Am not sure if there’s something wrong with my phone, SE W910i (which is only like 4 months old). It seems to be dropping the calls more often nowadays. It would ring, I’d pick it up, talked for about 20 to 30 seconds, and the line would just break off! On hands free however was always good. I am wondering if there’s something wrong with it. If I do send it in for repair, I’ve a feeling they would just flash the firmware and, to me, that’s pointless…
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Think it’s kind of duh~! The first Mummy was fun, second on the Scorpion King was more or less cool as it built upon the first. Now, somehow, they decided to fly to China with the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor – starring Jet Li and Dato’ Michelle Yeoh in action with Brendan Fraser. Somehow, I think this may be pushing it far bit more. Oh, maybe because it’s the season of everything China, it’s Beijing 2008 afterall!
Catch the trailer here!
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What have I learned after 11 months at work? While I did mention that I would know how to rewrite my career objective, I guess there are other developments within myself that I didn’t see it coming.
I was having a few tea break sessions with my friends from different circa. One, coming from my pre-university days; he just landed himself on his first job. His girlfriend, who is also my good friend, however was still searching for one. Throughout the conversation, I realized how undetermined and lack of confident both of them felt.
Next, I had the opportunity to speak to another friend from university. He just graduated as well. He was all that intense and jittery in his fortune in landing a job. To make matter worse, he believed he has gotten a worthless degree.
On another note, I’ve another friend, having started his career about the same time as I do, but seems to take the opportunity at hand as a cage instead of the free sky. The reason is simply being the cost of another previous opportunity. But nevertheless, I believe, the outlook is bright as he continues to roam the sky!
Another friend however just seems to me unable to make up his mind in regards to the work he is attached to right now.
Though they are five different persons with different backgrounds – and almost with no similarity – I think they share one common corner stone. Managing expectation.
I am definitely no Guru or career coach, but I talked to them. Nevertheless. Just hope I did not dish out any bad advices.It’s good that you have an expectation of your first job to start a career. And in the midst of job hunting, if the job does not meet your expectation, and you feel that you are not able to adjust – and hopefully not to the extend of compromise – the expectation, then do not take it. As simple! This is because, I believe, 6 months into the jobs, your perceptions will change. You will be able to make a better judgment on your next career move. If you actually go into the job, and decide on the first day (or maybe way before) that you hate it, you will definitely not be able to take away any valuable lesson from it!
For me, I believe to be able to appreciate and take away valuable experiences and lessons will do you better and no worse.
Then again, maybe I am just as green and new, I should not be dishing out such advices, right?
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A year ago, I wrote on my resume career objective as follow:-
To build a career dedicated in helping people and business to achieve successes and improve on the competencies by leveraging on the use of analytical risk management along with implementation of information technology whilst growing together with a forward looking company.
To be frank, 11 months into the job which I believed that it would allow me to fulfill such dream and aspiration, I believe it’s a good time to make a revision. An assessment even!
It all started pretty well with me getting into the frame of understanding and fitting into the organization and the role I should play. I must have been pretty lucky to be given the opportunities to really do what I wanted. Instead of working with bits and bytes, I was working in solving processes, untangling legacy issues and having almost full authority in running things; pretty independent. But of course, in a bad way, I was opening far too many cans of worms.
I. Did. Not. However. Realized. That.
Green I was, I must admit it, but I think at the end of the day, was lucky that I did not come out smelling like rotten eggs – fortunately – nor was I smelling like roses. I did not exactly do a great job, instead, I was hulled around, sourced some may put it, into another project. It was an interesting project in both good and bad way.
But what I quickly learned was that I began to be caught in all the chained melody of internal processes, red tapes and corporate hierarchy (politics included). Though I continued to develop my technical skills, I began raising doubts and concerns. Head strong I was, I shot those words (which people of my rank don’t normally do) to the supervisor. The conversation was definitely interesting, but at the end of the day, I prevailed – albeit not knowing how much harm it did to my career progress to be frank!
It’s boring to recollect all these histories, really! But what I wish to highlight is simply, being in IT, it’s definitely a very interesting career path. From admiring all the Gurus out there, like rock stars performing to a sold out crowd, to comparing what I’m doing and trying to achieve, I think it’s definitely something I should stick to.
Why? Simply because I really do think I am helping people to achieve efficiency in their work by enabling them with IT. Though my ability to reach out to people is still very limited and most of the time being constraint by what the application can offer, I am still able to offer what little I’ve; at the very least. And how least is that, well, the job description (may) go:-
- Understand and solve user’s requirements and needs (Read: Communication)
- Collate multiple users’ requirements and needs to form a basis view of the total business need (Read: Process design)
- Design and build applications with consultant (Read: Coding and communication with programmers!)
- Design and build jobs schedule (Read: Process enabled by use of technology)
- Reach out to extended team members – DBA, System Engineers, Operation, Information Security – to enable IT (Read: Communication)
Sounds all great and wonderful? Well, you may obviously turned it around and phrase it 100 times worse. The Devil entices you with sweet words; the foolish one will buy it; the smart one will sell it! Think I am the Devil and the smart one here!
And note how I never once put the word “Management” into it? That, my friend, is another tale for another time.
Guess I may finally understand what does it means to write a specific career objective. Think I’d rephrase my resume to as follow:-
To build a career dedicated in helping people and businesses to achieve successes and improve on the competencies by leveraging on its people resources and use of IT as a critical business enabler.
And boy I’ve *matured*, I think…
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It’s interesting really to see how every characters fall into place or frame of how they were all introduced in the first place. While I did bitch about this short de-tour back to the past as unnecessary; for I hated all those text and dialogs.
Anyway, to be entertained with such tremendous interesting fight and story line for this dull weekend, I’d say it just notch the day up by .5! Apart from that, there ain’t really much to comment on until we see the next chapter. I assume we will get to see everyone killing everyone soon with masks flying all around!