Switching over to Tumblr

Though i have been studying for exams, i am also playing around with new stuff cuz i am always distracted :x the problem of 10 days to study for a module...

So, i have started a new blog at Tumblr cuz it provides better user interface options. It simply looks better, without me having to manipulate the css and html codes :P

Ah, here it goes: http://ceghnoy.tumblr.com/

probably the last post on this blog @ Blogger that is owned by Google.

tough decision

Didnt blog for a damn long time. was busy with projects, schoolwork, as well as job interviews...

i have just rejected a job offer from a company offering me rather enticing renumeration and benefits, as well as my high interest level in the job scope offered. it was and is still a hard decision. but i eventually made the decision after considerations of time and principles.

I still got up till December this year to explore my possible career paths and options, and it would probably be too premature to accept a job offer now, because i believe within the next half a year, my thoughts about my future career would continue to change.

Although i could have accept the job offer and continue to explore my options and go for job interviews behind their back, i chose not to. because i believe in karma. it just doesnt feel right for me to do so.

Though i feel some pain after the rejection of the job offer, i believe that it should be a smart decision. It would be only fair to the company and the other applicants if i reapply for the job should i eventually decide to comply with my interest level in this job.

While i still have some job interviews going on, i guess that i would also have to reject them under normal circumstances, should i get an offer from them. Cuz i didnt manage to explore my options more thoroughly and i do not wish to shortchange myself so to speak.

Moving on, i shall be more pro-active in my job applications and career planning in the next half of the year. Only then, when i get an offer, i would be able to safely accept the offer without regrets.

back in sg

here i am back in sg, for the 4th day... been back since 13th january... but i started school right away on 14th january... school's not fun... cuz of the foreseeable busy period i would have with my projects and my FYP...

dear is leaving for Poland in a month's time... i am hoping that i would have enough time to accompany her... but i do not want to jeopardise my school work, since it's a crucial last year for me... with my FYP professor sounding unhelpful, and my FYP sounding intensive...

hope that i can balance this out and hope that i can get some understanding from dear too...

back from beijing trip

after almost a week in beijing, i am back in shanghai =X was in beijing from last sunday nite till today morning :P visited BIRTV show, visited several clients, and had a demo testing at one company, which failed though... but nvm that, at least problems surfaced, and these gave us more motivation to solve these problems :)

BIRTV show was very big! a total of 9 exhibition halls... and we walked till my legs were very tired, hands tired with all the carrying of the heavy brochures, which i had to bring back half of them... had a brief idea of how the broadcast market is in China, and i can say it is overwhelming to me. many China companies. many foreign companies. Our main focus was to find potential System integrators who would be interested in buying our software for OEM. But of course, to me, it was more of an educational tour, since Leonard was around, and he gave me some ideas of what to look out for in this show for broadcast and Xpress.

Yesh, and there would be quite a bit to follow up on, especially for the meetings we have had before the show and during the show itself. But well, it's definitely better than having nothing to do. I hate lull periods. I don't like to have little to do in the office. So come on, keep me busy :P hahaha but not too busy. cuz i got other things to do....biz case, xun ji, and the coming nvc...

got a day off from Anne on Friday to bring her friend, candice's relatives (a couple) around. We went to the Beijing Olympics stadium, the so-called 鸟巢 and 水立方. felt proud as a chinese when i am in the 鸟巢, probably cuz of the olympic songs played in the bird's nest :) Took some pictures, had put them up on my facebook :) there are other photos in the couple's camera, which i hope i can get soon :)

And yeah, met up with some of the noc beijing pple (4 only though) + 2 ntu friends of theirs at nite. cool and friendly people. would keep in contact with them, especially if i get to go to Beijing again :P it was a last minute event, even though my boss did arrange a dinner which included her friend's noc beijing intern. They went to eat 过桥米线, which i have eaten before. and cuz i was super full from the whole day of food (korean buffet + afternoon tea + peking duck), i didn't touch the food at all lol. Then they brought me to 南锣古镇 for a walk, a nice street with many pubs, but the buildings are all cheena-like. quite cool :P i like the idea of fusion between western and cheena flavours :P

and today is the first time i took a bus back from hongqiao airport =X tiring journey back. around 30 minutes in a crowded bus, with my heavy luggage. it was just to try it out, since i had always taken taxi back home lol. i guess i would nv take a bus back from hongqiao airport anymore lol, 20 plus RMB is ok lah to save the time and effort :)

tired day. feel like sleeping. slept a bit though for around 15 minutes ba lol.

discussed dear's birthday celebration... sort of settled on the scale and venue, and the people to invite, which actually includes different leagues of her friends lol. feeling bad of not being able to be present for her birthday... how i wish china's national holiday lies on her birthday, but too bad it is a week before her birthday. and i cannot get such a long leave... i have taken more than enough leave for the past 6-7 months, a total of 10 days i think. my boss was really kind enough to let me go, though i can feel that she is not very pleased about it. I am not being sexist, but female bosses tend to be pettier...

hmm, i would try to do something that can let her feel my presence during her birthday. Hope that it would alleviate her sadness abit. but well, of course it is not as good as me physically being there singing a song for her. but then, i guess it's better than nothing ba. my 21st birthday was not good, and it's high likely that i would leave some scars in her 21st birthday. Haiz, i guess life is always full of regrets, and we have to continue to live on even though there are regrets here and there. what we can do is to learn from our mistakes and make sure that the same old mistake is not committed again.

ok, that's for all. Now i got many things on hand. Follow-ups, Biz case, Xunji... got to clear them as fast as possible. maybe not for xun ji, but i would have to get my butt working for the follow-ups for the meetings in beijing, as well as for my Startup biz case very very very very soon!

