hunt for A4 papers, pencil, pen..etc. We don't even have hand towel in the washroom, unless we have visitors from HQ.
5. A lot of decision is made without gathering any opinions from the employees, not until they had enforced it. (eg, Christmas Holiday replaced to new year eve, and employee need to sign a form to "agree" to this decision.)
6. Is always not safe to speak up in my company. One very ridiculous example: i remember during a feedback session hosted by HR, the HR manager promised the group that every comment we made would be kept between HR and ppl among the group, our bosses would never have a clue about who back stabbed them in front of HR. So everybody went on and made some very tuff comments. Turns out... those comments not only being consolidated to a power point slide and presented to all the managers... every comment would end with the person name who made.

To be fair to the HR, nothing bad actually happen to the group of people who gave negative feedback. However this betrayal has cost their trust to the management. They'll be no more negative feedback in person from the group of engineers anymore.

oh well... is not too bad isn't need? i managed to think of 6 "plus" in 5 minutes..seems like im still okay with my job... good to know...
however.. I found out... all the negative feedback has nothing much to do with career path.. why people is leaving? With my very shallow mindset, i could only think of one thing...the negetive feedback loop in my company has broke down...

We are too result and goal oriented, until we do not spend much effort(sincere) to listen to the working group. We have a lot of feedback session but most of it started and ended with silence, because every negative feedback would come back with some very defensive statement from the management... The more you complain, you are only making yourself look like a cry baby.

What i think is, we are not a bunch of people who are asking for too much, we just want to be heard. yes, the survey result is pretty ugly but that is because we do not get much chances to really express our thoughts without having to worry about our bosses reaction to it. How does it help if the management always react defensively on every negative feedback we give? Why organize a feedback session at the 1st place? Asa result, we prefer just to keep quiet... and waiting for our time to leave.. and that's doesn't solve the problem.

And Finally, the HR. My understanding of HR people is, they are a group of ppl who listen to the employee's feedback and try to maintain the balance between employee welfare and company insterest. But, what the HR of the company of mine been doing is try to brain wash the employee to accept things that benefits to the company interest. Understand that company interest would eventually link with the employee benefit, again, at the end of the day, not everybody is as committed as the highly paid directors or managers sitting in the room, most of the people doesn't give a damn about the revenue and PBT of the company... all they can see is their payslip and the annual leave balance every month. Is not a good atitude to have in the company but do accept the fact, we do need ppl like this in order to run an organization. So please also take care of their feelings.

Sorry about this long post.. i need to let it out here... because remember?.. is not safe to speak up in my company.. not even to the HR. At least im not the only one who has this impression....

乱。。。

又是挑战中文的时候了。。。

最近周围的一切都好像乱七八糟的。。。 刚刚捱过一段黑暗期。。
黑暗案烈：

1。 在美国入境证过期， 惊动总公司人事部。。。
2。 钱包在地铁被扒。。。
3。 期待已久的巴里岛之旅被逼取消。。。不想讲是为什么。
4。 车坏。
5。 又是车坏。
6。 工作的部门快要被解散。
7。 同事的车坏掉，请半天假救他，被老板以为是我的车又坏。。。"NGAM3" 高我半粒钟。。。 他说：TF,车又坏了吗? 改次车有什么问题,一次过把它好,不必每次要分开修.. ” (鸡拜! 谁不懂?每个像你那么有钱？起我的薪水啦， 刁！)


果然是福无双至，祸不单行！ 看来猪年的尾巴对我不是很fit! 幸好鼠年要来了。。 希望不错的事情会发生吧！

btw... 三月好像又要去美国了。。 这次会一个人去。。 肯定西北sien...

对了。。。 差点忘记。。 祝大家新年快乐，心想事成！