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    25 January

    My pass 3 weeks

     

    • Weekend~~~~~

      Saturday.... We met at the station and walk back to the Place du Market to have lunch. I took a photo of the mountain across te lake today, It was beautiful.... They told me it was snowing in the morning... Damn,,, I missed it aagain.....-.- Anyway..... I need to went to MANOR to get a backpack, so we spilt after lunch as the others want to go and walk along the lake.  How come the things here is cheaper than Oz??? I brought myself a pants for Sfr 20 (Cheap huh?) , got myself a laptop backpack for Sfr 60 (I think that will costs me about $120 AUD in oz)

      Bargin!!! Heee.... Sometimes, we need a bit shopping theraphy to recharge after a long week of work.. hahhaa

      I was decided not to have dinner so that I can try to lose weight... but I end up walking across the street and get a takeaway and eat at my room while working....

      Let me upload more pics in my MSN la....:P

      Happy Chinese New Year!!!!!

    Saturday, January 24, 2009

    • 3 weeks had gone!~~~~~~~~

      I can't believed it's like a blink of my eyes and it's already the third week of January. I have been here for almost amonth already. Tonight, it's the first night that I really chill out and relax a bit and listen to some music.  The last two week is very intense and almost like Im trying to stuck 10 stacks of report and guideline into my head, cover all aspects and potential risk in the business.  I already collect a big pile of note and print out alot s that I can read through it in the weekend.  Quite a bit of work that I gotta do during the weekend so that I will be prepared in next week meeting with the senior mgm and other presentations. 

      Some of the newcomers including me was kicked out of the office by or TL stating that I should be in the office now as today is Friday.  :P We went to dinner and chat for a bit. They said I am so energize all the time and that's my personality, isn't it? I had a tough TL but I know I will learn a lot from him. What's wrong of having a high standard and expectation about myself :P

      I am thinkin whether I should go to Lausanne for shopping but I think I might just go to MANOR for shopping, at least to figure out what they have in there and get a nice backpack for my laptop and note :) May be a little shopping for clothes if they are at reasonable price.... it's so damn expensive here T_T

      I went to Geneve last weekend and it was very nice and I think I would like to go back there for shopping..... I had my eye set on a Bulgari ring when I was on the plane to Switzerland.. hee heeee.... I should cheer with myself with a little nice treat compensate my hard working, don't you think so?? May be Ishould bring my cam to work so that I could take some pictures around the office and how we work.. haha..

      A week later I will be flying out for my first mission in the States for three months, I'm looking forward to meet you there Din Din... :D

      My plan fr the weekend will be ..... a little shopping, coffee, work a bit, sleep a lot... hahhaa I realy ned a good sleep to recharge myself.

      Add oil Snow........

      K, I miss you...Luv v so!!!!

       

    Sunday, January 18, 2009

    • Reality

      It was almost ten days since I start here and we have just finished our first workshop. All I can say is amazing and my eyes has open much wider that I expected. Being able to speak and listen to the top mgm and looking at things from a different view is rewarding and there are so many things for me to learn in the coming years

      I realised that we are the best in class here and we will only become better and even much better.  I miss Kevin and Mini quite alot but thanks god the internet exists and we can actually see each other everyday.

      My French is slowly improving but I"m still not there yet. I was amazed that now many languages does my department speak and we almost like a UN here.  In general, people speaks at least 3 languages here.  

      Working hours are on av 12 per day and I think it will goes longer when I'm out on the field. I will add oil!!!

       

    06 January

    1st Day @ Work

    3rd Jan@17.36
    The first flight across overseas without honey. I was sitting alone on this plane still trying to figure out what had happened. Trying to make sense of the true reality.  The reality that me and K will be in two different place in the world missing each other.
    The cabin is full and the business class is full too. Yet, somehow the seat next to me is vacant and it seems like to telling me something. Missing honey sitting next to me on this flight to HK, the flight to Swiss.

    My first business class experience ever and it taste like a 5 star hotel with welcome drinks, endless people coming around giving you all sorts of things.  Entree - Main -  Dessert served across 3 hours.
    I nearly forgot that I was already on this flights for almost 6 hours already.  Guess it would be anouther three hours to go before I landed in HK airport to meet Mum and Sister.

    Everytime, I was on a trip on my own, I always wanted that Kevin will be here, next to me to share my experiences, to share my happiness..... I think he will be delight on Business class too.... hahaha....
    I wonder if he already woke up playing raid with others online and wonder if Dad already start cooking.  How about Mini? What is she doing right now? Is she sleeping? Does she even notice that I'm gone and will not be back for 8 months?

