Retirement vs Challenges

My colleague recently asked mi a question over lunch. He asked me about my work in the current company. 2 words to describe my current co; slow and steady. It feels pretty much like working in a retirement place. I would say almost 75% of my co-workers are probably here for their last job in life.

Comparing to my time when working in Times, it feels like I have exited the highway and entered a small route. Well, I still pretty much like being in a hectic battlefield , so yeah will move on when an opportunity arises!

Fighting! :p

A Week in RD

Phew~~~ I have finally survived a week in the new job! It wasn't too hard to understand some of the technical work terms as I am still working in publication trade. However, the environment here are structured differently from Times. After working here for a week, I realized my previous job in Times is being split into different jobs in different departments with a specific headcount doing each function. 

Besides, direct superior with different genders does make a difference on the stress level. The female superior tends to delegate more work to the subordinate while the male superior gave more empowerment to the subordinate. The female superior tends to shift away from responsibilities while the male superior tends to hold on to more responsibilities. And of course, this depends on the type of company structure you are in; whether MNC or SME, internationally or locally does make an impact on the type of roles and responsibilities for each individual.

Working in this job has also allowed mi to talk to people from different Asian countries. I came to realized that Chinese from Taiwan business world isn't nice to deal with. Or maybe Chinese are naturally more aggressive in business and profitability as compared to the Whites. 

Enough about work, I miss my baby girl a lot! I have another 30 minutes to go before I can leave work and see my beautiful girl! 

p.s. If you are reading this, you know you are being missed by mi <3 bbs.="" div="">

Bye 2013, Hello 2014

2013 has ended. 2013 wasn't a fantastic period to go through but it was a year that I fast tracked my growing up process. 2013 taught mi the roles and responsibilities of careful thinking, swift decisions and appreciating and cherish the loved ones around mi. 2013 has also shower mi with love where I have met the lady of my life; Raine. Life has never been that sweet and exciting before. I'm glad that I've found her! 2013 has also seen a transition in career. Getting and talking myself out of a comfort zone was never an easy matter but I'm glad that I managed to move on in career to a better place I hope.

After a long annual leave period, tomorrow marks the official first day in the new job. Much excitement and anxiety lies ahead in 2014! :)

p.s. I miss you! 

Black & White to go

Well..I have finally changed my blog template but pardon me on some of the tabs, still figuring out how to personalize all of them with my personal links. This template was designed for professional and business usage but I kinda like the simple layout and colors, especially those social tabs to connect conveniently. 

As you transit into later stages in life, work has essentially occupied more than 50% of our lives, not measuring by the hours spent on each day as working 9 hours a day. Sad to say, most of us still thinks about work even after those 9 hours, could be responsibility or just simply stupidity or a mix of both. 

Right now, I am in midst of looking out for new career opportunity, still in marketing but preferably going into digital marketing. Traditional marketing no longer interest me much though. I have questioned myself why do I want to leave my existing co when there are alot of perks at work such as; reasonable salary after increment hopefully, 18 days of long annual leave, fully paid for medical needs, $300 dental claims, $70 mobile claims, unlimited Taxi claims, and off-in-lieu, invitations to private events by partners, and free gifts and many more. 

Well, the main motivation for leaving this company would be the management system and organizational directions. This is indeed a bad experience for my first full time job, with 2 managers left during my time here. Research have shown that employees leave the company are mainly attributed by the direct superior. In this case, this clearly shows the shitty management and leadership skills in my GM. What is making this worse, some of the colleagues working here usually wear a mask to work. 

Here are some good illustrations:

Well, I believe that both my princess and I will find a desired job soon! 

It was mentioned by a wise person (my baby princess) that when you are having a shitty time in career, relationship will definitely be better, however I wish to have best of both worlds! My baby princess is also having a tough time looking for a desired job. Having to go through so many job interviews but all turned out to be shitty, be it job scope, pay budget, benefits or location definitely demoralise a person's motivation to get a job. I know you will read this post and I hope that you will jiayou and get your desired job soon.

Bear misses Kitty alot and currently doing tons of homework. It has come to a point that I am always waiting for 10am to wake you up so as to hear your voice and wait patiently for your replies #cantwaittoseeher #princemissprincess #bearmisskitty 

The time now is too late for regrets... 

2 years to prove my worth for you. I will be there.

Tots for share...

The week has been rather eventful. Let's start with Monday. Went for a job interview at Owl International for a marketing position. Interview didn't went well and I guess both Owl and mi have different expectations of each other. They were expecting a fresh grad with a lower pay budget than someone with 1.5 years experience in the field and asking for a higher pay. To make things even worse, they are shifting office to Tuas which is too far for mi. Waking up early is not a kidding matter for someone like mi with a pre-monster syndrome -quoted from my baby girl. However, interview results aside, I am happy with myself being able to step out of comfort zone. I always believe one will never grow once u are struck in a comfortable position. *pats on my shoulder*

Tuesday is a great happy day spent with my girl despite the little awkwardness between my mum and her. I do hope things and relations will turn up better soon!

Wednesday.. Kena butter session by GM about Times sales dip in the morning, Pansing sales dip in the afternoon. Each session lasted about 1.5 to 2 hours. His scoldings always makes mi ponder if I am doing a good job or not? Other maybe my direct superior is not providing a decent direction for us executives to follow. You are right if you think i should have a mind of my own and be more proactive at work. Then tell mi, what's the use of having a manager then? Not sure if GM is playing mind games by making use of the executives to get rid of the manager again. That ass. I shall just remain quiet, time to act dumb I guess. After all these nonsense at work, I met up with my angel who changes my bad mood straight with her bubbly-ness and silly smile! A happy man at last! :p

Thursday - peaceful day but miss her loads :(( Can't wait for Friday night meet up with her.

