Blog of A Malaysia Plain Jane :S

Well, you must be curious what has led my Resurrection; restore my fighter spirits off the past, right??? :-/

Well, I would not say it is easy but just my life destiny with the help from GOD... :)

Probably you know about a film known as pursue of Happyness... I have watched it when it was shown at GSC in Penang... I love it when I first watched it and was touched by it; really inspirational for me. :) But then I did not opt to buy a pirated copy (not the right thing to do) and could not afford to pay for an original; too expensive in Malaysia, So I decided to buy the DVD while having a job with consistent income such as my current job; as it is a luxurious stuff to own... :)

I knew I was very passive about life earlier on, mainly I have completely lost my fighter spirit; very weak to face failure, especially failure that concern my dream job; medical technology engineer.

I am now currently serving my Garden leave; leave which is provided due to redundancy... I was very upset when I was disclosed about the news on the last day of April... And also angry as well why again my beloved stuff is ripped away from me again????? Why Why Why????? Is my heart directing me in the wrong direction???? I started to seriously doubt in my dream job.... :( I love my job in the workshop so much as it really fit me to a T!!! But why???

Adeline Goh did try to console me but I was very very stubborn as well as not in a good mood to discuss it further... My mind was just occupied by death and nothing more... :(

At the same time I know my character very well; what are the things that will motivate me. As the film Pursue of Happyness have been with me for weeks but my landlord/BF has no energy to finish the film due to his busy day work schedule... So in the end I postponed to watch it on last Sat alone... It really awaken me I would say greatly!!! :D As I love one of the songs in the movie and intend to get that song online so I started to search for it. In the end, I found a very persuasive URL which uses Buddhism perception to explain the movie!!! :D I am unconsciously following Buddhism I would say... that's part of the reason which sort of led me to depression and lost of my fighter spirit; extremely trying to maintain harmony in my surrounding... And from that url I have practiced it in the wrong direction ever since I quitted Intel, in fact, mainly due to my extremist attitude... :(

However, when I selected the Special Feature section in the DVD, only I notice that my beloved song only available in the DVD unfortunately... :( So in the end I determined to copy it from the DVD and kept looping it as to brainwash myself throughout last weekends until today. I also played that films for 4 times at least during the weekends period; to brainwash myself.

So now I am reborn/resurrected! ;) My main focus now is to seek for a way to stay in UK. It could be through employment or pursue of postgraduate study in UK. My legally working period will be gone by the end of May '08; so by right I am not suppose to work anymore... But I am afraid I might need to break that now... and just wish that employers or agencies are yet to be aware of this restriction...

The worst case would be I'll be either heading for a training course in Medical Technology or gain a higher degree in medical physics in UK Open University... This is really my last choice as it will be able to extend my legal stay in UK; still need to return to Malaysia to gain another UK clearance entry and also not to violate working holiday visa period by over staying in UK.

Just today, again GOD has given me another boost by sending me an inspiring video clips from Mac Anderson known as The Race! So I'm really speechless now??? :D

As mentioned in the Pursue of Happyness film; if you have a dream you have to protect it!!! :D

That's all lah! Ciao! And see you all soon on my return to Penang at the end of this year! ;)

Well, I've just got fired from my current job as a trainee technician in EBME Ltd. And again, british really love lip services; gave some lame excuse as to avoid a foreseen lawsuit. But I suppose they have an demon mind set which blinded them. By English law, they suppose to give me a contract or an agreement within my first two months of employment with them. They slipped that out of their mind. I'll hang on to it until next week and will then seek for an advise from the Citizen Advise bureau over in Harlow as to get advise on this matter. Basically the company will need to pay a certain amount of money for the serious mistake they have made.

You might ask what will be my next step, right? Well, just simple. After I have received all the amount of money that I am entitled for, I'll transfer those money back to my father's Malaysia account.

Finally I'll wave bye bye to everyone and wish everyone good luck in their life! I really pity those kids being born in this disgusted and polutted world and have no clue what to do with their life; which I presume is good for them???
That's all lah! Ciao! ;)

Sorry for my delay on updating my blog! I was busy earlier on and will be even busier after March, mainly due to need to top-up my income as to be qualified for Highly Skilled Immigrant Programme (HSMP) or recently known as Tier 1.

