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engbeng
Feb. 22nd, 2006
09:05 pm - fine fine
Work is fine so far.
Every morning start meeting, 'prayer' session, make speech, then start work.
Open Dreamweaver, Photoshop, MS Word & MSN and hope that they don't crash on my Pentium 3 PC especially MSN.
There is no established workflow or whatsoever:
- This is a word document with a rough framework of the website, go design a page.
- Drawing a framework on word docu is easy but on dreamweaver is not
- TMD bo pian, self-study on CSS, dhtml stuffs myself
- sometimes the power supply will snapped at times and all my unsave work ^&*^(
Nearing end of work at 5pm, start writing daily work diary.
5.30pm go for training on 'marriage & relationship'.
6.15pm rush to bus-stop for Bus 656 and pray for no traffic jam.
7pm go for dinner with GIP ppls and start cursing and swearing on work.
Anyway, yesterday night, our neighbour from downstair knocked on our door furiously and threatened to burn down our apartment caus' we made too much noise. at 1030pm. Seriously, China's apartment's wall has zero sound-proofing capability, I don't think we make a lot of noise. And you know what, we found a piece of half-burnt paper outside our doorstep! Warning warning......
人生一世，草木一春。
来如风雨，去似微尘。
闹里有钱，静处安身。
明知山有虎，莫向虎山行。
樱花尤怕风光老，岂可教人枉度春。
Feb. 14th, 2006
12:31 am - First day at work
First day of work in my company.
Gotten the job of 网络编辑. The 总编 said we will get to do online, publication, online tv etc. Pretty exciting. She is a nice lady, and a mass comm graduate too! Done radio broadcasting, magazine in various states/countries.
We have to attend company meeting daily at 830am, stand up and read out loud reading from some management book and Chinese philosophical texts, and sing the company's MTV song. Wah lau, machiam like attending Chinese lesson in school. It was a culture shock! I don't understand what I was reading! Tooo cheeem!!!
Working hours from 830 am to 530 pm. Then from 530pm to 6pm, we have a training session on various stuffs. The current course is marriage and family!
Filing up job application forms in Chinese was a headache!! SO many wors dunno how to write!! The psychometric test in Chinese was worse, so many maths questions in CHINESE!!! Got essay-like questions also!! Wah lau..kept using my hp's chinese input to look for words that I dunno how to write.
Feb. 12th, 2006
01:14 am - Photos
Photos of first week in Beijing:
http://kohengbengsphotos.fotopic.net
01:04 am - First Day
The feeling of loss sunk in when I walked through the exit for check-in because I would not be able to see my parents and friends for the next six month. As I turned back, I could still see Felicia, David, Mr Ho and Dad through the glass panel. The next time I turned my head back, only my father was there. I waved to my father one last time, then he walked away. The feeling of loss turned into reality. It hit me really badly. I felt the pain when waiting at the boarding point, when waiting for the plane to take-off, and during the flight. The look of depression was clear on my face. I kept thinking about you people in Singapore, my parents, my colleagues and my rabbit.
And I missed an important call at the airport. I tried calling back but to no avail. Another hit-and-miss. Nothing out of ordinary caus’ it always happened for us. But yesterday night was my last night in Singapore.
But I felt better after getting into thick of the action. It all started with a frantic sprint from the carpark back to the airport terminal in Beijing after Xinrong, Chengji and me, myself included, left my backpack there. My passport, Peking Uni letter and RMBs were all in the backpack! My heavy panting didn’t help in getting enough oxygen from the thin air into my brain and I was left with a stinging headache.
First stop was to my posh but dirty apartment with some necessary facilities such as the water-heater not in working order. All of us didn’t bath tonight! Too cold! – 8 Degree Celcius!
Xinrong’s and my workplace is on the same floor as NTU’s GIP office! Heheh, can run over to complain if we get ill-treated!
‘Hey, even my teeth is feeling cold.’ -- Beng
‘Hahhahha.’ -- Xinrong
‘Don’t talk so much then!’ – Cj
‘We need a hook-er (to hang our clothes).’ – Beng to Cj while lying on our bed
‘我知道我不值得你相信。’ – Beijing xiao meimei
I ‘picked’ up a xiao meimei, looked about 14-16 years-old, at the store selling SIM cards. I got her number and we’re meeting her tomorrow because she is so nice to help bring us to duplicate our apartment’s keys. I got no ill intention. But hey, that is my first Beijing gal’s telephone number I gotten!
