Johann Low

日曜日, 9月 05, 2004

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Last Tuesday I intended to go down to my agency to sign the appoinment letter for a position at HP in the afternoon. Who will expect in the morning at 10+, my boss called and told me I was confirmed and I got a pay rise of $100. On hearing this,I panicked,thinking now I am confirmed I will need to give a notice of 4 weeks. Then I made some calculations on the travelling expensese and how much I will get back frm the pay I will be getting frm HP and my new pay in my current company. There's not much of a difference - only about $90+ difference.

There is however a big difference, that is the travelling time and distance between HP and my current office. Going to HP will take me about 1.5 hrs, daily travelling expense will be $4.95 whereelse my current company is so near my home, it only takes 15min bus ride and daily travelling expense is only $1.66. The apparent choice for me is quite clear but the thing was how do i reject the job offer which i promised by word to my agent! I was in a dilemma for awhile as time was running short as I already applied for half a day's leave. To cut the story short, my 2 bosses came back in the early afternoon and I told them, they offered me some opinions and when I made clear to them I will be staying back. They also told me I will be getting another increment when the Industrial Attachment student leaves next month as I will be taking over his work.

His work mainly is updating webpages for current clients. Recently I am doing some minor updates for some websites also and I think I am getting the hang of it. I had quite a bad experience in doing webpage during poly when I was doing a webpage for a Japanese friend. Stuff like HTML coding,naming of the files and how a web server link its files all baffled me. Now I more or less understand. I learnt practically nothing in the web design module in school except to use dreamweaver - abit.

Sometime last wk, there was an incident whereby our mail server was being made use to spam. This cause the server to be overloaded with emails relays almost crippling our clients as well as our own emails access. Not surprisingly, calls came asking what happened, why so slow..blah blah..as I am the front line for technical support, I had to explain to them what happened and that now everything was oke as the spamming relay had stopped. A few days later, there were some clients who were sending huge files to their own clients. Some of our clients are not so technically trained, so I had to explain to them why huge files were not advised and how to compress their files to be smaller for easier sending.

Quite a week I must say.

Playing this tough game called Ninja Gaiden has taught me somethings - patience and preserverance. This is one of the toughest games I ever played after Metal Gear Solid 2. the 1st actual boss was already so hard to beat. The nice thing of this boss or rather all the bosses is that their life is a whole bar across the screen when yours in only 1/5 of theirs. Not only this, the common enemies are tough as well. A few whacks from a guard or ninja and soon you will game over.

Bought another games yesterday, its called Otogi 2, the graphics is rather pale compared to the rich colors of Ninja Gaiden and its confusing. But then its quite a steal for getting a Japanese imported game for only $65. I got this game from someone who was offering it in hardwarezone forum.

I was offered to take JLPT 3 Prep class but I turned them down for personal reasons. I will always remember what a friend told me when I was complaining to her what my friend did for me which caused quite a misunderstanding between me and the school.

"If you cannot make a decision, someone will make it for you and if it is bad one, you cant blame no one." Quite a wakeup call, really.

elow at 11:45 午後 |

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