My First Day.

My first day of work. Yeap, it's working alright with the slight difference that I don't have a salary, only an allowance per working day. In short I;m having my internship. So I'm typing some of this post in the office since I've finished up the day's work which I was told is pretty rare which means I need to appreciate it more than ever. So my first day of work started off pretty ok. In the morning had the rain and thank God I wasn't soaked. Reached the working place around 8.30am then had cereal for breakfast. Since this company provides breakfast (good it is).

Then around 9am was being asked to go in and meet my new and haven't been before office. Looks nice, and I'm now under the PR dept (surprisingly). Work load will double or triple up pretty soon as the person whose work that I'm going to take over is a lot. A lot that probably a day also can't finish doing it, it seems. Oh boy....

Pictures below is where I work today and where my future place is going to be. At least there's a pc otherwise I would be pretty bored though having work to do but then... Just won't feel that good in a way. So what I would be doing is filing up things, cutting newspaper ads. Client's news, get ready for press conference or events that need us (PR people) to do it. Well, what more could I say, period of 4-5 months can be challenging for sure. And of course tiring.....

This part is written at home. Yeah, now i'm at home finishing this blog. And so, about my newly met colleagues only have one guy and the rest are females. Geez... I wonder where did the males went to. The worse case scenario was that when I wanted to go back that time the PR boss asked me to go help do things, putting invitation card to some sort of card holder or something. At least it's still reasonable time so I helped gradually. Almost verywhere I go I could smell cigeratte. Guess most people smokes.... Bad for my health as a non-smoker.... Bleh... Below are the pics of the reception area and the lobby, they have a pool table there tho. Cool...

Into the world.

Into the world that I would go in about a few hours time. Though one part of me is dreading to go but then it's the fact of life that one HAVE to enter into the working world. Since $$ doesn't fall from the sky. Which means we have to work to have our food and not being lazy to laze about doing nothing and sleepingmost of the time (which I wished that can happen= impossible). So just hope & pray for the best that I wuold have a good environment to work in. If possible at least have a pc that I can go online. That would at least cut down the bored level. And need to start thinking now of what am I to do after htis internship. Rats.... Time does zoom off really fast x.x

Influence Conference.

The title says it all. Influence conference, it was a one day conference (full day) though there was a concert night the day before the concert starts. Woke up at 6.30am on a nice cozy, tempting Saturday morning. With the tendency to just sleep on. Too bad I got to go fetch people that is why I got to force myself up, get prepared. Which in the end some people that I was to fetch did overslept. Thank God is overslept a bit. A bit.... If longer I think they are to find their back-up transport then. Lolz.

Reached there at 7.40am. Was helping out on grounds but the head of grounds came almost an hour later or so due to the fact he was fetching other people and the waiting for other people to get dressed up, make up and dunno what other up they got to do. Anyway nothing can be done about it. So there was the tasks of getting chairs in the amount of 1-2 hundred and around 5 or so people are helping which was then a pretty challenging task. And needing the energy to carry them to the place designated. Fuh... Tough job it was, guess my arms are few inches longer by now. Haha.

So went to register and get my things ie folders, pen etc. Then went for breakfast which I did not eat anything as I ate just a few small kaya pau before I came. Ending up myself just standing around and talking to some friends at the same time gathering back those lost breath that I lost somewhere. Then it was time to start the conference and we went to the Maranatha hall of GTPJ.

Burrr...... Super cold it was during the conference. Is like I'm directly blown from the super blasted air cond. Geez.... So was suffering from the cold for awhile. There was praise & worship, and few speakers spoke. Things that were taught that are related to life (Of course), and how to apply it when you're out in the working world (rats... talking about that I got approx 6 days more till I start my internship. Sobs. No more sleeping late etc.) Besides that, to stand strong as a Christian not doing what the world does such as bribing, dishonest and not portraying the Christian values that we ought to show as a good testimony.

