Hee... went to play CS with my collegues after work on friday. It seems that the guys at my department would meet for online gaming every friday for the past few weeks. Hmm..well i was invited to join them after they knew that i had played CS before. So this friday my collegue and my boss went for CS after the conference which we were attending together. It seems to my collegues that i was a better player then both of them and they ganged up against me, pitting two of them against one of me, but luckily i managed to prove them right... haha..feels great to mow down ur boss in a battle.. But after we changed to a different game map, i was so trashed by both of them that i was so screaming "No Fair!" while they were enjoying the fun of winning... lalala..men.. So we played for a while until some other collegues arrived to join us and soon, we had a 10 ppl strong CS playing team... lalala... It got very funny at some point when one of my members in the terrorist team mowed the opposing team down in a machine gun firing non stop everywhere.. killing 4 ppl in one huge sweep and everyone was like "WTF!!... haha"... its been so long since i have enjoyed myself like that eversince i left S**... cant wait for the gathering in September.....lalalala...

Well.... this is the end of my dunno why i posted this blog blog... lalalala

For the past three days i was attending Tech Ed Aisa 2005 which was held at Suntec City. It was a very interesting experience for me meeting IT folks from all over Singapore and listening to the tracks by the various speakers. There were tracks on Security, Information Management, Data Services, Infrastructure Upgrades and .NET Application Development. I learnt of the tools that were going made available on Visual Studio 2005. This includes drag and drop functionality and built in security functions to enhance your codes. I also learnt more about Sharepoint services and its tight integrations with Office 2003, and Project 2003. One of the speaker even showed us a tool which was able merge two documents into one file extension making the other file invisible. This is one of the few ways that virus could be embeded in unknown attachments and files. Sounds cool huh.... knowing the various kinds of hacks that you can use... to rule the world...!!!

I felt very fortunate to be attending this conference cause firstly, i think only 4 ppl in my company/department got to go cause my big boss requested for 4 tickets only(no wonder onli 4), secondly its because im only a contract staff in the company and yet they bothered to send me to this kinda events, thirdly i a noob(newbie) to the company and yet i got to go instead of the other older staffs around... hmm..and lastly the best thing is that i got a free laptop haversack... hahaha

Saying all these i am feeling angry at myself for not appreciating my previous fantasticly wonderful, good boss in my first job. But after 2 unhappy experience, i have met with another good boss with super powers that i am so swear that i am going to give my very best for the team to compliment my good life... lalalala... watch out for "SUPER pefe!!!"...

Its been nearly a month since i wrote anything here. Didnt have the mood or urge to pen down my thoughts as i was kept busy by work and my assignments. Haizz..

Well... changed my job for the 2nd time this year liao. To me its the second change this year, but to everyone else it seems to be the **th change.. haha. Now i am working in the banking sector again... this time not doing helpdesk work but doing some knowledge management stuff on MS Sharepoint. The first job after my stint at SIA i left after 1 month, the second one i left after 3 months, so this time around am i going to leave after 9 months. Hmm.. Well i hope i wun leave this job so soon, or should i say that i love this job so much and the workplace that i dun wanna leave. The greatest difference that i felt on my first day on the job is that i didnt hate myself at all. I was all comfortable strutting around the office meeting new people new faces. Sometimes you just know that you have found the best place for yourself the minute u set ur eyes on it. This is so the case with this new job that i am in. Hehe...

So in this new working place that i managed to find some CS kakis... hehe.. Well.. my boss and some other collegues would hang together for a CS session after work on fridays and i was invited to join them after i kicked my boss's ass in an arcade session. Haha. But then it wasnt so much of a kick in the ass, i was sort of lasting longer in a game. Once after lunch we walked past an arcade in Suntec and decide to go in to play the "World Combat" game, where 4ppl would play the role of soldiers shooting down skeletons. As you progress on the game, your ranking in the army would rise, and you can even take on the role of a leader amoung ur teammates. I sorted of became the leader and when my collegues/boss finally dieded in the game, i was promoted to General and the my collegues in game characters saluting to me. Hee... cool huh.. beating ur boss in arcade games.... haha..

Well... i have more updates that i wanna write today, but im feeling sleepy now. Maybe i will post again tomorrow.

