Tuesday, April 29, 2008

SAME THINGS ... SAME CONDITIONS ...

Yesterday ( 28.04.08 ) was quite okay. No updates on anythings. I was just doing routine office works and managed to add some more pages my novel's draft.

Today I arrived at 9.00 am and just like the usual days, there will be only some people working in the office.As I sat down, Aida asked about the leaflet and informed that we are going to have a meeting with RL at 10 am.

We went down and discussed as well as updated RL on few things. Aida informed that most probably Jihan will be sent to Labuan to view the ACTology thingy and she planned to send me to Penang for the same purpose. It's going to be fully covered working trip.

Looking forward to go to Penang. maybe I can meet up with Medlina there. I am now working on the production of leaflet to be distributed to neighbouring schools as a way to promote TVIQ's programmes. So I guess... this few days will be busy busy busy with the synopsis of programmes, photos and setting layouts for the leaflet. Aida reminded me that I should come up with 2 versions of leaflet; BM and English.

Probably, there will be no more posting for this few approaching days..............

Friday, April 25, 2008

SOME PROMO TO BE DONE ...

We had a meeting with RL at 11.30am this morning. Since there were so many things to be discussed on and we were kinda run out of time, Richard suggested to treat us for lunch so that we could continue discussing the agenda while having lunch.

We've decided to meet at Kenny Rogers Roaster at 1.15 pm. Jihan drove us to jaya Jusco and we entered the restaurant. Aida asked for a more private area but the waiter told that all of those kind of place were taken but ushered us to a at the end table for four. Immediately Aida received an SMS and it was actually Richard, informing that he was already in the building.

We joined him and ordered our food. Since I was still full, I only ordered Roasted Chicken Salad and a glass of orange juice. We talked over few things and at 2.15 he left us with 2 RM 50 notes. I eventually ordered another ice milo and Aida ordered hot cappucino.

We hanged out a little longer and at 3.00 pm we went back to the office at 3.15 pm. All in all the total of money that we have to pay for the food we ate was RM 97.00.

Richard asked me to come up with a leaflet to be forwarded to various schools.He asked me to get the photos of the programmes and higlight them as TVIQ's hot programmes. He wanted everything to be ready in a fortnight

ADA MATA, PANDANG ... ADA OTAK, PIKIR...

Pagi tadi terbangun lewat sikit...Punyala liat semua orang nak tinggalkan tilam ngan selimut. Syamil membese atas tilam and abang Khaizu a bit geram ngan dia.

Kebiasaan berulang setiap pagi menjadikan aku orang yang observer... ( kot he he he ). Sepanjang perjalanan dari Rawang ke Equine, banyak juga experiment yang aku cuba jaya. Bila tulis cuba jaya, aku teringat Cikgu Mastura yang putih melepak yang dulu mengajar aku Add Maths. Macamana aku selalu kagum dengan kepandaian dia dalam matapelajaran yang aku cukup tersiksa nak belajar.

Kesimpulan yang aku dapat sepanjang sebulan ini ialah jalan kat KL ni akan jam teruk dalam 2 flow. Flow pertama waktu pagi - pagi antara pukul 6.45 ke pukul 8.00. Ini mungkin sebab orang - orang kerajaan ramai yang masuk keja pukul 8. Antara 8 ke pukul 9 tu, flow akan okay. Pergerakan kereta sama ada lancar atau sedikit perlahan. Tapi, lepas pukul 9, ha... jalan akan jam semula sebab nak bagi laluan kepada orang yang masuk kerja pukul 10. Itu teori aku... tak semestinya betul tapi itulah yang aku perhatikan selama ni.

Hari ni ada meeting dengan Mr. Langridge ( our boss ). Aida mintak aku print script yang aku translate semalam ( BM - BI & BI - BM ). Hopefully there'll me no amendments that need to be done...

Aida looks so sweet pakai baju kurung hari ni. Katanya sebab happy sangat increment and bonus dia lebat... Congrats la untuk Aida. I supposed she must be a valuable asset to ASTRO, kalau tak takkan la boleh dapat banyak macam tu ( walaupun aku tak tau figures nya tapi dari cahaya gembiranya tu, boleh agak ).

Terkejut benar dia bila aku begitau yang kalau orang kerajaan, increment tahunan ada...la dalam 70+ untuk diploma dan 98 untuk degree holder. Betulla kata abang Khaizu, bila kita keja ngan swasta, baru kita nampak di mana kurangnya kerja ngan gomen. Aivy pun cakap benda yang sama macam abang Khaizu hari tu. But talking about membuka minda, ya... I have to admitla, kita lebih luas perspective...

