Bye to my first job~

11 July 2011

While going through my 'unorganised photos' folder, I suddenly remembered that there is an event in my life which I wanted to write about and remember but never got round to doing it~ The day I left my first real job (not counting that part time job after SPM and my internship) was a really memorable day. I truly think that this job gave me lots of good friends that I can look to for help and advice. Aww.. I don't miss the company but I miss my colleagues.. I remember crying like mad on the bus ride back home, when it finally sank in that I was leaving T__T

My old workplace~ don't miss the computer that much since I'm using Windows 7 with a flat-screen monitor now, heehee.. but it still felt kind of weird when I went back to visit and saw my seat being occupied by a new employee..

Luckily with this picture, I'm able to recall that lunch on my last day was at Sushi Zanmai, can't remember what I ate though, haha.. With my lovely group mates TAP, CLE, TSW and myself -- SYT (We used initials on all our work to identify who did what~)

At the end of the day, the symbolic process of handing over my portfolio to the most patient and meticulous senior in the world, Ms LYH.. I swear, even I would like to knock myself over my head over some careless mistakes that I sometimes make, but she is always so patient when checking my work, made me feel so guilty sometimes..

A final group photo with the members of VK group minus TAP, who was busy releasing an announcement i think.. You can obviously see here that my boss looks like she's about to cry, which breaks my heart since she is just the most awesome boss ever.. and it was like my absence was going to pile more work onto her fragile shoulders, since they hadn't found a replacement when I left.. even now, she's still complaining about me leaving her, lol..

Since it was after working hours and I was still going through my handover list, these very free people were just hanging around waiting for me to finish (of course the photo wasn't taken by me ok! :P) I was VIP of the day, yay~

With the lady with all the gossip, and the one who called me Master Sifu since she always asked me for help when drafting her official memos and email.. she's kind of scary to people who cross her, but I must be a very likeable person, cos we got on ever so well together.. heh! :D she was pregnant when I left and now her little prince is more than one month old already, how time flies!

Caught Mr Hasbullah of the filing department just before he left for the day, the other filing guys had all gone back already, since they always leave at 5.30pm sharp.. He's the one I always went to for help in binding the endless copies Memorandum and Articles of Association that clients were always requesting for. I always stuck the tape on all crooked, and he is after-all an expert in all things to do with filing and binding.. At my new job we don't have such admin assistants and I realised that I'm actually quite good at M&A binding after some practice, lol..

The customary photos in at the reception area with the company name and logo behind us, I can't think of anyone who left without taking a pic here.. haha..

In the main boardroom.. pardon me for being that round, I get rotund easily if I eat heavy dinners everyday, and there had been quite a lot of farewell dinners around that time.. @.@~

Sobs, all boycotting me for leaving them in Malaysia..

When I started working, I was the most junior in the group, a year and a half later, I had 2 'little kids' to bully, heehee~

Chairing a farewell 'meeting' in one of the smaller boardrooms, before we wreaked havoc inside, luckily no one came to report us to the big boss :D

Our canvas for some artwork :):)

Caught in the act? Vandalising??! O.o..

Nobody thought of getting me a real farewell card, so this is what I got.. Cute eh?? :)

The talented artist and me~

Hahaha... thumbs down for the guy who went on leave even though it was my last day T_T

You disappointed us, Mr AKJ

With my bestie in the office. Ms ESM whom I first met in Liverpool.. She started work only a week after me and we used to have delivery vegetarian lunch together at the typewriter area, before our work-lunch gang was established.. remember??? :D

This was my 'next to leave' list, but I think I got it wrong, because no. 6 on my list was the first to leave.. quite a shocker really.. oh well, no one's going to stay forever anyways.. erm, well.. maybe except for the guy who was on leave on my last day, as everyone cursed him to stay forever, lol...

Proceeded to go to level 17 to search for more people to take pictures with, my department was on the 18th floor.. some girls were there practising their cheerleading routine for the Bursa Malaysia Rat Race contest.. (Supposed to blog about the 2010 race which I attended, but haven't got to doing it yet.. haha..)

2010 Oct-Nov batch of colleagues.. only one survivor out of the 4 of us, the rest have since resigned~

Last picture, this is with Corin from our internal accounting department, the one I always went to when there was anything wrong with my invoices, and also the Tupperware person who supplied me with Tupperware covers.. @.@ didn't realise her eyes were closed in the only photo I have with her until now.. aiya...

