6 months before..

6 months before, it was the first day of my job at ST. fresh in shirt and pants, there i was reporting to my workplace in amk, where i would be stationed at for the week before i start my project at depot road..

the week passed slowly as i get myself acquaintance with ada, no not the secretary for god's sake, but the programming code which i will deal with for the rest of this project.. not as hard as i thought it would be, and in fact much more robust than c++ in real-time programming.. more than 6 months ago, the only fact i know about ada programming is that its just a language used by defense department of usa and nothing else.. never knew i would use it and the fact is that we are about the only ones in singapore who know how to use it makes me sound more important.. yet the very same fact is that there's no other market which we can port this language to, except perhaps the airlines..

and finally the day came for me to meet my new team-mates and colleagues in depot road.. and never did i expect to meet my primary-school friend when i step into the lab.. such small world it is! kian siong was from one of my class which neither of us remember anymore. my fondest memory which serves me still was that we used to play computer games together.. at least now i know someone in the new environment which does not make it hard to blend in.. or so i thought..

of course, not to mention james, ginny, sik jeong, weeling, hazel, damien, of whom the latter four have since left the project for greener pastures, seeking their fortunes in other areas.. and i would be team mates with james and ginny, and the start of our friendship-cum-comrades..

my job is software development for modules which would become GUI units for the whole system and oh man, i never expect the real-world implementations of programming can be so much different and complex than the ones we have learn from our uni.. the next few months were spent learning all the sub-systems and how to communicate between each of them.. and is still doing now.. haha..

on the other hand, work is not all work and no play.. we do have our gatherings, farewell lunches, team-building sessions and the most important, the FOS sessions.. FOS is simply Full Of Shit, so you could easily guess that we crap alot.. alot.. of course we do gossip as well, though i never thought i could such a good gossip listener.. haha.. but i guess its inevitable that in any place with people, there's bound to be p-relationships.. go figure this yourself.. and it's very important to know who can we joke with and who we can't mess around with.. it does get boring after awhile, that problems still exist without solutions or attempts made to solve them..

looking back, i have learnt alot and yet lots to learn.. and why this 6th month is so important, its because that's when i start to get my programming language allowance, that's why!! haha..
and of course, another bonus will be coming from introducing a friend to the company, who have since being posted to another project in another site.. hang in there brother!! for my sake.. haha..

job is fun, challenging yet frustrating at times, when bugs don't seem to go away no matter how we try to solve them.. but nothing beats having fun and good colleagues, being a little crazy doesn't hurt too.. haha.. with much in store in the coming months, i'm filled to the head..

oh well, i write alot when i started to.. and so i must stop now..
cheers..
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