My Internship, Final Part

On November 28, I completed my 6 and a half month internship with HP. It has been a great learning experience and a good exposure to the IT industry. Oh how I realised that what I learned in uni is lacking behind the industry. Can't blame the uni for that, the IT industry changes too fast. I have to learn almost everything from 0 for all the works I did in HP but in the end, I still managed to deliver what is suppose to be done.

Currently taking a short break at the same time looking for a job in the network or system field. Want to develop my career from there. Software development isn't my cup of tea.

The End of Another Life Chapter

14th November 2014, the day of my convocation and officially the end of my undergraduate life. 4 years of study and finally got to that day. All glory to God. My greatest gratitude to my parents for their unending love and support. 

These past 4 years in INTI indeed had been a really amazing journey of learning, growth and discovery. Filled with ups and downs, unforgettable memories and great friendship. I am glad I got to experience an awesome campus life. University life will be one the highlight of my life, an experience I will truly treasure. 

THANK YOU INTI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY!

No Facebook 2

Back in August I deactivated by FB for more than a week to test how it feels like not using FB for a period. That post can be found after this post. Haha, shows that I have not post a blog post since August.

This time, I did the same thing again and it has been more than a month since I last logged into FB. I deactivated my account again on 7th October. Honestly speak, this time around it is much easier. Previously I accidentally opened the FB page several times throughout that 7 days and this time I think I only opened it once or twice. I seriously am in the lost of what is going on in the social media world but it doesn't really bothers me. However, there are a few minor stuff that is bothering me. There are some photos I would want to share/upload but I can't because 90% of my photos are shared on FB and some websites or contest required FB access which is another annoying thing. Perhaps I might start an Instagram account soon since it is purely for sharing photo. xD

P.S: There had been 3 relatives death this year. Not a very good 2014 :/

P.P.S: Last month of my internship

A week without Facebook experiment

There were a few articles on Linkedin about people quitting Facebook recently. I'd realised that I too spent a lot of time on that social networking site and decided to try and see for myself what does it feels like not logging in to Facebook. Therefore, I decided to deactivate my fb account for at least a week starting today and deactivated it yesterday night before I went to sleep. I had tried 3 days without internet during my cruise trip and I had no problem with it. I guess no fb for a week shouldn't be much of a problem too.

I would like to blog about my experience here and this post will be updated daily for a week.

Day 1 - It's been 24 hours since I deactivated my account. So far, I have no desire to reactivate it and I don't feel I am missing out on anything. Only accidentally open fb login page as I am so used to opening Facebook when I start my browser.

Day 2 - It is a weekend therefore I am having more free time in front of the computer. Using those free time to read. Currently I am still having no problem with it. I doubt I am missing anything important anyway.

Day 3 - Accidentally opened Facebook login page twice today. Looks like subconsciously, I still can't get rid of that habit yet.

Day 4 - Again, I accidentally opened Facebook login page once today. I am starting to miss checking out my of my close friends latest update. It won't be a big deal I guess, could always ask them about their life when I meet them in person.

Day 5 - It has been more than half a week. I might miss some things on fb but I honestly think I can survive without fb. I am not feeling any compulsion or urgency yet to reactivate my account. Is it because my mind is only thinking that one week is a very short time? Since I am feeling good so far, I will most likely continue my deactivation period after Day 7.

Day 6 - I usually depend on fb for updates about stuff I am interested in such as Nintendo, anime and new figure release. Without fb, I now have some extra work by regularly checking forums or their website for news and update. It is a bit inconvenient but still manageable.

Day 7 - Woot! I made it, 7 days without logging in to fb. It was a very easy experiment. Did not suffer from any withdrawal syndrome except the occasional accident of opening the login page. (>_<)

Through this 7 days, I got to spend more time reading book (currently reading A Game of Thrones) and also reading different articles on LinkedIn. The last 7 days also did help me on my spiritual development. I realised that fb is mostly just a source of entertainment for me and only a little on reconnecting me with friends as I can always reach them through whatsapp or text message. I believe I am definitely, missing a lot of stupid stuff on fb, therefore laughing less frequently from those troll posts. However, it isn't really a big lost. I am able to carry out more beneficial activities with those extra free time I have instead of staring blankly into fb and waiting for some interesting post to pop out.

My account will continue staying deactivated for now. I shall try to reach the one month milestone now and perhaps blog about it when the time comes.

---Update---

Unfortunately, I had some unfinished business on FB during that time and reactivated back my account few days later. I shall try again one month without FB soon.

My Internship, Part 3

Another blog post regarding internship. Seems like the only interesting thing going on with my life is my internship. My engagement with my previous manager somehow ended prematurely, it was suppose to last until end of the month but I got reassigned to a new manager yesterday. I guess this is because it is easier to join together with the new batch of interns as they all got assigned to different managers yesterday.

I now moved from mobility team to database team. I was in the mobility team for one and a half month but the things I got to learn within this short time is just staggering. Within that one and a half month alone, I learned to program with Sails js and Handlebars, learned the basic of NoSQL through Mongodb, configured application, web and database servers. I felt that the amount of stuff I did and learned in one and half month is more than what I got to learn in university for one long semester. Even though it was fun, I did not see my career path as a developer, therefore I did not intend to stay with the team and decided to explore another area when my manager asked me on my decision to stay with the team.

Now, I don't think I will have the chance to change team as I am permanently assigned to this team until the end of my internship. Well, I hope I can find passion in what I will do and I am really thankful for that one and a half month trial period in the mobility team as most interns are permanently attached to a single manager. Another great learning experience in mobility team after that memorable experience I had doing the mini project. I believe there will be a lot more learning to come as I will be doing something on Sharepoint soon. Another technology which I have 0 experience on and I am eager to see what I can learn from it.

