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This is seriously painful than breaking up with a guy. Like I said so many times in my twitter, I hate saying goodbye. As of today, I am officially resigned from the company. It’s been like a year and a half & I cherish every moment & experience I get from the organization. I started my working life as Environmental Executive in one of the firm here with zero working experience & nope, I skipped the internship thingy when I was an undergraduate. So I am practically green in the working life. As of you, my avid reader, I have blog about my encountered problem in transition between student and working life. But I have survived. I gain lots of experience. I encountered problem meeting deadline, handling and dealing with tough clients & other consultant/associate, overcome my fear of presentation ( I presented up to Putrajaya level yo! 
) and so on. I had fun, overall.
But the most important thing that I will be terribly missed is my colleagues. We seen each other, sometime for almost everyday, 7 days a week (including weekend island gateway, drinks, over-time or simply going out hu-ha-hing). The pseudo-company Nickolas & Rakan-Rakan created by bunch of EIA division is totally disbanded. That’s sad. The joke created when the 3 of us, getting a new room meant for the division. LOL.
Lotsa other memories that I totally cherish. For the seniors, thank you so much for all the guidance & etc. I totally appreciated all the advice and help gotten from ya all. For the newcomers, I wish you all the very best in your future endeavors. Learn as much as you can from the experience and you will do fine in the working life.
I’ve inform some of the clients on my departure & inform the respective executives that will carry on with the Project. Some email funny & yet, warm good luck wish email to me. Thank you to all that wish me luck. 
As for me, I am sad to leave the career I used to have goal and aim but, at the same time I am excited in what the future might brings me. I ain’t deviated from the environmental field, it is just that I’m narrowing down myself to more specific field in environment. Landscape architecture is practically the most modern of the environment profession that combine science, design and technical philosophies in one holistic goal, to make human environment, the concrete jungle a better place to live. It also involve in urban planning and some other site remediation. So, there! I am not totally changing my career path.
My first semester as Master student, I am required to learn back all that I have learnt in the university i.e. botany, basic ecology, GIS application and even EIA. So, there is nothing to lose! My tiny bit of working experience will definitely not gone into waste. I try to get a project-basis EIA work with the professor in the university. *wishful thinking*
i spent the last few hours of my working life today by attending meeting for the Study. Ha.ha. I so love one of the technical committee member. dang cute ( as in the character, not physical whatsoever) and funny. ommo. Look so not serious but gave a very technical & constructive comments and suggestions. I salute that! and he brought badminton racquet to the meeting. that IS cute!
Ok I better start packing now. Will blog again when I’m in Penang.
To the rest of the reader, thank you for reading this. I will continue blogging about my life back as a student when I’m in Penang. So keep on reading & do not hesitate to leave a constructive and/or destructive comments here. I welcome all!
Till then, KK-ian, enjoy your life here. I didn’t expect that I will enjoy KK life. I was so reluctant to move back to KK as I prefer KL but hey, I love my hometown so much & I am so going to miss KK.
It hurts so much that my heart ache.
Why is it happening this way? I am coming close to what I have dream of but I am being melancholy about it. Where is the enthusiastic iDa?
I don’t fancy goodbyes. I hate farewell.
But what is there left if i stay? I will suffer more, will I?
I will be in the waiting-mode. Wondering what & why. I hate to say, ‘I should have done this’ in the future. But at the same time, I hate to say ‘I hate myself for losing this’.
Only if the said doesn’t appear in my life. But at the same time, I cherished the tad moments invested for the past few months.
Argh. life is unfair. How am I going to go around about it? I want both. I am greedy. I want both.
I’ve been wishful thinking of both but why does it has to come at the same time?
I hate to choose.
So I am wishing/praying hard that both will come to me. The one I leave behind will find/come to me when I’m pursuing the other. amen.
On the other note, the official Project/Study hand-over will be at 3 pm today. I am still trying to draft additional information letter for one of my EIA project. heh. So much of being too dedicative aye?
Today would be my last day visit to Core Fitness too. Ah I am soooooo going to miss everyone there! *cries*
… and I have yet to pack my stuff to Penang. Blame it on procrastination habit I pick up from here. ha,ha.
p/s : Remember what I said to the great one before moving back to KK? I said, good night. Not good bye.
This time, I neither said good-bye nor good night. hmmm.
For those of you that keep track of my shout-out update in facebook, yep, I’m super busy this week & spend my saturday & sunday in the office.
I was in-charge of another huge, zit proposal & today is the deadline. As usual, the last minutes confirmation for everything & we started printing around 12pm-ish. Some more, our new GIS modeller emailed all the illustrated map around 12-1pm-ish too.
Yes, the whole office gone bonkers. I have to run to & fo my room & the meeting room on bare foot. Yes.
Finally, me, NF & Br sent the proposal to the receiving party. Arrived at the building in 10 minutes or so & NF & I ran to the building ( and I ran, on bare foot! I can’t run with my 3-4 inches wedges) OMFG. People looking at us, they must probably think that we’re on amazing race or something. OMFG.