    I miss you Kevin, already so badly....I have to be strong. I have you in my heart with me, around the world.  I love you honey. Love you so much!!
                                            
    4th Jan @0650
    Finally arrive at Zurich Airport, I have to confess I was shock by the cold wind blow into my face when I step out of the cabin. I can feel that my hands turns cold right away. I was trying to look for my gloves but I couldn't find them. I wonder how cold will it be when I actually stand on the street.
    There is quite a lot of chinese on the plane as well. But strangly, I couldn't find any of them on my flight to Geneve which I originally thought there should be many.
    I gather my brave to start a few short French sentance, but I think most of the people in Zurich speaks German. I'm still trying to figure out how to ask for a train ticket to Vevey when I arrive Geneve.
    I hope the train station is not that far away from the airport so that I could walk there and save a penny.
    During the flight I saw a very nice Bulgari ring shine in front of my eyes and it cost about $300EURo. I am still thinking, may be I should get one for myself... hahaha.. my devil is telling me "go get it" while my Angel is telling me "NO, you have to save $$"
    I finally saw two chineses student speaking cantonese walk pass me looking for a seats but they murmuring and walk away.

    I start observing people in the way they dress and trying to see if i'm adapted in there style of dressing in Swiss. I think I"m allright except my legs are cold.
    Yet, thanks for the sheep skin boots, my feets are extremely warm along with my body as well. 
    Should I wandering around for before I borad onto the flight again n about 30 minutes?  Ther should be a lot of things to explore here.
    May be I should walk around and find myself a toliet first since I really wanna go pee.

    I sent a msg to Kevin as soon as I tuoched down and vry happy that he had been expecting my msg for a while. I wonder what he is doing right now?
    I miss you too , honey.

    Ok, lets go for a walk!! Talk to you later love!   

    Well, I finally arrived - Vevey, the place were I will stay for the following 2 years of my assignment. The flightis exhausting and I feel very thankful that I can actually sleep flat on the seat.  I was my first flight with Business Class ever. I know it sounds stupid, but it was really nice : D 

    I met Mum and Sister in HK for dinner and I continue my 12 hours journey to Zurich. I saw snow all over the place. It's only take 30 minutes frm Zurich to Geneva then I hopped onto the train to Vevey.  I had too pull my very heavy lugguage onto the train and find myself a seat next to the window. 

    I dragged myself with all my lugguage to the Hotel and it's about 5 minutes walk from the train station. The first thing I do is to get on the net and see if I can get ontoWow..... Unfortunately, the free internet block gaming website :(  Had a quite chat with Kevin and I ran downstairs for a walk.  I need to find my way to work.  The town was quite small.. since everything is centralized in the middle of the town, there is only one shopping centre in here but they have KOOKAI, H&M, some other european brand... No luck in walkin into the mall since they closed on Sunday.  The living standard is extrememely high as a instant coffee from the machine cost me 3 sFr... which is about $4 AUD per a small cup.  Everything is v expensive here. Normal meal cost at least $16 sfr. @.@

    I managed to get into the local supermarket here and get a few bread (2.60 Sfr) and some instant noodles (1.70Sfr), which is ok.  Of course I will eat normal food but not that often since I really want to save $$ to buy a house in Melb :D But I promise I wil eat at least a proper breakky and Lunch :D

    Dad eye surgery is set and booked and it will cost about $5500 fo two eyes. Mum said very expensive and told me if I still got any $ left but I think it's totally worth it since it's in Oz and everything is certified which compares to China is much better.

    Oh well, I'm still in Jet lag.... sleep la.. nite nite

    P.S for lastest Picture, click here : https://cid-da5f859cfbe18bc0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Vevey?link=1

    Love, Jan

    1st Day in Vevey

    3rd Jan@17.36
    The first flight across overseas without honey. I was sitting alone on this plane still trying to figure out what had happened. Trying to make sense of the true reality.  The reality that me and K will be in two different place in the world missing each other.
    The cabin is full and the business class is full too. Yet, somehow the seat next to me is vacant and it seems like to telling me something. Missing honey sitting next to me on this flight to HK, the flight to Swiss.

    My first business class experience ever and it taste like a 5 star hotel with welcome drinks, endless people coming around giving you all sorts of things.  Entree - Main -  Dessert served across 3 hours.
    I nearly forgot that I was already on this flights for almost 6 hours already.  Guess it would be anouther three hours to go before I landed in HK airport to meet Mum and Sister.

    Everytime, I was on a trip on my own, I always wanted that Kevin will be here, next to me to share my experiences, to share my happiness..... I think he will be delight on Business class too.... hahaha....
    I wonder if he already woke up playing raid with others online and wonder if Dad already start cooking.  How about Mini? What is she doing right now? Is she sleeping? Does she even notice that I'm gone and will not be back for 8 months?

