MIA huh?

apoligize me for being MIA again. I'm in no mood of working and typing lately, hence the less communcation with other beings..

today is thursday and tomorrow is friday. my last working day for the year 2008. next week i'll be kicking off my 2-week break.

as i mention earlier, i'm stil in the lazy mode. i'll compile and update later..

A-must experience for someone who have a government-servant parents is the frequent move from a place to another. Ask around and u'll see that at least their family had move once before due to their parents' posting. For my case, it is my father (my mum would then followed him up). Wanna know how many time have we moved? The answer is 6.

My dad has been a gov servant for 25 years. Yes, the same duration as my age. I was born couple of months after my parents came back home from Porthmouth, England where my dad got his degree from. During that time, there was only a handful of Malaysian scholars overseas and being one, jobs were laid out in front of them before they graduated. So, right after he's back, he landed a job in JKR (Dpmt of Works) and has been there til now.

I can't remember much about moving 6 times, mostly I guess coz I was little when we moved, hence did little part of packing and re-organizing. The 1st place we stayed was in Tmn Permata, KL. We then moved to Subang Jaya, Selangor where my parents bought a house there. At 4, we moved to Seremban, Negeri Sembilan and I went for pre-school there and of course, my sis were born there.

Later on, the whole family moved back to Subang when my dad was stationed to TUDM Subang so lucky for me, I started my fresh Standard 1 there. We stayed in Subang for about 4 years when my dad is relocated again to Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu. I was a bit reluctant coz it's almost end of school year for me and I didnt want to just move school but i had to tag along no matter what. I was enrolled to SRSS1 in KT at the end of Year 4. We stayed for a while here although we actually lived in 2 different houses during that duration.

Next stop was Kota Bharu, Kelantan. At this time, I was in Form 2 and I opted for the school's dorm since my parents said it's better for me to just stay. I finished my Form 3 here and later changed school to MJSC Taiping (my family were in Kelantan all the while). After I'm done with my SPM, we moved to the location where we currently are - Putrajaya. So far, we've been here for 8 years. Yup, we're among the first settlers in Putrajaya when the town were opened. I think my dad will probably stay here until his retirement. He still has 5 years to go. Of course, Putrajaya is the place where my mum loves to stay the most (the most dreadful was Kelantan). So she wont mind sticking here as long as it permits. But I know in the end, we would all move back to Subang.. not sure when..

Among all the places I've been, Terengganu is the best. I dont really know why, but it has got to be the place with abundant precious memories I have. I picked up the language and I got tonnnesss of friends. Ask me about going anywhere in Kuala Terengganu, I can show u the way. Even Terengganu-nians thought I'm local when I talked to them! LOL!

Anyway, I will definitely miss Terengganu and of course Malaysia when I'm away for the next 2 years..

Suddenly I find myself hooked up to this song.. Jiwang karat la plak..

Spoon-Rindu Serindu Rindunya

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Berikanlah jawapan

Huraikanlah simpulan

Biar tenang jiwaku

Setelah kasih lama berlalu

Tidak mungkin kulupa

Perjanjian kita

Di bawah rumpun bambu

Di kala bulan sedang beradu oh..oh..

Mengapa terjadi perpisahan ini

Di kala asmara melebar sayapnya

Mengapa kau pergi di saat begini

Di kala hatiku terlukis namamu

Kalau memang tiada jodoh

Apa lagi nak ku heboh

Aku malu pada teman

Pada semua

(C/o)

Rindu ... rindu serindu rindunya

Namun engkau tak mengerti oh...oh

Pilu ... pilu sepilu pilunya

Namun engkau tak perduli

Malu ... semalu malunya

Namun apa daya orang tak sudi

Mahu ... semahu mahunya

Namun apa daya orang dah benci

Berikanlah jawapan

Huraikanlah simpulan

Biar tenang jiwaku

Aku malu

Bad & Good

this has been long due..

I've been sick for the past week. It's a bit weird coz i normally be sick for a day or two without the need of any medication. So after getting cough & cold and evening fever, i went to see the doctor. U see, I'm a bit lazy to go to the doc so i went to the pharmacy to buy the medicine instead. So, I ended up getting scolded by the nice Dr. Tee (@ Ng Polyclinic) and received 5 types of medication.. huhuu. Oh yeah, my temperature at that time was 38.8 degree-Celcius (mind that normal body temperature is 37 degree).. nice..

Next, I'm carless for a week now.. dunno when i'll get my car back. To make the story short, I banged into other people's car and i'm getting my insurance to pay both of the cars *sigh*. Gone my NCB so I will need to pay RM2000 for my insurance renewal next year..

