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! =)

31st Aug

so it's a holiday.. independence day where you are supposed to show your patriotism towards your country...but wwhy am i feeling that this year's celebration is a bit gloomy.. and it was also my off day.. and i slept way past 12 in the noon..

after a loooong hard work weekend.. you just wanna be on your bed as long as u can.. and need not worry about work....but i am workin on this weekend again..dunno how many straight weekends i have been working now..

and at this moment of time, i am wondering whether my dreams is being achieved or i am still far away from what i wanted all this while.. sigh.. it's hard to really determine what you really want but i am blessed on what i have now..maybe would just like to improve myself more to have a greater achievement...

I do believe in faith and karma, and hopefully everything just turn right for me..

p/s : i've been confirmed and my year end holidays are approved already!!! woohoooooo...

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.