tribute

the 1st time i saw my GM was when i report to work the 2nd day (18th feb) after our induction..

he smiled and greet us all.. and say that we could go back home rest and we shall meet up in our new office the next day.

the next day was friday and we met up in the new unfinish renovated office.. there were like 20 till 30ish of us there.. and we were introduce to few department bosses who were there with him already (working with him since last sept/oct 2009)..

and then we were taken to tour the news room, the studio, the empty control room and tat was our day... by noon we could go back home already...

the next few week, we spent our time in office helping out to get stuff ready before we went on air on march 26th.

whenever he saw us, he smiled at us without fail. i remember once when i got early to office on saturday morning and no one was at the office yet and he wanted to print out some documents.. he sought my help to print out by sending the email to me and asked me to print it out..

he thanked me for the help and gently reminded me to delete off the email as it was P&C, i noddded, he smile back and he knew that i understood what he meant.

or some other occasion where my colleagues and i will just laugh out loud talking to each other at our desk and when he past by us at the back, he will just playful said, we should slow our voice down and then we giggled back to which he would turn and smile back..

owh.. and even when 1st few weeks when we went on AIR.. we were running up and down the office to get things ready, he was paving the way for us to walk/run 1st because he knew how hard we were working to get things done...

he never allowed us to call him boss and those calling him boss will be fined RM5 to which the money will be used to buy food to share with everyone.

the last time we had the celebration was when he sent out an email to everyone to celebrate september birthday boys and girls...

7 month plus, of knowing this great man, bad news came in on 27th september, 2.30pm..

we will definitely miss him so much for he was ARENA pillar strength and everyone could just go to him for advise..

seeing his body at the wake today was just unbelieveable, it was as if he was just sleeping and we could just wake him up. i did not shed a tear when i pay the last respect but after that i just broke down into tears..

(his wife is one really tough women, she was trying to stay postive all the while and mentioned to me that, there is just so much positvism that he has instill in everyone of us, i would have to agree)

the office secretary cum manager was the one most affected for she worked together with him all the time.. and she described him as the BEST BOSS SHE EVER HAD...

his presence in each of every ARENians is greatly felt and i do not EVER think anyone could just fit into his place and deliver what he wanted to do for malaysian sports.

i just wish that we could have more time together and guide us to greater heights, but god loves him more but i know we will utilise what you guide us to and aim for further success..

he will be missed by all of us, and i will do my utmost best for the channel.

May he give us the strength and guide us to more success in the future.

Last but not least, may you rest in peace.

farewell, matt

this is just so shocking.. I am coming to accept the term on what has happened when i received a phone call from a colleague of mine at 4pm just now.

the big boss, the vp and gm of astro arena had passed away.. i was shocked beyond words.. i dunno what to say..
he was so young . i remembered the last time i saw him was last wednesday, when he was walking around the newsroom area showing visitors around the office..

since i was off thurs n friday and working on weekend, that was the last i saw him and receiving the devastating call today put me utterly shock..

i feel for his family, wife and a young son.. it's just so devastating.. everyone is grieving for we lost someone who is passionate and wanting to build something for malaysian sports.

on his last speech with us, when the whole arena peopls break Fast together, he didnt get to share his vision and mission for arena for the year 2011.. i just hope i could know what his planning was for us..

will miss him dearly and will always remember his arena mantra for us..

"One person success is every one success, one person failure is every one failure!"


matt mckeown died of heart attack at home around 2.30pm.. hopefully we will be able to pay last respect to him before his body is flown back to australia...

may your soul rest in peace.

it just show that life is just so short, i should stop whining and do something good everyday!

round = fair?

i know i shouldnt be whinning and should be thankful but sometimes life isnt wat you want it to be and you are at the end of all the consequences..

seriously am looking forward to my end year plans already and just wishing october and november come and past by quickly.

this coming 2 month is a KILLER.. i repeat, KILLER month..

why am i receiving all the bad stuff when others actually got more benificial stuff.. i am trying to stay postive all this while but i cant anymore... i am always thinking about others.. but not even once people actually trying to think of me and helping me out..

i seriously had enough of that and just want to stop being nice anymore!

a day in moi life!

i know that i should be sleeping by now... and i had already promised myself that i do not in any circumstances turn on my laptop today.. but as you can already see, mission failed.. like dunno how many times already.

since i am so free and cant sleep yet.. due to the transition of my sleeping time cause i was working morning shift for the 1st time last weekend, and ended up waking up at 5pm on monday afternoon or rather evening already.

so let me just blog on my daily working life..

