want to know 5 things about me??

Tagged by Cocoa to do this MEME, ask me to list down 5 things about myself.

Here are the MeMe rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

Hmm, can list down 5 things only huh, i have more than 5, then how? hahaha! Me must be eat too full, nothing better to do huh....

Ok, 5 things about me...hey, sounds familiar, i still can remember when i went for job interview, usually the interviewee will ask me to tell him/her about myself....so 5 things about myself, no problem...let me tell u:-
#1: My name is Joanne
#2: I graduated in yr xx with degree in BS Computer Science....bla bla
#3: I am currently working in xx as bla bla bla....
Hahahaha.....fall asleep already.....wake up wake up...here u go,

#1 : I just join a new company recently, but i misses all my frens in the previous company!!
#2 : I like shopping, i can spend 3 hrs walking non stop in shopping mall, but if u ask me to go hiking, even for 1 hr, i can give all sorts of excuse to turn u down.
#3 : I am a dog lover, i still love my doggies at home very very much ever after i had my own baby. Btw, my son is born in doggie year :)
#4 : I need to get myself back in action to the gym!!! I can see some old aunty fat all over me! hiaks!
#5 : I love to mess up the kitchen, and hubby actually banned me from further messing up our kitchen. Bb, give some face and chance to me, i am slowly picking up cooking skill. haha!

Ok, now, i need to tag 5 person, easy job..
1. Angie - u always FIRST in my list!
2. Wooi Sin - tell me tell me more
3. Joyce - hey, don't try to hide urself from me ya, haha!
4. Yan - u think u can escape from me?
5. Sasha - keep u busy!

Award accross the ocean

I received an award from oversea, golden horse arward, noble award.....no no no, it's Forever Friend award from my oooooolllldddddddddd friends who now settle herself down in US, Cocoa. Thanks Cocoa for the award.

I actually saw this award sometime ago, but yet due to i just switch to new job, lots of things need to pick up, so can't steal anytime during office hour to do it. When i am at home, my sticky pie will stick to me, and if he sees me sitting in front of computer, he will come happily to help me move the mouse here and there, type in his own baby word which no one will understand...hahaha! And today, i decided to get this long waiting award posted in my blog.

Along the way, there is happy and sad moments happen between 2 of us, but i am so glad that after so many things, we still keep in touch with one another through emails. We basically will drop each other an email at least 2 days once, exchanging the way we brought up our kiddo, sharing our fun and frus on our family,our work and bla bla bla.

And now, i would like to get the ball roll to the following person:

Angie

Wooi Sin

Joyce

Su Ying

Yan

Lay See

Sasha

Asher

My resignation story

On 28th Jan 2008, I finally tender my resignation with mixed feeling. I feel happy that finally I am out from this group and I feel sad as I am leaving my fellow good colleagues and friends! Between money and friends, sorry, I have to forgo friends as I work for money, I need the money!

If I don’t work for money, the day when I know my review result, I will already tender my resignation. Work place is no longer as fun as before, it’s getting more and more policical which I don’t see it earlier.

When I tender my resingation,
1. My manager told me she can sense it and she expcet resignation from me, just matter of time
2. I told her I will offset my leaves and work until the Friday on the same week, she even told me I can stop working on the Wednesday in the same week. See, she can’t wait to kick me out! She indirectly force me to on leave early.
3. She said she know that I am top performer when I was in business operations group, however, unfortunately I am not top performer when I’m in solution group, she said it’s a JOB MISMATCH! Hello, I love this job very very much before I start report to her, after report to her, my life so misetrable!

She said she will inform her boss IMMEDIATELY about my resignation,both of them must be happy and celebrate my resignation with champaigne.

On 29th Jan 2008, she called me me up and hurry me to send the hard copy of resignation to HR. Wah lau, can’t wait to kick me out. Afraid I may chicken out and don’t want to resign…NO WAY! And after that, she still doesn’t want to give me peaceful time, she called me up in the afternoon, pastering me with my remaining leaves. She said I have too much leaves and eventhough I offset all leaves, I still have extra leaves and this will make Finance has hard time to calculate my pay for me. Hello, u thought Finance people so useless huh! C’on, they just pay based on formula, won’t make any mistake! I control my temper, else I will shout over the phone. But this fella keep pastering me, until I cann’t stand and I told her I don’t want to discuss this with her again, asked her to check with HR! Then I hang up the phone!C'on, i am leaving and why can't she just leave me alone. I wont blame her for not talking to me....i will feel happier in fact.

I had my exit interview with HR on 1st Feb and i told HR what she told me, she sense it, she bla bla bla...the HR personnel look at me, give me blank look. I also even add in salt and pepper by saying this is very unprofessional, right? And she agree with me! And i told her what my manager's explanation for the job reclassification and also review ranking, HR told me whatever reasons that my manager gave me WAS WRONG!!! So what say you....work for such a always cannot convince you then choose to confuse you manager, will you have a peaveful day, will you have a bright future?

And on 1st Feb, we had farewell lunch. I don't want to attend it, but because the manager asked one of my close lunch buddy to arrange it, so don't want him to be in difficult position, so we went for it WITH HER! We met one of the old colleague and when the old colleague dropped by to say hi, the manager even said "hope that the next job that i have will be better!" Apa lar her, no one ask her to give any comment, why can't she just keep quiet and eat her food...and THANKS to that great friend, he replied to her saying " DEFINATELY she will". Hahahahaha....with such a simple comment, this make HER to shut her mouth. Whoever eat chillipadi, whoever feel the heat lah!

whether i make the correct move to leave Agilent or not, i am not sure...but one thing for sure is, i make the CORRECT move by leaving her GROUP, by LEAVING her GREAT supervision!!!

What makes me change job

Never thought that i will tender my resignation. After working in Agilent for 6 yrs and 3 months, on one fine day, 28th Jan 2008, i walked to my manager with an envelope in my hand, hand it over to her, YES, i tender my resignation.

Without any pre-alert, i being asked to move to another field which is consider quite new for me. Can i say NO? Nope, it's top down decision, whether i want it or not, i need to follow the instruction. So, effective 1st Sep 2007, i moved to procurement team, still as Solution Engineer, instead of supporting planning, i am being assigned to support procurement. At the same time, there is one mentor being assigned to me. During the time, i started to hate my job, but i need the money, so i just keep quiet, do whatever the manager or the mentor ask me to do, be it from "study how to link oracle table" til become other people's assistant to schedule meeting or to take note testing results!

Well, everything has a limit. The thing that triggers me to look for other job is the yearly review result. I had the worst comment and review, never had such a big joke throughout my entire career life. It's zero increment and with the lowest rank! I do try to tell myself, "it's just a review, and i will do it better this year", but, at the end, i lost to myself. I cannot overcome myself, so in order to make myself not so miserable, i start to look for a job.

Out of sudden, a head hunter called me up and tells me about this job. Without any hesitation, i told the head hunter go ahead to submit my application to the hiring company. And GOD hear me, within few days, i actually received 5 interview requests from various companies. I put high hope on this company's interview, and the rest of the companies' interviews, i just attend it for fun, after all, it has been 6 yrs i never attend any interview mah!

The job offer came in in just 2 days time. Even though i have some hard time during the interview, but at the end, i got the job! BINGO, thank you GOD, you hear me!!!

When i send out goodbye mail, i received lots of response from colleagues, all of them said it's a surprise to them. Well, it's a surprise to me too! I NEVER expect i will resign from Agilent, but......i have no choice!