Yesterday i was supposed to submit my assignment to my tutor. But then last minute i discovered that my team mate didnt manage to include a "under construction" page to the website that we were to submit to our tutor. My team mate was supposed to do it on sunday, then i not so sure wether he did it or not so i posted a reminder message in our group discussion forum.... then that guy happily said that he forgot about it as we didnt discuss it in the group discussion..... KILLL.... and then he also said that he didnt have a CD writer with he so he couldnt burn the CD with the additional page for submission. So me and my friend pek cek and decided to volunteer to do it lor...

So i went about to submit the assigment which was due yesterday today... hahaha... the postage was 80 cents wor.. First time i submit my assignment using the correct postage amout... lalalala

Well... i came back from my lunch and the receptionist informed me to go into the boss room for a while. So i thought that he wanted to scold me or something.... die... But the lo and behold, my boss tell me that there is something wrong with his system, something about a virus that in present in his laptop and that he couldnt work on it at all. So i went about to check whats causing the issue... i restarted his PC and saw the virus detected prompt, then i also saw a spyware scanning software that is trying to start scanning... so i let it scan.. but then halfway i got the MS error report thing... The popup that lets you decide wether or not to submit the error report, dun submit, or debug. So i choose not to submit cause i dun think it works for this case, but then once i clicked the button, the system auto refreshes the screen and back to the original MS popup. So i tried the same option again, and same thing happen, and so i pek cek try the submit option..... And guess what... the screen refresh itself again and the popup come again..

Then i tested to reboot into safe mode to try to do a diagnostic test on the laptop.... but still cannot.... KILL... so i tried to restore working confgurations setting... also cannot.. also same..always hang at the same MS popup... haizz.. Whats interesting is that i saw an icon for online dating service on the desktop, which would mean that a spyware/adware is definately installed on the laptop...because... MY BOSS IS MARRIED!!! why would he need an online dating service... So i did the final thing that i could do which was to do a system restore to last friday settings... which would definately work... hahaha

So i fix the problem... and went back to me desk, then my boss come back from meeting ask me wat happen. Then i say got some weird antispyware remover program installed... and i ask him if he installed anything... Then he say.. nope.. i dun think i installed any programs.... So in my mind i was saying "If u neber install the thing... you think casper help u install one ar!!!"... wanna bluff also dun give this kinda of excuse lar... haizz... lousy actor.. So this is the end of my todays complain...

Hmm... long time neber post any blogs liao... I was simply too busy doing all my assignments during the past month... even had to do research on the functionalities of a blog site and what kind of functionalities should a blog hosting site offer..

Well.... 5 more days and i am officially working in my new place for 3 months liao... Times flies past really quickly when u are not in pain... haha. I can still remember dreading to reach my office in the morning when i was doing my helpdesk work at some undisclosed bank..

Wah liew eh..... just got off the phone for a helpdesk number for a software that my company is using. I told them specifically what the error message that i am facing, i even sent them a screendump of the error message as requested of them. All the above was done at 10.12am in the morning. While i was on the phone with the helpdesk representative, she told me that she would have to go and look it up. Then i said ok, and i waited for their response. Well.... i waited and waited until 2++ pm then i received another email from them asking me if there were any other popups that occured before the one i sent them. I said no, then that person ask me to check my configurations which i did... then that person say that she has to go back and check again... which i say ok. BUT THEN... i told her to call me back once she has checked.........which she didnt call....after around 1hr. Then i get fed up and called them back.... i have to call them at malaysia back to check on her progress cause it is taking too long and i have explained to her to call me back once she has checked, so i called her and she said that she has sent an email to me explaining the steps to take.... but i said TO CALL.... haizz...

Feeling very irritated at the service level, i decided to get more info out of the person before hangin up the line, cause i think i will take another centry for that person to check for me again and email me back instead of calling me back lor. But the answers that person give is "I not sure", you have to test it on ur test server. Which i replied that i dont have any test servers. Then that person says that "YOU DONT HAVE ANY TEST SERVERS!!" with the voice like see me no up like that voice.... make me so angry.. Then i said :"YES I DONT HAVE A TEST SERVER".. so how do i ensure that the script you send me works. So i ask that person what should i do in the event that the script fails... she says... "Call us back" and we will check again.... Good liao lor, firstly, u dont gurantee that the scripts work, secondly u make stupid unresponsible remarks to customers, thirdly you are not giving the best solutions to your customers, you just give the solutions that you think will work.... WTF...haizz.. Make me so the fed up that i nearly wanted to speak to the manager.... which makes me feel another feeling.... "Was i this lousy when i was working as a Helpdesk analyst last time????".... hmmm...