One interesting thing that I miss about my old job (other than my colleageus) was the fact that there were so many people selling things that I found pretty useful and I can't find those stuff anywhere else now, such as cosmetics (from a despatch guy who got his stock from magazine editorial offices), dutch lady yoghurt drink at only RM4 for two bottles, amazingly yummy chinese new year cookies, arrowhead chips, Dior accesories (one of the clients) and as mentioned, Tupperware.. lol.. Can you imagine, I once got a brand new full sized Lancome Genifique Youth Activator for only RM30 from the despatch guy who didnt know how much his goods were worth!

On to my second job now, sincerely hoping that there will be things that are worth missing too when its time to leave... *crossing fingers*

CNY 2011~

Whoa, how much faster can the Earth spin??! Can't believe its Chinese New Year all over again! @.@ granted its in January this year instead of February like previous years, but the last CNY seemed like just awhile ago.. Hmm, or is it because I've been super unproductive in 2011 in terms of blog posts, since I'm digging this post out from my huge pile of drafts from last year.. *groan*

Last year was special for me since it was the first time that we had a reunion dinner with only three people.. I think Im getting used to the idea now :) (Just had our small but cosy reunion dinner just now and it was simply yummy~! Props to Mum!!) It was also the first time that I joined my friends to go about town to 拜年 and collect angpows.. Never got to do that since we moved to JB because we always went back to either Penang or KL for CNY.. Truth be told, it was rather fun to visit the houses of friends that I've known for ages but never got the chance to step into their homes.. :)

Will be starting work on the third day of CNY this year, sobs.. Will miss the extra day's holiday in during my old job.. Just to reminisce, last year, while still working in KL, I got to have Yee Sang i think twice in two days? Can't really remember.. but I know I had it more times than previously..

Our little 'feast' at Esquire Kitchen.. the food wasn't great but the company was.. :):) to my work-lunch gang, friends forever!!

The second time, went with my favourite boss to The Han Room at The Gardens.. After reading the reviews, I was really anticipating the food there.. In the end, I was greatly disappointed, the food was good but the services was so horrible, it put me off going a second time.. We waited more than 2 hours for our food and they still somehow managed to get the orders wrong.. and the waiter didn't even bother to tell me that the fried rice I ordered was meant to be shared by at least 2-3 people when I ordered.. so evil! I think they only serve the richer guests well, since those who ordered the expensive sets didn't face any problems..

Normal chopsticks vs Lou Sang chopsticks~~

With Ed, CLE and TAP.. smiling happily before we realised that we would be starving for another hour or so.. =.=

some of the leng luis in my ex-company.. :)

I was so curious what was in those colourful spoons.. thought they were swan shaped pastries at first @.@




happy angpow collecting gang.. We started with 6 people and ended the day with 10.. haha.. weird how people whom you have not spoken to in ages don't mind visiting your house to collect an angpow..

Oh yeah, and I also got to visit the Dong Zen Temple in Jenjarom with all its beautiful decorations for CNY ~ Like this pic cos my legs look really slim here.. too bad my face does not XD

Wonder what will this year's CNY be like.. Hope I get to go shopping.. really need a pair of new sneakers.. heh!

Merry Belated Christmas!! O.o..

In the blink of an eye, I've been working in Singapore for almost 6 months now.. I know I haven't blogged about my new workplace before but day in day out its almost the same as the number of colleagues I have now is so much lesser than before and it seems to me that they are not as spontaneous as my previous colleagues, so there's much less interesting stuff happening.. T___T

Apparently, we will have a Christmas celebration/ dinner every year as my lady boss is a Christian. This year we had to celebrate much earlier to accommodate everyone's leave schedule. Can you believe that we had our Christmas dinner on 12 December?! @.@~ This year, the dinner was held at Latitude Bistro at this private club on Sentosa Island called ONE°15 Marina Club.

Since there are 11 of us and two bosses=2 cars, and one of the listed companies had an announcement that day, I got to go in a taxi with 2 other colleagues after releasing the announcement. The whole way there we were fretting about how we were going to get home, cos Sentosa Cove, where the club is located is a long long long loooong way in from Sentosa Gateway and the initial plan by our bosses was to go for drinks after dinner and we would only be allowed to go home around midnight :S Thank goodness, we managed to finish early in the end and I very luckily caught the last mrt back!

