A brand new post!

I currently working in a telecompany since dec 08 and the reason why I didn’t name the company here because this post is going to be mild negative!; I’m still working for them wahahah. Let me describe to you what exactly is my job, before i do that i explain what my department does. It is a sort of logistical aka backend department. The whole thing started when the  Sales Team clinched a deal and they would refer the deal to us for logistical arrangement (sounds boring right). My department has 3 stations. First station, meaning the first level, is sorting of orders which requires the person to check the forms that are sent in for any incompleted or lack of document – pure admin (photocopier).  Thus for completed orders will go to next station – keying of order.  Keying of the orders means to arrange for the time,date,delivery address, items, type of payment, amount of money in which creates an invoice. Thereafter the orders are automatically submitted to the delivery team for delivery operations. Finally, when the deliveries were successful, my station then comes into the picture. My main job is to vet the documents of the successful deliveries and submit for provisioning – get the bill rolling. For those unsuccessful deliveries, i will reschedule. Lastly, of course, back track for any error that i have sent out.

So my station quite relax de if my first 2 stations are zai. But when they do shortcuts, i need to recitfy them as all documents come to my station before i send them out to other departments. More or less ta sai. On top of that, i have a few side-tasks that i took over from my upper study. Yes, because of this upper-study whose working experience in this company exceeds 3 years, many of ‘not his’ tasks are now under his charge. So i have to do all the irrelevant tasks. These tasks get quite annoying at times when i see my other colleagues chilling at one side LOL! I want to slack oso can. But I still can cope with them.

Nevertheless, i have a driving test on this coming friday and i have merely 2 practices left, one tomorrow evening and one more before test on friday morning. I’m quite stressed of the test. Because during the past driving practices, i was still making many mistakes which incurred reprimands by my instructor which gravely demoralised me. It seriously sucks when i need to rebook the test and start doing all the preparations again. It also means waste of money. I think i’ll go for the test with the mentality of  showing what i have learnt so far and not please let me pass. Let’s see what happens then. Fingers crossed!

My Time has come!

Ok, i’m slacking at home and still yet to find any job. I know i’m kinda picky and should just get any job that comes to me however i really cant stand $6 to $6.50 per hour job leh ahahha. Really wanna look for $7 and above ones. Ok if this week still no offer for $7 job interview, i will go for $6.50 jobs. That aside, past few weeks really slacking and watching some dramas and animations thus there’s one drama that i strongly recommend you guys to watch – Ming Zhong Zu Ding Wo Ai Ni! Seriously this drama is one of a hell awesome! Best of any taiwan drama i watched. The standard is comparable to korea Goong, Fullhouse etc. And i did cry for a few scenes so imagine a big boy like me cried ~~ haha Really worth your time to watch it. Now about myself relieved from Army, i wanted to ignore all calls from camp after i ORDed however i answered a few and one of them had demanded requested me to go back for awhile; i received on average 10 calls from camp.  So i went back =.= I think it was unnecessary as they merely wanted me to find a ‘lost’ files which were just in my ex-cupboard. Zzzz Don’t even have the effort to search thoroughly before asking me to go back. It was just there loh. Learning driving now, and just passed my BTT. It wasn’t that easy as it seems. So must study de. Same for driving, the clutch thing really hard to get use of, hopefully i can master it in no time cos my intention was to get my driving licence at a low low low and super low cost… Wahaha. Ok, gonna watch new korea dramas le… Will update this blog soon.

Complaints!

Been quite awhile since i last blogged. I’m still surviving well in my unit – insanely high-paced unit. There’s not been a single month that my unit has the chance to rest. The men are exhausted so are the commanders. Events after events, we have been working very hard and sometimes inefficient due to the miscommunication among the key appointment holders. The reality is as such, since everyone has their own job scopes and thus different schedules, there is never a chance for all of us to gather for a updates of meeting. Thus enforcement of these meeting are essential because we need to share our knowledge and experiences so that any human error can be avoided. Information sharing is very important and way of interpreting these information is equally critical too. As i’m dealing with the logisticial issue of my unit, i know that by human nature, users will not continuously update suppliers of their equipment status; human are lazy. Therefore, when the event is commencing, the users soon find out that the particular equipments are paramount to their success and it was due to their negligience these equipments are down so they seek help from the suppliers whether they can get a replacement in such a short notice. These are the culture that we need to eradicate. We have to drill into their mind that preparation must start as early as possible so that errors can be surfaced earlier so that solutions can come in time. Frequently we think that during the process, things will just fall in place, it is true. When things start to screw up, somebody must come in to resolve it but the overall conduct of the event will not turn out wonderful. Planning, preparation, execution and recovery are the main steps i learnt in the army. Everysteps except execution are within our control. Once you execute your task, the attribute to its success are bounded by chance and checks. So its really about coordination and checkbacks. Lastly recovery is the tedious among all steps. There is this mentality that when we want it, we care for it. Once it has no value for you, you don’t really care. So don’t underestimate the complexity of the recovery. When equipments are used for the event, the equipment condition will always be the same or worse so repairing and extricating them should be part of the planning. Steps must be taken to ensure all the wastage of the equipment remain as low as possible. Haha so much to say, i think i would want to organise event on my own team in the future … to see how coordinative i can be. But at the same time, i also same as the rest – lazy. 111108 haha the day will come after i drew my blood for ffi…

Off Day!