My message for this blog today is that..... "*A**" software technical support sucks!!!!!!

Ooooo.. its another tuesday that i decided to update this blog of mine here. Well..last week i went to support my friend in an starwars cosplay competition. Sounds interesting right?.. well.. let me explain cosplay to ppl who leave on no mans island. Cosplay means dressing up in costumes of fictional characters. Usually ppl dress up as japanese managa characters to attend conventions... blar blar blar.. So that day my friend dressed up as a starwars character lor... Guess what he dressed up as?? Well.. most ppl might guess stormtrooper or obiwan kenobi or even darth vader... but then most ppl are wrong.. including me. My friend dressed up as a fighter pilot wor!!!... cool huh.. Well.. i would have attached some photos here if not for my lousy photography skills. Most of the photos that i took came out horrid as my hands were shaking for no reason. Hehe.

The next thing that i wanna say here is that i seem to be quite settled down in my new workplace liao... since i am not so the looking out for new job opportunities liao.. Maybe its due to the setback at my last interview that has set me back on my job hunting for at least one month or so.. to recuperate from my endless searches..and to gain alittle more job experience so that any future employer would not have the excuse that i have a tendency to job hop like a kangaroo.... as i have left my second job after just a one month stint and if i were to leave this job now it would also lead to another one month stint... hehehe...so thats all folks... to a bright future for everyone.. including a slacking lousy employee me.

Wah.... today i worked till 7pm wor. I feel so the unlucky today... Firstly someone whose system's power supply failed suddenly tell me that he wants to retrieve his archive emails which are stored in his hard disk. Then i tell him that i would try and i went about trying to boot up other ppl's systems using his hard disk. After about 4 tries using 3 different systems, his harddisk still wouldnt bootup. So i went to tell him the truth that his harddisk had failed and that the only way to recover his mails was to go to the server and send him back all his mails. I also told him that if he was to die die to recover from the hard disk, it could be sent to some vendor who would be able to restore the data for around 100 dollars plus plus.....then he sort of like say send lar...then i give the huh!! face... and he went away.....

Last week i had quite alot of things to do, doing setting up of desktops, troubleshooting my own desktop...only to find out that the issue does not lie on my desktop itself..blar blar blar... I felt so exploited to do everything else that is not necessary but want to be done the things... blar blar blar.. i also dunno wat am i writing also.. lalala..

Well... there was the PC show last week at the Singapore Expo..i finally got myself an MP3 player.... something that i felt that i didnt need at all while i was working at SI*... cause i could listen to songs on my receiver... but after since i have been taking the North East Line to my workplace... which is fully underground... i have felt a desperate need to listen to music... Whats more is that i am not allowed to listen to music while at work... so this lead to my desire to get an MP3 player... And the MP3 player that i would liked to have must definately have a built in radio, so that i can still keep in touch with the outside world... and it must also have excellent sound quality... So i went to buy a MP3 player from creative.... Guess which one i bought. I believe nobody would believe that i would spend this kinda of money on a mp3 player.... I bought a "ZEN Micro" which has a capacity of 5GB... translating to about 2500 songs... which i dun think i can reach this kinda of capacity...

Lala... today the three desktop systems that my comp ordered came today. Three IBM thinkcentres... yeah!!... Then the outsourced guys came along and taught me how to do the configurations this and that and finally informed me how to do the archiving of the emails... Speaking of the three desktops that came today, i learned to config one, config one myself, and while doing the configurations, the owners come to rush me for the machine.... Usually, i would feel very the frustrated when ppl are rushing me, but then today i no feelings.. WEIRD.. So i happily continue the configurations of the system.... Installing the antivirus, the time management program...blar blar blar...and finally when i sat down to configure the system that was for my own usage, the Network card failed on me.... and i went WHY ME!!!... WHY ME!!!... why the first two system for other ppl no problem, come to me got problem liao.... sianzz...