I am short of 35points to be qualified for the application... :S And my current day work as a trainee EBME technician only provides £15,000 per annum (pa) to my total income but as to qualify for the HSMP, I need to earn at least £32,000pa. You may feel that, "Oh gosh!!! That's another half more to be top-up within my remaining time in UK; less than 6 months to go... ":S Well, it is really a very bad news to me... but luckily I meet my current landlord who is an English and has been very helpful to me ever since I moved in. :) He aged the same as me and very polite or better to say a very diplomatic person. He helps me a lot in term of my integration into English culture and custom. But there are a few things which he surprises me with! :D He loves hot food; vindaloo, the 2nd hottest level available in UK. Good cook he is I would admit. And he loves onions as well as garlics. Similar as me, he dislikes sugar. However he also opt out for chocolates! What a bizzare thing for an English!;)

Ok, after having to praise him so much, before straying further away from my point, He tried to make a point to me earlier on to get back to web design; a skill which i gained back in my university years. Of course, initially, I did not get the hint until Adeline said it upfront to me on last Friday evening. :D

With that, I recalled my fortune-teller did say that my life basically is linked to internet. Of course, I refused to believe it as my interest has never changed; biomedical engineering. However, now I can understand better that my life is getting more and more towards internet. ;)

Based on my landlord's info., web design remains a hit over in UK. So, by having me in UK, in order to top-up the remaining earning, I'll need to earn money from web design as well. He told me he had a web design business about three years ago. All the web designers were located in India and he was partnering with an Indian from India who was then in UK. There were a few groups of web designers over in India but all of them suddenly called quit simultaneously! What a bizzare things to happen! Earning pounds, man!!! They are just stupid which I can comment.

Anyway, now apparently he learnt a very expensive lesson from that incident and has started to learn web design last week, and of course I gave him a little guide on web design and, blast! He surprised me with his progress in web design!

First of all, he is not even a degree holder but I would admit he is smart! Wow! That's really impressed me! :P But again having to give him guidance on web design, I started to refresh myself until last Thurs. He really beats me; asking questions which I could not even answer! :S So on Sat, I borrowed a couple of web design books to refresh my memory... And apparently I have self-learnt a lot on web design during my university years! Of course, having to act as a leader in a web design team, one has to know everything as well as be ready to work harder than team members as to complete a web design; even if all the team members pull out from the project all of a sudden!

I can only say I am really in the right time(now) at the right place(UK) with the right skills(web design); everything seems to fall into place now! ;)

That's all for now! My next blog will take a very looooooooooong time to be written. But we may still communicate through e-mailings! Cheers! Take care there you all! :D

Just right after the '08 New Year Celebration, I am finally landed with my long waiting trainee technician post for medical equipment!!! :D



Through the EBME forum (www.ebme.co.uk), I was invited by the director of EBME to submit my CV for his perusual. Subsequently I was requested to pay an informal visit to either of his service centres; Harlow Town or Bedford. All these happened at the end of Dec, Christmas and New Year celebration period; at Adeline's company house. :) There was a slight delay on me paying the informal visit until a biomedical engineer of EBME called me up as to invite me for an informal visit to the Harlow Town service centre on the 11th of Jan '08.



At that time, I was thinking of making an impressive 1st meet up I dressed up formally as if going for an interview. But what a surprise to me is it was indeed an informal chat! :D Had a coffee while chatting with the biomedical engineer as well as the manager of the service centre. Very much relaxing but of course I did not loose my guard!!! ;) I noticed the manager was jotting down some of the chat and most of the things which she jotted down, to me, looked more like troubles for EBME... as I could still recall she did say, " You can't really confirm your availability for the 6-month contract." That did horrified me a bit... :S During the chat, I was told the contract was yet to be confirmed which it supposed to be confirmed on the 10th of Jan '08 and I should be able to know during the chat. At the end of the chat, I was told that they will know for sure, the latest, by Tues (15th of Jan '08) and will call me up to confirm the trainee vacancy. As the biomedical engineer was about to drop me back to the railway station, he brought me around Harlow Town as well as served as a tour guide!!! :D On top of that, he also stressed that the manager is a hilarous and a joker in person; does not really mean what she said! :D Of course, I did not quite understand what he meant at that time (just knew them for only about 1 hour plus). :) Anyway, on the next day, I did personal message the biomedical engineer on my thought and he replied saying that I am the person they would like to recruit and will take chance if I really can't work until the end of 6-month contract. :D




On the 15th of Jan '08, I was told by the biomedical engineer that I am in for the post! :D What a joy! :D From that day onwards I started to look into lodging over in Harlow Town.