    I miss you Kevin, already so badly....I have to be strong. I have you in my heart with me, around the world.  I love you honey. Love you so much!!
                                            
    4th Jan @0650
    Finally arrive at Zurich Airport, I have to confess I was shock by the cold wind blow into my face when I step out of the cabin. I can feel that my hands turns cold right away. I was trying to look for my gloves but I couldn't find them. I wonder how cold will it be when I actually stand on the street.
    There is quite a lot of chinese on the plane as well. But strangly, I couldn't find any of them on my flight to Geneve which I originally thought there should be many.
    I gather my brave to start a few short French sentance, but I think most of the people in Zurich speaks German. I'm still trying to figure out how to ask for a train ticket to Vevey when I arrive Geneve.
    I hope the train station is not that far away from the airport so that I could walk there and save a penny.
    During the flight I saw a very nice Bulgari ring shine in front of my eyes and it cost about $300EURo. I am still thinking, may be I should get one for myself... hahaha.. my devil is telling me "go get it" while my Angel is telling me "NO, you have to save $$"
    I finally saw two chineses student speaking cantonese walk pass me looking for a seats but they murmuring and walk away.

    I start observing people in the way they dress and trying to see if i'm adapted in there style of dressing in Swiss. I think I"m allright except my legs are cold.
    Yet, thanks for the sheep skin boots, my feets are extremely warm along with my body as well. 
    Should I wandering around for before I borad onto the flight again n about 30 minutes?  Ther should be a lot of things to explore here.
    May be I should walk around and find myself a toliet first since I really wanna go pee.

    I sent a msg to Kevin as soon as I tuoched down and vry happy that he had been expecting my msg for a while. I wonder what he is doing right now?
    I miss you too , honey.

    Ok, lets go for a walk!! Talk to you later love!   

    Well, I finally arrived - Vevey, the place were I will stay for the following 2 years of my assignment. The flightis exhausting and I feel very thankful that I can actually sleep flat on the seat.  I was my first flight with Business Class ever. I know it sounds stupid, but it was really nice : D 

    I met Mum and Sister in HK for dinner and I continue my 12 hours journey to Zurich. I saw snow all over the place. It's only take 30 minutes frm Zurich to Geneva then I hopped onto the train to Vevey.  I had too pull my very heavy lugguage onto the train and find myself a seat next to the window. 

    I dragged myself with all my lugguage to the Hotel and it's about 5 minutes walk from the train station. The first thing I do is to get on the net and see if I can get ontoWow..... Unfortunately, the free internet block gaming website :(  Had a quite chat with Kevin and I ran downstairs for a walk.  I need to find my way to work.  The town was quite small.. since everything is centralized in the middle of the town, there is only one shopping centre in here but they have KOOKAI, H&M, some other european brand... No luck in walkin into the mall since they closed on Sunday.  The living standard is extrememely high as a instant coffee from the machine cost me 3 sFr... which is about $4 AUD per a small cup.  Everything is v expensive here. Normal meal cost at least $16 sfr. @.@

    I managed to get into the local supermarket here and get a few bread (2.60 Sfr) and some instant noodles (1.70Sfr), which is ok.  Of course I will eat normal food but not that often since I really want to save $$ to buy a house in Melb :D But I promise I wil eat at least a proper breakky and Lunch :D

    Dad eye surgery is set and booked and it will cost about $5500 fo two eyes. Mum said very expensive and told me if I still got any $ left but I think it's totally worth it since it's in Oz and everything is certified which compares to China is much better.

    Oh well, I'm still in Jet lag.... sleep la.. nite nite

    P.S for lastest Picture, click here : https://cid-da5f859cfbe18bc0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Vevey?link=1

    Love, Jan

    03 January

    Departing today!

    In about 3 more hours and I will depart to Switzerland for work.  There is a mix of emotion going on in me atm.  Finally got everything packed into my lagguage and I hope I can also squeeze my carry on lagguage into the checked lugguage.  Daddy already woke up so early that I heard him walking around the living room and practicing Taichi out in our Driveway.  I made myself a cereal breakfast and save my favourite Kevin's home made coffee to last.   Mini is stilling walking around not sure if she aware that I am leaving Oz today for 2 years and wouldn't be able to see her again in 8 months. I know that I will miss K very much but I don't dare to even mention it as  I know I will definately start crying. lol
    Thanks for the farewell dinner and your presents guys.... I will miss all of you too ^^
    I"m about to turn off my laptop and do a final check.
     
    P.S s2 Polaris - Your heart will fly with me and my heart will always stays with you! Let's work hard for our future =)
     
    Until then, laterguys !
     
    26 December

    1 Week to go!

     

     7 days later, I will depart AUS for my two year assignment around the world. It was kind of excited and kind of sad.  Excited is because I'm heading for my next stage of my career being working in my company Head Quarter, travelling around the world visit different countries and able to meet different kinds of people, learn their cultures and understand how business model work in those areas.  Sad is because I'm living my families, my friends, my lovely daughter - Mini dog.  I believe there will be a lot of things for me to learn, I will grow and step up on the corporate ladder, a journey to become want I dreamed of......