One happy thing happened earlier is that I got my English req waived by UNSW and I already got the unconditional offer letter! yezza! Now left to send my resign. letter, get my med check up and submit to MARA to get the sponsorship letter. Quite jealous wth my sis since she already got her Oz PR! She's officially an Oz Oi! Oi! Oi! I'm determined to get mine after I finished my 2-year Masters there!! Cha-yok!

Holiday season is nearing and I've got sooooo many things planned.. hehee.. Coming up soon --> trip to Taiping (this week), Kelantan (Dec), Singapore (Dec) and Indonesia (Dec)!! Then off to Oz in Feb!!

What have i done..

1- Mangrove Tree Planting @ Sg Sembilang , Juru

Before 'membanting tulang', we exercised first..
Our 'field'.. See those baby trees there? Now that's the mangrove tree.
Ein passing the tree through the 'human chain'.

Me on the job.

2- JKR Putrajaya Family Day @ Genting. Just our loafing pics..

The longest & fastest cable car in the South East Asia.. 3.4km going from the bottom of the hill, all the way to Highland Hotel.

back from MIA.. hehee

So I'm back after long break of Raya. Didnt hv a lot of chance to update the blog since I've a lot of work-catching up to do..

Ramadhan has ended and we're now in the month of Syawal. I went back to Johore for Raya (as usual) and as expected, there are a lot of new faces.. this year I got upclose to 2 little toddlers (1 actually, another 1 cant walk yet).. got a pic with one of them.. LOL cm mak budak!

This is Mohd Iz Aiman.. comei giler!

During Ramadhan, I got the chance to go to Nisa's house in Ipoh. One of the night, the whole area was in blackout. So we had to resort to our 'romantic' candle-light dinner.. On the menu was homemade Chicken Rice and plenty of kuih :)

My! I wasted, Ok maybe invested is more suitable, a lot of money! See..

Before Raya = I bought 2 pairs of shoes and get a haircut which ended up lousy (at least i got the shoes to make me happy!)

Me with un-happy hair.. too layered..

After Raya, I got myself another pair of shoe (hehe!) and colored my hair! These 2 pics were after I went for dinner with a bunch of frens.. not so obvious ehh??

Now this is the real pic at the salon.. My hair is R.e.D (gosh.. how on earth am i going back to Putrajaya after this??)

I hv combed the 'puffiness' on top of my head prior going to the dinner.. I hvnt seen my hair under the sun yet..

Red.. red.. red...

Eid 1429H

To my gentle readers,

I wish U all

Eid Mubarak!

May U hv a Blessed Syawal..

p/s: Updates.. I'm pretty much fixed on going to UNSW for my Masters.. now is time to persuade my sis to take MCommerce instead of MBusiness.. so she would go to UNSW or USydney instead with me.. hehee

Next blog update is after Eid..

School & Work

whoa! i've rest from my blog for more than 2 weeks! Pardon me! Well, honestly not many stuff happens for the past 16 days.. but I hv good news to share. Hmm maybe it's good yet end up confusing me..

As most of people know, I'll be pursuing my Masters next year in Oz. I've applied for entrance to multiple Uni - RMIT, MelbourneU and Uni of New South Wales (UNSW). I will submit my app for Aust National Uni (ANU) tomorrow. SO far, I got accepted to all 3 Uni I applied except for UNSW which I have to take IELTS to convert the offer letter to Unconditional. Now, 1 things that's been playing in my mind now is WHERE TO GO. Problem rises due to 2 main facts - MelbU only offers Telecomm Eng for Masters by COursework while all other 3 offer me u-electronics which I opt for; and of course, Uni preference conflict with my sis who's taking MBA.

Some people might ask, what's the prob rite? Just choose what i want. But what i want is not that simple. U see, I like Melbourne and I'm in love-hate (more to hate, i guess) r'ship with Sydney and dont really mind of Canberra. Of course, I would enjoy it more if my sis were there. Then, comes to my sis. The rank of our Uni clashes. Best Eng Uni (MelbU) doesnt offer MBA for students w/o business b'gnd, but she has the opt to go to RMT. 2nd in rank for Eng is UNSW, followed by ANU. And guess what, the best in rank for Business is ANU. I'm not sure if UNSW offers her. So my sis is 'quite firm' with her choice of either RMIT or ANU (higher preference is ANU). But ANU is on the lowest rank of my Uni!!!! Argghhh!!

