Allowance! Not much to spend …

Life in Penang after 35 days is on a routine mode now. For the past few days, the weather is on a high and low. Morning super sun shines while evening gloomy rain. More or less is like every day I have to walk under the rain home from where ever Vincent’s parents drop me. Anyway, I have also received my little allowance of RM500 for 1 month of hardwork including tons of OT. How to spend it? Not much left with 500 when stay outside all alone anyway. Can’t afford to simply spend, moreover I was planning to use most of the money there to pay uncle for letting me stay at his house and feeding me breakfast and dinner. Life at work on the other hand, I have begun to cope with the mind blowing brain torturing job of programming. Still, today I have manage complete my 2nd task and merging my 1st and 2nd task into 1. Now, all is working properly, and is ready to do the real test tomorrow. Meanwhile, I also continue with my previous task by enhancing the code to make it more user friendly. Hopefully everything goes well, and my next task is something more interesting than this.

1 month done

Day 31, I am 1 third the journey of my industrial training already. Is a tiring job even though my job is non-physical and just sitting in front of the computer. However, I am used to it, and it is more like a routine for me now. Still, I could at least say that I like this because I was given the chance to write some program that controls the device. I am still not toughing anything on the firmware yet because it doesn’t compile and put into the flash on the device.

Anyway, this is another long and likely boring weekend. My friends promise to take me out to climb Penang Hill has just gone into the dust bin as well. They are busy, so I am not going complain much and accept it. No goals, no place, no friend to go out on the weekend. So lonely every time I go shopping complex walking around aimlessly. Sometimes, I rather stay at home, play with my computer, or see boring TV shows, or go to sleep. But, I have to go out explore and not letting my dad down. He want me to mix with the colleague, I have done that. But, asking them out to company me might be a bit too much, I think… They have their live and family to go with on the weekend.

I guess I just walk around aimlessly again today…

 

Why so tired??

Day 26, it is almost a month here at Penang. Frankly, I start feeling home sick and I really miss KL very much. I miss the internet and keyboard. I can online or play some song whenever I wanted to without bother anything. Maybe even see all the anime I miss. Those TV shows aren’t as entertaining and addictive as anime.

What is more, I am bored and tired. Work load is tiring. From start till work end, it uses a lot of brain juice. By the time I reach home, I just lie flat on the bed for 10min.

I wish the 3 months end faster. I am alone, fed up, bored and tired. At work, most of them just work. Even lunch time is eating and work for some of them. Hardly have any time to know more about them and chit chat.

Life here…

Day 23 of stay at Penang, my life starts getting tiring since now the job require me to use more brain power. Besides that, many things have happen over the past few days. Uncle long serving dog, Chocolate has passed away last Tuesday. Uncle is back from hospital, but not feeling so well due to his gauge attack. Furthermore, new staff and colleague start work and filling up all the empty cells in the office.

what a luck

This is day 19 staying in Penang Island. For the last few days, I have been through a very rough journey. Begin with the last Friday trip back to KL. The journey was pleasant and smooth. I did enjoy my journey back at hometown. However, another side of my home at Penang had suffered a devastating blow. The kind Uncle Johnny is admitted to hospital due to high blood pressure of 230+. And I did not even know about this until Sunday.

Worst yet, my day isn’t very good on Sunday. In fact, it is among those days that I wish to forget. My bus ticket was to depart at 11 a.m., but the bus driver only willing to leave at 12 due to the bus not full. Besides that, just 1 hour into the journey, the bus gear box broke and I have to wait for 3 hours before another bus came and willing to drop us at Penang Island. Unfortunately, on the same day, I also have promised my friend to joint their party on that evening. Due to the delay, instead of reaching at 4 p.m. I ended up arriving at 8.30 pm. That is a massive 4 and a half hour of thinking and regretting the horrible day. I was wondering why I even take a job far from home. It is troublesome, and somehow living in other people house doesn’t make me feel so comfortable.

My unlucky strike doesn’t even end there. The next morning at work, I blew up 2 power supply by accident. 1 was the C200 device that I was working on. And another was my next assignment to setup a multiple boot test PC. For that, it makes me worried what did I done wrong. Why am I going through all this? I just wanted to end everything from there.

