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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 :D

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..