Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Auto Show - Honda Jazz

Malaysia first and only Honda Jazz and Fit Club just have one of their gatherings in Harbour Place Mall, Klang. The members were treated to a nice meal in Geylang Kopitiam and a Movie in MBO cineplex. Other than that, they have a car show competition to judge who has the best looking car. It was a good event indeed.

The Club Logo
The winning car at the Car Show Competition

Friday, September 17, 2010

Appreciation Lunch

Work was quite hectic in Monash as the first batch of Chemical Engineering students graduate from the Malaysia campus. Due to our hard work, my boss Prof. Serge decided to treat all of us for our hard work. We were treated to a buffet lunch at Atrium, Pyramid Tower. Below are the food pictures that we had for lunch ^_^

How the place look like

Noodle Soup
Indian Cuisine
Mixture of everything XD
Japanese Style Cuisine
Dessert


Friday, October 09, 2009

Yakult Factory Visit

After so long, I finally agreed to go on a school field trip. It is also because I'm free of important assignments at that time. I got up early and reach campus early to meet with Dr Chai and Dr Wu who are in-charge of ENG1010 field trip to Yakult.

I had a good rest in the bus till we reach the factory in Seremban. I was surprise how warm a welcome we had from Yakult. Once we are inside, they took us to a briefing room where we were brief on the importance of drinking Yakult and the benefits of drinking it. That was when I tried my first bottle of Yakult complimentary from them and it taste good ^_^

After the tasting, we went on a tour in the factory to see how they make Yakult. It is interesting to see the process of each stages. I do apologize as I didn't snap any picture of the processes as was busy chit chatting with Dr Chai and Dr Wu on how much Yakult to buy back and who to distribute to and also the price differences when buying from them and also in the market ^_^ In the end, we bought some back and also took a group photo. I'm still waiting for Dr Wu to pass me the picture which was taken from his camera =.=

Anyway, do take Yakult as it is good. I'm now taking it and it helps my digestion system. You can ask Tommy too as he can drink 5 bottles in one go. They contain 1.5million probiotic each bottle to help set up a good immune system. So I can say, he has 7.5 million probiotic in his system and the worst case scenario would be him visiting the toilet non-stop to cleanse his digestive system =.= I'm not sure if that happen or not but you are all free to ask him ^_^

Locked out

It is funny when a friend/ colleague, Mark Ng told me that he would NEVER lock himself out again manage to do so a few times. What is best is I have reminded him not to lock himself out on his birthday. The next 2 days after, he continuously lock himself out =.= But his best buddy, Edwin whose office is beside him, also got influence by him. Edwin lock himself out once =.= I do wonder is work that stress till they can take the wrong thing out and thing it is their keys =.=

For Mark, I have nothing to say but at least this round I manage to snap a picture where his keys are on his desk behind the red cup holder and mineral bottle (using Manchester United Lanyard) ^_^

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Craziness At Work


Finally the renovation at work has completed. I have shifted back to my office but there are some candid shots of Mark's new office ^_^

Besides that, my friend, Khoo Boon How has come up with a new assignment box where the students can submit their assignments ^_^

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Our New Trainer

It is one of those days where I finish early and wait for Lucas and Eugene as they only can go back at 6.30pm. Since training was in progress, I went and join them after work. Eugene was about done as he left with a few more mails but decided to go and join training also. They were trainng webcams. So, Eugene and I went up and join training.

