我在摩托罗拉剩余的日子 : 173 days

The entry about using Facebook and having your boss as your friend.

Recently there has been much craze in the office on the FB Bejeweled Blitz. You basically have 1 min to play the addictive game and try to hit as high a score as possible. Every tuesday, the score will reset and you compete again with your friends to see who is the best in that 1 minute frame.

My Facebook Status Msg : Andy Chan Can you host conference and play bejeweled blitz at the same time? I know someone who can!

The response

我在摩托罗拉剩余的日子 : 174 days

Yes! We finally shipped Sledge to PRC. Though only 5000 units. at least is still a achievement. Frankly speaking, i dont even know the margin profits is enough to cover costs involved in this project or not.

Just sold my Mot Share at $4.60. Yeh. One share earn $1 USD :)

Got a mail from headhunters for Project Mgmr lead in a MNC. Asking me to send them my resume and expected salary. However i reply them telling them i can only start work in October. They replied say they can wait so long.

ANother sign to tell me to not start finding job now else more disappointments again...

Online Shopping...

I bought T3 magazine today and saw 2 items in it that i want to get! the AMR came just at the right time

#1 Street Fighter 4 ( PS3 )
I think i hardly touch my PS3 now other than using it to watch HK TVB DVDs that i record on my own. I cannot even rememeber the last game i played on it. I think is GTA? Or issit some online games i downloaded on Playstation Network. Nevertheless, i wasnt really on the hook for PS3 news , partly because i am always reading about content updates on WOTLK. patch 3.1 is coming!

The first time i saw SF4 is in Taipei when they are showing the demo. Immediately my shopaholic itch came back. I forgotten about it a couple of days later and today i saw in in the magazine and i went to youtube and googled on the reviews and demos.

According to T3 , ( which gave it a 5/5 star review )
Love : Reviving of older techniques for special sneak attacks, noob-friendly ( Yes the word NOOB appear again )
Hate : Leniency on combo moves

Definately must get it! too bad no 2nd hand on forum...



#2
Audio-Technica ATH-CKM50

I always wanted to get another pair of earphones. I have one SOny Good one. But that one has noise cancellation and not really siutable to bring out unless i am on the plane. Why ? because it got a small box along the earphone lines ( should be the noise cancellation unit ) .

I wanted to get Bose QC3, but that is too expensive ( $500+ ). Then i came across CKM50.. looks nice... affordable and it got 5/5 stars from T3 again! But i cannot find a dealer in signapore that sells AT earphones. I saw it in exhibition booths before . Did a google didnt manage to find any "reputable" shops either. Weelead told me try Best Denki.

hmm....

我在摩托罗拉剩余的日子 : 176 days

SC suggested we have weekly sport activities since we are so "Free" now. we always wanted to do it but never have a chance. I suggested " why dont we go during lunch hour since now can go for extended lunch ". Thats a good idea! we used to be so busy having daily 1.30pm , 2pm meetngs. So it was technically not possible to go for anything sporty during the lunch hour ( considering one hour of sports, 30min cooldown and bath and then makan )

Today, we went to Sengkang Sports Complex to play Badminton. Ron and CH went to swim instead. Although it was raining, no issue since there is a sheltered pool at sengkang sports complex! They have everything at sengkang sports complex except (1) table tennis and (2) Tennis. I hope they build that soon.

Miss YZ play with her jeans and top. Barefooted and the 2 girls can actually win the guys man. Lol, the reason is very simple, " You all girls, i dont dare to all out scared whack you blue black then paiseh ".

Next wed, I will bring along my epic gear.....




Today we get our increment notification from our managers . I did the same to my team. Everyone is happy since this is something none of us expected. Why would we get AMR , knowing we will be exiting for the organisation in 176 days ? Anyway , any extra money is good money because our seeverance package will need to be re computed by the Finance. They probably got nothing better to do. Another classy act of poor management and organisation ( Wasting resources to recompute about 50 pax severance packages again ) .

