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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

19th Birthday..

i turn 19 yesterday. period. no birthday bash or cakes. i dun like birthdays anyway. it makes you think that you are "OLDER" and can't escape from responsibilities. got the day off, so i spent the day waking up late, taking my own sweet time to bathe and sit infront of the laptop playing game. that would be your average geek would be doing on a daily basis. someone called me to sing me a birthday song. how sweet of her. thanks. had dinner at "Anggerik cafe" near Mukminin mosque. so there your typical "birthday" celebration. guess this will be my last bday with family, come to think of it i'm serving the nation on my bday! Geez..

National serivce. that's been the topic lately. since my some of my friends who in the same age group as i am or older are currently serving the nations. one by one leaving us, and what left is some memories we held tightly. 19 years of my life passed so quickly. and soon i'm attaining "adulthood" (mind you i'm still a kid). Oh well too early for me to think about it. Right now, graduation come first.

have you ever wonder, what's the future have in store for you? what are you going to do after school? NS? further studies or straight to work? for the past few years, i've been planning myself till certain stages i want my education level to end. starting from PSLE, i aimed to be in the Express stream and i managed to be in one eventhough grades are not up to satisfaction. every year i made a resolution that i'll study hard to achieve my goals. So from express, i climbed up to Science stream, which i took 2 combined science and pure Bio + A and E maths. realising i couldn't cope with the pressure, i took things for granted. grades dropping, attitude changing. and the end results of prelim were R4/32 R5/41. with this shitty grade, even ITE won't take me in. so i work hard and finally got in Singapore Poly.

got my 2nd choice in Computer and network technology. wanting to catch up with technology i decided to try an engineering course. eventhough my interest lies more on software instead of hardware. Blah blah blah.. and walla.. i'm in the final year doing my course. doing my internship at Siemens Pte Ltd and be back doing some electives and i'm outta this sch!

internship sounds a great deal at first, until i was assigned to a "NEW" environment. i studied computer networking and ended up in a industrial automation department. so what's the big deal here? i have no idea what they doing cos it's totally a new thing for me. PLC here PLC there. commisioning here and commisioning there. Wattafuk! so i decided to give a try and treat this a new challenge for me. some tasks were easy mostly dealing with softwares but for the programming leave to the senior engineers. lately haven given any work so i decided to improve on my photoshop skills. surf the net to look for tutorials. and ya the supervisor, which is the boss of the senior engineers offer me this once in a lifetime opportunity.

guess what? sending me overseas for on the job training in August. it wasnt confirmed yet, but i was excited. me? overseas? which company would want to send an intern to help an engineers there for 2 whole WEEKS?! SIEMENS does. but if it really confirm, should i go? i mean, c'mon, you and one engineer, on the job training to Kuching, Sarawak for 2 GODDAMN WEEKS!! that's longest period of my life to be apart from my family and close friends. should i go? or should i not? it would be good if i go for my future career but i felt like i'm not ready for this travelling thingy. should i?

posted by mr. simplicity @ 10:51 PM 11 comments

Saturday, July 16, 2005

De` weekends

Finally, it's the weekend, thank god. get to slack at home. eat, sleep, spending time infront of the laptop. work is great, no deskwork so far. now doing more hands on and got to go to the site (tech semiconductor) at woodlands industrial. it's a fab industries producing the wafer thingy to make RAM. went to work this morning and bike giving the same old shit problem. it cant start. so i give a push start and ride to work. came back home earlier this afternoon and it dies again. oh wtf! only 7mths of riding and giving me alot of trouble. wanted to hangout at wheelock CBTL today cos they will be opening 24hrs just for today. why? it's the Harry Potter book release at Borders. cancel it cos bike giving problems so decided to stay at home and do some photoshop thingy.

talking about photoshop, i realise you can do so many things with it. from design to photo editing and from text effects to animations. how cool is that? take your time to explore these great software if you have the time. i recommend the tutorials from this website: http://www.good-tutorials.com/ i just completed a sprite animation using photoshop and imageready. using sprite and animation. walla.. you got this: Click to Enlarge

posted by mr. simplicity @ 12:23 AM 0 comments

Saturday, July 09, 2005

Back to work..

2 days of MC are over. playtime is over. laziness get to me. basically my life is about working. 2 jobs, 6 days a week. 8-9hrs per day. i wont complain. seeing most of my friends are going to serve the country soon, it scares me that my turn will be soon somewhere mid next year. time flies really fast. one by one leaves to serve the nation. just got my notification of national service pre-enlistment thingy and medical examination. finally, it's coming! right now, all i can think of is "GRADUATION." after my internship which end in late Sep, gonna be looking forward to come back to school. kinda miss my buddies. reminiscing the good ole`days. skipping of lectures, hanging out af FC3 "washing-eyes", sleeping in lecture theatre, getting warning letter and copying our labtest assignment. hahaha.. great times. jeff finally passed his TP and riding his bro's X9. good for him. next sem we'll be having our lunch at NP and "wash eyes" this time riding our bikes.

anyway, went out my CBTL colleague to see a musical concert at Victoria Theatre Hall. Orchid Park Sec Sch Wind Orchestra is performing. it was boring actually, if not for supporting mabel playing the flute and the rest of the grp tagging along i wont be going. haha. by the time the concert end, it was already 11pm. headed to lau pa sat to have dinner/supper. sat at the satay club corner. we got conned. haha.. some dishes and satay cost $50++ and the nasi ayam goreng and mee goreng looks so instant. we just ordered and it came so quickly. damn, and it costs $4. this will be my last time sitting that area. and the teh tarik there is not so "power" after all. i would not recommend it.

posted by mr. simplicity @ 6:12 PM 0 comments

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