BTW, next week ada surprise makan - makan. Everybody will have to chip in tapi Aida yang baik hati dah bayarkan untuk aku... Thanks Aida....

Ya Allah... kuatkan semangat aku. Mudah - mudahan aku dapat buat cupcakes tu untuk makan - makan nanti.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

GET GOING ...


I'm done with the programme selection. Remembered that last week Richard mentioned about 100 hours so I carefully selected the programmes so that they covered the 100 hours requirements. All in all, from the selection, it seems that the programmes that I've selected from Granada International hits 6033 mins ( 100 hours 33 mins ). It's okay, the meeting tomorrow will determine them.


After lunch, Aida handed over the slides about TVIQ in English and asked whether I can possibly translate them to Bahasa and come up with new slides. I managed to complete the task within 10 minutes and passed them to Aida. She was basically screaming because she was so surprised that I managed to finish it in a short while.


Later we had a meeting with Kelvin regarding the Keep It Wild and Smart Reader Concert. Spent a lot of time finalising about the programme and concert.


After the meeting, I sat down and wrote the TVIQ script ( this time in English ) and handed over a copy to Jihan and Aida. I glanced over to my watch and oh my God!!! it is already 1840. I am terribly late today but what the heck...its not that I'm always this late.


p/s That is one of the photos taken during the Raja Lawak Post Party and Prima Birthday Bash.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

ANOTHER LO...NG JOURNEY TO LESS WORK...

Aida texted me early in the morning informing that she is going to MIMOS for a meeting and responded that it's okay for me to walk in a little bit later. Went to the bank to settle things and while I was driving past Eastin Hotel, got a message from Jihan informing that she had Promo meeting at ABC.

I reached office at 15 to 1000 and started working on the programme selection. It was nice having the privilege to choose movie, entertainment and series from hundreds of lists but in the end I realised that I might chose too much.

Jihan came in at about 5 to 1300 while I was having my prepacked brunch ( bought it at 9.45 but ate at 1230 ). Later she went out to buy some lunch and I spent my lunch break watching 707 ( Come Dine With Me and later Surreal Gourmet ).

Aida came in a rush since she had to attend another meeting in KL later. She was a bit worried that I might be bored because of the less work but promised that by next week, there'll be more work to be done.

Keep myself occupied with updating this blog as well as coming up with a table consisting programmes which I've selected earlier.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

WORK = FUN ; NO WORK = BOSAN

It seems that I've nothing to do on Monday. Jihan and Aida was busy with their scheduling and other works that are approaching the dateline and I've got nothing to do...





Aida told me not to worry because all the things that they were doing was set earlier so I was still not in the picture. Aida just asked me to sit and browse the net to fill the time.





Both of them attended a long meeting and I was alone in the TVIQ section. Aida constantly reminded me not to worry because of the no work this week because they were actually updating on things which have reached the duedate.



I did nothing basically, just updating whatever materials that I have. Oh.. BTW, during the meeting last week, Richard passed a thick catalogue from Granada London on Film and Movies as well as series to be aired on TVIQ, so I am now selecting which one to buy.



I spent my morning viewing catalogues from Sunrise and managed to decide on several programmes to be purchased.

Monday, April 21, 2008

WE MEET AGAIN...

I was not okay on Thursday and Friday so had been on MC for the two days. On Friday evening, Aida informed about the VOD which was previously cancelled will finally be on... Wow!!! That's good news...

Today I arrived at the office realizing that my pedestal key was not there...most probably it was in the other handbag... Met some of the PSAS people on Friday... though I felt very happy to meet them but I guess... absence sometimes do make us forget about people...

On Friday night I went to Poliklinik Murni to get some more medication...ughhhhh I couldn't stand the pain...

Nothing much to say it seems... will be posting some updates later...

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

IDEA ... IDEA

Today happened to be not too bad for me...Syamil is going for his co-curricular activity for the first time so quite busy in the morning. Listened to Hot.Fm while driving...Faizal Tahir has come back from suspension, it seems. I really love the Sampai Syurga song...

I did final touches on the ASTRO XPRESI report. So far, Aida liked both the reports but still she said they are subjected to Richard's approval. At 5 to 1, received reminder about the meeting with Richard. Earlier, Aida informed that we're gonna have Pizza for lunch...