I’m on off! isn’t that amazing? hahaha. I have no intention to claim any off day at all but after i heard that QM took one off day last week monday and this week wed, i was very disturbed! haah how could he go on off! So i decided to request an off day from my boss. Apparently he agreed without hinting any ‘No’. So here i am slacking one day off, sleep all day long. I was thinking to ask another day off from my boss for this coming monday again! haha dunno i can get anot.

Running BIG EVENTS!

29 Jun

Lion City Matathonl Run 21 or 42 or 50km; www.lioncitymarathon.com

[see whether i'm free, perharps i will go for it!]

6 Jul

MR 25 25km Progressive Run; 7am @ macritchie

[most probably not going if you guys going please do let me know cos i might change my mind!]

24 Aug

AHM; early bid til 30 Apr; www.safra.sg

[High possibility i will run for my unit =.=]

7 Sep

MR25 30km Progressive Run; www.mr25.org.sg

[haha cant go cos fighting ATEC]

2 Nov

MR25 35km Progressive Run; www.mr25.org.sg

[definitely a No Go cos i going for stanchart]

7 Dec

Stanchart Marathon; www.singaporemarathon.com

[See you guys at the finishing line!]

28 Dec

MR 25 Ultra-Marathon; as far as you can run in 12 hrs(7am-7pm); www.mr25.org.sg

Only for the whackos (i’m not one of them)! Record is 115.5km in 11+hrs. And that’s cross-country…

[haha i think that you think i think is correct, NO GO DUH!]

 

For the rest who are interested in overseas or local triathlon please approach me because i have all the event for this year hehe.

 

How are ya?

I’ll been doing quite okay lately, nevertheless i’ve survived through one major field camp. In this major joint execrise, i experienced some river crossing, and done an appointment for a heli-casevac ( shall not disclose so much). Not bad. Actually it’s quite easy to get a helicopter land and get someone up and lift off. Ahhh i’ve been up to many things and really dunno where to start with. Anyway i’ll be going on course again, this time no more dys4 but S4 course to prepare me for my NS tour. Sighed, i had mixed thoughts for this course, first is that i’m proved to better than my QM ( another appointment in battalion which is on the same tensity level as dys4 and furthermore the only persons who will be qualified to be S4 just either me or him). Second, it means it will be more sai kang for me even i go on ORDed and come back as NS men. This QM that i talking about is 1 X good one fuck up. not only me recognised his ‘attribute’ but other officers as well. ZZZ nvm, i’m going to ORDed in no time. Recently, my S4, somehow or another, becoming more chillex le. I wonder why, is it because he strike toto or he knew he was going to be Major in Oct thus he realise there is no need for me to be garang anymore. hahaha Either way, it benefits me anyway. Ok, next week there’s an ODAC outing, hopefully i can attend. And lastly, guys chillex and for those NSF-going-to-be, GOOD LUCK MUHAHA

Honeymoon Period has come to an end!

ahhhhh, i hate to admit that my ‘honeymoon’ period has come to an end! Why do i say so? because my Boss is coming back next week already. Hahaha without his presence everything works very easy and smooth. I think there’s freaking alot of bombs in his mail and i can assure you that when he comes back he will bombard me with lots of work! I knew that is coming however i can feel my ord date is crawling constantly towards me. oooohhhhh i will be freed! And i know that i will be missing the tough times in army too. When you undergoing something you wont feel it’s goodness unless you are out of it. Nevertheless, an ending means another beginning! I sooooo looking forward to it. 111108!

ps: i already uploaded all the photos i took in india onto facebook. There are 4 parts of the album altogether. enjoy!

