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remember last week? about the shuffling of org. structure ?

well yesterday was the briefing from our new business head.

he showed us where we are currently in the new org. structure, with assurances that this is not final as they are still receiving feedback from the other managers. main idea behind the reshuffling is that papa j and his trusty sidekicks noticed that there are staff in both the consulting and solutions performing similar tasks and possessing similar skills but working in silos.

ultimate aim is to work as a big team – a really big team.. current count 120++ just in this business line.

i belong in the procurement portfolio. reporting to a senior consultant – which is .. ta-daaa! AMN.

basically, any procurement related development requests coming from our client – be it ERP or non-ERP related will be stationed under this portfolio, whilst any resources required may be obtained from the other globals.

we won’t be moved from our current location as that is as per our client’s discretion. though finally there was mention of us moving from management, instead of your normal rumour mill in the office.

ohkay. nothing new.

business as usual.

am a bit nonplussed as to the impact those letters received yesterday has on the team. it’s a humongous, yet at the same time, minor change to where i perceive i belong to in this company of mine (see the possessive verb?). i’ve been here since 2000 and the dept/unit/div that i supposedly belong to has changed names a few times – SDD, PS, GC and the lastest development initiated by the letter, now claims i now have gone further down the hierarchy of things.

a handful says that the move has its legal implications and have fought against it materialising, but as for now AMN says it’s business as usual for us. and we were assured that none in the team will suddenly be jerked out to attend to other things – i somehow doubt that, but then again will have to just wait and see.

my tenure here has had its shares of ups and downs. we’ve all been through the DMZ (demoralised zone) a few times in the past years – with each, i was pretty sure i’d be moving on to new pastures. but then the moment passes and i am content and challenged again by the tasks assigned even though it means i don’t get to go on my annual leave as planned.

it’s surprising how the years flew by. i was a green kid to the working world when i commenced my attachment to this company. and now it’s nearly 5 years since. 2 years more and i can seriously think of whether to leave with no repercussions.

reading about unemployable (? unemployed) graduates suddenly got me reminiscing on the path that finally guided me to my current job. decent pay, mostly good challenges to face, the standard office politicking that comes with any organisation but at least, i am employed.

i had had a dream – concocted when i was in standard 4-5 – that once i finish school i would open a nursery with my sister (not the nurturing plants type, more of nurturing people type). we would be staying together in our own home and will be monitoring pre-schoolers and having tonnes of fun. just before my upsr exams, when questioned by my class teacher of what my top 3 ambitions were, they were as follows in order of priority:

1. teacher (nursery teacher would count as that)
2. lecturer
3. nurse (for lack of any other choices at that point of time)

after upsr results came out, i ended up enrolling into a residential school. and a whole lot of other opportunities seem to unravel infront of my eyes (notwithstanding the previous options i had seemed a bit uncool .. yeah.. kill me for being such a vainpot). i didn’t focus towards any specific career – but when i fought to be allowed to take art in my final year there as an extra SPM subject – i was pretty sure i would end up in the artsy fartsy design industry.

on the side:
mindboggling how students nowadays are allowed not just one extra subject on top of the requisite 9 subjects (some say only 8 are compulsary). they can even take up 17 subjects, please and thank you!

back to my train of thought – before it derails.

anyhow, come SPM week and papa arrived with application forms for scholarship programs for 3 large corporations in malaysia (namely one oil & gas, one electricity and one engineering). all of course who wouldn’t consider giving this vague dream of mine a chance to see daylight. so when the question of what course i proposed to undertake cropped up in the forms, i told papa – anything can do. ho ho.. so what ended up on the forms, one might ask? 1. accountancy 2. engineering 3. i don’t even know since i just signed the application forms.

needless to say, i attended the routine interviews with the 3 large corporations – most had essays to write, to judge your critical thinking process, nonetheless and i ended up accepting the offer to study at monash. belated offers also came – the one i had initially aimed for had a 1+3 programme, i had wanted to spend a bit more time with the family before gallivanting off to overseas – i had just been released from a 5-year recluse in negri sembilan for goodness’ sake! but a bit of soul-searching and weighing between being able to see kangaroos ( i never did see a live one – pathetic aye?) and being able to spend an extra year at home (how naive can i get – i would’ve had to stay on campus anyways for that 1+3 programme), i opted for the big scary chunk of land down under.
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good god.. i do love wikis. (heheh kiwis i love too.. the fruit type.. not the fowl type)

list of wikis worth heading over to:

• wikipedia
• wikiquotes
• wikibooks
• wiktionary

wiki away!!