Monday, May 28, 2007

Project Handover

Today I received a project.....a to be continued project from the past trainees who had done it halfway. So my target is to improvise the whole thing, get more datas and do some simulations. Before all this is done, first step is to read and make research of what this whole thing is about. Next, understand it properly and ask whatever questions that is in my mind.

I am still at step no. 1 - to read the whole thing. They had done their part in documenting them and it's my duty to read and laarn from what they had written. The notes given for the past week serve as the fundemental things I need to know about the processes that is involved in my dept. So this week the materials are going more in depth....I hope i won't sink into deepness and have difficulty floating! =p

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Third Day

Today is only the third day of working but why do I feel so tired?maybe I don't have enough rest.
Actually there is nothing much to do in work but lots of things to study. The materials given are new stuff, nothing familiar to what we studied in uni but CERTAINLY has Physics and Maths in it and more on semicons...to the very minute detail....it's a semiconductor company so what else do we expect to learn in detail right?
Looks like I can never escape from books even though exams are over!

But I am looking forward to next week...lesser study and going to get some hands on some interesting stuff from all da things being studied throughout this week. However, one problem does arise....I asked is it whatever I studied is related to what is installed next week. I got "Emm...ya but maybe not also...it depends. I am not sure. You'll see next week". -_-""
So i was thinking "Emm...ya...so I study to improve my knowledge. Don't care whether got related or not..." -_-"" Whatever it is la....no need to hesitate so much. Not much of a use. Something to gain, nothing to lose...hahaha. Must be more +ve.

Monday, May 21, 2007

First Day @ Work

Nothing much happening today but expecting more interesting things installed for the coming weeks. Orientation is not today, but 2 weeks later! Maybe they wanna get us moving first before adapting to the company? weird...i dunno the reason for that...
Given notes to study but all seems so new, and nothing much registers in my head. Probably the notes are the concepts that are extremely important to proceed! Oh no! why must study so much of electricity...haaaaa computers also depend on them to work. Everything also must be calculated first,to ensure the best will be produced. -_-"

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Decisions

Decisions- are difficult to make...especially when the timeframe is short and once made it will make a big impact no matter which way you choose.
Decisions are also hard to make if there are barriers imposed.
They are even harder if there are a few to be decided once and for all.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Fond memories

My former art teacher drop by my house to visit me! I am so surprised and so happy that she still thought of me after all these years. It had been 6 years since I last saw her.
She's selling her apartment which was also the art centre where I took my lessons and moving elsewhere. It is so nice of her to inform me that she's moving so that we could still keep it touch..=)
She's currently a full time art teacher. She quit her high paying factory job to spend more quality time with her students, whom she fondly call children. We chatted while watching tv..hehe. All those memories seemed to be like yesterday but it was so long since I last held that brush and paint. I won't be able to draw so well already, but I still can remember her guidance. My art had turned rusty over the years but one day I will pick up the brush and explore art again...yes I will..
BTW, the 2-room apartment is going off at RM 105 K. For small families it's a good investment. It is partially renovated, just had a fresh coat of paint inside, spacious living room (can accomodate up to 10 art children) and it's within 1-2 km from Queensbay Mall! Her new condo cost her more than RM 260 K!

Monday, May 14, 2007

Hired x2

I received a call, from the same company initially hiring me but this time for a different post...
I am confused...I tried explaining that I have already been offered a position already but the lady over the phone said it doesn't matter which one i choose, difference is that I will report to different manager, that's all.

I have yet to receive any directions on what to do next by my previous interviewer but for this second person, I have received all the details which include : I shall start work next monday.
Meanwhile, first interviewer mentioned that I should be working by end of this week..till now no further directions yet...maybe tomorrow..hoping so.

So now a dilemma... same company different job scope. Which one to choose? I have weighed it out...both also have 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages. But which is more important? Considering advantages as more important, it will be offer no.1 which is of my advantage. However, if I choose offer no. 1, the job is more mentally and physically draining. Arghhh... Which one? which one? decide...decide...

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Expensive Meal n Lesson

My whole family and I had dinner at the MG restaurant, courtesy of my uncle. With grandma, cousins and my aunts, we ate..makan-makan and by the 4th dish, everyone was almost full.
Partly due to the 2nd dish…a pot (a huge one indeed!) of ‘nutritious’ soup. Everyone except my uncle was unaware what it was when it is served into small bowls, assuming it’s just a soup similar to shark’s fin.