After that we had lunch, then continue on with the sessions, after that a short toilet break, and on to the various workshop. I chose workshop on communicating skills. Which was not bad though the things I learnt there, I did learn some of them before when I was in college. After that it was tea break where we had connie dog. It's hot dog but I wonder why do they need to name it connie dog. Why oh why I wonder... But it does taste good, and no worries, the sausage is not made out of dog meat.

Then it's a 2 hrs break till the night concert starts. So some of us stayed and wandered around GTPJ's lobby. Others went out for a drink and some food. Then the night concert started, the band was called intone band. The first few songs they sang was ok but awkward a bit because no one was singing along as it seems and not jumping to the rhythm. As it was unfamiliar songs. Then there was familiar songs and everyone at last being able to participate. There was no female singers, it's an all guys band. An one of the band member played the keyboard and electric guitar. So switching from the instruments time to time. And he plays the electric guitar rocker style. Shaking head, body movements and so on. After that offering time, then it was our general superintendent who was the speaker of the night.

Service ended with alter call and some songs by the band. Then off we went to mamak for our dinner. Chit-chatted, ate, snap some pics then some of us left early, early means before 12am. Fetched back people, then reached home, bathed, and off to bed into I wondered where. Tired out it is and there came Sunday morning with a sleepy head went to church. Phew...

Friendship's Blunder.

Disclaimer: This post is a frustration post to vent out my thoughts, feelings. So just read it and do not question me anything as it's better not to see the not-so-happy side of me. Perhaps some statements are confusing, is for me to know others to just skip it if don't understand.Yeah, that's all.

Friends... They can cheer you up, sometimes they may bring you down. That's the fact of life. Not everyone's perfect and disappointments, conflicts do happen. What to do? Try to get over it or just settle it once and for all.

Well, to vent my frust here and to type the piece of mind of mine. I have friends. Now codename for this post is W & M. They're good friends (they have always been) but as life goes on and getting to know each other pretty well or should I say nearly very well; blunders, conflict starts. For them they may explain it as "being concerned" as what usual; friends would do. Looking out for each others back. No problem with that. But nowadays I do feel annoyed (nearly to the period of most of the time) that almost everywhere they or I go, I surely would be the topic of conversation. Fine... At first it wasn't a big deal. But then, now it's starting to be a deal coming about. Which I ain't so happy about as the "politeness" figurine in covering up the annoyed look.

On the other hand, friends asking each other questions is very common. Though I do admit at times when people were in a conversation with others I tend to be a little bit or in plainly speaking over-curious (busybody) and ask. That I resulted in learning to not asking so much and better mind my own business. Ok fine... But then now seems like I'm being interrogated most of the time. Probably to you both is just pure asking, concerned of my well being; while I don't seem to see you guys "interrogating" others into that detail and I have to admit sometimes I'm too blatant and willing to share out almost whatever things being asked upon, which is now getting a bit way too far from what I called "privacy boundaries of my own".

Debating or to me it may be arguing about certain issue raised just by mere mistrust when the fact is that I was telling the truth and with all logic being put together is true from what I explained. If W & M still don't agree what I said, you may proceed in asking "ps. M". He will be my "lawyer" at that time. To sum things up, I do not like to be Q & A-ed or being interrogated like a criminal, being ask for my actions in certain situations, don't why me here and there as I know what I'm doing and WILL NOT do anything stupid. Now I am to ask for some privacy and don't complain and whine at me why I this or that and don't create that as a big scenario. When it's a small mere matter to me but for you guys (I don't think it's a big issue either) Talk less about me in between the circle of other friends as I now do not like to be mentioned that much anymore and I do not wanna be a popular icon to talk about either between the both of you or in the circle of friends + other people. Hope things will change and you guys would earn my respect. Otherwise, volcano eruption of me ain't a good idea at all. So just to set an alarm/ warning. I do have my limits of being patient....

Fullstop, period. I'm not going to talk about this anymore unless point is not taken and requires force to explain. Which I don't think is a good idea.