    Kevin, I understand that why you let me go for this opportunity is bcos you think that is best for my career, for my future. For this, I"m very thankful for all the support you had gave me to tell me "I should go for this".  I'm sure this is also an opportunity for you to prove that we can have a much even better life than the one that we are having right now. I trusted in you and will let you decide the choice that you wanna be, that you wanna go.   I know you will!

    People had started to ask me about how are we gonna to make it for the 2 years. We always very confident and tell others that, it's okay for us, cuz we trusted each others; plus, this is not the first time we are apart in two different part of the world. Last time, he was in China for his business and so that we have to separate for 1.5 years, so 2 years wouldn't be a problem at all. Our marriage and love is STRONG!

    We had arguments and we had laughters. We learnt to trust and treasure each other.  All these......8 years of knowing each others and 3 years of marriage makes our bond hold strong together.

    I had finally start to pack my stuff in my new lagguage, thanks Johnny and Holly for that and I'm sure that you two will be with me for the coming 46 weeks of a year in hotel and travelling around different places. :)

    My new Dell XPS has also arrived so that I'm sure that I can still be on WoW when I'm  in overseas, heee..... Oh well, Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!

    19 October

    Counting on my days!!

    These days I gradually receive more and more information about my next role in Switzerland. Last week, I've recevied a welcome pack from our Swiss HQ with information in regards to Trains, Hotel, Bank, Laptop, mobile phone, business card etcetcetc.... Apart from that, I also received a surprise Happy Bday note from my future manager, I think he's called Ricardo.  As time moving closer and closer, I try very hard to tell myself not to think about that I'm leaving soon but I can't resist.  I can't stop thinking Will I perform well in this new role? What will I learn? Who will I meet?  K always keep reminding me our days together till I left and I feel quite sad about it. I always told him that the company will provide flight back to my home country every 6 months and he can come to visit me if he wants too.....Does anyone know any lugguage brand is good? Light and durable? I am considering to get one....

    Some of you may wonder what am I going to work in Swistzerland, let me brief give you a glance on what I do:

    I work as a international internal auditor, travel around the world to ensure local companies are follow with our set rules, policy and procedures and give recommendations on how things can improve. Each assignment is 3 months period which I will brief and debreif in Swiss before we go on a team of 3-5. Then we fly out to the destination country then travel to various plant, office in different states. The work hours will be hectic as I will be working at least 12- 15 hours at least per day, sometimes weekends.  I will be living at least 44 weeks on a suitcase and spending most of my time on the plane.

    Life has suddenly way out of plan as I never had this role be a part of my life planning.... Now I had to fit it into the plan, but I dunno what will I do after 2-3 years, which countries will I be working in? How about having a baby in 3-4 years time, when should I buy a house, where should I buy the house.. everything is suddently so unclear and I feel so uncomfortable as it's unclear.... sigh... anyway..... ..... .....

    My uncle said this is not good as I'm not a boy, cus career should be less important to a women as it cost your relationship or sometimes marriage.  I understand what he means, yet, I feel strong about our relationship, we will walk through this together... I know. we will!   

    08 September

    終于拿到了離港的日子了

    我離開墨爾本的日子已經定下來了。
    3/1/2009 飛瑞士
    不知不覺距離我們短暫分開的日子也越來越近。
    幸好公司讓我每半年回來一次,日子也不會那么的難過!
    謝謝公司給我的機會, 謝謝你給我對我說 “這個機會很難得,必要去闖闖!”
    很難得我身邊有那么支持我的你,
    兩年。。。。。我會努力的, 你在這邊也要加油哦!
    一起為我們的張來努力, 奮斗!
    soul
     
    22 July

    manager or Leader

    My peer asks me what is the different between a manager and a leader today........ I answered her questions and let me tried to simplify here.

     

    For me, they are two different people.

    Manager is more of getting the job done, execution orders, managing people and make sure everything is stable, dislike frequently changing of staff that disrupt his working schedules, they allocate resource to complete a task in most effective and most efficient way.

    Leader, on the other hand inspires people, and motivate them, they let go some of their authority and empower their subordinates, they also willing to develop them.

     

    "If you are ambitious about your career, look for a leader; if you are satisfying with what you are doing, look for a manager." I said.

     

    She then asked what kinds of manager/leader I wanna be in the future.
    I said there are many kinds of M/L; technical, general etc.....

     

    For me, I want to become a general manager/leader. I am interested in shaping the future of a particular task, influence my decision amongst level similar to what I used to be as a VP of my high school Student Union.  Being general allows me to identify a person who is best to perform the role and devote more time on overall managing issues. 

