Can't sleep.....so I blog!

Sigh, is 2.55am and I am still not feeling sleepy, scary huh...guess I just have to surf the net,do some work and write a few words on the blog then i will get back to sleep,Hahaha... I just wanna share some working pcitures here. Well, last Thurs was Nippon Paint's big day as it was the launch of 3 new products and we had over 700 guests from every part of Malaysia, plus including Spore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan, India and etc to witness this meaningful evening. The photographer was nice to snap some of our pic during our busy preparation:

First Division Trip - Pangkor

Last weekend was my first Division Trip a.k.a Company Trip la....Although not many people from my gang that went but it was really fun, coz i get to know other colleagues better...here are some of the pics:

1) Breakfast at Mamak
2) Waiting for Ferry @ Jetty

3) My Telematch Team










4) Our Sand Castle

5) Pool Side Buffet Dinner














6) My 1st round =)










7) Group Pic

Malaysia F1 Grand Prix

I should have posted these 3 weeks ago...haha, but as usual, am busy and lazy..anyway, these are some of the pics taken during this year's F1 race. Well, not so much of an happy and personal affair but rather WORK! Some of us had to work on that day to bring some customers cum winners of a contest to the grand prix, it was really hot and loud but ultimately is an experience to see the race live.

TQ Dinner

Toyota has this annual dinner known as Thank You dinner last Saturday, and obviously serves the purpose of thanking all the staffs for their hard work and contribution towards the company for the past one year. This year's theme is Bollywood!

Work...work...work...

The older i am, the more i realized i am more like my dad- we are workaholics! I remembered i used to complained a lot about dad working late and never take us for holiday back at those days....but now i feel like him and behaving like him. Understand that these are not the right type of working attitudes but i just can't seems to tune it right..sigh! I always think i am still young and while im still young, i should work as hard as possible and learn as much as possible, and i hope i am learning the smart way....
Sometimes i just feel so tired................

Learning Hua Yu

Yup, i know it sounds funny to have such a title, coz i am one that do not need to learn about Bahasa Cina, Mandarin or Hua Yu...simply because i am already a chinese educated girl ( no doubt i did O-level, my Mandarin is not that great nor my English is fantastic) Sigh! sad huh...Until today, im still learning everyday from chinese newspaper and i have to check the chinese dictionary (which i hated most during primary and secondary school days) daily. WHY am i doing such a thing??? BECAUSE i am the only person who so call know Mandarin in my whole department, and all chinese ad, chinese copy has gotta check thru by ME, can you guys believe that i am proof reading chinese copy. What to do...since i have the benefit of being a chinese educated girl (which i am honestly proud of it and thanks to my dad for sending me to chinese school), i need to improve my chinese by reading more now. I sometimes find it stressful to check all the chinese ad and the copywriting, always worry that others may not agree with the word used and etc..etc..All i can do now is just to read more, look more into my dear dictionary. I just want to be better and better in no matter what i am doing.......

Cool Orientation Program

I went for a New Executive Orientation Program these 2 days. The main objective of this program is to have us get together and know the organization better. In order to achieve that, we had over 20 presenters , from various divisions, groups, Toyota subsidiaries and others to share with us in nut shell what the division and company do. There were 70 of us in total for this program, it all began with a gathering in a big hall, we all stood up, clap our hands and welcome 20 over top management bosses into the hall, then the emcee started announcing each and everyone of our name, and guess what???? Wahahhahha, we walked to the bosses and shake their hands one by one. Is more like a meet and greet your top management session, the best part is the bosses are called to stand and greet us too. Try imagine walking out and shake their hands one by one over 20 times and having them shake all our hands in a total of 20x70=1400 times! Cool right! i honestly salute the Toyota culture, i find this type of practices and cultures healthy.

Personally, i felt very warm and welcome, each of them including all the presenters (they are managers, senior managers and etc) said 'Welcome to the Toyota big family'. Maybe I am 'kampung' but i seriously felt so good about such orientation program. I got to know so much about the company, what do each division and subsidiary do and how much they contribute to the entire UMW group. One common about them is, they all know the Toyota Way very well and practices the Kaizen (continuous improvement) value very strongly coz at Toyota, we believe there is no best but only better through continuous improvement.

At the end of the program, each of us were given a little Toyota training passport, have one page stamped and stated completion of the program and we are to complete a total of atleast 48 hours yearly depending of your grade.

What a great 2 days i had...is indeed very fruitful and informative, and i will need to go for another 4 days training next week! =)

Annual Leave

Dear peeps, just to share with you guys that i will not be having any annual leave for a year, that's sad huh...apparently this is like 'the' policy in toyota, everyone will need to go thru this no matter what level you are in, employees there are not allowed to take any annual leave for the 1st year (because tak ada AL to take ok), if you needed a leave badly, it can be unpaid leave but very much subject to you superior's approval. Guess what? i don't think i have the courage to apply for leave since im so new there ok, am hoping that i can perform my best and my boss can just confirm me earlier...hahaha...
But my worries now is Chinese New Year..since I am not local and need to Balim Kampung, well, i shall see how when its near :'(

First Day @ Toyota

Hahahahaha... hahahahahaha... i am so happy! today is my first day in my new work place- UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd. Based on my 1st day there, i can only conclude that big company is indeed efficient, i have my pc, login Id, email address, work station all ready by today! and tomorrow will be getting my Id card too, plus the best part is i love my email address: audreytanky@toyota.cm.my, easy to remember man~
I am very actually kinda tired today coz i have been resting and sleeping late the past 10 days, now i find it difficult to drag myself out from bed, partly is also because i was too anxious last night til i couldn't sleep and had stomach upset in the middle of the night, pheew...thank God i managed to get up this morning (with panda eyes and yawning the whole day)
But nonetheless, i am still excited and passionate to explore my career in Toyota, i pray that this spirit will go on and on and on and on...So let's kambateh for tomorrow and the many tomorrow to come, way to go Audrey!!!

Farewell...

Yesterday was my last day at RHB Bank; and I concluded some sort of mixed emotions in me: I am sad to leave a bunch of nice colleagues and good bosses, my heart moved when everyone begin to send me wishes and farewell notes. And on the other hand, i am also excited about the new chapter in my life - my new job. Life oh life...people come and go all the time...

Though I am sad to leave, yet thanks to a group of happening and fun colleagues or rather friends for having a very memorable farewell for me, i will remember each and everyone of your blessings and wishes to me, terima kasih! I am truly truly touched! and i am also glad that people actually enjoy my presence around =)