Once in the training room, Daniel just ask Eugene why not try training the new people as Eugene is known as the webcam expert. So Eugene took up the role and I became their modal in the class where he capture picture and video of me to show the class about the webcam software =.=

After training, I wait for Eugene a while then we head back home. The journey home is always good as it is filled with laughters. Before this I remember when Eugene tried driving manual up the sloop and the car roll down in sloop when he tried to do balancing. Hahaha... We laugh non-stop that time. But now he is pro in it. But for tonight, Lucas was driving real fast and Eugene actually scream. Hahaha... He is scare and this is the first time I see it also. Hahaha... Now we know that Eugene is really a slow and cool driver ^_^

Monday, September 29, 2008

Thursday Night

It is not a typical Thursday as we treat it as a Friday night as we are too stress to wait for Friday night. This is our very first Thursday aka Friday night outing. After work, spontaneously we decided to head to the arcade to relax. This is the first time we are heading to the arcade to release stress. We cramp inside Lucas car and head off to Pyramid in Sunway

When we reach Pyramid, it is our usual case of what to eat for dinner. We look at the directory and try to figure what to eat. Susan then say Kim Gary and we head off to Kim Gary. Once we were seated in Kim Gary, we suddenly feel like eating Zen Mai and we think of the cost which is about the same and we just left Kim Gary to go to Zen Mai. Unfortunately we left Zen Mai too as there is no space for 5 people. We were then back to square one where we do not know where to eat. 

Errol was in Pyramid at that time and we decided to look for him and eat at the place where he is eating which is Ole Ole Bali. Since we haven't tried that place before we then head there. We then sat on the floor where it is cramp. I still wonder how people eat sitting on the mat with the table so low. All I know it was my stupid idea to sit at that table and then have leg cramps ever so often. Luckily the others didn't scold me for my dumb idea -_-"

When we look at the menu, our eyes pop out at the price but when the serving came, we understand  the pricing for each order. It is huge and 2 people can share that amount. We ordered 4 dishes where one is fried baby octopus, fish 'n' chips, bbq chicken and one of their local dish. We then ordered one jug of bali lime which taste good as they put in pandan leave also. 

The five of us just ate and ate till we are bloated. It was delicious and filling. We just sat there a while after dinner to digest our delicious dinner. After spliting the bill, we head off to the arcade. We played Initial D 2 and 4 and EZ Dance which is the dance machine. It was fun. Lucas, Susan and Stephen play one of the 3 player challenges game ^_^ while Eugene, Errol and I just compete in Initial D. Lucas was supose to dance but in the end all of us play except him -_-" Eugene is getting pro in the dance ^_^

After playing for an hour, we then head home as we got to work the next day but we feel energize to tackle what is ahead of us the next day ^_^

Friday Night

It is Friday night again but what are we to do besides watching movie??? Pool and Foosball ^_^ It is not something we do normally but just feel like it. Right after work, Lucas drove us over to his house where I took my car ad drove home. We meet up at my house where Lucas park his car there then we went to Asia Cafe in one car.

Friday night the parking in Asia Cafe is crazy. Errol came and join us later on. We had our dinner first before heading up to play pool. When we went up, it was crowded and there was no tables available. We went to the counter and ask how long is the wait and we were lucky as we were the next in line. The last person on the waiting list just got their table. Eugene then change some coins to play foosball while waiting. As we place the second ball in to play, Lucas was called as there was a table for us. Lucas went and book the table first as we finish our foosball game.

When we are done, we head off to the table where Lucas was like training his pool skill -_-" We were scare of him for a while since he has his warm up session. We then pair up and play against each other where Susan and Stephen emerge as the overall winners. Eugene then decide to be cheeky by telling me that Errol wanted to challenge me one on one -_-" I then say we play 9-ball pool. He agree to it and we have our game. It was fun to play thought. Hahaha...Then it started with everyone playing 9-ball pool. 

After a few more rounds, we decided it was time to head home as it was close to midnight. But before we left, we play our last round of foosball ^_^ It was a fun game as I recorded one of their goal scoring session. Hahaha...It is so funny. It was a fun and relaxing night where we unwind after a stressful week at work instead of heading to the movies ^_^

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Lucas's Birthday

It is Lucas's birthday on the 28 August and we took him out to celebrate. Unfortunately he got to work on his birthday ^_^ But it was full of excitement from morning till night. Since we are going out to celebrate Lucas's birthday, we decided to drive to work. I woke up early and pick Eugene then Lucas before heading to work. 

