If you're a Facebook user (of course you are, who am I kidding right ?), chances are not too long ago you were screaming to your friends (in facebook, of course) to stop sending you all those apps invites (read: farmville). But now, since I use less and less of facebook and more of twitter, something annoying comes in the form of foursquare.
First of all let me tell you my definition of these terms:
Twitter (read: twitter) : A cool way to tell all your friends (followers) what smart phone you are using by the mean of using the appropriate apps (Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Blackberry), what you are doing, what you are feeling (please don't), cool cool stuffs that you encounter, or simply telling jokes in 140 words or less.
Foursquare (read: lame) : Show people what a douche you are. Simply LAME.
First of all, I am not your parole officer, so I DON'T CARE whether you just checked in to starbucks or you just become a mayor of the North Pole.
Secondly, don't you think checking-in to your own house is pathetic, dangerous and it's like shouting to everyone pleaserobme.com when you check-in to another place.
Thirdly, everyone is a self-important prick to some degree, but frequent foursquare posts (especially you link foursquare to twitter to facebook) show that you are a shameless self-important prick. A douchebag.
So in conclusion, no one cares where you've been (maybe some stalkers), how often your'e there. You may even spend a lot of time in your local McD, it doesn't make you the mayor of McD, it just makes you fat.
Destination : Guangzhou
Purpose : Work-related
Duration : 3 days 2 nights
Remark : Awesome !
CMCC China Mobile. (At first I thought it was some kind of anti-corruption agency)
The local taxi. Some newer taxi have a touch screen at the back.
Toll ! The toll here were extremely expensive. And the road was "not good". The drivers here are crazier than KL drivers. They like to honk, very much. No kidding.
Went to this Expo. Imagine PC fair in KLCC (except this one with sound and lighting systems), then double it up. We even have to go through metal detector at the main entrance.
PR Lighting. One of our main supplier.
The other side of the Expo halls (Yeah I know I put "s" on hall) which is inter-connected.
Sunset at around 5 something.
Guangzhou trade center. A lot of expats here.
Then we were off to a restaurant where the supplier buy us dinner. Lots of dishes. Weird but tasty foods. After-CNY-diet-plan FAIL.
Anyway, the main purpose of our visit to Guangzhou was for this LED Seminar.
All those VVIP (incl. the lighting designer for Olympics 08, Sha Xiao Lan and some local politicians) sit here like the last supper except there were like 30+ people on that table.
The whole ballroom packed with people from all over China and from some other countries.
Then we were brought to their office. On the way there we were escorted by the police. Very exaggerating.
See, I told you the way they do things very Kua-jiong (exaggerating).
Next time even more kua-jiong I guess.
Their "showroom".
The company CEO giving speech
Lighting show ! Awesome !
This is their slightly "smaller" architectural lighting showroom
Spelling error. What Up.
At night, explore the Guangzhou city. It was cold and foggy. It doesn't seem like the China that I imagined. It was more like Hong Kong (but Guangzhou is geographically near to HK). Their Metro rail was so efficient and advance than Malaysia's LRT.
Went to this hotel in downtown to "use the toilet", found this shoe-polishing machine
Guangzhou McDonald is serving grilled chicken sandwich
MH 377 to KUL, weather foggy. Turbulence, a bit. Booo.
Destination : Guangzhou
Purpose : Work-related
Duration : 3 days 2 nights
Remark : Awesome !
Visa, check. Ticket, check.
Early morning at KLIA,"people mountain people sea"..
Woohoo ! IFE (in-flight entertainment) with personal video screen !
Oh, they were showing New Moon on CH 1. I actually haven't watch New Moon before. Why does the actors have to open their shirt most of the time ? (I actually switched channel after around 30 mins, can't tahan)
Hello telephone, goodbye peace..
Money sucker !
Guangzhou Bai Yun Airport
Apparently, we are VIP and the hotel we stayed in was... 5-star hotel. Woohoo..
We got goodie bag which looks like Emporio Armani "lookalike".
My hotel room, note the see-through bathroom..
View from the hotel room window. Our hotel was located outside of town. Hence the countryside view.
Following up with my new year resolution to update my blog regularly, so today I want to talk about my job. There are a few types of scenarios which will happen in a day. Let's see my daily schedule.
