moving out

I've decided to move to wordpress. once and for all. I'm tired of making my own blog skins =D and i really need more privacy. Till my next update, we'll see each other at vvverticalvv.wordpress.com

lazy to blog

had been very very very busy lately. i'm thinking of giving my blog a new facial lift. Any inputs for my blog design?

food

Just had breakfast cum lunch cum dinner with my sister and mother at east coast park. It's like 29+ per pax! But it's an ala carte buffet, quite nice. But now i'm regretting, why didn't i pick more just now =( I'm suddenly so hungry now...

Youngsters these days, (btw, i'm not VERY old ok! I'm also young!), they are attached so early.. i wonder where they get all the money to spend when they are not even working to save up. And if they really like each other, and have chemistry, fine. But will they end up doing silly things like pre-marital sex? Anyways, none of my concern.

In another light to this issue, i think i envy these people too. They have relationship so early.. But for me, i think i'll not go into relationship, not yet. I think i want to build my own financial pilar first. In this ever changing society, nothing beats having a few cents in your pocket. Family second it though. I think friends would be third priority and relationship 4th.

Of course, i wouldn't block any coming my way, would i? Haha! Actually i only felt my heart racing against time ONCE in my entire life. Honestly, when i said i like someone, i meant it, but it never felt like that. I only told 1 person about the story, and i think i am ready to tell, although ultimately i don't know the other party. haha!

There was once in the train, this girl fell aslp and i was like, sitting beside her. Normally, and i believe most of you would, when someone is sleeping and like coming closer to your shoulder, you would like "zzzk". But that was the only time i really want to lend her my shoulder. I don't even know who she is. LOL! My heart was pumping like mad.. But heck, it's all gone =) and in the end it was so close for her head to touch my shoulder, and she woke up. haha!

If i ever found my partner, i will give her my everything (except money).

Attachment is official OVER!

Weeeeeee! Attachment is officially over! I hope everyone will enjoy attachment though. Haha, as i am typing this post, something interesting happened below my house. Cat fight, as in real cats. Not those women quarreling. Haha, i can hear the screaming.

Anyways, I am pretty lucky to got the CEO's approval to extend my intern (as a temp staff) on the last day of my intern; My OIC actually called me to spread the good news to me. Well, i was away in another department to do something else for the company.

Before i continue further, i figured this is pretty important afterall, i am a singporean, Happy Belated Birthday Singapore!

We, the citizens of Singapore
Pledge ourselves as one united
people
Regardless of race, language or religion
To build a democratic
society
Based on justice and equality
So as to achieve happiness,
prosperity and progress for our nation

I hope you guys pledged at 8.22pm on 9th August =S Haha!

Anyways, I'm very very very very very elated because my OIC gave me excellent for student feedback and excellent for my report. In my remarks:

Aloysius has demonstrated maturity of character, technical ability,
resourcefulness and capcity to learn quickly in order to work independently. He
has contributed significantly through his handling of Baby Bonus matters and
developing of prototype for remote application on OCBC's unsecured internet
banking site. We wish him success in his future endeavours.

WEEEEEE.. Unfortunately no appraisal YET. =.= Actually i had wanted to put a picture of my feedback form, but.. i guess i'm really lazy person. Haha!

I felt pretty lucky, my oic bought both Yi Jie and I each a GV Gift Card worth S$28.00 and S$10 Starbucks gift vouchers.

Over the 12 weeks, i always thought i just want to scrape through this whole thing asap smoothly. I always guard myself against other people. But I was wrong, i've met new friends. My gain is more than just what i wanted. I've grown closer to people whom i never expect to meet. Unfortunately, it's all too late to realise that now. Our internship has ended. Forutnately, though, we still get to meet each other in school when the semester starts again. And probably in army too. I guess i really made 2 great buddies (and brothers) unlike others.

My 6th Week

Time flies. This is my 6th week in OCBC. How fast. Anyways, this has been a super duper busy week. With Yi Jie on leave for 1 full week, you really can't imagine how much i suffered since monday. Not because i am taking over his work, BUT CHECKING SOME STUPID stuff. Classified. Some people are really terrible, they have no integrity at all.

Anyways, this is the company i am working for,

i figured that hey, maybe pictures do speak louder. And hold on, this is not my office. My office is at the left side,

Yeap, this better looking building is my office. You know, recently I was on roadshow here and there. When i spoke to PFCs, and when i told them, OCBC Centre East, the first thing they will say is: Oh that high-class place ah? I was quite shocked! After taking this picture, i truly understands why they made that comment. By the way, i have a mini-garden which was on the right, it's not shown in the picture.. LOL!

