Monday, January 28, 2008
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I have to admit it that I got to believe in fate. :) Just like the lyrics of the song in my blog, the song composed by Taufik and sang by Hady and declare him the winner of asian idol.. The song: Berserah.. Ya.. Aku Berserah sahaja kepadaMu...
Oh! Its past midnite! Didnt realize it! Since it is past midnite..the date is 28 Jan! So u know whose birthdaay is today?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HADY MIRZA!!!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Lesson learnt: Neva decorate ur workstation.
Reason: U may not know if u are permanently sitting there.
Yup, its true..
Just a month into my new job at ECSF, my department was shifted to another area. I dont mind but I have decorate my workstation and I have to decorate it again. With effect from 25 January, I have to be shifted to another plc. My boss and her other secretary, will be sharing one room! Cool! The room is kinda big thats why 2 pple can be in there! How cool to have the same room as ur boss! Me and SMA will be right outside their room. :D And my boss and my partner sharing one extension (in same room mah) and the same goes for me and SMA, sharing one extension, I'm OK with that. :D
SMA will be coming back next week. She was on hospitalization leave. She has asthma.. :-o My boss took her to the hospital on 16 Jan and she was warded since then. On 21st Jan, she was discharged but hospital gave her MC till 25th Jan. Her asthma must be serious.
So, wanna know how I decorate my workstation? No wonder lah why I heard this: "Oh dear! We have another one! Another die hard fan here! Quite a number of pics of 'him'". Coz they jolly well know Kak Marni has lots of pics of 'him' and use them to decorate her workstation. I'm the next one. So there are 2 fans in ECSF. *thumbsup*
HADY HADY HADY and MORE HADY this coming 2nd Feb!!! Whee!! Finally, I'm going? Huh? My grandmother? Dun worry, I know how to slow talk her. *winkz* Will be going with Dira. Dira will be buying the present.. *Grinz* As she is out of job and I am broke, so we share lah the present. :D
My cup, my stationeries, my workstation phone.
My "in" tray. Less work, haha.. Dont get cheated with the picture.. There's actually more. =D
And now I have to redecorate everything.. Haish..
Friday, January 18, 2008
WA 206: BUSINESS FINANCE is my FINAL PAPER for this Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing (Hons) degree course.
Today is the exam. (The exam just ended and I am in the school library now)
ARGH!!!!!!!!
I wish and hope that I can pass the paper!! Get a passing mark, I am more than just happy!! Its my LAST and FINAL paper, I MUST CLEAR IT! I cant afford to fail and retake it again: Waste time and money. I dont mind paying to resit the exam again BUT both my grandma and mum had advised me otherwise.. :( They told me if I were to fail anymore papers, just leave it as it is and concentrate on my work!
NO WAY!!! Once I am on something, I am NOT GIVING IT UP halfway! NO WAY!!!
I do not know why I am so 'dumb'. Question 4 of Business Finance paper was asking about: Beta portfolio and expected return of portfolio. A total of 12 marks. I KNOW HOW TO DO THAT QUESTION. However, in the exam hall, I only did the expected return of portfolio. The Beta portfolio, I kept trying to remember... I cant seem to get the result so do u know what I did?I STRIKE OFF QUESTION 4!!! Yes, as a replacement, I attempted question 6. Question 6 was asking on Dividend Policy, which I didnt really prepare well for the topic because I dont seem to understand what the hell is Dividend Policy!!! So I just anyhow try to answer the dividend policy question!
(There are 7 questions, we have to choose any 4 questions..)
GRR!!! I am DUMB! STUPID! Even if I cant answer Beta portfolio, out of the 12 marks, I can still get err 7 to 8 marks for the expected return of portfolio!!! 7 to 8 marks is better and more than 2 to 3 marks! Like I'd mentioned, I try to attempt Dividend Policy question and out of the 12 marks, I can only get 2 to 3 marks! S***! HOW STUPID OF ME.. Beta portfolio is the easiest! Yes, easiest and yet, my mind can go blank in the exam hall and not only that.. .I strike out that question!!! Grr...
Conclusion: FINANCE is not my kind of paper! Accounting is still alright BUT finance is way different from Accounting! No wonder I have financial woes.. LoL..
