Comments to adam Khoo's posting

Patrick Wong Said,
July 28, 2006 @ 11:16 pm
Hi Adam,
I totally agreed to what you have said. I would like to share a personal experience about myself that briefly illustrated adam’s point. Well….. not that i am very successful…. here goes…
I was an average student during my primary school days and out of the six years i ranked 29/40 most of the time. I didn’t know why i was in school… i didn’t know why i must study , basically i didn’t know anything. hahahha…
When i proceed to secondary education, i was able to maintain my ” standard” as an average student…. hhahaa.. ranked 29/35… as you can see, i’m among the last few. During sec1, a major incident took place. My Mum suddenly passed away due to a fatal car accident. It really hit me hard and i was devasated. I became quiet, inferior, no self confident and all the negative qualities that you can think of. Due to the fact that i was from a neighbourhood school, i was posted to pure science stream despite my average result (I failed my maths but they say my science was good when i scored 69/100 .. hahhawhat a joke.)From that day onwards, i was constantly the second in class…. but counting from the back. This have again helped in lowering my self esteem. I don’t know my goal in life and i don’t know why i was in this world… i looked into the mirror and saw this loser….. i hate this guy looking back at me in the mirror. I told myself… I MUST CHANGE!!! I was lucky enough to secure a place in Singapore Poly with my dull coloured results. I started to become more sociable and friendly… i suddenly find that life is changing… my results got better and better…. study seems to be easier and easier each day…even those classmates who got 9 points (5 best ) consulted me in tutorials and stuff… my results were among the top few in class….. Thereafter i become a loud person…. my friends in secondary school found a great change in me. Is like 2 different person altogether.
Later i went to overseas to a university in Australia and got a good honours degree. My secondary school teacher actually invited me and some other friends back for a speech during the sec4 graduation. The teachers wanted to show to the students that you can do very well even if you are from a neighbouring school.
The point is that my mum’s passing on is actually a blessing hidden behind a mask.. as from my point of view, it really pushes me to strive hard and have a strong urge wanting to do well.
Thanks for your patience in reading my lengthy words…

Good night

Best Regards
Patrick

Crazy night in G1 pictures

2 places in a Month

After a long period of working hard ....... fruits did not grow on the tree...so i have to reward myself by going for a crash holiday trip... In july been to bangkok where i shop till i drop and to Tioman where i can swim among the fishes and see beautiful corals.... so relaxing that i wanna go again with my darling.... and i wanna make her drink big mouthful of salty water.. hee hee
.*notti*

Tioman Salang beach resort..... a place where they serve lousy food.... the accommodation was ok for me but was not ok for my sis and sis-in-law. Maybe they are just pampered and spolited hahha.... oops!!! Overall, i really de-stressed a lot and many people say i looked radient after the NS and holiday .... which is very true... i feel exactly the same way as how i looked.

Last Few days in STM

Counting down to my last few days in STM. Everything seems more relaxed as I don't have to care so much about all the shift issue. When I open my mailbox, I just delete everything that reads " work, urgent, attention, micron, cu764" So shiok. My poor junior engr struggling with his shift work. He kept complaining that he's very busy and too much things for him. I was meant to be in a "relax mode" but I still help him to settle issues which he cannot handle...... hmm... Sad to say... I think he totally cannot run the shift alone... I think joann should change to G1 and guide him along the way. Well.... He's hardworking but he just need to be a bit organized. Experience is really not something you can learn in a short time... hee hee..

Besides the "working aspect", I was totally surprised to receive a farewell gift from my G1 operators. So touched and pleasantly surprised. Tears almost came rolling down. Got a 1GB walkman + ang bao from them... Really paiseh leh...... I never knew I deserved that....... Well, I'm really happy that they liked me as their engr.

Now, need to move on to more uncertainty. May be harder and uneven for me, but is the road I have choose to walk.

Back to work in STM

Back to work again.... Everything so familiar.... So many things changed... All my operators changed position and some became bay leader, some became PM tech, some from bay leader to operator again. There are always a lot of changes everything every time come back from reservist .... well... but I am ok with changes...

Have been wanting to train my junior in running the line. Seems like he is not there yet. I push everything to him wanting to let the production line give him a crash course. I told him to think a bit b4 asking me...... Don't just ask when he dunno... must try to think a bit and sweat a bit before asking...... I think he did that as I receive less calls from him thereafter... but also maybe because I divert all calls to him... muhahahha.... End of the day, he pull a long and black face, which is normal if you are not experienced enough...I think he will get better and better...

Next week to G2 night shift again... great... Will give this young lady a super combo... hhaha.. She have been living in good life under the "J" umbrella. Time to face the reality... hee hee... but maybe she will overcome me with her nua..ness that I cannot stand it and go do everything instead.

