This entry is 2 days late, but what the heck, you guys will still read it no matter what!

Reached the office at 9am and only Jeffery was around. The work times are flexible in this company. As long as you finish your assigned task, you are free to come to work at any time.
Ken came it at about 11am and brought me to the launch of U Mobile at Berjaya Time Square Hotel. It’s my first event working in this company. I’ve held a lot of events with my previous job but I’ve never attended one. It feels good to be served by people and let the organizers worry about insufficient press kits, insufficient food, uninvited guess and late comers. All I had to do this time is to go to the venue, register my name, get the press kits+gifts and get a place to sit. No worrying.

The press kit from U Mobile is great. They gave me a t-shirt, cap, donut, dates (because of Hari Raya soon) and the nicest lanyard. According to Ken, I’ll be able to fill up my cabinet with all the free gifts by the end of the year!

Anyway, the event was fine, nothing special, but I met one of Malaysia’s most influential business man, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, boss and founder(I think) of Berjaya Group. He was standing about 2 feet away from me. I wanted to ask permission to take a picture with him but I chickened out.

Went back to the office after lunch and Ken explained the magazine’s page plans to me. He also gave me a thumbdrive. Now I don’t have to click “Cancel” to stop the antivirus software from installing itself EVERYTIME I plug it in to a Windows PC.
I finished one of the sections of the magazine that afternoon, then setup my computer. My initial computer wasn’t running as planned, something is not working and it won’t startup and we don’t have an AMD motherboard to troubleshoot. So I’m given a Shuttle PC to do my work temporarily, until my NEW computer comes in. I always wanted a Shuttle PC, now I have it. It sits nicely ON my desk, yes, it’s that small.
I will be getting a top of the line computer as I will be doing a lot of hardware reviews and games reviews, so I need the best out there. The parts will come in slowly, so I’ll just have to bear with the Shuttle, which is better than my home PC, for a while.

I felt that I’ll like this job a lot. I don’t know why, but I have a very good feeling about my job.
It’s a very hectic week as we are trying to wrap the magazine out and send it for printing, then for distribution. So I won’t be blogging as much as I used to, but I’ll try to at least update once every couple of days.

Off to review a RM2K++ VGA card, Asus EN8800 ULTRA!

I will be starting my working life again, tomorrow.  I’ll sleep earlier tonight, if I can.

Anyway, first day at a new office will be like first day of school.  I’ve packed my stuff into my bag.  Yes, I’ll be carrying a bag to work, like I always did.

The stuff in my bag:

My phones 

Since I’ll be driving a lot, I’ll need my bluetooth handsfree

My Handsfree

My Pen

My Notebook to jot down the all important stuff

My Camera (Ken told me to bring it along)

My Thumbdrive

And my Macbook

I’ve polished my shoes and iron out my shirts and slacks.  A bit nervous right now but who isn’t? Everyone is nervous at the first day of work!

Ok, going off now.  Sleeping soon!

Ever since I installed Twitter plugins in my blog (I’ve had a Twitter account for a few months now, just not making use of it), I am getting lazy to blog.

I post on Twitter a few times everyday, which practically sums up my events for the day! What is there to blog? Anyway, I’ll still blog as usual and not letting the evil Twitter kill The life of an average guy…(man I need a better title for my blog, any ideas?)

Anyway, I went to the college early this morning for my Financial Management exam.  It was not too bad, should be passable.  I am glad that EVERY question I predicted came out.  Although I don’t know what the answers are, but I think I did good enough to pass, that’s all I asked.

I’ll be burning the midnight oil and talking to the shirping birds tomorrow morning as I just woke up from my slumber.  You see, I did not sleep last night, I was memorising studying for Financial Management the whole night, then I went to college after that.  I’ll be doing the same tonight.

It’ll be my Business Analysis and Decision Making (BADM) exams tomorrow.  I have 12 hours to study for it.  I am not too concerned about this subject as I understand a few topics and this subject tends to use a lot of mathematical formulas, which I am good at.

I hope I could pass my exams this semester and proceed to the second part of my MBA course, which is even more difficult.  I hope I could cope with my studies and my new job and my health and my social life and my writtings in my blog and in myMacBUZZ.

P.S. Check out my first post at myMacBUZZ.  Albeit a mistake, but it’s still my first post!

Apple launched its newest Mac, the iMac, recently.  I always wanted an iMac ever since it first came our in 1998.  I was fascinated by it’s all in one design.  Heck, it even saved Apple from closing down and brought Steve Jobs back to Apple.  The iMac was very expensive at the time.  I just bought a Pentium II at the time it was launched.  When the second generation iMac was launched, it was even nicer with it’s LCD monitor.  The only thing that stopped me from buying an iMac was the price and also the Mac OS.  It’s a totally new interface for a Windows person like me.

Times have changed and Apple collaborated with Intel to produce Intel Macs, that’s when I got my first Mac, a MacBook, and I loved it ever since. 

There are pros and cons for using a Mac.  Let’s face it, More than 80% of the world’s computers run on Windows.  Software and compatibility with the Mac is always an issue.  I know you could run Parellels or Boot Camp, but why buy a Mac but use Windows?

My desktop PC is more than 5 years old.  I told myself if my desktop breaks down beyond repairs, I’ll get an iMac but being a computing guy, my computer almost never breaks down *TOUCH WOOD*.  Everytime it breaks down, I could repair it myself.  Maintenance cost is very minimal.

I know you are wondering, how could someone like me (computing person) could use ancient computers like this.  Well, I don’t play games, I don’t do a lot of process hungry stuff.  My computers are just for internet surfing and also some simple word processing. 

Anyway, David from myMacBUZZ asked me if I would like to contribute to myMacBUZZ by writing stuff about Macs and iPods and all things Apple.  I agreed without thinking much.  I’ve always wanted to write stuff to magazines and websites ever since I got access to the internet.  I like it when they have the newest stuff to play with and they have first hand information.  I know I am not an early Apple user but I’ve been reading Apple’s stuff on Wikipedia, on the internet and everywhere. 

David wanted to pay me for contributing to myMacBUZZ but I refused.  The love I have for Apple can not be measured in dollar signs.  I’ll be writing my first post very soon.  So go to myMacBUZZ and check it out guys!

My cousin, Wei Wei (that’s what I call her since she was a baby), is going to further her studies in University of Leeds, England.  She is leaving on Thursday.  She will be “reading” Law (According to her, you “read” law, you don’t “study” law…funny lawyers).

Yeap, she’s pretty! 

She is 4 years my junior and I love her.  She is one of my favourite cousins.  Although I don’t say it out loud but she is.  Who could remember your birthday and wish you every year? I swear I remember her birthday by heart and I never write it down.  It just comes to me when it’s her birthday.

Another picture.  I can’t believe I don’t have a picture with her.  I am never the cam-whoring type.

Just call/IM me if you need to talk.  I’ll always be there for you.  I promise.

Anyway, this entry is dedicated to Wei Wei to wish her good luck and all the best in England.  Have loads of fun there and be sober always! (She knows what I mean)