updates

it's almost 2.5 months since i last blog..

what happened since then ??

My favourite team won the Barclay's Premier League, lost out in the final of the champions league to Barcelona and was a semifinalist of the FA CUP losing to neighbours, Manchester City..

Then in Tennis French Open , my favourite, Roger Federer lost to Rafael Nadal in the final and just only, Federer lost to Tsonga in Wimbledon Quarter Final, even though he was leading 2 sets to none.. So now am looking forward to the last grand slam of the year, US OPEN this coming September...

Personal Front : My grandmother passed away at the age of 95.. so it's been a journey back and forth to Penang 3 times in a space of 2 months, the most i have done since coming down to KL for 1 year plus...

Working Wise : gone through ups and down of life so there is nothing much to say...

and i am excited of going back to study, not study as in STUDY.. but learning new language real soon.. it's hoping it's going to be FUN, FUN , FUN! :) :) :)

and i want to go for a vacation so badly!!!!! OCTOBER I CANT WAIT FOR YOU TO COME!

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!

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! =)

all in one

i just got the urge to blog when i know i should be sleeping as i will still be working this coming monday morning cum afternoon.... (wat ever u could called it.. as my working hours is werid)
but i know I HAD TO spill all out what i am feeling now..

how my sunday started so great and how it ended sooo badly at 12am midnight!

work was ok... and since it;s still in the fasting month, we finished everything early and went to bazaar ramadhan to buy some stuff.. but on the way back to office from the bazaar.. accident just happenned.. pity the motorist for they both we, (my colleague and i ) assumed they are heading back home after tapao-ing stuff from the bazaar but they were knocked down by car who didnt see them.. damm it.. thank god they were ok..

back to office.. everything was perfecto with the breaking of fast and all.. and went i sat down back to do my work...dang.. the sienna (a tapeless system we are using.. decided to make problems and died on us when it matters the most).. things just got worst from then.....

i was 5 minutes to on air at 11.00pm when my graphics couldnt be play out live and we had to rectify the problems and re-recorded the news again for the repeat at 2am.. damm it..
mind you that we were in a new control room and studio (actually being downgraded and i never hate english premier league so much than now!!!!)

finished with everything... there were glimmers of hope seeing koo/tan winning our 1st ever gold medal in the world badminton championship.. but it wasnt meant to be.. wining the 1st set, they fought in the 2nd set.. but just could not hold on and gave the chinese pair 2nd set game point.. on the 3rd final & rubber set.. they were trailing all the way.. and i was as ever, hoping for a comeback from them.. cause they played one if not THEIR best MATCH out there.. and luck was also not on their side with the net call and all.. but they really give all they have out there.. and it just wasnt meant to be.. even more sad seeing china sweeping all the 5 title for grab!

but wat i was even more sad was that some of the colleagues was actually saying that they are useless and did not win anything before.. hello... do you even watch and follow or read what they have achieved.. i know it cant be compared with the chinese pairs... but hey, they play their heart out there on that match., and you over there just seat down and criticising them without actually knowing what sports is about.. damm it..

no point talking to useless people.. and i just ditch them without speaking a word..cause it's just not worth my time and effort!

see... i pour everything out here.. but congratulations also to our hockey team, also in Paris, winning the 5 Nations Tournament...

and also, congrats to our young Diver, Pandelela Rinong for winning 2 silver medal in the inaugural Youth Olympics Games.. and like the scenario above she lost both to the gold medallist from the same country... BUT i am EVER proud of her.. cause she was injured prior to the game and she still managed to deliver back to our country..Kudos also to our young rhytmic gymnast, lee wan nin.. she managed a decent 4th placing.. considering she was only a wildcard entry.. with more training and exposure.. i am sure one day she will be a force to reckon...

last but not least, still it was a great result considering we never expected koo/tan to go into the finals.. our prediction was only a q-final appearance.. and they did go one step better than their semifinal appearance last year.. I, still do have faith in them to deliver in the upcoming commonwealth games and asian Games.. come on Malaysia, beat the china team at the Asian Games in Guangzhou!

for now, Tennis last GRAND SLAM of the year, THE US OPEN, starting on Monday!!

how fun sports can be...

