Renewed Challenger membership

I just renewed my challenger membership on 12 Oct. I wonder if it is a decision which I would not likely regret in future. It seems at the moment that I would regret renewing my membership especially since challenger did not refund my last membership fees which ended late last tear. Unless I utillize it and buy many IT stuffs in the coming year, I may regret renewing even though I had a free 4gb Sony flash drive worth $9.90 upon renewing membership this time round. So if i did not save $50 or more, I may collect a $40 rebate discount which I am not sure whether it is in the form of vouchers or cash. Sounds good isn't it? For a start maybe I will buy the upcoming new ipad. As for laptop, I may buy it later after windows 8 comes out. I also may buy a portable hard drive which I believe it will cost me only $100 or less for a 500gb one. What else shall I buy within the next 2 years to fully utilise my membership? Well, let me think about it whenever I am free.

As for work, I am pretty much doing the same routine things for the past few weeks. And for this month, I successfully submitted my salary claim up to 12Oct in time as for the past two months I submitted the claim late due to unforeseen circumstances. There is also a change in my supervisor soon which I am not sure when will it happens. I also yet to sign a contract and therefore will ask the current supervisor whether I need to sign one contract or not. Better still if dun need so that I can leave soon after finding a job. Hehe. Ok, looking forward to a new week soon and hope everyone of my friends is doing well at the moment. =)

iphone5 rocks!

Do u all know how long i queue for iphone5? It took me a long 3 hours in order for me to get my hands on black 16gb iphone5 on September 22. It is not that long until cannot fit into pocket that type. It is quite cool looking and definitely lighter than my iphone 3GS. Besides that, the images on it look better and sharper. Videos from youtube also took faster to load and applications also load faster. Two days later, I also bought a neon yellow casing with a matt screen protector. As I dunno where to get it cheaper, I just conveniently bought it from a mobile store near my house. I dunno whether my decision to get a 16gb rather than a 32gb is a good one but I reckon since I don't use up that much space for my old iphone, it should be the same case for my new iphone5. So far, it feels good using this new lighter and thinner iphone. So hopefully my experience with the iphone5 will be much better than my iphone3GS for the next 1 to 2 years.

For work wise. my workload this few weeks has been average and manageable. As there won't be double workload for WSO for this upcoming week due to 1st Oct landing on a monday, I probably won't need to work OT for next couple of weeks unless WSO came in late again. But for DN checking wise, I may have to check more DNs in the coming week as the main person in charge of checking DNs have to cover another person's delivery job for a week. Other than that, I dunno will I be tasked to do scanning of documents or magazines or not as I heard there are some outstanding things to scan. If I am needed to scan in the documents, I may then need to work OT. Ok, a new week begins and hopefully everything goes smoothly. =)

iphone 5 looks cool!

It's now a week left to the launch of the highly anticipated iphone5. The specs are rather cool with longer battery life and a lighter body. However, I dunno whether it will fit into my pockets or not as it is now longer. I believe a 16gb black iphone5 should be able to satisfy myself as I did not max out the storage for my iphone3GS. I read about it and understands that the WIFI running speed is better as well as the improved camera specification. Right now though, I am still unsure about the price plans with M1 iphone 2 years contract. I will be happy if it costs me less than $700 with the lowest iphone plan around $41 per month. So until Sept 21 comes, hopefully touchwood nothing bad happens to my iphone3GS cos I may want to sell it after a week or two of using the new iphone 5. =)

My latest quest of finding a perm job in time has failed. The job agency did not get back to me as of today, thus i made a decision and that is to extend my current contract to end likely 6 months later. Well, the good thing is that I will still be considered for a perm job in SPH should there be any vacancy available. The bad thing is I will have to endure having a less than ideal pay for my age. Will my decision to stay on for another half a year prove to be a decent choice? Only I will know probably 5 months from now. Lucky for me, working in SPH is a pleasure working experience. So maybe I can take this chance to brush up my job skills. Meanwhile, I shall submit my timesheet for sept soon which is a little late due to a colleague who is helping me to submit them to HR on MC for past few days. So this recent 2 months I have been receiving delayed salary but lucky that I am a regular saver. :>

Finding a job requires some luck?