Many things in the big pot…ginseng, sea cucumber, chicken, some Chinese herbs etc. However, in some of our bowls (aunt, uncle, grandma and mine) and the remaining in that big pot contained pieces of this black gluey thing. I had a piece in my bowl …

After eating all the familiar stuff in the bowl and drinking the soup, I started to inspect this black thing.
I thought it is the black chicken, common in soups like these too. Though the skin is black, it looks rubbery and transparent, even the meat is peculiar…not like chicken’s meat . It’s redish brown and the meat is not evenly distributed (not in a whole piece, it’s bits here and there and some soft protruding white bones). Not black chicken then what is it?

Across the table my uncle finally spoke “Ou lang gia tiuk pi boh?” (Has anyone taken *** ?
At first I don’t realize what this ‘pi’ thing in Hokkien…but when my aunt says “Ciakliao mia eh can terng sia ka ha leh pi…” (After you have eaten this, your life will be as long as this ***)

Yikes! Oh! ***is actually turtle’s meat!! Or tortoise meat!! Either one, whateva, in the soup!
According to The Star paper today, these wildlife are smuggled into our country and transported to China. A freshwater turtle can cost between RM 100 to RM 200 per kilo! Chinese claims it has medicinal properties and it is a prized delicacy.
Goodness la…Good or no good…I tak termakan …I put that black gluey thing aside and immediately felt full. My grandma said she saw a seller in the market overturning a tortoise so that it will not ‘run’ or crawl away. Grandma did not finish hers. But uncle seems to love it! Afterall, this whole course dinner was selected by him and costed only a few hundred short of RM 1k!!
So no matter what, must not waste…6 courses to go after this main attraction dish.

Uncle: Eileen, so much soup left in this big pot, come I give you some…
Eileen : No thank you uncle. I full already…(waves frantically and gesturing that the soup is up to throat level!) =p

After that dish was taken away, the other dishes were filling, luckily not so exotic: roasted pork, fish, vege, chicken, mee and dessert.
It was a very expensive meal, it cost a bomb and the lesson also expensive! I shall never put turtle/tortoise/snake/pangolins into my mouth…

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Hired!

Flashback -yesterday..

Caller1: Hello may i speak to...?
Me : Ya, speaking..
Caller1: I am ***from ***. About your internship with our company, are you still interested?
Me: Yes, I am.
Caller1 : Ok, I will connect this line to another colleague of mine..

Caller2: Hi Eileen, this is ***.
...............
And the telephone interview began. I didn't even realise it was a tele-interview until they asked everything in detail...

Caller1: So, Eileen, tell me what have you learnt in Electronics1, electronics2, electricity and magnetism?
Me: finding the words : in elec1 we learnt bla...bla bla... elec2 more on elec?? erm bla bla bla...
Caller1 : So what is your opinion of those subjects? What have you gain from learning those subjects?
Me: Er... electronics 2 more in depth...more usage...the syllabus include....

..................
.........
Caller2: What is the function of this IC?
Me : Gosh, (in my heart 'help! I hate electronics..why i learn this course??'

Caller1: Since you are willing to work...let's see u have 7 weeks left. Are you willing to continue after you semester reopens?
Me: Emm...ya I shall give it a try..How long I have to work per week when my sem begins?
Caller1: For 2 to 3 days...That includes OT work till at night. And you have to sacrifice your dating time..
Me : ( wah...so busy ah? i will be tired at the end of the day after class...work somemore? can focus? dating? whoa IF got bf..this ques must think deeper...lol)
Ya, it should not be a problem. I shall try my best to arrange my time...
Caller1: very well then..I will call u again if ur successful..

Today,

Caller2: I am pleased to announce that you are hired!
Me : yay! thank you...


I am excited but have doubts...I will be placed in the lab! Oh no...phobia of handling circuits and the many apparatus..whenever my lab is over in a sem, it's like a celebration! always counting the number of experiments that is going to end...now...more lab sessions in da factory! pengsan...how? Just go ahead and take up the challenge! Cannot turn back anymore..already agree wanna go ahead ma...
Pray that I can survive and not memburukkan nama baik universiti saya, nama baik lecturer and of course, nama baik diri sendiri...
Have plenty to learn...

Sunday, May 06, 2007

ToDay...