Fri, Sat & Sun - time is tight, but I will make full use of wad ever time I have :))

A day at work

Been a while since I last blogged. Today, I had a disagreement with a colleague.

In this company, we have a ranking system from an assistant being the lowest to supervisory, followed by executive and finally management. Being a fellow executive with her, I didn't have the rights to judge her but if you have been in my shoes, you would have understand. Frankly, I didn't want to involve gender differences but why woman think so differently from the man? Man doesn't make all the right decisions despite most leaders and bosses are male. Females can be great politicians as well, look at Hillary Clinton for example.

"Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher." - Maya Watson

Sunset

You cast a spell on me,
You hit me like the sky fell on me,
And I decided you look well on me,
I'm glad you came,

Now you have left me...
Thanks for the 3 years...

Sch work overload!

I need inspirations for my dissertation topic! Pls inspire mi with a topic like how I get a big idea for Marcom assignment!

The bad thing about UK prof..cannot talk to them face to face.. Argh..

The excitement aheads...

Gonna ord in 3 days time and starting sch in 3 days time. wad a coincidence right..
Sch starting and i dont know wad to prepare for sch.
wait and see how bah!

:D

Thoughts!

hmm.. it's so frustrating to think about the future! friends around already had plans about wad they gonna do after ORD like going overseas to study while some of them are working full time jobs and taking up nite classes in SIM/RMIT/UOL...

ARGhhHHHHH~! now i am struck between applying social sciences degree in ntu & smu.. or shld i just go take up up a full time job and take nite classes like my friends... degrees in local uni are like 4 years long.. while private uni wont waste too much of my time cox classes are in the nite..

yawnnn.. i shall wait for feb to come! to try my luck at local uni!

Christmas!

Christmas is coming to town in 1 week's time!

I wan present! ^^;

Omg Omg Omg!!!

You have accepted mi on 22/07/09 23.22pm! I cant believe it! too happy to even sleep now.. lols.. that is why i here blogging..

well, my gal.. i cant say i am the best guy for u but i will do my best to love u with the one and only heart! things might be happening too fast, but we shldnt let time to hinder us.

Thanks for accepting my love! haha still too excited to sleep.. lols.. u shld be sleeping now le.. sleep tight! i will be praying for sweet dreams for u! nitessss! I love u!

Life is like a roller coaster! full of scary and calm moments! lols..

Jus realised a fact abt mi, i kinda of attracted to gals with bigger eyes! lols..

Alrite.. gonna book in soon! haha

Today is my book in daY! A busy week ahead...!
Or shld i say, this is my first busy week in my new unit... lols *looking forward to off days*

I jus wanna comment that this year PC Show sucks... nth new and nth much to see.. Well, i did get myself a 8gb memory card for psp! more games to play in camp.. haha

And Ya, i got a new haircut today.. now look like malay's guy typical hair.. whereby the sides and back are super short while the top is long...lols.. This is all for the hair inspection sake..haix..

Life is no longer dependent..

Made a brave decision... no much regrets...
Decided to move on after weeks of struggle...
When i saw was purely sadness and depressing moments..
I had tried and done enough with nothing achieved...
The worst period of my life...

But i believe life will get better.

Back to pouring my thoughts...

I have many stuffs in mind but is kinda of hard to type it down...

Some stuff abt mi:

• i love to keep thoughts to myself, becox i dun wan another person to know and worry abt.. but i become a selfish person in her mind..
• i love to keep quiet when *issues* happened.. but i am resolving it.. but i become a person who dun care in her mind...

Actually i am a simple person in the inside. u will know mi well if u can read my mind...

Wadever it is, a person and time had made mi realized, there are better and wonderful stuff to do in this world beside attaching to just that someone (who is now deemed the pass-by gal).

Less than 5 days to kick off my 2 years camp for Singapore.
i feel like a Big Bao (chinese bun) now
Having mixed fillings (feelings)

LoL.. maybe some of u will understand the joke.. anyway joke aside..
Currently, myself is so nervous, anxious, excited, worried and kinda of scared in someway that i might not adapt to the environment. But i always told myself that since many other regular SG man had finished their NS, then it shldnt pose any problem to mi rite...?

My parents seems so excited abt mi, as their son going in NS.. Lols.. Shall start packing my bag soon tml.

Will update again after i book out... >.<
I already missing dear dear even i still out now...

Did disappointment and failures made mi a better or worse person?

I can't seem to defeat the mentality of myself?

I need to get things working...

Had not been blogging for quite sometime... laptop just got repaired by me.. well, i am also quite busy with working part time at robinson rite now.. so far so good, i had been a few days of promotor for robinson exclusive men's business shirts and being a cashier for rest of the days i think... the most wonderful thing about this job is, i came to know quite a few friends over here.. some ard my age and some are much more older than mi... hmmm.. i still got ard 16-18 more days to go at robinson..

Gonna meet up with my dear dear for movie "Forbidden Kingdom" at 7.10pm.. i wonder if she is okie with her job.. can see that she is rather stressed up over her job.. i am her stress-reliever.. lol.. make her happy! i miss her! and aso the popcorn in cathay.. lols..