My first three weeks at work!

So I asked on my instastory what should be on my next blog post

and a few people asked me to write about my first day at work.

I bet that's actually an interesting topic because 

10 years from now, I will scroll back my blog posts and

reminiscing on my first day at work.

I am not from KL/Selangor.

I was born and raised in Melaka for 12 years,

then went to SSP in Cyberjaya for 5 years,

did my IB at Mara Banting for 2 years

and lived in Montreal for 4 years.

So I would say, I'm not a regular to KL/Selangor life.

But it's not as strange because let's face it,

Montreal life can be more shocking haha!

Because of Montreal, I've got to get used to public transport system

because in Melaka we don't have metros/trains/lrts lol.

But I could be a bit paranoid about public transport.

What if I took the wrong train?

What if I arrived late on my first day of work?

What if I went to report myself at the wrong office?

So many what ifs.

So on my first day of work,

it's on the 10th of September 2019;

it was Mimi's birthday,

I woke up at 530am.

Took the train at 630am.

Reached TNB Jalan Timur at 7am

and bamm the counter to claim the visitor pass

wasn't even open hahah

So I had to wait till 730am

and I registered myself,

get the visitor pass and waited at level 17 for good 30 minute

before the door is open because 

visitor pass can't get access to that level before 8am.

While waiting,

I talked to two aunties, who work as the cleaners at TNB.

They're super sweet and one of them,

Kak Ani took me to meet one of my bosses, Puan Asma.

After 8am, I sat at the couch waiting for my Immediate Manager, Puan Maryana to arrive.

A few minutes of waiting, Jash arrived.

Jash is one of YTN scholars of the year 2013. 

We're from the same batch but because she's an Australia graduate - she started working 6 month earlier than me.

I had to settle some documents and Puan Asma helped me a lot with my first day at work.

Later, we had to meet Puan Maryana for a breakfast meeting

and she's actually a foodie.

We discussed a bit of our job scopes over roti canai

before heading to the meeting room for on-board briefing.

Long story short,

I supposed to work as Data Engineer, dealing with data cleansing and analysis

but for now, we have another project led by Jash

that involves Machine Learning and AI.

Because I did a whole course on Python at McGill

and I was the UI/UX designer for my final year project,

I had to shift to the AI team.

There'll be a couple of trainings that I have to go through

but for now, I'm focusing on the UI/UX design of the project we're doing now.

Since the project is still not 'lauched' yet,

I have to come up with the poster design to be presented to the CEO next month.

Basically, I need to help Jash on the creative side of the project,

meanwhile Jash needs to handle all the important/documentation stuff.

I respect her for being able to lead a big project in TNB Retail

despite being a 6-month old worker at TNB.

My whole weeks involved meeting in Melaka,

for the data stuff, dealing with vendors,
attending conference,

and by the second week, I already have deadlines on stuff to submit.

By the third week,
I had to go to Singapore for a summit
and a one-day workshop on using Cloudera environment using Phyton language
to generate data.
I enjoyed it because Phyton is my favourite language haha!
But I went back late this week,
only reached home at 7pm because of my deadlines -
but it's all okay because I like what I'm doing I guess.

And next two weeks,
my team will be under a great pressure
because of Retail Innovation Forum
and another event that requires us
to present our project development to the
Chief Retail Officer and CEO respectively.
That could be pretty scary hm.

Besides that,

I've also noticed the office politics,
and I know what culture I like and
what I don't at the office
and am trying my best to avoid any office drama,
I hope I'm successful at it lol.

But really,
I still haven't had my career plan figured out or life plan yet.
I hope I can survive this first job of mine lol.