    Below is the list of skills I obtain through my three years in various part of the Student Union:

    - Teamwork/Leadership/Motivation and most importantly People Management - able to motivate my team delegate and empower their decision making skills

    - Listening and communication skills - communicate effectively while listen and accept opinion from others

    - Decision making and judgement in abstract situation

    - Multitasking/ cope well under pressure

    - Prioritising - being able to search amongst the tasks and rank their importance and action it

    - Think outside the box, we've got to look at every situation from different corners, nothing is impossible.

    - Control your emotions - be able to control my mentality

     

    M/L in this 21st Century does similar things. Of course their scale is much bigger; they also have the necessary Business Acumen skills equipped so that they can apply it into their Business Model.  Yet, I think these days, innovative leader is more important as the world commodities price is raising and their margin is squeezing.  Moreover, a successful business also needs to be customer focus, listen and understand what customer needs to produce competitive advantage products that allow us to separate us from our competitors.

    I think they are pretty similar to a Student Union, we need to listen to their needs and innovative about our ideas to our student in order to strive for their support and get elected. Also we need improve our student welfare while keeping our budget in control.

     

    My current role allows me to build up my business acumen while learn the corporation politics.

    I’m still working on it and working on it.........

     
    18 July

    Seeking for ultimate destination - Planning

    I have been reviewing the plan of my personal and career goal. I have been trying to figure out what I ought to be/do in three years time in 10/15 years time. I'm ambitious? Yes . I know.
    I personally thinks that if you dare to think big then I can become what I wanna be.  Nothing is impossible, it's just the matter of whether we have the gut to step out of the comfort zone; to take the risk and try something different, we have to think outside the box, to dare to dream BIG!
    It's very important that we need to have a plan for ourself. If you have a clear goal, the earlier that you set out your goal are, the earlier you will strike it in the early stage of both your personal life and career.
    I'm not asking everyone to be same as me as I know different people will have different personality and it's up to you to find the most comfortable way to be yourself to enjoy life.
    But if you would like to work out a plan for yourself, here is some of my recommendations:
    1) Visionize your dream/goal - think of what you wanna be in the future, what you wanna do. Once you have a vision of your future goal, we have to carefully plan what you need to do now to achieve this.  Each step will become the many steps that you need to walk to get to the ultimate goal.
    2) The plan should break down into to separate part. Static - short term and Dynamic - long term: we have set out a list of things that we have to achieve, how we goanna achieve it, what is the most important factors to achieve it, what resources do we need, what are the challenges/factors to prevent us to achieve it.... ask ourself and write it down....
    3) Be realistic about your plan, most importantly the short term goal must be achievable to keep yourself motivated
    4) Stick with it and executing it: Planning is not hard, stick with it and executing it as planned is the hardest part, in our life there are so many obstacles that prevent us to stick to our goal, too many events and information will also divert us from the original course.  Thus, we have to be clear in our goal, once you lock down the target, strike the target like the flight fighters.
    5) Review your plan: Every 1 or 2 years, replan if any situation is changed so that you keep track of your plan
    In our life, we have to constantly re- prioritizing our tasks, our goal to get things done. To be effective, time management is a crucial skill not to be missed , to be able to allocate our scares resource - time to complete the maximum no. of tasks within a certain time frame.
    However, one point to note here is finish the tasks is important, and so do the quality in completing the task.
    6) Be passion about what you do
    How can we ensure the quality in those tasks?  Passion is the ultimate answer to this.  Without passion, without motivation we can't ensure that we are performing the best and trying the hardest. Be passionate about what we do and we can then start to enjoy it and when we enjoy it, motivations come and so does other things and we will be sure to do the best out of it as we enjoy doing it.
     
    Remember we are capable of create our own future. Good Luck!
    Just my 2c!
    14 July

    Life as usual

    Life as usual in Melbourne. Nothing big happens.  I'm so happy to have my parents over here to accompany me.  I don't know whhy I just feels like we havn't spent enough time with each other.  Especially now I start to earn good money and I always want them to be here longer to enjoy their deserve retirement. 
    With mum and dad here, our house light up with laughters and of course clean and organised.
    It's a pity that Mum only stay here for a month as she have to attend her exams at the end of July. Dad will be here longer until mid August.
     
    I really hope that I could have my own house so that mum and dad can actually enjoying here. Dad can do planting and Mum can go shopping with me.
    It's a bit weired that I don't really want them go, may be I saw they are getting old, may be I feel that they haven't enjoy what they should have enjoy after all these hard working years.  I want to show them more places, I want to go travel with them. I want them to do things that they weren't able to do when they were young.  They scarifies their life in return to our school fees, warm clothes, nice toys. 
     