In today's staff meeting, my boss suggesteed we should start planning for some outplacement activities for the department starting June. He looked at me, i think i am going to get the arrow. I always get arrows from him. Maybe because i always make things happen for him . :)

我在摩托罗拉剩余的日子 : 177 days

This morning , YZ gave me a buzz and told me she is not coming to the office because the children were sick. We have a call on friday trying to get Sledge out to the customers. we are so close to getting it out already , but again internal politics prohibits us to accomplish that. They are requesting for UT hours to meet the 16k mark before this can be done.

If this thing will have happen a year ago, we would have fight over our lives to get it out irregardless of what ever internal politics there are. However, based on the current situation , our fate in Sept and the state of the company, we have already 85% given up hope on this organisation .

What i am doing now is no longer a career. Is just a job. My career lies some other place now....

Road to Undying

Last week, i mentioned about our successful attempt to "of the Nightfall". Another piece of good news today.

What is Undying?
The Undying :: within one raid lockout period, defeat every boss in Naxxramas on Normal Difficulty without allowing any raid member to die during any of the boss encounters.

Our first attempt ( we did try once but not with this group combination )and we make it through. Discounting the first instructor attempt which probably is a "warm up".

Check the pics below, using a addon Multishot. Every boss kill is recorded and will be in history...

I use my brain even during LS-ion

Priest : Jialat must be the Curry, i now ls-ing

Druid : Got What ingredients?

Priest : Dont gross. I in toilet now. Was thinking"if breakups and feelings can be like LS like that flushed out from the body .. how nice hor?"

Druid : wa if you exclude the now in toilet sentence , you can include the message in your book

Priest continue to LS...

我在摩托罗拉剩余的日子 : 179 days

Barclays Capital came to Moto office for a recruitment talk. It was organised by GSG group which is also affected by the layoff activities . They have a earlier exit date compare to our Group2 team. Some are going off in April, Some June. Our exit date is Sep 30.

Barclays, i guessed the best linkage most of us is with the Barclay Premiership ( EPL ) . Yes! Man utd!

They are primarily a investment banking branch of the bigger Barclays group. Have operations all over the world. According to them, their main hubs are Singapore, New York ( yeah! ) and London ( yeah! yeah! ). They are looking for software development expertise and simliar . Of course, using IT to make more $$$ in the banking sector.

The job environment looks superb. Office @ Atrium Orchard, beautiful offices ( They showed us a video ). I sent in my resume, *cross finger* chances are quite slim i might get an interview because i dont have the relevant field industry information, but got try got chance no try no chance.

The Night with the Cockroach

I cannot remember the last time i saw a cockroach in the house. But i saw one today and is god damn big!

First Sighting -> At the wall in the living room
Immediate action -> Wife Scream, Husband go get Bygone and SPRAAAAAAY.....
Effect -> Cockroach start to fly and wife run to balcony husband went to room and close door

after 30 sec...

Wife :Where's the cockraoch?
Husband shouted : Dont know ey.
Wife say : issit at your back ?
Husband open door, : " u check "
Wife say " is on your shorts... "

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Next Sighting -> On the Piano , Cockroach almost dead.
A few more sprays of bygone, cockroach lie dead.

Damn shack

The Hundred Club

Defeat Sapphiron on Heroic Difficulty in Naxxramas without any member of the raid having a frost resist value over 100.

Moving to Wordpress

Update April 3 -> Wordpress.com sucks. I guess the good one is wordpress.org. Anyway i figure out how to use categories on blogger already. so i will stick to my first love.


http://sengkangboy.wordpress.com

i am still figuring out how to port all these posts over... stay tuned

我在摩托罗拉剩余的日子 : 181 days

#1 Went breakfast at yck market today with SC , DX and WL. Probably going to be a common practice for the remaining 6 months. Food there tastes 1,000,000 better than what we can get at Level 3A. Everything else tastes better than the cafeteria in Level 3A. It sucks.

#2 WL asking me why i never join him lunch for so many days. Lol. He thought i was angry with him . I told him no. Just that i got more important stuff to work on in the morning . Anyway , i just need a PC and wireless to work. I dont have to be physcially in the office. However i still want to bring my lunch mates to U.D.D.E.R. I love the ice cream there!

What happened on the last day of Q1 ?

