| and the peon said, "work work" - part 2

Wait, was there ever a part one? I'm sorry, I'm just stoned from sleeping awake all night long.

Also, since I've watched finish Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (it was ok ok), I figured I'd introduce the anonymous world out there to my work place and work space.

welcome to teh Service Desk

I'm a systems engineer in the Service Desk section of End-user Services under Operational Support of IT in Infineon.

Hence, IFMY IT OS ES SD.

We are a global support team taking in calls and cases from Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Itz serius bisnezz~

werk space

Each agent has their own PC running on Windows 7 OS with 3GB (soon to be 4GB) of RAM. Oh, and not to mention the two monitors for our viewing pleasure. After all, more monitors = better efficiency. Heh~

mah desk with a red boner

Styne gave me that bone. I don't chew on it though.

I kinda like my desk; it's clean and comfy and everything is where it's supposed to be. Also, my desk is where all the magic happens. Yes, magic happens on our desks. When I'm bored, I'll eat my colleagues' extra kuih raya and imagine wondrous adventures with gummy bears.

gummy bears wrestling

So yea.

That's my new working place.

Hi Wayne.

| im coming for you.. my black nectar

Well folks, this whole stretch of week marks a very important chapter of my life. On the 24th of October, Saturday, after having lived through the hell of abstaining from coffee for a month I shall gladly remove my non-coffee vow and bathe myself in a tub of beautiful black nectar. I shall let every drop of it caress my body as I fall into..

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..and Deb-Dear's cheese cake between my cracks. That's how good it was.



Now that I've got that off my chest (and cracks) here's to last week.

the sun cannot compare

On a beautiful Saturday morning, I arise from my slumber at a teeth-gnashing 7am (on a Saturday!!) as As-The-Deer and I were to have some quality time together playing paintball but alas, by the time I reach her house, it started to drizzle and her colleauge who hosted the game pulled a Leeroy Jenkins and thus the game was killed-off.

Yes folks. I woke up at 7am in the morning (with no coffee!) for nothing.

To salvage the rest of the morning, we rang up trusty Boss (though no longer my boss), for a quick road-trip up to Seremban, home of the nine-headless-chicken.. home of As-The-Deer. As usual, the soul goal of the pole is food and if we're lucky, Some Good Food® or better.

As-The-Deer from henceforth shall be known as STD, (aS-The-Deer gettit?) as typing out As-The-Deer complete with caps and '-' is a pain for a guy who's at work right now.

Our first stop, STD took Boss and I to eat some Seremban wan tan mee which is not exactly like wan tan mee but more of a cross between wan tan mee and ko lo mee with thick gravy and extra dishes that comes with it.

it was okay~

Next up, as the Boss has never been to Aion Jusco (Seremban2 or Klang ftm), STD was kinda enough to give him some love and brought him to Seremban2's Jusco for the first time ever! First time ever! First time ever! First time ever! While we're there, rather then eating something like Manhattan Fish Market or something of the same quality, Boss wanted to eat... *sigh* some Hong Kong cafe food.

velkum tu hong kong keffeh fud!

boss dring form tree strohs

std pose with me (ein short hairz)

RM3 fur bread with kaya and butter!

peanut butter toast!

cheezeh fish rice!

cheese outside fried wantanz

As within my calculated predictions, hong kong cafe food remains over-priced and under-quality. To make matter's worse, their magazines are non-halal!

i kid you naught

After that we returned to Melaka as there was no SGF&Reg;s at Seremban other then Beef Noodles and hakka mee. Around the same time, Boss got emo. So STD and I went out with him for dinner because nobody likes being emo.. emo.. emo.. emo. We initially wanted to head down to Old Newton but along the way we spotted an un-suspecting small food court and decided to give that one a try instead. Results were astounding; we ordered 5 dishes.

laksa is so so (ranked 2/5 of the Laksa Scale)
while the char kuew tiow was average

roast pork and bbq pork was ok ok

pork satay was good (anything that's pork is good)

hokkien mee is SGF® (fat mee & pork fatz ftw)

While I was drunk and was not being myself, I took STD out for dinner at... wa zen. I was full.

wa zen gives towels to wipe.. things

RM14.50 for a delicious mackerel bento set

RM15 tempuras

RM15 salmon sashimi

The fun weekend ended and it was back to work for all three of us and with that, The Adventures Of Boss, STD and I concluded.

work: it's in the game

On Saturday, with the return of my Ess-Oh, my family decided to take all 6 (six) of us; dad, mom, bro, bro-Ess-Oh, my-Ess-Oh and I out for Some Cheap Good Food® at Sakura House. This presented a good opportunity for me to gauge the price-to-worth (P2W) ratio of Sakura House to Wa Zen.