9am - 10 am : Check office mail, gmail, hotmail, latest headlines from around the world wide web, facebook and twitter.
10am - 12pm : Autocad (draw schematic diagram for lighting, sound system depending on projects.)
12pm - 1pm : Refer to 9-10am.
1pm - 2pm : Lunch time.
2pm- 2.30 pm : At showroom to play around with the lighting and sound system. Play some david cook's song on those speakers, bliss..
This is the showroom
Can you believe this 60+k lighting controller...
have a game inside ? (Btw, the high score was by me, now the high score is 23000 plus)
2.30pm - 3pm : Finishing the layout diagram.
3pm - 4pm : Microsoft Excel - prepare bq.
4pm - 4.30pm : Give bq to manager to approve.
4.30pm - 5pm : Amend bq.
5pm - 6pm : Refer to 12pm - 1pm.
Okay, that might look like I'm very free. But the fact is, if I need to rush project deadline, then I have to stay back and work on it. Without OT pay !
Okay, here are some tips to Excel at the workplace:
1. Make your table really messy. Stack a lot of paper, books, magazines (work-related of course), catalogs, drawings, and whatever that can fill the table. This will make you look like you are really busy and serious in your work.
Another catch to this is when your boss comes around and ask documents from you, you can quickly locate it and give it to him. On the other hand, when your colleague (the one that you don't like) asks for some document, you can act by searching high and low in the stack and pretend that you couldn't find the document. You will give it to him later when you find it. (yeah right)
2. Whenever you are browsing facebook, keep your left hand at the keyboard, specifically at the Alt+Tab keys. So, whenever the boss "patrol" your area, you are ready to switch to that excel file that you are "working hard" on previously.
3. Set your wallpaper as a screenshot of Microsoft Excel file.
4. Be resourceful and always think how, it's the little thing that sets you apart from others.
Anyway, work should be fun and enjoyable. So, enjoy your salary ! hahaha...
3pm - 4pm : Microsoft Excel - prepare bq.
4pm - 4.30pm : Give bq to manager to approve.
4.30pm - 5pm : Amend bq.
5pm - 6pm : Refer to 12pm - 1pm.
Okay, that might look like I'm very free. But the fact is, if I need to rush project deadline, then I have to stay back and work on it. Without OT pay !
Okay, here are some tips to Excel at the workplace:
1. Make your table really messy. Stack a lot of paper, books, magazines (work-related of course), catalogs, drawings, and whatever that can fill the table. This will make you look like you are really busy and serious in your work.
Another catch to this is when your boss comes around and ask documents from you, you can quickly locate it and give it to him. On the other hand, when your colleague (the one that you don't like) asks for some document, you can act by searching high and low in the stack and pretend that you couldn't find the document. You will give it to him later when you find it. (yeah right)
2. Whenever you are browsing facebook, keep your left hand at the keyboard, specifically at the Alt+Tab keys. So, whenever the boss "patrol" your area, you are ready to switch to that excel file that you are "working hard" on previously.
3. Set your wallpaper as a screenshot of Microsoft Excel file.
4. Be resourceful and always think how, it's the little thing that sets you apart from others.
Anyway, work should be fun and enjoyable. So, enjoy your salary ! hahaha...
Disclaimer : Lawrence is not to be held responsible in the event of dismissal by the company if you try to follow this guidelines.
Well, it's been a while. My last post was dated September last year. As in tradition every time during new year, we will do our new year resolution where around Mac we will completely forget about it. Looking back at my 2009 resolutions, I am proud and glad that I have achieved around 50%. It's not much but better than not doing any target and achieve nothing. So, for this new year, I have also wrote down my targets for 2010, and hopefully this time I'll get to achieve all of them.
Having experienced the "real" world for the past 7 months, I realised and experienced what they call office politics, boss's expectations, and delivering results (and many more actually). On the other hand, from my job, I get to go to quite a number of nice places, from the resort in the Sentosa Island to the rooftop of the Gardens. Next year, I believe greater things will come (hehehe).
Recently I've heard a quote which is, "Don't plan to be successful, plan to do successful things." which inspires me a lot. So as with most of the people, I too have set my resolutions (which I will not disclose here), and in this year, I will try my best to keep updating my blog and balance between work and life. Till next time.
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