Blocking Blog

it's been a while since i last blog merely because i cant find that spark or inspiration to write down what i wanted to...

it has always been about writing it and saving it on draft and delete it at the end, cause i am lacking of creative way to write and post it up here.

lots of stuff happenned since i last wrote ie:

a) the winner of the world cup 2010 in SA is no other than Spain, though my team so NEARLY made it.. but luck was not on their side as they had to settle for the runner-up spot again. sigh.

b) and i did went back to Penang for 5 days earlier in August but somehow my trip this time wasnt what i thought it would be.. but anyway, i was glad i DID went back.

c) it's so sad when you was given the promise/hope on one thing and let the one thing taken away from you and now that you have the hope again, and i really wonder will that become a reality or will it be taken away from me as well. Only time will tell.

d) not to mention, the English Premier League is back for 2010/2011 season but why do i not have that spark in me to actually LOVE it like i used to back then.. right now, i just wish i could enjoy more local sports coverage than ever and making local sports the BIGGEST SPORTS in our COUNTRY.

e) is proud that Malaysia finally land a medal (silver) at the inaugural Youth Olympics Games in Singapore. Medal was won by Diver, Pandelela Rinong in the 10M platform event, losing out only to the China Diver. Kudos, and congratulations!

f) is contemplating on what she really wants to do and going for it!

g) really should be changing her blog layout but is so lazy to do that!

h) believer in Karma and what goes around really comes around!

i) and please be yourself and not others, and don't take credit when it's not yours and pretending that you are so smart and what not!

j) last but not least i heart my family more than ever and not to forget my lovely old friends out there! =)

all for now, till i really can actually like to blog again.

drifting,floating,surviving

i have been thinking a lot...this past 1 month was working my way and learning the curve and everything.. and sometimes it's taking the toll on me.. and the more i am actually on sports, the more knowledge i am losing.. i dunno why.. grr.. wat is wrong with me of late?

i have no watsoever motivation to work and getting sick now is not helping at all..
and now, i am wanting to continue back learning french or spanish course becasue i want to be able to converse in many different languages..
Also, seeing the community or social life here, it got me thinking that i seriously want to give back to the society and work with the community more..

but that would have to take a longer vision and mission to be achieve.. right now.. am thinking on the worldvision.org..

but back to sports, world cup is coming in 3 days time.. i shud be excited but i am not..
i dunno why.. and i am surviving in this big, big, cruel place..

mixed feelings

am seriously exhasuted, tired and everything u can name of. exciting week of local sports but working my ass off so hard for this week and finally my day off today and monday.. but i will not get the rest i wanted cause i got to go back to penang for some prayers on monday and back again to kl on that evening itself.
i dun even have time for "me" time already as work is taking my whole time. with the amount of news we are having now, there is no way the schedule could be changed. and next month is even more like a killer month with the World cup and it has been confirmed we are showing 35 matches LIVE.. so there u go.. can u imagine this???
and things happened that i cant even voice out.. plus could u imagine this situation for u to ponder upon. football finishes at 10.45pm. and live news at 11.00pm with only 10 minutes left to edit, putting the graphics and updating hell lots of results. sigh. it's awesome but then.. there shud be a limit to this.
but oh well, i should not complain much.. but haihs.. it could have been a great week had malaysia qualified to the final of thomas cup. but then.. they did their best it is just that their best wasnt BEST enough though.

Congratulations also to the women's team of South Korea for lifting the Uber Cup. u r awesome!!!! beating china is no mean feet but u did it convincingly!!! and see how that arrogant Li Yong Bo said in the newspapers... padan muka.

will china's dominance continue in the thomas cup final vs indonesia? let us all find out 2pm live @ so many channels.. but if u want extra post match interview.. then be sure to tune in to astro arena@801.

=)
oh p/s : did i even mentioned that my favourite football club lost by a single point? blah. we will come back stronger next season. all for now. i need my much needed BREAK!!

It's May Already!

Time really flies by so fast.. it's May already and my 1st time working on 1st may, labour day and working straight for 5 days after i was recall to work on my off day yesterday because they were changing into a new system and we are broadcasting in HD.. but too bad, viewers is still going to see the channel in SD... but our teach and equipments are all in HD so u will bound to see all those pictures terlampau big in your TV.. haha..

