CNY's Diary

26 Jan 09 @ Monday

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First day of CNY, went for a worship at The Sarawak Buddhist Monastery & Association in the early morning with family, later not going out for a whole day. Open House at home, the guests' visitation non-stop since 11a.m - 8p.m. Since most guests were my eldest brother's colleagues & friends, and the house is almost fully occupied with people (in the guest room & dining room), so no choice, just stay up stair online, watch movie & etc.
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The Sarawak Buddhist Monastery & Association (photo grabbed from Picasa)

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27 Jan 09 @ Tuesday

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2nd day of CNY, Marvin, MM & her husband (SY) visited my house. We later went to visit a doctor friend at Asajaya, Samarahan, which located roughly 1 hour + (70KM+) from my house. Like last time (if not mistaken, is 2 years ago), we ate some durian there!
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A wonderful day with a little bad ending......when we were on the way back to Kuching, we experienced a mild car accident, Marvin's Wira was knocked by a Kancil from the back a round about (the one near by Sungai Jernang/下港). Well, just a mild accident, Wira's left break light and the bumper are broken; the condition of Kancil was more serious, the cooling system is damaged & leaking.
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28 Jan 09 @ Wednesday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

3rd day of CNY, at home in the morning. Accompanied Marvin went to Samarahan Police Station to make a report on the car accident in the afternoon. At night, joined Apaw, CK & YH, we visited Evin's house, and later meet with Midman, SF & Denis at JoJo's house. Lastly we played Black Jack at CP's house with some other x-secondary schoolmates. I won RM100+ and reached home at 4a.m.
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29 Jan 09 @ Thursday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

4th day of CNY, another raining day. No program, just stay at home the day time. At night, went out with Marvin again. We went to Spring Shopping Mall and hang out there for a while without any purpose. We then went to visit MM's house and supper near by Jalan Song......can be considered as a boring day! :)
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30 Jan 09 @ Friday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

5th day of CNY, had lunch with Marvin, KK & Jonathan at "人间茶室" nearby Medan Pelita. After lunch, watched a movie "家有喜事2009" [ All's Well Ends Well ] in Kuching Star Cineplex.
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At night, relax at Ruby Health Recovery S/B with my eldest brother & brother-in-law again. We enjoy the sauna for about 20 minutes til whole body bath with the sweat, and then proceed to the steam bath room, before have the 2 hours Chinese style body massage.

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The Days Before CNY's Eve

Sigh~~~so careless, I left my digiter camera in Miri, while the charger and other camera accessories are with me, so photo taken & uploaded in my post... Will ask Fern bring it to me when she comes over on 1/2. Between, my LG handphone, don't what gone wrong, the battery can't be recharged since I reached Kch. : (
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I do nothing meaningful since I back to Kuching last 3 days (22 Jan 09), most time stay at home, either online (check mails, search job, play with friendster/facebook, download movies...etc) or watching TV. quite boring actually!
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Yesterday (24/1) was more wonderful...I went out with my eldest brother & 5 years old niece in the noon to had our lunch in "老行家", a franchise at Song Road. We later went for a spin around the Samarahan District. My old home was here during my childhood (8th Miles, Muara Tuang), anyway I can't recognize this place anymore, as it was recently crowded with housing areas, with well developed infrastructures (road); which last time here still covered by wide forest with bad rocky lane!
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I visited my old school (primary school, SRB Chung Hua Sungai Jernang), well not much changed, just been expended with a new building only, and looked cleaner. We looked around in the new campus of UNIMAS too. Wow it was really huge & magnificent compound! I heard that the old campus has been abandoned and not in use.
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I went out again at night with my eldest brother & brother-in-law, we went to yamcha in "The Best Corner" (第一品), a cafe at unknown location :p... we then went to have one hour of leg massage in Ruby Health Recovery S/B (红宝石养身休闲中心) at Setia Raja Road, before had the supper at Pasar Besar Petanak. We reached home almost at 1:30A.M.
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Going Home for CNY Celebration

Wow, time flies like a rocket...just another 5 days, Lunar New Year comes! Yeah......err......don't misunderstand, ok? CNY not really make me excited, I'm "Yeah" for is time to go home, "Yeah"!!! So what?

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Hmm...I'm going back to hometown (Kuching) for CNY celebration this evening at around 6P.M . by AirAsia. I think this time would be my longest CNY break in Kch (almost 2 weeks; 22 Jan - 5 Feb 09) since year 2001, as I was either studied in Kelantan (USM) or worked outstation in Miri in the past 8 years.
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Actually I have bought the air tickets (dated 22 Jan 09 & 29 Jan 09) earlier, before I made the decision to quit from the previous company. But later have changed the return flight schedule from 29 Jan to 5 Feb.

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Some mind curious why am I not manage to go home earlier (before 22/1/09) and why still back to Miri while I'm not working in Miri anymore? Well, firstly, you should know that my GF, Fern is in Miri mah... I'll surely miss her very much without her beside me; Oop, NO! should be Fern mind miss me like crazy the day(s) without me...... :p
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Secondly, I don't have Internet connection at home (Kuching), so it is certainly not that convenience for me to seeking for a new job. A good news is, I received a SMS from my eldest brother on 15/1, said that an Internet line (Streamyx) has just been installed at home! Anyway is too late, not going to change the flight schedule anymore......jobless eh, don't have extra money to waste liao... :)
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That all for this post, wish you have a prosperous & Happy Chinese New (牛) Year! @_<
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My Resignation

I have to leave my recent company which I have worked with for almost 4 years & 8 months (April 04 - Dec 08) due to some unavoidable reasons. This being my first permanent career since graduated in year 05. I'm the branch manager, deal more on managing & marketing activities.

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Well, this was really a hard decision to make, as lots of things need to be taken into account:

1. Cash Flow Issue: daily expenditure, car loan, PTPTN loan, credit card debts & etc

2. Economy Crisis : during global economy down time, most companies are recently practicing 3C [ cut cost, cut salary, cut staff (redundancy) ] to minimize the money invest in the business in order to maximize the profits. So it would be quite difficult to find a better career during this period.
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But have no choice, I have to resign earlier than planned because of:
1. Totally lost interest & confident to the company quite a long time ago.
2. The company is began to cut cost now, and expect to practice the other 2C (cut salary & cut staff) very soon. Since Nov 08, the management tends to simply transfer staffs from one outlet to another outlet without a good reason (all these while, this is company's ploy to force staffs to resign at their own, so needless to pay 3 months salaries for firing you)
3. Stress & tension! Since the price increment of 50-100% in the lab services, majority GP clinics have slowly switched to other lab service providers which offer better rate. So since June 08 til Dec 08 (1/2 year period), the outlet under my supervision experienced almost 50% decrement in the sales. I have to bear the responsibility for the bad sales although is not my faulth, the management themselve made a wrong (to be more precise, is innocent) business strategy.
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After a long consideration & hesitation, I tendered my resignation letter (one month notice) to the HR Department on 10 Nov 08. My last day work was on 28 Dec 08 (after clear all my replacement & annual leave; official last day should be on 9 Jan 09).
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Now I still jobless & trying to seek new career via the newspapers & online sources (e.g. findjobs, monster, jobstreet & etc. Anyway still failed to find a job which match to my qualification (Health Science in Biomedicine), or in other word, difficult to find a job which related to my study field (e.g. medical laboratory technologist, scientist, medical / sale representative, research officer...etc). If let say really can't find a new or better permanent job in short period, then will try other alternatives like doing part time job, running own business or ......
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