Just a week or 2 ago, my ex poly friend has a job lobang for me. But apparently, it is not in sept thus this job opportunity is grabbed by another person. Oh well, had my contract ends earlier, I would have gotten the job. Its a job in the shipping services company that my ex poly friend worked there before. It seems a good job but at that time my supervisor has not told me whether there is a job vacancy for me in SPH, so I hesisitated for a day or two and the job was gone before I can even go for the interview.

Despite this setback, I continued looking for a job in jobstreet website using my iphone 3GS. I applied for one but I think someone has gotten the job as a job agent called to say she will keep a look out for admin related jobs and get back to me once there is a related job available. I hope the agent can contact me soon within this coming week, if not I may consider to stay on for maybe 3 more months? I am sure most of u will agree with me that its better to have a job rather than waiting at home for a job, ya?

Busy in the meantime, Less busy in the future?

2 weeks ago on a thursday, I filed 10 parcels worth of WSO files and bundled 16 of them using the strapping machine. Oh man, that was the busiest day so far for me in recent times. Then this week, because of a contractor late bringing in of his parcel 19/20 WSOs, I basically spent my friday time splitting WSOs into 2 sheets each because of the once a month split week orders and keying date as well as batch no. into 2 spreadsheets. So next week until end of the month, I should be less busy as my workload won't be that much as this week as I spent 3 hours extra this week alone keying details into the spreadsheets.

So besides waiting patiently for the new release of iphone5 this coming Sept/Oct, I also got to see if i can clinch a job in the same department or else I got to start finding a job elsewhere. I am sure some of you may ask me what sort of job am I looking for? Actually, I just need a simple admin job but it can also be a logistics type as I work for one company before in my poly internship time. Some of you may even ask why not I go for further studies? I thought of that before but there is not a course that seems appealing to me so finding a stable job is what I feel better for me at the moment.

What will happen to your old IT gadgets???

Every month, there is always new IT gadgets for consumers like us to purchase. It can range from handphones to printers to laptops. Now how many old IT gadgets we have will depend on how frequent we buy new IT gadgets to replace them. The term 'old IT gadgets' to some may mean 1 year old gadgets, but to many may be referred as 2 years and beyond gadgets. I always wonder what should we do with such old IT gadgets if its spoilt and cannot be resold. Is it possible to sell to karang Guni? Where to 'recycle' them if nobody wants? Some IT gadgets which are 3 years old may not fetch a decent amount of cash, so if its still usable, will you use it until its spoilt then purchase a replacement gadget? Hope some of you people can give me some valuable comments.

Yesterday, I met up with an ex-poly classmate. Both of us laments how time passes so fast. While she is likely to change a new job soon, I am still finding a stable job. Till today, I am still puzzled as to how fast two ex-poly classmates can be engaged out of a sudden. Anyway besides those topics, we had a decent dinner at mos burger and chatted about some other issues as well. After that, we walked into some shops in Tampines One and soon its home sweet home. What a great feeling to be able to spend some time with ex classmate of mine. Don't some of you have this feeling before too?

Is it worth the wait to wait for Iphone 5?

Not long ago, Samsung Galaxy S3 was out in stores. I thought it look nice and its features are pretty good. But so far, the reason I not buying is because none of my friends seem to own it. Till now, I still think about whether to buy this samsung phone or wait until October for Iphone5. From what I heard from news so far, there are some changes in the new design of Iphone 5. To me, I feel it does not make much difference as I am not that type of hardcore apple fans who may spend alot on it and its accessories. If I am to buy samsung phone soon, it maybe because of its 8 megapixel camera and the ability to capture 8 quick consecutive shots. As of now, I stay put with my Iphone 3GS and thinking whether to own a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone will be better than the upcoming Iphone 5 or not.

For the upcoming week, it maybe my busiest week since entering SPH. It is because I will be receiving alot of WSO sheets and will be giving them a number each in the excel spreadsheet. Looks like I will be working OT again but I am used to working OT about twice to 4 times a month. Hopefully nothing unusual happens and I can finish keying the WSOs entry by thursday so that I can do other things on friday.