As we pass the Parlimen building to head to Pudu, there was this car that we were trying to figure what happened to it. The driver was driving with the car boot open. As we drove nearer, it was then we realize that the car was badly hit from the back till the boot cannot close. We started to guess what hit the car or the car hit something till it is that badly damage. Besides that, we took a detour that day also and we came across this signboard which I feel is funny.

We then reach the office early. We then went down for breakfast before we start work. It was kinda fun at work as Eugene inform our manager, Edward that it is Lucas's birthday today. Edward then send an email to everyone in the department to wish Lucas happy birthday. The fun part was Edward insert a picture of Luke Skywalker in the email. Hahahahaha... Lucas is also known as Luke Skywalker in the department ^_^

Time flies and without realizing it, it is time to clock out of work ^_^ We then head off to Time Square to celebrate Lucas birthday. When we reach time square, we were wondering what to eat. It took us a while before we went to Dome Cafe for dinner. We look through the menu and we start to order our meal. Lucas, Eugene and Susan ordered seafood pasta while Jess ordered Fish 'N' Chips. I had something like kunyit chicken while Stephen had Catch of the Day. 

All the food was delicious. We had a fun meal. Eugene was telling us that he is known as 'Sucker King' -_-" I know. It is not the work sucker but he can suck the prawn out of its shell. He did it not once, not twice but three times. Then he challenge Lucas who fail badly in it. Lucas kept trying but didn't once manage to suck the prawn clean from its shell. 

Once dinner was over, we surprise Lucas with a slice of cake. We sang him the birthday song and light the candle for him. Once he blow of the candle, we just took the cake away and buried the candle. He was then asked to use his mouth to take the candle out of the cake. As he was taking the candle out, Jess went and press his face down into the cake. Ouch...she didn't do it once but twice as Lucas take a longer time to take the candle out. But in the end, he did manage to take it out and we all share that slice of cake but no one dare to eat the top of the cake.

After a wonderful meal top with the cake as the dessert, we then decide to either go for bowling or karaoke. In the end, we went to the bowling alley as we cannot stay long in karaoke and it is not worth it. We play 2 rounds where we split into 2 teams. The first round it was individual scoring while the second round was team scoring. For the individual round, we can see Lucas and Eugene competing among each other as their score were close. In the second round, it was a clear cut on who is the winner. The team was split where Lucas, Eugene and me are in one team while Susan, Stephen and Jess are in the other team. 

Throughout the whole game, we had fun and laugh a lot at how weird each and everyone of us can be. In the end of the day, we achieve what we want to do which is to celebrate Lucas birthday and let him have a fun time while we too have fun with him ^_^ We had so much fun that we didn't realize it was close to midnight when we are done. We then head home as we have to work the next day except for Susan and Stephen -_-" It is their day off the next day. But we had fun and we are looking forward to the next person's birthday which I do not know who.

Lucas Style of Crossing the Road

It was one of those days where me, Eugene and Lucas would car pool to work. Since it was spontaneous, we haven't apply for season parking pass yet so we have to park at the open car park opposite our office. Every morning without fail, there would be so many cars that it is hard to cross the road. We just have to be either fast or run across as on coming cars are speeding towards us. 

Unfortunately for this morning, we got stuck in the middle of the road and not the divider. What Eugene and I did was just run as the car was speeding towards us. Lucas didn't move but stood there. It was quite a funny site as we watch him standing there where there are cars passing him in front and at the back. 

It took him a while before he manage to cross the road and he was real cool when he cross like 'Pro cross-er' ^_^

Saturday, August 23, 2008

The Fish

Lunch as usual would be a headache as we do not know where to eat for lunch. Since it rain in the morning, it is consider a "No" to eat at the cafeteria. This is because the food had extra incrediant from the rain water.

Since we are on training still, we are able to go for lunch together. Once training is over and we are all on the floor taking calls, we would all end up either take-away our lunch or be eating alone. In other words, we would all be having lunch separately except for those in the e-mail team.