Then when wanna make payment for the machines, my side ppl keep on tell me that shldnt have paid cause one machine was not working very the well....and that my collegue would be held responsible if anything major were to happen to my machine... then i am the one affected lor.. Then happily my boss send me email yest nite regarding some email daemon message that he recieved regarding the mailbox quota of some singnet account which i have no idea what so ever. Haizz..life is not so the beautiful afterall... And then since my machine is the one affected, i cant reply the email that my boss sent me and i might be labelled as imcompetent as an IT support person.

Well... after all these sianz things that are happening to my life, i think that i shldnt be so complainly after my phone conversation with mag. It has been so long since we spoke, last time i email her she also dun reply one.. so sad.. then today i 'xing xue lai chao' SMS her some quiz.. and she msg me with her phone no... then we chatted lor. I learnt that she had to takeover someones job who has left the company suddenly due to some "classified" reasons... then she was not around when that person left and then that person did not had a chance to handover the stuff that he was doing... then mag sianzz.. and had to figure out everything by herself... and there is big chaos at her side as the previous person did not do until very the well and all the engines had overrun their hours making a big mess out of the situation... Then she informed me that s**dy was transferred back to her previous department... and kanna bullied again... which is very the sad... she was supposed to be transferred to another dept but then somehow that dept got extra hands, then she was transferred back and had to do shit work for other ppl again... SIANZZ.. So after hearing this, i feel that my fate is not so bad as my previous collegue..

Another well..... LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL... dont moan at what is being thrown at you cause somewhere out there, someone else is suffering from even worse treatment then the one you are getting... The end..

I knew it... i knew that they were discussing about me just now in the room... hurrays for third instinct.... Happily after my collegue came out of the meeting just now, she tell me that she would be giving me alot of things to do...with regards to accounting. Then i say, "I dont know anything about accounting!", then she say is some checking and data entry into excel sheets lor... and repeated herself saying that have alot of things to do... After she said that, i knew that the boss must be thinking that i have nonthing else to do all day, and no major problems happen at all, so they have to maximise usage of employee and ask me the do something which would be very the time consuming.. and taxing.. GOD HELP ME!!! Its no wonder some previous ppl left the company after joining so soon..
Well... lo and behold... after my lunch today and after doing some work, my boss laptop hanged.. couldnt "Ctrl, Alt, Del" at all. Had to do a power cycle of the laptop, which also means to force power down... then booted up in safe mood... can bootup.. then after i wanted to boot up normally, it hanged on me again. After a few more similar attempts, i recalled a common problem in my previous job. So i tried to take the laptop off the docking station.... which i have never done before.... then i was there trying here and there cannot work... then my boss see and come over and give me hint hint.. I saw the hint and tried again to no avail, sounds stupid right, then when the boss almost wanted to come over and do it for himself, i managed to get it out... Three Cheers!!! So i tried to boot up the laptop, and it managed to work, so i put it back, powered up, and then lo and behold again, the MOUSE SPOIL... hahaha... So i changed the mouse, redocked the laptop and it finally worked... YEAH!!!!

Dunt know if its just me feeling feeling again or do i feel that whenever b*** walks past my table to find someone... he seems to peek at wat i am doing at the moment... i get those kinda of spying feelings whenever he passes by... other ppl dunt give me those kinda of feeling... strange..

Well... today is my one month anniversary in this company, so far i have tackled issues that were both challenging and interesting. Like for example reconfiguring outlook accounts, creating user login accounts, installing unfamilar software, and doing the weekly door access logs. I cant say i have learnt anything, but i must say that the things that i have learnt were mostly self learnt. One thing that i dont like about this place is that whenever they feel that i have not enough of work to do, they will try and get some stupid shit manual work for me to do like for example: manual checking through a pile of papers to determine wether the amounts are correct. What do they take me for? Some slave to do all the not useful but time consuming work? Or isit just me, despising all work that is not related to computers? Or have i learnt to complain and compare against all my previous experiences, feelings and relationships.

