First week in Phil...
First week in Phil was quite an experience. The culture, the people and the food…..
The contrast in Phil is much greater den I had expected….The city and the outskirts made quite a difference in outlook.
In the city, you tend to see more expensive cars, better maintained buildings, pretty much like Singapore to an extend. But when you hit the outskirts, it is a much different scene. You see squatters beside the railway tracks, more dilapidated houses where you wonder if anyone is actually staying there and worser road conditions compared to those in the city.
It’s quite sad to see such a big difference and you wonder what exactly is the government doing that creates such a big social difference. It makes me appreciate the life I have in Singapore more, having compared to these people.
But on the contrary, it makes me wonder…perhaps they are the true people who are happy and contented with their lives right now. I mean, as our country advances, so do we. We get more education, more knowledge etc. And with that, we ask for more in life, more salary, bigger cars, bigger houses etc….But for them, as long as they make through today, they will leave all troubles behind and be contented while awaiting the start of a brand new day. They don’t fight for more power or for more control. They simply strive for survival and they seem to be contented having a roof over their heads and food on the table. We, however, fight for more. Far from simply fighting for survival.
I mean seriously, they might not even had the opportunity to touch a computer to play games while we are here competing to get more RAM for our coms or laptops, having the centrino technology, P4 blar blar blar…
It is a contentment of a different sort I guess…
On the whole, it was quite and eye opening experience for me. =)
The first week here has been really tiring, all the time working and only reaching back hotel around 9 plus. By the time you shower and prepare things for the next day, it’s time to sleep and await another long day already…
This will probably be the pattern for the next 2 weeks more or so before the UAT kicks in and things will preferably slow down a little. Hopefully I can try to get more shopping done perhaps? Hahaha…some of the stuffs r really cheap compared to what we have in Singapore. I’ll prob try to see if I have time to go for some proper shopping and look for levi’s stuffs..kekeke..heard it’s pretty cheap here. So, we’ll see how the project goes.
Because here safety is a big issue, we have to travel in big groups, esp when there are girls around, so it’s quite a distance to our hotel from the shopping mall, there’s no way I can go there on my own..feeling abit restricted actually..sigh..but no choice, not in your own soil..can’t complain. So I’ll have to “curb” my shopping spree for now. =P
Well I’ll stop here for now, rather deprived of sleep lately. Haven’t been sleeping well..bed and the pillow sucks…kinda miss home too..hahaha..
Am glad I'm coming back for the weekend..kinda miss sg food too..hahaha..the food here CMI lar..kekeke =)
Till next time…..
Flying...
Tommorrow I will be flying already..Feeling kinda uncertain right now...not exactly sure what to expect I guess...This is the first time I'm going overseas "alone" for work and staying in a hotel for 3 months...
Geezz...I hope things will turn out well..
Can't deny also that I'm feeling a tinge of excitement too...first time mah..Heehee..
Anyway lately it's been crazy...so bz with work I hardly had time to blog. By the time I reach home..I never want to on my laptop again..
Oh yesh..talking about laptop, I've got a new laptop from work...a IBM T42..woohoo..much cooler than my prev laptop, everything cannot work..damn sianz..CMI man!!hahaha..
Anyway I will prob be MIA for awhile before blogging again...I don't think we will have internet connection in our hotels in Philippines, Boss said too ex...so too bad I guess...so...I'll try to blog whenever I can I guess..
Takecare everyone...
Ciaoz!!!!
The Past Week....
Time really flies when you're occupied...
For the whole of last week, it was intensive training for the users in Phil...The whole training should end this week and after which is up up and away to Phil for the official roll-out....
Training was ok last week, except I had the sudden drop of a bomb that I was to take over the entire training on Thurs onwards. This was because we had an internal change in resources and so I had to take over. It was challenging for me actually...and a little mind boogling considering I was still on medication for my cough and sore throat...it was quite a torture actually trying to teach while on the verge of losing my voice and still making sure I was well-understood.
What's worse is my boss had to sit in for my training sessions to "help" me. Well she did honestly and I almost did make a fool of myself for not teaching the right stuffs...Hahaha...
This was because being so new to the coy...I still havent exactly mastered all their complicated business scenarios as yet...So when it comes to using and teaching SAP, I was alright but when it came to specific scenario application, I wasn't so confident...Looking at the bright side of things...it was good that she was around cos then I wouldn't teach the wrong things...but on the other side of things...there goes my increment?*LOL*
Anywayz I'm thankful that I'm recovering...I feel much beta this week...tat's good cos I'll need to gear up as I'm leaving this Sunday.The hope of going for a month and return for another month before flying again has been shattered.This is because like I mentioned b4, we had some internal resources change, one team member is leaving....and pursuing a new career in NZ. How envious...2 have since left...the other left for Germany...*sigh* It is quite demoralising to a certain extent...so now..I'm really stucked for the entire 3 mths rollout...I'm hoping it will not extend..else flying in and out continously for 3 months is rather daunting...Think I will soon start hating the smell of the plane...
Well...I'm hoping things will go smoothly for me..Feeling abit anxious,excited with a little misgivings...