Today we decided to go to the cafe near the office. Since there was 7 of us, we had to go upstairs to seat as downstairs only provide table for 4 people. We sat down and look at the menu. There are a lot of variety of meat, fish and seafood to go with white rice and a drink. Besides that, there are fried noodles and soup, cakes and snacks. 

Occassionally they have special meal set like Mutton Rendang set and Nasi Kunyit set. But that day there is no special set so I ordered Nyonya Curry Chicken with rice. Eric too ordered Nyonya Curry Chicken with rice. Lucas  called Mushroom Chicken with rice while Daniel had Manchuian Chicken with rice. Dave decided on Sweet and Sour Chicken with rice and Amzar ordered a bowl of noodles which I forgot which noodle.

Jess was the special one as she ordered Sweet and Sour Fish with rice where they serve her with a whole fish. I can't believe RM7.50 for a whole fish. I thought they would serve a slice or those fish slices but no, this one serve the entire fish. This is unbelievable. 

Overall, lunch was nice but I regret that I didn't order the fish. I should order the fish next time as it is worth it. A whole fish for less than RM10 and served with rice, vegetable and a drink. 

Monday, August 18, 2008

Fruits Day!!!

Every Monday and Wednesday is Fruit's Day here at work. Normally there would be bananas, apples, pears and sometimes grapes. Today when the fruit basket arrive in the pantry, there was only green apples and bananas. Susan went to the pantry to get the fruits. When we saw the fruits, we then head off to the pantry to get some fruits. I went and help myself to 2 bananas. They are huge compare to normal.

Eugene went and help himself to 2 bananas and an apple while I took for Amzar 2 apples and a banana. Eugene was doing his mail at that time but when he saw what I took for Amzar, I think the gears in his brain started to work. He then make his master piece of art with those fruits. The end result??? There is nothing to say about it but would be shown in the picture below -_-"

 

************************************************************************************

Since I drove to work today, I gave Amzar a lift home as he has to take his game consoles home and also he wasn't feeling well. Lucas came along too. Eugene couldn't go home as his mails are not done yet. It seems unfair as there would be those seniors who are done early with minimal mails while Eugene who is new got stuck with the harder mails and in a big bulk. 

On the way home, we were stuck in the jam. Lucas was cursing non-stop. This is the first time I see him cursing so much and also so aggitated. He couldn't sit still and was restless. I wonder why??? Before this he told us that he is meeting his friend for dinner. It was later we know that he was meeting a girl for dinner. No wonder he was work up over the jam. Unfortunately for him, Amzar took a video or a recording on Lucas while I was driving Amzar home. 

After dropping Amzar off, I rush to get to Petaling Jaya before 8.30pm. I then went for speed where Lucas freak out. It was funny. I hit 150kmph in Kesas and Lucas was like whoa... but I couldn't maintain it as there was cars blocking me -_-" But it was a short trip and fast one. I think Lucas has a trip of his life and he would be thinking twice before he tell me to speed ^_^

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Friday Night

It is a Friday!!! A day before the weekend ^_^ Hahaha...My colleague have been planning a movie night again. This time we are going to watch Wall-E. Unfortunately the tickets were fully booked when we did an online booking as we did kinda last minute planning. So we went and buy the tickets on Thursday. We bought the tickets for Wall-E at 8.30pm in Pavillion. 

On Friday, we were all stuck in the office till close to 7pm as Eugene haven't finish his mails. Once he was done, we have to wait for Jess who went to reheat her dinner. She is on a vegetable diet on Friday. Once she was ready, we went downstairs where we split into 2 cars. We did the splitting easily. We have 2 sets of couple and 4 so-called single people. So the couple all go in one car while the so-called single went in my car ^_^ We then head to Pavillion where there was not a jam from our office.

Once we reach Pavillion, the problem starts. Parking!!! It took us a while before we got a parking. Coincidentally when we found a parking, we saw Jess in the car with her boyfriend, Jason eating dinner. Eugene was acting cute and innocent again and say that they are making out in the car after their meal that was why they drop Susan and Stephen first. The finding for a parking space eats up our time and when we head to the food court, it was close to 8pm and the movie is at 8.30pm.

