Shifted - Citadel Inn >>> BSA Tower

How's the working like here in a foreign land? Not too bad I guess, not fantastic either.

What's great?
I'm working at the top floor of the tallest building in The Philippines, or that's what most people here tells me.
What sucks?
The view is not fantastic as this building is only 53 floors high and your are over looking mostly at poor villages. The lift here sucks big time too. I've always been impressed with KLCC's lift. With so many people working in the towers, there's always sufficient lift, rarely we have to wait for the second one to come as the current one is full even during peak hours. Here, its terrible, my colleagues waited 45mins just to get a lift down for lunch. And to the HSBC guys who rented a few floor around 40th floor, can't you all walk 1 floor of stairs rather than making the lift stop almost at every floor!!!!

What's great?
The money is kind of good.
What sucks?
Yeah, I may be making USD40/day extra from business trips, but competitors are giving USD80-USD100/day. One thing though, their business trips are scarce as the local staff are well trained and less dependent.

What's great?
Get to visit another country.
What sucks?
I partly agree to my colleagues where working in Huawei = no life. The ratio should be
WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK play.
Yesterday (saturday) and today (sunday), I'm in the office on half of the day. Came here partly for the internet and to send some urgent things out. FYI, China's National Day is on 1st Oct and Huawei HQ is going on a 1 week's leave.
I miss home too.

Enough of the complaining.......... lets talk about their food again. The Filipinos must have rice or spaghetti in their meals everyday. Imagine you walk in to KFC and you can't find your favorite 2 piece chicken. Why? All chicken comes with rice or spaghetti. Most of the FF have mushroom sauce to go with the rice.

Every where you go is rice or spaghetti, rice or spaghetti, rice or spaghetti?

So far the Filipinos (competitor/operator) I've met are happy go lucky types, may be the one that work in telco industry are cool people :P

The basic salary for a fresh grad electrical engineer here is around RM1000 and the basic salary for Indon is around RM1200. My colleague is handling the recruitment, one applicant is only asking for RM1500 after 6 years of experience.

I'll be back around mid/late Nov, highly likely it'll extended.
2 things to look forward to:-
O'WEJ (nickname) - my sec. school buddy is coming over for a business trip (wafer fabrication commissioning company), too bad it's only for 1 week.
Applied a short leave for a holiday to Macau and HK, will fly back to MY (to be bear by company) and off to HOLIDAY~~~

To Shin Yih and Ah Mak, not sure whether I can make it for both of your..........

Up till the above part of the sentence, I noticed that some people may misunderstand, so now the correction,

To Shin Yih & fiance and Ah Mak & fiancee, not sure whether I can make it to both of your weddings, but rest assure that I will try to make it. Don't worry, if I can't make it to your weddings, I will pack some foreign currency as ang pow for you guys, too bad I have only Rupiah and Peso, lol

Sigh. Most probably they are not reading my blog, boo hoo.

Proxy has phailed me

Through this proxy site, its very very very slow and Java would not be properly displayed so Ｉ can't use HTML editor, hence no photo. Sorry.

The first thing I notice here is the cars here are left-hand drive. Its so different. I've been here for 2 weeks now but when I cross the road, I still have to look both ways because I don't know where to look for the cars. Yesterday I nearly got into an accident. The car stopped in front of me in time, I was running too fast and I had to use my hands to hold against the stationary car to stop.

In my last trip, after I left Jakarta for 2 days, there was an earthquake in Jakarta. After I left Malaysia 2 weeks ago, Malaysian get to experience aftershock from Sumatra. I've always wanted to experience natural disasters like earthquake, typhoon, etc etc. By the way, its typhoon season now but according to the locals, there are no sign where one will hit Manila. Sigh.

More about this place, since its an island country like Kiasuland, its very windy here. Temperature and humidity is similar to Malaysia. The diet here mainly consist of meat. Seldom you can find vege here. Meals are expensive, I had a 1 Meat (many choices) and 1 Vege (only 1 selection) mixed rice, total damage is RM11-12. The locals here like bananas a lot. You can find it in meat dishes, soup, desserts, grilled, fried, etc etc.

Do I like it here? Actually I still don't know yet.

Testing

I haven't blogged for a long time because I don't want to use company to blog as company forbid personal use of the Internet.

Now I'm trying out this proxy site, if this post is successful, then you all will hear more from me.

1.00 MYR = 13 PHP

Although I have connection now but I'm just too tired now....... Will blog if I have line in the future.

Random Handphone photo

View from the sky bridge


My Guess Shirt


3 guys sleepng together


MENTOS ???? 40G SPEARM, I suppose it should be Spear Mint


Special Plate Number


Close up


Office


PDRM: Guna Dua Lorong


My old PC


Queue for the Sky Bridge at 9am


Rubbish in train


The owner


Event Dinner in Bandung

Valley - Romantic dinner in Bandung


My current love


Imagine only DVDs and VCDs are sold here, RM2/pc
The photo is only 1/4 of the place


Rush hour at LRT


Normal cinema in Jakarta, looks like our Gold Class


888


Maid uniform fetish


Ex-office


Get a room


Nice stockings


Stranger A told Stranger B your hair is nice


Gigantic durian in Indonesia ~RM50


Don't sleep in the train, you don't know who might blog about it

I know my camera phone's quality is crappy, anyone can donate one to me?

Claims Syndrome

The claims for Indo trip was in a couple of weeks back. I did save a lot when I'm overseas as I don't need to pay for commuting between office and home, phone bills was covered and not to mention colleagues treating me for lunch or dinner.

I did what everyone else in my company did, reward myself.

My prize is Casio SNJ003


I was looking high and low for a watch which can show 2 time zone, in the end I found this. It's better than dual time zone watch, it has world time zone. The watch can automatically calculate and adjust local time for every time zone in the world. Even the alarm can be set according to any time zone.

This watch is 3 times more expensive than my previous one so I'll be using this watch for at least 3*4=12 years.

3°1'41"N 101°32'27"E

At first I was suppose to go to Auckland, but I was handling a TM project, so it was delayed. My colleague was in need of helping hand in Taiwan so he told me he would request from my boss to send me there. Before I could say anything, my boss asked me to prepare for an India visa. After collecting the necessary documents, my boss asked me to focus on an event in Beijing and put India aside. Something again, prepare to go to Beijing. Last Wednesday evening, my boss asked me to prepare Bangladesh visa ASAP. The best is Thursday submit, Monday get visa and Tuesday fly. Due to incorrect invitation letter, I was forced to submit the application today. On Friday, I got an e-mail saying that I'm not required in Bangladesh so urgently. This afternoon after I've submitted my Bangladesh visa, my boss e-mailed me to tell me to scrap Bangladesh and prepare for Manila. So now, I'm preparing to go Manila. So now, I have Auckland, Taiwan, Beijing, Bangladesh and Philippines in my hand. India will be handled by my colleague.

I was telling my colleague, I've been updating my mom for so many times, she's getting bored of it. So my colleague said, next time, only tell my mom when the ticket is bought. Well, flight can be canceled and plans may change even after buying ticket. So I said, may be I should tell her when I'm at the boarding gate.