We went down to the meeting room and eventually had our lunch while waiting for Richard to sort things out. Jihan browsed through my Daily Report Book and we had a good laugh while commenting on the things that I wrote in the book.

I passed the log book to Richard and he signed it adding some quotes in it... He was impressed with my reports and said that they were very useful. They were talking about Cherating but Richard was not sure whether I will be going since I'm on contract basis...though it would be nice if I can join... It would be good to let some tension out of my chest... and I do need some rest...

The meeting ended at exactly 1600 hours and I quickly went down to do my Zuhur prayer. Went straight up and called Juki to ask about the programme. He said okay so I went down to inform CV... Later I just sat down at my table, playing with my computer surfing the net...

Though frankly I am stressed about the paper presentation for tomorrow and Friday, but to get to know that I can use abang Said laptop really eased things pretty much...

Ya Allah, give me the strength to complete everything tonight... Amin......

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

ADUIIII SAKITNYA...

Aku kenala ngaku minggu ni banyak sangat benda tak baik berlaku kat aku. Nasib malang sungguh... Yesterday nite after we had our lovely dinner of nasi goreng sardin and telur dadar, I went down to the car park to get something from the car...

Kat area rumah aku ni memaaaang ramai kaki lepak dan kaki motor...rempitla tu.... Dari jauh aku dah nampak sorang mamat ni tengah membuat aksi angkat depan motor dan aku dah tak sedap hati dah... Dalam hati aku memang dah niat kalau la aku ada air mineral sebotol sekarang ni mau aku lempar kat budak ni biar dia tergolek dog kat situ...

Tetiba aku terperasan budak ni macam tak tentu arah... Alamak dah masin benor ke mulut aku ni sampai hanya dengan niat pun aku mampu buat budak ni jatuh... tapi aku rasa budak ni macam nak menghala kat aku...Alahai nak accident pulak ke aku malam ni... Semuanya berlaku dengan pantas. Tau - tau aku dah tersembam kat atas motor ntah sesapa yang parking kat tepi blok aku ni. Rusuk aku rasa sakit sangat sampai tanpa segan silu aku menangis sakan - sakan.

Nasib baik ada beberapa orang jiran yang sedar dan bantu aku naik ke atas. Si mamat motor tu hilang entah ke mana dah... Dengan sedu sedan aku naik ke tingkat 2... memang aku dah tak malu dah sebab sakit gile...

Abang Khaizu suruh aku baring, malangnya aku tak boleh baring dalam apa-apa posisi pun, mengiring kanan...yang cedera sebelah kanan, mengiring kiri okayla jugak tapi rasa jugak sakitnya. Kalau terlentang langsung tak boleh sebab nanti aku tak boleh bernafas...

Dekat setengah botol abang Khaizu letak minyak panas tapi aku tak rasa apa pun... Pagi tadi sembahyang subuh pun kena duduk. Aku patutnya nak gi klinik pagi tadi tapi teringatkan meeting pukul 11 kat ABC, makanya aku drive jugak slow2 ke ofis. Malang lagi sekali bila melepasi Hentian Sg. Buloh, aku tengok jalan sesak gile..rupanya ada accident and jalan tu padat sampai tak boleh nak mencelah pun. Terpaksa la aku terkendon2 dekat sejam dalam keta menunggu untuk sampai exit Kota Damansara ( nak detour ).

Hampir pukul 9.45 baru aku masuk ofis. Nasib baik depa tak kisah... Tiba2 dapat mail dari Richard kata tak jadi meeting hari ni, tunda esok tengahari kat Gita Bayu... so Aida suggest aku balik pegi jumpa doktor...

Dalam sakit - sakit tu aku sempat jugak buat report untuk Astro Xpresi separuh jalan, Aida kata dia heran tengok macamana aku boleh buat slide sampai berpuluh2 sedangkan diorang kalau disuruh buat 2,3 slide pun diorang rasa pening... Cikgu....memang dah jadi bread and butter.

Pukul 12.30 ingat nak balik, singgah kat Maybank nak withdraw duit... Alatokkk dah duit tak boleh kuar pulak... Kad ni pulak kad abang Khaizu, minyak dalam keta kering kontang, kat tangan aku adala 9 ringgit..Wuihhh!!! dugaan apala Tuhan nak bagi lagi... Banyak sangat agaknya aku buat dosa akhir - akhir ni...

Jangan la ada apa - apa musibah lagi lepas ni... Mau aku meraung taga kat sini karang...

Monday, April 14, 2008

WHOLE NEW WORLD ...