Susan and Stephen had already found a spot to sit and was waiting for us. When we reach, we took turns to go order our dinner. I was second last to order while Lucas was the last. We then sat and ate our meal. We took our time as we know there is a commecial for about 15 minutes so we can afford to be late 15 minutes from the time stated on the tickets. Lucas was in a hurry as he ate in full speed in his serious face. We were all shocked when he finish while we were all still drinking our drinks. 

Once we were done, we head up to the cinema. Amzar and Stephen were missing as Eugene play a prank and told them it was in cinema 7 when it was in cinema 3 -_-" But luckily it didn't cause much trouble. When we went in, there was a short film on a magician and the bunny. It was funny. When it ended bout 5 minutes later, Eugene announce that the movie is over we can go home now ^_^ I really wonder. Eugene is so cute and innocent with the way he talk. A joker but not really one -_-" 

Wall-E started after the short film. It is not that interesting but there are hidden meaning in it. The story is basically about how polluted our earth is with the rubbish being dispose by us. The rubbish then pile up till so high that no humans can live on earth anymore. All humans were leaving on a space ship which was made like earth but the life-style is so robotic as you do not need to move much. The humans on the ship was over-weight till they do not know how to walk. Besides that, they do not talk to one another face-to-face but over the video phone -_-" I think one day we would be like that too. Wall-E main job is to clear the rubbish left behind by humans. But one day there was another robot send to earth to look for plants. If the plant is located, it means it is time for the human in space to return to earth. But the auto-pilot of the space ship refuse to let them go back to earth. 

It seems that Amzar and Eugene fell asleep during the movie where Eugene scored the most by sleeping 3 time throughout the movie ^_^ For me, it was a nice movie but slightly boring as not much excitement for me. But what to do, I went to watch it the second time but realize it is actually not bad.

Training On Gaming Devices

My job scope requires me to have knowledge on all the products being sold by the company. I have gone through their control devices, like mouse and keyboard, wireless DJ (not sold in Malaysia), webcams, audio and gaming devices. Besides that, I'm also required to be trained on 2 other products not sold in Malaysia but are launching in countries like Australia and New Zealand.

Last week I had my training for gaming devices before I go for my final week training on a security wireless cameras. During the gaming training, we did our usual theory on the gaming products before we do a hands-on where we play with the product and get to know the product better. Due to that, the products we are selling are also supporting game consoles like PS1/2/3, XBox/ Xbox360 and etc.  

Due to that, I have a colleague who owns a PS3, XBox360 and also a Wii. I do not know how come but he actually won one of it from lucky draw. How lucky he is. He was kind to bring his PS3 and his XBox360 for us to do testing on. Besides that, he brought some nice games too so that we can have some lay-off time from training and just relax. 

In the end, we did learn a lot and to see if the products are compatible or not. If there is a problem with it, we are to trouble-shoot the issues as we are sure to have customer who face the same issue. This would actually make our life easier as we are aware of the problems and we can give the customers the best customer service when they call in to ask for technical support.

During our last day of training, we had more fun then usual. Lucas was having so much fun playing the XBox360 that he didn't realize that he was being filmed or pictures being taken. It was a fun time. Amzar, who is the owner of the game consoles was also kind as he lend me his PS3 to play at home and also his Xbox360 to Eugene to play. We have fun during training as we get to learn new things and also have fun playing with the products.

Friday, August 08, 2008

Movie Night with Colleagues

After such a long time finally a colleague of mine, Lucas arrange a movie night. He has arrange to watch The Mummy 3. I suggested we go to Pavilion to watch as it is close to our work place. In the end, I did the ticket booking at GSC Pavilion to watch the movie at 7.30pm. 

On Monday, me and Lucas drove to work. On the way, I pick Eugene from his home and meet Lucas at Kelana Jaya station before driving to work as Lucas doesn't know the way to the office. We reach the office at 8am and we went for breakfast at the cafeteria. 

