It's About Giving

After my family went back from their vacation, my sister kept chasing me about the expenses that I cashed out, but I dont intend to let them pay. Yes it did quite rip me off big time. She insisted and argued, but I won. :) Anyway I did more stunner stupid things to other people. Below is another winning entry.

There was a time in 07 where i helped my barkada (from Manila) bought a laptop in the IT show here and 'abono' for it . Queues in IT show are really more than u can imagine. Queued in the cashier, queued in the claiming counter, queued in the freebie collection counter. After I went home then I realized the laptop was not booting up no matter how hard I tried. (I know I should have tested it, but IT show was so jampacked like sardines that I dont have space and lost the energy to test the unit!) Thanks to the big help from call center who kept asking 'is the switch on', 'is the power button turning red', 'can you reboot it' when I called for guidance. Next day I went on half day leave, returning the laptop back to the store and after some troubleshooting, the culprit was the installation of the free RAM upgrade. Sorry my limited knowledge doesnt include RAM installation. My other friend laughed at me and kept asking why. I just cant possibly ignore and send a crap back home, my reputation at stake you know haha. (Besides, what if this friend wont pay me back :p) Kidding aside, that same night I had to meet a common friend to send the (fixed) laptop back to Manila, and the tiring day finally ended. And till now this friend doesnt know how much trouble I went through. In fairness to Toshiba, I did everything to save its name!



No matter how the whole world goes crazy over Apple's ipad and iphone and macbook (no offense I'm just not a fan), when it comes to laptop. I will choose Toshiba. As I said, I will choose quality as usual. Long lasting - that is the word. Unfortunately, I am not using a Toshiba haha. Coz my 3year old Lenovo laptop is still kicking alive after my bro-in-law resurrected it from the slowless-of-a-turtle-state (thanks to Vista!) via repartitioning. (Sheesh I dont know if I am qualified to be in IT) :p


That is the last time I bought something for another person in an IT show. Only direct family members can now enjoy that privilege.

Enough of the unpaid advertisement, going back...

At those few times, it's something beyond words but the willingness to sacrifice to help people get what they want. I dont need you to know what I exactly did. But I probably felt you're worth it while doing it. Just a little subtle appreciation would do. Because..
能够為一件事或一個人執著, 那種感覺很幸福.
就算你不知道, 或选择看不刭, 也都無所謂了.
..我會記住那份美好

Goodnight world.

IT Blitz

Funny that I've been working for 4 years plus and I think my mom and sisters still dont know what specific IT crap am I dealing with hehe. Especially my mom, whenever someone asks her what's her daughter doing in SG, she will just say in Fookien 'typing the computer'. :p

What exactly is this 'typing the computer' for me? :) Just three key terms: Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, ETL.

Data Warehousing
A data warehouse is a subject oriented, integrated, time variant, non volatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process. It is a relational/multidimensional database that is designed for query and analysis. It usually contains historical data that is derived from transaction data

ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading)
ETL refers to the methods involved in accessing and manipulating source data and loading it into target database.

Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence is basically using data to create reports that aid decision making capabilities. It could provide the aggregated details about suppliers, customers, internal activities, business to business transactions to the managers or whoever needs such reports to take better corporate/managerial decisions.

I was in my petix days and tried researching in the net for their accurate definitions. Something handy (maybe for interviews in the future? hehehe nah I dont have plans of resigning yet)

This just brings me back to the good old days (sometime grade 6) when I first learned typing skills. That time, still with a typewriter hehe. I used to hate practicing 'correct' typing because i felt that the ring finger and the little finger do not have enough force in them to press the keys, you know practicing the Q-W-E-R-T-Y etc. But good thing I did learn from it. To be honest, I find it funny whenever I see people (especially those in IT) typing with just the index finger or perhaps with the middle finger involved a little. Or sometimes you see the hands raising, jumping a bit, travelling from right to left, pressing whatever keys like the right index finger pressing the Q? (probably as what the heart tells them to?) Hehe sama ko ba? :)