On Friday, I went to the Raja Lawak Post Party and Birthday Bash for Prima. Everything was sooo new and different, it surprised me in several ways. Coming from a different background, we were always exposed to different views of what celebration is...

Nothing much to comment, it was so nice having the opportunity to meet celebrities though many things overwhelmed me.

On Saturday, I went to Banting for the promo shoot of Gempak Desa as well as to have a look at the final shoot of THIS IS IT ( Information Technology...I mean )...

Met Anding, we talked about TESL, about his previous study in UiTM and of course Syamil took a few snaps of photo with him. Previously in the morning, Syamil was so happy to meet Jimmy and Ashraf Sinclair at ABC.

Today ( Monday ), I spent the whole day glued to my PC updating on the Xpresi materials. Had several ideas on how to present them. Hopefully by tomorrow, everything will be ready because I know I have tonnes and tonnes of work to be finished.

Tomorrow Richard will be back, kind of anxious to meet him, ya...though we have met before but that was on different term. Hopefully, I will also have time to prepare for my Masters presentation.

Earlier, Aida asked on what will I wear to the Nextgen Contentpreneur Award this coming Saturday... Hmmm..actually still thinking about it but most probably I'll be wearing something black. After all we are just going to be the spectator but Aida said there'll maybe have an after party later... we'll see...

Friday, April 11, 2008

BUSY BUSY BUSY...




Today I arrived exactly at 9.00am at the office...Thinking of continuing with the ASTRO XPRESI thingy so I sat down and worked on them.

Earlier I mailed the last piece of report which Aida asked me to add into my ASTRO TVIQ presentation. Then as usual, I surfed the net and opened up my outlook.

Yesterday, Aida informed us through the mail about Raja Lawak Post party cum The Astro Prima Birthday Bash. She asked whether I'm going or not. I was uncertain but later on decided to go since everybody is going. I guess I'm going to be very busy with the stats again and everything should be ready by 17th April.

Not many people are in the office at the moment since it is lunch time.I'm thinking of going out later. After lunch I'll be doing some viewing...there are about six CDs to be viewed.

Hopefully, I will be able to enjoy myself tonight... And tomorrow we will be going to Banting for the Gempak Desa Event....

Thursday, April 10, 2008

HERE WE GO AGAIN...

I tried another route this morning. Passing by the way everyday somehow gave me an idea of why not trying the LDP thru Sg. Buloh exit because the route looked so serene and less congested. So today's morning, without hesitation, I paid RM4.10 and drove along the way...Huuuuh...as I was approaching SSF Kepong, the time showed 07.45...he he this was very very good.

Eventually the good feelings faded as I was coming to the junction that led to Bandar Utama, Kelana Jaya and Puchong. It was jam packed with vehicles. Alamak...wrong calculation again( direct translation : salah perkiraan ).

I reached Sunway Toll at 8.40 which was not okay at all. Talked to Hamizah along the way thru phone...Yeah.. sometimes life can be so complicated and there will be alot of trials and tribulations that we'll have to face.

The whole morning were spent in the meeting room. CK from Primus Media came to present the VOD Maths proposal as well as Studio A proposal. We had to skip lunch but I'm actually okay with that since I'm going to Shah Alam later for Dr. Burn's class.

I coughed so bad today... I'm a bit embarrased with the situation. Started to work on the Astro Expresi ( Malaysian version ) statistics. And again I'm clueless on how to actually present the data as I'm dealing with millions ( numbers I mean ).

Very happy because Jihan and Aida said that the analysis which I did for TVIQ was so good and covered what they needed. Aida wanted me to print everything to be presented to Richard next week.

I need to really work on the Xpresi stats because the analysis will be presented to the management team as ASTRO is planning to come out with a new channel...

MY DAY...




Yesterday I reached Wisma Penyayang quite early. People started coming in after nine. As always I will browse through my outlook for latest info. I saw a note from Jacky informing that several group of staff will be going to One World Hotel for the Astro Bouquest of Stars Secretaries Week lunch... Did not pay much attention to it as I know that most probably I won't be counted in.

I continued working on the Astro Xpresi stats and at 11.00 went down for the VOD BM meeting with Adi ( the bald producer who always appear in Astro channels ). He showed us the pilot show of VOD Year 6 BM and basically Aida and Kelvin were very happy about it...

BTW, I saw Julie Dahlan and Harry Boy ( the son ) walking out of the building. On the way back to the office, Aida informed that we are going for the lunch...( wow! this is bizarre ).

