Today is different. Far different from the decade I've spent as a journalist. From my time as a cub reporter to reporter and then an editor, Id learnt a great many things about how the world works. Cheesy as this may be, I am thinking that perhaps... I should leave the stage... leave the industry.
I've seen many journalists, both the talented and the hopeless, exit the company's gate... A majority of them left for greener pastures... while some left simply because they can't take the pressure. I don't know what I should consider myself between these two groups. One can say that I had witnessed some very bad and awful things, incidences that were convoluted, messy... And some that were just plain evil. Many of the things were matters surrounding my co-workers, who a majority of them I considered as friends. But I believe I need to leave them behind. Some bad people are ruining everything that we had worked so hard to achieve. In the end, they wanted their way... they don't care about the company's nearly 180-year history. Every problem, from mismanagement to harassment and syphoning of funds, were ignored. Top management does not care. The company is now an empty shell.
Former workers and journalist are now mocking this once great and illustrious company. Though initially, I find such criticisms hard to deal with, they are justified.
Many of the reporters that we have now lack initiative. They simply go to an assignment and report back what is considered barebones requirements for any journalist needed to ask in an interview. They did not try to dig more information. They are unfortunately dull and lazy. They never bothered in upgrading their language skills, which usually leaves editors scratching their heads trying to figure out what the reporters were trying to explain.
Not all of them, of course, are incompetent. Some are good, but unfortunately, many of them are just plain awful. On the other hand, the company's sub-editors are neglected. No training has ever been provided to them for the past half-decade. This is sad as the company has some of the best sub-editors in the industry...
I've yet to tender my resignation. I will do so by the end of this year. That is a fact... In the meantime, I am now on a two-week leave to sort things out.
I need to clear my head... and find the right path for my next journey in life.

First of all I would like to thank those who had followed (watch) me here. I appreciate it. I would want to be more active here hopefully though my life has been getting more hectic recently. I hope to get to know you all better.

My company had decided to remove O.T. (overtime) permanently because employees from my department are abusing the O.T. system up to the point where even fresh graduates could earn higher salary than a general manager (provided that they work every single day and they willingly did) (executive staff such as GM and etc are not permitted to do O.T.).

Personally I am all for this since this means that we do not have to work to 12 hours a day. Management had decided that it is only humane to allow us to work 8 hours a day with increase in salary and benefits. However some veterans in my department do not take this well and many had resigned leaving my department severely understaffed.

Several months had passed since then and and I had to team up with people from other departments to interview over 800 people for 20 positions however due to lack of relevant qualifications/skills from majority of these people we were forced to take only 2 individuals leaving 18 vacancies. We could not permit ourselves to take lower quality employees as these positions are critical to the company.

Hopefully things would brighten up for me.

Hi all! Its going to be 2013 soon and wow things are getting really hectic for me. Work is as usual but I had finally managed to gather enough money to buy a spanking brand new car. Its not continental though unfortunately, but after going to many dealerships I am rather confidant with my choice.

Initially I wanted to buy a second hand Mercedes or Audi but after a while and thinking about my experience with my previous car which is also second hand I had decided to buy a brand new car instead. My previous car was owned by an Australian executive, it was in pretty good shape when I first saw and drove it. I had checked every part of the vehicle and everything was sweet. I honestly thought I had made a good deal.

But after making the purchase, I had sent the car to the service center and found that it had a nasty history. The previous owner had abused the car and did not do the scheduled services for 3 years while it was with him. Majority of all of the car filters had disintegrated and certain knobs and levers of the car was broken including the lever for the boot. The mechanic said I was lucky that the I had sent it sooner as even the engine and gearbox was not serviced.

But one thing that I gotta give commendation is that the engineering of the car is excellent. Despite it being all sad and horrible, not a single moment while I had initially drove the car and after buying it did I notice anything wrong with the internal workings of the machine. It went on the highway as if nothing is wrong with it. Stable, solid and very smooth!

I have now given the car to my sister. I'm pretty sure she would find it a pleasure to drive.

My new car is not as comfortable as my previous car however it wonderful to drive and the build quality is excellent. I realised that I could not relax as I had with my previous as my previous workhorse and the boot might only fit 2 luggage bags but hey its a fun ride and surprisingly it could fit my family really well.

I wonder really why am I writing this. Time has not been too kind to me and I really need to be on the go for most of the time.

A few weeks ago I had repaired certain parts of my car and re-tuned the car's shock absorbers. The previous mechanic had lowered the car considerably and it really improved the handling. However the steering response is slightly numb when compared to my dad's car. Changed the tires to Michelin since it fits my idea of budget and level of grip. It has been raining very often lately during the oddest of times and I am forced to do some traveling so the added grip is something I really appreciate especially during torrential storms. Traveling at 140 km/h when it rains heavily isn't advisable...

Kelly had worked really really hard and she had been constantly complaining to me about not able to see her husband. I feel for her. I hope she gets the holiday she deserves with her husband.