So yeah updates on sporting evnts, we have hockey tournament coming up this 6th May, the azlan shah cup and if u r a hockey fans, do stay tuned to channel 801 cause we are broadcasting it LIVE.. and of course more live events comes with more workload as starting on the 6th as well, we are going to have 2 LIVE NEWS.. one at 730pm and one at 11pm...
so if u would like to have an updates sport news, do stay tuned to the channel.. =)

and then the big event, happening simultaneously or rather 3 days after Hockey begins is BADMINTON!!!!!! if u by any chance, cant get into STADIUM PUTRA BUKIT JALIL from 9-16 MAY for the THOMAS and UBER CUP, no worries, ASTRO ARENA, channel 801 is going to show all Malaysia's matches LIVE...

so malaysians out there, give your biggest and upmost support to our athletes!!! they need your support and i got a good feeling THIS is our BESTTTTT CHANCE to win the THOMAS CUP again!!!!!!

p/s our coach fr Indonesia, Rexy is so cute and friendly.. hahahaa... :)

To the glorious month ahead, MALAYSIA BOLEH!!!!

the daily life

it's been a while since i last wrote in this virtual space.
i don't have the urge to write thus far, for reason that i do not know why. (alhough i have so much in my head that i want to spill out)
i am doing good here in my job or should i say my life? cause life now is on job and i am loving it. but of course family and friends are also not forgotten.

i am keeping my feet on the ground and promise myself that i will not outshown or out-do anyone and just be at my two feet doing what i am supposed to do.

i am not going to procrastinate so much and concentrate on what i got to do and do it right.

guess that's it for now and hoping for another good month ahead.

oh, before i forget, i am going back home soon. cant wait. all the hokkien mee, loh mee, mee goreng, pan mee, nasi kandar, chicken rice, char koay teow, curry mee and koay teow thing... WAIT FOR ME!!!!!

I love you so much hometown. owh.. please welcome me back! =)

Life away from home

so here you go, an update about life here thus far. It's been going to 1 month since i came and wau, time does past by fast.

first let me talk about where i am staying now. I am staying with a bunch of students and i am renting one medium room to myself. it's very spacious and other than my room, i do not really like the bathroom, the kitchen, the environment and every other thing. That is why i hate coming back home after work.. else if i could i would go out and only come to bath and sleep and the routine keep repeating itself.

so going to the bathroom, it just does not feel comfortable at all and i think the water here are not clean as everytime i will feel itchy over my body and that does not look good.. grr.. i hate that.. and the kitchen.. each and everytime i walk into the kitchen to wash my cup or anything, i just wanna get out of there asap.. it is this bad.. u tell me how can i cook or even do some minor cooking with this condition and owh..interestingly.. it;s like ants everywhere which makes me so pist off and dun wanna touch anything at all.. grrr.. tell me how could i survive.. i rather not..

so with the description above, of course u dun think i would wanna stay looong there.. so there i go searching for rooms for rent, calling and paying a visit to the houses... and finally i found a sort of perfect place to stay and i have paid my deposit.. i would wanna move from here asap.. end of this month, but after discussion with the housemates... i would stay here for another month.. until end of april.. for their sake as they are still in agreement with the hse owner (i'm not, but the person be4 me who rent the room, went out earlier.. and they are the ones who signed the agreement so guess they will have to bear the May rent inorder for them to get back their deposits).. their agreement is till end of May.. but since i think i heard them telling me they will sign new agreement in may.. i assume that the contract ending on april.. so i had talk with my new landlady and she agreed and i am moving to the new place end of arpil.. it's much more secure and there is a security guard patrolling around, walking distance to foodcourt and many shops nearby.. and the house is so so so x100 times cleaner than ever than my current one..

So yeah, i am moving house and although it much more expensive but i think it's worth la.. perhaps 1 year and then i could save $$$ to own a house myself.. haha...

and now it is time to talk about my work.. work has been good.. really good..
what have i done in the past few weeks?
- well, i reviewed Asian Games, Olympic Games, CommonwealthGames and many many more sports event tapes..
- scripwriting
-attended training on how to produce a good and simple script
-attended studio training with the anchor and presenter...

and next thurs is the launching of the channel and we will go LIVE (hopefully) on the 26th March 2010.

how's work place and all?
-the road i take to go work sometimes is either super jammed, so-so or smooth. a 7km from hse to office or vice-versa on normal traffic takes me 15mins.. else it's 30mins or even more...
-my 1st 2 weeks in office is without Air-Cond.. u could imagine how hot it was and the not yet finish renovated work place... in fact i still have not touch my own desk yet.. again it is still not ready.. using other ppl punya desk now..cause Mezzanine floor(intermediate floor between Ground floor and 1st Floor) have been done.. my office on ground floor and the studio also not really completed yet.. hopefully the contractors get it completed by next week else everything will be in haywire and everyone wil be on lots of pressure to learn everything up really fast..
-i am excited and quite scared as well but hopefully everything will be fine.
-colleagues have been really helpful, friendly and easy to talk with.. :)

