Shocking...

I sort of summarized my 2009 in my previous post.... but I shouldn't have concluding my 2009 this fast, because the biggest event in my 2009 took place 2 days ago.

I'm quite surprise with the news i received, feeling complicated.

But anyway, since I've been given the trust, i'll give my best to it.

Bring it on! 2010!

Year End

Good bye 2009, welcome 2010!

Here it is, the end of yet another year... Looking back, what i've done in 2009 that worth mentioning here?

...Finally kicked off my MBA

...Visited Hanoi. Missed the flight but got a replacement the next day, spent 1 night in Salak.

...Opened food stall with my MUM,and ofcoz it failed..

...Tried lunch/dinner box delivery service, a business which lasted for 2 months

...Went to the States for the 3rd time, this time with economy class...

...Went to Pulao Redang for the 1st time

...Signed up for a gym membership, enough is enough(my weight).

...Attended countless wedding dinners, 3 of those are my best frens.

...Read 4 books, now reading the 5th one... dun think can finished before 2010 though.

...No pay increment due to the business circumstances..

...Still stuck with the same company, not sure what's the reason to stay on.. may be because i haven't found the reason to leave.

... Learned that i should never mention too much about my job, life is definitely for than that!

Hum... can't say it's a great year, but i 2009 has been full of learnings for me, i see things differently compare to the past. If i have to choose a single word for my 2009, it would be -- Responsibility. I learned that taking care of others and having direct influence to other people's life are not easy tasks, i'm thankful for the opportunity given to me to experience that during this early stage of adulthood, I've learned to never run away from a problem but to face it directly.

2010, i'm ready, are you?

Food for thoughts..

i was attending a surprise training course last week, it was a 4 days course and the reason i say it is surprise because i totally forgot about it... ya.. this happen a lot..

The instructor was Dr Phil Allen, who is in his 70s, yet still doing very well in analog designing and also very well in teaching it around the world. Well.. he was going to lecture on fag process technology which im totally going to sleep thru it...

He asked every1 in the class to do a brief self introduction, I'm was sitting at the last row of the class of 30, and when it came to my turn.. it goes.

Me: "Hi, My name is KhooTeckFei, you can call me TF, i've been my national for 3 years, im a product engineer in high speed division, prior to this job, i was a student at MMU"

PhilAllen： “Well...you still a student now, we can never stop being a student”

Me: "..........ok"

how embarrassing, especially a 70 years old was telling me this.

Is a wake up call for me, he was right, we can never stop being a student, we can never stop learning. Always remember!

Sick Leave

Been really busy for the past few weeks. It's not easy to be an engineer and a MBA student at the same time. Work and study utilized over 90% of my time, i left 10% for myself, my gf, my family and friends, how pathetic...

I've been wanting for a rest for quite sometime, too bad i was so tied up with project at work. i forced to work till 11pm everyday for 2 week just to compile a report. Now that the report has been completed, guess who is my next guest? Flu.. back pain... ya.. i'm only 26. it started when i turn over and grab the phone yesterday, suddenly the pain attack me, it was so painful , i couldn't breath and move for almost 30 sec.

I quickly call Kathy and she brought me to a clinic, the doctor say it was due to improper posture or sitting in the office for overly long hour. He gave me some medicine for the pain and muscle. I can barely walk now but at least i'm feeling better.

How ironic is this? been hoping for a rest, and now i'm having it, just that for the wrong reason.

大学生的困境

如果我的文采好一点，我应该会写一本酱的书。。。

本人自小都是一位“过得去，死不去”的人物， 没有很厉害，却可以靠着一些小聪明混日子。 小学考不上优秀班，却在放牛班里当得着“模范生”（舍我取谁？），中学考不上第一班， 可是在第二班里总是名列前茅。到了大学时代，真正的考验来了。。 小聪明用不着。。却让我遇到一班“码头”死党。。 在学海里差点反船时， 偏偏又能靠向码先生和码小姐们， 关关难过，关关过。。。 有时候觉得自己像英超里的利物浦队一样。。 讲老牙又不是。。。可是冠军赢不到。。

出来社会工作了。。 情况比并没有改善。在一家勉强算是大公司里打工， 做的一个不是很老牙，可是又不太有社会地位的电子工程师。在朋友当中，薪水不算高也不算低就这样一混。。 就混了三年。。。老板老是说我很有潜能，只要在努力一点，就会成功。。。 我心里想。。 翻看历史我就是那种什么都差一点的人。 想到都心寒。。

从小，我都从来没有真正的尝试到挫折的滋味。。问题是。。 我也是没有真正的品尝过成功的滋味。 每次都是低空飞过， 低不成，高不就。 就是这个从来习惯了“没有挫折”的感觉。。 让我不知不觉的进入一个框框里。。放不下大学生的身份去闯，又不见的在职场上可以飞黄腾达。。 一个大学生的困境。

我要改变我的思想。。 我不想困在这个框框理。 以后，不管做什么。。 我都会尽力去做。 以后要讲什么就讲，要做什么就做。。 完全不管什么后果！！

Complaining

Who doesn't complain about their job?

Me too.. complain is fun! Which is what i want to do now!

Here's my travel itenary from San francisco -

(US time) - Friday

9PM - drive to SFO Airport

10PM - arrived at SFO Airport- return car and check in

1.20AM - depart from SFO to HKG

...13 hours later...

Msia time - nabeh! sunday liao!!! i want my saturday back!!!

6 am- arrive at HKG airport (long queue to transfer.. long queue for breakfast)

8.50am - depart from hkg to Malaysia..