My Internship, Part 2

My previous internship post was not even a month old and I already have something to post regarding my internship experience again. Last Thursday, the 5 of us were involved in our first extra activity for HP. It was HP's Sports Day. Similar with school, employees were all assigned into 6 different team colours. We interns were somehow pulled-in to help out for the event to assist in coordinating registration and prize giving. One whole day no need to work :P. 

Interns in our team colour.

Purple won 2nd overall, at least i got to pose with the champion's trophy xD

Yesterday, my working team and a few other teams went for team building at Asian Water Sport Village, Puchong. Being an adrenaline junky and a semi-adventurous person, I had a great time. The games we played were so awesome and exciting. The feeling of being overthrown into a lake from that thingy I was lying on while being pulled by a speed boat is just so WOAH!

Our mission is to be on this thing till the end of the ride

The moment you lose your balance

Swimming as a group in a line, from the middle of the lake back to the mainland

My neck and arms are aching now from all the exercise yesterday.

Currently working on 3 projects all using different technologies in a mobility team. So much learning to do. Another batch of interns coming in next month and we will then be seniors. Haha! I am sure there will be a part 3 post soon.

My Internship, Part 1

Today, I officially completed my fourth week of internship in HP and oh boy, what an amazing experience it was. In just four weeks, I had been through and learned so much. My current batch (including me) consists of five interns from two different universities and we are the guinea pigs for HP new internship programme structure.

During the first week of intern, we were given training and exposure on several of the technologies used by HP. Through this training, I found out that there were so many technologies use by the industries that I have never heard about. After the training on the second week, we were given a mini project where we were supposed to apply most of the technologies we learned during the training and this project is to be completed within 2 weeks.

Therefore, we began working on the project with barely any experience in those technologies, working extra hours for several days, seeking experts help for each particular technology and having several checkpoint meetings with the manager. After 2 weeks, we finally presented our work to a director, managers and several staff. Those 2 weeks had really been taxing for us. I had to produce an analytic report which I have NO EXPERIENCE using that software and never heard of it until I join HP and also code PHP for the mobile app we were developing. I really thank God I used PHP for my fyp. All I have to do is reuse my codes with a bit of changes here and there.

All our hardwork, time and agony were eventually paid off as the director and managers were satisfied with our work. Never I would have imagine we will able to deliver a project with a wide scope, limited time and almost zero experience. I am really proud of our achievement.

Well, this is just the beginning. The 5 of us were split into two different group today to work with different managers on different projects. I will post on my next internship experience in part 2 after a few weeks. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank a friend who was willing to listen to me release stress and complain. xD

Goodbye Grandpa

My grandpa was once a great policeman who protected the country and was involved in many big cases such as May 13th and guarding Botak Chin to name a few. If I remembered correctly, he once told me he was also involved in guarding the Malaysia-Thailand borders. Being a policeman those days was indeed very honourable where citizen can actually feel safe with them around. I even wrote about him as my idol during my form 1 history project.

For the pass few months, his health had been deteriorating and his memory was getting worse. The last time I saw him was on Sunday and I am glad he remembered me. It is sad indeed to see him go through so much pain. He passed away this morning at the age of 83 due to liver failure. I am glad that now he does not need to endure those pain anymore and he is back with the Lord. He once said he wants to see me graduate, I guess he will now have to witness it in heaven.

RIP gong gong, you will be missed. :')

Almost done

Alright, so I completed my final year project presentation today. I was the first one who presented, I hope I have the advantage there. Feeling so great now, a burden I had been carrying for nine months is finally lifted. Did my best, I hope the results won't be too bad. Now all I have left is one final exam which unfortunately is the second last day of exam period. Four days after that, I will be starting my internship and the good news is I will still be staying in Nilai. Yay to that! Will be able to spend more time with my friends here and probably "her" too. :)

The End is Near

After 3 months of hiatus, it is time for an update. My time remaining at INTI is only left with 1 month+ where my final exam paper is on 8th May. As much as I want to finish studying, I am feeling very heavy-hearted to leave this place. So many memories had been created here, I will miss the friends I made here especially the ones that I am close to. My program technically isn't complete yet as I still have to finish 16 weeks of internship. Working life definitely will not be the same as studying life where friends are all so nice to each other while in working life, everyone is trying to kill on another.

Regarding the lack of update, I had been very busy with my final year project. Had begun development early January and now it is at the point of completion where I just completed my poster presentation yesterday and documentation submission and viva is early next 2 weeks. This means I only have 1 week left to complete what is left to be done for this project. So much sweat, time, effort and anxiety had been poured into this project. Its like raising a child.

Currently, that is about it. Hope I am able to blog another update in a few weeks time.

P.S: Regarding my post on 13 December on my 3DS games wishlist, I have gotten both Animal Crossing and Bravely Default. However, I misplaced my Animal Crossing game card (>_<) and for Bravely Default I think I am only halfway through the story. Barely have time to play nowadays.

Into 2014

Happy New Year dear readers! Started this blog in 2008 and now it is continuing for 2014 despite the lack of updates. I did not expect this blog to actually survived that long. As usual, I will post a recapped of what happened in my life throughout last year.

• Celebrated my 21st Birthday with friends and families on two different occasions. 
• Obtained my first and second professional certificate. Will be sitting for my third certificate tomorrow. Wish me luck!
• Ended my term as an ICF treasurer.
• Worked as a delivery boy and bonded with my long lost cousin.
• Bought a new phone and a new handheld console.
• Started a new hobby which is not cheap xD
• Went for my second Virgo cruise trip.
• Participated in my (possibly) last Orang Asli camp.

Orang Asli Camp 2013. Lifegame.

Camp crews, most of us facilitated and participated. :D