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Archive for May, 2006
Not a bad 2nd day :)
May 3rd
After a quite disappointing first day at work I am quite happy to say that things are looking up, thankfully. I find my team members really good people, friendly and very helpful. Another good thing is that most of them have been working in NCS for more than a year, other than us who just joined. This is a very big contrast to 3ntity(my ex-company) where most the staff will not last more than 4 months(5 people including me have left the company in my 5 months working duration) I still remember the first day I worked in 3ntity, all I heard was complaints towards the stingy boss, and how much they wish to resign in order to find another better job.
A very surprising thing happened today, I met my sister’s friend, who is also my friend’s sister lol, in Dell. Apparently she is a NCS staff too. Actually yesterday I already suspected she is working here too because I saw her name on my table. She was transferred to another department, COC if not mistaken.. not sure what does that stand for lol, so I am taking over her seat 
Wanna get rid of this ASAP..
During our first team meeting today I had another pleasant surprise, we are eligible to claim for OT!! Wheeeeee! And we are also planning a team building event, using the team fund sponsored by NCS.. it’s going to be a steamboat if all things go well Next week we may be going on a trip to Bukit Hijau too
Anyway this is a picture of the yellow sticker thing I mentioned yesterday.. Tomorrow I will be registering for my own badge 
Then I can move to anywhere I want haha.
Wanna get rid of this ASAP..
On a side note, my project leader, Guan Peng(a really nice helpful guy) has resigned 
What a pity.. I thought I can learn much from him. Dell has also included meebo.com and other web messenger web sites in their filter list -.-” So efficient eh, I browse yesterday then this morning they blocked it liao.
Btw, the Char Koay Teow stall beside the Snake Temple.. sucks.. Dunno why my colleague said it was nice -.-” So don’t bother ordering if you happen to be there haha. I had that for lunch today, pretty much regretted it, should’ve ordered fried rice/nasi kandar instead.
New job, first day
May 2nd
Today’s my first day at work in Dell Penang as NCS staff. Have to wake up 6am everyday to car pool with my brother already T_T Good thing is I get to save on petrol and toll, and the best thing is I don’t have to drive! Get to enjoy the beautiful Penang bridge view too.. at least until I am sick of it lol.
Arrived in the office so damn early, 7.20am. For vendor staff in Dell we need to register ourselves twice, once in the guard post, another time before we enter the building. After registering in the guard post we will be given a round yellow sticker that states the date and the person in charge of you.
The Dell office in Penang is only for support / management / development and sales purposes. The support team here currently provide support not only to the US, but also Asia Pacific region. I of course was assigned to the development team, which consisted of around 10 members from NCS. The people are quite friendly, most of them ignored me though lol. The building is quite huge, but tiny if compared to Intel. I also noticed that most of them are casually dressed. Felt really weird being the only one dressed in formal on the entire floor..
I was brought to tour the building a bit by one of my colleagues and that was when I saw 2 big coffee vending machines! I was really thrilled to think that my “drug” is freely available! As soon as we finished the tour, I went upstairs wanting to grab a cup. To my disappointment, they are not free Each hot drink(milo, nescafe, tea) costs at least 50cents while the cold ones 60cents. Sien. And to think that my brother’s company: Altera provides free flow of Milo, Nescafe, Green Tea and even CAPPUCINO!! That sucks :/
Another thing that disappointed me was the Internet connection. Dell employees may access the WWW but not their external mail boxes eg: YahooMail, Hotmail, Gmail etc. Due to the implementation of a proxy server, we can’t even sign on to our online messengers. You can however, sign on to MSN but you will be only able to chat with those people in the building. This means, you are like completely isolated from the world outside the building :/ Forget Yahoo Web Messenger, that won’t work either. Lucky me I remembered meebo.com
I was assigned to hard code some data from the backend side, to observe the change in the approval levels in the sales system. Really sien stuff I tell you. I went for fishing twice at 10am and 3pm respectively. For the most of the time I was there idle.. thinking of KL + someone and how bad I want to be back there If not for the high cost of living.. sigh..
Bukit Mertajam Lau Yu Coffee Shop
May 1st
Hello my beloved hometown, that’s of course Bukit Mertajam It must’ve missed me too for being away so long(8 months) lol.
“Lau Yu” coffee shop is one of the oldest coffee shops in BM(15-20 years wor, old kua?) “Lau Yu”, which means “Old Friends” if translated into Chinese, originally has 2 other branches. The one I frequent most is located in Taman Mutiara, along Jalan Padang Lalang.
This plate of Char Koay Teow only cost RM2.30.. what a steal
Very special Wantan Mee, taste it to feel it
In my opinion it has the 2nd best Char Koay Teow stall in the whole BM, no kidding. Other hawker stalls worth trying are Wantan Mee, Chicken Rice, Clay pot Chicken Rice, Nasi Lemak and Tomyam Mee. The noodle stall that opens only in the morning outside is a big hit with students(Jit Sin High School is nearby) and working people and I notice the gold necklace the tauke is wearing is getting thicker and thicker 
This is the coffee shop I grew up with, along with many other BM people
