Johann Low

土曜日, 8月 28, 2004

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The PC and internet is addictive. I can almost feel the "suction" from my chair not letting me go even when I know that time is running is out and I need to do something. The internet though now is almost a must in most people's life seems to be taking most of my time or most of the other people's time. Be it getting involved in forums, chatrooms, games, adult entertainment, the internet is a big part of most people's lives.

There is almost this strong obligation to go online. Especially for me since I am on "broadband - Singapore's standard" There is this Singaporean mentality that I must get the most outta the $58.80 I am paying monthly. One of my friend even chided me for not downloading enough stuff from the net. He said," Then your broadband for what? Get the most out of it.." This friend is an anime freak, so he downloads like 30+GB of anime monthly. With the internet, you can practically find anything you want which you can use with your PC. Games, software, music, movies, news and many more. I was "woken" up by one of my ex colleague when he downloaded a full working version of Win XP Pro with Service Pack 1.

From that point onwards, I know I can find any software I want, be it Photoshop, 3ds6, Maya. and all these are full working versions! Some even do not need a crack for it. I dun think the internet is killing all those "economical PC" shops. HAHAHAazz...Anyway people are turning to "cheaper" alternatives because most simply cannot afford to pay the real sum.

I got my free Limited Edition Crystal XBox today from the recontracting with MOL1500 for another 24 months. Anyway nothing exiciting happened except that the man at handling me over the counter forgot to return me my IC and I happened to forget about it until I boarded the bus. I even went to window shop ard Funan before I boarded the bus. Funan this afternoon was almost like a ghost town..as most of the people were probably at Suntec for the Comex 2004. As for my x box, I got no games...and I wanna get Ninja Gaiden~!

Good news, my dvd writer just got its $199 price tag slashed to $149!!! But no free DVD+R though. Benq and TDK are having a price war. Benq slashed its writer from $169 to $149 with 50 pcs free DVD+R!!!! Initially it was $169 with 25 pcs..now $149 with 50 pcs!!! Burn until you siao!!! 1 DVD is 4.7GB, so 50 X 4.7=235GB of storage!

DVD writers used to be slow and expensive. I am waiting for dvd writers to be sub $200 and with an least a speed of 16X tho there are now no 16X medium but some of the good quality 8X medium can be written at 16X.

I went for an interview with HP last Wednesday. It was not too good. The interviewer asked me why I intended to leave my current job when I am only 1 month+ there. Then there I went abt the underpaid thing, the slightly exploitation I got, my plans for the furture. Then she told me her personal opinion - that I should stay at least 3 months for my current job to further determine my complaints. I thought, oke that's it man. No more chance for me. So I further "argue" my reasons to prove my justification. And she said that the pay offered here is abt 10-20% higher than my current one. I did some caculations on my way back and its not worth the travelling time and expense with that money.

I got a call on Fri from the agency telling me HP is offering the job and they are paying 1.5K! I was - "huh wtf, I remembered I screwed up the interview" I again make some travelling expenses calculation and found out its still manageable with the amt they are offering. But then I got a gut feeling its not going to be some simple adminstrative work. But 1.5K to me is at least what a fresh diploma holder should be getting.

I'll be tendering my resignation on Monday and I not yet spoken to my bosses about it. The one in charge was too stressed up and busy with some projects which he was going to show one of his big clients over a oil trading website. Honestly, we are seriously under staffed. The only one designer has work up to her nose. The senior programmer has over 10000 emails in her Outlook.(I saw it and I was shocked, emails in thousands and thousands)

Wonder how is working going to be like in HP...and also how am I going to tell my bosses that I am leaving? HAHAzz...shld I say I am leaving because I got a better offer or should I say I am leaving for personal reasons?

elow at 11:41 午後 |

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