At exactly 12, we drove to Bandar Utama... I parked my car and waited for Aida, Jihan and Fatin at the hotel lobby. I saw Sarimah ( AF ). Joined Aida later and we headed to our table which is 104.

The food was marvellous, Aznil was the emcee and it was very very entertaining. Then we watched the performance by Zahid, Faizal ( AF4) and Mila. They were good but Faizal might be nervous because it can be obviously seen.

Then, Mawi came in and started to perform... He he he I love this.... Aznil called a kakak to sit on the stage while he sang Only You ( he blindfolded the kakak ) and asked her to guess who is the kezutan that he will bring in.... Guess who ??? DR SMS.....( but he does not look tough enough in person ). Handsome??? Of course......

The last performer was Anita Sarawak and we really had a good time watching her...Indeed she is a real performer because she was sooo energetic, she moved around from table to table and she was sooooo friendly....

The best part was when she approached our table and I tried to take her picture with my Nokia, she called the reporter to take our photo together and she even tried to pull me to dance with her but I refused....

Basically yesterday was memorable enough. Aida said I must have the luck coz since I came in I got the chance to meet many celebrities....

MYYYYYYY DAYYYYYY ....




Tuesday, April 8, 2008

MOVING ON...

Today, started journey quite late...Kinda experimenting actually. Because last week, I came out a bit late and the traffic was okay. I started the journey at 7.30 and reached DU at 5 mins to 8...hmmm this looks good. Headed straight to Equine Park and reached there at exactly 8.30 am...not bad... Since there is still time, I decided to go and look for food...

Nowadays I resorted to buy food in the morning but only eat them during lunch. Dah malas nak keluar lunch because kat sini takdak kedai makan yang menarik... Actually adala tapi macam Secret Recipe, KFC, Sushi King yang selera kata go la but pocket says please reconsider the idea.

Alhamdulillah, very happy today because managed to sort out the statistic matters last night. This morning, I did some viewing of the CD and chose some that were interesting. Managed to view everything and as I wrote my last point, there was knock on the viewing room's door. Jihan came in just to remind me it was lunch time. It was so sweet of Jihan ...

Went up to find that Aida is also planning to go out for lunch. Make a cup of Milo for myself and had my lunch while reading the Utusan online... Decided to read Ilyas's blog ( oops, sorry Mizah, I was trespassing your Pak Toh's territory ) and found that he had problems with his right leg. Thought of informing Mizah but only to find that she had already knew about it.

Spend the late afternoon, preparing powerpoint presentation for the TVIQ report...Finished preparing everything by 4.15pm and posted a copy to Aida and Jihan for them to review and comment.

Basically I managed to complete the things that I planned to do... Happy Happy Happy !!!

Monday, April 7, 2008

HELP ME WITH THE STATS...

There was terrible jam this morning..ya...I've forgotten that Mondays should be that way... As I reached the office, I quickly took out all my things and started working on the statistics and analysis for TVIQ. I am happy because today the printer is okay so...I'm sure by the end of the day I would be able to finish the task.

Unfortunately I'm still unable to finish everything and decided to take the works home and see if my husband can help me with the analysis. I need to get everything finished by Wednesday because, I want to submit them to Aida before presenting them to Richard... Moreover, there is still one more analysis to be done...and this one is about coming up with a new channel for ASTRO...

Last week Aida explained about how to analyze data regarding the matter and they were basically :
a. Identify the core audience by looking at the size of viewers as well as age group
b. Identify the top channel watched by core audience
c. Work on what are the top programmes
d. Look at the watching time by referring to the schedule
e. Finally work out the schedule

Tomorrow ( 08.04.2008 ) I have plan what I am going to do :

- I will spend the morning viewing the CDs that Aida gave me just now and hopefully everything will be done by lunch
- After lunch I will work on the powerpoint of the presentation

Sunday, April 6, 2008

DOWN THE MEMORY LANE...

On Saturday morning, the children woke up earlier than usual because they were so excited to balik kampung. Abang Khaizu helped me to pack up things.. He reminded me to bring extra clothes because my former school aka SEMESTA is having a 2 day celebration of its 25 anniversary and today there'll be a lot of things going on at the school. Abang Khaizu won't be going back because he'll be having PTA meeting at the school the next day...

We went to Selayang, had our brunch and sent Kak Ya to the salon to cut her hair. Dropped abang Khaizu in front of Warta and we headed to Karak Hiway... Kak Ya slept all the way and Syamil stay awake just to keep me company.