Wish: I REALLY HOPE I CAN PASS THIS PAPER. THE PASSING MARK is 45, but if we scored a 40 to 44, the lecturers and the UK professors allow us to pass. SO PLEASE PRAY FOR ME THAT I CAN GET A 40 or 45! I HAVE TO PASS THIS PAPER!! MY FINAL PAPER!! If I pass this, I can graduate!! And get what I have always wanted: That piece of degree transcript / certificates with my name written on it.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
17 December 2007 > > The day I started my new job at ESCF. New job, bigger role, bigger tasks, bigger responsibilities. I report directly to my boss, LLX. She is a nice lady. She makes me comfortable. She tells me not to be afraid to ask my other 2 partners should I have problem. If I find them busy, I can directly ask her, she's OK. Oh, I am still using the same initial: MBS :) On the very first day, I decided to lunch in well.. because my 2 partners wants to lunch in so they brought me to the food court at the basement level of the Gateway East building and so I bought whatever I want to eat and went upstairs.
After my lunch, I was still in the office.. and walked over to the Trademarks & Design department (My department is Patents - International Filing; there are 4 patent departments!) to look for Kak Marni. :D When I saw her I said 'Hi' to her and with a smile, I asked, "Smlm tgk?" (I was referring to the RESULT SHOW of ASIAN IDOL - 16th Dec 2007: A date TO remember!) Kak Marni smiled and answered, "Tgk." I was already feeling excited. "Suka kan dia menang. I mcm org giler kat rumah! Heehe" Kak Marni also laughed. And u know what? She was on HALF DAY leave on that day. YES, half day leave. She took half day leave for? Heehe.. Go to the airport to WELCOME BACK OUR ASIAN IDOL WINNER! Too bad, I just started work, so I cant go :( so I convey my regards for Hady to Kak Marni. Well, she cant promise she can convey my regards to Hady coz there will be LOTS OF PPLE in the airport.. I know.. I watched the news. :D
18 December 2007 > > ECSF having a Christmas Party. I was overwhelmed with the response from ECSF. They're all bunch of fun and loving pple! Very lively and friendly. My boss came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Eat more. U gonna like the food." U sure I did! Wahahaha... But of coz, I should know my table manners.. Dont gelojoh.. unless I'm at home! :D Guess what? I was kinda surprised! I was new, only on my 2nd day and yet I saw my Christmas present under the Christmans tree! Yeah! The Christmas present has my initials on it: MBS, MERRY XMAS! Guess what was the present?
Cute right?
My work as of from 17 December till now, is OK. I am still learning and I am coping well. Patents not that hard after all, once you know the facts. As I stated in the previous paragraph, in Patents, there are 4 departments. 1) Patents (Mechanical and Electrical), 2) Patents (Chemical Life Science), 3) Patents (Formalities: First Filing & Grant) and 4) Patents (International Filing)
All I know while I was at D & B, there are lawyers doing in patents, which is an invention and to prevent infringement. But in ECSF, I learned a different thing. I thought u need to be good in engineering to invent something, to think, with science and technology, u could too! INTERESTING. Will update more on what I have to do in my department.
I make friends on the very first day. Unlike my first day at D & B.. All eyes were on me! They have this thought in their mind, "Why is she here? This is not a good company. Why she come here?" Hahaa.. How would I know that D & B didnt give bonus? While I was having interview, the management didnt tell me that. Not only D & B.. All companies will not disclose whether they do give bonuses or not during interview. My first few days in D & B was way 100% very different from ECSF. Hey, I'm not condeming D & B, I am stating the facts. The staffs of D & B they neva layan newbies. When SU came in, and I layan her...they stared at me until their eyes want to pop out! I related this to Abg Sofian, an ex-colleague who has resigned from D & B in July 2006 why are they behaving like that. He told me, I mustnt take it too heart.. Its normal. Thats explain why he didnt want to talk to me on my first day too, he also scared! *eyes rolling*
Secondly, remember PW from Accounts department invited me over for lunch and from there, I got to knw B and J. From there, we became friends. That one also D & B staffs got a problem! Their principle is: to mix with pple of the same department.. When they got to know those 3 pple wish to befriend me, most of them were asking among themselves: why must make friend with our department, and why must be MBS they make friends." *smacks forehead* In ECSF, I can see that they make friends with all pple from all departments. This is what I call good office environment!
