you are not a local, are you?

words, words and more words...
i've never spent 5 long days just reading and reading in my entire life!
from 9am to 5.30pm...all i need to do is read all the documents related to the system i am supposed to be handling...use case diagrams, sequence diagrams and all the possible UML diagrams you can ever imagine...adooii...memang kenot tahan adi. hundrends and hundreds of pages i had to flip..and as if thats not enough, i'm supposed to understand all the unexplainable Java technologies which i have never bothered to look at in my entire life..(seriously..i am not a JAVA fan!)
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hehe..ok well i think its not really nice to start the post with a negative comment about my first week at work.
to be truthful, besides the fact that i had to read an entire library(well..it felt like that), my first week was kinda okay.well at least better than i expected it to be.

after listening to comments from my dear buddies about all the politics in big companies n all, i kinda prepared myself for the worst. i mean, its kinda common that big companies usually have some bullies and unfriendly people that you'd have to bear with. so well, mentally i was ready to face this.
however, to my suprise..it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be..;)

my company consists of few different departments. there's those normal ones like HR & Admin, Finance, Accounting and so on.
and there are also different departments among the Development Team as well. we're divided according to the type of projects we handle.those Communications and Multimedia based systems are handled by one department. then there are those who handle major government projects and Education & Training type of projects.
my department is the one that handles the government projects such as hospital systems and each one of our dept has around 10 to 20 staffs.

i am the youngest in my whole entire department(around 20 of us in mine), the other colleagues are way more senior to me (age ranging from 29 to 60). so when i first entered, i felt kinda sesat, i couldnt figure out how i was going to fit in among them. i just knew i was gonna be facing those long periods being a lost kid among them.

and again, it wasnt as bad as i anticipated, amazingly, the person whom i join for lunch(is a new recruit who is 40 yrs old), seems to be way much younger at heart than i thought he would be. during lunch, we spend time talkin about music artist like Sting, about when he first started smoking and how he was forced to quit smoking and how he once had the opportunity to go for lunch with Ravi Shankar (a famous sitar player) and so on..
i mean..for me, this is more than enuff.at least he's cool about things and he seems to be able to join me with my kinda thing instead of getting me to join his kinda thing..
and my Project Manager is a very jovial, happy-go-lucky kinda lady as well, kinda playful and always laughing.she seems to be able to laugh for every a small joke and tells us funny things about our senior bosses..hehe. sometimes i would join her for lunch too.
the other seniors there are more or less like this as well.so at least its not so boring when it comes to hanging out with them during lunch n all.

one of the prob is the fact that the office is damn quiet when its work time. i am so used to at least chat once in a while wit my colleagues in my previous company. but now, i can go on for 4 long hours not even saying one word to anyone.sometimes i get this feeling like as if i forgot how to talk...hehe..tat was a bit difficult for me at first.but now kinda used to it.

another interesting thing that caught my attention was the fact that my company has a sports club on our 3rd floor. we just have to pay RM5 for membership fees every month and we can use all the facilities there..gym, badminton court n so on...hehe..well tat thing kinda attracted me.i always wanted to try out in a gym.maybe one of these days i'll go check it out.

overall it went kinda okay.im just glad that i can at least mix around with these people..as for me, i cant stand a boring environment where i cant chat with anyone.tat will just make me feel not motivated to go to work.and somehow...this time, driving all the way to Cyberjaya doesnt feel that bad at all.last year...i used to dread every single moment i was in cyberjaya, i felt so lost and bored to death there...all i wanted to do each time i got there was to count how many hours more is left before i can get back home.

when i got this job again in Cyberjaya...those old memories began to haunt me.but somehow..now that i am there..it doesnt feel that bad..maybe i guess it is the environment, it is is more lively here than my first job.that time it was just 4 of us in the entire floor...man...memang kenot tahan.

im just the kind of person who is not used to quiet places..i love places with lots of humans and to me that makes the place full of energy..to remind me that im alive and not dead.

ohh yeah...about my title.
i was at the lift and one of my malay colleague came to me and introduced himself.i said my name n all, then he asked me.."you are not a local, are you?"
i said "i AM local"...and he was like "SERIOUSLYY???oh my god.."

and i was like...wtf!
i wonder how did i look like to him..i mean..the most common thing tat people say about me is i look like a malay and they wouldnt believe me if i tell them tat im an indian..and im kinda used to that.
but malay people come from malaysia rite?rite?

arghhhhhhh..i suddenly have this strange feeling that now people start to think that i look like a bangla or somethin..i must be having this wierd look.
man..this explains why tat RHB Bank fella asked me to bring all those crazy documents!!
he must hav thought tat im some foreigner or somethin!

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...thanks mom n dad..for making me look so special...
for all u know..next u will be finding me squatting in a cramped boat in Pelabuhan Kelang...ready to be sent back to indonesia...oh yeah..if u r lucky...maybe catch me in Buletin Utama.