Events, Happenings.....

Seems it's time to do some updates again... Oh well, it was quite a busy weekend last week as of 14th July. With preparations for the missions conference which had already entered the Charis Record Achieve that it's the first time having such a conference, combining both the english and chinese congregation that sums up to 570+ people (including children). It was an awesome conference, commitments to serve, go to the ends of the earth, challenge to attend prayer meeting etc. Unspeakable awe...

Not much happenings that happened. Quite the same routine, with the exception that counting down to the days left that I can enjoy sleeping more and laze around more and not waking up that early in the morning. And trying to go out as much as possible, to malls & so on. Oh yeah, talking about malls which reminds me an incident on last friday (13th July) in leisure mall lvl 2 the shop that sells gifts etc near fireworks arcade. My friend & I witnessed shoplifting, by now people would have thought that those shoplifters were caught thanks to us... Nope, that didn't happen. When the incident indeed turned into a reality, it's a different scenario altogether. You may think you can be a hero or heroine of the day by chasing those shoplifters you may be wrong. It was a group of malay kids, which I presume is at their teen age was messing around outside then I saw one guy with a black cap came running out of the shop holding a spongebob.

When we (my friends & I) were to enter the shop I saw a girl holding another spongebob and I can clearly heard her saying "Comel-nya" (towards the toy obviously) and walking out of the shop. Thinking she would put or dump the toy without putting it back to the place where she has taken it, well too bad I was wrong. When I turned, no spongebob, no girl. Gone... So it was a shoplifting incident alright. There were 3 of us, one was talking on the phone so didn't notice anything while the other noticed it but was pretty much astounded or should I say stunned? Then we discussed whether to tell the shopkeeper, which we ended up telling them (the fact was those shop attendant don't know a thing till we tell them what had happened, since I could see one of them was sms-ing or playing with her handphone the other attendants... heaven knows what on earth they're doing)

The result was the people who works in the shop was lost (as in wondering what just happened like that) and we just left it that way as we weren't told to give further explanation. But come to think of it about that incident, we who witnessed the incident was too polite (or more towards the unsure feeling) and with those news of being a good samaritan being injured and so on, that delayed the time to put what common people would do which is to nail those thieves down and let the authorities do the rest. The more I think about it, I feel much guilty of thinking too much and not do the right thing. Sighs.... Anyway, that's the past so not bothered to dwell much on it.

Now to enjoy my free time left to the fullest and enjoy life with the blessings of God. ^^

Interview.

Everybody have their first times, first time going to school, first time going out for a date, first time having your own handphone etc. Well, my first time of going for an interview (which turned out to be more like a briefing). For an internship in a company. For some, in the surface it may look like a piece of cake but then when the actual day comes, depending how fast your "panic" system goes into action you may think otherwise.

So just let me take you all on a journey of me, going for an interview. 3rd July (tues) I called the company and asked the person-in-charge to enquire about my application status of having an internship with the company. For those who don't know what internship means, it's simple. Internship= apprentice, learn things from other people and so on. So I told the person I am to start on the 1st of Aug but the other party asked me whether can start on the 30th July or not because there would be an intern who is there who is leaving soon so going to use the few days before leaving to teach me those things that I need to learn. In short I am to take over that intern's place.

Thinking it isn't any problem starting on the 30th July, so I agreed. Then the person, ok I shall state that person name. She is Ms. Johanna. And so she asked me when can I go over to the company to have an interview, then she said tomorrow, which is the next day 4th July. Okay..... So the date is set and I am to meet up with her at 11am. Right...... 4th July (wed) 11am.