I'll update again more when I have more time...Tat's all for now..
Bad week....
It’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog. Been rather busy lately. The project has already kicked start since Monday and I am now located at our Jurong office to give the Filipinos training on SAP. It’s pretty tiring for me because it is quite a distance from my house and I have to wake up extra early in order to get here in time. Luckily my dad works somewhere near and I can hitch a ride….
It’s been a roller coaster really, I’ve been sick since last week…I haven’t exactly recovered and as a result of sleepless nights coughing through the nite…my fever came back Monday again. It was a torturous day for me basically…had to endure the entire day of presentations, feeling so tired and a throbbing headache…sheeeshh…
Anyway I went to see doc that night, took my medicine and went to bed early…my company recommended doctors really sucked man…can’t stand it…If it weren’t free, I wouldn’t even bother to drag my sick ass over just to be treated like some ‘chao geng” employee…
I mean seriously…y do the doctors not have professionalism anymore?I don’t get it? They treat u like some MC begging employee of some company of whom you will charge exorbently for the pointless consultations and the unnecessary medication. Seriously..u call that professionalism? I was running a fever, having a throbbing headache, coughing till mad and almost choking at my own cough…How pathetic…and SHE! That bloody unprofessional doctor din even bother to glance at my really sore throat and when she measured my temperature, she din bother to tell me if my fever is high or something and yet she gave me fever medication. How crap! And her advise to me was “ Drink lots of water and avoid crowded areas….” What the???I think I can pretty much be a doctor myself now…
Anyway she gave me heaps of medication but no MC…sigh. Well even if she did, I can’t miss work this 2 weeks anyway…so…I’m giving her a break….I am so not going back to that clinic…hate the doctors there…especially the female doctors, had 2 acquaintances and both sucked big time…#@^$^&%^&*($%
Oh well…time for me to stop grumbling and get back to training…
That’s all for now folks!!
Agony day....
It is another gloomy day…with stong wind, thunderous lightning and heavy rain…Bad combi if you ask me…esp when it’s and hr and fifteen minutes to off work time. I dread it when I have to go back home in the rain. By the time I reach the bus stop, chances are my lower body is soaked in rain water….Sigh…
I am in quite a bad shape today…having a sore throat since yesterday...progress into slight cough today...running a slight temperature… and having body ache right now. A GP would say I’m showing signs of a pending flu! And as much as I dread this…I’m also having my period…with such a combi…it can never get worse!How ‘fantastic’ is that man!-.-“
Today’s the agony day with a capital A! Sigh…
My boss’s mother-in-law passed away today…she suffered from brain tumour…it seemed like only awhile back when I heard about her diagnosis and now she’s lost the cancer battle. A fren of mine had also lost his battle wif cancer just last November…he hasn’t even hit 30 and still haf a long way thru life…it just shows how fragile life is.
Even how strong mankind is…we still fall pray to the smallest cell…a cancer cell. It just shows one thing, no matter how powerful, how strong, or even how big something is…there’s always a counter effect…perhaps this re-signify the theory that there is always a balance to everything…too much of anything is never good..…
I personally think this is so very true. We should cherish life as it is, never try to go too extreme and try things that man should never have temper with…like cloning, bio war fare etc etc…as clique as it can be…we should really be nice to one another instead of sticking threats at each other n trying to kill off each other in the name of power and status…world peace in general really…
I’m not really going into some beauty pageant or something…it’s just something that I truly believe and at the same time find it bewildering to see why can’t men simply live in peace together…It will be forever a question that even God himself cannot answer when he created us…..
Rantings
It’s been awhile since I’ve updated my blog. It’s weird that sometimes I have so much thots but I hardly ever get to write them down. Perhaps I shld invest in a tape recorder sometimes…so that I can just type them down whenever I have the time….
Well for starters, I have just crossed over my probation period and is now a proud confirmed employee of my company. It’s a good feeling, however the sad thing is…no increment…=(
But looking on the bright side, a sacrifice is necessary in order to get to greater heights!=)
I browsed through some blogs during the weekends…in fact I was curious as to what are the essential “ingredients” to a successful blog. Successful in the sense that lots of pple visit you site for some reasons and that your blog is actually published in papers and is widely mentioned along peer bloggers…
So…I went in search for these blogs and realized this….
There isn’t exactly a particular reason to why these blogs are crowned popular. The only thing that I realized is that, these bloggers blog what readers want to read or like to read. There isn’t a particular reason to why their blog should be read more than others…it’s juz purely because it appeals more to the crowd. And with the added publicity…it creates this mirage that their blog is more worth while to read than others…..
To some other readers, reading other pple’s blog could even be a way of find solace, relieving from being “you” for awhile…
To me, writing a blog is really about how I feel right now. All the rants and ravings I have about the things surrounding me. But honestly, not everything that’s in my life is up here in this blog. Somehow I still don’t feel too safe about writing EVERYTHING here, I tend to be more reserve about things…Perhaps I’m being too reserved unlike some others who are so open about their feelings. But if you ask me, I think there’s still some fakeness in their frankness…it’s more like writing a story more than writing something about urself…maybe I’m wrong…=)