#1 A couple of colleagues left yday as part of the layoff exercise. YH was one of them. I read his farewell note and start to think what i will write on Sep 30. I look at his farewell gifts to all of us and start to think what i will give on Sep30. Sep30, exactly 6 months away from now and i still havent figure out what i want to do yet.

#2 New show from TVB, on snooker. Looks good, just that i dont like the cast.


#3 I finally found my E169 modem. Someone selling a brand new one for $140 ( Singtel is selling at $199 ) . Probably going to get it since i am a connected person and i cannot live without the World Wide Web

#4 GSG is being slashed too . So nice of them to help arrange for Barclay Capital to come to Motorola for a mass recruitment interview. They are hiring about 40+ people , i saw a few positions which probably suit me. and i heard they pay well! and their office is in Orchard!!

#5 Met up with JJ after like about ~2 months. The last time i saw him probably is at WC house during CNY. So much things happen during these 2 months. Being so close together during last 8-10 years makes me feel a little bit *dunno how to describe* english no good. Anyway i am glad i met up and have a good chat. I need to start taking care of him more. Dont ask me why, that's just me.

#6 Spotted a black girl at Chomp Chomp. Spotted her again at OPlus. Woosh.

#7 This one probably if my Guild mate sees it - " I gonna banned the word 加油 from my future conversations with the Chins. " :)

Healmemoto of the NightFall

Finally , after 3 separate attempts, ~50 deaths, we got the Nightfall! the hardest content in current WOTLK. Clearing Sartharion with 3 drakes up.

Drama occured after the title within guild. Dont understand why some guild mates cant differentiate between whats fun and whats serious.

Anyway, Next title is IMMORTAL/UNDYING and TWILIGHT VANQUISHER

Taipei Trip - What i never done before in all the previous trips

#1 The 粉圆 is good man. Amazingly i have been taipei so many times i have never try it before. Finally did that yesterday.



#2 -> Taiwan MJ. 16 tiles. Game play very different from the way we do it in singapore. and Hello Kitty Mahjong!



#3 -> Drink so much Yakult in my life before in one night....



#4 -> 鼎王 ， the best mala i tried so far to date.


#1 ->

Way Back into Love

Particularly like this part

I've been living with a shadow overhead,
I've been sleeping with a cloud above my bed,
I've been lonely for so long,
Trapped in the past,
I just can't seem to move on!

I've been looking for someone to she'd some light,
Not somebody just to get me through the night,
I could use some direction,
And I'm open to your suggestions.

Taipei Trip - The Day we Teambuilt

Went to this indoor lazer trekking facility for our team building event. It is located opposite Taipei Main Station . For those interested can check out their website at http://www.lazertreks.com/

Basically is a indoor laser gun shooting game . Simliar to what we did for Paintball, minus the sweat and the pain. Our team is call 红色警戒 , and as expected we won! lol. I think we got some vouchers to revisit the place and a bottle of champagne. The vouchers wasnt really useful for me so i pass them to my peers in Taiwan.

Almost wanted to change to Wordpress

I always like new things. Was reading up on Blogger vs Wordpress and seems like Wordpress is better. But need a lot of setup in the end i give up the idea.

Day #2 @ Taipei

Have a early morning conference and we only left for the office after the meeting . The weather is drizzling and floating at about 18-20 degrees C which is technically a very good weather . Just the drizzling makes the mood a bit sulky.

I think the last time i visited Taipei was probably August last year. Been quite some time since i met up with the frens and collegaues in Taipei. Lunch was a simple one at the foodcourt below A4 ( Xing Guang San Yue ) . I went with Christine and gang and we chit chatted a bit about the company future. Lol. Sounds so business...

We did our work proper and purpose of coming for the day before heading for a simple dinner. It was a THai buffet below the office and happened to be crowded by some R&D Scientist group.. and i have never seen such a big oyster before. Took one to eat it, put lots of lime and chilli to kill that fishy taste. I probably will not try again because i started blurping ( due to the coke ) and all it comes out from my breath is oyster smell. :S

Damn.. i weigh almost 80kg!

More Runs! and More Gyms!