We reached Taman Raub Jaya VI at about 1.30pm, but Mak was not at home I guess since nobody answered though Syamil rang the door bell several times. Then, we decided to head straight to Aki's place...

Changed my clothes and then me, Syamil, Kak Ya and Acha ( my cousin ) went to SEMESTA...Unfortunately not many people were there because it was lunch time and most of them went to town... Registered myself and were told that there will be career talk at 5pm before the games at 6.00pm. We then left the school and went to my mother's house.

Had so much fun at the reunion, it was such a nice feeling to get the chance going back to the school and rekindled all the sweet memories. I could see that the juniors were really looking up at us as their seniors whom they perceived has become successful people...

Cikgu Jamilah cried when I told her that she had been one of the people who motivated me to become what I am today...She said it was nice hearing something like that from a student...

To the dear juniors,
Study smart, but do not be demotivated if you could not get what you have planned. It's not the end of the world. Always remember there are people who are late bloomers...

Friday, April 4, 2008

NUMBERS NUMBERS ...

Started the day by going through the analysis that I did earlier... Jihan helped me in printing the documents which Aida passed to me yesterday...

Aida came in with a piece of paper and requested me to look at the titles and figure out which title is the hit and surely these will help me in coming up with the analysis and slides to be presented later.

At 11.30 we had a meeting with Iris from I Like Entertainment regarding the English @ Astro VOD. Iris presented the outline of the programme for English UPSR, PMR and SPM. I gave some comments on the content. Aida requested Iris to directly work with me later on and she did mention on asking the administration to print some name card for me... ( Wah!!! after this sure, This is my card ... )

At 3 we are supposed to have another meeting with a rep from production house regarding Maths VOD. Aida said this time let them explain first then only we can comment anything... He he he must be because I did budged in during the presentation. Sorry, point taken....

Aida handed me the contract and I saw something in the contract that really enlightened my day...
End of first week and I am getting to be acquainted with the system...

Thursday, April 3, 2008

JIMMY KE??? YEZZA...

Pening weh buat data analysis ni... A bit complicated and tak sure what would be the best method to present them. Luckily abang Khaizu dah tolong sikit semalam, kalau tak I would have stuck lagi teruk with this data thing...

I was so engross with the tables and charts sampai aku akhirnya tanggalkan cermin mata. Tetiba aku terdengar suara orang bercakap-cakap kat sebelah aku. Aku tak pusing langsung ke arah suara tu but aku dengarla they were talking about kunci. Yang aku perasan, perfume mamat ni wangi giler la...

Tetiba aku perasan Aida panggil aku... La Jimmy Shanley rupanya... Ya Allah berjurusnya budak ni... Bersopan santun sungguh....

Vijaya kata there u see, that's why u need to have a camera ready with you...

Dengan ini saya berikrar nak beli kamera kalau dapat duit honorarium...heh heh heh

FUN LEARNING ... LEARNING IS FUN !!!

Today I actually finished doing the analysis at about 11.30am. In the mean time, Aida posted some more analysis for me to do. They were basically data collected on coming up with a new channel and I am to analyze them and come up with the statistic to support whatever basis that they needed in coming up with this new channel.

I skipped lunch ( though it won't contribute much to my resolution of loosing some weight ) since I had a heavy breakfast which costed RM 4.30. Spent the afternoon break watching TV ( hei...there's a big plasma TV in front of me... ). According to Aida, that's the beauty of working with TV station...we can watch TV while working. Just imagine, there's a TV on every corner of the room and people are actually watching different channels. So we kind of turn our head left and right to be able to watch the TVs.

Aida explained about my task occasionally...Today she is going through the process of coming up with a new channel. The things that I did yesterday were basically the data needed in scheduling programme.

At the same time, she want me to work on the Video On Demand thingy... As a whole, my big baby for this coming 3 months would be the VOD... Hopefully Allah will bestow me with the strength to carry out all the tasks efficiently and perform efectively as well productively throughout the training session...

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

DAMN JAM ...

Managed to come up with a simple table to start with the statistical analysis. I was so preoccupied with the work and didn't realize it was raining cats and dogs outside. Aida reminded that it was time to go back and as I took a glance at my watch it was 6.20pm.

Used the Seri Kembangan way...My God it was jam packed. Maybe because of the rain which then causes the flash flood in several areas. Abang Khaizu called and reminded me of our date in Rawang, he mentioned that the kids were with him in the bus heading to Rawang town.