Updates

I am in a mac donald in Chinatown, Singapore now! Yes, i am back in Singapore just for a vacation, since last saturday in fact. Waiting for my gf to get off work now :P very long nv blogged already, so yeah, here i am blogging.

Work in Shanghai was a bit boring since mid July, so it's considered my lull period in my stint in Alphatron Shanghai. That's because my boss was trying to teach the basics and other stuff for her other intern, who works under a company called ILS, which contracted the sales in China to her. And so, she's managing 2 companies. come to think of it, this is crap, how can a person be in charge of the work of 2 companies? that's why i was having a lull period, when she was engrossed in her work in ILS. hahahaha. And luckily, i took a week's leave to come back to Singapore at such a time, otherwise i would have to tahan another week of lull, which is in fact torturous to me!

Back in Singapore, i spent time with dear and my family :) fortunately and unfortunately, at this time, dear was having a tough period with her stomach, cuz of some food poisoning, and i accompanied her to the hospital twice. but now, i think she should be ok already :) but of course i would control her diet, just in case the stomach pain comes back again. tonite, we would be meeting some of our friends at holland V :P this week with dear and family is going at a blazing speed :( haiz, nvm, happy times are always so fast...

tomorrow i would be going to Alphatron's Singapore office for a crash course to prep myself for a possible demo for some new equipment provided by my potential client/colleague, Sunny. He is one kind of a friend, very real very smart :P should be a half-day affair :P

going back to shanghai i would have things to tie up, such as the meetings for the 1wk beijing trip from 24th aug, as well as the possible demo with Sunny :P so it might be hectic for me, which is actually better than lull periods. after that, would follow ups, which would probably keep me busy for another 2 weeks :P

Sept 5, school will start =X New venture creation, the time hogger, will come and haunt me, and i would also take a disciplinary course in Fudan, which would be Algorithms. With school, i would not be stuck in the office so often, so i might not get so bored if i dun have much work to do :P

ok, i got to start my engine for biz case SOON, the first draft is due at the end of Sept. Dear's work is more hectic than mine, cuz of her idiotic, stupid, demanding, mean, stingy boss. Just hope that dear can tahan through it, as well as do well enough for her 2 modules this coming sem :) SO, JIAYOU for both of us, and everyone too :)

bye bye.

Weird i am writing this post in a super small window, cuz either blogger is sot now or i am using freegate to get past this stupid china firewall tat blocks youtube and blogger!

Anyway, i havent been blogging. busy is not the word i should give as an excuse =X i guess i was jus lazy :P i am lazy to put up photos, jus like how i am lazy to take photos. i leverage on my friends' cameras to take photos :) hahaha, as u can see the photos i had taken in China are all in my friends' facebook albums :) Kudos to these friends :P

Exams are coming! 2 weeks later would be Venture Capital exam! 3 weeks later would be Marketing Management exam. Before that, next wednesday, we would have to make a presentation for our marketing project, which i havent done a lot for it... 20th june i have got to hand in the internship report! shucks...

this friday, i would have to finalize my 8 choices of FYP. at least i have shortlisted 8 interesting and applicable ones yesterday. Would be arranging them in order tomorrow or a bit later before friday of course.

It has been almost 4 months since i have been here. What i have accomplished here is nothing much i guess =X except for getting a feel of what my job is and entails, coping ok with my studies, at least i don't lag as much as others? Hmm, and of course participating in random events here and there :P

Hmm, and besides that, i have taken an interest in social entrepreneurship, and i am now in the midst of finding sponsors for the upcoming forum / campaign in end oct. Hope everything would turn out well, even if it would not be as big-scale an event as we had wanted it to be. A small good start is definitely better than a big terrible start, isnt it?

My dear and i are still going well, despite several problems during the past 4 months. It would be another 4 months before i would be going back to Singapore during the long China national holiday in early October. Hope everything would be fine these 4 months :)

My dear is working under a nasty female boss. Hope she can take it physically and mentally. No matter what, jiayou ok, dear :) Fight for your welfare too, dun let that bitchy boss squeeze you dry ok :) hahaha :P

ok that's all, i got to get back to research on my part for the marketing project :P

bye,

chee yong

sick

when you are sick, you miss your loved ones most. and this applies to me now. i miss my dear. i miss my family. i miss the comfort of home. here, i am sick, but i don't have anyone to take care of me. though i  can manage, still i would have liked to have care from my loved ones by my side.

my dear is having exams. 2 more papers for her. jiayou to her. hope she does well for this sem. and also, she got a job for her iLead stint :) so happy for her. hope that job is a good one, not a lobo one, not a boliao one.

i am down with flu now. not swine flu =X at least that's what i think lol. feeling weak. feeling light-headed. took a nap this afternoon. feel a bit better. but then still a bit light-headed. i hate headaches. makes me unable to do anything but sleep. hope i can get well by friday morning, cuz i am going 黄山 for a climb :P should be able to lah. 

eat vitamin C, eat "special" honey that my mum bought, drink lots of water.

i guess i will lose weight for this bout of flu. hahaha, 顺便 lose weight lol.

all the scare from swine flu. be it in singapore or china. just hope that it does not get epidemic or pandemic or watever de, can't differentiate. it really is 雪上加霜 to have such disasters when the economy is weighing tonnes on the people already.

i think i better go get some food. Feeling weak is not fun at all.

bye :P