12.30pm - arrived at KLIA,

1.30pm - got my luggage and checked out

3.00pm - arrived at Melaka..

Througout the journey, i did not sleep at all.. partly becuase of the the super fat lady with her disturbing spare tyre... I lost one day (SATURDAY) due to the time zone diffenrence.. , it took me about 30 hours to get from SFO to my house... .. and now im suffering from jet leg all because of the travel... and...

I NEED TO GET BACK TO WORK TOMORROW!!! yes.. tomorrow is MONDAY DEEP SHIT BLUE!! No compensation leave for the travel! you know what.. you get to fly for 20 hours on the plane, isn't that fun thing to do for weekend?? you still need to rest ah? come back to work la!!!

STOP THE CRAP !(not for me..)

Time for me to clear the spider web and dust in my blog.. it's been a freaking long time since the last time i published any crap. I had a chat with Fei jai, and to my suprise, he actually read my blog.. i tot i'm the only one who read it..

thanks Fei Jai, you just gave the life back to this crappy junk...

I have developed a habit to write an entry about my business trip, well, thank to my not too frequent travel experience.. so far i'm still doing well in keeping the trend.

Well... here's my 4th week in the State.. i used to be very excited about coming to the State for work, i get to see different things and learn different cultures.. and most important of all.. i get a lot of new food!

But consider the fact that this is my 3rd trip to the same old place... all the fun has diminished and what's left with me is work work and work... especially when i'm not getting any travel allowence(yes.. and my management claim that they do it for the sake of employee's welfare, well.. thanks!), i find it better to stay in the hotel and work on my blog during weekend...

Despite that.. like every other trips, i once again come to learn that how tiny mini myself is compare to the engineers in the HQ( well.. not all of them..)..their professionalism in work makes me realized that geographical distance is the not only thing that seperates us... it makes me wander , if i continue to work hard,am i going to be as good as them ? .. or do i really want to be as good as them...?We'll see..

I spoke to one counterpart the other day.. he was commenting about the infrasture and facilities in some developing countries like Vietnam and India.. because he used to live in M'sia for quite some time, he is very familiar with our political landscape and commercial infrastructure. He claim that M'sia will soon to be out mucsled by some other country like Indon and Vietnam (or we already did... ) . This is it.. this is what a foreigner's perception to Msia.. We have no been working hard enough to be competitive... we opened the door for foreign investor to move away from us.. but look at our government, not only the government... lot at our politician.. from both side, what they've been focusing?

I read M'sia new everyday... the more i read it.. the more i think i won't be voting next coming election. Well.. i understood that the incumbent government hsa not been doing a great job, but i dun think the opposition is doing any better than them.. i mean.. come on! you've got 4 states now.. not all but 4 is still good place to start right? Stop attacking each other and start working already..

We are in the mist of poor economic situation.. aren't feeding the society with jobs and stability is the main focus now? Why the Incumbent keep trying to gain back the 4 states, and why the opposition trying to form government before the next election(infact.. think twice.. who started all the nonsense?)? For the people who have been waiting to see a change of government througout their life.. you've been waiting for 50 years, can't you wait for another 2?

I believe what we need is a professional, open and mature government... i dun need a flawless government. Stop picking every freaking mistake or mis-spoke statement.. and start doing wat you are voted to do, work for the welfare of ppl.. not for your party.

Somebody just died because of all this nonsense.. yes... some one actually died.. If you ask me.. i dun care who is behind this (btw.. so far that's no evident to claim that this is a conspiracy, if im Najib, and i want to kill somebody.. that poor guy should not be in my top 100 list). All i know is.. some good guy has becomes the victim of our political drama, since the last election.. If everybody put focus on the economy and welfare of this country, you think something like this could have happened?

Last thing i want to say is.. STOP IT!! stop all the nonsense.. stop acting like a child.. stop all the unnecesary negetive propaganda and stop speculating. Attend to the parliment meeting and speak like an assembly men.. stop the trash talk and do some actual work.

Tomorrow

is


monday....

untitled

try to write a post with my pda @ cafe.. as expected, it is pretty tiring stuff considering the fact that i must keep on locate and poke on thr tini mini touch s reen pad with a stick..

lately has been really busy for. i finally started my mba course that was planned 3 years ago. yes, me.. taking mba now, who would have thought that? not even me...
a lot have been going on recently, im actually expe iencing some really drastic change in my life.something that i wouln't thought of b4 this. for better or worse, im living ang facing what suppose to be my greatest nightmare.
once again.. growing up is not fun...

Flash Back

I must admit now, that my secondary school and Uni era are by far the best moment of my life. 

After experiencing the near death moment of my existing notebook's harddrive, me and kathy decided to have a backup for all our pictures, taken since 2003 till now. As the result, i just baught myself an eternal hard-drive. 

Transferring those pics to their new home really making me to recall all those funny, exciting and crazy moment i had. Here some sharing.. not sure if anyone can recall this... but this was taken during our MicroP assignment meeting.. i sort of remember our agenda that day was t0 figure out how to install  a sensor in a toy car to make able to sense barrier and avoid hitting them. 

It started of like this... 

 I always like to show up in assignment meeting with these ppl, because then we could gather up and have enough leg to... and so this is how it ended... 

Vincent was certainly on fire.. "九筒! 九筒！！"

JK... 

And ofcoz.. without any suprise.. our MicroP project did not work out well.. our "masterpiece" went full force while crashing into the wall during the 1st corner...