Today, it's not the first time I enter this place, it's not the first time I have been to a place filled with warmth and friendly bunch of people. In fact, it's the sixth or seventh time I follow my old and best friends from my secondary school to their place of worship. I understand- good things must be shared…they wanted to share their experiences with me…their intentions are genuine and they wanna catch up with my well-being…will it be the last visit this time or a few more to come? Put it straight…I wanna see how different people worship differently in their respective way. I can admire how passionate they are, and they eagerness to share and invite me to join them to be part of them, but I shall stick to what I am comfortable with at this stage.

I encountered mixed feelings today...I also feel giddy after taking in more than 2 hours of sharings…the people there welcomed me with open arms, when they heard I am studying here and this place is a stone's throw away from my campus, they encouraged me to join them. I don’t know why I am speechless, I can’t utter a single word. I didn’t say “Sorry, I won’t” or “Sorry, I am not interested”. They are so nice, kind and took so much effort to make this weekly event so successful till it’s just hard to say a short NO. There will be no ending to this place it seems…there is some line-up going on…the cycle is repeating after it had stopped…

In fact, I found out that my friends who brought me here have links here, and since the world is so small, I am connected to these people as well! I somehow know these people well- since I was young or more than 10 years. And they all converge to this homey place..

This song reminds me of how I wanted to see the other side, to give a chance and discover what Buddhism is :

Come & See (Ehipassiko)

Ehipassiko come and see you’ll know
The Teaching of Peace the Teaching of Love
The Teachings of the Buddha is for all
Who want to be free forever more

But don’t just believe, Investigate
Do not simply accept what you hear or see
Not even if it is uttered by ME

So don’t just agree you’ve got to verify
When you know that it’s good
And it’s praised by the wise
Then live up to it the rest of your life


Taken from:
http://www.dharmaresonance.com/drjan05/lyrics/comesee.pdf

Saturday, May 05, 2007

some uphill task

After all, there are plenty of things to learn during this holidays. Mostly, many new things that I need to learn by myself. Using the internet many new physics terms had to be learnt. If it is not because of holidays, I won't be able to have enough time researching so much on the internet learning those things that I could even imagine.
Learning new concepts and things is not enough...i oso need to think on the applications as well. The higher the learning, the more complicated the thing. I thought I can escape from being so academic oriented since it's holidays but I can't help it.
It's not a choice but a decision made by me. I have chosen to undertake the task of working on a project so I have to embark on it and to do so now. But I am doing this research all alone...I feel like a isolated case, not really knowing exactly what leads to where...I am still trying, my best.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Any ideas or have something to share?

Calling anyone of you who has learned Visual Basic, done some assignments with it or somehow deal with this programming before… I need a bit of your help.
I am assigned by my lecturer to learn up this program which in turn will be used in my final year project.
I have some basic on this program as I have learnt it before in Form 5, but if anyone of you who have completed some assignments using this software with some calculations included, I hope u don’t mind to share the source code with me.
I will be using this software to make calculations on optics, and as a interface to link it to some other light detecting device. My lecturer advised me to start learning up this software this holiday besides some other optics and photonics related theory.
Currently, I am relying on the internet to find all these materials and learn up. If you have any interesting links or any Visual Basic (VB) tips, don’t hesitate to e-mail me at :
eileen2085@hotmail.com, or comment below. Your help/guidance/advise is very much appreciated! =)

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Wesak Day










This year, Wesak Day coincides with Labor Day, which is on the 1st May. Normally, Wesak Day is celebrated on the 15 th Day of Chinese 4th Moon but this year, it falls on the 15th Day of Chinese 3rd Moon. Wesak Day marks the three important occasions that happen (on the full moon day on different years); which is the birth, enlightenment and passing away of the Buddha.
This year commemorates the 2551st year of Buddha’s Teaching, which is the demise of the Buddha into Maha Pari-Nibbana.
Among activities carried out on Wesak Day are Puja(offerings), chanting and also to affirm resolutions to improve our practice of the Dhamma.
Wesak Day reminds me of lotus lighting, which I normally do at Mahindarama Temple in Kampar Road, and also float processions (which I adore very much when I was young due to the colourful lights blinking and I also used to wonder how they float on the road like that! I used to think that they really ‘float’!)
Besides reflecting on this Wesak Day, I am also reminded of how I first joined in as a PPB (Persatuan Pelajar Buddhist) member during my second year and how much I have grown in learning the Dhamma.




By attending a camp last year,






To weekly dinners with members of my upali class,



And a farewell to the seniors who are my facilitators in my class :



Under one roof of dhamma, we share and we care.
Have a nice week ahead bloggers!