Goddamn Appraisal..

1. What keeps you here?

The colleagues, environment and accessibility

2. What are your strengths?

Programming skills, experiences, work-over-emotion trait and no interest in office politics

3. What are your weaknesses?

Never intend to reveal my weaknesses to other people

4. Are there any specific skills you want to learn or any training needs?

Management skills are very much appreciated, and possibly psychology and/or communication skills

5. What are your personal goals?

Steady and sufficient income, happy family, 2-3 properties, nice cars and 500k+ long-term investment fund

6. What are your career professional goals?

Move into management IT instead of stucking with technical side all the times

7. Are there problems/issues faced working here?

Sales people and logistics for technical team

8. What do you think can be done to improve the company?

Sales team stays out of technical issues, logistics problems get settled quickly

9. Has the company meeting your personal goal, as a person as well as a professional?

None so far

10. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Still working for others, with plan of opening own business

Preferences

First post since Aidilfitri holiday. I'm either too busy or just don't have the mood to blog. I don't have anything interesting to blog anyway. Taking this opportunity to wish Happy Aidilfitri to all Muslims and Happy Deepavali to all Hindus.

To the real deal, below are list of my preferences for services that I require.

Banking: CIMB (Maybank can go suck my ass although they're the biggest)

Petrol Station: Petronas

Telco: Celcom (I'm throwing my Maxis simcard away. hate Maxis to the point I don't want to MNP the number to Celcom, changed to a 019 number)

Monitor: Samsung

PC Processor: AMD (switched from Intel before)

TV: Sony (Bravia especially)

Car Tyre Service: G4 Auto, Bukit Sri Bintang, Kepong (look for a fella named Ah Soon)

Car A/C Service: Waja Aircond Service, Sri Gombak

Car Service (general): Perodua Service Center, Sri Gombak

Food (cakes etc): Secret Recipe

Food (chicken): Nandos or Kenny Rogers

Food (cheapo): Mamak Yaqin, Phileo Damansara 1

Hotel Food: Aseana, Dynasty Hotel (special reason. thanks abg eddy, hehe..)

Comics: Shin Chan Bahasa Melayu, no others (known as Dik Cerdas)

Camera (normal): Sony

Camera (DSLR): Canon EOS

Handphone: Sony Ericsson (with exception to non-Java Nokia phone)

Toothbrush: Oral B Cross Action

Toothpaste: Colgate (currently Colgate Kayu Sugi)

Will add from time to time.

Raya

k-mie off for Raya mode. Be back on Saturday the 4th.

24/9

Received my confirmation letter yesterday. Salary has been revised and is increased a bit. Added with living cost allowance and overtime allowance I would say it's ample to pay off the bills etc. As for work, it's the same. Just that during my confirmation interview yesterday, my manager told me that I *might* be promoted to the position of Product Manager within 1-2 months because the current Product Manager is tendering her resignation. I wow and sigh at this though. Wow because just after 3 months and they trust me to hold technical managerial position, sigh because with great power comes great responsibilities. Will I be able to withhold the responsibilities given or will I just suck it up and let it all go..

Anyhoo, my house is being built as I blog. Not really a house technically, it's a condo unit. Signed the SPA letter last 2 weeks, so far everything is looking good. Me being a meticulous guy, read every page of that letter until the lawyer told me that those are just housing Act. I chuckled, apologized because it was just me being myself and proceeded to sign the letter. Loan has also been approved, from two banks actually. Both offered good rates and services, but then I settled for the one that offered best. Pity I couldn't get cheaper MRTA, if not I'd be able to further reduce the loan by 6 to 7k. Now is just a matter of watching the unit being built day by day.

1 more week for Ramadhan. Means 1 more week for me to go back early. After this it'll be back to normal 9-6. Hate those jam-packed traffic aarrrrgghhh..


*Attention to Mr Farid Hazwan, Mr Farid Hazwan, please update your blog and/or online through your YM. You've been missing for a long time that I wanted to report to the police station. Thank you.*

Permanent

3 months already, hohoho. Gonna ask for my confirmation letter tomorrow. Sadly no bonus for this year though, I haven't been with the company for at least 1 year. Thus, not eligible for yearly bonus. But then the good thing is, they do give bonus (yay!). Still got a lot to learn within the company, although I'm considered as one of the senior developers there. Planning to venture into Java, C++ and possibly SOAP technology. Might also enroll into SCJE course and get the certificate (and ask the company to pay for the certs, haha..).

Oh yeah, although my office is in Selangor our holiday follows Federal Territory. Reason is because our HQ is in KL, easier for internal communication by standardizing the holiday. Not that I really care though, my workaholic-ism is still with me. Just that it sucks to drive to work without somebody at my side, heh. Yeah we go to work together, our offices are next to each other. Saves a lot of spending that way, easier planning too once we get married.

<proud mode>On other note, I've already secured my first property. Will post up some pictures once available.</proud mode>