Sigh..i'm left with u...

Sad case. Feeling bored now. Radio's flat. HP almost flat. All i have is this blog. Can't chat online..cos the web messenger site is blog, can't play games cos the sites are blocked as well. So boring. Now in the holiday mood already and i really dun feel like doing anything.

Feeling so so lazy now. My clothes stinks of the food from the coffee shop. Today lots of ppl are not in after lunch. Most AC ppl are on half day or some went back for meeting. Here i am, i finish executing my test scripts for the next few days following the return from the new year. I'm not surprise the office will be half empty. Already half of ST ppl are on leave, as for the AC ppl, think most will still be ard since majority of them are workahloic.

This morning, i discovered that i need to learn to cover my ass well. I was told to cover it well so that during meetings, my little ass won't get brunt. Ppl here are really good at cover their asses. Everything must obtain a softcopy as proof. Of course, the seniors here tend to bully the little ones like me who are blur. But luckily the seniors i'm under teach me how to cover it nicely..so that there is no hole opening for them to burnt.

System test ppl fights with the most ppl. I'm part of the system test team. So basically, i've to cover my ass well when i shoot any bug or error. Esp to ppl not within this entire SOS team. This team is growing at a super rapid rate. More and more ppl is coming in. Both AC and ST. Well, the entire system is so huge. SOS is just one of the small tip on the ice berg. I wonder how big the ice berg is. hee hee..

I'm going to leave punctually today. Exactly at 530 pm sharp. Going to pick up my new shoes from wisma and go for nice nice dinner with my litte boy. CNY is just round the corner and i'm so proud of my "neat" room. Yes, i've concluded that i'll only clean it on the eve cos even if i clean it a week earlier, there's no pt cos my room is a dust collection center. One day is enough to see the layer of dust on the clean table. Nothing mush to pack in fact. Just need to tidy up abit thats all..prob will just need 4 hours.

Feeling sleepy now and since the AC ppl are not back ..guess i should just take a cat nap..maybe when i wake up, i'll turn into a cat...MEOW...

My Christmas Present

I've got the most unexpecting surprise last xmas. I know its super late to blog about my xmas present. Ha ha..but apparently i just managed to get the pics =) Its something really sweet...Something which i wanted as well. It is really a surprise, i will say. This is my first version of my xmas present.





But cos i'm a fussy little gal, i wanted to change the plants alittle and do so revamp. So my little boy who gave me this present is very obliging..We went to buy new plants together and redo the tank. So after much revamping, this is how the tankie looked like.





Nice isn't it..so beautiful right? Hee..there's 10 little cherry shrimp inside..but sad case..dunno why, 3 died. 2 died a terrible death, cos my other little cherry shrimps was eating it by the time i spotted it =( hopefully the rest can reproduce soon. hee hee..

All this was done by him when i went to china for my hols. He wanted to give me a surprise and indeed it was really a surprise. When i went to his house that very day, he pulled me to the kitchen and showed me the tank..I was really so so touch and happy. Thank you little boy. *Huggies*

A breather

A busy day today. Finally i'm able to get a breather. That's because the part which i'm supposed to execute my test script is down. So here i am, able to go off early. But today, i'm waiting for my little boy to come pick me up to go for nice dinner.

Been a rather terrible day. Was fighting hard with my mood swing. I blew up on him 2 times in a row. Bet he must be feeling terrible and affected. Sorry little boy. I was so stressed up with my work. Things dun seem to be progressing yet i got tonnes of things to finish. Stupid system make me so stress up. Actually i'll say its not the system, but rather the programmers. Imagine..hard code! goodness...they didn't even do their unti testing. All the scripts were written already yet no testing was done and recording.

Today i saw the unit testing script. Something which my previous company didn't have. Something which i think is really good. Its basically is like a result slip. It has basic test coditions to test functionality and it has another section which actually checks if all error conditions are handled properly. Then there's antoher section which does the code review and states the problems. The there's also a check list which the person performing the script have to ans to. If there is a no in the ans. Then guess the unit test failed. Cool isn't it.

Anyway, i'm kinda tired. Waiting for my little boy to come and pick me up..Thinking of going to Thomson to have dinner..hungree...Anyway, it seems like everything here needs to be justified. Lots of management things to settle. Lots of charts etc etc. And its the first time i encountered that they have to justify why the system test qualify is not up to standard. Every action have a reaction here and the reaction must be justifiable. Tiring job for the management ppl.

Anyway, its time to go off..got to pack up..and just sit and wait. Looking out, i'm seeing ppl pplaying tennis. Going to the toilet, i'll see ppl swimming. Yah..toking about swimming, Jua and i will be going to swim on monday!