Next update in line is the fact that I might need to go back to Putrajaya late then expected for Raya break due to work urgency. Might be bck on Sunday instead of Friday.. unless i can finish things up this w'end and next week.. Man.. talk about my lack of motivation to work nowdays.. huhuuu

Those are pretty much it for now. I shall go to IDP and have some chat on the decisions i should make for my Uni tomorrow. After that, off to work. Now i need to get some sleep.. zZzzZzzzz...

1st Impression.. of Intel. Back in 2006

i think it's too late to write this topic but a recent blog triggers me.. this topic is kinda interesting..

dress code - my 1st day in intel - July 17th, '06. The 1st person I saw back then was my hiring manager, CH Kok. He looked sporting and nice but the thing I realized the most was his attire. He was wearing a windbreaker, a collared-T, light blue jeans and sneakers! I felt seriously overdressed with my shirt, tailored pants and handbag. huhuu. But i quickly embraced this casual dress code here on my 2nd day and it's fun. I dont need to think of what to wear and what to buy. Simply b'coz i can recycle my college wardrobe (not that i brought back a lot from the States!) and there is no need to spend gizzilion of $$ to buy new work stuff. Some people stil cant believe that an engineer wears T, jeans and sneakers to work LOL!

parking - Since i met him outside of intel campus, i have to drive to KM2. Unfortunately for me, it's past 9am and i hv to park at 'the end of the world'. Gosh! there is a designated parking for new hires?? Of course there was none, but i vowed not to come late to office to avoid having to walk long distance to the office. Now i roughly arrived at the office arnd 7.40am to get the best spot! hehee. Frm observation, I feel grateful that our carpark is directly in front of the building entrance. I saw a lot of factories have carparks away and behind the buildings..

Cubicle - simply known as 'cube'. It's designed to be shared by 4 people. roughly about 12x12 but i'm sooo lucky that i have the whole space on my own! The not-good-thing is that it's next to the main walkway of the floor. Everybody can see what u were doing. LOL! White countertop with blue-light green stripe wall.. pretty dull for me.. Of course, my wall 'deco' was up at no time. Now i'm in single cube at KM3 and i can put anything i want here.. No one really bothers. Humans walking arnd here are people with cubicle the same row as me.

Acronyms - Wow! GPTW, BKM, APAC, TDE, TMG, ATTD. I wondered how the heck am i going to remember all of these. Thnx a lot to my x-buddy to introduce me to Intel Acronyms Library (now we use Intelpedia) to 'get to know' those extensively used acronyms.. especially in the meeting.. My 1st staff meeting, i ended up copying down all those terms in confusion..

Old vs new gen - I still think the most happening team i had was my 1st team - MCPD (Modular Comm Pltfm Div). Not much difference btwn the so-called old people and new people. Both are young at heart ; )

multiple ehh??

i just realized.. i've been writing multiple entries since yesterday. does it means fasting days == multiple entries?? it makes it obvious that i'm bored at work LOL! anyway, here's another one and it's only 9.23am in the morning. oh gosh! how the heck can i survive another 7 hours???

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I havent contacted any of my intern people for more than a year. Last contact was when one of them SMS me for Raya open house last year but i neither replied or went. but on my way back last Monday night, i suddenly remembered them and sent Ramadhan greeting SMS to 2 of them, my senior engineer (SE) and my supervisor (SV). i didnt expect my SV to reply or anything coz i know he normally switched off his work phone out of office time. my SE did response and i was really shocked to see that he still remember that i am working in Kedah! well, he didnt texted me back again coz I only texted him later after i've arrived in Ipoh (an hour later) and i guessed he went for Tarawikh already.

So yesterday, suddenly my SV called!! he said, he was picking up Shah Alam (a sub-con which I knew during my intern) to do some house work on Monday evening and he asked him whether he remembered me and he said Yes! Oddly, he was reminded of me. hehee. Coincidently later, I texted him the same night but he was on his way to the mosque already. Hence the phone call yesterday. hahaha! Pity him, he's pretty stressful with his current project.. Aihh.. i'm pretty stressful myself with current events happening around me..

A phone call from my intern supervisor made me re-think what i wanna do for my Masters.. do I want to proceed with Electronics or switch totally to Power.. i know if i switch to power, i wont regret it but i'm afraid that i'll find difficulties when i want to search for jobs later. i have a Masters but i dont hv any related experience.. it'll be like starting from square 1 back. If i stay in current field, it might be a bit ease but I know somewhere along the line, the regression will appear.. i've always wanna go into construction and consulting.. so now how???

Avril The Best Damn Asia Tour 2008

Here are some pics of the concert. Most of the things i took were videos.. Interestingly, Avril succeed in 'silencing' the certain'censored' words in her lyrics.. heheee

What u see after the concert was massive amount of trashes everywhere.. Malaysians are still low in civic mind..

updates for the week..