U all sabarla dulu ye... Just wait for me in Rawang. Jalan jam teruk.
Most probably because of the hujan and the bloody shit SMART Tunnel must be closed...
Unbelieveable but I'm actually cursing...Huh...nampaknya that SMART TUNNEL akhirnya jadi SEMAK TUNNEL to the city. Asal hujan aje..mulala tutup...Kesian architect dia...
Reached Rawang at 8.45pm and had dinner with the kids in Pizza Hut ( actually special request dr Syamil yang sangat di approve oleh Umminya). Complained about the difficulties of getting Malay Food for lunch kat abang Khaizu...
Hei..apa yang susahnya...awak kan orang putih...
PANG!!! Kena sebijik ngan abang Khaizu...Padan muka aku...
Okayla... Dah penatla... Nak balik rumah, mandi , sembahyang and then watch Dunia Baru The Movie...
P/s BTW tadi hantar SMS kat Mior and dia jawab IA. Aku tanya dia apa maksud IA. Dia jawab Insya Allah....he he serba ringkas sekarang ni ye...

SO THAT'S HOW THEY ARE DONE ...

Not so much work in the morning. At about 10.30 am, Aida came in with a DVD of programmes catalogue. She invited me to join her to the ground level and as we walked down the stairs she explained on how she wanted me to do the viewing of the programme.

As we got into the viewing room, she set everything ready but it seems like we've lost the remote control for the DVD player. Immediately she called Maya and asked Maya to help me with the remote.

Maya came with Noraini and they were so helpful and they directed me to another viewing room but again the remote control was nowhere to be seen. Maya suggested that I moved to the Viewing Room 3. Getting to get accustomed with the system...

I spent the whole day viewing the catalogues and finalising on which programme to be purchased or leave out. At 4.45pm I finished viewing the whole thing, so up to the first level. Went straight to my cutie cubicle and started typing in info into my blog...

Actually there is another thing that I need to do that is to come out with the statistical analysis of the most favoured programme and the most favoured timebelt but Aida said that can be done tomorrow.

Adioss!!!

LEARN A NEW THING A DAY ...

Yesterday afternoon, Aida had a meeting with the Financial Department. Later a guy came and he wanted to show some sketches to Aida. Aida called me and Jihan to join the meeting.

It was about a new programme which they will call KEEP IT WILD. It will be about Malaysian and Indonesian wild animals and how they are saved and conservation projects regarding the wild animals.

Calvin showed samples for the design of the title and we gave our opinions on them. Of course I did not say much but they invited me to voice out my thoughts. It was so good of them because they took the time to explain to me about the programme and what are they going to do about the programme.

Later, Calvin showed 3 CVs of the potential broadcaster for the programme and we were invited to go through the CVs and voice out our opinions.... Basically, I am starting to learn few new things from time to time and I'm beginnign to like them so much...

DUNIA BARU...

Yesterday had been an interesing new chapter of my life...I used to live in a congested place before... Siapa tak kenal Seksyen 17, PJ??? Antara tempat paling sesak dan sibuk kat PJ. Just imagine, in order for me to arrive early in school I have to start my journey as early as 6.15 in the morning which means that kengkadang aku sembahyang subuh dengan pakaian kerja selengkapnya... Kalau kenang-kenangkan masa dulu...

Selepas 11 tahun aku tinggalkan PJ, aku kembali semula menghadapi kesesakan serupa sejak aku attached ngan ASTRO. Of course there are a lot of changes no doubt...jalanraya takla sedahsyat dulu with all the new hiways and smartways...

Dari Bukit Beruntung ke Taman Equine ambik masa dalam an hour and a half. And petang pulak it took me about one hour to reach home because aku pusing ikut jalan lain. I have properly planned my route, pagi kena masuk ikut exit Damansara, ambik LDP straight to Puchong and Taman Equine coz traffic will not be so bad and balik petang ikut Seri Kembangan, go thru Salak Hiway and keluar ke Jalan Duta...Sebab tu la agaknya kengkawan kat PSAS kata aku ni tour guide aka pembuat peta jalan...

Malam tadi goreng nasi...hmm nmpaknya anak-anak suka benor nasi goreng aku...sebab tak pedas!!! Sambil makan malam kitorang tengok news, and it so happened that Buletin Utama tunjuk berita kembalinya ke rahmatullah Yusni Jaafar.