    I need to work harder, I want to be with them longer............
    16 June

    Back to Oz

    Finally, we had back to Melbourne and this concluded the end of our yearly hoilday.  I didn't felt upset because I know I will see them again next year. I felt excitied instead because I know my new role is going to start in two months time.  Same as usual we had brought a lot of clothes and stuff from HK, especially I had brought a Nestle cross over Chocolate Tee..... hahaha...
    I fell into my bed and had a  3 hours sleep before I start to unpack my clothes and rearrange my clothes in my closet.  I carefully select those one that I would not wear anymore and place it into the Salvation Army bag. Those one were the shoes and clothes that I hardly wear and some even had their price tag on since I brought them ---  (Kevin said this is a symptoms of my shopaholic sickness ^.^)
     
    We had visit Yunnan Puer High School on our way to SiShuangBanNa. In there, we had finally meet the 4 students that we sponsor for their living expenses and school fees for the pass few years. They really grown up and I wish them all the best in their like 'VCE' exam next year and get admitted into their dream UNIVERSITY.
     
    I didn't went to work today and I guess my mind is still in the holiday mood. Happy time always pass quickly without a notice.  This year, my mum and dad finally decided to retire and I had get a supplementary platium card so that they can use it whenever they want to.  I can tell that my dad feel very proud of my success so far. I'm glad that they are happy too....
     
    A feel like home when I back to AUS and I love here.  Noel I miss u and all the best in HK, lets meet up again and had a long chat next time.
    Michael, Happy bday and so sorry that I missed your bday party. Please say Happy bday to Tammy for me as well..
     
    XD
     
     
     
    11 May

    Preparing for my annaul leave

    Jesus, I can't believe I'm flying back to HK in about 1 weeks and I can't wait to get out from here and meet my families and friends in HK.
    I had a extremely hectic week and so tiring. I had held 3 trainings, 10 meetings, create a new project call "project starbucks"....why? Cuz we are sitting in the Starbucks when we had our meetings., and blah blah blah...
    I flew to Sydney and had my teeth check up, same as last time, his customer is shock as I flew from Melbourne to visit my dentist in Sydney. He is just the best dentist that I ever had and I love to lie on the seat and watch DVD  ... lol...  My final wire is now with my teeth and it's so uncomfortable and makes me don't really wannna eat..... (A good excuse to lose weight yea ?) I had my hair color done, again with Ryoma san... I really love this salon now.... heeee
    I'm just about to bring Mini out for a weekly catch up with her friends before I sent her to the Pet Minder next week.
    It's Mother's Day today and I think all of my friends have to spend this special day with their mum.
    And me is concentrating on my new Wii Fit.... with Mini.... heeee
     
    I can't wait to back to HK , I can't wait go go shopping, I can't wait to see my friends, I can't wait to see my families, I can't wait to see my dog, I can't wait for my holiday...... :D
     
     
    04 May

    What have I done after my exams

    Finally, I had finished all my CPA subject and feels like I"m out of the prision :)
    I suddenly feels that I had so many times to do whatever that I want to.....
    Ok, let see what had I done so far since Thursday.
    Thur Night: I sleep right through to the next day... lol....
    Friday: Went to work and here we comes the non-stop meetings. Friday night: I can't remember what I done but I rekon.. sleeping.....and chatting with NOel...
    Saturday: I drove Mini girl to gromming and I drove myself to city for a hair treatment and perm my hair as well.  Ryoma san said that my hair is pretty good and healthy and asked if I had used any Hair care product.
    I'm been using Kerastase's products and highly recommended to you guys cuz it's really good and they wide variety that suit to all types of hair.
    Kérastase Paris is the professional luxury hair care treatment institute  - www.kerastase.com/ You can probably brought them in Kerastase salon or in those Hair products speciality shops in ball shopping Mall.  The treatment/leave-in is about $60 and the shampoo/conditioner is about $30 but different lines will varies. If your hair is really dry should probably use the treatment every 2days replacing as a conditioner. try it out!!!
    Kas 
    Sat Night: Brought two new clothes and went dinning with Uncle Simon and Peter. After I got home I watched Ugly betty, Greys Anatomy, CSI Les Vegas... I just loved the US drama so sosos much.
    Sunday - Houseworking day, I cut the grass, vaccum/mop the carpet and floor, Clean the kitchen and toliet, wash the clothes... Swept the garden and drive way.....But I didn't wash my car.. Too lazy as the car is too big for me....  Then I went to Chadstone Borders, get myself a nice coffee and start reading books. Then I went home and drove Mini girl to waverley park to play with her firends... The great dane is just so big that he swing his tails and I'm yards away... lol... He is only 17months old and already up to my chest without jumping... I said it's a horse.... I think today we had about 20 odds dogs in the field.. :) I will tried to upload some picuters here next week.. I did took some, but I dunno why my cable doesn't recognise my phone =.=|||
    Sunday Nite: Since Hubby is not here and there's no point for my to cook a full feast, so I decided to cook simple egg noodle soup with Teriyaki chicken :) Mini is having her dinner now followed by her favourite lactose free Milk..... Geez.. did she realize she is a very lucky dog?
     