15 days in India, Delhi

Finally i’m back, here in singapore! haha the after thoughts for every overseas trip will always be the same – Singapore still the best man. I went over to Delhi on 040408 via SIA. haha My first experience with SIA, it was good and not bad what. I always have this negative connotation that SIA personnels will have prejudices to the locals, but according to the service that they gave me proved otherwise. Anyway, Delhi airport just like brunei’s and taiwan’s will be inferior just as good as ours hahaha. Their service attitude can be better i would say =X. Over at the Delhi airport, once you out of the gate that’s it i tell u. A Battalion of ’salesman’ will come and pester you to get some india products. Soon, we proceed to a hotel for one night stay before catching the next day early train to our destination. The bus ride to the hotel was approximately 1hr? We had our dinner over there, their food was quite okay, somehow similar to our local delicacies. Probably it’s because we are Singaporeans. Around 5.30am we reached the Northern Train Station and took about 7hrs before taking another 1++hrs on the bus to reach our final destination. On the way either on train or on the bus, i would see how dilapidated the country is. Dirty water everywhere. Alots of beggers, nothing-better-to-do people everwhere on the streets. I seldom see quality car on the road but those 3 wheeled taxi was very common. Imagine 7-8 people can be squeezed in a small taxi. Most of the locals were not wearing shoes. it reminds me of the times that I was listening the linkin park’s what i’ve done, it really strikes me hard you know? Haha sudden surge of thoughts of how good we are, take things for granted etc. Serious there isn’t much thing we can do to help them though. Not that we cant help but we just dun have the resource to do anything. I always tell my men not to give any thing to them. I meant it, anything. If you let the good heart of yours took over your mind and give soem food to them, that’s it. Soon an army of indians will come to ask for things with the metality of ‘ how come just now that fellow has that? Where’s mine?’. Yes it’s hard to see a little kid so skinny and so ruined infront of you with a little baby behind her back asking you for water, food, anything. But life is just so unfair. Sometimes they are just very unpredictable, once they tired of asking nicely, they will turn VIOLENT. haha smashing up stuffs etc. haha ok lets talk about their weather! I tell you, its freaking freaking hot. It’s like an oven in the bunks lor. water very very impt. Yes their water is not portable but we have mineral waters so it’s okay. And you have to check their seals too. And one impt thing you must observse in india is to crush the bottle once you done with it. If you did not, hehe soon they will recycle it with water from unknown source and make just as new as before. So if you just happen to drink the luck few bottles, i’m afraid you will be experiencing a one times good night runs to the toilet. haha Serious, you have to account for all your stuffs, even if it’s just a trash bag, once you left it there on the floor unattended, in a count of 5, it will be gone FOREVER! haha okay enough for my stories. I’ll blog my experience in the one of the seven wonders of the world when i have the time then.

Kapo? busybody?

Here again my life back in unit. It has been a week since my cse ended, what i can say is stress ahhhh. haha Just imagine yourself doing a lot of things at 1 time and this huge amount of work made you lost track of what you want to do later. The past weeks i always find myself in the situation whereby i know i have something urgent to inform my guys and the problem is i forgot what exactly it is. -.- so much things that i forgot what i have finished and it’s very common to see myself to doing the same things repeatedly i.e. telling my friend to do up the list for me for 3 times. Or so distracted that when i was talking to someone on the phone i will have sudden-attention-loss sickness. During this moment, i would just stare at something and lost in space. Oh god, now i finally realise what stressful life is - to handle things at one go. Even you have the intention to do something, it doesnt relate directly to the outcome. U want is one thing, PPL willing to complete for you is another. So what to do? keep remind them at times, if still not seeing results, we have to stress and push them. Still cannot? get their superior attention and give them a deadline. note that you must get confirmation that they received your msg, as the higher rank you are, the more tactical that you are abled to ’smoke’ out. ssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Course over le T.T

Finally, i’m willing to login and type some crap on my blog. So i’m been on course for 1 month already and my course was held in this seletar camp. This camp was previously a hospital in WWII so hehe alot of stories and quite creepy actually. And on the last day of our course right, my instructor brought the whole group of us for a day tour aroud the camp and the highlight of the tour was the secret underground tunnel. Damn creepy. You can sense the tense atmosphere choking everyone who was present in the tunnel. Anyway many of our programmes were being affected due to the little short cute guy who is camping outside somewhere. Thus kind of no outfield just in camp doing lots of presentations. The best of all is the 2 exams i took i didnt study at all lor and managed to score damn high. Dunno are they lenient with us or… HAHA Ahhhhh screwed my plan up. Because i was never want to take up the S4 appointment in my NS life and this course will actually affect my chance of getting it. Right now i’m DyS4 so.. i learnt all the shit that the S4 need to handle, damn sian one. Talking to my dear S4, he called me while i’m on course and ‘urged’ me with a very ’sincere’ tone to ask me to go back to camp for some stuff. Haiz zzz all this regulars want to climb high, want to earn money and so they treat us like we are obliged to do everything for them sui sui. They even demand us to do other people’s job lor, their reason very simple if other people cant do their job properly also means it will affect the whole picture so we must do for them. ZZZzzz Means even more stuff i need to manage. We are not superman, damnit! Nevertheless i Fking off from NS and will take effect on 111108 WAHAHAHAHA so just endure till then. And i be going off to india for 2 weeks in april sia. I heard right now is summer season and the no. of flies are extravagantly huge! -.-so Extrapolation of the current IFA = India Fly Army – is infinity!!