Suck job at office for 1 & a half week, still counting……

Coming to my 2nd week at Penang, day 13 Tuesday. Life is as usual here, and glad that uncle and auntie here is taking very good care of me. Is just like I was at home except that it is a little awkward since I don’t have to do cleaning, laundry and dinner when someone else (not even relative) is treating me so kindly. I wanted to help auntie out with the cleaning or washing dishes but every time I do that she just tell me to leave it. Maybe if I disturb will cause extra work for her? So, I just gave in. This somehow makes me feel a little bad because I am nothing more than a freeloader here as well.
As for my work life at Syabas Technology, it is even more plain and meaningless life. For 5 days now, and I am in fact fed up of doing the slow yet boring benchmarking tests. All I do was watching the same boring and no storyline video over and over for days. Then, file copy here and there with different location and protocols. This process is where I need to manually use stop watch to count that stupid transfer rate. What is worst, the file size is huge (50MB~5GB files) and copying that darn 5GB takes more than 10min to complete. And I need to repeat 3 times for all the protocols with different paths (repeating that for 10 times or more already). This takes me other darn bloody days of boringness in the job. I learnt nothing for the pass week, and unsatisfied of what I am doing.
Why give us do boring stuff as trainee? Aren’t trainee suppose to be learning the working structure or adapting us to the real engineering work? Doing those that I already knew and understand repeatedly for days is a waste of time, energy and money (to pay the University for this IT course). Oh god, please speed up the time and give me start on something useful and new. Don’t let me do the reformatting for their test server. I want to do programming, writing and understanding commercial product code. Otherwise, I rather go back KL and do some job that can earn twice of what I wasting my time doing here.

Settled here now

It is the 7 days of my 3 months Penang Industrial training and holiday. I am now pretty much settling down of my routine.

Wake up 7am and start work at 9 a.m. then with almost every day is working overtime until 7p.m. if is not later than that. Anyway, I am fine with that since going home early also have nothing much to do. That is how my industrial training work place is like. As everything have their ups and downs. So there is not much to complain about it.

Mean while, I am actually enjoying the food in Penang, somehow, the food seems a bit more special compared to KL. Also, the Uncle and Auntie I am staying with treat me very well, showing me around Penang. Still one thing I am still not able to catch up is their Hokkien. In a day, I probably just hear less than half an hour of people speaking that language.

Weekend Journey

Saturday, weekend. I was bored and no internet to connect to. Today, I visited Uncle Johnny band’s Steel Guitar office. One of their histories that caught my attention was the Penang charity event where they play alongside Malaysia Idol singer Daniel Lee and Jacklyn Victor. Only then, I know that their band actually mean business even know most of the member are old.

After that, I set a journey for myself to walk from Ivory all the way to Gurney Tower. Timing was wrong, walking under the afternoon sun for at least 2 hours. Along the way I bought 2 ice creams to keep myself cool. Anyway, it was a worthy journey since now I know how long is needed to walk from home to work place, and also Gurney Tower to Gurney Plaza. Most importantly, the bus stop that I was wondering where it is since the last 2 days.

Is a boring night now, since I have totally nothing to do, except watch EPL. This is the 1^st time watching it since how many months. I wonder what sort of plan I can make for the future weekend. Doesn’t seems to have anything interesting to explore around here anyway without any transport or friends.

Far from home…

Ok, I am starting this blog is to keep my family update with my progress here. Hopefully, they are not so worry if they know what is going on. Since this is the 2^nd day here, I’ll just post a little update of what my next 3 months will be like.

First of all, I manage to find a place to stay at Fettus Park (near Gurney). And I like to thank my mum, bro, and Desing for companying me to find an accommodation for me. Strange enough, uncle Johnny a total stranger to begin with to provide me a room to stay in their house. How I manage to get this still stuck in my heart, how my mum get this place for me.

Mum: uncle got room to rent?
Apartment Manager: No room to rent out..
Mum: Then.. uncle, ur hour got room to rent?
Manager: Got… Wait i ask my misses..
~~~Some Hokkien which is dunno…
Manager: She said ok… have a sit..

Lol, that is how this happen and I am quite lucky to have such a kind Uncle answering my mum request. There you go, this will be my home for the next 3 months.

Next, my office have a darn beautiful view facing to the sea, and like a working station and electronic lab combine together. There are 3 departments which are Firmware, QA and design. I’ll be working at the firmware department. The product they are working on is called Popcorn hour. That is a home entertainment system which play video and can be shared through network. Honestly, kinda jealous with the QA side, because all they do is just watching movie to make sure the quality of the products.

Well, that all. Hopefully the work load isn’t to heavy until I dun have time to update this blog.

Almost Up

2 days before departing to Penang Island for my 3 months long industrial training.

Yes, my new advanture is about to begin, and I can’t wait for it to start. But, there are many stuff is not being done yet, and still have plenty of mood to watch One Piece. Damn right, now i think i need to get my check list done and start packing those stuff or else I will be short of things at Penang later on.

Keep the update future in Penang when free. Bro is back, time to see ONE PIECE!!