Wah liew eh.... just now i went to inform my manager that i have did a manual check on the serial numbers of the Laptops that have been issued out... and that 4ppl are out on the job so have to wait until next week to confirm with the user itself... then she tell me that have to do something like a write up about the seminar that i went... feelings and recommendations... then she also tell me that i have to send her a weekly report of the chores that i have done... haizz.. wanna smoke also cannot smoke... sianzz... I think i would have to include a BIG HEADER which says server monitoring 1hr, backup log monitoring 1hr, change backup tapes 30mins... to smoke that i am very very the busy... haizz..

Well.... its that rotating hour lunch problem happening again.... i feel that it make no sense for us to strictly stick to the lunch hrs limits... as long as we do our work properly on time on target on schedule.....cause... if u expect us to leave on time for our lunches while everyone is busy rushing something either for u or the boss... how u expect us to leave one time.... Its true that when u say that if somebody says that they are busy then other ppl go and eat first....but if that other person has some lunch appointment with someone else at some other time.... how leh??? Nobody loves rules that nobody understands... so why make rules which are not understandable nor followable at all costs.... We cant force other collegues to come back on time... cause sometimes the food they ordered make take a long time to queue for it or the food may be so hot that i would take some time to cool down... superiors cant make the comment of telling the employees what to eat or not to eat right... so exceptions may occur... espically with the closure of the golden shoe for renovation... its simply not possible to leave at 12 on the dot and come back at 1pm on the dot...WHY!!! WHY!!! WHY!!!

Hmm... i have made an amazing discovery today... that my manager and my other collegue was previously working together in another company together... and now they are collegues again.... how lucky can you get?? or isit fated?? Usually when this kinda of questions appear on tv shows they will play one sound effect.... which is "Denn denn denn!!!" followed by manical laughter..."Hek Hek Hek!!!"... oh.. am i going mad.... arggg!!

I am rushing for my assignments as i am typing this blog. This year i seem to be more slack when planning for my assignments. Which means i have simply no motivation watsoever to do my assignments, nor do any research for it. Maybe its because the subjects that i am taking this year are all very essay orientated......lalala... no mood to write liao...

lala.... just came back from lunch... had to wait for anyone to come back from their lunch before i could go... so i was waiting patiently for my turn lor... then happily... my manager sent us an interesting email before she went for her lunch...

Well... it is actually an ordinary mail in that the contents are to remind us that the official lunch hrs are between 12-2pm. Wat makes it interesting is that the fact that we admin department has to do a rotating between us so that one groupd would have to go first, and the other groupd would have to stay around so that they can help to pick up the calls. But then.... when everyone is busy doing watever urgent things that they have to do... they might not be able to go off at a schedule time of 12pm on the dot...and with that... whoever is in the second grp will not be able to come back at 2pm shld they really take an hr lunch. So... my question here is that... whats the moral of the story?? I dont know.... i dont understand the meaning of rotated lunch... when the business itself doesnt function 24/7. I dont believe that other companies dun have lunch hrs, and even if nobody picks up the call.... i think that whoever is calling would be able to guess that its lunch break time.... so.. why is the need... INTERESTING...

Today i had chicken pie for lunch!! woo huu... nice nice... yummy yummy yummy yum yum
yum... i had ordered 1/2 of the pie cause i was feeling extremely hungry.. and also because
i underestimated the hunger curbing abilities of that pie... in the end i onli eat half of
half the pie... hahaha

Well.... yesterday i was supposed to do my assignments, but after i took my dinner at
home... i was suddenly possesed by the sleeping ghost and felt so sleepy that after a while
i went of to my bed to sleep instead of doing my assignment.... bad on me.... bad girl... Hee... saw this name converter on someone whom i knew blog page and i couldnt resist
having a go at it.. and my name is.... (pls see below.. haha) Go on have a try... lalala

Your Irish Name Is...

Clodagh Roche

What's your Irish Name?

I so feel like shit today... Even the time that i am supposed to have lunch also must be controlled by her. Sibei sianz de leh.. I feel so the manipulated. Like i am not supposed to have a mind of my own. Then its like i never do my work then i go off for lunch like that. It so makes me feel that i am an irresponsible person like that... Cannot make it leh..

I am so thinking that if i am a male technician then i probably wouldnt be treated like that. But then i shldnt be thinking this way... if i keep on thinking negative like last time while i was in the bank, then i wouldnt be able to adapt to my new work position again... which might eventually lead to another job hopping session.....

