Sunday, March 14, 2010

Guangzhou - All those years learning chinese, paid off ! (part 2)

Destination : Guangzhou
Purpose : Work-related
Duration : 3 days 2 nights
Remark : Awesome !

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CMCC China Mobile. (At first I thought it was some kind of anti-corruption agency)

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The local taxi. Some newer taxi have a touch screen at the back.

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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. 

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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.

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PR Lighting. One of our main supplier.

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The other side of the Expo halls (Yeah I know I put "s" on hall) which is inter-connected.

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Sunset at around 5 something.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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See, I told you the way they do things very Kua-jiong (exaggerating).

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Next time even more kua-jiong I guess.

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Their "showroom".

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The company CEO giving speech

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Lighting show ! Awesome !

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This is their slightly "smaller" architectural lighting showroom

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Spelling error. What Up.

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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.

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Went to this hotel in downtown to "use the toilet", found this shoe-polishing machine

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Guangzhou McDonald is serving grilled chicken sandwich

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MH 377 to KUL, weather foggy. Turbulence, a bit. Booo.

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Guangzhou - All those years learning chinese, paid off ! (part 1)

Destination : Guangzhou
Purpose : Work-related
Duration : 3 days 2 nights
Remark : Awesome !

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Visa, check. Ticket, check.

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Early morning at KLIA,"people mountain people sea"..

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Woohoo ! IFE (in-flight entertainment) with personal video screen !

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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)

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Hello telephone, goodbye peace..

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Money sucker !

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Guangzhou Bai Yun Airport

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Apparently, we are VIP and the hotel we stayed in was... 5-star hotel. Woohoo..

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We got goodie bag which looks like Emporio Armani "lookalike".

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My hotel room, note the see-through bathroom..

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View from the hotel room window. Our hotel was located outside of town. Hence the countryside view.

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Friday, January 8, 2010

How to Excel at the Workplace

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..

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This is the showroom


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Can you believe this 60+k lighting controller...

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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:

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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.

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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.

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