Thursday, July 3
@Work with iZZi
Stepped in into the 'real' world or in another words stepped into the working world on 1st July 2008. It was the day that I will not be considered as a student anymore. But actually I've enjoyed myself too much in study life that I should be in the working world much sooner.
I am currently working at iZZinet. Many people asked me is it a cybercafe? Ok, truthfully the name didnt come to me in that form but when my friends asked me that question, in someways iZZinet does sound like a cybercafe name! -.-"
But in actual iZZinet is a new wireless broadband company that offers 4G Mobile Wireless Broadband. The company was incorporated 2 years ago. That is why this company and its broadband service is very new in the communication world.
I am currently working at iZZinet. Many people asked me is it a cybercafe? Ok, truthfully the name didnt come to me in that form but when my friends asked me that question, in someways iZZinet does sound like a cybercafe name! -.-"
But in actual iZZinet is a new wireless broadband company that offers 4G Mobile Wireless Broadband. The company was incorporated 2 years ago. That is why this company and its broadband service is very new in the communication world.
iZZinet was the first company that interviewed me and it's the first company that I've sent in my resume. Thank God for the blessings and opportunity He had given to me, I got offered a position in iZZinet as a Communication Engineer. I've accepted their offer and started work on 1st July.
First day @ work:
As noob as I was in the working world, wore as smart as I could in formal clothing and I arrived at my office at 8am. Was supposed to start work at 9am. Noob maa~ sure go early scared LRT packed, scared walk far, goin early to give a good first impression. But most employees came in around 840am. I reported in to my team leader, Steiner. The general manager which I supposed to report in was on leave. So my team leader told me that I am in the Technical Department and assigned as a Base Station Engineer under him. I was then being introduced to the entire department and also to the entire company including the CEO. How cool was that~!
I am not sure to count myself lucky or unlucky, as I was reporting in to my team leader, another base station engineer told him that there's a base station down. Steiner has to go to another base station site and eventually asked me and assigned me to follow the other engineer to the site to check/repair the base station. So was called into action immediately. For me, I count it as lucky coz I was able to go to the site to learn on the real thing rather than sitting in the office and read the manual books.
On my way to the base station, Lum (the other base station engineer, which I found out that he was a CG member of Isabel Yap in FGA) asked me,
Lum: are you afraid of height?
me: not really. dont think so as I've went for rock climbing. But SOLERO Shot is exceptional. That's 1 thing that I will nv go for.
Lum: ok then. We have to go to the highest floor to the rooftop of apartments, condominium and buildings with the heights of 15-20 floors where our base station is located.
me: owh. ok. guess shouldnt be a problem, unless we are jst hanging by a wire.
Lum: no lar. jst at times the base stations are located at the side of the building where what you see over the edge is a view directly down to the ground floor when u look down.
me: 'gulp'
Lum: no worries lar. this site that we are goin is the MOST dangerous site of all. If you can get to this site, others would not be a problem.
me: okay~~ i think that's an assurance.
So basically my task is to monitor the base stations, process data from the base station to keep an eye on the performance from the office and if we found that the malfunctions could not be resolved from the office, we will have to go to the base stations to repair the malfunctions. So climbing high is also part of my job~! First day of work was fun as I was able to go out to a few base station sites and also meeting some suppliers of our company. So I was basically out the whole day~!
In conclusion after my first 3 days of work, it was pretty fun as I was able to learn a lot of things. Apart from learning by reading our technologies' manual book, I was able to learn the system also by visiting the base stations. Steiner and Lum really thought me a lot as they have explained to me a lot about our work, how the system works and they were really nice and patience teaching me everything that I should know about the system. I was able to meet people of other expertise like in lightning surge protectors, and able to listen to all informative informations regarding preventions of lightning surge.
Really thank God for all that He had provided as most of the other employees are very nice people. We do talk and chat a lot while we were out to our sites or during lunch time and they often teach me and gave me a lot of informations as well as advices. It is definitely an enjoying place to work in as well as able to learn a lot of stuffs and getting the working experience I need.. for now~! Nt sure will it be the same in months to come. Jst hoping to learn as much as I can! :)
Took this with my SE phone during a site visit. Nice view ya~!!??
This is the kind of view that I could see when I am out to a base station!!
First day @ work:
As noob as I was in the working world, wore as smart as I could in formal clothing and I arrived at my office at 8am. Was supposed to start work at 9am. Noob maa~ sure go early scared LRT packed, scared walk far, goin early to give a good first impression. But most employees came in around 840am. I reported in to my team leader, Steiner. The general manager which I supposed to report in was on leave. So my team leader told me that I am in the Technical Department and assigned as a Base Station Engineer under him. I was then being introduced to the entire department and also to the entire company including the CEO. How cool was that~!
I am not sure to count myself lucky or unlucky, as I was reporting in to my team leader, another base station engineer told him that there's a base station down. Steiner has to go to another base station site and eventually asked me and assigned me to follow the other engineer to the site to check/repair the base station. So was called into action immediately. For me, I count it as lucky coz I was able to go to the site to learn on the real thing rather than sitting in the office and read the manual books.
On my way to the base station, Lum (the other base station engineer, which I found out that he was a CG member of Isabel Yap in FGA) asked me,
Lum: are you afraid of height?
me: not really. dont think so as I've went for rock climbing. But SOLERO Shot is exceptional. That's 1 thing that I will nv go for.
Lum: ok then. We have to go to the highest floor to the rooftop of apartments, condominium and buildings with the heights of 15-20 floors where our base station is located.
me: owh. ok. guess shouldnt be a problem, unless we are jst hanging by a wire.
Lum: no lar. jst at times the base stations are located at the side of the building where what you see over the edge is a view directly down to the ground floor when u look down.
me: 'gulp'
Lum: no worries lar. this site that we are goin is the MOST dangerous site of all. If you can get to this site, others would not be a problem.
me: okay~~ i think that's an assurance.
So basically my task is to monitor the base stations, process data from the base station to keep an eye on the performance from the office and if we found that the malfunctions could not be resolved from the office, we will have to go to the base stations to repair the malfunctions. So climbing high is also part of my job~! First day of work was fun as I was able to go out to a few base station sites and also meeting some suppliers of our company. So I was basically out the whole day~!
In conclusion after my first 3 days of work, it was pretty fun as I was able to learn a lot of things. Apart from learning by reading our technologies' manual book, I was able to learn the system also by visiting the base stations. Steiner and Lum really thought me a lot as they have explained to me a lot about our work, how the system works and they were really nice and patience teaching me everything that I should know about the system. I was able to meet people of other expertise like in lightning surge protectors, and able to listen to all informative informations regarding preventions of lightning surge.
Really thank God for all that He had provided as most of the other employees are very nice people. We do talk and chat a lot while we were out to our sites or during lunch time and they often teach me and gave me a lot of informations as well as advices. It is definitely an enjoying place to work in as well as able to learn a lot of stuffs and getting the working experience I need.. for now~! Nt sure will it be the same in months to come. Jst hoping to learn as much as I can! :)
Took this with my SE phone during a site visit. Nice view ya~!!?? This is the kind of view that I could see when I am out to a base station!!
# posted by John Lim : 9:41 PM
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Hey tabor! Hope work's still good and life's treating you well. I just got back from Thailand. Hope to meet you soon. Tk care and God bless. *hugz*
# posted by 
: Friday, July 11, 2008 2:22:00 PM
: Friday, July 11, 2008 2:22:00 PM
Life is still treating me well. enjoyin each day of work. working environment isnt that stressful for now. actually i found myself happy to b able to learn a lot. :D yea. hope to see u as well. huggss..u too. take care
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