Guess that basically sumarize my 1 month here now...
till then... :)

the updates

i actually did cry when i was coming to KL on tuesday because i knew that once i stepped out from my hse i wont in anyway be back there for real.. even if i do go back.. it would be for a short holiday and all..it is just so hard when weeks be4 that, i am actually looking forward to be here in KL, but when the time comes, it was just so hard, no thanks to the CNY festivity that makes me wanna stay longer in Penang.

so now, here i am in the big city and was stuck in highway and only reached PJ after 7 hours of drive from Penang, which usually take me 4 hrs.. I unpacked and unload all my stuff and just call it a day.

on wednesday, i officially start my day at work. I was using the GPS to navigate me but somehow, it sort of fail me or i navigate it wrongly and i had to me a u-turn, detour here and there and was there just in time for the induction program to start.
the 2nd day was also induction but good news is.. it was only half day. and i was free after that..
and on friday, it was a briefing on the channel with the VP of the channel in my new office.. it was only an hour with the tour around.. and that was it. I was free the whole day.. few of us decided to have a talk together and we went to the nearby cafe.. everyone also as i am dunno what to expect from the new channel but the difference is.. all of them are with experience in this field except for me...

so yeah, basically that was it.. and would let you guys know more when the time comes.. =)

so yesterday was a good day MINUS the few minutes of drama that i had with the biatch be4 i headed for the astro fest.. i wish that u guys were here with me so all of u can go the the fest.. food was free, concert, lion dance, foot reflexology, manicure, calligraphy, games and many many more....

So, here is to hoping for a new week to come and learning more as i can...

toast to a new beginning

remembered how i wrote when i was dreading for time to quickly turn to august 2010 and how i rambled on my job? wait no more.. in a week time.. i am gone for good..for REAL!

** i finally made the decision to resign from my job and had done so**
although, i am sorry to leave, but a decision has to be made, and you don't just leave but you leave because you are a step closer to chase your dreams, and of course, being a person that i am, if you had the chance, wont you not take it? so yeah, i am now gearing up to a new beginning and cannot wait to start off a fresh in the year 2010, and coincidentally, the year of tiger in the chinese zodiac...(d year i was born) RAWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

I was in a state of euphoric, elated and all when the news broke out to me that i have gotten the job, on that day itself it was marred by the stupid administration in the company that i am working with because there is a 2nd level escalation which i do not think it is our fault. screw up that, because the happiness in me just by pass/or enough to make me think the decision to leave at that point was a FANTASTIC decision.

so yeah, decision has been made, most ppl there was surprised (after they got to know last week that i am leaving, cause i kept it a secret and only my boss knew when i tendered in my resignation) and they don't think that i am a person who is passionate, outdoor going and all.. maybe because i was keeping a low profile all these while and did not want to associate myself with them.. never mind then, because i had promised and told myself before, no matter what happens, in 1 year time, i would be out of my misery there! so yeah, since i am out early, it is good! i cannot cannot be like them!!!!!

i am looking forward to the new challenges and sad in a way that i would be leaving Penang soon, real sooon...
i will miss my family, friends and food dearly.. (3F)...

till next time, buh byeeee

routine gets going again

how am i happy looking forward to weekends on friday and when weekday comes again.. i sigh.. and the routine will continue again. 

i hate this feeling.. and i am having this conflicting emotions with myself lately. 

i dunno what is going on and i hope this feeling will go away pls...

am trying to learn everything by heart and i plead that people will give me more time to prove it..

enough said. 2moro is working day again and i hate the fact that this 1 week will be one hell roller coaster week.. TIME, please pass by very very fast this week.. will u? thank you.

numb as it feels

it's been almost a month since i started working. i know i should at least update a bit... but i choose to let this little ramble space of mine blank. i dunno wat to write.. happy that i started working? to be honest the answer is a big NO NO.. i dunno why... i couldnt even feel that i like my job. i am tyring to like it but to be honest, i cant.. everytime i tried to ask ppl things i dunno.. i just get ignored.. or they will have this look stamped at their face "how come is this girl so stupid".. so many terms i don't understand.. and everytime i tried to ask around.. people will look at me as if i am dumb.. so wat if i am dumb damm it.. screw you ppl who dont even wanna teach me when i asked.. you guys have been working there for freaking years compared to me who is working less than a month.. of course there are many many things that i dunno... so who to blame? me myself? i am really trying but you people around never give me the chance to learn. I never wanted to give up easily without trying.. but everytime i tried so hard.. i am falling even further.. and questioning myself day by day.
grrrr... somebody.. save me... =(
let me give another month a go.. before i decide on something else...