Surviving the first week ...

Today is my 2nd week in my new job, i survived a one whole week of mix of excitement and extreme boringness. Thanks to blogs reading, internet surfiing, yahoo games and my msn & yahoo messenger friends who chatted with me to keep my sanity intact.

I landed myself into another totally different world. It is exciting, but the amount of vocabularies and acronyms is almost overwhelming at first. I was given reading material, and for every page there is at least 20 or so words that I couldnt really understand. I was in a slight panicky at first. I couldnt understand what is CCY .... asked around and found out it is a short form for currency ! Imagine how dumb i felt. Then there was this CRM that kept repeating all over the documents ... which i assumed it stands for Customer Relationship Management. Only later found out how far it was from what it meant. Shit ! I am really in another planet.

Then I started an excel file and list down all the words that are Greek to me. One by one, I look them up at Wikipedia.... the best tool of the century !! After one week of slogging thru the reading materials, the words finally start to make sense. Guess what, after one week, i have a nice list of 100+ new words/acronyms. I havent done this since my primary school. Phew.... that was hard work.

Although i inevitably lost myself in the KL roads, so far i manage to make my way back home. So far, have not yet need to stop and ask the police to send me home.... heheh. Maybe i got some built-in homing device in me.

A small milestone ... but milestone nonetheless.

Expensive Bunga Raya

It is an sarcastic insult that our national flower has been used as a reason to justify for this kind of trip. What were these councilmen thinking when they made this decision ? Did they they think no one would ever know ......

RM70,380 bunga raya trip
By Sheridan Mahavera

09 August, 2007

JOHOR BARU: In February last year, six Johor Baru municipal councilmen took their families to Australia and spent RM70,380 of taxpayers’ money — to learn how to plant bunga raya! Ten months later, another group of councilmen, this time from Kluang, went to Shanghai on another trip paid for by taxpayers.The objective of the trip is unclear, but the councillors made the trip at the height of the catastrophic floods which hit Johor, when most areas of their district were submerged in knee-deep water.

Parking Lessons

Today is free parking today ! At least to me it is almost free. I paid only 1 buck only for parking right in front of my office for whole day. The meter feeder ate my one dollar coins and it gleefully choke up to 3 hours of car park. I suspect the meter is faulty – where got parking so cheap one. That can’t be right. But who cares anyway. I was pretty pleased with myself until my colleagues told me that nobody feeds the meter yet coz there were newly installed last week. Then, I felt pretty dumbo.

After yesterday car park ticket of RM19.50 at PWTC, which I had to pay thru my nose, and almost choked myself in the process. I stubbornly refuse to tell hubby how much the PWTC parking cost, not that he didn’t try to make me talk. He got a weak heart – that’s why I wont tell him. Anyway, that gotta be the first and the last time. PWTC parking is not safe. By the time I collect my car around 8pm, there was hardly anyone around except a few guards here and there. I had to walk a long, long way pass long, dark, eerie corridors and pathway before I finally reached the car park. By the time, I already feel my toes starting to cramp.

The day before, I stupidly parked at the 3rd party car park at Hartamas and paid RM10 (which was the maximum payable). After I nicely parked my car, then only I notice plenty of car park lots around seemed to be free.

Oh well… that all the tuition fees I had to pay to know how much parking fees cost in KL. I found this one website telling about KL open car parks – this gonna be my cost-saving tool in future. As a newbie to KL, I still have a lot to learn.

Time to blog

My blog off and on, not a very regular blogger. It pretty much depends on my mood actually.

What actually makes a conducive environment to blog ? What turns me on is ....

1. Where no people snooping around ur laptop
2. When i am bored, or excited ... I tend to blog.
3. When one is annoymous blogger.... i personally dont want my family or circle of friends to be reading some nasty comment that i made.
4. When i have a lot to express

Now is just the right time & right place & right mood for blogging. I have been itching for a day or two already. Reasons might be

• I am real bored now
• I am a stranger in a new city
• I am constantly lost ( both spiritually and on the roads )
• My boss is far far away.

Yea... i sense that the time has come.