But in ECSF, I am treated very nicely. They didnt boycott newbies. They talked to them, they smiled at them, they are all friendly! and not a bunch of busybodies like those pple in D & B! Yeah! I applied for leave and I must state the reason. Plus when I applied for leave, it is not done manually like in D & B. In ECSF, everything is computerized. So when I applied for leave through ECSF intranet system, it will be reflected to the intranet database and everyone can access it and will know who will be on leave on when etc. My name was reflected as a staff taking leave on 17 Jan 2008 and 18 Jan 2008. NO ONE in ECSF came to me and ask, why am I taking leave... NOT EVEN my 2 partners! NO! Unlike busybodies staffs in D & B, one by one came up to me and asked, "MBS, cuti ker per on so and so..." I just give a 'cant be bothered' smile. They wont stop till they get answers to their questions: "Gi mana ah / Mana ajer kau nak pergi / Ada apa / Best sey amik cuti ... " I can go crazy u knw!
ECSF staffs dont bother! I take leave or urgent leave, they dont bother; its ur personal matter, its ur own leave. I like that kind of environment and I visioned that I can work at ECSF longer than at D & B. I endured 1 year 9 mths at D & B.
So on my first day, I make friends with my 2 partners, VLH and SMA. SMA was my junior in sec school! Yeah.. No wonder she looks familiar! She used to be overweight but now she's very slim! How did she manage to do that.. I'm gonna learn some guidelines from her. I make friends with this guy, SAR.. also a new staff but a few days earlier than me, he's in the Patents (Formalities: Grant) department. Not forgetting, I make friends with NJM (from the mailing department - she joined on the same day as me), NAM & MNN (both from Patent - Mechanical and Engineering; NAM is training MNN coz MNN is also kinda new staff and she has to serve 2 bosses! LWW and RAH unlike NAM who only serve one boss: PSY) and I will make friends with more staffs.. I have to take time, there are about 113 staffs! (of coz I can be friendly with all of them but to make friends not all la..heehe)
ECSF has 4 Patent departments, Renewals department, Accounts department, Records department (Records is like data entry job like that la) Trademarks & Designs department and Administration department (Mailing, HR, I.T and Marketing). So there's a total of: 11 departments! 11 deparments located at 30th and 37th floor of Gateway East.
I am still in search of a part time job. Yes, to clear my debts. All thanks to the stupid scams! I went for an interview for a part time job today and I clinched it! I am offerred and I will be starting on Monday, after I ended work. The job? Part time telemarketer. Dont worry, I wont call you to sell you stuffs. They dont do selling. They make appointments. Hmm.. sounds tedious but I can give it a try. Basic is $5 per hour and commission $8 per hour per deal. Means.. For example: I worked for 5 hrs, 5 x $5 = $25, within those 5 hours I clinched 4 deals = $8 x 4 x 5 = $60. I earned $60 plus $25 = $85 in just one day.. How attractive is that?
I have my motive for working part time. 1) To recoup losses from those stupid scams, 2) To help my mother. She has rheumotoid ahritis and cant work anymore, she is now on 1 month unpaid MC. 3) Just to earn something extra for me. My full time salary has to deduct $330 for CPF. If I work part time, I can earn that $330 or more to recoup the deductions. *evil smile*
Yeah, so I'll be starting on Mon and another weekday then plus Sat and Sun.. Minimum days to report to work for part timers: 4 days.. If we want to work for 5 days, by all means.. I would love too but my grandmother lah! She's afraid I will fall sick, will get tired.. Duhz.. *eyes rolling* She really sayang me alot lah.. so I cant complain. *big grinz*Friday, January 04, 2008
Almost everyone will ask one another, "What are you looking forward for in the year 2008?" Or, "How has year 2007 been for you?"
Let me answer those questions. Year 2007 has been such a fcuking unlucky year for me, in terms of finance. Since the starting of the year, I started to have financial problems. U know.. Buying something and you need to pay installments for it..