As the manager is born and bred in Harlow Town, I was advised to seek for her advise on settling down over in the Harlow Town and I did. Both of us mainly communicated through e-mailings. From a newspaper which I bought during my 1st trip to Harlow Town, I searched for its online newspaper and managed to shorlist four rooms for rent. Initially I was thinking of saving my trip and money to visit Harlow Town again, but I was advised the other way; pay a visit to each of the lodgings. The manager offered to accompany me for my room hunting. As not to bring further interruption to Mei Mei's work schedule as well as the manager's weekday work , I arranged my room hunting to be on Mon (21.01.08) morning for two hours, straight on, with the consent from the landlords. With her help, I managed to inspect all the rooms and indeed, her advise is valuable. :)



As per her advise, I have booked a room within Harlow Town; near the town centre and about 31mins walk to the service centre. That area is considered as 'posh' to me!! It has private carpark and only me and the landlord will be staying in the flat. On top of that, the landlord will be busy with his work most of the time so the flat, most of the time, will belong to me alone! :D However, the rent is not as cheap as my lodging over in Loughborough. It costs me £450 per month. On top of that, I also required to pay £675 for 1 and 1/2 months deposit... Of course if you have followed through my blogs, you would have guessed I am still tight with money... I negotiated with him on the price, particularly on the deposit. As I know the rental also includes 1-day cleaning services, I offer to perform the cleaning work for Feb and probably the subsequent months as well; if he is happy with the quality of my cleaning services. In fact, £450 of rental is not really expensive for me after I get my 1st month pay; only about one third of my pay so I did also enquire on the possibility of installment payment for the deposit as well as 1st month rental. In short, most of my 1st three months pay will go to lodging. But don't worry I still have left over for food and public transport (will not use if unnecessary; not too cold or raining).



So, just BEWARE, you'll receive a photo sharing e-mail from me soon; after I have moved down to Harlow Town (within a few days after 1st of Feb '08)! Cheers!!! ;)

Hehehehe... you may wonder why is that so? Well, I have just smoothly moved out from my initial location; Loughborough to current location; Didcot! :D It was only possible with the understanding of my current employer; a lovely Malaysian divorsee known as Mei Mei! :D


She helped to move my stuff from Adeline's company lodging, Letchworth, to Didcot, using her car while she was on her way back from Birmingham! Hmm... you may wonder how I know this lovely person right? Well, this is only possible with the help from Graham Butterfield; my ex-lecturer in Adorna-RMIT! ;) He did enquire earlier on whether will I be interested to take up the au pair job or not and I said no prob! :D So here I am in Didcot; with accomodation and food inclusive. On top of that, I'll be paid £60 per week! :D


Although it is titled au pair, I will not be taking care of new born or baby but two teenage children with aged 11 and 15 whereby I need to drive them to Didcot Railway; to and fro during school term and as well as do some household works; cleaning, laundry etc... :) Basically, I just need to use machine most of the time to execute the tasks; dryer, washing machine, dish washer, and, of course, vaccum cleaner! Simple isn't it!? :D


Well, I do not intend to work in this post for long as well as my legally working hours are running short now. The max I am allowed to work will be until end of May '08. So time is running short for me! I have applied for physical design engineer post, medical technician/engineer post etc. in the NHS and private sector. Of course, I am still hope to join NHS as a clinical technologist but if that does not turn out I am open to work in a private sector while learning the relevant practical skills and then gradually move towards NHS! In short, as long as I can prolong my stay in UK, time is not a problem any more! :D

If there is such a person, I seriously doubt it! You might wonder why is that so right? And you might also start to give examples; Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Diana Princess of Wales etc... Well, may be there is! But why they can do so? Simple they were all fated by GOD to do so as to bring so-called hope or whatever to this hopeless hell world!

Anyway I've just received a reply from the HR on my Trainee post; I am now out from that post for good! :( Ok, fine. I'll still call the hiring manager to enquire further what is the actual reason behind; visa, nationality or others, anyway I'll figure that out by tomorrow. You might advice me that I should have let go that post months ago. Well, just due to I still had faith in the post so I hanged on to it until now (mainly a great thanks to a fortune-teller who I consulted before I left Malaysia... :(). The thing is that I seriously need to know whether is it possible for me be hired by NHS or not eventhough I am a foreigner; non EEA national. If no, then I suppose I have come to the wrong country then after wasting more than RM15K which I should have donated it to the KKB Spastic centre... Crap! Grr...

Anyway I'll be moving out from Loughborough starting from Jan '08 to stay with Adeline for a while or probably longer if I manage to secure a job there. The new place is known as Letchworth in Hertfordshire so with a new place I hope to secure an engineering job; be it in a hospital or not. In addtion, my legal working hours are running short now; left about 3months, so got to quickly secure one soon. Whether am I looking forward for a working permit? Well, depends on what kind of enginerring work I'll get as well as the attitude of the colleagues. So, in short, unknown to that question.

