No Turning Back

This is it folks, my last stay in Penang for a long while. Next time I'll be back in Penang is for vacation, taken off my annual leave allocation. Can't believe that in exactly 1 month, I'll be back in KL looking for a place to stay and getting familiarized with KL roads. Which leaves me here doing mostly low budget activities most of the time or straightening things out.

Things to do before I leave (hopefully able to):
1. Get a dental examination (can't remember the last time)
2. Service my car
3. Eat at places I'll miss
4. Pay old friends a visit
5. Have tandoori chicken at Kapitan's
6. Get my STPM cert mailed to me (I forgot to claim it back then)
7. Have some Jap food at the usual places
8. Try out some snow beer @ Church St Cafe
9. Lose a few kg
10. Have some Bah Kut Teh @ Macalister Road
11. Watch Wanted
12. Supper @ Chulia St (curry mee, wan tan mee & fruit juice)
13. Watch Hancock
14. Have a meal near the jetty (hope they buck up their quality this time)
15. Grab a Venti mug from starbucks

Funny thing about employment is when you send out a mountain of resumes and wait for interview calls, is the interview calls and offers that comes through. After signing up with one, the rest just decide to call you up for interviews and some can be really persuasive. Unfortunately, have to turn them down as you're already signed up.

Companies that I have turned down interview calls (in chronological order), so far:
1. Western Digital
2. Intel
3. Reckitt Benckiser
4. Philips Lumined

It felt bad to turn them down, and sorry for the HR personnel making the calls. Either way, I've already signed on for a job.

Changelog 110608

1. Set up a link to Paul / Paulinahhh, Yong and Tong, the UTAR citizens who prefers dim sum over morning lectures. Added link to metalhead Pathma, good ol' friend from the hell hole called UTeM.

2. Cannot believe the fact that I just turned down the interview for Western Digital Graduate Trainee Programme.

3. Will have headaches over some planning for living and working in KL.

4. Still excited over the acceptance into UOBM Management Associate Programme 2008.

5. Cannot believe the fact that I just turned down the interview for Western Digital Graduate Trainee Programme.

6. Cannot believe the fact that I just turned down the interview for Western Digital Graduate Trainee Programme.

7. Confused over the link for Paul... which one is has more traffic or updated more frequently? Guess I'll leave it at that for now.

8. Wonders if that's so wrong to be a ladies man (?!?)... or having gals' boyfriend hating me (not like I'm competing). Or is it a crime to be nice?????? No wonder I almost flunk ethics

9. Is hungry.................

Interview call & Fuel price increase

Finally, after quite a long period of sending out resumes and such I finally got a call for interview. Not that I haven't attended any interview before this, but this is the first news that I got from another company for a long time. Well, there was a call earlier in the morning, but that's by a 3rd party headhunting firm, or so I think. It was regarding one of my applications being turned down due to lack of experience, but will refer me for a tech support position, which turned out to be at Dell.

What the heck, anyway still better than no news. But then, got a call in the afternoon by WD for an interview for their Graduate Trainee program. Sounds better than the morning offer at any rate. Usual drill, "Please bring along your certifications, original and photocopies". And with the interview being just after office hours, at least I get to eat straight after the interview.

Still, better than some people that I happen to know who'll go "OMG, it's WD!!! what am i to do". Bloody drama queens.

Though there's something that'll make me go "OMG!!! WTF?!?". Fuel price increase. Petrol price will go up by 78 cents to RM2.70/liter (WTF?!?!?) and will be up to RM4.00/liter in Aug (again, WTF?!?!). This sucks, literally because the car I'm currently driving now is relatively fuel efficient but not that efficient compared to other cars as it seemed a bit underpowered. This is going to cause some hair loss.

Oh well, time to carpool and get cramped in the commuter services... provided the services actually buck up their performance. More excuses to carpool anyway, at least something different than saying "you're driving today, i'm sleep deprived".

Changelog 030608

1. Added links to a group of people who rather go enjoy their breakfast than attend morning lectures.

2. Added link to Stephanie.

3. Changed contact lens brand to Sauflon.

4. Poorer by RM140 due to item no.3.

5. Added 2 bottles of Magnolia UHT milk (chocolate) to private stash.

6. Acquired rosemary and sweet basil (is it? looks like basil with larger than normal leaves) for herb garden project. 2nd try for rosemary cultivation.

7. Changed opinion of Loo-loo using her com in my room from "don't mind" to "it's getting f**ki**g annoying".








8. Added Fresh & Squeeze Apple Juice to my hate list.