To add this financial burden, sumtime in July 2007: - Scams! Till now, I keep asking this: "How can I be a victim of all scams?" Seriously, I really didnt think; my mind went blank! I did receive those emails before that incident and I simply deleted it. There was once I read it but didnt believe it, so I deleted it. However, on that occasion, I simply didnt know what was wrong with me at that time; maybe someone out there who despite me or hates me has cast a spell on me, let me have some kind of bad luck! Hey, you neva know there are these kinds of pple who will do black magic! So who knows those pple perform black magic on me until I cant think that all these "lottery" are all lies and fraud - and make me lose money. Well, not me.. my grandma's and my mum's but I pay them back. So.. its their lose and MINE as well! I only realized it NOT when I didnt receive the winnings, it was went I was browsing the net and I received the same "lottery" email from another person but the NATIONAL UK LOTTERY BOARD name is still in the email. I checked it out and to my horror, those are scams! And I also told this to myself, "I thought I read this before.." When pple do black magic on you, your mind goes straight away BLANK!
Really, year 2007 is a bad one for me. I hope the year 2008, (year of a rat.. am I rite?) will be smooth sailing and fulfilling for me. I dun wish year 2008 will be the same as this. Yes, I still have loans/debts to pay, but I hope it wont be as bad as year 2007.
Although year 2007 was a bad year for me, I still enjoyed myself, cheering myself up. Went for this event, that event. Some of the events are free. Some need to pay but those events which I need to pay, I have to calculate very carefully in order for me not to have insufficient funds for GIRO payment of this and that.
The final event I attended for the year 2007 on 30 December 2007: Jonathan, Olinda and Taufik album launching and autograph session. I was there way earlier and when I arrived, I saw Jonathan on stage signing his album. I saw familiar faces: FIKNATICS! SV came in later, followed by chatterbox (Nora). Olinda appeared. She was sharing with us her experiences of losing weight and I will remember what she says, "Girls, you lose weight NOT for men, for yourselves." Which is true. Thats what I wish to do for the year 2008. I want to revamp myself NOT because of MEN but for MYSELF!.
What are my NYRs (New Year Resolutions)? Hmm.. Simple.
1) Please give me the one and only chance to take a solo picture with me and Hady! I had always want to have a solo picture of me with all my him! Futhermore, he won Asian Idol and I'm more determined to have a solo pic of me and him taken! I'm not greedy to ask for more. Only ONE (actually ONE solo pic of me and Hady - not enough la. LoL. Heehe) And I will be thankful. :D *provided I go for his event and am not the FIRST one to leave lah*
2) Hope that year 2008 is the rezeki year for me, make me more healthier, happier and never have to worry about any financial burden or stuffs..
3) To buy as many dresses / or be more trendy in fashion as possible. My boss almost everyday wears a dress. So, I must be as presentable as her and her other 2 secretaries! (my partners)
Once again, HAPPY 2008!
P/S: Ross of Revalina send me a message in Facebook!! (I am addicted to Facebook already BUT I cant stand the invitations to this.. to that.. Duhz..)
Ross' message reads:
Hei Amyria!
I hope you like the Inconsolable we brought at Vivo... Its our favourite sing too, just happen that we were given the opportunity to pick that song.. hehe.
On behalf of the rest, we would like to say a Happy New Year to you and have a blessed 2008 ahead ya
Whee!!! I was smiling!! Hahaha.. Hey, when your favourite member of a group / band send you message.. how do u feel? Excited, exhilarated, ecstastic?!! (Did I spell ecstastic correctly? I know how to say the word, but unsure of the spelling.. :D) That is exactly how I am feeling rite now.. Whee!!!
My reply:
Hello Ross!
Yes, I did. That was a great performance of "Inconsolable". =) I was clapping and singing along to it at home. =D
Revalina always happen to sing my favourite songs.. oh my! How great!
Happy New Year to you too and till we meet again.
Love & Regards,
Amyria
**Anyway did u notice at the countdown that Revalina wore pink?! Ewww.. I kinda have this dislikeness in guys wearing pink. As what Az of Revalina replied to me via Friendster message: "I agree. Its kinda weird but well, the producer chose the outfits for us, we have no choice. Haha!"**