Halted at work!

Once again, i'm stuck..there's nothing which i can do. All test case failed. The top ppl just went to fight it out! Basically cos the testers like me..the evil one raised like 20 bugs in 1 hour..having tonnes of critical ones..ha ha..not my fault! I was told to perform the testing on this day and i just had to follow the test script. Everytime i hot an error, a SIR is being raised. Wats more..the test script is to test the functional. Half the time the function is not working. Moving on, i see the functional specs and catch user interface problems..ha ha...so the beautiful list RUNs..

Anyway, i spend like 1 hour reading the straits times just now before the board of governors came back. Now that the governor is sitting beside me, i can just play with my comp. So here i am. With a cuppa of coffee black..blogging.. Oh yah! finially its the middle of the weeek! the weddy!! going to get movie tix for later for this friday. Supposed to watch "Memoirs of the Geisha". Read the book like ages ago. Well, just when then governors won't ard, Jem and i were chatting about yoga and pilates lessons..can't imagine Jem will be attending 8 lessons of pilates and the cost is super ex. So who's Jem. Jem is another consultant, just that he's not at the governor level yet. Cute guy but too bad my gal frens. He's taken!! wahahaha. Another party animal..ha ha..and best. He was complaining bout ppl like me who book cinema tixs online or go earlier by days to purchase friday night tixs causing him not able to get tix on friday night itself! ha ha..

Okie..think i better ask the governor assistant about rasing bugs..

Test test test...I'm the devil now!!

I'm the devil. The devilish soul whom programmers like me hates to the core. The devilish soul who ruins the weekend of programmers. The devilish soul who robes the life after work from programmers. Ha ha..Its nice playing this role ~ the devilish soul. Cool isn't it to change role once in a while. To see the programmers scramble for time. Saddist am i?

Imagine using a 1.6 Ghz with just 512 MB of Ram to build. WOOOO!!! this morning, the interns came telling me they stayed till almost 12 MN just to do promotion. Well, terms over here is slightly diff from my previous company. Bascially promotion will mean to put the lastest ear to all the diff test environments. They took 3 hours to build the application. A sllllooooowwwww llllooooonnnnnggggg process. I smiled to myself. Luckily the PC which i'm having is much of a better spec and lucky me, i'm directly under the employment of SingTel. There's not many of SingTel ppl in here. 70% of the ppl here is from accenture. Well, so at least i still have a team lead to shelter the storm for us. But, this team lead is new to the project. The old team lead who kind of interviewed me already left. =( So no one knows how exactly this team lead works.

So now that i'm more familiar with the system, the devlish soul starts to surface. Didn't know i can be so mean. I rasised so so many SIRs (Service Investigation Reports)..Oh..over here, the bugs are known as SIR and are tracked by a system. The testers just ran the test scripts and report just create SIR via the system. Someone will go through the SIR and allocate it to the team of bug fixers. This program will automatically trigger emails to the relevant ppl for actions. Rather cool. Each SIR raised must be attached with a screen capture. Think this will really help the programmers when doing their bug fixes.

Releases..Seriously, i dun know how the releases are handled over here. Seems like its in a mess. One moment, its working..next moment, its not. ha ha..no idea also. So as long as i feel its wrong. Its SIR time! So bascially today till now, i raise about 30 SIRS already? Haa ha...

So why am i free now? Cos they are integrating some system and porting codes over..so testing halted for 30 mins!

Its monday again..

The weekend just drift by. I always dun seem to have enough of the weekend. It always pass so fast. Blink of the eye and its gone. Well, but i treaure each and every of my weekend these days.

Watched The Family Stone on friday night. Not that nice though. Was expecting something funnier instead. Ha, but the consolation is that i've got a nice company..Thats the best part of the weekend. Well, the night didn't really ended that late.

Saturday, i've got the doctor to check my tank and to set up the respiratory system for me. Hee..After that, i went out with the doctor to continue the day's activity. Both of us, the lazy bum..Went for lunch and went to grapevine to have a drink and consolidate my china pics for developing. Finally got it done and got it printed before we head to our next destination to nuah!

The starbucks at the library at marine parade. Thats our nuah place.. We go there so frequently till the manager of that branch kind of know us already. As usual, we went there to settle the excel spreadsheet. The day ended relatively late that day which caused me to jump out of bed on sunday cos i overslept. Almost was late for my tuition. hee..

Sunday..We met after my tuition for a short while to have lunch as well as to jalan a while before we both went home to do our own things. I had all my photos packed neatly in the album already =) but there's more to it. I've yet to label the locations. Intention is to get it all up and done before the chinese new year =)

So thats how time flies by..now monday morning..bored with work..there's basically nothing much to be done. =) Thats why i'm here..ha ha...