That's all this blog is about... Really tired now... My soul is lapsing... <YAWN>

I am, indeed, very happy that I finally got sacked by this disgusted agency!!!! Hurray to that!!! :D You may wonder what happened, right? Well, I promised to work on Friday night shift at Quorn Country Hotel for 4 hours which started at 7.30pm and supposed to be with a driver for pick up. But about 3+pm I received a text saying that I need to take a bus to the location! It was a freezingly cold that day and also thinking of having to work for ¬10 hours on Sat, I turned it down through text. Almost instantly, the agency called me up!


And as per the conversation, either I go to work at the location or will never receive any job from them anymore! Hahahahaha! Try to threaten me ha! Probably she yet to know my background; capable to break the bond of Intel, what to say about your tiny little agency after all you are just really a disgusted agency which is hated by most of the old temp staffs? Well, I replied by saying I'm fine with it as I'll be leaving starting from Jan '08 onwards so mind as well now!


At least, now I will not be bother by them anymore but I'll definitely make sure they pay me my last payment in full else they will face the lawsuit for good! And I'll get consultation from the local Job Centre Plus to tackle this issus as besides me there are many more temp staffs are not paid as promised by the agency!


What I can say here is that those so-called consultants in the agency is really mindless as they managed to secure alot of jobs during the Christmas and New Year seasons but lack of staff! And now they fired me, so be it! Let them have the headache; none of my business! In fact, their headache started since Sat; yesterday, as I suppose to work for ¬10 hours for two shifts; day and evening. And now I am fired, they have to look for people to replace me! :D And wish them well on their business and on the personal side I wish all of them will be given a chance to go to heaven! Hahahahahaha! Siok nia! :P Agency such as this I don't bother to help them at all since from the beginning. Just waiting for GOD to close them down for good! ;)

There are changes in my daily life routine in UK.


On weekdays, I'll be volunteering in Loughborough Hospital in the morning from Mon till Weds and then follows by two-hour cleaning job in a primary school known as Stonebow County Primary School. You may wonder what do I do on Thurs and Fri morning right? Well, due to there are volunteers from another ward currently carrying out their voluntary work in the same ward as me so I reduce my voluntary hours; giving them a chance to perform some voluntary works! :P Importantly final outcome: Able to provide assistance to Janet, regardless of who actually carrying out the work then it will serve the same to me! ;)


As for my cleaning job (heading to 3 months now), I am really lucky to know the premise officer who is a humarous and generous person! He likes musics, songs (almost similar taste as I am)! And like last week he gave me and another permanent cleaner an early off from normal hours for continuous 3 days! :D So I managed to arrive back home much earlier than my usual hour! :D Oh yeah, almost forgotten to describe my assigned tasks :P, I am assigned to clean four classrooms; one for age of 4+, three for primary 5 and 6, a mix, a hallway and two small general toilets of the school. And typically I used up most of my time and energy on 4+ due to the mess created by the 4+ kids! 4+ kids typically never flush or wash their hands after using the loo!!! Eekkk!! That's gross!!! :( There was once while I was cleaning the loo, two 4+ gals wanted to use the loo. So I reminded them to flush after using it as well as washing their hands. Well, they did flush after using the loo but did not wash their hands! Eeek! :S GROSS! I really wonder does their mother teach them to wash their hands after flushing? Well, I seriously doubt it! Not to mention about the kids of age 4+, even the older kids also mess around within the toilets! There was once when the premise officer was off duty, I was requested to clean a few student general toilets. To my surprise! The toilet papers laid on the floor! What a mess and waste! In fact, after working in the school, I really wonder do the kids learn/do anything at all?? I can still recall in the past when I was in the primary school there was a classroom cleaning duty roaster every week and the students were assigned routinely everday on different task, be it sweeping the floor, wiping the window etc... And the kids here do nothing but just create mess in the classroom! Why is that so? Well, they never experience the cleaning process, that's why!


As to cut down the travelling time to the school which typically will take 45 mins walk, now I cycle to the school which only takes 25 mins of cycle! I have not cycle for about 10 years ever since I completed my advanced diploma so on the very 1st time when I cycled I was really worried and frightened as well! :S After having cycle for about 1 week and also learn more on the rules and regulations for UK cyclists, I gain some confident! ;) So I am kind of back to my hobby; cycling, finally but sadly on the wrong season... it's winter now...Cold.... :S


As for the weekends, typically I'll be still working on Saturday but no more work on Sun! ;) This is mainly due to no assignment from Kensington on Sun and has been in the mode for continuous two Suns! :D Of course, no lah. Hahahaha. The way they do business is just a slow suiside way! Never treat the temp properly, again, a CRAP agency! If it was to operate in Malaysia then probably its business should be still ok but if to operate in UK, forget about it as it is operating against the norm of UK; fairness and human right!