After breakfast we went up to the office to start work. For me, I have training for the day as usual and would end at 6.30pm. The tickets have to be collected 45 minutes before time. That was the stressful thing the whole day. But somehow, we manage to overcome that. Eugene and Sufian helped me and they went to Pavilion to collect the tickets first.

At 6.30pm, we left the office and head off to Pavilion fearing the jam but there was no jam. We were very happy and head off to Pastamania to have dinner. It is a pasta outlet where Amzar introduce which serve good pasta and it was good. We had our dinner there with no worries as there is 15 minutes of commercial before they play the movie. 

We were not late for the movie after dinner. The movie was good. The storyline was a bit too short as they could have make the action part longer. The part where Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh fight, it could have been longer too as it was too short. But it was ok for the movie as I was with good companions ^_^ After the movie we then head home as we got to work the next day.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Bangkok Jazz

The day finally arrive where we are forced to close. Today is the last day for us. We spend the morning packing and taking pictures then in the afternoon in our new department. It is sad we are to split but we are always part of the DLinkers ^_^ After work, we gather together and had dinner at Bangkok Jazz.
I followed Emma to Bangkok Jazz after work. When we reach there, half of the people were there but there were still people missing. During this occasion, Eddie, my manager, called Micah, our big boss for dinner too. At 8pm sharp, Eddie called Micah to see if he is coming as they want to start dinner first as we are to relocate to the pub downstairs after dinner. Micah asked us to go ahead first. At that time, our 'Dial-up' hasn't arrive yet.
What we did was we kept some for him and waited for him. When he arrive, we called him 'Dial-up'. Hahaha...Dinner was satisfying and filling. There were lots of food and it just kept coming. When I first sat down, they served me a glass of fruit punch. It was then followed by a glass of sky juice and a glass of either sprite or coke. When they start dinner, appetizer was served. At first was the fried dishes followed by Kelabu mango. After that, we were served each a bowl of Tom Yam Prawn. Damn...the prawn is huge. The waiter then served us rice to go with the soup. I thought that was all. After the prawn, there were otak-otak. Once after that, there were green curry chicken, sweet sour fried fish, mix vegetable, beancurd and the naked duck.
I was lucky as I was seated between the guys so I can still push the food over to their side to finish them ^_^ After the main course meal, we were so blotted that we still have to eat dessert. The dessert was Mango pudding which was fantastic. I can not forget how it taste. The pulut was nice and not too sweet while the mango was sweet. We then took some pictures after dinner. Micah came as dessert was served ^_^
Once we were done for dessert, we head down to the pub to have our drinks. They had prepared 4 bottles that night. We had drinks and there was music. We had the whole area to dance and do anything we wanted. It was cool. We then talk about lots of things. The best joke was Silan. He told us something that happen at work. Sorry I can't share it here as it is among the DLinkers only.

It was after a while, Noreen was the only one dancing. It was then Silan who asked to change to Tamil song when he and Ramesh came dancing. I can't forget the sight. It was funny. That was like the ice breaker as everyone started to dance. Jordan was like a snipper gun as he took so many shots which non of us expected ^_^ At the same time, Adi asked me over as Micah felt like playing pool and they came and asked me to play with him. Unfortunately, there was no center near by which we know of so it was cancelled.
We then continue drinking and dancing and chatting. Besides that, we continue taking pictures too. At the end of the event, we took our last group picture before heading home. I was lucky as Damon promise to send me home ^_^ Hahaha...but before we head home, we visited Monica and pass her the take away since we can't finish the food. We then visit Monica and went for mamak near her office in Technology Park. We just sat there and chat till it was like 1am before we all head back. Some of us got to work the next day while some would be on holiday till they start their next job. It is sad but we had fun. But there is one thing we know is, once a DLinker is always a DLinker ^_^ Going to miss all of them a lot but we still can organize events and be wild and crazy ^_^