I Really will missed my G1/G3 buddies.
Ivan - [G1 epies] So funny and full of wacky idea. one of those people with the same frequency line. Easy going and kind but wacky at times... hee hee.. shared the same interested in waiting for " 3rd break" to view the goddess. But the only think I am more fortunate than him is that I get to talk to the goddess , and tease some of them.... muahhaha... envy leh... our dreams: Miss No1 in bikini sunbathing at the coast of tioman island / rendung island

Carol - [G1 etchies] Fun and easy going personality, down to earth and not so strict (hee not like her da jie... serious siah... hope I don't see her in new place, otherwise got to put on a fake smile and say " hee hee Hi A** I am Carol's friend... pls be nice" hee hee) Kinda thankful to miss Carol because she last night she took the camera in and took so much pictures with all of us... and we have this crazy funny clip " The Truth about Yan fen's drawer" I think will have many great memories with all the pictures and clips.... I think I will like the " jumpping picture" best hahha... so raw and unpolished.

Sean - [G3 etchies] My etchies in G1, funny guy who can come out with so many funny stuff for us the laugh when the sleepy worms take over our brain. His jokes can immediately kill all the sleepy worms and put them to sleep. The jumping pics were good just that he may hit the ceiling cause he may be too tall... hee hee...

Yiting - [G3 etchies] My G3 etchies who never escape my crappiness... hahha.. I will store all my crappiness for her as it;s very funny to see her reaction. She's a nice friend who can give good advice in serious issues and provide entertainment in boring times.. She never fails to entertain Vince and Me when we ask her crappy questions. Her answers will make us roll on the dirty floor and laugh till ya drop... muhahahah.. We shared many secrets... oops but don't be mistaken ah.... is our own personal secrets about the fab. Of course we tend to keep our mouth very very tight except for one or two slipping out... but to selected personnel only.. I know her so well that I know what's her hobbies, what she like and dis-like. What type of guys she like and who she thinks are nice and who she thinks are bad. Her ambition is not to be a good engineer...... Her greatest dream of all is to be "DA CHANG JIN" oops... silly me.... come again.... Her greatness Dream is to be " DA YI TING" hee hee... so that she can help people from all corners of the world.

Vince - [G3 etchies] He will laugh together with me when the crappy effect gets to yiting. hee hee.. my etchies who many operators thinks he's fierce.... (fierce meh? no leh...) Alot a afraid of him maybe due to his cool man look. He looks like the merciless killer in cleanroom suit but looks like the guy next door outside the fab.(hmm.. maybe your neighbour is adam's family??? oops :x *copyright reserved)

Reservist End 7 more to go ...

Last day of reservist loh.. was quite a pleasant experience because brain get a lot of resting here... hee hee.. just completed the 3rd one and 7 more to go. Got to know more people this time.. Chat a lot with Wille, lau chek (shao long), zi yang., also managed to get some conversation going with mr ice man Hai Ming hahhaa... Besides that, was good that Mr Camry aka Base Kong have successful earned his name for mr "cannot make it"??? hahha oops... hope he's not seeing this....

Overall, was a peaceful and enjoyable ICT, except for the mosquites....... well, that's the price to pay for wanting to " excuse brain"

Valerie my god-daughter

She came to this world on 1 April 2006. That's no joke ah.... such a nice date.... and her parents married on 20 05 2005 (20th May 2005) Everything also want nice number and nice date eh? typically Singaporean Chinese... haha ok now back to valerie...I only have one word to describe her.... " CUTE" ...maybe need 2 words..... " Very Cute" he ehee.. refer to the picture and you'll know what i meant.. hee hee . She's very active but also afraid of strangers. When she first saw me, her big round eyes keep starring at me thinking" who is this handsome uncle keep smiling at me?, but i no no him.... i a bit scare leh " The next moment, she started to cry. Beng came to the rescue and help coax her. She stopped crying when she saw her father. " OK , my papa here liao i no scare liao" After awhile we carry her to the bedroom where is time for her play time. " Oh this is fun, got toy to play liao.... got papa, mummy, handsome uncle and baka bunny play with me.... hee hee so fun ... hee hee... i no scare uncle liao... beri happy so many people play with me"
" My papa told me that the uncle is my god-papa, hee hee more people to dote on me loh.... muhahahaha, bye bye i go sleep liao....zzzzzzzzzz"

Beautiful Sky

As I was on duty at cherry5 for 6-9pm details, the breeze was cooling, tress were dancing around gently and birds were gossiping among each other: I looked up in the sky and saw the most beautiful thing..... The sunset.... So peaceful and yet energetic, so colourful and graceful.

Looking at the beautiful sight, toughs came into my mind. The world is so big and we need to deal with numerous problems that arise on a daily basis. We told each problem seriously and make our life felt like shit. Since we are so tiny as compared to the world why not just open your mind and heart to the world and experience life in a positive and fun way. Take things objectively and not personally. Anyone can do great things if he/she sets his mind on it. Failures are part of life and it makes us stronger and acts as catalyst to speed up our success. You will have no regrets only if you tried your best and have fun in the process. We gain experiences in is life and we learn and improve from them.... Hope that everyone seeing this can learn to be positive in life and enjoy what you are doing....There is always a positive side in all situations ...So have fun in life.....