4th July- 9.20am. I woke up, brush my teeth, yadayada blah blah.... Do what usually people do when they wake up. Had breakfast and so on. 9.50am. Changed to my formal clothes, and took my bag which has my resume which was written the day before (pretty last minute) and had sis Ai Lin to help me run through and do some changes to it. I was told by my parents to take LRT to go as if I drive parking would be a hassle. Which I obeyed. (Thankfully)

10.20am. Drove to Bdr. Tun Razak station and reached there. Went to park my car at the colourful community centre. Then quickly made my way to the station. That time for me to estimate I'm not sure what time I would reach my destination because it has been quite a long while since I last took public transport. Waited and waited, 10.35am only did the train arrived. By then I started to do calculation with the hopes that I would arrive on time. By the way the panic system can be felt. It will not be a good impression to arrive late for the interview or else things might be worst.

Thank God I arrived to masjid jamek station before 11am. And then pretty much lost and kinda had some talking-to-myself moments. Wondering where to go, though I did asked friends online for directions to the place. But to find the place is pretty different altogether. Last resort, is to ask people for direction. Which I did and walk my way to the place. And the rest of the journey tot he company is just the thing called "remember what you've been told, where to go" so I figured out the place being drawn out on msn did I manage to find the company. Not without sweat, but under the heat of the city.

10.55am. I managed to reach the bottom floor of the building then asked my way to where is the company and went up to the 5th floor through the escalator and made my way to the reception counter to inform of my presence and to meet up with Ms. Johanna. I waited... 11.05am Wondering to myself who is Ms. Johanna as I sat outside at the lobby area; oh yeah the design of the place is more like a wooden sort of design of the place. The floor if I'm not mistaken is made from planks. Back to the waiting, 11.05am I saw an indian lady (not those super dark black type but more of a kaur) walking towards me and asked whether I am Joel Yap. So I followed her to a couch area and she asked me how long do I wanna be in the company which I said till the end of this year.

Then she told me what to do, so on and so forth. Done. Mission accomplished and it's confirmed that I Joel Yap is to start work on the 30th July 2007 at 9am, in an advertising company named Leo Burnett. Rank as an intern in the PR department. (Which there MIGHT be a probability that I have to wear a coat when I am to attend some events.) Allowance of 15 bucks a day being given by the company. So I hope when that day comes, everything would go smoothly and it's time to meet the world. Oh boy.... Guess I would update on that first day of work. Lolz. Have a blessed day everyone who's reading and God Blez =)

Tricked.

Durian, king of all fruits. With a yellow mustard like flesh, and the seed as big as your eyeball can be. Bluek...... That's not my kind of fruit.

For your information (for those who don't know) I dislike durian. Due to complicated reasons which I can't explain it myself. I can stand the smell but won't eat it. Though being forced to eat I won't eat it. Not even paying me to eat it I would eat it.

So what I was tricked? Simple, while I was at Jakarta with a group of people from my church, some of us went to Hard Rock Cafe. So after that they wanted to have Haagen Daz. When I wanted to walk over there to see what they're ordering my friend called me over. Not from the ice cream stall quite a distance away from it. Not suspecting anything amiss, I just wait there guessing they just wanted to buy then can go off.

After sometime of waiting, coincidentally I was waiting near to a smoking room and the door of the smoking room was open. So my nose gradually was sniffing smoke instead. Yucks.... So they (those who were at the stall) called us over. So we went over. Sat down on a table where there were 2 cups of milk shake on the table. They call me to drink it so thinking it was vanilla milkshake I sip it.

What next? Well, my eyes were open and I can see people's thought. Yeah right.... That didn't happen but thank goodness I wasn't in a high speed sipping it up mode but then it was durian shake. One sip and that's it. I was tricked/ conned or whatever words that says it. I just made a sour like face and just passed that cup to other people who enjoys it more than I do. After sometime only am I able to smell the durian "fragrance" which in fact when I was at my own house before even stepping into the house I could smell the durian outside my house. Just because of that open smoking room which disoriented my smelling senses I just got tricked.

No grudges was held anyway as this is just a small matter. More or less an experience to remember and to be more careful next time. Thank God there ain't any durian shake back here in Malaysia. Haw haw.....