My adrenaline was at the highest today. Went to the gym for another workout session & somebody approach me for something i passionate about. gewd!
Will blog about it later. In the mean time, do ooh and aah for the thing I did today. bluek.
oooh ilovemyjobilovemyjobilovemyjobilovemyjobilovemyjob. bluek.
on the other note, I tried the adjustable cable cross -over today & my shoulder is dem aching now.argh.
I need to increase my cardio-regime. I did a 6.5mph with a 7.0 gradient for 45 minutes on the treadmill & I maintained a heart rate of 160-170 (though 2 times my heart rate reached higher than 180 – red blinking warning for exceeding my heart rate maximum value (MHR = 220 – your age). I should maintain my heart rate for 80% workout intensity – aerobic cardio endurance training which means I should maintain a heart rate of 157.6 in at least half an hour.
Usually, I maintain mine in 160-ish to 175 so yeah.
owh. my body aching all over. My brain need a break. I need a day out with my girlfriends. ah.
Tomorrow will be a year since I started embarking in working life. A year. (standing ovation) bluek.
and I’m still here, standing still … working my ass off, running here & there to get the work done.
What I have learned in the past 1 year? Let’s recall back & analyse:
1. I’ve come to realization that getting kaching from your own sweat, every penny counts;
2. I’ve gotten to know key important people in my field, and trying to keep good relationship with them;
3. Team work gets work done faster, toleration must be at the highest without compromising the work quality;
4. I’ve been chased out, scolded in meetings, thick-faced, acting smart & knows nut about thing, brag & deal things smoothly. I have yet to polish my business etiquette;
5. Knows how to look for answer for every question;
6. Getting my first EIA approval. woohoo!
7. Faced my EIA rejected to my face. bluek;
8. To prioritize. 6-7 projects to juggle everyday & do what’s the most important first (and coffee in code red priority too, lol);
9. know where to break rules, back-door gate & act dumb. huaaah! Do i sound dirty?
10. gambate! brace for more challenge & new exciting experiences.
ilovemyjobilovemyjobilovemyjobilovemyjobilovemyjobilovemyjobhuarghh
I have survived a year of working.
Happy one year to Yan n NF too!
It’s been a while since I blog during office hour. mwhahaha. yep, workload getting heavier, meeting getting frequent and constant chasing of clients and deadlines becoming everyday routine. Well, only facebook keep my sanity & of course, bottomless coffee.
Yep, I’m juggling my time on 6 projects on hand right now. WTF. Six! I’m on my second draft for the Labuan project and pending for review.
While updating Chapter 2 of the EIA (Chapter 2 on the EIA requiring information on the EIA Study Team for the Project), I was stumbled upon one column called Areas of Study in EIA and Registered Areas (Only apply for registered consultants, me:not!). I am supposed to key in the former for myself as in my contribution to the report. This will eventually, overtime.. will be used for me to register as a consultant (after 7 years of working experience for BSc/equivalent and/or 5 years of working experience for MSc/MEng/equivalent – correct me if I’m wrong).
So, I don’t know what Areas of Study in EIA shall I put for myself. Im clueless. Shall I put scheduled waste management? Solid waste management? GIS? Air quality and odor? Bluergh. I have NO idea.
This issue interrelated with what Masters I want to do next year. Shall I continue my study on MSc? or MEng, MTech or MEngSc? I don’t even know what I want to do my for my dissertation paper.
I need help.
Or at least, for now.. I need to know what I shall type in that column.
I’ve been busy with Heroes Season 3 and Gossip Girls Season 2. Apart from that, I’ve been in a emotional and physical turmoil within this few weeks due to my disturbed work-out routine (fasting month + the dang YF closed for very obvious reason: debt problem. Hello? this is KK, gossip spread faster than speed of light. sigh).
I’m deprived to get my adrenaline pump up. Will do after raya then. heee In the mean time, I’m stretching and practising yoga at home.
Today, I have submitted my second EIA project report to the boss. Finally! weee! At least, one problem gone; 4 more to juggle. cest la vie.
I feel like a useless person too this month as I contribute zero effort in preparation for raya festive. Sorry to say but I’m not a very-festive person. I don’t need to have like 2-3 dozen of cookies for raya or a 3-4 pairs of raya clothes too. Mommy been doing the preparation since forever.
However, since I’ve started working and earning my own money, I feel guilty for not at least making an effort to help around in the house for raya.
So yesterday I decided to get a fruit cake for my mom. I’m VERY fussy when it comes to fruit cake. I love the christmas fruit cake; fruity, moist and yummy. I hate those dry fruit cake that you can easily buy from the supermarket.
So i marched to Delicatessen Shop, Hyatt KK and order a 1 and half kg of fruit cake with a special request of making it more more fruity and moist!
Oh last saturday, I had dinner with Singyee and her friend, Justina (and her bf) at Toscani’s Wine and Dine Cafe, Waterfront. It was fun catching up with her and knowing her friend. We end up being in the same environmental-field. Gave a few advice to J on the working life of a tree-hugger and its prospect in KK. Overall, I had fun chatting and dining with them. We should do more often you!