Wah liew eh..... just kanna some stupid shit thing for one of my collegue. She went for a meeting with the boss with some figures that she ask me to do a pivot table for her. I followed her instructions and came out with a pivot table, and i even asked her to check if that is what she wanted. Then she say ok...... Then after the meeting with the boss, she keep on chasing after my neck telling me that she has something urgent for me to do.. then i kanna bomb!!!

Wah liew eh..... just kanna some stupid shit thing for one of my collegue. She went for a meeting with the boss with some figures that she ask me to do a pivot table for her. I followed her instructions and came out with a pivot table, and i even asked her to check if that is what she wanted. Then she say ok...... Then after the meeting with the boss, she keep on chasing after my neck telling me that she has something urgent for me to do.. then i kanna bomb!!! She showed me the figures from the pivot table that i had done for her. She told me that the boss feels that the figures are not correct as they are very the different from previous years. Then she tell me that the boss wans "US" to do a manual check of all the hardcopy documents to check if the figures are really correct. Then she ask me to do it... all by myself... she say boss tell "US" to do it... in the end is i do it. Then i already very the not happy that i am the one doing it... then i ask her when is the deadline for the thing... then she ask me to do it within two days....how the hell is that logically possible.!!!! Then hor... afterwards we find out that the figures that was used to compute the pivot table was wrong.... and that i was told to use a wrong column of figures... Then i told her that in this case... give me the correct figures and i will do a pivot table for her to show the boss again... she say no need.. just go ahead and check the papers as told by the boss.... THEN I BERI THE BEI SONG!!!! I tell her that since the data is wrong she shld just show the boss the correct figures and everything would be solved... and there would not be any wasted efforts to go through the pile of papers... then she like so the scarded that if the boss know do wrongly will die like that insist on not showing the boss the correct figures...with that.... MY VOLCANO EXPLODED!!!... and i told her that i wouldnt be able to finish this even if you give me a month to do it... ARGG..WAT THE FISH IS IT IN HIDING THE TRUTH FROM THE BOSS!!!!...

With that, i made my blood pressure rise so high that i started to have a terrible headache... THE END..

Lalala... today i got the assignment of doing the Petty Cash In Charge thingy... Its so stressful when you have to deal with money payments. Especially with cash payments and cash passing here and there. If missing any money will be madness one wor... Then is ding ding ding liao...

I seem to be doing things that i have never expected to do in my working life in this new job.... Which is administrative work....something which i have always taken for granted. Like for example there would always be someone who would help me to do money claims and payments.. or someone who will be there to do my pay slips..hehe. I am so going to appreciate what others have done to make my life more comfortable in the future man....

Well... its finally friday today and i managed to scrape through three first days in my
new company. Hmm.... did the boss's son just walked out off his room just to spy on what was i doing mah??? Interesting...

I feel that this job will be a test of my knowledge and my ability to handle stress and
difficult situations such as when the is a computer failure.. I really hope that i will get
a chance to learn as much as it is possible in this company before i move on to another
company again.

Well.... its time now to let me do some fake typing on the computer. Well, its my third day at my new place now. So far so good. But it seems that my reporting manager wants me to report everything that i have done or happened to her everyday. Yesterday, i left on time cause there were no urgent matters that needs to be solved. Then hor, when i went to inform her that i was leaving, i sort of got a sianzz face reply. So i scarded that she was unhappy that i am leaving on time without finishing my work properly.

Well.... i am feeling kinda of stressed out in my work here. I think that i am giving myself too much pressure to be responsible for all the IT related breakdowns that have happened.
How come suddenly got so the many ppl klkking all over the place. Walking up and walking down and walking up and walking down over and over again... like what i was doing just now...

Wah liew eh... just now i go do something for some person, then i forget to minimise this notepad thingy.... then the person come here see my screen and then happily reading loudly to herself somemore.... lalala...

another wah liew eh... that person who read my this notepad thingy somemore still go and take my mentos cool chews from my table automatically wor.... dunno to happy or unhappy also....happy is that can gam gam with the person then can have one comarde in crime, unhappy is that i feeling that person not so powerful in the company... so is not a powerful allie.... and somemore that person is also new in the company like me, so nobody noes her well enough... but it seems like hmm.... lets wait and see lar...