I have been telling you busy busy busy. can't imagine yea?

These are all the paper work i have to check since tuesday after meeting. KB is right, this week i've attended a lot of meeting. Meeting finish, rush these works, rush finish work, go to another tower to meet some PFC boss. I've been doing this for the whole week. Tiring you know! By the way, think that's little work? look at this..

Thank god i had a good view of the city =D

PAYDAY!

In an hour's time, IT'S PAYDAY! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Above is my first payslip from OCBC! Not much, afterall i had a day off.

Wow, it's been quite a while since i blogged. Had been really busy with my intern. WOOTS! I like where i am attached. Oversea-Chinese Bank Corporation!

I'm working at Wealth Management, Deposits. Basically i'm handling all the deposits products and yeap, that's about the best i can say. I hope by telling you guys the department i worked in is not classified. Haha! But truly, working at OCBC had really given me BIG time opportunity to understand the banking system even better. At least i now understand more of the banking products.

Anyways, for those who are still in the dark, I've actually won the 3rd prize in this very huge competition organized by Microsoft, Imagine Cup 2009. It's a national challenge and we made it to the 2nd runners-up. Wee! It's like my first time winning a national round la! I'm finally recognized, 3rd in Singapore leh! Haha!

Anyways, so glad that my lenovo x200 finally arrived on 3rd June 2009. It's really super duper light! Like 1.4kg only! And even with battery, it's not at all heavy, enough for 1 hand to carry and still move around.

Haha! Finally, my cute nephew! He's finally like.. 6months old!

isn't he adorable?

Imagine Cup Singapore 2009

5th June 2009, Friday, marks the end of a wonderful journey for me. From the team formation, to generating ideas, to writing proposal, to coding the prototype, to presenting in the semi final, to making it to the finals and to preparing the finals. Each iteration has its own story. While we are not crowned the first, it has gone far beyond the goal of winning. It is the learning experience, the friendship we fostered during the short 3 months not just with my team mates, but also our supervisor cum mentor. Truly, Imagine Cup has really brought the competition to a whole new level; not just competing, but learning from our own knowledge and beyond.

It is indeed a though thing to learn at first. The transition from our knowledge of web based solution to application based solution is a huge jump. We have totally no one to get help from and all our proposed idea were seemingly impossible at first. Thankfully, we had a big group of people behind us, backing us with their technical know-how giving us directions while we focus on providing quality solutions. These people are: Mr Gary Lim (our Supervisor: giving strategic directions), Miss Yarny Chang (our Module Leader: aid in finding resources to kick start Windows Mobile development and "advertising" us at the last week of FYPJ), Mr Yip CH (once our project Supervisor: AT commands), Mr Melvin Tan (NYP Lecturer, aid in Windows Mobile development), Mr Ong TK (NYP Lecturer)/Ms Oh SL (our Course Coordinator)/Mr Lee CB (our PEM)/Mr Poh LH (Director, Nanyang Polytechnic, School of IT)/Mr Daniel Wee (Deputy Director, Nanyang Polytechnic, School of IT) and many many more that I may have missed out. Thank you very very much.

We may not have won the first. But to me, we are already a winner, we have a group of people who nominated us in people's choice. Others may have the greatest idea, the best solution, smartest alec, prettiest girl, you name it; but do they have a ready team to endorse and support their product? I won something. I won knowledge, i won friendship, i won a great experience, and most importantly, I won a very real life skill that many locals lost: the ability to present well and market your product. While I am not the best marketeer as per result, I think to market our product so far is a great acheivement. Afterall, we are the 3rd best Singapore team.

Very briefly, let me just tell you an interesting thing about my team mates. While our main task is to code a proper solution, we are made up with each member specializing in a specific area that complements one another.

Jun Kai aka Jack of All Trade. He is really very resourceful in googling.
Primary Role (Behind the Scene): UI Designing, Googling.
Primary Role (Competition Day): Main Presenter.

Me aka here a bit there a bit. I am very resourceful too! HAHA!
Primary Role (BS): Admin stuff (like scheduling), code a bit.
Primary Role (CD): Presenter - Solutions.

DOKY aka GG. He is crazy over his mini competition with SODA for best project award.
Primary Role (BS): Coding.
Primary Role(CD): Act mute.

Yida aka Buddha or SODA. He is also crazy over his mini competition with GG for best project award (btw it's NYP level only).
Primary Role (BS): Coding.
Primary Role (CD): Act as emergency operator.

Photos to be made available soon. And really had a nice expeirence in this competition. Gonna miss all of you during IPP.