My maxis bb for a week

Day 54, and frankly is about time to start count down for my industrial training to end. Is has been quite a blessing week where my parent came down to Penang to visit me. On top of that, my dad even purchases a Maxis BB so that I can online at home instead of wasting tons of it at cyber cafe. Really grateful of what I have now.

Thanks to it, I was able to routinely online everyday now. Then comes the horrible part, where my weekend was too boring that used up or even exceeds my bandwidth limit, watch anime online. Gosh… then this morning, I can’t even get the speed to open website. I was so scared that cannot online d just after 1 week of purchasing the service. I went to work to find out more, and also pray so that can continue spare me just that little line to online every night.

Thank god, I was still able to online smoothly tonight. I hope it continue just spare me that little every night until next month is enough. Thank maxis… I will be more cautious with my usage now… hehe

Relax… Waiting and nothing to do >.<

Is day 48 already, and so far my work load has been quite relax compared to my fellow trainee Vincent. Anyway, today I have completed quad booting the Test PC and is all up ready to do whatever test they want. But, quad booting it took me 4 days?!! Damn, that is too long. Look like I am really noob at this either. Either way, I manage to solve this all by my self and internet.

So what I am doing now? Well, best and most relax job in the office currently. It is called “WAITING”. While waiting, for hours my previous engineer bring back my previous task to implement on other people board. With all the might and confident in my own code, No problem, just change the IP it should all work well.

Tested it… ehh not working ah? Then debug it again like previously did. WTH?!! Segmentation fault again!!

I thought I fixed that ages ago. So, at least now I have something more interest me to do, then WAITING. Hopefully all goes well tomorrow for me to complete it, and continue to wait for my next exiting task.

Better task… but not there yet.

Is the 41^th day now? Without realizing it, time fly. At least, my day now has become a little brighter. My wish did come true, and I don’t have to do the benchmarking test already. It is down to the QA department to do that.

For now, my next task is yet another job that has nothing to do with firmware programming. Why Vincent always get a better task than me? He is playing with those compilers thingy which look interesting and fun. While I aimlessly browsing the internet finding solution for dual booting vista with fedora. After that, I think there is more to come when trying to triple then quadruple boot that test PC. When or how long do i need to solve this?

After that, who know what is coming? Maybe I won’t even have the chance to do the firmware programming either. My purpose choosing this was the programming on hardware that interests me in the first place. Aka firmware programming. Oh gosh… Please drop me some clue how to speed up and complete that Quad boot without any problem. I really want to get my hand on the firmware programming.

Should hv dump Syabas for Jabil the other day…

Today is the 38^th day after I am employed as Syabas Tech trainee. After 1 month and 1 week of training there, I am quite happy and proud of the decision I made. Even though starting is a bit rough. Still, I am given the chance to write some functional program that is useful. Now that I am about to finish this 1, I am requested to do back that stupid worthless benchmarking test that is done manually.

I have patiently and seriously done that for the 1^st 2 weeks since I am totally new there. But now… doing that stupid test over again?!! I lost my entire mood just knowing what next. I can’t enjoy playing computer, and even eat. Somehow, I don’t feel the hunger and is full after eating just a little chunk of food.

I just regretted picking Syabas over Jabil to begin with. I don’t care whether they manage to find this out or not. But I am saying it straight here… Syabas Tech suck! Why giving me do the same job? I can’t learn much from it. I don’t feel any achievement doing that. At least over there they already plan the job before even hire me. I was supposed to work of software development with 3 engineers. Over here, I can say that the entire task came as impromptu.

What’s more there benchmarking is low tech. Sad to say this is unpro, but to waste 2 more week of my short 3 months just for that test? 1 third of it is gone! I just can’t convince myself, that I can achieve something out of this. So, I gonna cheat on the result! Since I already know what is expected. I dun care, because either way the result different is always less than 1% and is doesn’t make much different to me.

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.