My sister is begging my parents for a car. I think of giving her my car and I buy a new car for myself. Maybe that Mercedes SL500... Oh wow... That is really something... A grand tourer... As if I could afford that...sigh...

Looks like I need to go to nearby Singapore with my partner in crime, Kelly. I need to be there for 3 to 4 days, hopefully it won't be too long. I'll be meeting my Singaporean counterpart there and hopefully things would go smoothly for all of us.
Kelly looks rather ill lately. I can understand since she had been traveling for the past 2 weeks and now this Singapore trip. Feeling a bit weathered down too but still managing to function.

My God I had just realised that I had been sleeping for only 2 hours almost everyday for the past 2 months just to keep up with datelines. Thank goodness my client is very understanding...

For the past several month I was contracted by my company to work together with a consultation firm. The firm had put me into a group which I thought would be the best group in the company based on their performance evaluation. Turns out even though they are the best, they had massive ego problems which later affected me rather negatively for the past 2 months. All sorts of problems had occured which I could only sum it as something that could only come out from a Korean drama. Really its that crazy!

They were more focused on getting things done without thinking whether it is right or wrong. I am very disturbed over this. As I was with them for several months during the last two months I was with them all hell broke loose. When we gave the presentation to our client, our BIG BOSS was there and she looked at me that could only be summed as (What had you been doing for these past few months?!) but towards the end of the presentation and when they were reading the physical report, they were very satisfied and smiled. During QnA, everything was positive... Thank God!!!

I am now back with my original company as my contract with consultation firm is over. Got my reward, the money was surprisingly good given that I had to go through all that trouble. I've been thinking about working out. My sister and friends are working out nowadays. My sister wants to go to the gym. Right now she had lost 30kgs just by relying on exercise DVDs. There are several people who wanted to stop me from working out since they said that I look better right now... I don't think so... I wanna build up some muscles =D

Its the fasting month, insofar I am doing fine. I had just tutored some students last week on ethics and governance, they were having problems with traditional, modern, neo-traditional, post-modern and pragmatic ethical theories. I wouldn't blame them, I myself got some trouble back a few years ago when I had to do a paper on it. Never want to see it again hahahahahahah!!!
My overtly emotional professor back then kept on blasting me and 'very few' times condemning me for my unorthodox solutions. I'd just really hope that by now he stops whining... I would really want to write more about him but its the fasting month so I'd better not continue any further about him.

The company had just given me an iPad 2 (the highest spec with beautiful casing). After a few hours with it, I dawned at me... using ordinary computers feels very very... old... Wait I am not insulting anyone. My 5 year old laptop is still in working condition and I have no intention of selling or throwing it away. Plus seeing my busy schedule (visiting companies, libraries, research institutes) I would most likely spend about 30 minutes using it, so I may decide to give it to my mom. I'm pretty sure she would have a blast playing farmville there hehehe...

I am currently writing drafts for a new story, not sure whether it would be a short story or something long. Not sure when I would be able to begin actual writing but I'll write one day.

Wow, its been a real long time since I had done anything over here and my deviant art account. Very sorry for deleting everything over here. I just need to step back for a while and start anew. Life has been eventful and doing and attending weddings are still part of my life. I had just attended 2 weddings this month and did some work, making sure that everything went on smoothly. I did however the last 2 weddings I would say... no proper delegation was done so it was a messy job. But I was not part of it so it has nothing to do with me and thats good =D

I am hoping that I could post some pictures over here and some of my work during my free time since I got nothing much to do other than my research. My 2 research supervisors are good to me as for the time being and I am attempting to improve on my literature review, next month I would begin with my data analysis which hopefully the companies would corporate with me.
After several years of working and saving money I had finally managed to get sufficient money to get myself the right car which I believe would be proper for me for now. He is a nice car, beautiful, black in color with sufficient engine capacity for smooth long distance travel though I would really appreciate that it could better fuel economy when it comes to city roads... if that is the case I am asking way too much. I name him Haruna =) My sister kept wondering why I named the car that and thought that it sounded too much like a local fish, Haruan. But the reason for Haruna well... I think the name is sexy for the car and somewhat proper given the car's nature and design.

I wouldn't want to name my car Lady Jessica or Lady Farah, that would be showing off plus it is not a Mercedes-Benz so... there.... But its still an entry executive car so Haruna would be just right since I'm still fresh :D

I broke off with my ex a few years ago so I am practically single though I am trying to take my chance with this particular 'candidate' so wish me luck on that though somehow I think it might just end not in favorable circumstances.

I would like to see myself as a furry but until now I don't know what creature I am... so as for the time being I can't really say anything for myself though my sister had told me that I'm more of a fox than anything else.

Anyway my sister wants me to go to some concert next week which I am trying my best not to go. (I did not have any rest since the wedding).

I hope to provide more updates soonest. =D