Ess-Oh, Bro and Dad

It was a tough battle. Sakura House is dirt cheap though the portion of the bento is puny. Therefore for the bento section, Wa Zen wins in P2W ratio. Another thing that sadly annoyed me was the portion of the baby octopus has been reduced to precisely 3-4 baby octopus per-serving. *pouts*

soooo littleeee

Wa Zen's sashimis are RM15 per serving with precisely 4 slices of whatever you want. This brings me to my next point. The only true redeeming quality about Sakura House is the fact that their sashimis are dirt cheap with only RM10 for 4-5 slices of pure heaven. PURE HEAVEN!! In this aspect Sakura House wins the Sashimi Challenge in the P2W ratio.

pure heaven!!

Therefore to say which is better, Wa Zen or Sakura House, is rather difficult as both of them have their strong points as well as their weak points. In an ideal world, I would tapau a whole lotta sashimis and baby octopus from Sakura House and bring them to Wa Zen to eat my delicious bentos.

You choice.

For now I shall just stick to Boss' new york cheese cake funky oreo banana cake.

i told you the flour was too much :P

work work work

| untold tales of a scripter

Working with scripts is like working with the other gender (do note that I did not specify which gender it is as this blog does not promote sexism in form or matter); you just can't understand what goes on in their tiny little one-line codes. Well. Not till they burst out in an thunderous tsunami of hormonal error messages which points to the part of the code that's working perfectly fine. Which is why my department, the Infineon Malaysia Information Technology Operational Services Desktop Office & Automation Client Services department consists of a high skilled workforce, moving and executing our tasks with fluidity unlike anymore... fluids.. and stuff.

the team... the A team...

Okay~ That was so 1990s.. and they were truly awesome!

Anyway, on some days I dread facing my little lappie; wondering what new error code I'll get, wondering what other typo mistakes I've made that effectively makes my script a certified virus.

i used to think vista suckalot


now...


im positive vista suckalot

Some days when I think my script is ready for a test launch, I boot up the test pc, remote control it from my lappie, push the files in - hard, runas admin and brace for impacttt!! >.<

I shut my eyes tightly as the script looks back at me with its awesome fury

After the dust settles and the radioactive particles evenly spread across the now-turned wasteland of ASCII symbols, I opened my eyes and behold;

The command failed to complete successfully.

Orly?

Bleh~

Back to work~



p.s. no script is bug free (unless of course it's made up of one line)

| late for work?

You see kids; in the working world, one must be ever cunning in taking opportunities to get yourself out of Some Deadly Situations® (it's not really a registered trademark, i'm just using it because i can). One of the most perilous situation to be found in is when you come in late for work one day and your boss asks you to, "Explain yourself Andrew! You're TWO staraliasdollarpercent HOURS LATE!!".

And if you're a rather tech-savvy dude/dudette (nerd/nerdette) you've probably heard of this little handy killer app called Photoshop.

You see where I'm getting? Shoooop some pics to give a proof as to why you're late and you'll be guiltless (unless he does photoshooooping too and then yaskrewed)! Thankfully, Cracked.com has graciously given us fine examples of such shoooops in sequence from the moment you wake up.

Now. Behold the wonders of the winternet.

there was a bear in my bathroom!

ninjas stopped me!

bumblebee humped my car!

satnav was pointing me to silent hill (and pyramid head was chasing my sorry ass around)!

the beatles were crossing my street (and they took forever)!

i crashed into a google earth marker!

a thwomp blocked my path!

an agent trashed my car (and this isn't really happening because we're living in a virtual world and our bodies and sleeping in pods with these Epic Twelve Inch phallic thingies penetrating our skulls to connects us to the matrix of which they're using our bodies like batteries cause we blocked out their primary source of energy which was the sun and for that, yes, we're dumb)!

ultraman was fighting some monster (and caused a massive jam)!

and lastly..

i was gonna enter the company elevator and suddenly i was in a land of magical wonders and wonders charlie~, called narnia!

