If you are Chinese in Malaysia, probably you know this food called “Lo Mai Kai” (it is Cantonese word). Both my mom and I agree that the “Lo Mai Kai” at Sun Fatt’s Restaurant, is the best. It is five minutes walk from Taman Midah Indian Rojak. But, remember don’t eat too much ya, not a healthy food.
Note: Some content of this blog is more relatable to the members of Central Christian Church.
30 April 2008 was quite a milestone for me as I have been a Christian for ten years. In the month of April 1998, I was invited by my mom, Karen and I visited the church for the first time on Sunday, 26 April 1998, which held in 18th floor, Melia Hotel. When my mom and I reached there, we were ushered to second front row and the preacher that time was Halbert Louis. He preached a sermon called “What are you waiting for?”. Perhaps first impression stays the longest.
Then, the christian reached out to me and studied bible with me the following fours days continually.
(Thanks to Gabrielle who help me to scan my good old baptism photos)
One eye blink, ten years flew by. Now I getting older and my hair is getting lesser 🙁 But, I thank God that I’m still alive, not botak yet and for all his blessings in these ten years 🙂 And I would like to take this little opportunity to thank all these people.
Most of all, God, who sustained me all these years, the teaching and guidance from his Word, his blessings and encouragement, the Holy Spirit and Jesus who is my Saviour.
To Be Continue – Milestone – Ten Year as Christian (Part 2)
March and April’s attendance
Another two more months has passed since Part 2. So, how has I been? Here are some statistic of these two months. For March, my attendance is 85% (miss twice) and for April is 92% (miss once). But, still gotta continue to keep it up, which is still not easy.
Personal Traning (PT)
April is a special month for me because I took up Personal Training (PT). I plan to take up PT but not in the month of April as April is my church’s high month. But due to certain reasons, I signed up. These five sessions which cost me RM378 (included 5% tax), are to be finished in one month time. Has my weight and muscle increased a lot? Not really, just a little. How come it seem to hard to even gain one tiny kilogram? But, I do feel good of these PT and I am quite satisfied the way my personal trainer trained me. If I have the budget, I might continue this PT.
Immune System
I have been monitoring my own immune system since beginning of this year and I think my immune system is okay overall as from 7 Jan until today, I haven’t taken any MC.
What I learnt about immune system is it depends on these four golden factors:
Usually, I see myself doing okay for the first three area but not the last area. My weakness I guess but gotta work harder on it. That’s it of some update of myself at California Fitness for now. Thanks for reading. 🙂
Beginning of this month, my immediate superior gave me an input about my Internet surfing. After the session, I told myself that I am not going to surf the Internet during working hour. It was hard at the beginning because I feel addicted to forum-posting and Internet surfing but I know that the trick is the first few days. Indeed, after successfully ‘tahanning’ for the first few days, the rest of the days became easier. And I did manage to keep up with my decision until today. And since then, I have been more productive in my work and I feel better, less guilty. Thank God for this input from him.
If you have the same problem like me, you can too make a decision to do something about it. If you are a senior to your junior, don’t be afraid to give input to them. You will never know how much those input helps another person.
Yesterday was my last day in Entellium Technologies. It has been three months plus working in this CRM leader company. In the beginning, it is exciting to me because I was given a small assignment. This assignment is an enhancement feature to the existing system.
I have to admit to since then, I wasn’t that happy. Maybe the below are the possible reasons:
Lost the confidence and low self-esteem
At one point of time, I realize that I have been loosing my confidence. I’m not what I used to be in the past. I felt extremely timid when I’m showing the problem in front of my monitor to my supervisor. My confidence has dropped to the pitt, one of the lowest. I’m like someone just come from college, a fresh grad or worst than that. My self-esteem got much affected seeing the one who joins later than me pick up faster than me. I feel that I’m the lousiest in the company. At times, I imagine my work is like washing dishes while others are doing bigger things like cooking, cutting. I don’t feel valuable to the company. I don’t feel I’m important to the company. I feel I’m redundant. But, I need not to let this continue to reign over me. I need to change these thoughts. I need mind change. I don’t have to be low self-esteem. I need not to compare myself with others.
Back Door
When it is about end of the third month of my probation, I think I can’t pull through my probation. So, I think it’s better for me to start to look for job and I did. I searched some jobs in Jobstreet and applied two.
One more month probation as extension probation
At the last day of my third month, my manager talks to me about my employment status. In summary, I wasn’t perform well enough because I couldn’t contribute a lot to the company, which is due to my lack of expertise in one area. And at the end, he gave one more month to see if I can improve to meet his expecation.
Few days later, I received the assignment from my senior. He asked me how long will I take to complete it. I said two weeks. As days went by, I realize that I can finish this assignment on time and this also means very high possiblity I have pull through my one month extension of probation.
Called for an interview
Remember, I did applied two from Jobstreet? One of them called me for an interview and I went. At that time, I feel hesitated, because I have confidence with my assignment and also I can pull through my probation. Besides that, it has been three long months here. If I changes, I need to start again. Also I saw much strength in Entellium. But, I still went for the interview, in thinking, afterall I have nothing to loose.
During the interview, I purposely put a very high expected salary because of what I wrote in previous paragraph. He also asked if he gave me a project in VB.NET, will I take the challenge. I said yes. About the expected salary, we negotiated. It was little than my expected salary but higher than my existing salary. At the end, the interview felt good about me overall but I need to wait for one week to get an answer.
After the interview and my decision-making time
Meanwhile while waiting for that offer, I continued to work on my assignment. It went pretty smoothly. The module I did got more and more refined and clean.
During that one week, it was my decision-making time. At the end, I have decided, if they willing to offer me, I will take it, with two reasons. One is it is a rare opportunity to be given a project using VB.NET. .NET is where I wish to reach. Another reason is the salary is higher than the existing.
One week has passed, I got a call from the interviewer and he agreed to give me an offer. Few days later, I submitted my resignation letter and the same day was also my last day, which is on 30 May 2007 and I will start my new job on 1 June 2007.
Antipation, worriness and prepartion
These similar questions popped up when I got my both previous jobs, Entellium and GLM. “What kind of atmosphere and culture of this new company? What kind of person my superior is? What kind of person my peers are? What problems will I face there? Will I able to cope with my job functions?”
I wish the atmosphere and culture can be like in GLM or ASLI. I wish my superior can like as mature as Mr Heng and Westley. I think I have best moment working with Westley in ASLI, but under Mr Heng also not bad. I think these two ex-superior are the one I respected the most.
At the same time, I also need to prepare for the worst. No matter what the reality is, I should not be regret because this is the risk (taking this offer) that I have taken. No matter what the reality is, I should not blame anyone because I am the one who make this decision and need to bare whatever consequence of this decision.
The good of Entellium Technology
I should have mentioned about this. Anyway, these are what I still remember: