A much needed update

Well its beens weeks since i last updated this blog. Many things have happen and i am sure it has completely changed the way i look at many things.

One things for sure, i may never ever wanna continue as a programmer after experincing hardship at my IPP Company >.<

I don't really hate my company or anything and its a nice place to work at with so many friendly staff and a very healthy canteen( they actually put up a poster with all the food that they are selling and categorising it under eat more, eat moderate and eat less)

The canteen also limits on the number of dishes you can order too. I always look forward to friday as its briyani day. Those who know me, knows that i cannot live without bryani when i see one and will rush to buy it. Even the rice is enough to last me.

I have also taken a hobby to drinking coffee every morning and afternoon. ANd i have started getting eyebags because i stay up late everyday to research on work -.-

Anyway back to my company, ST Electronics is my IPP company that i am currently attached to. Can't say much on what i see or do there because apparently, ST Electronics deal with Goverment Defence stuffs and i am not allowed to say much too :X Oh well nothing much to talk about what i see there anyway~

Well the department that i am assign to is ST Electronics(Training & Simulation System) side. What i do there is basically revamping their intranet portal as it is all in asp codes and all over the place. Mind you that asp and aspx is very different.

Anyway the first day of work, i was assign to do up their company news page. And i started coding on day 1 of my work. I asked one of my friend and he told me his company was in the understanding the project phrase~~ I envy them so much. But starting early also dosen't give me time to slack too much as i am prone to do that and keep my mind active. And i can't bring back my work to do because apparently they are afraid of me putting goverment secrets into my aspx pages and leaking it out :(

And i am so used to doing my work at home as i found out that i work well at night and not in the day >.<

Hence when i can't finish a work, i would have to leave it and go back home and do a simulation of my situation and then try and solve the issues at home using my own test enviroment.

I also later found out that my company's dosen't allow me to get .zip files off the internet and many others. It also blocks youtube( i wasn't slacking off and tried youtube, just that one of the steps to create a beautiful gridview was shown in gridview)

Now with all the negative stuffs about my company aside, i shall talk about the positive aspect.

I work in the IT Deparemnt in my department and basically we are in charged of all the internet, firewall and network security. I learnt that in webpages that you use to program, you can't use msgbox as it would not be shown when you upload it to a server. I also learnt that you can actually but a gridview inside another gridview. I learnt of datatables, datarows and many more. The amount of knowledge on asp is growing bigger and bigger. But my Shi Fu at the company also warn me of many things that i have always done wrong.

For one, my way of connecting the database based on graphic user interface is wrong. He told me that if one day i am not working on SQL but on Oracle what would happen? Hence my journey of learning stuff by typing instead of dragging and dropping.

I also learnt that i have a tenancy to do things first before asking if the person wants it or not as pointed out by my supervisor. And i also learnt that when you come back from a cold country, you tend to cough alot.

I also learnt that wearing formal wear everyday to work is a pain in the arse. Espically in my feet area, its hurting ;'(

And the best part is, i wanna be a in IT Security and not programming hence growing there would be a good thing as i can learn from the many network experts there and also one hacker :P

My shi fu also told me, you are not working in a real world now, you are working in a stress world :X

Oh well that probaly sums up my 2 weeks in my new IPP Company. And so far i have not successfully finish my designated aspx page. And on tuesday( monday is a holiday yay~~!) i have to finish it up.

Oh yeah one last thing..... I CAN'T BRING CAMERA HP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO oh well, the ends justify the means, so i will live with it ^_^