I started work in DST on 18 Dec 2006.
DAY 1 (18.12.2006)
When I first arrived in DST headquarters, I was lead to the HR department for a briefing with Hajah Aisha. She is a very friendly and helpful lady. Helping me and the other 2 girls, who are also starting on that day. She aids us in filling up the necessary forms (wah lau, there are so many forms to fill up, luckily I had filled the form requesting for security access prior to my official reporting date) She also brief us on the rules and regulation of DST and as well as the benefits once confirmed as permanent staff of DST. I have punch cards now...boo hoo !!!!
She brought me to meet my Manager, David. Then David spent some time introducing me to different people in different departments. I met so many people that day and I couldn't quite remember their names yet. I hope that I won't offend people in the sense that I am not able to remember them. Hehe.
David passed me a familiarisation program schedule. I am to go through this program so as to understand the workings and operations of each different department. This program is to start on the 19th, which is very next day. This program is gonna end in January. My head of unit is Rosidah, she was supposed to be on leave till next year. But there was some emergency so she came back to the office in the afternoon. I am glad that we manage to talk. She reassure me about the job scope and told me that there is nothing to worry about. She is sure that I will be able to learn things quickly as I had audit background and as well as the fact that I am young and willing to learn. I asked her whether or not I was their first choice. She answered that I was indeed the few that they had chosen and in the end, I was chosen.
There is nothing much to do in the afternoon so David passed me a manual to read. Its regarding the financial policies. So I was reading the manual for the whole afternoon.
Thats all that I did on my first day of work in DST.
DAY 2 (19.12.2006)
First on the familiarisation program is the RF (radio frequency) networks. Steven Yong was the head of unit and Liang was the Manager and Noridah was the Executive Assistant. They are all very nice and friendly. Mostly, Noridah was the one who is explaining to me what are their operations all about.
I learnt a lot of new things today. Especially jargons that they are using, which is totally alien to me.
I spent the whole morning with Noridah and part of the afternoon with their test drive guys. Basically, we went driving around checking the signal strength. It was quite interesting seeing how they work.
Day 3 (20.12.2006)
I was based in the Base station people on the 3rd day. This is the section where they look after the equipments. It seems tiring as they are on call 24 hours a day and they even have to travel to some really remote areas. Alot of their time is spent on travelling.
I took this photo while I was with Haji Afandy. He went to Bukit Ambuk (Ambuk is in bahasa melayu for monkeys). The view was breath taking. The air was very good there....really fresh and free from pollution.
This is what they call a base station. Its located on Bukit Ambuk. I have never noticed how many of these base station they have around the whole country.
Day 4 & 5
I was attached to the Access network department. This is where they provide the transmission to all the equipment. Without the link, then all the equipments are useless. Its really great that I have the chance to follow them out to the site, as this really give me a feel of what they are really doing instead of them explaining to me in theory.
It's kinda fun since I have not been doing any real work for the first week at this new job. But I kinda wanna dive straight into the real work. I just hope that I will be able to handle this job well.
DAY 1 (18.12.2006)
When I first arrived in DST headquarters, I was lead to the HR department for a briefing with Hajah Aisha. She is a very friendly and helpful lady. Helping me and the other 2 girls, who are also starting on that day. She aids us in filling up the necessary forms (wah lau, there are so many forms to fill up, luckily I had filled the form requesting for security access prior to my official reporting date) She also brief us on the rules and regulation of DST and as well as the benefits once confirmed as permanent staff of DST. I have punch cards now...boo hoo !!!!
She brought me to meet my Manager, David. Then David spent some time introducing me to different people in different departments. I met so many people that day and I couldn't quite remember their names yet. I hope that I won't offend people in the sense that I am not able to remember them. Hehe.
David passed me a familiarisation program schedule. I am to go through this program so as to understand the workings and operations of each different department. This program is to start on the 19th, which is very next day. This program is gonna end in January. My head of unit is Rosidah, she was supposed to be on leave till next year. But there was some emergency so she came back to the office in the afternoon. I am glad that we manage to talk. She reassure me about the job scope and told me that there is nothing to worry about. She is sure that I will be able to learn things quickly as I had audit background and as well as the fact that I am young and willing to learn. I asked her whether or not I was their first choice. She answered that I was indeed the few that they had chosen and in the end, I was chosen.
There is nothing much to do in the afternoon so David passed me a manual to read. Its regarding the financial policies. So I was reading the manual for the whole afternoon.
Thats all that I did on my first day of work in DST.
DAY 2 (19.12.2006)
First on the familiarisation program is the RF (radio frequency) networks. Steven Yong was the head of unit and Liang was the Manager and Noridah was the Executive Assistant. They are all very nice and friendly. Mostly, Noridah was the one who is explaining to me what are their operations all about.
I learnt a lot of new things today. Especially jargons that they are using, which is totally alien to me.
I spent the whole morning with Noridah and part of the afternoon with their test drive guys. Basically, we went driving around checking the signal strength. It was quite interesting seeing how they work.
Day 3 (20.12.2006)
I was based in the Base station people on the 3rd day. This is the section where they look after the equipments. It seems tiring as they are on call 24 hours a day and they even have to travel to some really remote areas. Alot of their time is spent on travelling.
I took this photo while I was with Haji Afandy. He went to Bukit Ambuk (Ambuk is in bahasa melayu for monkeys). The view was breath taking. The air was very good there....really fresh and free from pollution.
This is what they call a base station. Its located on Bukit Ambuk. I have never noticed how many of these base station they have around the whole country.
Day 4 & 5
I was attached to the Access network department. This is where they provide the transmission to all the equipment. Without the link, then all the equipments are useless. Its really great that I have the chance to follow them out to the site, as this really give me a feel of what they are really doing instead of them explaining to me in theory.
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It's kinda fun since I have not been doing any real work for the first week at this new job. But I kinda wanna dive straight into the real work. I just hope that I will be able to handle this job well.
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