1- today is 2nd day of fasting & 1st day of work.. as usual == MondayTuesday blues

2- Avril's concert was so-so. I dont feel any "Wow" factor there. Maybe due to the fact that i'm sitting far away from the stage (not in front of it which cost RM300+). Will post up pics later.

3- my car suddenly died yesterday at my aunt's place when i was getting ready to drive back to Kulim. not sure why i didnt think of jump-starting the car on my own. i actually waited for my dad to come.. hmmm

4- Days of X sulking = 3 days.. [Updates = He's not sulking anymore, I think.. called him last night and it woke him up from sleep. He talked as usual..].

and i wonder..

I hv been absent-minded and out of focus lately. I think I think too much of unnecessary things that my brain simply goes haywire : (

Somebody told me that I've been forgotten. Btul2 reminds me of old Malay saying, "Habis madu, sepah dibuang". Of course it hurts but i cant change the fact that that person, X, has left the biggest ever mark in my life. And by doing so, erasing that person out of my mind requires extreme measurements which i dont think i am capable of. For now, i cant talk to X since X is shutting everybody off (mood swings laa) even the parents and surrounding friends. Actually, i could give X a call, but i just dont dare to. Kang kene sembur tak pasal2.. I felt guilty coz I was the last person to speak with X on Saturday before the sudden mood swing. Makes me wonder whether I am the reason behind.

Then again, I am shocked why I am giving too much thought on this.. maybe i'm holding too much on X.. i need to release my own grasp.. Please someone rescue me..

i need a rest

Honestly, i'm in no mood for working. It's Friday. A lot of people are gone for their teambuilding. My mind is thinking of going back to to Putrajaya tonite..

Actually, a lot of stuff has been racing in my mind lately. My Uni applications.. my decision on my course.. my aching body due to the teambuilding yesterday.. my soon-resignation(?).. money.. my so-mundane life..

I feel so tired now I swear I could sleep for the whole day. I think I need it. I havent rest since my Redang trip last 2 weeks.. Everyday since were full of avtivities and the most I slept I get since I's back in Kulim was ~5 hours.. even the toally-unconscious 14-hour sleep after BTN was not enough to cover back. Ehh? terasa cm sleep addicted plak. LOL! Hence, my plan for the w'end is to SLEEP.

I hv to drive back again later this evening.. Well, at least I got Avril's concert to look forward to today. Hope I'll enjoy it :D

Redang.. part 2

Thnx to my Card Reader, i dont need the cable (the cable wasnt compatible anyway) :D This time, I didnt take a lot of pics coz most of my xtvts are snorkelling and fishing. I just realized that I only have couple of pics with me in it! LOL!

1st thing i saw when i reached Redang Jetty was this.

Then Man's mum. huhuu.

This is how the new village looks like. This is the 3rd movement of the village. Right now it's in the middle of the island. Originally it was called as 'Water Village' due to the placement above water at the Jetty. Original settlement location.Most importantly, why i went there. To meet my frens..

Man & Me.. haa this is "adik Redang" for those who wanna know..

Ela, Mat & Me = interestingly we r 19, 33 and 25 by age.. believe it??

My 2nd 'home' there.. their boat

Fishes everywhere..

According to him, "scared of me drowning".. duhhh! Ckp jek la nk msk gambo.. kn senang.

View from Teluk Pandan.. I could just sit there and be lost for hours.. All the stresses are gone..
From first glance, u cant see the village from the Jetty. It's located about 3km from the beach. It's the midpoint between the Jetty and Berjaya Resort. I couldnt believe that there are actually cars, lorries on the island; even a road!.. hehee soo skeptical but of course, now i believe it since i've ride all meants of transportation there from motorbikes to lorries.

Maybe this is my ultimate place to relax in M'sia. I will definitely come again. Even now there are no more time, my target is to get diving licence in Oz next year so that all of us would be able to go diving (all 3 of them has diving licence) in my next trip :D

yoshh chayokk!

Going to miss this place, hope to c u guys again!

i'm backk!!!!

I'm back after ~2 weeks break!!!! well, not really a break but Out of Office more likely since i still hv to work. For those who didnt know or simply lazy to read my previous posts => I went to Redang for 5 days (16-20).. then to BTN Camp for 5 days (21-25).. Today is 26th..

Since i came straight to work from Putrajaya this morning, i'll post more updates and photos tomorrow (provided Olympus camera cable = Sony camera cable).. if not, hv to wait until next week..

'nuff said..