22 September 2010

The night before, alarm was set to wake me up at 8am..

8am : Alarm rang.. hit that snoozed button and sleep again.. ring again after 10minutes, hit the snooze button.. and then slept back.. then hit the snooze button and felt to my lalaland after that..

9.57 am : heard some bird chirping outside my window.. awaken to see my handphone clock that it was 2 minutes to 10am..

10am : quickly get out of bed and head for shower..

10.20am : dressed up, had some cereals and head to work..

10.30am : opening gate and drive to work, while on the way drink a bottle of soya milk..

10.40am : in between driving, observing the stupid people driving and saw that those driving big and expensive cars are the worst driver on the road! (for today la)

10.55am ish : reached office.. and that blardy security guard give me instruction to park at the back.. (like i dunno already.. but still.. why la.. say me like that when i only came back to work today after getting 2 days off)... grrr.. must be someone else who park in front.. and then we all the rest innocent one, kena from that guard.. so NOT FAIR.. as usual, i buat bodoh dun listen to the guard and drive straight off to the back carpark.. YAY!!!

11.00 : walk from the back as usual to office in front.., refused to seat that shuttle van, (to exercise) unless i am super lazy then will ask the uncle for a ride.. hehe

11.05am : greet the Police Bantuan and the receptionist while signing in my attendance to work..

11.08am : reach my desk.. as usual, after off for 2 days.. the freelance who sat at my place will make a mess and i will have to clean up my place so i feel comfy to work..

11.15am : ajak the colleague in front of me who is a chinese to go pray together at the datuk kong in front of office..

11.20am : my colleague came in.. chit chatted with her since din talk to her for days already..

11.30am : start my work.. doing marker for English League Cup. Tottenham vs Arsenal, marker for SNTV, Spanish La Liga and Bundesliga..

1.00pm : headed for Lunch at Victoria station.. not that Victoria.. but a mamak stall beside the office building there.. why is it called Victoria? simple.. because it used to be a train station there.. and we decided to call it Victoria.. nice kan? btw, food are rather cheap over there..than the cafe who i think usually overcharged us!

1.20pm : back to work and check the rundown for the day and at the same time had some snacks and ketupat my colleague brought in..

2.00pm : the proper work Begins, doing graphics, the story super.. the one u see on tv... what is the story about and etc..finding visuals for editors, sending to graphics team what logo and pictures needed for today and everything that needs to be done..

5.30pm : still am doing what i am supposed to do..and oh.. forgot to mentioned, the presenter that was supposed to be in.. was down with high fever.. then one of the reporter got to takeover to present.. scary..

5.50pm : went to control room to prepare for 2minutes buletin update at 6.02pm.. original time was supposed to be at 5.58pm.. but then.. due to some longer programme, the 2 minutes buletin started late lor.. sometimes early.. stupid.. dunno how the Presentation people arranged one..

6.10pm. : everything done and got back to work for 7.30pm news..

6.15pm : check graphics again, insert everything and double check again..

6.45pm : producer check the graphics, spelling and grammar.. EVERYTHING..

6.50pm : recorded the 1st block.. cause the reporter was so nervous to do it LIVE on her debut.. so wat to do.. we record lo..

7.10pm : 1st block recording done..

7.12pm : one last story on athletics just came in.. did the graphics and super..

7.15pm : check the graphics for one last time.

7.17pm : recording of 2nd block..

7.23pm : recording of 3rd and final block..

7.30pm : play out 1st segment, followed by 2nd and 3rd segment../ meantime, check the ticker/crawler for the information. making sure it;s correct..

8.00pm : went back to my desk and did my own diary of news for the day and outstanding things to do..

9.00pm ish : sign off attendance at the front desk and bid goodbye to the polis bantuan on duty.. headed to get car at the back with 3 colleagues of mine..

9.30pm : reach home..

see that how my life goes.. hehe.. ok, i am getting sleepy now.. and see nicol game on live scoreboard now.. hoping she wins.. and if she wins, she will be the world champion for the 5th time.. wooohooo..

Good night peeps! =)