My new job

Recently i have changed a new job in a totally new industry. 1st time i need to remember so so many product names. Hehe.. of cuz comparing to retail shops or logistics, mine is nothing. =P


So stress for the 1st 2 weeks, reports reports and reports... deadlines after dealines. Almost everday has at least 1 report deadline, sometimes 2. I don't know how am i going to survive in such stressful environment, but 1 thing i know.. if i can't make it, i am lousy.


Due to it is a multi-national company, my overseas colleagues' names are really "special". Long and difficult to pronounce, but to them.. my Chinese name also confused them a lot. Everyone is calling me different name. Different system administrators created different user ID for me and i even need to record down my user ID. Gosh!! My user name is more than my password.


After struggling 2 hectic weeks, finally all the reports are gone. I started to have time to study or look at their operation and other daily tasks. Thank god.


Let's hope i will adopt to this new environment fast, "live" safe and sound. =P

Accounts

Today there are 3 university students coming to my company to do some project, so few of us attend to them.

My boss asked us to intro ourselves, so the sales people 1 by 1 introduce themselves, all were very good and fluent. Comes to my turn, i only said, "I am Chiek Yee, accounts".

My boss was teasing me... oh? so shy? come on, tell them more about you.

I answered, "that's why i am doing accounts". Everyone was laughing at me. ;'(

Then the 3 students' turn to introduce themselves. The 1st 2 students are studying Finance & Marketing, so no problem. The 3rd student.. she paused a while....

My boss asked... you forgot your name?

The she replied.. i am XXXX.... studying Accounts.

Now everyone laughed even more, said really Accounts style... same same.

Six Lessons

This Monday, my boss treated my colleague & me for lunch at Turf Club. We saw some people were learning riding the horses there. Because i was quite interested in learning, so when we were leaving, i went to enquiry about the lessons.

After getting into the car, my boss asked me how's it?

I answered, "I will need to take six lessons, after that they will assess & arrange which category i should be in". Suddenly my boss kept on laughing, he said i had pronounced "six" wrongly as "sex", so.... after sex lessons, they will evaluate...

Grrr... since this monday until now... 4 days, he still can't stop laughing at me everyday. ;'(

Waltz~~

Think around 2 weeks ago, 1 of my colleague suddenly thought of learning some ballroom dance. Such a good & busybody colleague like me, of cuz, i will be joining her too!! =D

Together with another sales colleague, 3 of us went to sign up with great expectation. Well, please don't mislead by our expectation. We were expecting some handsome guys, hmm... okok, at least around our age. The sales colleague told us, don't expect too much, should be uncles & aunties cuz we are learning at Community Centre. I told her last time i learned salsa, most of them are younger than me!! Well okok, the salsa was learned at those dancing schools, not CC.

1st day Waltz. Just stepping into the classroom, i got a shocked!! Really all uncles & aunties. somemore 1 uncle took out those mint sweets & ate. I got the feeling he got bad breath. Sob sob... Anyway, the class started and what a surprised was that those uncles were already known the waltz basic steps and some style or pattern. Not sure if they just came to pass time? but if they know the basic already, they should at least join the intermediate or higher level classes.

Luckily the class was very fun, lots of laughters.. thanks to my colleague. The teacher hasn't started to teach, she already self-dance there. The whole class just kept laughing at her. So funny.

Although with uncles & aunties, we still look forward for every Thu class. It really get rid of our tireness after whole day work. =)

BCM

What's BCM? It is Business Continuity Management. Basically is how we continue the business if we have sudden disaster, eg. small case like IT failure, or bigger case like office on fire & we cannot back to premises to work for 1 week or longer time.

Well, recently we were busying attending the course, taking theory exam. Oh Yeah!! It finally over & i had happily clear all the BCM knowledge out of my tiny brain (trust me, just to clear the memory space) & .... OMG!!! what!!! There will be an audit by external BCM auditor!!! They will be conducting "interview", asking you how you react.

Such a prolong, endless process. Tomorrow will be my turn for the BCM audit. Sob sob, please burn me together with the premises if there's any fire.