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Sunday, 15 November 2009

MuMu's Farewell

It was my colleague's farewell. A really great person whom I have gained quite a knowledge from.

The biochem staffs decided to hold her a farewell party.

Took the opportunity to take the picture of the biochem lab

Had another farewell party back in the office the following day.

This guy in the middle is a terror! Haha. He bullies me whenever he sees me. Despite that, he is really a nice person.

Wednesday, 04 November 2009

I've been bz bz like a bumblee bee. Lame. Really though, I have lots of things to learn with so limited time. For the past few days, I was visiting hospitals for work purpose and also, been attending training workshop conducted by a application specialist who flew all the way from Milan. Tomorrow will be my last day of this particular training. There are still two more upcoming trainings which are due very soon too. After all said, I'm pleased to tell you that I'm liking my scope of work. For now, that is.
Later in the evening, me and my colleague will be bringing the application specialist to try out local food such as satay and ambuyat. Hopefully, that would not be too challenging for him. Because when we had chinese food for lunch earlier, it seemed pretty challenging for him. He didn't touch a single rice.

Monday, 26 October 2009

The Continuation of my 24th

Saturday, 24 October 2009

I'm just done typing my resignation letter. My heart feels so heartbroken. Honestly, I don't know if I have made the right decision. Today, all doubts went rushing into my head again. I was asked these questions by my colleague and boss respectively. What if you end up regretting joining the company and what if the values of the company are different from your own values? And I said...I have thought about thoroughly. Mentally drew out the pros and cons. And eventually, I still take that risks of leaving my current company. If i don't end up feeling happy or regret, I will bear all the consequences because I made that decision. And what I'll be missing most is my colleagues. Three weeks are enough to create that bond between us and that is also sufficient enough to leave an impact on me.

Friday, 23 October 2009

My 24th Birthday

It took me quite alot of courage to tell my boss that I'm leaving the company. Yes, I have finally made up my mind. I couldn't find any reasons not to accept the offer from the other company. When I had to tell my boss that I'm leaving, I felt so bad. I couldn't say anything else except sorry. Sigh.

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

I received a phone which probably came a few months too late. If only the phone call came a few months earlier, then decision making would have been easier. I was offered a job. I thought i was quite settled in this current company already until a better offer came along. I would be lying if I were to say that for a moment, I didn't think of leaving my current company. My deadline is supposedly today. I was asked for my final decision but I couldn't make up my mind so I requested for extra time to reconsider the whole thing. So I guess for now, I would really need to sit down and really think through.

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

This is only my 2nd week in my job and there are so many stories told to me by my colleagues. It's somewhat like office politics. If you're wondering how I'm coping with my work... well so far so good i guess except for the politics bit and that one of my colleagues is leaving in a month time but other than that, for now, I think i am liking my job. My job mainly requires me to deal with government departments and hospital so most of the time, I'm dealing with the head of dept, scientists and doctors. Usually, I'm required to go overseas for training on the application of the biotechnology equipments and eventually, train the end users on how to use the application. In short, I'm somewhat like a pharmaceutical representative except that I deal with biotechnology equipments and not medicine and that I have to train people.

Saturday, 10 October 2009

I have been really busy with work lately and thus, the lack of updates. Call me superstitious but I do believe that this year is not a good year for those who are born in the year of Ox. Everything hasn't been smooth sailing for me this year. There were many obstacles along the way especially the work permit process bit. If you remember that in my previous entry, I did mention about visiting one of the temples in Singapore. After stepping out of the temple, I somewhat felt better...felt as if everything would be ok. And it so happened to be true. When I got back to Brunei, everything became better as in my work permit was finally done.

And yesterday, I had a pretty bad day because :
1) Someone made me angry
2) My colleague who is supposed to work side by side with me told me that he would be leaving the company. And he is very well liked by everyone in the company. A great person, I would say.
3) I somewhat screwed up my work stuffs
4) I almost got into an accident. I could have possibly died from it. No kidding.
5) I had a very bad diarrhoea in the evening. And i felt bad because my parents had to skip their dinner just to rush me to see a doc.

Sigh...

Sunday, 04 October 2009

They say that it's important to get along well with your bf's buddies. To be honest, I don't really see that as a crucial thing. As in sure it will be excellent if I like them and vice versa. But if I don't happen to like them initially...I most probably will give it a try again next time in the hope of salvaging the friendship. And after the 2-3 times of meeting up, if I still don't like them it means I'm never going to like them ever !!!

Sad to say this but I did end up not liking these particularly 3 friends of his. And I will tell you why.

- They didn't in any ways make me feel comfortable when we first met each other.
- They were not exactly very friendly
- They talk c*ck sing song almost every seconds, mins of the conversation.
- They make me feel that they will die if they were to talk about anything that's more meaningful and resourceful.
- They are 30+ years old people yet they talk and act like 10 years old. Ehh..i am serious ok. Not making things up. One of them is even a father of two already.
- One of them thinks that he is damn great, the other one thinks that he is darn rich and the last one thinks HSBC is the best bank in the world because he works there. In short, Pathetic.
- They are full of nonsense. Too much.
- They secure every chance they have just to 'suan' you. 'Suan' in Hokkien means saying something just to embarrass you.

So my close friends, trust me when I say that you won't like them 3. You will probably feel like punching and kicking them as much as I do right now. You will probably be cursing them like there is no tomorrow like I was doing earlier.

I have made it a point to not sit with any of those 3 at any friend's wedding dinner. If i really have no choice but to sit with them, then sit i shall. However, I promise myself that if they are still 10 years old kid trapped in a full grown body of a man that I met few months ago, I will get up and leave.

Thursday, 01 October 2009

I breathed out a sigh of relief when my boss told me that my work trip to Austria which was supposedly be in October is now postponed to next year January or February. Sure it will be great to go Austria as soon as possible. I was really looking forward to it but then again, my boyfriend's brother's wedding falls in October and I'm really looking forward to that too. Initially, I thought that there is a chance that i wouldn't be attending the wedding dinner but looking the situation right now, it is very unlikely to happen. Just two weeks ago, my bf's very-soon-to-be-sister-in-law asked for my help during her wedding day. My responsibility? Damn important and big one wei...and that's to collect Ang paos at the wedding reception. I'm now smiling with pride :D.

p.s: I'm actually very bored at work so I chose to just blog about anything that i could think of. To actually feel less guilty about being so free, I softly asked one of my colleagues if she was very free too when she first joined. While smiling, she said yes..for the first few days.