    Thats the wrap up for my days. I miss you Honey^^
     
    27 April

    我们的爱情

     
    我们内心有着沉实爱情,不会让身边的人轻易觉察。
    别人只会觉得我们的眼神中有暖意,笑容中有童真。
    爱情感情浸润着我们,使我们的爱更柔软和敏感
     
     
    @0208 我很想你
    01 April

    Business Strategy Leadership

    Exam is due to arrive in about 1 month. I don't know why I start to panic...
    My be because this is my last exam for my CPA?  Feels like the last exam in Monash in Nov 2004.
    Argh..... and the fact that I only open my book and start reading and understanding what it trying to teach us, I realize I'm just a bit too late now..
    Panic Panic.....Panicing....
    I really hate Exams.... Yet, Cherie always says that this is normal for me as I always stary in the last week.. I hope this will work for me this time ...
    Add oil Add oill.....咬牙切齿
    19 March

    Nestle Job Openings - Msg me if you interested

    Applications Group Assistant

    Join a vibrant team to create the future products of Nestlé Peters, and build your career in a passionate and challenging environment surrounded by iconic brands such as Drumstick, Heaven and Peters Original.

    New and exciting projects in our Applications Group have created the need for an enthusiastic Applications Group Assistant for a period of 12 months. This is an exciting new role and the ultimate foot-in-the-door opportunity for a budding Food Scientist or Chemist.

    Entering a dynamic environment with a focus on new product development and cost-optimisation projects, this position will see you support the Development Technologists and Senior Development Technologist with administrative tasks, maintaining raw material data and tracking of SAP codes. You will also assist with documentation, Pilot Plant trials and sample preparation.

    To succeed you will be a well-organised and proactive team-player who has relevant qualifications in Food Science or Chemistry. You will further enhance your candidature for this role by demonstrating that you are IT/ system savvy and have some experience working in the Food Science area.

    Offering well-paved paths to unimaginable possibilities, this is a career jump-start that will see you at the forefront of exciting Ice Cream product innovations. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to see your learned theories put into practice and truly add value to a results-driven team. We’re looking to fill this role and get you started ASAP. Don’t delay - apply now!

    Closing date: 26th March 2008

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    Management Accountant

    This is a high-profile role in a dynamic environment where every dollar counts. Our Chilled Dairy team looks to you for financial assistance and advice when it comes to forecasting, business reporting and developing business cases for new product development and change.

    Nestlé is seeking a skilled and outgoing communicator who can exploit their sharp people skills to gather critical information from stakeholders across the key areas of Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing and Supply Chain to ensure the accuracy and transparency of the results. This role is ideal for someone with a can-do attitude who knows how to juggle priorities as you interrogate the data gathered for forecasting and reporting, and ensure the business is driving to clear outcomes.  A commitment to professionalism goes without saying for the opportunity to work on amazing Nestlé brands.

    You will need a degree, ideally a background in management accounting or internal audit, exposure to manufacturing and experience working in a commercial team. Add to these a CPA/CA qualification, or studying towards, analytical skills, and flexibility.

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    Boutique Manager - Melbourne CBDYou are outgoing and confident and now here is your chance to apply your skills and personality to a brand and retail opportunity that’s really worth getting excited about.

    Nespresso, a division of Nestlé, is seeking a sales-hungry and customer- focussed coffee-enthusiast to become the Manager of our NESPRESSO Boutique, located in Melbourne’s Myer city store. As the Ambassador for our premium coffee brand, you will welcome, advise and guide your clientele through the world of Nespresso by introducing Nespresso’s premium coffee blends and coffee machines with a level of enthusiasm that is contagious.

    Attentive and passionate, you’ll strive to inspire brand loyalty among your customers and meet and exceed sales targets through excellent service. A natural leader with managerial experience, you’ll oversee every aspect of the Boutique’s operations, including managing a team and instilling an upbeat customer-centric and sales-oriented culture.

    This role calls on excellent interpersonal skills to foster successful relationships with Myers business managers. Your understanding of stock levels and product/sales initiatives, together with your potential to manage forecasts, will be invaluable. You will be able to provide highly visible input regarding the business structure and framework and manage the expectations of both your team and the business.

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    Assistant Boutique Manager

    You are outgoing and confident and now here is your chance to apply your skills and personality to a brand and retail opportunity that’s really worth getting excited about.