I wondered kenapala ekk Raja Ema nampak happy benar dalam berita tu... Siap melambai - lambai kat tetamu lagi, yang aku tengok menangis beria - ia Azizah Mahzan. Mungkin Raja Ema pandai control emosi but...hei...your mother, who is supposed to be the most closest person to you aka the queen of every child's heart died and you can smile away happily...huuuh...

Pagi ni pakai baju baru yang abang Khaizu pilihkan kat Scarlet Plus... terasa comel pulak ( ni kalau Mizah baca sohih dia rasa loya ). But ya...I rasa feminin terlebih pulak...Kalau la kau boleh tengok betapa comelnya Kak Ezat pagi ni Mizah...heh heh

Jam tangan aku menunjukkan pukul 9.30am. Aku dah plan apa aku nak buat pagi ni. Ya Allah bagi la aku kekuatan untuk sudahkan kerja - kerja aku...

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

BEGINNING OF A NEW CHAPTER...

1 APRIL 2008

This is my second entry for this new blog of mine... Actually this thing is meant for me to put in all my daily entries and experiences during my industrial attachment. BTW I am going to spend my next three months at ASTRO ENTERTAINMENT ( TVIQ ). Today is my first day so let me briefly describe what happened since morning.
9.25 am - after a few wrong turns and junctions, I reached Wisma Penyayang. Straight away I went to the Receptionist and ask to see Aida, a friendly new friend who has been corresponding with me for the last 2 months. Aida showed me around, introduced me to the management team and basically the whole ASTRO ENTERTAINMENT staff.
10.30 am - Aida directed me to my table and I got settled down. Spent some time deleting the 3hundred over mails which I received in my outlook for the past couple of weeks. Nothing much to do so I just did some googling and also creating this particular blog.
12.45 pm - Aida, Jihan and I went out for lunch at Jaya Jusco Taman Equine. We discusses about basically what TVIQ is all about, what will I be doing for this coming 3 months and all of the things which are related to my attachment.
2.00 pm - We went back to the office and I received an email from Kak Shidah. It's good to hear something from the office.
Basically those are the things happened today. Will post any latest information tomorrow
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AWAL KALAM ...

Hi Guys,

Hari ini hari Selasa 01 April 2008. Akhirnya hari yang aku tunggu - tunggu sangat datang jugak. Ntah apa silapnya, bila alarm handphone berbunyi pukul 5.45 pg tadi, aku pun dengan segeranya mematikannya dan tidur semula. Mungkin sebab rasa sejuk yang aku rasa dek kerana adegan kejar mengejar bilah - bilah kipas di siling rumahku atau mungkin juga gigitan sejuk sebab hujan lebat di luar yang menyebabkan aku rasa sayang nak memisahkan diri aku ini dengan tilam yang dah makin menipis dan mula kusam ini...

Tepat jam 7.30, aku selesai bersiap. Abang Khaizu dah turun ke bawah menghantar anak - anak ke Taska Sayang Sentosa dan dek sebab hujan aku berjanji nak menghantar dia ke sekolahnya. Ya Allah... sesaknya jalan buat aku sangat terkejut... Mungkin sebab selama ni aku keluar seawal pukul 7 jadi tak pernah terlibat dengan seliratan kereta yang banyak ni.

Semalam kengkawan kat ofis buat potluck just untuk raikan aku yang akan mulakan latihan sangkutan kat ASTRO hari ini. Perasaan aku??? Bercampur baur... For sure aku rasa sedih nak tinggalkan suasana yang aku dah sangat comfortable, excited sebab nak mulakan suasana baru, anxious sebab tak tau lagi macamana keadaannya di tempat baru.

Doa dan semangat yang kengkawan berikan menjadi pendorong dan panduan untuk aku melalui pengalaman baru yang bakal aku tempuh nanti.

Balik keja rush pergi Bandar Tasik Puteri. Adik Naiem tak sihat so bimbang kan keadaannya aku bergegas ke rumah Kak Ano... Bawak dia jumpa doktor di Klinik Ilham. What a nice doctor... Doktor nasihatkan agar adik Naeim dicircumcise sebab dia dah mula dapat infection. Wow!!! Got to discuss dengan abang Khaizu dulu... Syamil punyala berperang tak mau dikhatan alih - alih adik Naiem yang akan jalan dulu...

Hari ini berjalan dengan lancar so far... Alhamdulillah aku dapat adapt dengan suasana baru. Harap - harap aku mampu maintain blog ini sebab aku pasti isinya nanti akan bermanfaat kepada ramai orang.