Third day of work + Langkawi trip

Let me announce officially.

As of 13th of July 2009, Monday.
I am the Human Resource Officer of Dekon Holdings Sdn Bhd, Menara Sunway, dealing with employee and industrial relationship, also foreign workers affair.

Dekon Sdn Bhd is the smart partner for Sunway Group, also the main contractor of Sunway Construction. Dekon has got few subsidiary companies : Dekon Style, Dekon Tajul, Dekon Systems, etc. Hence I would say we are a growing company and we're now still hiring.

Looking for project engineers, M&E supervisors, HR officers, etc. Of course, the nature of business of Dekon is construction, so all civil engineering graduates are welcome to apply to be part of Dekon. I met many people, and I would like to say that people in Dekon are friendly and happy. The first day I had been introduced to mostly all the staff that were present, including the Senior Executive Director, GM, AGM, etc.

I also visited two sites of Dekon- South Quay and RC8. The buildings were really nice in South Quay. Today is only my third day, I'm still looking forward to learn my 'real' job, because I did a lot of office boy work these few days: filing, send letters to different floor, etc.

Pray for me, that I can work my best in the company and not give up. Also pray that the working environment there is healthy and cheerful because corporate politics are terrible.


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One of the reason why I didn't update blog as often is because I went to Langkawi and Taiping last week, then I started work on monday.

I shall take it slow in updating the posts and pictures.


My first time travel with plane since standard 6 (standard 6 not counted because I don't even remember how it felt)



Here is where we stayed: Langkapuri Inn. I think this place was not too bad. Basic facilities were provided and this place is very near the beach.



Only one thing I have to complain about Langkawi, it's too expensive to stay there many days. Reason being, besides the beer, everything else was so expensive... haha.

Today is my first day of work at Dekon Holdings as a HR officer dealing employee and industrial relations and foreign workers affair. First day was boring as i'm only having head knowledge input. But at the same time i feel nervous that i'm not able to perform. What happen to my self esteem. Hmm.

the weather

"Cannot play already, look at the wind so strong, looks like tsunami is coming"
this was what I said yesterday to my friend.

Human are funny.
I think our emotions and feelings are even more unpredictable than the weather.
There's always a sign of thunder storm or tsunami (like the strong wind)
But there's no time you can foresee any changes in our emotions.
We can be high today, and low the next day
We can be happy the whole day but downcast at 11pm
We are excited about the day, suddenly only to sob about the past.

Emotional I am. Are you?

About half an hour more I'll be going to church to teach in an English class
this is a community project we do for the pupils.
First time being an English teacher.
Don't really know how should I plan my class, no training provided because I was sort of half way the year came in and be a full time teacher.
Just last week I accidently ponteng because I thought that there was no class.
But in fact there was no class, but a combined interaction and games with students.
So yea, a teacher ponteng. But I wasn't informed.

Life is funny - human

wondering the psychology behind monday blue.
why people don't feel like working on monday?

why only when Michael Jackson dies, everyone wants to buy his album
and post on facebook saying how much they admire him
where in real life, never a single word about MJ is mentioned by them.

I thought the process of applying for job and getting the job is a simple and short process
talking about efficiency, if the company takes so long to decide to hire you or not,
forget about efficiency in that company
you surely have loads of work to do and have overtime most of the time
because the culture is set by the higher management.

kids when they reach a age where they can talk and ask for things,
parents have to learn to say no
if not the beginning of spoilt kids was just a second ago

Nice and awesome are not the word to describe how good transformer 2 is, or vice versa
you have to state your reason why you think it is good
different people see different thing, some like the CGI, some like the storyline
so if any of it is not your cup of tea, so you have to express it and not follow the crowd
I haven't watch T2 yet, but I would i suppose
just to see whether I'm that kind of plot watcher or effect watcher.
rest assured, I'm that kinda of fellow who like to watch mindless movie, things that don't require me to think so much, jokes that are so lame that i would just laugh without even need to think for a second.

the reason i'm typing this at 1pm is because I am still jobless.
and I didn't work in the part time work which i supposed to be
so I declared a day off for myself
and hope that tmr i won't have tuesday blue
my phone is running low in credit. in fact sending an sms to active10 number is not allowed.
maxis suck.

I think digi is better, is the smarter choice.
but the signal is not strong to penetrate buildings so you might not get good reception indoor
although the call rate and package is really cheaper compare to maxis
the yellow duck is cute
digi mascot is cute
i am cute too


random,
human

Special Effect

Continuing from previous post regarding using colour contrast in composition, this one is something similar, but I added a twist into it.

Using a dslr camera with a zoom-able lens while taking pictures, it enables me to be a little more creative in the phototaking session.



If your attention is not immediately on the rubik's cube, then this picture fails to bring out the main focus. By using white background/surrounding, I can use the colours on the rubik's cube to make it outstanding from the white. While I was taking this picture, I turned the zoom and it gave me this kinda effect.

I can also do this in photoshop actually, but what's the fun when you can do it yourself? :P Something a point and shoot camera cannot give. I shall always remember to keep being creative with the tools that I have.

Making a more interesting pic?

I remember I posted something about photography composition
http://hocmun.blogspot.com/2009/02/basic-composition-for-picture.html

After 10 minutes of googling and speed reading of my own blog, I finally found it. Oh no I googled my own blog. Too much non sense that I don't even remember when I wrote what.

Anyway, to keep up with the blogsphere, I want to write something about photography composition too. It was about simplicity and rule of third the last round, now is about colour.

What really stands out in a picture most of the time is the colour. Perhaps that's why so many people like Nikon Dslr because Nikon's dslr always give you vibrant colour (says many). I don't know, because I don't have a Nikon, and I always photoshop my pictures.

In order to bring out a subject in a picture, the easiest way is to use strong colour contrast. Example, white stands out against black background, yellow stands out against blue background, red stands out agains't green background.



So, if you don't have a dslr to make the kinda blur background picture (that's what we call bokeh), then use the colour contrast to make your picture more interesting. Cheaper way of achieving the same result - to make people look at your picture for 10 seconds.

Third Interview Gonna Go

an hour more to my interview at Dekon.
I'm wondering what will happen later.
Every interview is something different and I'm anticipating the best to happen.

No pictures lately.
My life is so sad, lol. Come la call me out for photoshoot.

I Graduate!

I thought I wouldn't know my final sem result until I pay my debt...
But what surprises me was I received two letters from UKM.
One is my result for the first semester in third year, what happened was I got hutang kat UKM so I didn't get to take my result slip from my faculty. The staff said it was at the Bahagian Akademik place, which is inconvenient for me to go and take.
So I just ignored the slip because I already knew my result then.

So the second letter was the result for the final sem! YES!
Nothing great, not even a 3.0.
But I got an A- for my thesis, hahahahaha.
and CGPA 2.87, I suppose is a third class degree.

By the way, just a quick update.
Regarding the job at Dekon Holdings, I got a call for a second interview.
This time is for a different job function of the HR position- industrial/employee relation, and foreign worker.
I'm going for third interview/assessment on Monday.
Shall elaborate more on the job if I got the offer.
However, it's not an executive job, it's just an officer level job, so probably salary gonna be lower,
but there's no standard salary, so I suppose it's willing employer willing employee.
So we shall see.

Goodnight.