    Nespresso, a division of Nestlé, is seeking a sales-hungry and customer-focussed coffee-enthusiast to become the Assistant Manager of our brand new NESPRESSO Boutique, located within the Myer store at Chadstone Shopping Centre. As the Ambassador for our premium coffee brand, you will welcome, advise and guide your clientele through the world of Nespresso by introducing Nespresso’s premium coffee blends and coffee machines with a level of enthusiasm that is contagious.  

    Attentive and passionate, you will strive to inspire brand loyalty among your customers and meet and exceed sales targets through excellent service. As a natural leader you will be confident and ready to step in the Manager’s shoes in their absence. Attention to detail, adaptability and problem solving skills are essential.

    You will monitor stock levels, serve customers and demonstrate products as well as carry out store opening and closing procedures on a daily basis and will thrive in a small but dedicated and focused team environment.

    Sales experience in a retail environment and a background working in particular with premium, high-calibre brands and products will be highly regarded.

    Make your mark by delivering excellent sales results and increasing the already strong profile of NESPRESSO in the Melbourne area. It is a premium opportunity to give your career a caffeine kick.

    A degree will be a bonus, however more important is your solid sales experience in a retail environment and a background working with premium, high-calibre brands and products. Make your mark by delivering excellent sales results and increasing the profile of NESPRESSO in the Melbourne area. It’s a premium opportunity to give your career a caffeine kick.

    If you’re business-savvy and eager for your next challenge; wake up and smell the coffee.

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    14 March

    Just my 5 cents

    Everytime when I had my conversations with my role model, I felt that I'm just so tiny and my knowledge is so superficialness..  There are so many things awaiting me to be learn to become career successful.  I look upon others as role models while others looks upon on me; which made me I felt it is critical for me to deepen my knowledge and skill so that I am responsible to others when I'm transferring my knowledge across.

    A sound Business knowledge is a really wide and infinite curriculum, which includes insights, analytical minds, stay viligant on the things that happening around us for example, ex-rate, interest rate, industry news, company strategies etc.... It's always very easy to say but hard to implement.  Not only business knowledge is important but also the english skills too. I am fully aware that my english is below standard and horrible and this will become a big road block for my future career too. Being able to communicate fluently and effectively is the most important skills that a success people would have and at this stage, i'm still working on that.

    There are just too many things that I had to improve and learn in my life time and I couldn't do them at the same time. Yet, I wrote down all the point that I had to learn and start poritize them from 1 to 10 etc.. Then I plot them into my yearly wall planner. I also review my progress every quarter so that I can make sure that I stay on track and adjust any gaps that I have - this is what we call "Dynamic Forecast and Planning".  Always looking forward on what I gonna do rather that what I had done really push me to an unthinkable boundaries.  Forward Looking, this is my point!  Within my plan, there is always more than 1 options, I focus on the main options while the others are contingency plans if my main plan doesn't work out or something happen. To ensure that I won't have unexpected surprise so that I could handle those things calmly and without any delays.

    We are living in a very competitive world and if we haven't continuously improve  and reinvest ourself , we will soon be outdate and become uncompetitive -- Remeber we are all responsbile for our own life!

    17 February

    Journey in Nutrition Division

    It's been 3 month since I started in Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Division in Melbourne. This is a Division that Nestle acquries Globally from Novartis to strengthen their Health and Well being Image in our Nestle brand.  Working as a Business Planning Analyst and report directly to our Division Controller.  I've become more business minded work with key stakeholders in the business to highlight risks, opportunities and identify and drive continuous improvement projects with the business. I also monitor and scrutinise trends with a view to informing the group on discrepancies and opportunities.  It gave me an excellent insight to the key processes that ensure that an business is run effectively and efficiently.  Our division in Melbourne is not as big as our Beverage Division in Sydney, I have to become well rounded for almost everything.  Our collegues just recently roll over to our Nestle SAP system, therefore I also act as a Superuser for in the FICO systems.  The experience I gained from financial perspective : Pricing, Budgeting, Analysising, Transfer Pricing, Trade Spend Budgeting etcc.. To System processing, Project management: SAP implementation cycle, Transactional, Internal control etc... is un-explainable. 
     
    I couldn't have learnt any more than what I had learnt in these three months if I haven't accepted this role. I loved me role so much and I enjoyed so much being in Melbourne with all my families and friends :) My life couldn't be better ..  ^.^
     
    My life is shinning in here and I believe it will keep shinning for the rest of my life.
     
    =============I BELIEVE, IF YOU BELIEVE, YOU WILL ACHIEVE ANYTHING YOU WANT. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!!===========
     
    28 October

    To the celebration of our success :

    To the celebration of our success :

    K - Achieved his target profit from his business in China

    J  -  Achieved my career ambition in just 2 years

    We, decided to brought ourself a present.

    Everything has been finalise and paid off by cheque and it will be pick up by us on this Wednesday^^

    It's a present that we never imgaine that we could have in just age 25