Cracked.com helped me through tough times. Thank you crack.

So once again. Remember kids; the working world is a land filled with dangerous people. Stay sharp and prosper.

Outz~

| what happens next?

First off, our beloved Ps Joel from Philippines was explaining to me the difference between bible colleges and cemeteries seminaries.

"Technically speaking, there’s a big difference with a Bible College and a Seminary. Some people use the terms interchangeably but a seminary is the next step above a Bible college. A college offers Bachelors' Degrees, while a seminary is graduate level offering Master's degrees and often Doctorates ".

Gotta love Ps Joel. Would love to be his student one day. hehe~

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Well.. It's been almost 3 weeks since Final Year Mission Trip '09: Philippines. The 20 of us (including Ps TKC®) are back in Malaysia safe and sound and a lil' sick'ish here and there. No worries, no one was infected with the AH1N1 virus or as I like to call it, Ahini.

Most of us have completed our studies and are now either have a job or are jobless. A few exceptions; the special few of us are still studying. We're slow and dumb.
/frowns

In any case, we came back to Malaysia exhausted from the journeying but yet filled, brimming with knowledge and experience. Ps TKC® said to me in the bus on the way down to Melaka (yea, i'm sitting next to her), "Now to return back to normal life and face the reality (of life)".

As much as we would love for this feeling, this energy to continue and last, life around us as we know it would tend to suck it all up and out of us and we would be no different from how we were before. Much like how we're energized in youth camps and later back to school, returning to the rascals that we are. But.. I guess for that to happen, it would only mean our initial focus and expectancy was wrong and/or the effort on our ptart wasn't enough. One-hit-wonders are dumb. This a journey, not a lottery ticket. Char Siew rocks.

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Celebrated brother's birthday on one of the weekends at Sibaraku. No, we didn't eat at the teppanyaki. Instead, we ate at the sushi restaurant next to it. Same shop, different food.

dad and mom

mom's teppanyaki beef

sashimi bento

the desserts, peanut ice cream, something & something

I'm a firm believer and practitioner of good value-to-price ratio. The food was good but the price wasn't worth it. There's a missing picture of a sashimi boat with 9 slices of assorted sashimies and it costs more then RM30++. Atmosphere was good but that's just about all there is to it.

Since returning, I've been serving for two weeks in a row already and I predict many more weeks to come too but that's not A Bad Thing®. To serve the Lord gives me much joy after all. Good to see that the church is still in one piece. No explosions nor disasters happened.

TKC®'s Tuggy

thank you for the wonderful time last sunday...

the planning continues..

Initially, my internship for Industrial Training programme was to start on the 1st of June but as I've decided to go for the FYMT'09, God opened doors for me to push my training date 3 weeks later and thus, I started my training on the 24th June which would mean that mine will end 3 weeks late too, on the 24th October. I'm currently doing my internship at Infineon (hopefully, God be willing, can get a job here in the future too). My department acronym would be IFMY IT OS DOA CS which stands for Infineon Malaysia Information Technology Operational Services Desktop Office & Automation Client Services. heh~

my desk..

So yea, my department is technically first level support but is actually level 1.5 or so. We fix things the helpdesk people can't fix. As for me, I'm currently under Back Office & Projects, meaning coding, etc. Fun stuff, really. Working at Infineon is rather normal I guess..

the usual police

the usual imprisonment

the usual POW gatherings

I kid about the above. The pics were taken on 3rd July, Friday. There was a bomb threat. The police came and everyone evacuated the buildings and waited at the car park for a good solid hour. Imagine, a solid hour of baking under the sun. Crisp~!

starbucks is back~ yay~!!

Yesterday (Saturday, June 11th), my family went to another Japanese restaurant to celebrate dad's burfday which is on June 13th. So yea,

Blessed Burfday Dad~!!

We went to one of my favourite high value-to-price, namely Sakura House. It's a house-cum-Japanese restaurant run by a Chinese - nice~

dad and mom.. again~

baby octopus

soft-shelled crabbie

pregnant, bone-friendly fish

sashimiiiieeessss

The above sashimi costs RM30.. and it rocks. Hereby rated Some Good Food® due to its awesome taste and value-to-price ratio.

That's all I have for now. In this walk.. this journey of life that is ever straight and narrow, may God give us peace and grace anew all the day through.

Nite peeps~