I went for an interview yesterday for an IT Helpdesk Specialist at IBM regional contact center. I think I pretty much aced it. Well, I do good in interviews, it's just getting the interviews is such a pain sometimes. During the interview, the interviewer told me that they're gonna call in a few other candidates and once that is done it would be about a couple more weeks before I would get a confirmation whether I got the job or not... 20 minutes after I walked out of the room I got a call from the recruitment agency asking me if I want to sign a contract. Figures the job I landed uses the 2 skills I've had since even before I went to uni, computers and English.

One of the questions the interviewer asked me sorta made me chuckle after the interview. It sorta went like this:
Head Tech IT Guy : Well, the right answer would be that nothing would show up on the screen. It would be completely blank.
Me : Is there a beep?
Head Tech IT Guy : Yes... there is a beep.

It's not funny or anything but it made me chuckle.


Today I told my boss I'm resigning. He then asked me how many annual leaves do I still have. I actually have 7 left. Then he proceded to tell me that I won't be able to take leave once I posted my 1 month notice of resigning.... So he told me to finish them up before I post it. My partner here at the office won't let me take leave within this month because there are laptops coming in and he would need help. He told me that what my boss is telling me about taking the leave during the notice is totally unfair and is not a written rule or something. My boss figures that I would take 2 days this week, then 2 more the next etc2 til my leaves are finish.... As if I wanna stay here for 2 months just to finish up my leaves. I'd rather forfeit them. In the end I discussed with my colleague and we made a deal with our boss to let me post my notice of resignation on the 30th and I would only be able to take leave in April, since he needs my help this month but I can do it during the notice period. So I now have 7 days of leave to burn!

I'm sorta looking forward to the new job. It pays better, is very much closer to where I'm living and I would actually get to do work instead of staring at the monitor reading ebooks. Oh wait, and no more bloody jams in the morning.YARR!

I like to think myself as a patient man. However, sometimes when I want something, I just can't make to make myself wait. I thought I'm sorta pass this since I haven't done it in awhiles, but the other day, I looked at this add int he papers and was interested in the advertised product. Yesterday morning, I opened up a video of the thing and it was so cuuute! I straight away went to OU on my lunch break and bought it. Fikir panjang? nope, didn't even second guess myself like I usually do. Good thing it wasn't really something for me though. I'll bring it back home this weekend I guess.

Last night, after the umpteenth time my router crashed on me, I figured it was time that I went out and buy a trustworthy router. Something with QoS so that I could configure it so that it would let my housies use the internet while letting me hog the bandwidth for WoW purposes. Using my current setup, sometimes I would directly plug my cable to the modem while skipping the router coz I needed the bandwidth, but considering that they're all paying for the DSL subscription also, I don't think it's fair. So during lunch break today, I went to the Curve to buy a DSL router. Yay for impetous buying decisions. Haven't gotten the router yet tho since it's out of stock. I will get it soon tho! Won't be able to sleep at night til I get it.

Last weekend I had a slightly more activity than my usual weekends. At first, I spent the Saturday at home waiting for my sis who recently returned from India to call me and tell me when she arrives in KL. Around 3pm tho, one of my housies called me and asked for my help. Turns out that while he was being lectured by his bro-in-law about changing his tyres, his tyre exploded. So I went to the Serdang R&R to see how it was. He was there with his sister, her husband and 2 babies. They were going to KL to buy his engagement ring. I let them use my car since his spare tyre wasn't exactly in much better condition than the now strip of rubber lying by the side of the highway tyre even though it would cripple me and I prolly couldn't meet up with my sis. but hey, I can always see my sister next week or something but letting a family go around in a time-bomb? no wai would I let that be.


On Sunday I went to watch 300 with my buds. It was a pretty cool flick. Awesome in fact. Other than the part where all the guys walk around wearing leather britches most of the time... and I thought Troy was bad enough.