3rd DAY @ Lunchie

My third day at work. As usual, i'm bored. I'm suppose to do system testing. Currently still reading the allocated functional specs. Dunno why they must add a word 'Allocated' in front of the functional specs. Anyway, no testing is done as of yet. Cos, no test data and also the environment is not really very set up. No one seems to be preparing any test data and so my job so far hasn't start yet.

Everyone seems so into their job but poor me, i'm jobless..i'm totally lost in this place. Getting a bit sian of being bored. Look at cute guys? think actually after seeing some for 3 days..they dun actually look good. Ha ha...

During lunch, i'm being counselled by one of the old contract staff. Cos on my first day of work, those other younger staff kinda told me that working till 11 pm everynight is normal. But this other guy, call him MK..he's rather nice..rather helpful..

In the mean time, since i'm rather free, i'll continue to surf for benefits for staffs. Was just told that home line i just need to pay 6 bucks instead of 25 per 3 months..ha ha..i'm more instested in the holiday packages for staffs..maybe will have some super good deal. Evil me..never work..ha ha

Second Day @ wOrK

Well, today is my second day at work. For the past couple of days and the weekend, i have been heavily shopping for blouses!!! Cos, i never did wear any blouse to my previous job. Formal dressing is requried in my current job thus no choice. Good thing G2000 having sale. Hee hee.

Day 2. Well, everything seems to be going in place. Pieces of the jig saw seems to be fitting nicer now. Well, apparently for the next couple of weeks, i'm going to do testing or rather System Testing. 3 rounds or the term the consultants will call it...cycle..On yah! forgot to mention about me having consultant phobia. This batch of consultants from Accenture. Dressing wise, more pro.. All wear ties..Hair gelled up..All rather good looking. Maybe is cos they are all very young. The one i'm working under, he has the 'out of bed' look especially with his strip shirt which looks so much like a pyjamas. Ha ha..but one thing all of them have in common (similar to those whom i work with previously)..they are the work all day and dun play. Basically a no lifer!

Well, today i feel much better..Seem to be able to fit into the group better. Went out for farewell lunch..Can u imagine?! farewell!! just when i just got into the dept. Ha ha..Yeah! i finally got one of the perm staff to log in to the internet using his ID. Well, its super duper wuper strict here. I totally have no access to the internet. How dumb! esp when i have to do testing on another server which requries internet connection. And best part, i was told to look at the system and play ard the exisiting system which is hosted in another part of the world! Anyway..finally got the internet up.

Oh yah! my work place feels abit old..but at least the cubical size or rather my desk size is almost 2 times my previous table. I've got locked cabinets and movable drawers..And i'm nicely tug at the corner sit..kinda like my place. The only trouble is that i'm surrounded with the consultants.. Let me continue with this...There's a swimming pool just down stairs. When i go to the toilet, i cen see the pool..maybe when the weather is more fine, i can go swimming. There's a couple of badminton court for use.,like those at the community center..2 tennis court and gym. Well, hope i can use at least one before the dept move to the serangoon branch.

So far so good, the only bad thing is..i have to wake up slightly earlier then previously =( Thank u little boy!! who is so so encouranging on my first day of work. Think partly also cos my mood swing made me felt that way..Over sensitive.. hee hee..

Brand new year, Brand new start....

Finally into the new year after a tough year. Brand new year, brand new start. Supposed i have to put the past behind and look forward to a brighter future. 2005, i battled hard for him and i'm really glad and happy that we are finally together. He put me through pain and turmoil yet he provided me with love and happiness. We went through so much. Highs and lows, ups and downs. Finally, all is well.

I spend my remaining days, hours, minutes with him before the clock strike 12am. We were in Plaza Sing watching Narnia. We spent the new year quietly. Just the 2 of us. Its my happiest new year ever. So much love and happiness. I hope this new year will bring our love and relationship to a greater height. New challanges in our relationship will bound to surface, especially with a change in our daily rountine with me moving to a new environment. We survived the 11 day test. We managed to pull through the tough and hard times previously. I guessed all these made the relationship stronger then before.

New year, new job. I'll be leaving my present company to a new company the following week. I'm kind of excited, kind of scared. I do wanna work hard in this new job, and secure it. Dunno why, but i'm feeling rather scared. Sigh..

Tomorrow is a working day again. Its the last week at work there. Its also the last week before my daily morning routine is broken. I hate change. I dislike change, but i guess this new year, i will have to adapt to this change.

Resolutions? Guess not many, just want me and him to be happy and loving always, be healthy and strong, and everything goes well.