Exterior of the restaurant, some photos are blur as my phone camera doesn't do well in bad lighting.. @.@

Co Sec Department, LoL at how I used to work in a similar department with around 80 people.. Downgraded.. XD

My senior at work, who really is my senior from college since she was in the same course two years earlier than me.. what a coincidence! :)

Dinner was an all you can eat buffet! The spread wasn't large but there were lots of good stuff to pick from and the dessert section which is my favourite part was quite satisfying~ I only had three rounds though, maybe it was because I didn't feel the need to gorge myself silly when I wasn't paying for the meal @.@~

As you can see, there was sashimi, fresh oysters, crab claws and Maine lobster!! I don't recall eating a lobster straight from the shell before, it was really really good! Sweet and springy~ There was an array of sushi too, but I didn't want to have so much rice, so I skipped that part..

Roast beef (Yums!), Cod fish, samosas and cheese and crackers from the cheese platter~ I remember enjoying the brie cheese but there was one called Reblochon which was incredibly pungent and the taste just stuck to my tongue, definitely not my type of cheese.. I also decided to skip the turkey roast which has a reputation for not being the tenderest type of meat~

Dessert!! warm and gooey bread and butter pudding, assorted cakes, sinfully sweet christmas cookies and pecan pie! I've always wanted to try pecan pie but never knew where to find it,thank goodness it tasted quite good, something like what I'd imagined it would taste like, nutty and not too sweet~

After dinner, we played some games, which were kind of stupid, but rather fun once you immerse yourself into it. First, we played one where two people were assigned to a team and we had to hook our hands together behind our backs so that we would be stuck together back to back, then run around trying to grab the other teams' Christmas hats! Sounds so ridiculous, but it was quite exciting really and great exercise! I think I sweated more that night than I do in one week @.@

Then we switched to the classic pass the parcel game. The losers had to do a forfeit such as: dance like Shakira, walk like a duck or some extreme ones like trying to propose to someone whose parents disapprove of your marriage, lol.. My favourite one was where a chinese colleague, filipino colleague and my boss had to pretend that they were an underwear thief, victim and policeman respectively, and they each had to speak in different languages trying to explain the situation, even without the scenario, it was so funny all of us were laughing like crazy..

Angie trying her hardest to win the hand of her 'lover'.. hahahahaha...

Crazy woman alert!! You'll never guess what I was doing.. :P

after the second game it was time to have the birthday cake~ Since my birthday is only 2 days apart from Angie's, we had a joint celebration and the restaurant had prepared 2 banana cakes for us, lol..

Yippee, I'm 10 years old this year!! :) *Denial much?!*

I wish with all my might~

Blowing out the candle~

Got a birthday card from my colleagues and a birthday kiss from our French client who rents one of the rooms in our office, a very fun person to be with~ All thanks to her, I now know how to say 'How do you do?' and 'I'm very well, thank you' in French.. :D

A very rare evening full of laughter with my co-workers =)

Earlier that week, we had to stay back one Friday evening to set up the christmas tree, which is also a yearly tradition. The tree looked much more impressive than the one at my old office, but it wasn't fun setting it up at all as the centralised air-con was switched off already! *groan*

Group shot~

The tree and a glimpse of my boss who spent ages fussing over the tree, at the same time hindering us from going home

Oh, had a surprise when I went to work yesterday, my boss was giving out photos to everyone from our Christmas celebrations. I'm so glad because I got the one that I liked the most out of the whole lot! Something special since its the first time I have an actual tangible photograph of myself (besides passport sized ones) in ages.. Thanks boss~

I'm still rather undecided as to I'm happy here or not.. sure, working here has its perks i.e. I can afford a car now which I definitely couldn't at my old job but I sure miss my old colleagues and most of all my old boss who has my utmost respect and adoration.. Kind of miss my old job, but I know that the environment is different now since most of the people I had worked with have also left.. le sigh~

What a difference a year makes. Last year's tree at my old job.. smaller tree with less grandeur but you could feel the warmth and love emanating from the office.. This year, we also exchanged gits and set up the tree together but it felt like just another task that we had to finish, with the boss standing there barking orders at us.. I think with the new year, I should try to think of only the good parts and try to hang in there, 1 and a half years more to freedom~!

My favourite photo from 12 Dec 2011:-

Xmas '11