I’ve been pre-occupied with work training for the past few days and i have been slow in updating this blog in daily basis. What really occupied my mind and time for the past 3 days was a seminar I attended in one of the hotel here.
The company decided to send 2 executives from the Audit & Monitoring division and me from the EIA to the training on the use of Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix method for the impact assessment in the planning level particularly in strategic impact assessment (SEA) which was alien to me before. ha.ha.
The seminar can be divided into two: the introduction to SEA and the use of rapid impact assessment matrix in SEA process. SEA is a form of impact assessment which integrates environmental considerations done at a high level of decision-making. On contrary, EIA is a form of impact assessment done at a project level.
In the P-P-M Cycle (Policy-Planning-Management), SEA falls into the Policy –> Planning stage. It do not replace the other assessment done at project level but an added-value to the aforementioned. Influential to the planning & project levels assessment and has potential to address those concerns on environmental-related issues at early stage of decision-making.
Another plus point to the SEA is that it forces through in looking up for the cumulative impact of several projects or policies and forces to look for other alternatives at EARLY stage of planning. Phew.
SEA can be used for legislation matter especially in formulating international treaties and green& white papers as well as economic policy in term of budget, privitisation, subsidies, taxation, integrated plan, national/regional/local development plans as well as plans for conservation areas.
Other sector includes policy/strategy/programme on agriculture, transport, energy, coastal management a well as international aid. Bear in mind that it can be done ONLY in policy, strategy and programme level.
The process is pretty much like an EIA except for additional crucial step that is absent in EIA process. Usually the steps start with defining the boundaries, screening, scoping, external factors considerations, analysis and last, documentation and reporting.
The second part of the training, the most anticipated introduction to rapid impact assessment matrix or in short, RIAM. It is a tool that improve or enhance the organization of an impact assessment study.
The good thing about this, is that the matrix has been developed into software that provide real-time recording and rapid judgement made. So you can just key in your range value (RV) derived from the environmental score (ES) that falls within the respective description of range band.
There is a simple formulae where you can get the ES based on the RIAM criteria (Group A and Group B). It is not as complicated as it sound now but I’m too lazy to elaborate more. For further information on this tool, you can check out the official website at www (dot) pastakia (dot) com (slash) riam
The good thing about the training was, the initiator himself giving out the introductory course to us. He gave the step-by-step explaination of the tool in a very systematic & informative way with heaps of case studies abroad, regionally and even local example in Sabah and Miri. So yeah, bravo Mr Pastakia.
I have downloaded the software in *.xls form as I can’t use the *.exe as I’m using Mac. So, I’d settle for the excel matrix. I have yet to test the software but i will definitely try it out soon. Or perhaps, I can use it as a trial for my new Project?
This blog post dedicated to my EIA division clan especially for the one that will be leaving us.
8 months ago, when we were starting afresh from university, we started our working life together in one team. We were from different university and background. Knows nothing about the rat-life.
But we survived. We help each other out. Brain-storming together. Bitching about things together. Share our food together. Back each other’s from the mean evil. *grin.
We had our break & fun times together in Manila, Philippines.
Yesterday, she express her desire to tender her resignation as she’s getting better job opportunity relevant to what she had studied in the university.
I wish her the best in life. BFF!
You will be missed! Terribly!
*Sarang hae yo gesture* LOL
I will be away from Kota Kinabalu the whole week of next week (note: Monday to Saturday) as I will be flying to Labuan for a field work/site assessment for oil & gas scheduled waste & then off to KL for my convocation ceremony.
I am terribly nervous going to the field as I am not really prepared mentally to adopt to the oil & gas environment; let alone assessing the chemical spill, types of scheduled waste and so on.
Argh. And the remaining day of the week, I am pack with my two on-going Projects. I have submitted the draft report for the mixed development to the client and I am preparing the reply-complaint letter for another Project.
I am terribly busy. I got no time to wash my graduation robe & argh! I got to go to the nearest studio and take picture as that would be the typical routine for the graduates upon receiving their scroll.
Isn’t it?
I have no idea. Please help me!
Wow… somebody has been keeping in track of the development around KK
And to share with you all, the things that will keep me busy in the next one month is shown in one of Malaysia’s premier development forum. Ha. ha. Cool!
I know, it is already listed in the website since end of last month.
I went to 1Borneo again with Jessie & Justyn for a sushi lunch date. I had the most horrible sushi-moment just now! argh. I give zero for the service! and 1-star for the food. yucks.
I missed my economic-Jusco 8.90RM sushi set in Midvalley! and I still prefer the food in Hana Japanese Restaurant, City Mall. 2 thumbs up for Hana! The best service, great sushi, great ambience. TOTAL japanese-class sushi experience.
My next trip to Hana’s, I want to sit next to the aquarium. ah.
Need to clean up my room now & to start preparing for my Project plan since I was given a month or so to finish up the final report. so yeah, aja aja hwaiting! LOL. eh, korean language pulak. mwhahaha.
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